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…

“If you start digging into the occult, you’re opening a door. And you might not be strong enough to close it - and then you have to call me.” Reverend Daniel Reehil sits down with Michael Knowles to offer an extensive look at his stories of exorcism, demonic encounters, and supernatural experiences - all real-life events that may be scarier than any horror movie.

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…

The following written confession was submitted via Reddit: …If I remember correctly it was the 2nd of May 2022 and as I said I was in the forest near the village of Giron to pick berries. I was alone there was no one around but it was not something strange because it's a very sparsely populated part of France. The thing that felt strange was the fact that I did not see any animals. No deer, no wild boars, no foxes. It was silent…

The following written confession and video were submitted via email: My sister shared this video she took out her bedroom window … Liverpool, NY … I discovered she took this around 11 PM EST on 2/14.

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 was submitted via email: …I wanted to tell you about a quick testimony I experienced 2 days ago (2/22/23). I was listening to your podcast, episode 75, modern miracles, with Timothy Waugh. I'm a Spirit filled lover of Jesus and have seen many miracles face to face, but rarely experience them for myself personally…

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….

There are a lot of strange things you don’t want to encounter in the woods, and one of them includes a fat, bald exploding bear. The Gumberoo comes out of lumberjack legends, hailing from the foggy region along the Pacific Coast. It bears a resemblance to black bears, except that it is completely hairless but for its bristly beard and big eyebrows.

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 mystery surrounding what really happened to Andrew Dawson, the TikToker who alleged filmed a giant in British Columbia, has only grown since his tragic death in 2022. The Why Files takes a closer examination of Andrew’s videos, his strange story, and what may have befallen him after his giant sighting - plus gives a mention to The Confessionals Podcast and our own feature on Andrew, TikToker Who Posted Video of a Giant on Whistlers Peak Mountain and Said CIA Was Stalking Him Dies 3 Months Later.

The following written confession was submitted via email: …He and a friend were walking through a field in East Tennessee. They were finished with their hunt and it was near dark. As they were walking they noticed something walking toward them. As it got closer they could see it was what they described as a werewolf or dogman…

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 . . .