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384: Fear Me (Members)
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384: Fear Me (Members)

In Episode 384: Fear Me, we are joined by Sarah, who is a stay-at-home mother, and when the family is away during the day, strange things happen. The strange happenings are not limited just to Sarah, but extend to her whole family. Her husband has seen things, and her son seems to be a target of the house’s activity. At one point, Sarah even shouted at the unknown entity to come after her and leave her son alone. To get to the bottom of the unwanted occurrences, Sarah downloaded an app to her phone to try picking up some EVPs, and she certainly caught something – a voice telling her to “Fear me.”

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382: Curse Of The Leprechaun (Members)
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382: Curse Of The Leprechaun (Members)

In Episode 382: Curse of the Leprechaun, we are joined by Matthew, who shares a bizarre experience he had one night when he saw what can only be described as a "leprechaun" running and keeping pace with his car. To Matthew, this leprechaun had some of the characteristics of the traditional, commercialized version of leprechauns, but it also had evil-looking traits, like a dark grinning smile with jagged teeth. After this experience, Matthew’s life spiraled out of control, with unfortunate circumstances seemingly beginning that night, as he describes the effects that going through a paranormal experience can have on a person in the so-called real world.

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380: Gateway Into A Paranormal Life (Members)
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380: Gateway Into A Paranormal Life (Members)

In Episode 380: Gateway Into a Paranormal Life (Members). Sean joins The Confessionals to share the many paranormal experiences he’s lived through since he was a small child. From the moment Sean’s father challenged Satan to a fight on his own authority, the battle that followed seems to have carried over into Sean’s entire life. He describes his early experiences as a child with a shadowy presence he called “The Night Mayor, a strange figure reminiscent of Spring-heeled Jack that “folded in” on itself and disappeared, and a dark hatted figure that he later realized his wife had also seen in her own childhood - just to name a few. Sean has experienced UFOs, remote viewing, astral dreams, occult indoctrinations, childhood traumas, demonic and spiritual attachments, deliverance, and much more, as he gives us a glimpse into the gateway of his paranormal life.

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378: The Bruja (Members)
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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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376: Podcasting the Paranormal | Lindsay Merkel (Members)
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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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374: The Four Greys (Members)
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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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372: The Dolls Live (Members)
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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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370: UFO Over Lake Ontario (Members)
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370: UFO Over Lake Ontario (Members)

In episode 370: UFO Over Lake Ontario we talk to Cicely! She is from Canada and has a great UFO encounter from Lake Ontario. We also talk about men in black and werewolves in Italy. It's a fun conversation and I hope you enjoy it!

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368: The Kill Shack (Members)
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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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366: Fighting The Shadows (Members)
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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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364: The Flying Carpet (Members)
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364: The Flying Carpet (Members)

In Episode 364: The Flying Carpet we are joined by Mark to talk about some odd encounters he has had throughout his life. He saw a couple of UFOs fairly close where one was roughly 300 feet long and he saw it hover for a good 5 minutes or more. He shares some paranormal experiences he had but probably the more bizarre one was where he had a sighting of something at about 20 feet but doesn’t know how to describe it except calling it a flying carpet.

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362: Uncle Rob The Warlock (Members)
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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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360: Discovering MK-Ultra | Part 2 (Members)
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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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358: The E.T. Portal House | Part 2 (Members)
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358: The E.T. Portal House | Part 2 (Members)

In Episode 358: The E.T. Portal House | Part 2 we bring back Teagan to continue her story! Teagan contacted me months after our first recording to share new revelations she came upon that lead her to believe she could have been part of the "20 and back" space program. She thinks that if her suspicion is true, then her father may have been involved as well, but she doesn't know to what extent. She discusses many things involving her practice in Reiki, and how she might have been thrust into a parallel dimension from which she never returned.

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356: Like Father, Like Son (Members)
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356: Like Father, Like Son (Members)

In Episode 356: Like Father, Like Son, we are joined by John, a very experienced pilot who is also the son of a pilot. When John was still young, his father died in a plane crash. Before either he or his mother had been alerted about the crash, John’s father appeared at home, and no one realized until later that he should not have been there at all. John shares bizarre synchronicities that reveal the parallels between his life path and that of his father’s, as well as his experience, seeing a UFO as a child and some paranormal occurrences!

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354: Paranormal Life Of A Sensitive (Members)
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354: Paranormal Life Of A Sensitive (Members)

In Episode 354: Paranormal Life of a Sensitive, we are joined by John, who began experiencing the paranormal at a very young age and tracked it continuously throughout his life - until one day it all just stopped. John does not know how or why his experiences abruptly came to an end, but he shares with us many stories about ghosts and spirits that he sensed around him, weird glitches that felt like living in a simulation, and an ex of his who he thinks may have tried to curse him.

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352: The Return Of Charlie (Members)
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352: The Return Of Charlie (Members)

In Episode 352: The Return of Charlie, we have... the return of Charlie! Episode 122: Secret Military Enochian Technology ranks as the number one all-time episode of The Confessionals. During Episode 122, Charlie told us about his mind-bending experience while serving in the U.S. military. After that episode aired, Charlie was paid a visit. It began one night with a knock on his door from federal officers requesting his presence for a sit-down. First, Charlie secured a lawyer, and then he attended that meeting - but it seems that since then, someone has been “planted” into his life. Our conversation begins with Charlie sharing some childhood experiences that may have contributed to the things he has undergone as an adult.

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350: Lady In White Was The Rake (Members)
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350: Lady In White Was The Rake (Members)

In Episode 350: The Lady In White Was The Rake, we are joined by Brandon, who has witnessed a kind of creature or monster that some may believe to be bigfoot. He also shares his experience coming across a scary “Lady in White” and describes for us how her mouth opened wide like a hinge! Based on the things that happened through this experience, Brandon was left believing that this lady in white was in fact the rake creature that others have also reported seeing.

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348: Violent Spirits (Members)
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348: Violent Spirits (Members)

In Episode 348: Violent Spirits, Chris joins us with stories from the United States and the Dominican Republic. He shares encounters from a house he lived in where many supernatural things occurred. Though at first, some who lived in the house refused to acknowledge what was happening, the activity reached a point where no one could deny what was transpiring. After Chris’s aunt was thrown inside the house, the family had to somehow deal with what was going on! Chris also describes a picture he took of something in a tree while visiting the Dominican Republic. The occurrence connects to another of his aunts, who thought she was the only one who could see what was in the tree.

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346: LIVE Q&A with Kyle From Dog vs Dogman
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346: LIVE Q&A with Kyle From Dog vs Dogman

Tonight we are joined by Kyle from the Dog vs Dogman episode! Kyle was very appreciative of the response he got from the audience upon hearing him share his encounter story. As a thank you, he wanted to do a live Q&A for members of The Confessionals!

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