Deceptive Reality

Robert Taylor said two spiked spheres came from a hovering object, caught him and pierced his trousers. Then came choking fumes—and a gap he estimated at 20 minutes. Bert and Nick follow the 1979 encounter associated with Dechmont Woods, Taylors difficult journey home, and the ground marks and damaged clothing the hosts say police examined. They also revisit Cisco Grove and explore a strange possi...

Two fishermen reported pale beings that glided above the riverbank—and an encounter they could barely explain afterward. On October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported a UFO encounter beside Mississippi’s Pascagoula River. Bert and Nick follow their account from the blue light and pincer-like hands to an eye-like instrument Hickson said moved over his motionless body. Then comes t...

Two sisters reportedly watched a green patchwork box rise a foot above their bedroom floor. The account only grows stranger from there. Bert and Nick revisit The Great Amherst Mystery — Esther Cox, following reports of answering knocks, a personal threat scratched into plaster, falling lit matches and disturbances that continued after Esther moved. They also discuss the investigator who reportedly...

An airline captain sits quietly in first class. He looks like he belongs there. Then someone recognizes him as a man who died in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. On December 29, 1972, a routine flight from New York to Miami ended in the Florida Everglades. Bert and Nick follow the crew through the landing-gear warning, the unnoticed descent, and the rescue before turning to the stories t...

He went to check a villa. According to the account, a ten-foot green humanoid was waiting outside—and his radio message was translated as: They arent men. Bert and Nick follow the Pier Fortunato Zanfretta encounters, beginning with an Italian security patrol in December 1978. The story moves through enormous reported boot prints, a car he said he could no longer control, other guards accounts of a...

A small green figure reportedly turned toward a former policeman and gestured for him to move on. He took a photograph—and later realized he could not account for roughly 105 minutes. Bert and Nick follow the Ilkley Moor account through the reversed compass, investigators photo timing, alleged visitors asking about the image, and a hypnosis account that placed the photograph at the end of somethin...

A mine collapse traps two men below Sheppton. As rescuers search above, the survivors later describe blue lights, silent figures, and an impossible marble staircase.

A Detroit family reported nightmares, a woman in a blue dress, a foul odor, and a basement door that rose on its own—then left their Martin Street home behind. The claims reached the Detroit Free Press in 1962 and Fate magazine in 1963, but the identity behind the horrid hag remains unconfirmed.

A reported series of campground attacks in Land Between the Lakes points to a towering wolf-headed figure with gray-and-black fur. The story follows the disputed 1982 Roger account, a 1987 account relayed by gas-station worker Jeanette Thompson, and the older curse legend tied to the peninsula.

In 1967, industrial mechanic Stefan Michalak said a glowing craft near Falcon Lake blasted him with heat, set his shirt on fire, and left a grid-shaped burn. The record includes disputed witness details, reported contamination at the site, and physical artifacts but no settled explanation.

In 1897 Greenbrier County, Mary Jane Heaster said her daughter Zona appeared four times after her death. The final reported visit named a neck injury; a later exhumation found severe damage in that area. The legal case rested on physical and circumstantial evidence, while the ghost account became its enduring mystery.

A Maine family reported five canine-like figures around their rural farmhouse: three seen first, then two more close to the porch. We sort the reported sightings, missing track photos, conflicting retellings, and ordinary-animal explanations without claiming the record proves more than it does.

A disputed ghost-ship legend from the Strait of Malacca: an alleged Morse SOS, a crew found frozen in terror, unexplained heat below deck, and an explosion that erased the scene. The evidence is thin—but the story’s contradictions keep it alive.

What if the problem with modern ghost hunting gear is that it is too good? In this episode, Bert and Nick dig into EVP, electronic voice phenomena, and why old radios, tape recorders, diode receivers, and messy analog audio may have captured things todays clean microphones are designed to remove. From the Scole Experiment to Friedrich Jurgenson, Konstantin Raudive, Sarah Estep, Class A EVP claims,...

Mount Shasta has UFO reports, Bigfoot sightings, underground city legends, stories of giant beings, and one of the weirdest recent discoveries tied to the mountain, 100 to 200 solar-powered speakers found near the tree line playing strange audio. In this episode, we go case-file style through the lore of the sky people, the rumored city of Telos, J.C. Browns alleged tunnel discovery, missing-perso...

Ken and Debbie thought they were talking to a man from the 1500s through a BBC microcomputer, but in Part 2, the case gets much stranger. The mysterious force known as 2109 steps back into the story, claiming it can block, alter, and guide messages, while the man they knew as Lucas begins to look more and more like a real historical figure named Thomas Harden. As investigators arrive, strange test...

Ken, Debbie, and Nicola thought Meadow Cottage was just an old house that needed work. Then six-toed footprints appeared going up a freshly painted wall, objects started stacking themselves into impossible shapes, cold spots moved through rooms like something solid, and a BBC Micro computer began receiving strange files no one remembered creating. The messages claimed to come from a man named Luca...

In this episode of Deceptive Reality, Bert and Nick dig into the Scole Experiment, a paranormal case from 1990s England where a small group allegedly produced physical evidence during controlled seance sessions. The claims get weird fast, from intelligent lights moving through the room, to voices heard by witnesses, to objects appearing, sealed film showing strange images, and a connected radio ex...

In 1971, two small stone heads were found in a garden in Hexham, England, and soon became tied to strange movement, shattered glass, glowing lights, and sightings of a part-animal, part-human figure. Bert and Nick explore the Hexham Heads, Dr. Anne Ross, the wolf-man reports, the hoax claims, and the chilling idea that the heads may have been buried for a reason.

What if those strange gifted tests from childhood were not just about grades, puzzles, or being smart? In this episode of Deceptive Reality, Nick and Bert trace the weird overlap between confirmed government interest in altered consciousness, MK Ultra, remote viewing, Stargate, Zener cards, and the much murkier claims around GATE programs and psychic screening. The episode separates what is confir...

Bert and Nick investigate strange disappearances inside national parks, including Stacy Harris in Yosemite, Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains, George Penca Jr., and Gilbert Gilman. The deeper the cases go, the stranger the pattern becomes, failed search dogs, sealed files, Special Forces, UFO reports, cave systems, and the chilling question of what happens when someone separates from the...

Bert and Nick return from their latest Wildwood Sanitarium investigation and break down what changed from last years shadow figure case. They talk through Tommys room, the basement cold anomaly, drained equipment, the Ghost Track Black Box, and why this investigation may have changed how they approach paranormal evidence.

We recorded this episode from inside Wildwood Sanitarium, sitting in Tommys Room after strange activity had already started happening around us. We talk about the cold rooms, faint knocks, a gunshot-like sound, our investigation box reacting, and the massive review still ahead for the full Halloween evidence episode.

Bert and Nick are heading back to Wildwood Sanitarium after capturing one of their strangest pieces of paranormal footage during last years investigation. This episode lays out what happened, what they missed, and why this return trip will use more cameras, better audio, body cams, and new experimental paranormal equipment.

In Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, a massive old house was built from the timbers of the HMS Vengeance, a warship with a dark reputation and a heavy past. At first, the strange sounds inside Vengeance House were dismissed as rats, shifting wood, or kids playing games. But the tapping followed the girls from room to room, answered questions through coded knocks, seemed to know things it should not know, and...