Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
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Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast's 200th Episode Reddit Encounter Story Spooktacular
2026-10-31 | 1h 43 mins.Happy Halloween 🎃 Here is a special treat!
Kaydra rings in 200 episodes with some very special spooky guests. Enjoy these creepy Reddit stories with paranormal and true crime elements, and be sure to follow all of these amazing shows by following the links in the show notes below!
HOST & Story 1: Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast- perplexitymysterypodcast.com
GUESTS (in order of stories):
Cryptid Cocktail Party- https://allmylinks.com/cryptidcocktail
Truly Twisted- https://pod.link/1800597032
@itstrulytwisted on Instagram and @trulytwisted on TikTok.
Follow On Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@itstrulytwisted
Houston Strange- https://linktr.ee/houstonstrange
Scared All The Time- https://scaredallthetimepodcast.com/
Drinking the Koolaid- https://www.dtkpod.com/
Scare You To Sleep- https://www.scareyoutosleep.com/
Astonishing Legends- https://astonishinglegends.com/
Generation Why Podcast- genwhypod.com
Believing the Bizarre- https://believingthebizarre.com/
Let’s Get Haunted- https://linktr.ee/letsgethaunted
Two Girls One Ghost-
https://www.twogirlsoneghost.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtIdIQPeFulME3T_28ipIYw
https://www.youtube.com/@CrimesOfRedditPod
Heart Starts Pounding- https://www.heartstartspounding.com/
Let’s Not Meet- https://letsnotmeetpodcast.com/
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STORY LINKS:
Kaydra - https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/g6r43u/he_thinks_we_both_died/
Dave and Sarge (Cryptid Cocktail Party) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexplained/comments/1tc6hp2/it_started_out_as_me_just_taking_my_dog_out_to_pee/?share_id=OcUQms2Py6KUn-CajGTkE&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Alecia (Truly Twisted, Twisted & Uncorked) - https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/9skswy/my_brother_saw_a_ghost_as_a_kid_two_decades_later/
Adam (Houston Strange, Weekly Creep) -
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/TkkEzciets
Ed and Chris (Scared All the Time) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/jar9ae/i_think_i_just_became_the_background_character/
Amanda and Cassidy (Drinking the Koolaid) -
Amanda: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepyencounters/s/OiuQVhCaPc
Cassidy: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/qia4ul/our_bizarre_experiences_with_the_forest_behind/?share_id=zy_OZ4lcObi1WHw9RCCFW&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Shelby (Scare You to Sleep, Bloody Disgusting) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/jimo79/got_lost_in_the_woods_for_8_hours_as_a_little/?share_id=m95RxBnczt64RT3GLaVJd&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Scott and Forest (Astonishing Legends) - https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/comments/1ufnnyw/strange_encounter_at_the_cornfield_next_to_my/?share_id=Fyt6BEnA9rSMgxmsnbHDL&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Aaron (Generation Why)
https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/s/MdtWVYCmYr
Charlie and Tyler (Believing the Bizarre) - r/aliens on Reddit: Please don't think I'm crazy. We saw what I can only describe as the creature from the "Predator" movies (San Bernardino Ntnl Forest)
Aly (Let’s Get Haunted)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/f4zdog/my_moms_voice_was_calling_me_from_the_woods_but/
AUDIO/VISUAL CREDITS:
“Scary Forest Ambience” by DL Sounds, purchased here: https://www.editingsounds.com/royalty-free-music/scary-forest-ambience/
STOCK VIDEO ASSETS USED IN THIS EPISODE WERE ALL PURCHASED AND LICENSED VIA STORYBLOCKS.COM
ALL OTHER AUDIO ASSETS LICENSED AND PURCHASED THROUGH: https://www.epidemicsound.com/
Sabrina (Two Girls One Ghost, Crimes of Reddit) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1ln4xdu/i_had_a_terrifying_experience_today_in_goodwill/?share_id=yhrNX0K9hoZ5sVWtVA1M7&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Kaelyn (Heart Starts Pounding, Clues) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/8ee7cy/i_died_in_late_2015_i_was_given_a_second_chance/
Andy (Lets Not Meet, Odd Trails) -
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/AoEgBEmAi7
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To celebrate the spooky season, we traced Halloween back to its Gaelic roots in Samhain, the ancient Irish festival where the veil between worlds supposedly wore thin.
Along the way, we got into fairies, the púca and a very unlucky piper, the Dullahan, Stingy Jack and his turnip lantern, and our own worst Halloween stories (plus some Irish accents we’re still sorry about). Then we swung into the chaos of Mischief Night, including the infamous Detroit fires.
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This year's live Halloween special, we covered the mysterious Kecksburg UFO Crash.
On December 9, 1965, a brilliant fireball was seen across at least six U.S. states and Ontario before reportedly crashing into a wooded ravine near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, where volunteer firemen found a large, seamless, acorn-shaped metal object with a hieroglyph-like ring around its base.
Within hours, military personnel sealed off the area, turned the local fire station into a command post, and were seen hauling away a tarp-covered object on a flatbed truck, yet the Air Force officially declared that nothing was found and blamed a meteor.
Investigations since then have uncovered strange gaps in the paper trail, including a radar squadron’s blank log for that date, unusually high-level federal interest, and NASA’s admission that two boxes of Kecksburg records went missing after it floated, then backed away from, a Soviet satellite explanation.
Theories range from a meteor or space debris to a classified U.S. re-entry vehicle, the Nazi “Die Glocke,” or an extraterrestrial craft, and sixty years later the eyewitnesses still dispute the official story.
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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 poking holes in it for years.
Then we compared four theories, from a government mind-control experiment to an early-internet creepypasta, and, true to form, we couldn’t agree on a verdict (one of us now suspects the debunker might be a Man in Black himself, by the way).
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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 terrorized the small town of Van Meter across five consecutive nights starting September 29th, 1903.
We walked through every sighting night by night, starting with U.G. Griffith watching a strange light leap between rooftops on Main Street and vanish into the sky, through a banker, a doctor, a hardware store owner, and multiple other credible townspeople all firing guns at something that simply would not go down, and ending at the old abandoned coal mine where the whole town collectively decided to go see what was happening, which is exactly the decision you'd expect from a town that apparently did not own a single horror movie.
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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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