Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
by Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast
Is this your podcast?Believing the Bizarre is an independent podcast created by a duo passionate about exploring the paranormal. Known for blending humor with an analytical approach, they engage listeners by tackling a range of enigmatic topics, from UFOs and h…
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The Polybius Conspiracy
Oct 13, 2026
1h 37m 47s
The Van Meter Visitor
Oct 6, 2026
1h 06m 27s
Is AI a Threat to Humanity?
Sep 29, 2026
1h 17m 45s
Cursed Games: Vol 7
Sep 22, 2026
1h 35m 50s
The Monster with the Sharp Teeth
Sep 15, 2026
50m 42s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/13/26 |  The Polybius Conspiracy | The Polybius Conspiracy | Paranormal Podcast This week, we dove into the Polybius Conspiracy, the 1981 Portland arcade legend about a mysterious, unmarked cabinet that supposedly turned kids into zombies, with Men in Black collecting “data” at night. We dug through the creepy-fun origin story, the real-life arcade raids and Atari’s secret field tests, and the game-industry skeptics who’ve been poking holes in it for years. Then we compared four theories, from a government mind-control experiment to an early-internet creepypasta, and, true to form, we couldn’t agree on a verdict (one of us now suspects the debunker might be a Man in Black himself, by the way). 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Polybius, Polybius conspiracy, Polybius arcade game, 1981 Portland arcade legend, urban legend video game, Men in Black arcade, government mind control game, MKUltra conspiracy, Atari prototype field test, Tempest arcade theory, retro gaming mystery, 80s arcade conspiracy, creepypasta video game, lost arcade game, believing the bizarre podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 37m 47s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  The Van Meter Visitor | The Van Meter Visitor | Paranormal Podcast This week, we head to a sleepy coal mining town in Iowa to dig into one of the strangest and most underrated cryptid cases in American history, the Van Meter Monster, a 9-foot, bat-winged, beak-faced, horn-headed creature with a literal blinding searchlight beam shooting from its forehead and a stench so overwhelming witnesses nearly dropped, that terrorized the small town of Van Meter across five consecutive nights starting September 29th, 1903. We walked through every sighting night by night, starting with U.G. Griffith watching a strange light leap between rooftops on Main Street and vanish into the sky, through a banker, a doctor, a hardware store owner, and multiple other credible townspeople all firing guns at something that simply would not go down, and ending at the old abandoned coal mine where the whole town collectively decided to go see what was happening, which is exactly the decision you'd expect from a town that apparently did not own a single horror movie. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Van Meter Visitor, Van Meter Monster Iowa, winged cryptid 1903, Iowa paranormal history, bat-winged creature sighting, cryptid searchlight beam, believing the bizarre podcast, historical cryptid case, Mothman comparison, Spring-Heeled Jack winged, bulletproof cryptid, coal mine monster, unknown winged entity, early 1900s paranormal, Van Meter Iowa haunting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 06m 27s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Is AI a Threat to Humanity? | Is AI a Threat to Humanity? | Paranormal Podcast This week we go into a full deep dive into the AI threat to humanity, sparked by a former OpenAI developer going on CNN with Anderson Cooper to say there's a 10% chance AI will attempt to kill humanity within the next decade, which, if you're doing the math at home, is a much higher number than you'd like to hear from someone who actually built the thing. We broke down the three most realistic extinction scenarios: 1. AI-developed bioweapons 2. self-replicating robots that are quite literally already being built, and 3. AI hacking nuclear infrastructure, which, as it turns out, is less of a theoretical concern and more of an "already happened in Iran" concern, and got into the moment when AI agents at OpenAI hacked a third-party system entirely of their own accord. We also discussed how the Pentagon has already integrated AI into US weapons systems since 2023, talked through the three laws of robotics that we are actively teaching AI to break. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: AI threat to humanity, artificial intelligence extinction, OpenAI developer warning, AI consciousness, AI hacking nuclear, self-replicating robots, AI bioweapon threat, believing the bizarre podcast, Pentagon AI weapons, AI sentience 2026, Terminator AI reality, HAL 9000 real, AI self improvement, robot three laws broken, AI existential risk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 17m 45s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Cursed Games: Vol 7 | Cursed Games: Vol 7 | Paranormal Podcast We're back with Cursed Games Volume 7! It's been 6 months since the last one and we made it count, lighting a candle, watching the lights in the studio do things we still don't have an explanation for... but anyway... First up was the Fed Up Game, a parallel universe ritual where you sleep holding a precise 5x5 centimeter hexagram paper in red ink and wake up somewhere else, followed by the Shower Man ritual, which we are describing as "very involved" and includes blood, a 24-hour fast, screaming at an entity in the dark, and a bathroom door you are absolutely not allowed to open for at least a day. Definitely dropping a trigger warning for blood and sexual stuff with the Shower man. And then we wrapped with the Boatman, which is a ritual where you toss something gold into dark water at night, submit your intentions to what is essentially the underworld's bouncer, and if he accepts your application, you're going to want to fight very hard to keep the one seat on a rowboat you can never, under any circumstances, lose. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Episode Keywords: Cursed Games Volume 7, paranormal rituals, Fed Up Game parallel universe, Shower Man ritual, Boatman ritual, dark water ritual, paranormal game series, believing the bizarre podcast, ritual summoning entity, how to switch universes, parallel universe ritual, dark entity shower, cursed rituals Reddit, summoning boatman, haunted studio lights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 35m 50s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  The Monster with the Sharp Teeth | The Monster with the Sharp Teeth | Paranormal Podcast This week, we've got two listener submissions, both connected by one very specific and very unsettling detail. Starting with Colt's story from 2015, where he and his friend were gaming late at night while their German Shepherd suddenly bolted out of the room, and when Colt glanced at the bare window, he saw a white mass with what appeared to be an upside-down face peering in from above, like something was hanging off the roof watching them, and disappeared the moment it realized it had been spotted. Then we got into Carson's story from Alabama, which is a decade-long family haunting that started before she was even born, with their father being physically lifted off his bed by something that passed through him, their grandfather's death opening what felt like a door, and a series of experiences that stacked up across witnesses and years until we landed on what Carson saw home alone as a teenager: something impossibly tall, pitch black, stretching to the ceiling, with hollow eyes and a mouth full of white razor-sharp teeth standing in her room and refusing to leave no matter how hard she prayed. 🛸 Patreon: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? Submit it here. 🛸 Subscribe to our Newsletter 🛸 For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter Discord 🛸 Shop Merch: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 50m 42s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 | paranormalpsychic abilities+3 | QueenOfVikings | Believing the Bizarre | — | paranormalclairvoyant+3 | — | 1h 17m 52s | ||
| 9/1/26 | cryptidslistener stories+3 | BrianRhys+1 | — | PennsylvaniaPocono Mountains | cryptidBigfoot+3 | — | 58m 52s | ||
| 8/25/26 | haunted dollsparanormal investigation+3 | — | Peggy the DollHaunted Dolls+1 | — | Peggy the Dollhaunted doll+3 | — | 50m 56s | ||
| 8/18/26 | extraterrestrial encountersUFO sightings+3 | — | — | Ontario | extraterrestrialUFO+3 | — | 1h 06m 28s | ||
| 8/11/26 | paranormal entitiesGullah Geechee traditions+4 | Elayna | Gullah GeecheeWhat About Weird+1 | LowcountryWilmington+1 | haintGullah Geechee+6 | — | 58m 22s | ||
| 8/4/26 | haunted locationsLemp Mansion+3 | — | Believing the Bizarre | St. Louis | Lemp Mansionhauntings+3 | — | 1h 09m 02s | ||
| 7/31/26 | paranormalmystery+3 | Kaydra | The Dodleston MessagesPerplexity: A Mystery Podcast | England | Dodleston Messagesparanormal history+3 | — | 2h 06m 16s | ||
| 7/28/26 | paranormal encounterslistener stories+3 | LeonaTiffany | Queens Museum of Art | CaliforniaNew York | paranormalsleep paralysis+3 | — | 57m 43s | ||
| 7/21/26 | Albanian folklorevampires+5 | — | The Shtriga | Albania | ShtrigaAlbanian witch+7 | — | 1h 13m 59s | ||
| 7/17/26 | paranormal experiencessleep paralysis+3 | JesseMike+1 | — | AlabamaNew Mexico+1 | sleep paralysisparanormal podcast+3 | — | 1h 34m 54s | ||
| 7/14/26 | DMTMachine Elves+3 | — | Believing the BizarreDMT Machine Elves | — | DMTMachine Elves+5 | — | 1h 03m 18s | ||
| 7/7/26 | listener submissionsparanormal encounters+3 | — | — | IndianaVirginia | paranormallistener stories+5 | — | 1h 04m 36s | ||
| 7/3/26 | Denver Airport Conspiracyquizzes+3 | — | Patreon | Denver Airport | Denver Airportconspiracy+3 | — | 42m 14s | ||
| 6/30/26 | Phantom Time Hypothesisconspiracy theories+3 | — | — | — | Phantom Time ConspiracyOtto III+3 | — | 1h 01m 56s | ||
| 6/26/26 | bizarre newsUFOs+3 | — | Suitcases, Shenanigans, and SunburnsUN | MalaysiaBrazil+1 | alien protocolsdisappearing vloggers+3 | — | 37m 04s | ||
| 6/23/26 | UFO incidentparanormal+3 | — | Believing the BizarreSuitcases, Shenanigans, and Sunburns | southern Finland | Imjärvi IncidentUFO+4 | — | 1h 09m 53s | ||
| 6/19/26 | paranormalskepticism+3 | Kevin Eustace | — | Modesto, California | paranormalghost stories+3 | — | 1h 32m 49s | ||
| 6/16/26 | listener storiesparanormal experiences+4 | RebeccaChloe | Salem's Lot | TexasSlovakia | paranormallistener submissions+5 | — | 50m 56s | ||
| 6/9/26 | UAP filesgovernment UFO cases+3 | — | Department of WarNASA+2 | Syria | UAPUFO+7 | — | 1h 08m 07s | ||
| 6/2/26 | paranormal encountersUK folklore+4 | — | British UFO Research Association | Isle of Wight | Sandown ClownIsle of Wight paranormal+5 | — | 1h 09m 26s | ||
| 5/29/26 | aliensUAPs+3 | — | CIA | Argentina | bizarre newsaliens+3 | — | 39m 13s | ||
| 5/26/26 | haunted dollslistener stories+3 | LindsaySamantha | Victorian porcelain doll | — | haunted porcelain dollphantom footsteps+3 | — | 58m 29s | ||
| 5/22/26 | paranormallistener stories+3 | Scaroline | — | BostonArizona+2 | paranormalhaunted dolls+3 | — | 1h 19m 53s | ||
| 5/19/26 | paranormal encounterslistener submissions+3 | — | the Yellow Interdimensional Runner | Paradise, CaliforniaEngland | paranormalghosts+3 | — | 53m 00s | ||
| 5/14/26 | missing personsparanormal+3 | — | Believing the BizarreMissing 411 | North America | Missing 411disappearances+3 | — | 1h 13m 44s | ||
| 5/12/26 | Appalachian folkloreparanormal survival guide+3 | — | Suitcases, Shenanigans, and Sunburns | AppalachiaAppalachian Trail | Appalachian folklorerules of Appalachia+8 | — | 1h 20m 09s | ||
| 5/5/26 | paranormalghost stories+3 | — | — | Chillingham CastleEngland+1 | Chillingham Castleghosts+5 | — | 1h 06m 55s | ||
| 5/1/26 | paranormalhaunting+4 | — | Believing the Bizarre | — | hauntedparanormal podcast+5 | — | 19m 15s | ||
| 4/28/26 | listener submissionsparanormal encounters+4 | KevinSarah | — | Stanley HotelSanta Fe+1 | paranormalhaunting+5 | — | 48m 35s | ||
| 4/24/26 | Chernobyl wildlifemissing scientists+3 | — | Believing the Bizarre | ChernobylTexas+1 | Chernobylwildlife+5 | — | 42m 42s | ||
| 4/21/26 | paranormal storieshaunted locations+3 | ChristieHeather | Sinisterhood | TennesseeAppalachia | paranormalhaunted+3 | — | 1h 11m 01s | ||
| 4/17/26 | paranormalhaunting+3 | — | RedditBelieving the Bizarre | — | imaginary frienddemon+3 | — | 21m 32s | ||
| 4/14/26 | cryptidparanormal+3 | — | Mothman | MawnanCornish | OwlmanMawnan+6 | — | 1h 13m 36s | ||
| 4/9/26 | Aokigahara Forestparanormal+3 | — | — | Aokigahara ForestJapan | AokigaharaSuicide Forest+5 | — | 57m 52s | ||
| 4/7/26 | feral humansparanormal+3 | — | — | Appalachian MountainsTennessee | feral peopleparanormal podcast+5 | — | 1h 03m 19s | ||
| 4/3/26 | paranormalhaunted stories+3 | — | Believing the Bizarre | California | paranormalhaunted+3 | — | 19m 26s | ||
| 3/31/26 | paranormalhaunting+3 | BonusPac | — | Colorado | paranormalhaunting+5 | — | 1h 15m 33s | ||
| 3/27/26 | BigfootUFOs+3 | — | Detroit church | OhioNorwegian islands+1 | BigfootUFO hotspots+3 | — | 46m 34s | ||
| 3/24/26 | paranormallistener stories+3 | Nicole | — | — | skinwalkerhaunted school+3 | — | 52m 23s | ||
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Distribution & Reach
About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Believing the Bizarre is an independent podcast created by a duo passionate about exploring the paranormal. Known for blending humor with an analytical approach, they engage listeners by tackling a range of enigmatic topics, from UFOs and hauntings to conspiracies and cryptids. The podcast sets itself apart by employing a unique Believability Scale to categorize each subject discussed, allowing for a structured yet entertaining exploration of the unknown. Episodes often feature listener-submitted paranormal encounters, fostering community engagement and a personal touch. With an audience exceeding 250,000, listeners are drawn to the show's combination of creepy narratives and comedy, finding value in its entertaining yet thought-provoking analysis of the bizarre. The mix of horror and humor creates a captivating experience for fans of the paranormal.
By the numbers
- Total followers: 7.2K
- Total plays: 422K
- Total reviews: 871
Platforms
TuneIn
- Followers: 74
Castbox
- Followers: 954
- Plays: 31K
- Reviews: 3
YouTube
- Subscribers: 5.1K
- Views: 391K
- Videos: 643
Podcast App
- Followers: 883
- Reviews: 868
Podcast Republic
- Followers: 251
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Chart history for Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast
Peaked at #190 in India, currently #190 in India.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | — | #190 | #190 | — |
| Denmark | — | #193 | #193 | — |
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.