Belief Hole

REAL encounters with fairies, gnomes, and the hidden folk of 'legend' are still encountered by hundreds of people around the world every year. Some of these experiences are the stuff of nightmares- many echoing Missing 411 style mysterious disappearances. Is it possible that the Huldufolk of Iceland, the Nisse of Scandinavia, the Sharp-toothed, people-eating Nirumbee of the Crow and Kowi Anukasha of the Choctaw in North America are not mere fairy tales told to warn of the dangers of the wood, but real entities to respect and fear? Join us tonight, as we draw disturbing parallels between these hidden beings, examine dark fairy close encounters, and explore the recent discovery of a mushroom compound that reveals strange tiny people for 96% of those who are exposed to it. Join us tonight as we investigate the dangers and disappearances through the fairy door.

Everyone knows the Roswell crash of 1947 remains the most infamous UFO case in history, but behind the headlines and weather balloon denials are chilling firsthand accounts that rarely make it into the official story! So in this first installment of the Anomalous Archives, we're revisiting the desert sands of New Mexico to hear raw testimony from those who claim to have seen (and been silenced by) the events of that summer. From fireman Dan Dwyer’s harrowing encounter with “little people” among the wreckage, to his daughter Frankie Rowe’s terrifying account of being threatened by military men who warned her she’d “never be found in the desert,” the stories reveal a darker side to the Roswell cover-up. We’ll also hear from mortician W. Glenn Dennis, whose calls from the base for child-sized coffins and his nurse friend’s shocking description of small bodies suggest there was far more at stake than a downed balloon! Watch Crossover with Jim and Steve Watch a show!

The campfire, humanity's first respite against the dark. And a weapon against those things that wish to feed on us from those shadows. Join us on this episode of Camp Creepily as we explore true tales of wayward spirits and luring voices from the dark...

Ufos capturing planes? Helicopters blasted and beamed thousands of feet up into the atmosphere? Pilots becoming possessed mid-flight and vanishing without a trace? Join us as we take a scrutinous eye to the strangest year on record (1973) and see how it connects to one of the largest UFO flaps in History, and how synchronicity has been hitting us hard in the Hole for this season! .. also, Jeremy and Chris dress up like pilots for some reason.

Sink you thirsty fangs into the Belief Hole. From true paranormal stories from real listeners like you, to deep dives into the unexplained, historical mysteries, and the deep dirty uncanny underpinning the world around you. For those of you waiting... Season 8 premieres next freaking week!

Join us as we hit the Haunting Highway and travel through that ever-liminal expanse of the unexplained. What is it about the novelty of travel, of being a stranger in a strange land hat has a way of burrowing cracks in our calcified perception? Cracks that allow us to see the things skittering on the edge of our own reality. Tonight, you're riding shotgun as we explore some of the strangest tales of travel on this previously unreleased Members-Only episode. If you dig it, and want more Expansion episodes like this, you can become a member and get access to 100+ full-length members' only episodes

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.