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You figure out you're dreaming, and instead of waking up, you decide to see just how far down this dream goes. You walk to the middle of the room and you drop straight through the floor on purpose, because a hundred people online swore that's how you get somewhere better. Problem is, you didn't get anywhere better, and now you're nowhere, in a place with no floor, no walls, no light, no body, just you and the black and the slow, sinking understanding that you don't know the way back, and nothing out here is going to wake you up. That is lucid dreaming. A dream-walking technique that allows people to freely control and navigate their own dreams. A feeling people chase on purpose, and a skill everybody wants, not realizing that like all things in life, it has an undeniable dark side that is often overlooked. Tonight we're peaking behind the curtain, only slightly, to look into some true stories from folks that got good at doing just that, and would later go on to wish they hadn't. Fire up those nature sounds, baby, we're going under. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Fire Up Those Nature Sounds, Baby 0:58 - Intro 2:30 - Welcome Back / Tangent Spiel 3:50 - Christian Lucid Dreams 5:30 - Social Plugs, Members & Merch 6:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 6:31 - STORIES: DON’T FALL THROUGH THE FLOOR 10:00 - Don't Think About Your Fears (Good Luck) 13:00 - Dream Science & The Gap Between Dreams 14:00 - Nostalgic For a Time We Can Never Return To 16:00 - STORIES: FALSE AWAKENING LOOPS 20:40 - DREAM LOGIC INTERMISSION 22:43 - That Didn't Make Sense 25:31 - STORIES: “I KNOW, ME TOO” & NPC INTERACTIONS 28:00 - Researchers Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey 30:28 - Scott's Lucid Dream Memory 34:00 - Funny Correction From Last Episode 37:00 - STORIES: ENTER - THE DEMON DREAMS 40:00 - Sleep Science & Theories 44:00 - Do Dreams Serve a Purpose? 48:00 - I zoned out, no idea what is here. The from earlier void maybe? 50:00 - OUTRO ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Welcome back to The Butterscotch Gang Hang. We've got four firsthand Bigfoot encounters, told in the witnesses' own words. A night camper in the Cascades meets a pair of yellow eyes at a gated road and can't convince his (seemingly blind) friend that it's real. Two squirrel hunters in rural North Carolina watch something huge climb up from the river in broad daylight. Two boys in a Utah canyon are followed home in the dark by something that hides in their outhouse and find what it left behind (spoiler alert: it's not dookie!). And at a church camp in Oklahoma, a girl wakes in the night to something furry tracing her face. A big no thank you on that. Let's get into it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Heater Turned On Today (Winter is Coming) 1:00 - Christian Is Barely Here 1:54 - STORY: Eyes at the Gate 8:45 - Never Bring Your Blind Friend to the Woods 9:30 - The Bigfoot Community Is a Strange Place 13:19 -STORY: Up From the River 19:41 - INTERMISSION: 20:07 - Dirk 21:15 - STORY: Something Was in the Outhouse 22:00 - Christian Talks About Stuff 30:00 - Old Bigfoot Stories Were Wild 31:00 - Bigfoot Nest Beds 34:00 - Ants are Huge in Alaska… 36:15 - STORY: It Traced My Face 39:30 - CHRISTIAN, THE MISOGYNIST (or whatever) 41:00 - BuT hE hAs No EvIdEnCe 44:11 - IT'S CLOSING TIME / OUTRO

Almost everyone who sees him describes the exact same thing. A tall shadow in a wide brimmed hat, sometimes a top hat, sometimes a bowler (he's a man of many hats I guess you could say), standing in the doorway at two in the morning, watching, while you lie there unable to move. This episode is the Hat Man in the witnesses' own accounts. A woman woken by her own mother's voice, sisters who both saw him from their bunk beds, a little girl who watched him stand over her dying grandmother. This time we took it a step further than first hand accounts. We track him backward through every culture that's already met him, because it keeps looking like one visitor under a laundry list of names. Odin wandered the old Norse world as a tall man in a broad hat who appeared in doorways right before someone died. Papa Legba stands at the Haitian crossroads, and that same crossroads figure became the tall stranger in black you meet at midnight in the American South. Baron Samedi waits at the grave in his top hat. El Sombrerón haunts a girl's window in Guatemala. The Alp stands over your bed in Germany. Same hat, same threshold, from cultures that never touched. If you've ever woken up and felt someone in the room, this one's for you. Real firsthand Hat Man encounters, the cross cultural entity behind him, and the sleep paralysis science, all in one. Be sure to share your personal experiences with the hat man in the comments below for a chance to make it into our Hat Man Listener Stories episode which is coming down the road once we collect enough stories from all of you! Buckle up, this ones a doozy. We'll see you on the other side. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Same Visitor, One Hundred Names 1:01 - Intro 2:33 - Too Tall Jones / Welcome Back Tangent Warning 5:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 5:45 - Who Is The Hat Man? 7:55 - EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: THE ONES WHO WOKE UP TO HIM 10:45 - Enter: Odin, The Norse Wanderer 13:25 - Displacing the old gods (courtesy of the Lord) 16:00 - You Like Historical Hat Facts? 17:00 - EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: THE HAT SHOWS UP WIDE AWAKE 20:20 - Papa Legba, Baron Samedi, Robert Johnson & A Man At The Crossroads 24:00 - THE NEXT 8 MINUTES ARE PRETTY TANGENT HEAVY, PLEASE STFU 24:04 - Chocolate Thunda / The Cat In The Hat Is Absolute Cinema 25:00 - Crossroads, The Pick of Destiny, Robert Johnson Again & Supernatural 27:00 - Anyone Under a Microscope is a Horrible Person 28:30 - Actually Back on Topic (Let The Angry Tangent Haters Comment Away!) 29:30 - Christian Wants Hat Man Romance Books 31:40 - Let's Get Back to the Actual Episode Again 32:00 - El Sombrerón & The Alp 34:37 - STORY: HE CAME FOR GRANDMA 36:34 - Christian Mentions The Old Hag (Okay) 37:30 - Is The Hat Man Just a Bald Shadow Person? 41:00 - Did Christian Have a Glimmer Man Experience as a Child? 42:25 - SKEPTIC TAKES / SLEEP PARALYSIS & OTHER THEORIES 46:40 - Scott Scared a Shadow Person While Living in Las Vegas 50:00 - Are Shadow People Astral Projectors That We Can't Fully Decipher? 51:30 - Please Share The Show on Socials, Repost Reels on IG! 54:00 - Sweet Dreams, Mr Hat Man ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

It's that time again, welcome to Tall Tale After Dark. Four people, and four nights that rewrote what they thought was possible. We're going back to a favorite topic of ours, as we dip our toe into the world of skinwalkers, once again. A cabin in the Colorado pines. A lone camp deep in Louisiana. A boy's twelfth birthday under a Utah sky, and a family hogan ten miles from the nearest door. Apparently, you're not supposed to say the word skinwalker, otherwise you might inadvertently draw one to you. Christian did not get this memo, so if we don't see him after this episode airs, we'll just all collectively assume the worst. Let's get it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Old Man Yells at Clouds 3:00 - Be Nice(ish) to Christian 5:00 - Let's Talk Skinwalkers 5:02 - STORY: IT'S RICHARD 5:30 - Christian Interrupts to Mansplain Flashlights 9:51 - Christian Shares Tales From His Childhood, Forgetting About the Story Entirely. 10:45 - I'm convinced Chris doesn't even listen to the stories, tbh 14:15 - STORY: HELP ME 19:18 - Apparently, It's NOT Cool To Be Kind 19:40 - Our Podcast Computer is 6 Years Old, and We're Broke 20:45 - The Personal Education Levels of a Skinwalker 21:45 - @smitherenes hilarious skinwalker content 23:55 - STORY: LEAVE US BE 30:00 - Christian Ponders if the Ute Warriors were Mormons (mmm) 35:00 - Scott and His Friends Hunted Chupacabras in California City 36:32 - Comment The Stupid Things You Did In Your Youth 36:50 - STORY: IT'S UNDER THE FLOOR 41:48 - Navajo Hogans, Hogan's Heroes, Hulk Hogan & More 43:00 - Shoutout Bruce Campbell / Evil Dead 44:00 - Livestreams & More Coming in the Future (Waiting For Parts) 45:53 - Skinwalker Outro: Hogan's Horrors _______ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Thomas Edison, the man who quite literally lit up the world, spent the last years of his life trying to build a telephone that could call the dead. Not a séance, or ouija board. An actual machine with wires, valves, probably a few odd little pulleys and gears, sitting on a bench in his lab pointed straight at the afterlife. And he's honestly not even the strange one in tonight’s episode.. Tonight, five men who wrote the rulebook for how modern science is supposed to work. The ones with their names carved into buildings all over the country. Every one of them went on the record saying he'd seen something no scientist is allowed to believe. Seems like maybe the people who wrote the rules turned out to be the ones who’d later go on to break them. Let's get into it. Did these men truly experience the supernatural splendor of the other side? Or were they bamboozled by the crafty ways and parlor tricks of spiritualist con artists? Let's get into it. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Ol' Tommy Edison, Geniuses & Ghosts 0:40 - Intro 2:41 - Welcome Back Tangent Warning 5:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 6:22 - STORY 1: Thomas Edison & The Phone to the Dead 8:00 - Rage-baiting Trolls 12:55 - Frank Sumption's (RIP) Spirit Box Invention in 2002 14:50 - STORY 2: Carl Jung & His Crafty Cousin 19:46 - Christian Likes Em Jung 20:35 - THE RAGEBAIT INTERMISSION 22:30 - STORY 3: THE FATHER OF CRIMINOLOGY, CESARE LOMBROSO 24:30 - Italian Doctors & Scott Really Does Tan Well Please Stop Doubting It 25:30 - Back to Cesare… 29:00 - Parlor Tricks Vs. Real Paranormal Phenomena 34:16 - STORY 4: HANS BERGER & THE BRAIN MACHINE 38:00 - Ideas & Whatnot 41:00 - Christian Says Way Too Much Without Saying Anything At All 43:20 - STORY 5: THE NOBEL LAUREATE - CHARLES RICHET 52:00 - Listener Stories Will Return (We Have MANY) 52:15 - Coming Up: Shared Death Experiences & The Hat Man Through Cultures 55:00 - Share The Show, Repost & Send The Reels, Por Favor 0:00 - Goodbye ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Folks welcome back to The Butterscotch Gang Hang, we love you. This month we've got a bit of a grab bag, including what is probably the longest story we've ever shared, with a few interesting twists an turns along the way. Scott also shares way too much about his health battles, and Christian just talks too much, as is tradition. It's a tale as old as time, really. Let's get it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Work Life Imbalance & The Beetus 1:52 - Welcome 3:12 - STORY: STALKER IN THE SHADOWS 17:30 - Demons? 19:00 - Can Demons Exist Within The Walls of a Church? 22:18 - The Demon Intermission 22:59 - Christian Says Stuff 24:32 - STORY 2: IT'S FREAKING ME OUT… 29:59 - Christian Says More Stuff 30:30 - What is a Crawler Tho… 33:00 - What Does Dogman Do at 3pm on a Tuesday? 35:25 - STORY 3: ABOUT THE WALK HOME 41:00 - Don't Taunt Alien Life (Unwise) 41:30 - Real Men Cry (Remember That) 43:00 - Another Ridiculous Theory From Christian 0:00 - OUTRO

This week we skipped the headlines and the documentaries and went straight into the forum archives, comment sections, and the places where only the most reliable of witnesses openly talk about the strangest night of their lives. These are (ALLEGEDLY!) firsthand alien encounters and abduction stories, told in the witnesses' own words. Grey aliens standing at the edge of your bed, ufo sightings witnessed by multiple people at the same time, saucers that stop a whole homeless shelter in its tracks over an Arizona highway on a not so average Tuesday night, and even a camper in the Sierras who woke up next to a dead fire after being plopped inside a craft and told the origins of humanity (finally, concrete evidence, amiright?) We can't verify any of these, but that's kind of the whole point. We got no news crews, and no proof, just people who were dead sure of what they saw and had nowhere else to say it. If you're a sucker for alien encounters, abduction stories, and obscure UFO accounts pulled from the deep corners of the internet, you're in for a treat. Seen an alien face to face? Let's talk about it. Send your story to [email protected] ----- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - *raises hands to chest* "Aliens." 0:53 - INTRO 2:26 - Welcome Back, Amigos. 0:00 - Thank You For Your Stories 5:34 - STORIES: IT'S STANDING OVER YOUR BED 9:00 - Dreams or Something Darker? 13:06 - The Validity of Multiple Witnesses 14:00 - Christian Does Episodes Too 19:32 - STORIES: DOWN FROM ABOVE 22:53 - Known Different Alien Species 23:14 - ROAST COMMENT INTERMISSION 23:44 - Always Feed The Trolls In Our Comments, Folks 24:30 - How Many UFO Sightings Are Just Government Ops? 27:40 - STORIES: IT CAME TO THE DOOR 30:10 - STORIES: IN GOOD COMPANY 36:43 - Explaining To Christian Why UFOs Need Lights… 38:40 - ALIEN LIGHTS INTERMISSION 40:41 - STORY: THE ABDUCTION 51:00 - Episodes Coming Up & Stories Received 54:00 - Scott Tries To Close Out The Episode 30 Times But Christian Never Stops Talking 56:00 - Betty & Barney Hill, Grey Aliens & Whitley Strieber's Communion ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Welcome back to another episode of After Dark. This month we're just itching to get out of our bodies and into these truly bizarre astral projection experiences. We talk everything from someone being lured out of their body by a friendly voice, to entities moonlighting as teachers in the astral plane. We even touch on an absolutely bonkers story of astral armor and light swords, vanquishing vampires and Christian's never ending hatred of men for some odd reason. Gather around, it is once again, that time to get weird. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Belief Hole / Zonked / Astral Projection Armor 3:25 - STORY 1: THE VOICES ARGUING OVER ME 7:40 - Christian Says Words 12:15 - STORY 2: THE NOT SO WISE TEACHER 17:58 - Christians Dream Live Stream Intermission 18:08 - Comedy Reels Don't Perform As Well As Stories (Boo) 19:30 - Scott Sounds Like Matt Damon (Was Called Fatt Damon in High School) 22:00 - Please Stop Complaining 23:39 - STORY 3: THE LADY WITH THE KNIFE 28:00 - Astral Projection v. Sleep Paralysis 30:00 - Christian's Toxic Femininity & Hatred of Men 33:39 - STORY 4: THE VAMPIRE AT THE WINDOW 43:00 - Christian Hates Dogman ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Every night shift nurse has one story they won't tell their family at Thanksgiving, and almost all of them happen at exactly three in the morning. Okay, that's a little theatrical, maybe not exactly 3 a.m., but you get it. The night shift is notoriously spooky by ambiance alone, and when you add the frightful, and often times completely unexplainable experiences shared by those brave enough to work the night shift, it's no wonder these folks make the big bucks. Just from posting clips leading up to this episode, we received countless first hand accounts from nurses all over the globe, sharing their experiences through comments and dm's. So much so, that we might just need to make a part two, filled with exclusively listener submissions. So if you're a nurse, or know a nurse that has experienced a thing or two they can't explain while on the job, please be sure to comment your story below, or send it in to [email protected] (make sure you don't add an S at the end of TALE. It's singular, not plural.) and you might just be featured in the next installment. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Night Shift Nurses Have Seen Some Crazy Stuff 2:30 - Florence Nightingale Believed In Spirits 3:22 - INTRO THEME 6:41 - How Do You Do's / Banter / New Merch Drop 8:45 - STORY: Room 827 12:00 - Christian Talks About The Twilight Zone 13:30 - Oscar The Therapy Cat, Steere House Nursing, 2007 15:33 - The Big Why? 17:57 - Christian Shirt Intermission 18:39 - STORY: The Boy In The Red Pajamas 25:30 - Return of the Wrinkled Ball Bag 26:28 - STORY: GEORGIE & THE ELEVATOR 30:55 - The Terminal Lucidity Phenomenon 34:01 - Shout Out Reliant K Intermission 35:15 - STORY: Man at the End of the Bed 39:00 - I Do Know Movies… 41:00 - LISTENER STORY: The Radio 45:20 - End of Life Dream Research & Other Studies 48:00 - OUTRO 49:40 - Talk To Your Family on Halloween / L8R G8R ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

Welcome back, Butterscotch Gang. We're talking firsthand accounts from people who went into the woods and came out believing they saw something that doesn't belong in any field guide. We get into everything from Bigfoot encounters to lanky tall humanoids (no thank you), honey badgers, squatch nips and the visceral reaction we get from hearing someone say crick instead of creek. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - We're coming for the TOP DAWGS NOW 1:45 - Feeding The Facebook Trolls 8:07 - STORY: There's Something Terrifying In The Woods of Wisconsin 14:10 - Could a Honey Badger Take on Sasquatch? 16:00 - Interesting Authors… 20:00 - STORY 2 - Stalked In The Mountains of Washington 27:25 - OH NO INTERMISSION 28:20 - Christian Doesn't Like Beans & Rice in His Tacos, I Guess 35:00 - Squatch Nips 36:30 - STORY 3 - The Dead of Winter 41:12 - Is The Grandparents Reaction a Red Flag? 45:42 - It's Creek not Crick, It's Wash not Warsh 46:00 - STORY 4 - The Thing at the Creek 52:00 - Stop Trying To Make Dogman Happen -Christian follow on socials: @talltalesocialclub shop the merch: www.talltalesocialclub.com submit a story: [email protected]

Folks, welcome back in to Tall Tale Social Club, we're excited to spend another hour with you guys, talking strange. This one's about the moments when reality seems to skip. Real people, mostly anonymous, sat down and typed out the glitch in the matrix experiences they've never been able to explain. If you've ever arrived somewhere with no memory of the trip, felt a place go strangely familiar, or caught the world doing something it shouldn't for a few seconds, these are gonna resonate. We also get into the real science of déjà vu, and the actual simulation argument. ever experience your own glitch in reality? Send it in to [email protected] -------- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Journey Down The Rabbit Hole… 0:48 - INTRO 2:22 - Jefferson Aeroplane 6:06 - STORIES: THE DRIVE THRU & VANISHING VEHICLES 9:40 - Long Drive Thru Times 13:00 - It Do Be A Hard Knock Life 15:00 - STORIES: DOPPELGANGÄR DOUBLE TROUBLE 19:20 - No Thank You Doppelgänger Daddy 24:00 - The Doppelgänger Intermission 24:30 - Christian's Got More To Say (Classic) 28:00 - Double Walkers, Omens & Death By Diarrhea 30:30 - STORIES: TRIPPY TRAVELS 32:00 - Cotton Eyed Joe / Should We Shorten The Intro? 38:00 - Breaking Down These Glitchy Travel Tales 41:30 - STORIES: THINGS THAT CAME BACK 44:00 - Bringing Back the Stephen King is a Pervert Bit 49:30 - STORIES: AURORA 55:00 - Wrong Place, Wrong Ritual Episode Coming Soon 55:50 - LISTENER STORY: THE VANISHING KEYS 62:00 - Tad's Through History: A Crash Course 64:04 - THOUGHTS & THEORIES 71:10 - Super Secret Code Word 71:44 - PEACE. ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

A woman stops for what she thinks is a crying child and watches it unfold to seven feet. A family slams the brakes for something that crosses on two legs with the wrong kind of walk. A truck driver calls 911 about a bleeding man on the shoulder, then feels something land in his truck bed and finds a face at his back window. And a semi driver empties a magazine into the dark at a ten-foot winged thing that keeps pace at 115 miles an hour. All four swear it's real. All four are still unexplained. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Trolling Old People on Facebook 4:48 - STORY: THE CRYING IN THE FOG 8:30 - "Someone Else Has Gotta Save That Baby" -Christian 13:28 - FYI: Don't Let Your Baby Unfold 15:56 - Christian Shares His Roadside Chupacabra (or Mange Coyote) 17:05 - Christian mentions ridiculous Dinosaur fAcTs again.. 18:45 - STORY TWO: WHAT CROSSED THE ROAD 23:30 - Christian Is My Spirit Animal Stickers / Thank You 24:00 - Rage Baiting Christian with Dog Man 30:00 - You Can Absolutely Climb That Mountain 33:01 - Christian Spends Way Too Much Time Talking About The WNBA 36:00 - STORY: IT'S NOT HUMAN 43:00 - Are All of these Entities Dimensional? 45:42 - Christian Has To Pee Intermission (Classic) 46:30 - STORY: THE KANEVILLE MONSTER 55:01 - Banana Baby Outro 57:33 - Training Christian's Replacement

Park rangers work in some of the most remote places in the country, and over the years, a surprising number of them have shared stories they still can't explain. In this episode, we look at four real accounts from named park rangers. You'll hear from members of the Navajo Rangers' Special Projects Unit, whose investigations included reports of Bigfoot, UFOs, hauntings, and shape-shifters, including one case where coins reportedly fell from nowhere during an investigation. We also cover the story of a backcountry ranger in North Carolina who watched a man hike up a mountain in the middle of the night and silently stare at a campground full of sleeping children until sunrise. Then there's Yellowstone ranger Bob "Action" Jackson, who described seeing a tall, two-legged, fur-covered figure moving through the backcountry, and Galen Clark, America's first park ranger, who claimed he once heard the cries of a drowned child coming from an empty lake in Yosemite. We also take a look at several well-known national park disappearances, including Dennis Martin, Stacy Arras, and Trenny Gibson, along with the Missing 411 phenomenon and the strongest arguments both for and against it. Some of these stories have reasonable explanations. Others are a little harder to dismiss. Everything in this episode is based on real people, documented cases, and firsthand accounts. Whether you think there's something strange happening in the wilderness or not, these are stories that have stuck with the people who experienced them. Get your thick hiking socks ready, we're going off trail. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - We're Going Off Trail.. 1:13 - INTRO 3:40 - The Tangent Disclaimer 5:37 - A Vast & Untouched Wilderness 6:55 - STORY: THE RANGERS WHO GOT THE OTHER CALLS 12:00 - Don "The Rain Man" Decker 15:12 - INTERMISSION: Christian Is Snarky / Get Off Your Soap Box 16:21 - Creepy Human's Episode on the Horizon? Yes or Yes? 17:15 - STORY: MOUNTAINTOP WATCHER 22:00 - No Xbox in the Wilderness 23:16 - The Disappearance of Dennis Martin 25:30 - Christian Forgets His Granddaughters Name (he's elderly, it happens) 27:00 - A Lot of Fire Lookout's Hit Us Up 29:00 - You Guys Are Insane, btw 31:24 - STORY: IT RAN ON TWO LEGS 36:00 - Discussing Bob Jackson's Yellowstone Bigfoot Encounter 40:05 - INTERMISSION: Does Bigfoot Have Pockets? 40:39 - Supernatural Was a Great Show 42:00 - STORY: THE BOY IN THE LAKE 45:00 - Do You Trust The Locals or Your Ears? 48:00 - David Paulides & Missing 411 50:00 - Sensing Danger While Isolated & Third Man Syndrome 51:00 - The Staircases In The Woods Verdict 52:00 - OUTRO 53:39 - 4 THA H8Rs ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]

This week the Butterscotch Gang breaks down five horror stories that all share one unsettling theme: the house was never really empty. We've got a toddler with an "imaginary" friend nobody wants to meet, a childhood home that wouldn't stop whispering, a locked room hiding something its realtor wouldn't explain, a 'flat' (right innit?) that seemed to actively hate the people living in it, and a quiet café where the tenants upstairs are long gone but apparently still singing. You know, stuff too unhinged for the main feed. Thanks for being a member, we love you 3 TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - We are Both Mike McDaniel..? 4:00 - Fat Wallet Talk 7:00 - How To Leave Us 8:51 - STORY - Mr. Longneck 17:35 - The Ghost-Dong Intermission 21:14 - STORY - That House 28:00 - Pets & The Paranormal 31:40 - STORY - The Padlocked Room (TRIGGER WARNING) 31:48 - The Story Title Crash Out 38:28 - The Higher Intermission (Allegedly) 39:00 - STORY - The Flat That Hated Us, Right, Innit? 50:00 - Half A White (Sorry) 52:59 - STORY - Three Years (TRIGGER WARNING) 55:19 - Christian Finally Believes In Ghosts (We Did It, Guys.) ----

Imagine being alone in a glass box on top of a mountain, a hundred feet in the air, with nothing but a radio, a pair of binoculars, and a single ladder going up, and at 2 a.m., something starts climbing the ladder. In this episode we're taking you inside the strange, lonely, and quietly haunted world of America's fire lookouts. This week we unpack real, first-person accounts from people who spent their summers alone in fire towers across the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian boreal forest, including the legendary Fire Tower Road encounter, a documented BFRO report from Oregon's Ochoco National Forest, the eerie radio voice heard by writer Trina Moyles, and the unsolved 2006 disappearance of fire lookout Stephanie Stewart. Whether you believe in Bigfoot, Missing 411, or just the slow, weird power of isolation on the human mind, this one will keep you up at night. Subscribe to catch all new episodes every other Thursday. Send your own wild and crazy experiences in to [email protected] for a chance to have your story read in an episode of Tall Tale Social Club! ----- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - This Week on Tall Tale Social Club 2:03 - We Are Climbing The Ladder 3:08 - Theme Song 4:41 - Fire Lookout Stories Coming In Hot 7:15 - What Are Fire Lookouts? 10:45 - STORY: Something's On The Ladder (Washington) 15:00 - Lil Bit Of Squatchy Nip Action (Y'like That?) 21:10 - Oregon Intermission 22:07 - Intentionally Cringy Thumbnail Photos 22:56 - STORY: The Thing Under Tower Point (Oregon) 29:10 - Literary Hotspots For Famous Authors 35:37 - STORY: The Voice On The Radio 40:44 - Camera Reset Intermission (Edit This Out) 43:10 - Go Play Flight of the Mothman | www.talltalesocialclub.com 45:12 - STORY - The Woman Who Vanished From Her Tower 50:00 - No Listener Story Today (Or Is There?) 51:08 - Don't Answer The Voice 53:51 - Recreation.gov - AirBnB Stay In an Old Fire Tower 55:35 - THEORIES, YO. ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → [email protected]