Most people already have a picture in their mind when they hear the word witch. Pointed hats, black cats, broomsticks, pentagrams, and Satan worship. But how much of that comes from history, and how much came from movies? This week we explore some of the most common misconceptions about witchcraft and examine where those ideas came from. Join us as we discuss Satan, Wicca, the Bible, pentagrams,…

Most people think they know exactly what Baphomet is. A goat’s head. Horns. Satan. But what if that image isn’t nearly as old as most people believe? In this episode, Bill and Deb follow the strange history of Baphomet from the Knights Templar and accusations of heresy to nineteenth-century occult symbolism and the rise of modern Satanism. Along the way they explore the mysterious origins of…

Roswell may be the most famous UFO crash story in the world, but it is far from the only one. In this episode, Bill and Deb examine three lesser-known UFO crash incidents from around the globe. A mysterious impact in the Soviet Union reportedly left behind unusual metallic material. An alleged crash in the English countryside triggered a large search effort that found nothing. A dramatic event…

What if someone actually built a machine capable of seeing the past? The Chronovisor is an unexplained object that has been discussed for many years by many people. It was described by an Italian monk named Pellegrino Ernetti to be a way of viewing past events, recovering voices of long gone individuals and even witnessing things thought to have disappeared from memory. Most discussions focus…

In the early-to-mid 2000s, a family near Palmyra, Maine claimed they experienced escalating encounters with multiple large wolf-like creatures around their rural farmhouse. What reportedly began with strange silence in the woods, unexplained lights, and massive tracks allegedly grew into something far more terrifying. The Martin family claimed the creatures circled their property at night,…

The Hurricane Katrina disaster continues to be one of the deadliest and most disorganized disasters that have occurred in the United States in the last hundred years. Following the flooding, long after the water receded, there were many strange stories that were told by survivors. These people believed that other creatures were with them that had nothing to do with the hurricane as they moved…

A priest assigned by the Catholic Church to confront something most people no longer believe in. Gabriele Amorth, often referred to as the Chief Exorcist of Rome, claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms and warned that cases were increasing. Not as symbolism. Not as metaphor. As something real, external, and active. This episode looks at what that means when it comes from inside…

This episode goes into a stretch of restricted airspace off the Virginia coast where something kept showing up that Navy pilots couldn’t explain. Around 2014, pilots flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana started running into objects that didn’t behave the way anything in that environment should. Some would just sit there at altitude, holding position in winds that should have pushed them.…