Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
by 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 love creepy stories and horror content mixed with humor and genuine curiosity, Believing the Bizarre is the paranormal podcast for you — as bizarre as you are.
Episodes
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The Pet Mimic
The Pet Mimic | Paranormal Podcast This week we opened up the listener inbox for three stories, starting with a 2 AM “cat” scratching at the top of a bedroom door in Missouri. From there we hit a mother-daughter Appalachian trip that took a very creepy turn, and a late-night office building where...
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Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast's 200th Episode Reddit Encounter Story Spooktacular
Happy Halloween 🎃 Here is a special treat! Kaydra rings in 200 episodes with some very special spooky guests. Enjoy these creepy Reddit stories with paranormal and true crime elements, and be sure to follow all of these amazing shows by following the links in the show notes below! HOST & Story…
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Samhain - The Origins of Halloween
Samhain - The Origins of Halloween | Paranormal Podcast To celebrate the spooky season, we traced Halloween back to its Gaelic roots in Samhain, the ancient Irish festival where the veil between worlds supposedly wore thin. Along the way, we got into fairies, the púca and a very unlucky piper…
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The Kecksburg UFO Incident
The Kecksburg UFO Incident | Paranormal Podcast This year's live Halloween special, we covered the mysterious Kecksburg UFO Crash. On December 9, 1965, a brilliant fireball was seen across at least six U.S. states and Ontario before reportedly crashing into a wooded ravine near Kecksburg,...
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The Polybius Conspiracy
The Polybius Conspiracy | Paranormal Podcast This week, we dove into the Polybius Conspiracy, the 1981 Portland arcade legend about a mysterious, unmarked cabinet that supposedly turned kids into zombies, with Men in Black collecting “data” at night. We dug through the creepy-fun origin story…
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The Van Meter Visitor
The Van Meter Visitor | Paranormal Podcast This 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...
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Is AI a Threat to Humanity?
Is AI a Threat to Humanity? | Paranormal Podcast This 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...
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Cursed Games: Vol 7
Cursed Games: Vol 7 | Paranormal Podcast We'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…
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The Monster with the Sharp Teeth
The Monster with the Sharp Teeth | Paranormal Podcast This 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...
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Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings
Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings | Paranormal Podcast This 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 —...
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Creature Feature: Vol 7
Creature Feature: Vol 7 | Paranormal Podcast We'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…
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Peggy the World's Most Haunted Doll
The Haunted Doll Peggy | Paranormal Podcast This 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...
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Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5
Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5 | Paranormal Podcast We'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...
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The Haint
The Haint | Paranormal Podcast This 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…
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Lemp Mansion Hauntings
The Haunted Lemp Mansion | Paranormal podcast This 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,...
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The Dodleston Messages | Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast
The Dodleston Messages | Paranormal Podcast Hey 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…
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The Spirits of Solace
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…
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The Shtriga
The Shtriga | Paranormal Podcast This 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…
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Terrified Together with Chilluminati Podcast
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...
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DMT Machine Elves
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…
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The Silent Watcher
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…
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Remembering the Bizarre - Denver Airport Conspiracy
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…
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Phantom Time Conspiracy
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,...
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Bizarre News: New Alien Protocols, Disappearing Vloggers, and Brazil UFOs
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…
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The Imjärvi Incident
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…
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Terrified Together with the Dark Paranormal
Terrified Together with the Dark Paranormal We teamed up with KKevin Eustace from the Dark Paranormal podcast for this Terrified Together, and the two listener submissions he brought did not disappoint, starting with Hector from Modesto, California, a lifelong skeptic who grew up without horror...
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The Hands From Under the Bed
The Hands From Under the Bed | Paranormal Podcast This week, we've got two listener submissions. First from Rebecca in Texas, who as a terrified little girl forced to watch Salem's Lot by her dad couldn't shake the vampires long enough to sleep, prayed desperately in the dark, and then had an...
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PURSUE UAP Files Release
Government UFO Files | Paranormal Podcast It's time to break down these government UAP files! The PURSUE UFO files are the massive declassified release from the Department of War covering over 200 previously classified UFO and UAP cases spanning 82 years, from the 1940s all the way to 2025…
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Sam the Sandown Clown
The Sandown Clown | Paranormal Podcast This episode we dove into one of the strangest and most uniquely bizarre encounters in UK paranormal history, the Sandown Clown, where in May of 1973, two children on the Isle of Wight followed an unsettling wailing sound across a golf course and a marsh…
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Bizarre News: Aliens, Demonic Sightings, and Argentina Duendes
Bizarre News | Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News has us covering four stories that somehow all ended up connecting — starting with renowned physicist Michio Kaku going on Diary of a CEO and laying out his case that alien life almost certainly exists, UAPs are real but we're still at...
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The Haunted Porcelain Doll
The Haunted Porcelain Doll | Paranormal Podcast In this episode, we've got two listener submissions that both somehow involve grandmothers handing their family members something terrifying and then acting totally unbothered about it. The first, 16-year-old Lindsay staying alone with her grieving...
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Terrified Together with Scaroline
Terrified Together with Scaroline | Paranormal Podcast We teamed up with Scaroline for this Terrified Together — she streams from the Underworld, keeps a collection of genuinely haunted dolls including one named Coco that she communicates with through a custom doll phone, and she fit in...
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The Pale Yellow Man
The Pale Yellow Man | Paranormal Podcast We've got three listener submissions this episode, starting with a 13-year-old cleaning a warehouse where Bay 4 carried a heavy, wrong feeling from day one — complete with disembodied clicking sounds that circled the room like a predator, shadow legs with…
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Throwback Files: Missing 411
Throwback Files: Missing 411 | Paranormal Podcast This month, we revisit the very popular Missing 411! About Missing 411 Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America. From very true crime-ish reasons to potentially paranormal...
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The Rules of Appalachia
The Rules of Appalachia | Paranormal Podcast In this episode, we went deep into the unwritten survival guide of one of the most ancient and genuinely unsettling stretches of wilderness in North America — the Rules of Appalachia — breaking down 14 laws that locals, hunters, and hikers swear by if...
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Haunted Chillingham Castle
Chillingham Castle | Paranormal Podcast We packed our bags and headed back to England for this one — Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, which might just be the most blood-soaked, ghost-saturated piece of real estate in the entire UK, and we went deep on every brutal layer of it. Waaaay more...
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Did My Toddler See a Mimic | Am I the Haunted?
Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted, where we dig up three more Reddit confessions and hand out our completely unqualified verdicts — haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted. This episode we've got a toddler who started refusing to go to…
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The Creature in the Vanity
The Creature in the Vanity | Paranormal Podcast We've got three listener submissions this week that each hit differently — starting with a birthday trip to the Stanley Hotel where flickering lights, a disembodied little girl's giggle, and a mysterious cigar smell in the elevator made for a…
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Bizarre News: Chernobyl Wildlife, Missing Scientists, and Ridiculous Tattoos
Bizarre News April 2026 | Paranormal Podcast April's Bizarre News had us covering everything from the unexpected wildlife sanctuary blooming inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone, to a deeply unsettling federal investigation into 11 scientists with security clearances tied to aerospace, nuclear, and...
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Terrified Together with Sinisterhood
Terrified Together with Sinistergood | Paranormal Podcast We had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Christie and Heather from the Sinisterhood podcast for this month's Terrified Together, and honestly, the four of us could have talked haunted locations, crystals, and fae pacts for about six more...
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Is My Imaginary Friend a Demon | Am I the Haunted?
Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another Am I the Haunted, where we dig through Reddit's most unsettling paranormal confessions and hand out our completely unqualified verdicts — haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted. This episode, we've got a sister who's watched a nun...
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Owlman of Mawnan
Owlman of Mawnan | Paranormal Podcast #owlmanofmawnan This week, we took a deep dive into one of Britain's most compelling cryptid mysteries this episode: the Owlman of Mawnan, a gray-feathered, red-eyed, man-sized winged humanoid that's been terrorizing the woods near a 13th century Cornish…
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Throwback Files: Suicide Forest
Throwback to Aokigahara Forest (Suicide Forest) | Paranormal Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Throwback Files, where we revisit old BTB episodes. This month, we head to Japan (and 2021) to episode 41 where we covered the haunting suicide forest. Just like last time, trigger warning...
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Mysterious Feral People
Feral People | Paranormal Podcast We dove deep into one of the more unsettling corners of the paranormal world this episode — feral humans — the idea that there are people living so far removed from society in places like the Appalachian Mountains and national forests that they've essentially...
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Did I See a Griffin | Am I the Haunted?
Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted, where we dig up three more stories from the internet's paranormal confessionals and put them through our very scientific haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted scale. This episode we've got a new mom whose...
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Terrified Together with BonusPac
Terrified Together with BonusPac | Paranormal Podcast We brought on BonusPac for our Terrified Together, and honestly, it might be one of the funniest episodes we've ever done — but don't let the laughs fool you, because the stories we covered were genuinely unsettling. We walked them through a...
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Bizarre News: Ohio Bigfoot Flap, UFO Hotspots, and Robot Gladiator Battles
Bizarre News: March 2026 | Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News had us kicking things off close to home — literally — with a wild Bigfoot flap happening right in our backyard in Northeast Ohio, plus a meteorite that was loud enough to rattle windows across multiple states and had one of…
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Skinwalker in the Woods
Skinwalker in the Woods | Paranormal Podcast This week we've got three listener submissions that genuinely had us questioning reality, starting with an 8-year-old sneaking into the chained-off section of a notoriously haunted abandoned elementary school and coming face to face with something that...
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Did a Ghost Girl Follow Me Home | Am I the Haunted?
Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted — our favorite excuse to dig through Reddit's most unsettling paranormal confessions and decide whether these people are dealing with something genuinely spooky or just need a better night's sleep. This time...
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The Haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse
Haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse | Paranormal Podcast For our 300th episode, we took a deep dive into one of America's most storied haunted locations — the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, a 165-foot spiral-striped beacon that's been racking up ghost sightings, mysterious deaths, and…
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About this show
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 love creepy stories and horror content mixed with humor and genuine curiosity, Believing the Bizarre is the paranormal podcast for you — as bizarre as you are.
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