Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Terrified Together with BonusPac | Paranormal Podcast We brought on BonusPac for our Terrified Together, and honestly, it might be one of the funniest episodes we've ever done — but don't let the laughs fool you, because the stories we covered were genuinely unsettling. We walked them through a Colorado family's haunting that started with a mother's deeply creepy dreams and escalated into somethin...

Bizarre News: March 2026 | Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News had us kicking things off close to home — literally — with a wild Bigfoot flap happening right in our backyard in Northeast Ohio, plus a meteorite that was loud enough to rattle windows across multiple states and had one of us genuinely wondering if the neighbor's house exploded. From there we covered dozens of sheep vanishing...

Skinwalker in the Woods | Paranormal Podcast This week we've got three listener submissions that genuinely had us questioning reality, starting with an 8-year-old sneaking into the chained-off section of a notoriously haunted abandoned elementary school and coming face to face with something that had absolutely no business being on all fours in that hallway. Then we heard from Nicole, a military w...

Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted — our favorite excuse to dig through Reddit's most unsettling paranormal confessions and decide whether these people are dealing with something genuinely spooky or just need a better night's sleep. This time around we had a guy who reconnected with his faith and started experiencing things in the dark that made...

Haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse | Paranormal Podcast For our 300th episode, we took a deep dive into one of America's most storied haunted locations — the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, a 165-foot spiral-striped beacon that's been racking up ghost sightings, mysterious deaths, and paranormal encounters since the 1500s. We walked through centuries of wild history, from Spanish colonists and...

Throwback Files: The Not Deer | Paranormal Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Throwback Files, where we revisit old BTB episodes. This month, we are going back to 2021 and hanging out with our favorite strange, Appalachian cryptid. Charlie even brings some new encounters into the mix! Find out if our old Believability Scale Ranking stays the same or if we now find the Not Deer more or less...

Cursed Games: Vol 6 | Paranormal Podcast We're back with Cursed Games Volume 6, and honestly, we can't believe we're already six deep into a series that somehow keeps getting creepier — this time covering four games you almost certainly should not play. We kicked things off with Red Door Yellow Door, a hypnotic trance ritual that takes you wandering through a hallway of doors in your own mind, the...

Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another installment of Am I the Haunted — our paranormal spin on the beloved Reddit format where we dig through the internet's strangest and most unsettling encounters and put them to the test. This episode had us examining three compelling submissions: a grieving family who may have captured something extraordinary in a photograph, a man whose...

Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 4 | Paranormal Podcast We're back with Extraterrestrial Encounters Volume 4, diving into three awesome listener-submitted UFO stories. From a group of teenagers canoeing on a pond in rural Ohio who witnessed a single light transform into something far more extraordinary, to a Southern California resident who had not one but two separate close encounters with uniden...

Bizarre News - February 2026 | Paranormal Podcast From a chilling ghostly photograph captured inside a 140-year-old UK theater undergoing renovation to a haunted hospice center in Norfolk that had staff so rattled they called in a priest, we covered a lot. We also dove into a viral dashcam video from a late-night driver in North England who encountered a towering, unsettling figure on the road tha...

Terrified Together with Ghosteas | Paranormal Podcast This month's Terrified Together with Ghosteas is a cozy collab full of listener-submitted paranormal stories. We kicked things off with a chilling near-death experience involving a massive stroke, a mysterious voice on the phone, and a mother's inexplicable instinct to race home just in time. Then we dove into a deeply unsettling haunted house...

Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast In our first-ever "Am I the Haunted?" episode inspired by the popular "Am I the Asshole?" format, we read three Reddit submissions and decide whether people are experiencing genuine paranormal activity using our new scale of haunted, probably haunted, or not haunted. Our first story comes from someone who moved into a new house and feels an overwhelming anxie...

The Weeping Woman - La Llorona | Paranormal Podcast This week, we explore the Weeping Woman - La Llorona, who wanders along rivers and lakes throughout Mexico, the American Southwest, and Latin America, forever crying out for her lost children with her signature wail of "Ay, mis hijos!" We trace the possible origins of this vengeful ghost back to the 1500s in Mexico City, examining connections to...

Throwback Files: Fresno Nightcrawler | Paranormal Podcast In this month's throwback episode, we head back to Fresno and visit Charlie's sworn enemy, the Fresno Nightcrawler. About the Fresno Nightcrawler: The Fresno Nightcrawler is a popular cryptid from folklore, known from grainy videos of strange, white, leg-like figures with no visible heads or arms, resembling "walking pants" that glide acros...

Greek Gods | Paranormal Podcast In this Greek gods episode timed with the Winter Olympics, we explore the fascinating world of Greek mythology starting with the origin story of the three most powerful gods—Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades—who were born to the Titan Cronus and his wife Rhea during the Golden Age, though Cronus attempted to eat all his children after a prophecy warned he'd be overthrown by...

Creature Feature: Vol 6 | Paranormal Podcast *This is volume 6...I need you to promise me that you'll ignore all the times I say *5* in this episode* In Creature Feature Volume 6, we dive into four unsettling listener submissions, starting with Cecil from Texas, who was letting his dogs out around 10pm when he noticed something watching him over the fence—at first he thought it was his neighbor's...

January 2026 Bizarre News | Paranormal Podcast In this month's Bizarre News, we cover four wild stories starting with the shocking case of Jonathan Gerlach from Philadelphia, who was arrested after police discovered skulls, arm and leg bones, mummified hands and feet, and two actively decomposing torsos in his possession—along with approximately 100 bodies worth of bones stored throughout his home...

Terrified Together with Will Soto of the Red Treehouse Podcast In this Terrified Together collaboration with Will from the Red Tree House podcast, we explore two fascinating listener submissions, starting with Zach's UFO encounters in Colorado. Zach's first sighting occurred during late winter or early spring 2018 while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-70, when he spotted a massive flying wi...

The Hotel Room Portal | Paranormal Podcast In this listener submission episode, we explore three unsettling paranormal encounters starting with Taylor's story from Washington state, where at age 13 she witnessed a tall, scrawny, fuzzy black figure crouching near her bedroom door in the attic—an entity so disturbing that she kept it secret for a year until her best friend saw the exact same creatur...

Throwback Files: Dyatlov Pass Incident | Paranormal Podcast It's time for another throwback Thursday! On this month's Throwback Files, we revisit the very mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident. About the Dyatlov Pass Incident In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers died under mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains after cutting their way out of their tent and fleeing into extreme cold....

Dark Web Stories | Paranormal Podcast This week, we dive deep into the hidden corners of the internet to explore the Dark Web—what it is, how it works, and the disturbing realities lurking beneath the surface. We begin by breaking down the structure of the internet itself, explaining how the surface web we use daily represents only 5-10% of all online content, while the deep web makes up 90-95%, a...

The A70 UFO Incident | Paranormal Podcast In our first episode of 2026, we journey to Scotland to explore the A70 incident, one of the UK's most compelling alien abduction cases. On the night of August 27, 1992, Gary Wood and Colin Wright were driving south on the A70 highway near Edinburgh. As they traveled through the small town of Bonny Bridge—an area with over 300 UFO sightings annually—Colin...

The Cedar Point UFO Abduction | Paranormal Podcast In this final episode of 2025, we explore two chilling listener-submitted stories that blur the line between the paranormal and extraterrestrial. Our first tale comes from Tiffany in Oklahoma, whose family experienced an unsettling encounter with a mimic entity in their crowded household. When Tiffany stepped outside with her dog one February even...

Bizarre News - December 2025 | Paranormal Podcast In this December edition of Bizarre News, we kick things off with a terrifying close-to-home story from Canton, Ohio, where an off-duty police officer working security at a Walmart experienced what could have been a fatal encounter. While booking shoplifter Shane Newton and his female accomplice in the back of the store, the officer performed only...

The Disappearing Man in the Desert | Paranormal Podcast Our first story comes from David, who was working border patrol on a narcotics and human trafficking assignment near a river in the American Southwest. During what should have been a quiet night shift, David and his partner experienced something that would shake them both—three deliberate, hard knocks on their Humvee's driver's side window, d...