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Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast 375 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

Believing the Bizarre is a paranormal podcast covering cryptids, UFOs, hauntings, ghost stories, demons, poltergeists, and true supernatural encounters. New episodes are released every Tuesday. The hosts research strange phenomena and rate each story on their Believability Scale: Believable, Viable, Skeptical, or Unbelievable. They also feature listener-submitted paranormal encounters told in full detail. The show blends creepy stories and horror content with humor and genuine curiosity.

Episodes

The Polybius Conspiracy
The Polybius Conspiracy Oct 13, 2026 5867 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, the real-life arcade raids and Atari’s secret field tests, and the game-industry skeptics who’ve been
The Van Meter Visitor
The Van Meter Visitor Oct 6, 2026 3987 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 searchlight beam shooting from its forehead and a stench so overwhelming witnesses nearly dropped, that terror
Is AI a Threat to Humanity?
Is AI a Threat to Humanity? Sep 29, 2026 4665 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 the math at home, is a much higher number than you'd like to hear from someone who actually built the
Cursed Games: Vol 7
Cursed Games: Vol 7 Sep 22, 2026 5750 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 parallel universe ritual where you sleep holding a precise 5x5 centimeter hexagram paper in red ink and wak
The Monster with the Sharp Teeth
The Monster with the Sharp Teeth Sep 15, 2026 3042 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 out of the room, and when Colt glanced at the bare window, he saw a white mass with what appeared to
Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings
Terrified Together with QueenOfVikings Sep 8, 2026 4672 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 — and she brought serious insight to two listener stories. First was Octavio's story, where a night tha
Creature Feature: Vol 7
Creature Feature: Vol 7 Sep 1, 2026 3532 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 that looked like a deer but absolutely was not. Then we got into Rhys's story, which starts with a not
Peggy the World's Most Haunted Doll
Peggy the World's Most Haunted Doll Aug 25, 2026 3056 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 literally called Haunted Dolls and received Peggy from an elderly anonymous woman who simply said she was "
Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5
Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5 Aug 18, 2026 3988 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 there, a story she'd been quietly filing under "weird thing that happened" for years before finally le
The Haint
The Haint Aug 11, 2026 3502 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 in the rich and deeply important traditions of the Gullah Geechee people and a blend of African, Europe
Lemp Mansion Hauntings
Lemp Mansion Hauntings Aug 4, 2026 4142 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, and tracing the family's meteoric rise through his son William turning it into a national powerhouse w
The Dodleston Messages | Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast
The Dodleston Messages | Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast Jul 31, 2026 7576 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 well-documented and genuinely bizarre cases in English paranormal history — the Dodleston Messages, where a school

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