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A listener writes “I’d like to share an experience I had in late May of 2024 while camping with my son at Two Rivers State Recreation Area near Omaha, Nebraska. I’ve spent much of my life camping and am very familiar with normal wildlife behavior and typical outdoor conditions. This was not a remote wilderness… Read more »

The Confessionals writes “Strange activity is intensifying across East Tennessee, and longtime locals are starting to connect the dots. In this conversation, Tony sits down with Stephen Watson of Arcane Discoveries to explore why the Cherokee National Forest and surrounding mountains may function as a seasonal corridor for cryptids and paranormal phenomena. Stephen shares firsthand… Read more »

A listener writes “I would like to tell you about some strange encounters I’ve had in evergreen Colorado, one being a road side sighting yesterday, December 21st 2025. To start things off I live in Arvada Colorado, about 30 minutes from the mountains. I clean two air BnBs in evergreen Colorado. They are isolated with… Read more »

This is from Chestnut Ridge Paranormal in Pennsylvania. Chad sent this to me and writes “I got an orb on a trail camera I had in the forest near where I found the three toed tracks, at first I thought it was a star or planet. As I watched, it started to move and morph,… Read more »

From The Shadows writes “Orbs, UFOs, an evil black mass, and other entities are scaring Steven, a hospice chaplain, in his home. He joins Shane to share his encounters with the paranormal, including almost suffocating due to the evil black mass.”

As a U.S. Army field artillery radar technician, his job was to read signals others couldn’t see blips on screens, returns in noise, patterns hidden inside chaos. Radar didn’t lie. Data didn’t lie. If something appeared on his scope, it was there. That belief would be shaken on a summer night in June of 2015…. Read more »

Wildman of the Woods writes “Is Bigfoot real in Florida? Does the Skunk Ape of the Everglades truly exist? Are Sasquatch sightings in the southeastern United States evidence of an undiscovered primate species, or could some encounters be explained by feral apes living deep in Florida’s swamps and wetlands? In this free bigfoot documentary investigation,… Read more »

Marilyn writes “I was very young, likely seven or eight years old, which would place it in the summer of 1982 or 1983. I grew up in Roseville, Ohio, which was and still is a deeply rural area with a very small population. It sits near Wayne National Forest, in the foothills of the Appalachian… Read more »

It was November of 2018, and the bush was quiet in the way it often is just before night fully settles in. Gary was driving alone along a remote stretch of road in rural Australia, his truck’s headlights cutting a narrow tunnel through the darkness. The area was thick with scrub and trees, far from… Read more »

The Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana is a place where the land never fully settles. Water seeps into everything, trees rise from dark pools, and the air hangs thick with insects and mist. It was in this maze of cypress and marsh, sometime in the early 1960s, that one of the most famous encounters took place. Late… Read more »

It was the early morning hours of July 1994, and the Berlin Lake State Wildlife Area in Ohio was quiet in the way only deep wilderness can be. The air was heavy and still, and the darkness felt complete, broken only by faint starlight and the distant sounds of insects. Around 2:30 a.m., Brian Jones was moving through the… Read more »

On Saturday, January 4, 1964 the Nevada State Journal reported an “Ape-faced 10-ft. Man Sighted in Sierra Snow.” The original article is below.   Ape-faced 10-ft. Man Sighted in Sierra Snow PINECREST, Calif. (UPI) — A pilot flying a small plane near this tiny resort community recently said he saw what appeared to be a 10-foot… Read more »

Dr. Robert J. Alley is a Bigfoot/Sasquatch researcher known for his detailed books, especially “Raincoast Sasquatch,” which compiles eyewitness accounts, lore, and evidence from the Pacific Northwest, focusing on coastal British Columbia and Alaska. His work, often featuring his own illustrations of encounters, delves into historical reports and Indigenous stories, making him a respected figure… Read more »

A listener writes “I’m a long-time listener and thought you might be interested in an encounter my younger brother and I experienced in Ceredo, West Virginia, during the summer of 1976. At the time, my brother Ron and I lived in a single-wide trailer that sat right next to a wooded hillside. This was in… Read more »

I’ve recently started listening to your podcast, and after hearing several accounts that closely mirror an experience I had as a child, I finally felt compelled to reach out. To be honest, I’m very apprehensive about sharing this. Like many of your guests, I worry about being ridiculed or dismissed as a nut job but… Read more »

I grew up on the outskirts of the Siletz Indian Reservation along the central Oregon Coast. It’s true rainforest out there thick, wet, and wild. Looking back, I believe my father was having Sasquatch encounters throughout the 1990s. He would say things like, “There was a man in a ghillie suit watching me from the… Read more »

AI facial recognition is often marketed as precise and objective but when it gets things wrong, the consequences can be serious, even life-altering. At its core, facial recognition works by comparing key facial features distance between the eyes, shape of the jaw, contours of the nose to massive image databases. The problem is that similarity… Read more »

In the fall of 1956, a small group of hunters set out near the rural community of Paris, Michigan, expecting nothing more than a quiet evening tracking deer. The air was cold and still, the kind that carried every snapped twig for miles. They parked their truck along a forest road and moved in on… Read more »

The winter of 1937 came early to northern Michigan. Snow lay thick in the forests of Wexford County, pressing the pines low and muffling the land into an uneasy quiet. Robert Fortney had lived in those woods most of his life. He was a farmer and outdoorsman no stranger to isolation, hard weather, or the… Read more »