In this episode, we step away from military rumors and dive into the historical and mythological roots of the Leopard Men — figures described not simply as killers, but as boundary enforcers believed to carry the authority of the forest itself.

As colonial powers expanded into Africa, spiritual explanations for death and judgment were reframed into criminal conspiracies known as the “Leopard Societies.” Ritual medicine, symbolic violence, and cultural fear collided with Western legal systems, creating one of the most misunderstood chapters of jungle lore.

But what happens when humans don’t just fear the hunter…

what happens when they try to become it?

This episode explores:

• The transformation of Leopard Men from liminal beings to secret societies
• Colonial reinterpretation and the criminalization of myth
• Ritual medicine, identity, and the psychology of embodiment
• The body as message — display killings as communication
• The archetype of the unseen jungle hunter and its connection to Predator

This isn’t about proving monsters exist.

It’s about understanding why the same hunter keeps appearing — across cultures, across history, and deep inside the human imagination.

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What if Predator wasn’t just science fiction?

Before the movie, before Hollywood, and long before modern conspiracy theories, stories of unseen hunters were already being told deep inside the world’s jungles. Warriors found skinned and displayed. Witnesses describing lights in the canopy. Villagers speaking of beings that watched without being seen.

Before Predator is an investigative paranormal series exploring the strange intersection between military rumor, ancient folklore, and the enduring myth of the ultimate jungle hunter.

Beginning with the legend of the Leopard Men of West and Central Africa — figures believed to cross the boundary between human and animal — the series examines how older wilderness traditions may have shaped modern ideas of invisible predators, ritual hunters, and liminal entities that exist at the edge of human understanding.

This isn’t about proving monsters exist.

It’s about asking why the same stories keep appearing across cultures, wars, and generations — and what happens when those stories follow us into modern battlefields.

Because sometimes the most terrifying idea isn’t that Predator was real.

It’s that Predator was never new.

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Is Florida a paranormal portal?

From metallic humanoids crashing into the ground… to shimmering Glimmermen stalking forest trails… to people vanishing from their own bedrooms… Florida may be more than just a hotspot for strange encounters.

In this Fortean 50 episode of Humanoid Encounters, we explore some of the most disturbing and baffling paranormal cases from the Sunshine State, including humanoid sightings, UFO encounters, missing time cases, interdimensional phenomena, Black-Eyed Kid encounters, and impossible transformations.

Are these isolated incidents… or evidence that Florida is a gateway to the unknown?

Listen to true eyewitness accounts, chilling testimony, and unexplained phenomena that challenge everything we think we know about reality.

If you enjoy true paranormal stories, alien encounters, cryptids, and high-strangeness cases, subscribe and join us as we document the unknown.

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In this episode, we explore the disturbing and little-known Stella Lansing Orb Case, a chilling paranormal encounter involving intelligent glowing orbs, altered states of consciousness, and unexplained physical phenomena.

Beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Stella Lansing reported a series of close-range encounters with luminous spheres that appeared inside her home, passed through solid walls, and seemed to interact with her on a mental and emotional level. During several encounters, Lansing claimed she could see humanoid figures — described as men — within the orb itself, observing her from inside the glowing sphere.

Unlike traditional UFO sightings, these objects showed no visible structure, no sound, and no apparent propulsion — behaving more like living plasma or conscious energy than mechanical craft.

Researchers and witnesses have linked the case to:

    •    UFO and UAP orb encounters

    •    Paranormal light entities

    •    Humanoid and non-human intelligence sightings

    •    Consciousness-based phenomena

    •    Psychic and electromagnetic effects

Often overlooked in mainstream UFO history, the Stella Lansing case predates the modern obsession with orb phenomena and raises unsettling questions that remain unanswered today.

If you’re fascinated by UFO cases, paranormal encounters, non-human intelligence, and high strangeness, this episode dives deep into one of the most unsettling orb encounters on record.

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This show explores the shadow space where true crime, government experimentation, ritual psychology, and the occult quietly intersect. Using the Charles Manson case as a central thread, we examine alternative explanations that have long been dismissed or pushed aside — not to sensationalize violence, but to understand the mechanisms beneath it.

From MKUltra and psychological warfare to ritual initiation, belief systems, and cultural shock events, this series treats madness not as an endpoint, but as a clue. We ask uncomfortable questions about power, conditioning, identity, and the ancient techniques of control that still operate beneath modern institutions.

This is not a show about proving anything.

It’s a show about what was taken seriously enough to study — and what happens when it escapes containment.

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Charles Manson’s rise from lifelong offender to cult leader did not happen in a vacuum. Born in 1934, he spent much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, where abuse, psychological conditioning, and rigid authority shaped his worldview. After his parole in 1967, Manson moved to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and began frequenting the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, a hub connected to government-funded research on LSD and behavior. His parole officer worked directly with the clinic and repeatedly shielded Manson from parole violations, allowing him to remain free as he experimented with LSD, isolation, and psychological control to break down his followers’ identities.

At the same time, psychiatrist Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West—linked to CIA mind-control research under MKUltra—operated nearby, openly describing the clinic as “a laboratory disguised as a hippie crash pad.” Journalist Tom O’Neill later revealed that intelligence programs like MKUltra, COINTELPRO, and Operation CHAOS were actively studying and destabilizing counterculture movements during this period. The Tate–LaBianca murders destroyed public faith in the 1960s counterculture almost overnight, aligning perfectly with those programs’ goals. Whether directed or simply enabled, Manson appears less like a random madman and more like the product of psychological experimentation, cultural chaos, and institutional negligence converging at a devastating moment in history.

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They Were Burned by a UFO… Then the U.S. Military Arrived | Cash–Landrum Incident

Three people accidentally drove into something the government insists doesn’t exist.

In December 1980, on a deserted Texas road, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum encountered a flaming, diamond-shaped craft hovering low over their car. The heat was so intense it caused severe burns, radiation-style illness, hair loss, and lasting damage.

Moments later, the object was reportedly surrounded by military helicopters—dozens of them—suggesting this wasn’t just a UFO sighting, but something the government already knew about.

Was this an alien craft, a classified military experiment, or a cover-up involving nuclear propulsion gone catastrophically wrong?

This episode breaks down the Cash–Landrum UFO encounter, one of the most disturbing and medically documented close encounters in U.S. history—and why no official explanation has ever fully accounted for what happened.

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