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Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre is a paranormal podcast covering cryptids, UFOs, hauntings, ghost stories, demons, poltergeists, and true supernatural encounters — new episodes every Tuesday. From Mothman and the Lizard Man to alien abductions, haunted locations, and unexplained phenomena, we research the strange and decide where each story lands on our Believability Scale: Believable, Viable, Skeptical, or Unbelievable. We also feature listener-submitted paranormal encounters told in full detail. If you

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The Van Meter Visitor

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/10/06

The Van Meter Visitor | Paranormal PodcastThis week, we head to a sleepy coal mining town in Iowa to dig into one of the strangest and most underrated cryptid cases in American history, the Van Meter Monster, a 9-foot, bat-winged, beak-faced, horn-headed creature with a literal blinding searchlight beam shooting from its forehead and a stench so overwhelming witnesses nearly dropped, that terrorized the small town of Van Meter across five consecutive nights starting September 29th, 1903. We

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77:45

Is AI a Threat to Humanity?

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/09/29

Is AI a Threat to Humanity? | Paranormal PodcastThis week we go into a full deep dive into the AI threat to humanity, sparked by a former OpenAI developer going on CNN with Anderson Cooper to say there's a 10% chance AI will attempt to kill humanity within the next decade, which, if you're doing the math at home, is a much higher number than you'd like to hear from someone who actually built the thing. We broke down the three most realistic extinction scenarios: 1. AI-developed bioweapons 2

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95:50

Cursed Games: Vol 7

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/09/22

Cursed Games: Vol 7 | Paranormal PodcastWe're back with Cursed Games Volume 7! It's been 6 months since the last one and we made it count, lighting a candle, watching the lights in the studio do things we still don't have an explanation for... but anyway... First up was the Fed Up Game, a parallel universe ritual where you sleep holding a precise 5x5 centimeter hexagram paper in red ink and wake up somewhere else, followed by the Shower Man ritual, which we are describing as "very involved" and

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50:42

The Monster with the Sharp Teeth

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/09/15

The Monster with the Sharp Teeth | Paranormal PodcastThis week, we've got two listener submissions, both connected by one very specific and very unsettling detail. Starting with Colt's story from 2015, where he and his friend were gaming late at night while their German Shepherd suddenly bolted out of the room, and when Colt glanced at the bare window, he saw a white mass with what appeared to be an upside-down face peering in from above, like something was hanging off the roof watching them, and

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77:52

Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/09/08

Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings | Paranormal PodcastThis week, we teamed up with QueenOfVikings — a Canadian content creator who is both clairvoyant and clairaudient, raised in a Scandinavian, Celtic, and Gaelic family where everyone drew a different psychic gift like a starter Pokémon — and she brought serious insight to two listener stories. First was Octavio's story, where a night that already involved live gunfire took an even stranger turn when a cross ring he lost in the chaos turned

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58:52

Creature Feature: Vol 7

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/09/01

Creature Feature: Vol 7 | Paranormal PodcastWe're back with Creature Feature Volume 7 and three listener-submitted stories that cover the full range of cryptid weird — starting with Brian from the deep woods of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, who at 16 had a roadside encounter with something that looked like a deer but absolutely was not. Then we got into Rhys's story, which starts with a not-deer sighting on a dark highway that kept appearing mile after mile with eyes set forward like a

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50:56

Peggy the World's Most Haunted Doll

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/08/25

The Haunted Doll Peggy | Paranormal PodcastThis week, Charlie took us deep into the case of Peggy the Doll — allegedly the world's most haunted doll, a baby-sized blonde blue-eyed nightmare currently in the possession of British paranormal investigator Jane Harris, who runs an organization literally called Haunted Dolls and received Peggy from an elderly anonymous woman who simply said she was "too spooky" to keep. What makes Peggy stand out from the Robert the Dolls and Annabelles of the world

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66:28

Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/08/18

Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5 | Paranormal PodcastWe're back with Extraterrestrial Encounters Volume 5,! We start with Lilli, a day-one listener from a small farming town in Ontario, who went out one night, blacked out, and woke up in the middle of a cornfield with no memory of how she got there, a story she'd been quietly filing under "weird thing that happened" for years before finally letting herself consider what it might actually mean. We have Bri's story that may be the perfect mix of

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58:22

The Haint

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/08/11

The Haint | Paranormal PodcastThis week, we headed down to the Lowcountry to dig into one of the South's most fascinating and frustrating paranormal entities — the haint — which depending on who you ask is a ghost, a demon, an evil spirit tied to the earth, or honestly all of the above, rooted in the rich and deeply important traditions of the Gullah Geechee people and a blend of African, European, and Creole folklore that stretches from Wilmington all the way down to St. Augustine. We broke

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69:02

Lemp Mansion Hauntings

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/08/04

The Haunted Lemp Mansion | Paranormal podcastThis week, we dive into one of America's most genuinely tragic haunted locations — the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis — starting with a German immigrant named Adam Lemp who built a beer empire from a grocery store and a network of natural limestone caves, and tracing the family's meteoric rise through his son William turning it into a national powerhouse with a 33-room Victorian showplace, an underground ballroom, a heated swimming pool, a bowling alley, and

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126:16

The Dodleston Messages | Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/31

The Dodleston Messages | Paranormal PodcastHey everyone! This bonus episode is an older collab we did with Kaydra on her podcast, Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast. Enjoy! Episode Description: We joined Kaydra over at Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast, for a deep dive into one of the most well-documented and genuinely bizarre cases in English paranormal history — the Dodleston Messages, where a schoolteacher named Ken Webster moved into a rundown cottage in 1984 with his girlfriend and a borrowed BBC

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57:43

The Spirits of Solace

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/28

The Spirits of Solace | Paranormal Podcast This episode, we've got two listener submissions that are a little different from the usual... no demons clawing at you, no entities trying to drag you out of bed, just some genuinely peaceful and deeply personal encounters that somehow hit harder because of it. First is Leona from California, who at 13 or 14 during one of the hardest periods of her life woke up frozen in sleep paralysis to find a tall, faceless figure in a wide-brimmed hat and long coat

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73:59

The Shtriga

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/21

The Shtriga | Paranormal PodcastThis episode we dove into the Shtriga, the Albanian vampiric witch who doesn't lurk in a castle or avoid the sun, but instead lives right next door, blends in at the market, and waits until you're asleep to slip into your home as a moth, a fly, or a bee and quietly drain your life force while you're too exhausted to notice something's wrong. We broke down the full lore, from how she's made to how she feeds to the absolutely unhinged cure that involves her spitting

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Terrified Together with Chilluminati Podcast

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/17

Terrified Together with Chilluminati Podcast | Paranormal Podcast We teamed up with Jesse, Mike, and Alex from the Chilluminati podcast for this Terrified Together, and the five of us tackled two listener submissions that had the whole group going back and forth on where the line is between what the mind creates and what's actually out there. First up was Ash's story. Ash experienced what we believe was sleep paralysis and woke up with a prophetic certainty that a tall blonde woman with a knife

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63:18

DMT Machine Elves

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/14

DMT Machine Elves | Paranormal Podcast This week, we dove into the world of DMT and the Machine Elves, the strange interdimensional beings that thousands of people across the world, who have never met and had no reason to compare notes, keep describing in almost identical detail after taking one of the most powerful psychedelics known to exist. We broke down what DMT actually is, walked through a firsthand account of bursting through the chrysanthemum and meeting entities that were actively

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64:36

The Silent Watcher

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/07

The Silent Watcher | Paranormal Podcast This week, we've got 2 listener submissions that genuinely got under our skin — first from Logan in Indiana, who as a 3 or 4 year old kept waking up to a silent black humanoid figure slowly rocking in the chair across his room, and when we say silent, we mean the kind of deliberate, suffocating silence that swallowed even the sound of a child screaming for his parents. Then we dove into Aaron's story from a small town in Virginia, where between the red-eyed

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42:14

Remembering the Bizarre - Denver Airport Conspiracy

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/07/03

Remembering the Bizarre - Denver Airport Conspiracy Here is a small sample of one of the segments we do over on Patreon. It's Remembering the Bizarre! In this game, Producer Ben quizzes us on OUR OWN episodes. How much do we remember? What tangents have been forgotten and random details remembered? This time, we were quizzed on our episode covering the Denver Airport Conspiracies. Enjoy! If you liked this quiz and want more bonus content, make sure to check out our

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61:56

Phantom Time Conspiracy

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/06/30

Phantom Time Conspiracy | Paranormal Podcast We went full conspiracy mode and tackled the Phantom Time Hypothesis, the genuinely wild theory that the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III conspired with Pope Sylvester II and the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII to fabricate nearly 300 years of history, meaning we're not actually living in 2026, but somewhere closer to 1729. We broke down the evidence people point to, from the gap between the Julian and Gregorian calendars to a suspicious lack of

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37:04

Bizarre News: New Alien Protocols, Disappearing...

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/06/26

June 2026 Bizarre News - Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News covers four stories that somehow span the full spectrum of weird — starting with a ghost hunting vlogger in Malaysia who went live, disappeared mid-stream for 40 hours, and was eventually found in a public restroom in a weakened state with zero explanation for where he'd been. We also got into a new UN-backed protocol that now requires international approval before anyone can respond to potential alien signals, which sounds

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69:53

The Imjärvi Incident

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast ·

2026/06/23

The Imjärvi Incident | Paranormal Podcast This week, we headed to January 1970 in the frozen forests of southern Finland to cover the Imjärvi UFO incident, where two experienced, credible cross-country skiers named Aarno and Esko stopped for a rest in a clearing and watched a metallic disc descend from a glowing cloud just meters above the ground, accompanied by a buzzing that wouldn't quit and a beam of intense white light that scorched a perfect circle into the snow. Standing inside that beam

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