The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Around 2005, right after college, I moved back to my home town San Diego. A lot of my friends still lived there so it was a super easy transitions. It was also super easy to find friends to go ghost hunting as we all loved to get creeped out. I am from Chula Vista so the legend of the Proctor Valley Monster was nothing new. It’s a folkloric story about a few different tropes….

The following written confession was submitted via email: I was listening to 507, I believe it was. Where you started off talking to a mans son who saw what he called the hat man. I also had a similar experience when I was like 8 years old. It was the silhouette of a man, no detail just black, side view silhouette of a man. Wearing like an overcoat with a gangster hat or Fedora…

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The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …I had my back to the door and was just reading a children's bedtime story to my almost asleep son, when I heard from behind me, my Dad's voice calling my name. It startled me, as we were home alone. I turned around quickly to see my Dad just rounding the corner heading down the stairs…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …When I was a kid about 11 or 12 I used to walk to and from school and I would always take a shortcut through the local cemetery. One day after school I was talking my shortcut through the cemetery as usual and I tripped and fell. As I went to get up I saw bare feet in front of me and I immediately felt very uneasy…

Paranormal and portals? That’s all we need to hear. Join Phill (Episode 50: Haunting Stories of Onset, Massachusetts) on a trek through Hockomock Swamp to catch EVPs, evidence of a witch, and more high strangeness in the video The Paranormal Portal of Hockomock Swamp.

The following written confession and video were submitted via email: Over the years I’ve seen things in the sky since I was a wee boy and this is the latest one. The first one was in the late ‘70’s when I saw a disc shaped object fly low and slowly over the street were we used to live. It was dark like the night sky but I could make out the outline of whatever it was. It past over then looked like it was going down but disappeared….

KnoxvilleVoyager recently shared a Local Stories feature about a brand new local: Tony Merkel, host of The Confessionals podcast and Merkel Media CEO! Check out the story here or visit KnoxvilleVoyager to read their full interview with Tony as he discusses his journey into podcasting, launching Merkel Media, his networking advice, and more.

The following written confession was submitted via email: …as he walked through the neighborhood he heard someone yell his nickname he was given as a child in West Virginia, "hey hog, hey hog Ryder" … he sees a vaguely familiar face on a man that is sitting on his front porch, children running around and wife close by yelling at them, he approached the home and said "how did you know my nick name?"…

The following written confession was submitted via email: Long story short I had heard a local, old cemetery was guarded by a dogman. Me and my buddy went and snuck to the back where this dogman/cryptid was supposedly found. This cemetery has older gravesites at it from about the late 1800s in the back where we were. We had read it was found around the children's stones. On the walk there I'm looking in the tree line to my right and I see an odd silhouette…

The following written confession was submitted via email: . . . Now every time something happened she’d make sure it wasn’t one of her kids and most of the time it wasn’t because if they weren’t with her talking to me they were playing in front of her as she was renovating at the time. So fast forward to 2021 and one night she rang me early completely puzzled. She was doing laundry and came back I think to the office and there was an old child’s tooth . . .

The following written confession was shared via My Haunted Life Too: . . . The morning after our first nights stay, our daughter came into our room, and I asked how she slept and she said ‘great’. She then went on to say ‘but mum, you know how when you stare at things long enough, you start to see funny things’ . . .

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …About 23:00 at night, Lefty texted me, "Yumi are you okay? You sick?" I was so confused. Lefty continued, "I kept hearing someone sneezing and coughing, isn't that you?" I said, "No, I've been quiet this entire time, isn't it you who's be moving around and packing boxes?" Left said, "What? I haven't been packing anything at all today, I've been on my bed playing with my phone the entire time”…

The end is nigh: another year is coming to a close, so it’s time to begin the countdown with our TOP 10 episodes of 2022! This year we’ve shared strange skinwalker stories, interviewed notable personalities, chased down Dogman, considered Nephilim theories, and much more. Now, re-visit some of these hot topics featured in the top 10 list - did your favorite episode make the cut?!

The following written confession was shared via Reddit by Kamasylv: …This buzzing went on and after 20 minutes or so, I suddenly noticed that I couldn't see as well anymore as I could. The moon was blocked by clouds, but these clouds didn't look like normal clouds. They looked like thick walls of fog just way higher up than fog should be…