Best Paranormal Podcast Episodes

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379: Legion of Legends with Tony and Jack

In Episode 379: Legion of Legends, Tony and his brother Jack sit down to talk about their journeys thus far with their new YouTube show Legion of Legends. They discuss the places they've already visited, like a haunted WW2 POW camp, to places they will be going in the future, including Austin Dam and the Blue Hole in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. After the first hour of their Legion of Legends conversation, they shift gears and take questions for Jack directly from The Confessionals Instagram audience!

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378: The Bruja (Members)

In Episode 378: The Bruja, we are joined again by Chris, from Episode 377: The Secrets of Area 2 and OT Episode 377, for our third conversation. Chris shares more personal paranormal encounters, including shadow people that attacked his brother, a possible run-in with a serial killer, various UFO sightings, an ouija board incident, and his childhood encounter with a bruja that left him and his family terrified!

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377: The Secrets Of Area 2

In Episode 377: The Secrets Of Area 2, we are joined by Chris to share his experiences at Area 2, also known as Nellis Air Force Base. He describes many of the bizarre things he has heard and seen for himself, both at the base and at other locations, such as shadow men, UFOs, hybrid creatures like catman, and so much more. We later take our conversation into an Overtime segment, where Chris shares more details about his strange stories, and tells us a few new ones too.

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376: Podcasting the Paranormal | Lindsay Merkel (Members)

In Episode 376: Podcasting the Paranormal, we are joined in-studio by Tony’s wife Lindsay. During our discussion, we talk about some of her paranormal experiences, what it is like running the podcast behind the scenes, and also answer questions that listeners had for Lindsay. We had a fun and engaging conversation that shares some insight into what our daily life is like as we keep the show running while raising our two kids.

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375: Bigfoot in England | Deborah Hatswell

In Episode 375: Bigfoot in England, we are joined by Deborah Hatswell from BBR Investigations. Deborah had a bigfoot encounter in England in the 1980s that set her life path on a new course of trying to understand the unknown, and find people who have seen strange, unusual things like she did. In Episode 375, Deborah talks about bigfoot sightings in the United Kingdom. Then in an Overtime segment, she shares more stories of high strangeness coming from the U.K., including dogman encounters, accounts of reptilians, and more!

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374: The Four Greys (Members)

On Episode 374: The Four Greys, Ryan joins The Confessionals to share his harrowing account of his years-long nighttime encounters with four grey creatures. At age 19, Ryan moved in with his older brother. One night while they had company over, Ryan suddenly felt overwhelmed and went to sleep in his room. When he awoke, he found himself held down with a large hand pressed against his back and witnessed the shadows of four tall slender creatures on the wall. When Ryan heard the creatures begin to “talk,” he blacked out. His experience could almost have been a horrible dream except that when Ryan finally came running from his room, his brother’s immediate reaction revealed just how real the encounter was. For years afterward, Ryan continued to be visited by the grey shadowy beings, until one night when he did not only feel hands and see shadows but finally saw one of the creatures in the flesh.

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373: The Pentagram Under the Stairs

In Episode 373: The Pentagram Under the Stairs, we are joined by Brooke to discuss some of her wild experiences. Her earliest memory involving the paranormal happened when she was 5 years old and she had an imaginary friend, who in turn had a friend of its own! Brooke has also seen an angel and demons, and once moved into a house where she discovered a pentagram under the stairs. Later in the episode, she shares her experiences with sasquatch which occurred during some extreme hiking, and also describes how her husband's friend Casper passed away, but would sometimes continue to come and visit.en doing extreme hiking and how her husband's friend Casper would come around after he had passed away.

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372: The Dolls Live (Members)

In Episode 372: The Dolls Live, we are bringing back Jose from Episode 302: They Pulled Me Through The Window. After hearing Jose the first time around, many people wanted to hear more of his stories, so we are back with a few of his other experiences that left Tony feeling shook! Jose discusses ghost boys who left physical evidence on him, ghost girls, nine-foot-tall Native American apparitions, and haunted houses with shadows and poltergeist activity. The most chilling accounts come from the house of Jose’s aunt, where inanimate objects would literally come alive! From spinning pennies to stuffed animals, and doors opening to multiple porcelain dolls standing up, Jose's aunt's home just may go down as one of the scariest houses discussed on the show to date.

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371: Demon Sex

In Episode 371: Demon Sex, we are joined by Jimmy, who shares his experiences with a succubus in his youth. He goes into great detail about when and how his encounters with this demon would happen, and what kinds of baggage it brought into his life as he grew older. One of the issues that stemmed from his interaction with the demon were episodes of sleep paralysis, in which Jimmy would find himself attacked by demonic entities even more horrifying than the one he experienced as a kid.

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369: A Witch's Life

In Episode 369: A Witch's Life, we are joined by Joel, who brings us a full episode of stories plus an Overtime episode! In this first hour, Joel talks about his various experiences from childhood into adulthood. He begins with an abduction scenario when one night he and his found themselves missing time and their mother frantically looking for them. In his Overtime segment, Joel shares more in-depth details about his life as a practicing witch, delving into his many stories and experiences with witchcraft, as well as how and why he reached this point in his life.

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368: The Kill Shack (Members)

On Episode 368: The Kill Shack, Kelly joins the show to share the paranormal events she has experienced growing up and living in Washington state. Kelly seems to have a sensitivity to the paranormal world, beginning as a child when a shadow man wearing a fedora and coat appeared in her room every night. Her experiences continued throughout her life, and include eerie encounters like waking up in fear to see her bed surrounded by transparent people; hearing something large and frightening smack the side of her house and seeing an entity press its face close to her while she showered. Kelly concludes her stories by telling us a dream she had about an old shack that caused her to feel terrified in her sleep, even though she had never seen it before. While recounting the dream to her mother, she learned something surprising about that shack.

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367: Lurking in the Night

In Episode 367: Lurking in the Night, we are joined by Colleen. Sometimes guests join the show who have heard a previous guest share an experience that they related to so much they contact us to share their story as well. Colleen discusses how in a previous member show - Episode 241: Discovering MK-Ultra - guest Cat described a spirit that had a "sasquatch" type of appearance, and how Colleen has seen the same thing. She shares several stories, beginning with her childhood and her grandmother conducting seances around her mother. Colleen's mother later bought a Ouija board that kicked off the paranormal activity in her life. She also tells us her account of moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma for college, where she discovered that what lurks in the night isn't always paranormal, but can be just as terrifying.

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366: Fighting The Shadows (Members)

In Episode 366: Fighting the Shadows, we are joined by Ikaika, whose entire family has battled things from the shadows. Ikaika has had to fight a demon that masqueraded as his father. His mother experienced something taunting her in a sexual manner while she showered. And Ikaika’s sister even saw “man”crawl out of the ceiling of a hospital bathroom. This man appeared to be burnt, bleeding, and lipless as Ikaika’s sister witnessed him reach for her, crawl down the wall, and drop to all fours on the ground!

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365: The Haunted Hallway

In Episode 365: The Haunted Hallway, we are joined by multiple guests! Joining us first is Tony’s dad Brian, who discusses with Tony what happened this past weekend when Tony and his brother Jack visited an old World War II POW camp, where Nazis and Japanese soldiers were once interrogated. Things went a little awry for the brothers, and the video of the trip will be released as part of Tony’s ‘Legion of Legends’ series on YouTube in the coming weeks! Following this discussion, guest Chris shares stories of a house where he grew up that was actively haunted by someone who was previously part of his father’s family. Finally, Cora also joins us to discuss her childhood home and a spirit named “Mr. Burns” who used to torment her until her father screamed at him, and her parents eventually sought some outside help to get rid of him.

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364: The Flying Carpet (Members)

In Episode 364: The Flying Carpet, we hear Mark share some odd encounters he has had throughout his life. Mark describes a few UFOs that he witnessed, including one that was roughly 300 feet long and hovered for at least five minutes. He’s also had some paranormal experiences, and one of the most bizarre was a sighting of something he saw approximately 20 feet away that doesn’t really fit any other description except for “flying carpet”!

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363: The Shadows of Suicide

Episode 363: The Shadows Of Suicide might be one of the most important episodes I will ever put out as a podcaster. Veteran suicide is something that plagues our soldiers, and Episode 363’s guest Jake is a testament to that. Jake was a soldier who was injured in the line of duty. Once he returned home, he couldn’t find any work because no one wanted to hire him with his disability. Jake entered a dark hole of depression, but in the moment of him holding a gun, ready to take his life, something happened that would pull him through the darkest moment of his life.

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362: Uncle Rob The Warlock (Members)

In Episode 362: Uncle Rob the Warlock, we are joined by Bear, who tells us about the twists and turns of his life. Bear has always seemed to have paranormal things happen to him. At age 13, a tiny gremlin-like demon sat on his dresser and watched him sleep every night for two months. When he was five years old, an angel woke him up at 2:00am and told him to go out to the car. There he found his mother trying to commit suicide with toxic fumes. Bear has also seen demons, and spoke with one that possessed his Uncle Rob. As if that wasn't enough, Bear's stepmother's father killed her mother, and then himself, in the house Bear lived in for half of his childhood. The house had an overwhelming sense of evil to it, and many of Bear’s experiences happened there.

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361: Creatures Between The Veil

In Episode 361: Creatures Between the Veil, Daniel has many experiences to share with us, including the paranormal, doppelgangers, UFOs, bigfoot, orbs, and more! I initially interviewed Daniel for one episode, but following our first talk, he contacted me again because more activity had started kicking up in his life. Daniel then came back on the show to record an Overtime episode, giving us updates and sharing a childhood memory of a creature he saw lurking in the woods in an abandoned house. When Daniel returned home with his friend, they realized that whatever they had seen had followed them.

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360: Discovering MK-Ultra | Part 2 (Members)

In Episode 360: Discovering MK-Ultra Part 2, we are joined again by Cat. In the first installment with Cat on The Confessionals in Episode 241, she revealed experiences that sounded so similar to MK-Ultra experiences, which came as a shock and revelation to her as she was interviewing. Since that interview, she and I have kept in contact as she started discovering new memories and connecting more puzzle pieces. In this episode, we discuss politicians, big companies, and how Cat’s mom “pimped her out” to a man who seemed like he came from the future. However, when I asked her to go into more detail about the school she attended as a child, our communication suddenly started acting like something was tampering with it. As you will hear, sometimes when you are talking to Cat, you may really be talking to more than just Cat.

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