Belief Hole

For eons, all across the earth, countless cultures have softly spoken of the same disturbing pattern: voices calling from the wood line, faces borrowed by entities who have no right to wear them... and waiting in the dark, for you. So when the trap is set. The lure prepared. He’d not it’s siren song. And Join as we explore the unsettling reality of “Luring Mimics and Phantasms of the Road". ⏰ Timestamps 00:00 | Episode Trailer 04:02 | Closet Portal: Dark Invitation| Harold | Northeast GA 10:04 | Witch marks, Thresholds and Closet Theory 11:57 | Winnie the Poo at the Wood line | Ryan | Angelina County, TX 17:40 | Related Luring Entities: The Bolotnik & The Kelpie 21:24 | Black Hats and Rainy Roads | Casey |Fall of 1999 | 9:30 p.m. 29:19 | Faceless Female Hitchhiker | Dallas | Temple, TX | July 2025 | 1 a.m. 35:21 | An Important Message from The Judge | Bucyrus, OH 39:20 | Expansion Preview 42:31 | The Beckoning Wind | The Judge | 2006 ( @fromtheshadowspodcast  ) 59:51 | Old Sorrow of Old Sheff | Jason | Kin

It's Trick-or-Treat time in the Belief Hole, gang! And that can only mean one thing: another installment of "It Happened on Halloween"! Tonight we hear tangy true tales of a wiener dog demon mimic, a snake-eyed black basement “cat” rocking a chair with unnatural power, and angels holding the line against a "portal to hell" in the basement! From a Souls Day live-saving poltergeist, to a lurking neighborhood hatman, these are true listener encounters of Halloween-time high strangeness - doppelgängers, familiars, guardians, portals, and the lingering echoes of a séance that didn’t close the door.

The American southwest is a land, scarred by blood, shaped by tradition, and steeped in magic. Here the ancient Navajo developed a powerful system of healing and protection, but in dark desert canyons, this sacred knowledge was corrupted, and an evil drifted in like a whistle on the wind. And they called it yee naaldlooshii - the Skinwalker. Join us tonight, as we explore harrowing encounters with these shapeshifting witches- shared by our own Navajo listeners and others who live on or near the rez. And while we're not native and we’re not experts, we bring you these stories with good intentions, sincere curiosity and a few laughs, because as a lot of you know, this is a dark topic in hopes of illuminating that darkness, and make the shadows a little less heavy. So grab a drink, and join us in the Hole!

Welcome to an evening of the most unusual encounters you've never heard of! With the help of Author Richard Freemen's incredible compendium, we're going to be taking an expedition through time and across continents to explore some severely strange happenings. From alien-catfish UFO-nauts broken down on the highway, to Top-hat wearing Fox Demons invading a boy's bedroom, tonight we select a gaggle of ghoulish tales from this most compelling tome! Join us, wont you? ⏰ TIMESTAMPS 00:56 | Story Setup 03:04 | The Book & Author |The Highest Strangeness by Richard Freeman 05:35 | The Thing From Over The Hill | Smiths | 1940 12:14 | The Bulbous Floating Horror | Hamilton, New Zealand | November 1954 16:47 | The Breather | Ruidoso, New Mexico | September 2009 22:36 | The Catfish Man | Europa, Mississippi |Oct 17th, 1973 26:41 | The Scottish Sea Mines |Bob Taylor Case| Nov 19th,1979 43:05 | The Japanese Brain Blaster | Near Sayama City, Japan| Oct 3rd, 1978 51:02 | The dancing Cows | Ohio 54:43 | Floating Cow |

Tonight we’re getting weird with some wild and unnerving true camping stories straight from the deep woods

The Ohio River Valley is a special place- a window area where sightings of bizarre cryptids and UFO encounters are unusually high. Discreetly positioned on the ridges of Peach Mountain is GE Peebles, a secretive propulsion testing facility. There have been allegations that this facility is, in fact, Ohio's Area 51, back-engineering exotic ET technology on the mountain. Why are there so many strange sightings here? Are they tapping into an ancient energy source- an energy that may have been recognized by whoever built the great Serpent Mound thousands of years ago, just a few miles from this facility? And finally, could the high concentration of paranormal phenomena in this region point to a dual purpose for this clandestine facility- anomaly containment?!

Join us as we journey deep into the haunted heart of Appalachia as we explore dangers lurking along the Appalachian Trail, the chilling mysteries of missing persons, phantom hitchhikers, and the infamous curse of Dudleytown, with legendary storyteller Steve Stockton. From tales of haunted schools and bewitched mirrors to seances and spiritual architecture, Steve drives this Belief Hole bus deep into mysteries of the Smokies. So Buckle up, because Appalachia’s backroads are calling! ⏰ TIMESTAMPS 02:01 | Introduction to Steve Stockton 09:35 | Dangers of the Appalachian Trail 12:48 | Young Steve Searches for Dennis Martin | 1969 |TN 23:17 | Concept: Containment Theory in Appalachians Mountains 31:36 | Phantom Motorcycle 35:15 | Granny's Ghosts and Running Water 38:00 | Barricading the Boogeyman & Spirit Architecture 41:30 | Expansion Preview | Freaks in Las Vegas 43:52 | Recap | Steve's Second Sight | Granny and Steve's Seances 52:23 | Curse of Dudleytown 1:06:36 | The Smoking Ghost | 1973 | Halloween 1:12:34

In this collection of true paranormal listener accounts, we meet a giant hand that saves a kid from a tragic cliffside fate, dream-invading astral travelers, low-rent gargoyles creeping on apartment candelabras, the disembodied patrons of an Alaskan tavern and more! So tonight.. hunker down, watch the wood line, and whatever you do, don’t... poke.. the burn pile

In Rome Township, 1981, the summer sky was illuminated by bizarre lights, terrible screams, and the crack and boom of desperate gunfire echoing like thunder in the distance. Journey with us back in time — when a quiet Ohio summer night was shattered by a multi-night siege, as a family found themselves under attack by horrific creatures, shadow entities, and anomalous assaults from the sky. Join us as we recount this extraordinary account from Dennis Pilichis’ investigation, Night Siege.

Come with us on a strange and harrowing expedition to frosty exotic lands where we'll be exploring everything from icy ghost ships, antarctic phantoms, ice madness, ghosts of Everest and so much more in this previously Members Only episode! ⏰ TIMESTAMPS 02:30 | Introduction – Third Man Factor Phenomenon extension, legends and lore around these places 07:05 | The Ghost Ship Jenny 13:05 | Ice Madness – The Antarctic Stare, Winter Over Syndrome, and Presence Hallucinations 14:59 | Something’s in the Radio Hut with Ginnie! Antarctica Phantoms 27:27 | Presence at the Powerplant | 1986 40:19 | Shackleton’s Ghost Greets Sir Edmund Hillary 41:01 | Death of Frank Smythe 43:52 | Bodies on Everest and the Demon of Desire 52:24 | Ghost Captain 58:20 | Lowe’s Ghost Saves Two 01:01:49 | Cave Cuddles | Dougal Haston and Doug Scott 01:03:43 | Tiger in the Sea | Juan Figueroa 01:09:35 | Explanations of the Third Man Factor: Ghosts, Angels, Hallucinations… or Something Else?

As Strange Listener Stories turns 30, we unlock the vault to share terrifying true listener encounters—too freaky to forget.. Featuring a forest encounter with a Black-Eyed Kid & her Tall Man, a witch who spits a storm-curse in Finland, a protective ghost-dad defending his daughter from the beyond, A leprechaun, and a malevolent entity hiding in the dark rough of a golf course! So, turn the lights down. It’s time.

From 1970s missing time events on cold Alaskan highways and Holographic Little Dudes dodging cars near Nome, to Kushtika lore and hairy humanoid bride-abduction, we're braving the cold to bring you the strangest untold Alaskan tales!

Venture with us once more to the strange and lovely land down under for a fascinating expedition into some of the most bizarre encounters from the Darkest reaches of the Australian outback! In this previously Members-Only episode, You’ll hear truly unsettling testimony from actual witnesses who escaped terrifying attacks from something inexplicable in the sky on the infamous Nullarbor Plane as well as entity accounts from all across Australia, the true land of OZ.

In the shadow of war, soldiers aren't always fighting a flesh-and-blood enemy. Extreme environments can often invite unusual things.. From Ouija board summonings in Okinawa that release entities into our world, to monstrous, infrared sky-gargoyles seen only through experimental military tech, this episode is a payload of incredible, true tales! Also, CIA sponsored animal espionage?! What?! That's right, From weaponized rabbits and eavesdropping pigeons to Cold War cats wired for surveillance, military black projects have long sought to turn the natural world into asset!  And then, of course, we return to Glimmer Man.. a shadowy presence stalking the corridors of the world’s largest naval air stationI, is it a specter of the past, or a bleeding-edge experiment in battlefield invisibility?! Join us, as we gear up and go behind enemy lines of the bizarre!

Join us now, in digging into the previously unreleased ( FULL ) conversation with our friend, UFO witness, and anomaly enthusiast Bryan King, regarding drones, UFOs, Sky Creatures, the Hudson Canyon Theory, and all the remaining unknown craziness in our skies Attention!: There are alot of compelling visuals, so be sure to check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8XkNHbWtiSE