Strange Familiars

Episode 80: Alison and Timothy discuss the wondrous life of William Woodruff, a hermit from Colebrook River, Connecticut. From newspaper articles, town histories, census records, wills, and various other sources, we piece together William's story - a fatherless child turned town dandy, who walked away from society, grew hollyhocks, gazed at the stars, and kept a vow of silence for much of his life...

Episode 78: Stories of contact with The Other. Joshua tells of multiple intense experiences with weird lights and weirder entities. Was he taken by the beings known as tall greys? Then Brett from Lost River Legends podcast stops by to talk about a question he was asked in the middle of the night by something unseen.  If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus conten...

Episode 76: In the first part of this episode Troy tells stories about a haunted fiddle passed down in his family, ancestral channeling, visions of women in mirrors, and a woman in white apparition. We also get to hear some music and other audio from Troy. In the second part of the episode we talk with Crystal who, after a near-death experience at a young age, experienced a number of strange encou...

Episode 75: First, we hear an incredible Flannel Man account from Jade who had a fascinating encounter with a lumberjack-like entity on Halloween 1997. Then we talk to Mo who had a terrifying encounter with a bigfoot creature in the nineties which still effects him today. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you c...

Episode 74: We talk with Loren Rhoads, author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, about graveyards - the good, the bad, and the scary. We talk about Loren's cemetery travels, including some spooky experiences she's had amongst the tombstones and mausoleums. Loren also gives us a short list of graveyards-to-visit in the U.S. Of course there are tales of lost and forgotten graves, ghosts, and v...

Episode 71: We present four more Flannel Man accounts this episode. First we talk to Brad who saw Flannel Man beside a lake. Brad then tells us about a weird photo taken of his wife, an encounter with another dark entity, and some other strange experiences. Next, we hear Dan's experience of seeing Flannel Man as a child. Alison then reads a Flannel Man account sent in by Ruthann. Finally, we hear...

Episode 69: We begin the episode hearing a letter describing an experience from long ago. A listener  emailed about an encounter his grandmother had with a hairy, moaning, creature issuing horrible cries. The family uncovered a letter his grandmother had written, detailing the encounter. After the letter, we talk with John Olsen who shares stories of ghosts, creatures, and glitches in the matrix f...

Episode 68: Doug describes repeat encounters with a short, hair-covered creature he named Brownie. Was it an albatwitch? Doug saw the same creature multiple times when he was a child and then, again, many years later and hundreds of miles away, as an adult. Doug also relates some other strange encounters with a theatre ghost and two men with morphing faces. If you would like to help us continue to...

Episode 67: On December 12, 2018 Nick woke up to some very weird nighttime visitors in his bedroom. He contacted us immediately afterward and we scheduled a time to document his encounter. Were these beings some kind of alien? Visitors from the realm of the fae? Timothy is joined by Joshua Cutchin as we hear Nick's story and compare it to other tales of the faeries and the alien greys. If you woul...

Episode 65: What information could be so weird that it has even our resident skeptic, Alison, questioning her skepticism? We explore the Jumping Frenchmen - could they be a possible link between Flannel Man and the Mirrored Men? Could the Jumping Frenchmen be responsible for some or all of the Flannel Man sightings?  If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus conten...

Episode 63: Alex and Colin tell of a strange series of events that lead to a night of terror in the woods. A strange old woman directed them to a camping area. After an exchange of fruit with something unseen, they decided to return to the area for a three-day camping trip. Weirdness followed with bad smells, odd vocalizations, and other unexplained sounds. The trip culminated with Colin, separate...

Episode 62: Jedediah tells about the night he saw two Flannel Men outside of window. They mirrored each others movements and moved their heads like owls. He then tells some of his other experiences with dark entities, sleep paralysis, and more. In the second part of the show we listen to some audio of unknown growling sent in by a listener.  If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Fa...

Episode 61: Strange Familiars explores some haunted houses! Timothy talks with Sarah about some creepy experiences she had in her childhood home with a shadow man, disembodied voices, and other entities. Then we travel on-site to a haunted farmhouse in Lancaster County, PA where Jon, James, Rick Fisher, and Timothy hear some spooky encounter stories and then record some strange knocks and possible...

Episode 60: For our holiday episode, Timothy and Alison talk Belsnickel, the wild man of Pennsylvania Christmastime. Much fiercer and stranger than a simple proto-Santa Claus figure, Belsnickel was called a "bad faerie" and "half-man, half-beast" - which came from the forest at night to haunt children. Timothy and Alison read multiple historical accounts of the frightening Belsnickel smacking wall...

Episode 58: Joshua Cutchin returns to talk about his most recent book, Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions. The conversation wanders across the paranormal landscape from folklore to aliens to hoaxes to bigfoot and much more. Joshua and Timothy also drop some hints about the forthcoming book they are writing together.  If you would like to help us continue to make...

Episode 57: Jennie Behm's body is found in a cornfield two miles from her house. A coroner's inquest yields no answers. Timothy and Alison visit the cornfield and discuss their final thoughts on the story. A new suspect in Jennie's death comes to light. The Broken Circle closes (for now). In the second part of the show we discuss the 90th anniversary of Nelson Rehymeyer's death in the so-called "H...

Episode 54: Jennie Behm was born on the 19th of September 1923. She was last seen alive on the morning of July 28, 1925. In The Broken Circle we will explore the mysteries which surround Jennie's disappearance. In this episode we discuss an earlier disappearance from the Behm home, Floyd Hollenbach. Is the missing boy connected to Jennie's disappearance? We also hear about the discovery of a child...

Episode 53: Jennie Behm was born on the 19th of September 1923. She was last seen alive on the morning of July 28, 1925. In The Broken Circle we will explore the mysteries which surround Jennie's disappearance. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliarsOur...

Episode 50: In the middle of a heavy downpour, with rain leaking into the studio, OK Talk's Clint Granberry returns to Strange Familiars to continue our rambling synchronicity conversation. This time things get a little darker as Timothy tells of his recent raccoon attack in Hex Hollow - and all the synchronicities that surrounded those events. Clint takes another random phone call with remarkable...

Episode 49: Clint from OK Talk returns in a long and winding conversation with Timothy about synchronicity and many other things. Clint takes random phone calls in the studio as the discussion turns to Eminem, mumble rap, how to catch raccoons, the Eye of Sauron, near death experiences, ghosts, tornados, octopi on ecstasy, LSD, salvia divinorum, peyote, MDMA, and so much more.  (advisory: drug use...

Episode 48: Timothy talks to Sam about several strange experiences Sam had in the Black Diamond Cemetery. Ghostly figures, mystery lights, orbs, and more. Was it ghosts, bigfoot, or something else? The conversation then turns to other aspects of the paranormal as Sam and Timothy share and compare their experiences. This would normally be a patron-only episode but as we are nearing episode 50 we ar...

Episode 47: Four witnesses tell their Flannel Man encounters. Deborah, Kristina, John, and Katheryn share their stories of strange entities in plaid shirts. Haunted houses, sleep paralysis, and ghostly black dogs often accompany the phenomenon. Join us as we search for answers. Who - or what - are these entities in flannel - and why are so many people seeing them? If you would like to help us cont...

Episode 45: Clint from OK Talk podcast talks to Timothy about the Devil's Creek property: a residence in Washington State which has been the focus of ongoing bigfoot activity and other strangeness. Clint shares stories and on-site audio from Devil's Creek, and Timothy plays some sounds from Site 7 which are eerily similar. We also discuss the Devil's Creek documentary film.  If you would like to h...

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Christoffer calls in from Sweden and tells about a strange sighting he had of a Skogsra or wood-wife. We also talk about other Swedish folklore including trolls, house gnomes, changelings, and goatman. James stops by as well to tell of his very recent sighting of something very weird. Is it related to the Skogsra? If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content,...