Merkel Media CEO and The Confessionals podcast host Tony Merkel was recently featured in Tennessee Highlighter - check out some of his interview below as he discusses risk-taking, Tennessee, and more!

Don’t miss Tony Merkel and Joel Thomas on Pop Culture Crisis Episode 599: Sasquatch and the Missing Man', OJ Simpson is Innocent? (W/ Tony Merkel & Joel Thomas).

Ashley Massis Class's tale of her daughter's monster "fears led to a startling discovery that reminds us never to dismiss a child's “vivid imagination” too quickly. The saga, shared by Ashley on TikTok under her handle @classashley, began innocuously enough with her eldest child began insisting there were monsters in her room.

Almost a year to the date of the original encounter, Angel Kenmore, the teenager who initially reported the crash-landing of aliens in his Las Vegas yard, recently revealed that their home has become a hotspot for paranormal activity since the crash. According to Angel, the non-human entity he spotted, which the family originally believed to be an alien, might have actually been a demon considering the unsettling events that followed.

Brace yourselves: the first official Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2024 has finally been recorded — and it’s just as blurry as you’d expect it to be!

The following written confession was submitted via email: In 1976 I was 14 years old and I started my first summer job […] in Avery Ohio pulling tassels off of corn. This particular field was right in front of NASA Neil Armstrong test [facility]. I was the first person to exit the field and when I did I noticed something just to my right…

In its never-ending quest to find the Loch Ness Monster, Scotland’s Loch Ness Centre is looking skyward instead of under the surface for help in their pursuit of the Loch Ness monster— they're recruiting NASA.

The following written confession and images were submitted via email: I just wanted to share with you some pictures of a crazy experience that my dad and I had on our property in the middle of nowhere small town, Nebraska. We were out…looking at some improvement that they made in the ground, and I came across this mutilated bull. There was snow on the ground, and you could see that there were no tracks leading up to it. It looked like it had dropped dead right there or had been dropped there. We were 15 miles from any town and at least 5 miles from a paved road…

The digital world premiere of Merkel Media’s newest documentary, Sasquatch and the Missing Man, will air on May 5, 2024!

In the new film, Tony Merkel and his crew venture to the scene of the terrifying Bigfoot encounter that launched Wes Germer's massive podcast ‘Sasquatch Chronicles’ and uncover a mystery far more shocking than anything they could have imagined.

As the Earth prepares for its next grand spectacle—the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024—so too does the imagination of the internet. The rumor mill has been spinning faster than a black hole, churning out conspiracy theories about the celestial show that range from sleeping giants to technological Armageddon and more, confirming the great solar eclipse of 2024 is already a blockbuster event before it’s even premiered. So shield your eyes and shine up your tin foil hat — here are the 4 biggest conspiracy theories and the top 5 viewing locations for the solar event of the year!

Maryland, home to the majestic Chesapeake Bay, delicious crab cakes, and a fearsome winged creature. Enter the Snallygaster, a cryptid that has captured the imagination and fear of Marylanders for centuries. Like a creature out of Lewis Carroll literature, the Snallygaster is part dragon, part bird, and 100% legendary cryptid.

On the night of March 28, 2024, the skies over Scottsdale, Arizona, became the backdrop for an extraordinary sight witnessed by several locals: an unidentified object, arc-like in form, bathed in a striking neon blue light. The spectacle was captured in two separate videos that quickly found their way online, drawing attention to its unusual characteristics. Notably, the sighting occurred not far from the local airport, a detail that has fueled discussions given the area's familiarity with various aircraft. Yet, according to those who saw it, this object bore no resemblance to any typical plane or known aerial technology.

Victor Sharrah, a 59-year-old resident of Nashville, experienced a chilling episode one winter day that altered his perception of the world around him. After waking up and switching on the television, Sharrah experienced the ordinary faces of his roommate and roommate's girlfriend change into grotesquely distorted visages with elongated eyes, etched scars, and unusually pointy ears.

In an intriguing plot twist on the origins of mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot, the Reverend Bill Bean — a seasoned exorcist and deliverance minister — proposes a theory linking these enigmatic beings to extraterrestrial activity. The Irish Star sheds light on Bean's compelling insights, drawn from his extensive encounters with the supernatural realm…

The following written confession was submitted via email: I don't remember the exact age this happened (I've always had and still have pretty wild dreams) but it was between the ages of 12 and 14. I "woke up" one night and looked toward the foot of my bed out into the hallway and there was a figure standing there right outside my bedroom door. He was wearing all white with a white hood…