The following written confession was shared via Reddit: When my brother was 6 and I was 4, we moved house. My brother remembers that the first night we slept there he had trouble getting to sleep, and his eyes kept focusing on something in his room that looked like the outline of a person standing at the foot of his bed. He says the next morning I said there had been a “wiggly man” in my room that night….

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …I currently have an apartment with another family member and we have lived here for about a year now. We noticed some weird noises when we first moved in but put it down to the thin walls. We consistently had an eerie feeling about the place but we ignored it til now. Starting in July the family member I reside with told me she saw a man in the kitchen…

Tony Merkel joined The Marc Clair Show for its premiere episode on October 31. To hear their conversation about all kinds of paranormal paraphernalia, listen to The Marc Clair Show Ep. #1 | Tony Merkel of The Confessionals Podcast on Rokfin: …Tony discusses how he took interest in the paranormal, how he reconciles paranormal phenomena with his Christian beliefs, and previews a brand new podcast he is working on centering on an absolutely mind blowing tale that has to be heard to be believed…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: My (now ex) husband and I were laying in bed talking one night after we put our kids (a 15 month old and a newborn at the time) to bed when we heard what sounded like 2 little girls giggling in our dining room. Our bedroom was off the dining room and the dining room was between our room and the kids room…

It’s not here for your soul - it’s here for your underwear. Meet the Pugot, a ghastly figure out of Philippine mythology and today’s Creature Feature! Is the Pugot a flesh-and-blood creature? A shapeshifting spirit? Some chilling combination of the two? Whatever the case, the Pugot is one strange, underwear-stealing entity.

The following written confession was submitted via email: …this encounter happened when I was 15 living in Brentwood a small farm town in the east bay. I was out on a night walk with my older sister who was 17 or 18 at the time. We were walking down a trail near our neighborhood that goes off into a more rural area with a creek…

Happy International Podcast Day! Whether you’re a brand new listener of The Confessionals Podcast or you’ve been with us from the very beginning, we’ve pulled together 10 quintessential TC episodes to entertain you on IPD! (…Although it’s hard to choose just 10, tbh!) And as an added bonus, all of these episodes have just the right amount of scary and mysterious to kick off October, the spookiest month of the year.

Tune in to an awesome episode of Forbidden Knowledge News: Hidden Realms - Extradimensional Agreements - Portals, Dogmen & Shapeshifters with Tony Merkel! You can watch and listen to the full interview right here, or check it out on Rokfin and Spreaker!

The following written confession was shared via email: Hey just started listening to your podcast not long ago and heard the episode with your wife about the hatman I had an experience like that when I was younger about 13 or 14 it's kinda cloudy but it brought up memories when I listened to that episode….

Forests can be scary places, full of shadows and strange noises. But is ‘the Cursed Forest’ in Washington State one of the scariest around? The video Cursed Forest Found Footage from MKPStudios features two disturbing clips allegedly captured in this Cursed Forest, and the footage is pretty creepy to say the least. Be warned after viewing it that you may never want to go into the woods alone, or stand next to the woods, or maybe even look at a tree, ever again.

Whether it’s the terrible and tragic history, or the creepy decrepit buildings that remain behind, there is something about Pennhurst Asylum in Spring City, Pennsylvania that never ceases to be (morbidly) fascinating. Check out a recent paranormal adventure from Phill from Episode 50: Haunting Stories of Onset, Massachusetts as he investigates the haunted facility.

Tony recently joined The Higherside Chats - Tony Merkel | The Confessionals: Cryptids, Portals, & the Paranormal, and shared “a grab bag of high strangeness stories from his show”! Listen to the first hour of the episode for free!

Are you cursed with bad luck? Are you plagued by strange noises and creepy shadows? Your house may not be haunted - maybe something in it is! And what better time to explore the possibilities than on this dubious day of Friday the 13th?! From guitars, to armor, to Twilight (and way too many eBay listings in between), check out these 13 MORE strange and surprising objects that people claim are haunted!

You can never talk too much about Dogman… Don’t miss the awesome Blurry Creatures Episode 98 - Whereabouts of Werewolves with Tony Merkel: We bring back veteran podcaster & freshly new documentarian Tony Merkel from The Confessionals Podcast to talk to us about his new film Expedition Dogman. The half-man and half-wolf creature is out there. From stories to these creatures terrorizing guests on his show to the mythical legends of these things appearing in people's homes, one thing is for certain, this creature is simply terrifying when seen…

If you’d like to hear 3 HOURS of paranormal talk, podcast projects, Expedition Dogman, and even more with Tony, check out the Universal Dialect Show #4: Tony Merkel! In this episode, #4, I speak to the self proclaimed "Dystopian Futurist" Tony Merkel of The Confessionals Podcast/Merkel Media. We tackle his origins into the Paranormal, the making of his enigmatic podcast "The Confessionals" and other projects past and present….