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Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
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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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Sam the Sandown Clown
3d ago01:09:26Tap to summarizeThe 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, only to find a seven-foot-tall, no-neck, bone-white, three-fingered entity in a yellow pointed hat living under a bridge who dropped a book in a creek, gave them a wave, and then invited them inside his metal shed for what ended up being a very long and surprisingly cordial conversation. We went through every possible theory for what Sam could have been — a very method-acting, very high Ringo Starr filming a movie nearby, an alien scout afraid of humans who found children to be the least threatening study subjects, and Charlie's personal favorite, a Fae entity operating by his own bizarre logic in a liminal space between dimensions, which explains the bridge, the enchantment, the mechanical speech, and why the child just was not scared at all. Episode Keywords: Sandown Clown, Isle of Wight paranormal, UK UFO encounters, high strangeness cryptid, fae entity encounter, alien scout theory, paranormal children encounter, believing the bizarre podcast, Sandown clown 1973, uncanny valley entity, liminal space paranormal, fae folklore Britain, British UFO Research Association, paranormal clown sighting, alien mimicry theory 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on the Flatwoods Monster. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Support Producer Ben and pick up his book: Suitcases, Shenanigans, and Sunburns 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bizarre News: Aliens, Demonic Sightings, and Argentina Duendes
1w ago00:39:13Tap to summarizeBizarre 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 Close Encounters of the First Kind, and if they wanted us gone we'd already be gone, which is either very reassuring or something we're choosing not to think too hard about. Then we got into a longtime CIA-connected UFO researcher claiming the US government has bodies from four different alien species including Grays, Nordics, Reptilians, and Insectoids, followed by creepy security footage from an oil field in Argentina where workers have been reporting screaming in the night and a traffic cone that very confidently moved itself while nobody was around — local folklore pointing to a duende, a mischievous goblin. We wrapped up with a woman named Kathy McDaniel who had a near-death experience and instead of the peaceful light and deceased relatives everybody talks about, found herself surrounded by fog, shrieking, and a booming voice asking her if she knew where she was. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Haunted Porcelain Doll
1w ago00:58:29Tap to summarizeThe 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 great-grandma, grabbing a fireplace poker after hearing phantom footsteps from a kitchen that should have been empty, and then walking into the living room to find a tall black cloaked figure with beady inhuman eyes sitting completely still in her late great-grandfather's chair. Then we got into Samantha's year-and-a-half ordeal with a Victorian porcelain doll her grandmother gave her for her birthday that started turning itself on the shelf, relocated from her bedroom to her bed while she was at school, gave her nightmares bad enough that she dreaded going to sleep, and eventually made a sound like porcelain scratching against the wall at 2am while she watched its head slowly turn toward her. 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on Robert the Doll. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2w ago01:19:53Tap to summarizeTerrified 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 immediately. So naturally, we got into three listener submissions ranging from a 12-year-old and his dad spotting a flying saucer outside Boston to a seven-year-old in Arizona who woke up sick in her parents' bed and locked eyes with a smirking, reptilian, dinosaur-like demon holding a severed head at the top of the stairs. We also covered Q's two-part story: first as a kid in Pennsylvania where he and his brothers heard something stomping up from the basement in a power-outage blizzard, jiggling the handle, and crashing back down the stairs, and then years later in San Antonio where a recurring nightmare kept pulling him deeper each time he fell back asleep until he came face to face with something that said help in a way that felt anything but innocent. Follow Scaroline on Twitch. Check out Scaroline's YouTube here. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Pale Yellow Man
2w ago00:53:00Tap to summarizeThe 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 no body, and one final crash in the dark that sent them sprinting out and never coming back. Then we headed to England, where a guy waiting for his early morning Uber caught something pitch black sprint across his kitchen doorway at an impossible speed, and turned to find the straps of his work bag swinging violently on their own with nothing nearby to explain it. And the last one comes from a listener in Paradise, California, who woke one night to a tall, impossibly thin figure in her doorway with jaundice-yellow skin stretched tight over sharp cheekbones, hollow black eyes, and eventually heard it creak down toward her ear and chuckle before everything went black... 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on the Yellow Interdimensional Runner. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Paranormal listener submissions, warehouse haunting, shadow figure, shadow legs paranormal, haunted warehouse, England ghost sighting, pale yellow entity, creepy figure bedroom, paranormal encounters, believing the bizarre podcast, entity in doorway, malevolent entity, ghost story podcast, listener paranormal experience, shadow person encounters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Throwback Files: Missing 411
3w ago01:13:44Tap to summarizeThrowback 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 explanations, we examine some of the top disappearances and give our new thoughts. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Rules of Appalachia
3w ago01:20:09Tap to summarizeThe 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 you want to make it back out of those mountains in one piece. From never whistling after dark, to what to do if something calls your name in a voice you recognize, to the very specific etiquette required if a bearded old man sits down uninvited at your campfire, we covered a solid list of what's lurking out there and why you absolutely do not want to ignore it. We wrapped it up with three encounters from people who learned some of these rules the hard way... Episode Keywords: Appalachian folklore, rules of Appalachia, Appalachian Trail dangers, Appalachian cryptids, mimics paranormal, don't whistle in the woods, paranormal survival guide, Appalachian mountains supernatural, unexplained encounters wilderness, Appalachian ghost stories, cryptid encounters, paranormal podcast 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on the Not Deer. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Support Producer Ben and pick up his book: Suitcases, Shenanigans, and Sunburns 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Haunted Chillingham Castle
May 501:06:55Tap to summarizeChillingham 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 exciting than Leap Castle (looking at you, Producer Ben)From King Edward I using it as his war headquarters to massacre Scottish prisoners and their children, to a torturer named John Sage who apparently had a real passion for the job, to the infamous blue boy spirit. We wrapped it up with three firsthand encounters from people who actually stayed there, including someone who got a little too close to the hanging tree after dark and came back with a story that smells like sulfur and ends with a full sprint back to the apartment. Episode Keywords: Chillingham Castle haunted, most haunted castle UK, Northumberland paranormal, John Sage torturer, Blue Boy ghost Chillingham, haunted castles England, King Edward I Chillingham, paranormal podcast, true ghost stories, creepy podcast, horror podcast, supernatural encounters, haunted location history, ghost sightings UK 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on Leap Castle. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 #chillinghamcastle #hauntedcastles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Did My Toddler See a Mimic | Am I the Haunted?
May 100:19:15Tap to summarizeAm 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 grandma's house alone because apparently grandma has a stand-in when she's out of town, someone who keeps catching glimpses of a little boy in their doorway and a figure in white passing through their hallway at 5am, and a person whose house ghost apparently decided one location just wasn't enough and followed them to work. No advice, no hotline numbers, just us judging people's supernatural situations and hoping none of it ever happens to us. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 #amithehaunted #believingthebizarre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Creature in the Vanity
Apr 2800:48:35Tap to summarizeThe 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 haunting you'd actually want to have. Then we dove into Kevin's story out of Santa Fe, where an ornate family vanity became the home of something tall, impossibly thin, and very much aware of him — and the second time he saw it, this thing was done just standing there. We wrapped up with Sarah, a girl from a Mescalero Apache family with a long line of seers, whose mother had a dream so terrifying it sent the whole house into lockdown mode the next morning — and the missing necklace that started it all was never found. Episode Keywords: Stanley Hotel haunted, haunted hotels paranormal, Santa Fe paranormal encounter, tall thin creature sighting, shadow figure encounter, Mescalero Apache supernatural, paranormal podcast, true listener encounters, creepy true stories, horror podcast, real ghost stories, unexplained phenomena, demon sighting, supernatural encounter stories 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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