Within The Mist

For eleven years, from 1955 to 1966, eyewitnesses were seeing a strange fog colored pink like cotton candy. It would creep across the surface of the wetlands of Tomoka River and devour the flesh off anything within its path. Could this be caused by chemical waste or a curse placed on a local Native American Chief for drinking from the Fountain of Youth? Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they explore the...

Deep within the woods of the Ozarks National Forest have been tales of a creature the size of a bear but with the graceful agility of a cat. According to the legend, its howl is enough to instill dread into a person's soul and can take a person away to the underworld. Even Daniel Boone once faced such a creature. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they discuss the Ozark Howler. --- Support this podcas...

Since the 1920s, the residents of Selbyville have told stories of a creature roaming the edges of the Great Cypress Swamp. However, in 1964, the largest number of incidents involving a creature jumping out at passing cars would occur. The number and details convinced the locals that they were being stalked by something not natural. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they investigate the wetlands of Delawa...

Clara Crane was born in Texas in 1871 with dreams of a family. She had one but lost everything, including her mind, eventually ending up in an asylum. When she was released due to overcrowding, she returned home. However, shortly afterward, children began to disappear from their bedrooms with only an empty candy wrapper left behind. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they explore the reality and urban leg...

Peninsula, Ohio, was a small town where nothing exciting happens beyond farming the vast corn fields. During the summer of 1944, that would all change as the locals would start discovering tracks resembling tire tracks, broken tree branches, and missing chickens. The town was being invaded by a creature that should not exist in America's Midwest, an eighteen-foot snake. Join Gary and GoldieAnn...

Antartica is considered a frozen wasteland, devoid of life. However, beneath the ice is water that is teeming with some of the strangest representations of life found anywhere. One team of Russian scientists were attempting to explore for this life within a trapped underwater lake located two miles underground. What they found was large, intelligent and deadly. Despite officials declaring that the...

Australia is home to many terrifying creatures, but there may be one so fearsome that even the natives won't go near it. It is a creature that can mimic the screams of a lost child to lure you to the lagoons it calls home before snatching you to your doom. Although there are various descriptions, they all agree that it is large, aquatic, and dangerous. There have been bones suggesting that it exis...

During two weeks in 1944, the small town of Matton, Illinois would fall under the paralyzing fear of a creature or madman capable of releasing a sickly sweet gas into their homes. The victims would become unable to move and at the complete mercy of the assailant. The mystery was never solved and many of the local government would claim that it never happened. Joined Gary and GoldieAnn as they tell...

A flying cryptid began terrorizing the skies of Texas of 1976. It was reported the size of a man with the face of a primate with large black wings extending twenty feet across. Before the year ends, there were attacks and sightings across the state. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they investigate the stories and legends of the Texas Big Bird. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WithinTheMistPodcast Ins...

Phelan Paranormal has been undertaking field research into some of Florida's most haunted locations to understand the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits. It was amazing to learn how the pair got their start at such an early age and then came together to combine personal senses with the latest scientific equipment. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they join in a chat about Phelan Paranormal with Ryan...

A hunter, distracted by a personal matter, strays from the path, and finds himself too close to the East Cascade Mountain Range. Before he can turn around, he spots what he thinks is the biggest bear he's ever laid eyes on. Unfortunately, the creature he kills is a young sasquatch. This spurs a break in a century old truce between men and the race of ancient Bigfoot on the other side of the mounta...

In 1974, fifty-five-year-old beauty salon operator Evelyn Wendt of Dade City, Florida, contacted the local West Palm Beach paper called “The Weekday” and asked to be interviewed by a reporter. She claimed that she had an extraordinary story to share with the world, and now the time was right to unveil it. Before the interview was over, the story included an alien spaceship piloted by the strangest...

Chet's Melody Lounge is located across the road from Resurrection Cemetery where the locals come together to have a few drinks, listen to loud music, and discuss some of their favorite stories.  The popular ones are all remarkably similar.  It consists of a young man out on the town for a night of dancing and drinking.  Along the side of the road is walking a stunning young woman, w...

McKiller Art is the collected work of artist, McKell McIntyre, who is credited with creating fantastical and supernatural scenes that he brings to life on the canvas.  The subjects of his paintings and prints cover all manner of the paranormal to include imagery of bewitching women, horned beasts, and those things that go bump in the night. McKell joins us today to discuss his background livi...

Jackie Sonnenberg began her writing career as a published journalist with multiple newspapers while still in high school.  She then expanded her work into fiction and is currently the author of a growing collection of horror stories inspired by classic nursery rhymes.  These books take a darker twist on some of the most popular stories we grew up with and bring new life (or unlife) into...

Ancient tales of those mysterious places where animals go to die have always intrigued us. Whether it is the “elephants’ graveyard” or the dying place of the bison, men for centuries have searched for the one spot within each region toward which old and wounded beasts struggle, driven by some instinctual urge during their final days. Even ancient Native American burial grounds hold a special mysti...

Mark Muncy is renowned as the author of a collection of books which covers the legends and lore of Florida over the years.  Spending years of research, he brings the different side of the state's history to his readers.  Now, he has expanded beyond the boundaries of the state to include Appalachia for everyone to share and enjoy. His expertise has also brought him to the public's attenti...

Every day, hundreds of ships are sailing across the oceans. Unfortunately, some do not make it to their destinations.  The open water is filled with secrets and has taken the lives of many of the sailors to keep those secret. The existence of one such ship in 1948 that was found drifting in the middle of the Indian Ocean has been widely debated. If true, then all crew aboard were found not on...

Within Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, there are sightings of strange creatures that were once human but have devolved into something more monstrous. People have seen them during the late hours within the woods, chewing on the bones of their prey and have been chased, causing them to flee for their very lives. These beings are the result of experiments of the worst kind.  If the stories are t...

Salem has a long history with witches and witchcraft as the site of the infamous trials of the late 1600s.  Since those dark times, the town has grown to embrace people of all walks of life and is a popular tourist location, especially during the Halloween season.  In fact, the town can be quite crowded during the holidays. So, Gary and GoldieAnn thought we would bring a little bit of th...

The town of Bedburg, Germany during the 16th century was threatened by an demonic monster that slaughtered its livestock, leaving them mauled in the fields. Even the townsfolk were in danger as women and children were being attacked and killed in terrifying savagery.  Evidence pointed to the fact that the townspeople were being hunted by a raging beast, a werewolf with a taste for flesh that...

A young woman named Ella M. Cropsey, called "Nell" by her family and friends, was spending the evening with family, friends, and her suitor.  It was the night of November 20, 1901, and before it was over, she would disappear. Over a month later, her body would be found floating in the Pasquotank River. Despite a man having been convicted of her murder, some say that her uneasy spirit still ha...

West Virginia, known as the Mountain State, was a hotbed for cryptid sightings in the 1950s and ‘60s such as the Flatwoods Monster of Braxton County and Point Pleasant's Mothman.  On June 16, 1964, hell broke loose in Grafton, West Virginia, a sleepy town on the Tygart Valley River. Excitement here normally came by railroad rather than lurching out of the forest but for the small town, they w...

Deaths of entire families was occurring at an epidemic rate in New England during the beginning of the 19th century.  Though much of the deaths were blamed on consumption, there were cases strangely bizarre enough that the community believed there was more going on.  Newspapers of the time used the phrase 'vampire' for these deaths, likely influenced by vampire beliefs in parts of Easter...

Bladenboro is a small community surrounded by pine forests and swamps at the southeastern edge of the North Carolina piedmont. A lot of the county is made up of large forests and swampland, a perfect environment for bears, deer, bobcats and just about any other type of beast. It was also the setting for the greatest string of monster attacks during 1953-54 that the state has ever known. One eyewit...