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Four office phone extensions reportedly rang together. A fluorescent tube and later an ordinary bulb—reportedly fell and shattered. A chart-recording pen kept drawing erratic traces even when the setup was powered by a 1.5-volt battery. Bert and Nick follow the Rosenheim Poltergeist account from a Bavarian law office in 1967 through Hans Benders investigation and the reported end of the disturbances in 1968. Along the way: repeated calls to a speaking-clock service, conflicting instrument readings, swinging lights, and a pattern investigators associated with one 19-year-old employees presence. Later attempts reportedly failed to reproduce the phenomena. What happened inside that office—and which detail would have made you stop working and start watching the room? Paranormal storytelling and discussion for entertainment. The reported events and proposed explanations are not established findings. Respect privacy; do not contact or harass people connected with the case.

Robert Taylor said two spiked spheres came from a hovering object, caught him and pierced his trousers. Then came choking fumes—and a gap he estimated at 20 minutes. Bert and Nick follow the 1979 encounter associated with Dechmont Woods, Taylors difficult journey home, and the ground marks and damaged clothing the hosts say police examined. They also revisit Cisco Grove and explore a strange possibility: could the spheres have been an automated defense? Paranormal storytelling and discussion for entertainment. Accounts and theories are not established findings. Respect privacy; do not contact or harass people connected with the case.

Two fishermen reported pale beings that glided above the riverbank—and an encounter they could barely explain afterward. On October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported a UFO encounter beside Mississippi’s Pascagoula River. Bert and Nick follow their account from the blue light and pincer-like hands to an eye-like instrument Hickson said moved over his motionless body. Then comes the sheriffs-office recording: the officers leave, but the recorder keeps running. The conversation also explores Parkers later recollections and why this recording stays with the hosts. Encounter details remain witness reports; the recording does not independently establish an abduction. Entertainment and discussion of reported experiences. Respect the privacy of witnesses and their families; do not contact or harass anyone connected with the case.

Two sisters reportedly watched a green patchwork box rise a foot above their bedroom floor. The account only grows stranger from there. Bert and Nick revisit The Great Amherst Mystery — Esther Cox, following reports of answering knocks, a personal threat scratched into plaster, falling lit matches and disturbances that continued after Esther moved. They also discuss the investigator who reportedly changed his mind and the fire that brought the story into court. Historical paranormal storytelling for entertainment. Reported events and host interpretations are not independently established facts. Respect the privacy of residents and descendants; do not contact, target or harass them.

An airline captain sits quietly in first class. He looks like he belongs there. Then someone recognizes him as a man who died in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. On December 29, 1972, a routine flight from New York to Miami ended in the Florida Everglades. Bert and Nick follow the crew through the landing-gear warning, the unnoticed descent, and the rescue before turning to the stories that circulated afterward: reported appearances by Captain Bob Loft and flight engineer Don Repo aboard other aircraft, a face in a galley oven, and a warning about fire. We follow the disputed claim that salvaged components carried something more than spare parts into other airplanes. Could a haunting remain attached to an object? And why do so many of these accounts describe the men as still trying to protect the people aboard? The accident is documented. The hauntings are reported accounts associated with John G. Fullers The Ghost of Flight 401 and later retellings.

He went to check a villa. According to the account, a ten-foot green humanoid was waiting outside—and his radio message was translated as: They arent men. Bert and Nick follow the Pier Fortunato Zanfretta encounters, beginning with an Italian security patrol in December 1978. The story moves through enormous reported boot prints, a car he said he could no longer control, other guards accounts of a luminous triangle, and a sphere he described under hypnosis that supposedly let him understand the beings. Then he goes back to work. Even a different route reportedly fails to end the encounters. For entertainment and discussion. The episode recounts reported experiences and hypnosis accounts, not established alien contact. Respect the privacy of those discussed; do not contact or harass them.

A small green figure reportedly turned toward a former policeman and gestured for him to move on. He took a photograph—and later realized he could not account for roughly 105 minutes. Bert and Nick follow the Ilkley Moor account through the reversed compass, investigators photo timing, alleged visitors asking about the image, and a hypnosis account that placed the photograph at the end of something much stranger. Philip Spencer is a pseudonym; the episode explores reported experiences and interpretations.

A mine collapse traps two men below Sheppton. As rescuers search above, the survivors later describe blue lights, silent figures, and an impossible marble staircase.

A Detroit family reported nightmares, a woman in a blue dress, a foul odor, and a basement door that rose on its own—then left their Martin Street home behind. The claims reached the Detroit Free Press in 1962 and Fate magazine in 1963, but the identity behind the horrid hag remains unconfirmed.

A reported series of campground attacks in Land Between the Lakes points to a towering wolf-headed figure with gray-and-black fur. The story follows the disputed 1982 Roger account, a 1987 account relayed by gas-station worker Jeanette Thompson, and the older curse legend tied to the peninsula.

In 1967, industrial mechanic Stefan Michalak said a glowing craft near Falcon Lake blasted him with heat, set his shirt on fire, and left a grid-shaped burn. The record includes disputed witness details, reported contamination at the site, and physical artifacts but no settled explanation.

In 1897 Greenbrier County, Mary Jane Heaster said her daughter Zona appeared four times after her death. The final reported visit named a neck injury; a later exhumation found severe damage in that area. The legal case rested on physical and circumstantial evidence, while the ghost account became its enduring mystery.

A Maine family reported five canine-like figures around their rural farmhouse: three seen first, then two more close to the porch. We sort the reported sightings, missing track photos, conflicting retellings, and ordinary-animal explanations without claiming the record proves more than it does.

A disputed ghost-ship legend from the Strait of Malacca: an alleged Morse SOS, a crew found frozen in terror, unexplained heat below deck, and an explosion that erased the scene. The evidence is thin—but the story’s contradictions keep it alive.

What if the problem with modern ghost hunting gear is that it is too good? In this episode, Bert and Nick dig into EVP, electronic voice phenomena, and why old radios, tape recorders, diode receivers, and messy analog audio may have captured things todays clean microphones are designed to remove. From the Scole Experiment to Friedrich Jurgenson, Konstantin Raudive, Sarah Estep, Class A EVP claims, and alleged recordings that sound like someone trying to speak through a broken signal, this case file looks at what might be real, what might be contamination, and why the mystery is not as simple as voice or noise.