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.
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May 5, 2026 • 66 mins
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 exciting than Leap Castle (looking at you, Producer Ben)From King Edward I using it as his war headquarters to massacre Scottish prisoners ...
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May 1, 2026 • 19 mins
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 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...
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April 28, 2026 • 48 mins
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 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 somet...
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April 24, 2026 • 42 mins
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 defense programs who've died or vanished under mysterious circumstances since 2022.
We also got into a guy in England who spent 350 hou...
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April 21, 2026 • 71 mins
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 hours.
We covered two listener-submitted stories — one from a front desk worker in Tennessee who kept seeing something walk behind her ...
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April 17, 2026 • 21 mins
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 appear in a wardrobe while a toddler asks questions that nobody in the house can explain, a teenager who's been followed since childhood b...
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April 14, 2026 • 73 mins
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 church since the 1970s, and somehow keeps showing up specifically in front of young women.
We walked through the most popular documented si...
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April 9, 2026 • 57 mins
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 regarding suicide and those kind of negative thoughts.
We return to Aokigahara Forest and discuss it's history, hauntings, and revisit whet...
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April 7, 2026 • 63 mins
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 become something else entirely.
We walked through the history, the science, and the psychology behind how and why this happens, from docum...
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April 3, 2026 • 19 mins
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 brother-in-law heard a very familiar voice saying something he definitely shouldn't have, a teenager on a chaotic midnight bike ride who...
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March 31, 2026 • 75 mins
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 Colorado family's haunting that started with a mother's deeply creepy dreams and escalated into something her son Jet couldn't explain aw...
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March 27, 2026 • 46 mins
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 us genuinely wondering if the neighbor's house exploded.
From there we covered dozens of sheep vanishing without a single trace of bone ...
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March 24, 2026 • 52 mins
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 had absolutely no business being on all fours in that hallway.
Then we heard from Nicole, a military wife who has been followed by a sh...
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March 20, 2026 • 21 mins
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 around we had a guy who reconnected with his faith and started experiencing things in the dark that made him seriously question whether...
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March 17, 2026 • 73 mins
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 paranormal encounters since the 1500s.
We walked through centuries of wild history, from Spanish colonists and pirate-infested waters to a keep...
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March 12, 2026 • 61 mins
Throwback Files: The Not Deer | Paranormal Podcast
Welcome to another episode of the Throwback Files, where we revisit old BTB episodes.
This month, we are going back to 2021 and hanging out with our favorite strange, Appalachian cryptid. Charlie even brings some new encounters into the mix!
Find out if our old Believability Scale Ranking stays the same or if we now find the Not Deer more or less believable.
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March 10, 2026 • 80 mins
Cursed Games: Vol 6 | Paranormal Podcast
We're back with Cursed Games Volume 6, and honestly, we can't believe we're already six deep into a series that somehow keeps getting creepier — this time covering four games you almost certainly should not play.
We kicked things off with Red Door Yellow Door, a hypnotic trance ritual that takes you wandering through a hallway of doors in your own mind, then moved on to the 100 Candles Ga...
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March 6, 2026 • 20 mins
Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast
We're back with another installment of Am I the Haunted — our paranormal spin on the beloved Reddit format where we dig through the internet's strangest and most unsettling encounters and put them to the test.
This episode had us examining three compelling submissions: a grieving family who may have captured something extraordinary in a photograph, a man whose time living in his ex's house l...
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March 3, 2026 • 63 mins
Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 4 | Paranormal Podcast
We're back with Extraterrestrial Encounters Volume 4, diving into three awesome listener-submitted UFO stories.
From a group of teenagers canoeing on a pond in rural Ohio who witnessed a single light transform into something far more extraordinary, to a Southern California resident who had not one but two separate close encounters with unidentified crafts, the skies are a lo...
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February 27, 2026 • 41 mins
Bizarre News - February 2026 | Paranormal Podcast
From a chilling ghostly photograph captured inside a 140-year-old UK theater undergoing renovation to a haunted hospice center in Norfolk that had staff so rattled they called in a priest, we covered a lot.
We also dove into a viral dashcam video from a late-night driver in North England who encountered a towering, unsettling figure on the road that left the internet completely di...
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