Deceptive Reality

In 1971, two small stone heads were found in a garden in Hexham, England, and soon became tied to strange movement, shattered glass, glowing lights, and sightings of a part-animal, part-human figure. Bert and Nick explore the Hexham Heads, Dr. Anne Ross, the wolf-man reports, the hoax claims, and the chilling idea that the heads may have been buried for a reason.

What if those strange gifted tests from childhood were not just about grades, puzzles, or being smart? In this episode of Deceptive Reality, Nick and Bert trace the weird overlap between confirmed government interest in altered consciousness, MK Ultra, remote viewing, Stargate, Zener cards, and the much murkier claims around GATE programs and psychic screening. The episode separates what is confirmed, what is reported, and what remains unproven, then asks the uncomfortable question: were some children quietly identified because their brains worked differently?

Bert and Nick investigate strange disappearances inside national parks, including Stacy Harris in Yosemite, Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains, George Penca Jr., and Gilbert Gilman. The deeper the cases go, the stranger the pattern becomes, failed search dogs, sealed files, Special Forces, UFO reports, cave systems, and the chilling question of what happens when someone separates from the group.

Bert and Nick return from their latest Wildwood Sanitarium investigation and break down what changed from last years shadow figure case. They talk through Tommys room, the basement cold anomaly, drained equipment, the Ghost Track Black Box, and why this investigation may have changed how they approach paranormal evidence.

We recorded this episode from inside Wildwood Sanitarium, sitting in Tommys Room after strange activity had already started happening around us. We talk about the cold rooms, faint knocks, a gunshot-like sound, our investigation box reacting, and the massive review still ahead for the full Halloween evidence episode.

Bert and Nick are heading back to Wildwood Sanitarium after capturing one of their strangest pieces of paranormal footage during last years investigation. This episode lays out what happened, what they missed, and why this return trip will use more cameras, better audio, body cams, and new experimental paranormal equipment.

In Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, a massive old house was built from the timbers of the HMS Vengeance, a warship with a dark reputation and a heavy past. At first, the strange sounds inside Vengeance House were dismissed as rats, shifting wood, or kids playing games. But the tapping followed the girls from room to room, answered questions through coded knocks, seemed to know things it should not know, and eventually pointed toward a much stranger possibility. Was the haunting tied to the ship, the house, or a girl named Maria whose family may have known more than they admitted?

The Smurl family believed something was inside their home… but what started small quickly escalated into something much more serious. This episode breaks down the real events, the claims, and the details that still havent been explained.

There are rules in the woods, and people in Appalachia rarely explain them unless they think you need to know. In this episode of Deceptive Reality, Bert and Nick dig into the rise of the Not Deer, a modern cryptid said to look almost like a deer, but never quite right. From early sightings in the 1950s to recent reports of eerie mimicry, unnatural movement, dead-silent forests, and voices calling from the tree line, this case raises a chilling possibility. What if the Not Deer is not folklore handed down from the past, but something new that is learning in real time? Built from your uploaded transcript and kept focused on the single paranormal case.

Ohios Bigfoot flap looked finished, until Ashland brought in wood knocks, giant barefoot style tracks, and a corridor theory that changed the whole case. Then a South Carolina roadside sighting near bridges and swamp cover made the pattern even harder to ignore. This episode asks whether we are hearing random noise, or glimpsing the outline of something that moves the same way every time.