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.

A listener of The Confessionals recently reached out via social media and then email for opinions about a strange rock he found in Texas. He first submitted photos of the rock/skull to the Paleontology Department at the University of Colorado, which responded that it “vaguely resembled a skull.” We think that the weathered-looking artifact, though it is no bigger than a man’s thumb, looks a bit more than “vaguely” like a skull. The object appears to have eye sockets, a nasal cavity, and possible mouth with teeth. The closest comparison we can draw at present is to a fetal chimpanzee skull, though there are many other possibilities as to what it could really be. Here are the details of its discovery: