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**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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Spirit Attachments from the Murder Basement Oct 11, 2022

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Body imprints in a dark basement can leave a horrifying image. But, is the true terror what follows once you leave?

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The Haunted Mansfield Reformatory Oct 04, 2022

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It’s easy to understand why a large prison may be haunted. Now, throw in decades of abuse, violence, and suicide. That terrifying combination gives you the Mansfield Reformatory. This Ohio State Reformatory is known as being incredibly haunted, with guests often seeing shapes and shadows and being touched by unseen entities

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The Wampus Cat Sep 27, 2022

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The Wampus Cat Cryptid | Paranormal Podcast

In this episode we dug into one of the lesser-known but genuinely fascinating cryptids in American folklore — the Wampus Cat — a massive, terrifying creature from the Appalachian Mountains that's been described as anywhere from the size of a gorilla to a miniature pony, walks on either two legs or six, and has a shriek that reportedly tears through the night and sends people running for their lives.

We broke down two Cherokee legends behind the creature, one about a wife who put on a magical bobcat mask to defeat a demon and became the Wampus Cat as a protector of her people, and another about a woman who snuck into the woods and was cursed into the creature as punishment — and then got into two firsthand encounters, including a sheriff's deputy who saw something massive and jet black cross the road in front of his patrol car and a woman from North Carolina who grew up treating the Wampus Cat roughly the same way most people treat seeing a cardinal.

It's a creature tied to real Native American mythology, possibly inspired by a Harry Potter house you've definitely heard of, and the question of whether what people are actually seeing out there in those mountains is something supernatural or just a very large, very misunderstood cat is one we had a lot of fun arguing about.

Episode Keywords: Wampus Cat cryptid, Appalachian Mountains cryptid, Cherokee mythology creature, Native American cryptids, giant cat cryptid, Wampus Beast, Appalachian folklore, cryptid podcast, believing the bizarre podcast, unknown creatures Appalachia, mountain lion cryptid, black panther sightings, Wampus Cat encounters, Harry Potter Wampus, Tennessee cryptid sightings

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The Beast of Bray Road Sep 20, 2022

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What is lurking in rural Wisconsin? Could there be a real werewolf that stalks around Bray Road? The beast of Bray Rd is known as a dog man that stands between 6 and 7 feet tall with grey and brown hair, a muscular build, and a dog face with other canine features. We discuss the folklore of the dogman known as The Beast of Bray Road and discuss some more recent encounters.

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Creature Feature: Vol 1 Sep 13, 2022

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If you love stories about creepy creatures that lurk in the woods and peer through your window late at night, this is a Believing the Bizarre episode you’re going to want to dive into. We have four listener submission stories that all revolve around bumping into cryptids and creatures that pull you out of reality and into terror.

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The Celtic Banshee Sep 06, 2022

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The Celtic Banshee | Paranormal Podcast

This episode we dove into one of Irish folklore's most haunting and honestly misunderstood entities — the Banshee — and what we found completely changed how we thought about her, because this isn't just a screaming monster from the woods, it's a weeping fairy woman who cries for you before someone in your family dies, which somehow makes the whole thing so much more unsettling and sad at the same time.

We broke down the surprisingly emotional history of the Banshee, traced her origins back to medieval Irish women called keeners whose singing at gravesides was so hauntingly beautiful they were believed to be fae, and went through every version of what she might look like — from a beautiful woman in white to a headless figure carrying a bowl of blood, and yes, we have opinions on which one is the most terrifying.

Then we got into a stack of encounters spanning from the 1800s all the way to Reddit, including a boy in a boarding school who heard her while his doctor stood right next to him and heard nothing, a person who listened to a crying voice change from a cat to a child to a woman outside their fifth floor apartment window while their mother in the next room heard absolutely nothing, and several stories where a knock at the door revealed no one — only for a family member to be found dead moments later.

We landed on viable and skeptical respectively, but the consistency across every single encounter — only the person whose family member is about to die can hear her — is the kind of detail that sticks with you long after the episode ends.

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Episode Keywords: Banshee Irish folklore, banshee encounters, Irish paranormal, banshee history, Celtic folklore, harbinger of death, fairy mythology Ireland, banshee screaming, Irish mythology podcast, believing the bizarre podcast, death omen folklore, banshee sightings, real banshee stories, paranormal podcast, fae mythology

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The Battersea Poltergeist Aug 30, 2022

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The Battersea Poltergeist | Paranormal Podcast

This episode we headed to 1956 southwest London to cover the Battersea Poltergeist — one of the most well-documented and genuinely unsettling poltergeist cases on record, involving a completely ordinary working-class family whose home was overtaken by twelve straight years of banging, scratching, levitating furniture, objects flying across rooms, and a teenage girl getting physically dragged out of her bed and arched into the air by something nobody could see.

We broke down the full timeline from the mysterious silver key that appeared on fifteen-year-old Shirley's pillow and kicked everything off, to the poltergeist eventually identifying itself through letter cards as a French royal ghost named Donald — who then started making demands, threatening arson, and actually following Shirley to work where his antics got her fired.

We got into the paranormal investigator who dedicated his life to the case, the locked room that filled up with thousands of handwritten notes, the grandmother who had a stroke and died after hearing what she believed was her deceased mother's voice, and the moment the family patriarch ended up in the hospital after being clawed and burned while trying to put out a fire that Donald started.

We both landed between viable and believable — because when neighbors, journalists, photographers, and investigators are all witnessing the same chaos from outside the house, and the letters are appearing in a room that was locked with a key only one person had, it's pretty hard to explain it all away.

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Episode Keywords: Battersea Poltergeist, UK poltergeist cases, Shirley Hitchings haunting, poltergeist activity, London paranormal, real poltergeist stories, paranormal podcast, teenage girl poltergeist, poltergeist evidence, haunted house London, poltergeist investigation, believing the bizarre podcast, Donald poltergeist, famous poltergeist cases, real haunting stories

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The Ohio Grassman Aug 23, 2022

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Ohio Grassman | Paranormal Podcast

This episode we went full hometown hero mode and covered the Ohio Grassman — our very own Buckeye State Bigfoot that we, two native Ohioans who are very into paranormal stuff, somehow had never heard of until recently, which says something, but also says nothing, because the encounters we found are genuinely hard to dismiss.

We broke down the lore of this seven to nine foot tall, 800 to 1000 pound, aggressively territorial, absolutely terrible-smelling creature that builds grass nests, hunts deer, travels in family groups, and apparently has a particular fondness for lurking around Salt Fork State Park with its distinctly orange eyes.

We went through a stack of encounters spanning from 1896 all the way to 2006, including a family that saw it so often their daughter named it as a pet, a researcher who found a nest big enough for three grown men, and a listener submission from an 11 year old who stumbled upon a massive den in the snow with hair clumps, giant footprints, and three loud knocks from the tree line that sent his dad sprinting for the ATV.

We both landed on believable and viable respectively — because when multiple independent stories share the same specific behaviors like the wood knocking, the nest building, and the stench, it's hard to write the whole thing off as cornfield paranoia.

Episode Keywords: Ohio Grassman, Ohio Bigfoot, Sasquatch Ohio, Ohio cryptid, Grassman encounters, Salt Fork State Park paranormal, Bigfoot sightings Ohio, cryptid podcast, Ohio paranormal, unknown creature Ohio, Bigfoot family groups, wood knocking Bigfoot, Bigfoot nest, believing the bizarre podcast, Ohio monster sightings

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The Berwyn Mountain UFO Incident Aug 16, 2022

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The Berwyn Mountain UFO Incident | Paranormal Podcast

This episode we dove into one of the UK's most compelling and frustrating UFO cases — the Berwin Mountains Incident of January 23rd, 1974 — where an entire Welsh village experienced violent earth-shaking, saw a massive pulsating reddish-orange orb hovering above the mountaintops, and then watched the evidence get buried, debunked, and dismissed for the next four decades while the people who tried to prove it happened took hit after hit.

We followed the journey of dedicated ufologist Margaret Fry, whose own close encounter in 1955 set her on a lifelong mission to make the world believe, and the nurse Pat Evans who drove toward the mountain that night to help potential crash victims and came back with a story so credible her entire village vouched for her word.

We got into the town halls, the anonymous letters, the shadowy neo-Nazi alien group with a cassette tape, the retired military officer with a fake name who claimed to have seen dead Roswell-style aliens in coffin boxes, the TV documentary that cut out the believers and handed the mic to the debunker, and the genuinely cruel joke that cost Margaret years of her life and a significant chunk of her credibility.

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The Japanese Yōkai Folklore Aug 09, 2022

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Discover the rich Japanese history of a few of japans most famous Yōkai. We discuss multiple Yōkai and learn how amazing, powerful, silly, and terrifying these supernatural entities can be.

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