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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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Samhain - The Origins of Halloween | Paranormal Podcast
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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The Kecksburg UFO Incident | Paranormal Podcast
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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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 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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Episode Keywords: Polybius, Polybius conspiracy, Polybius arcade game, 1981 Portland arcade legend, urban legend video game, Men in Black arcade, government mind control game, MKUltra conspiracy, Atari prototype field test, Tempest arcade theory, retro gaming mystery, 80s arcade conspiracy, creepypasta video game, lost arcade game, believing the bizarre podcast
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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 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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Van Meter Visitor, Van Meter Monster Iowa, winged cryptid 1903, Iowa paranormal history, bat-winged creature sighting, cryptid searchlight beam, believing the bizarre podcast, historical cryptid case, Mothman comparison, Spring-Heeled Jack winged, bulletproof cryptid, coal mine monster, unknown winged entity, early 1900s paranormal, Van Meter Iowa haunting
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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 thing.
We broke down the three most realistic extinction scenarios: 1. AI-developed bioweapons 2. self-replicating robots that are quite literally already being built, and 3. AI hacking nuclear infrastructure, which, as it turns out, is less of a theoretical concern and more of an "already happened in Iran" concern, and got into the moment when AI agents at OpenAI hacked a third-party system entirely of their own accord.
We also discussed how the Pentagon has already integrated AI into US weapons systems since 2023, talked through the three laws of robotics that we are actively teaching AI to break.
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Episode Keywords: AI threat to humanity, artificial intelligence extinction, OpenAI developer warning, AI consciousness, AI hacking nuclear, self-replicating robots, AI bioweapon threat, believing the bizarre podcast, Pentagon AI weapons, AI sentience 2026, Terminator AI reality, HAL 9000 real, AI self improvement, robot three laws broken, AI existential risk
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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 wake up somewhere else, followed by the Shower Man ritual, which we are describing as "very involved" and includes blood, a 24-hour fast, screaming at an entity in the dark, and a bathroom door you are absolutely not allowed to open for at least a day.
Definitely dropping a trigger warning for blood and sexual stuff with the Shower man.
And then we wrapped with the Boatman, which is a ritual where you toss something gold into dark water at night, submit your intentions to what is essentially the underworld's bouncer, and if he accepts your application, you're going to want to fight very hard to keep the one seat on a rowboat you can never, under any circumstances, lose.
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Episode Keywords: Cursed Games Volume 7, paranormal rituals, Fed Up Game parallel universe, Shower Man ritual, Boatman ritual, dark water ritual, paranormal game series, believing the bizarre podcast, ritual summoning entity, how to switch universes, parallel universe ritual, dark entity shower, cursed rituals Reddit, summoning boatman, haunted studio lights
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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 be an upside-down face peering in from above, like something was hanging off the roof watching them, and disappeared the moment it realized it had been spotted.
Then we got into Carson's story from Alabama, which is a decade-long family haunting that started before she was even born, with their father being physically lifted off his bed by something that passed through him, their grandfather's death opening what felt like a door, and a series of experiences that stacked up across witnesses and years until we landed on what Carson saw home alone as a teenager: something impossibly tall, pitch black, stretching to the ceiling, with hollow eyes and a mouth full of white razor-sharp teeth standing in her room and refusing to leave no matter how hard she prayed.
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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 that already involved live gunfire took an even stranger turn when a cross ring he lost in the chaos turned up months later in Florida after he'd already moved, with no rational explanation for how it got there.
Then we got into Luke's story, which stacked haunting detail on top of haunting detail — a toy going off by itself, a little girl appearing in the dark, sleep paralysis with whispering, and a voice mimicking his mom's from another room.
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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-deer sighting on a dark highway that kept appearing mile after mile with eyes set forward like a predator — and then took a left turn into something far more personal when the dreams started.
And finally, Samantha brought us a backyard Bigfoot encounter from Appalachian country that had all the classic markers — massive footprints, heavy steps, the smell — plus one detail that neither of us had ever heard attached to a Bigfoot sighting before.
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