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Send us Fan Mail What if the aliens among us didn’t look like the Greys from the movies? What if they looked almost exactly like us? In this episode, Josh and Frank examine the long-running reports of Nordic aliens—tall, often blond, pale-skinned beings with human faces who have appeared in UFO claims for more than seventy years. They look at four of the most well-known cases: George Adamski’s 1952 desert encounter with a visitor he called Orthon from Venus, Billy Meier’s ongoing contacts with a woman named Semjase in Switzerland, Travis Walton’s description of human-looking figures aboard the craft after his 1975 disappearance, and Charles Hall’s claims of extremely tall “Tall Whites” living near a Nevada military range in the 1960s. The conversation covers the early Space Brothers stories, the messages these beings supposedly delivered, why so many witnesses describe similar features decades apart, and the major problems with the evidence—including what we now know about Venus, disputed photographs, and the lack of independent verification. They also dig into the bigger questions: If these beings really look human, could they already be blending in? And why would an advanced civilization choose to look like us at all? If the first extraterrestrial you ever met could pass for a coworker or a neighbor, would you even realize what you were looking at? PS - We love fan mail and messages. Send us your messages and we might read them on the show!

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Truth Beyond is a little different from our usual investigations. Instead of breaking down real cases or documentaries, Josh and Frank put you directly inside ten classic horror movies—as if the nightmare was happening to you on an ordinary night. We turn the plots of Halloween, The Strangers, Scream, Psycho, The Thing, Paranormal Activity, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Final Destination, The Exorcist, and Night of the Living Dead into short, immersive stories. You’re the one pulling into the driveway and seeing a light on upstairs. You’re answering the knock at 1 a.m. You’re checking the back seat. You’re lying next to someone who might not be who you think they are. You’re fighting to stay awake. You’re realizing the ordinary moments of everyday life just became something much worse. No background music. No warning. Just the feeling that something familiar has turned against you. If you’ve ever left a horror movie and felt it follow you home, this episode is for you. Listen with the lights on—or don’t. PS. We love Fan Mail and Message. Send us yours and we might read it on the show!

Send us Fan Mail For nearly 60 years, the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film has been the most debated piece of Bigfoot evidence in history. Now, Marq Evans’ documentary Capturing Bigfoot claims a second reel—locked in a safe for half a century—shows a rehearsal filmed before the famous Bluff Creek encounter. In this episode, Josh and Frank break down the documentary’s case: Bob Heironimus’s claim that he wore the suit, testimony from Roger Patterson’s son Clint and other family members who say the film was a hoax, and the newly discovered footage that Evans presents as a practice run.  We look at the similarities between the two reels, the gaps in the chain of custody, the personal cost to the Patterson family, and whether the evidence finally settles one of cryptozoology’s biggest mysteries—or leaves the central question still open. How do you know which film came first? Listen now and decide for yourself. PS - We love Fan Mail. Send it on in and we may read it on air!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Truth Beyond looks at the theory of a manufactured alien invasion. Not whether aliens exist — whether someone could fake an attack long enough to change what people will accept. Josh and Frank walk the real documents. Operation Northwoods, the 1962 military memo that proposed staging attacks and blaming Cuba. The 2018 Hawaii missile alert that put an entire state in genuine panic for 38 minutes over a threat that wasn’t real. Then Project Blue Beam — Serge Monast’s 1990s claim of a global deception using advanced technology — and why the trail of evidence for that one runs thin. The Northwoods papers exist. The Hawaii alert happened. Convincing fake video is now easy to make. That doesn’t prove anyone is staging an invasion. It does raise a harder question: how much authority would you hand over if you believed your family was in danger, and what happens if those powers stay after the threat disappears? We’re not here to tell you the invasion is coming. We’re here to ask what the story is actually claiming — and what would count as evidence. PS - We love fan mail and messages. Send one in and we might read it on the show!

Send us Fan Mail Twenty years ago, Keith was driving home through Goshen, Connecticut. He says something stopped him in a field. He says they were greys. For a long time he didn’t tell it. On this episode of Truth Beyond, he does. Josh and Frank sit with him and ask the questions a story like this has to survive. Where were you? What did you actually see? How long were you there? What do you remember, and what showed up later. What changed after that night? Frank and Josh are not there to sell the encounter or explain it away. They are there to hear it and press on the parts that don’t sit still. A grey in a Connecticut field is either one of the oldest claims in modern UFO culture or something that happened to one man on one road. Keith is the only one who was there. Now it’s your turn. Listen, then decide: real, misremembered, or something else entirely. PS. We love Fan mail. Send us a message with your unfiltered thoughts!

Send us Fan Mail Reptilians: The Face Beneath the Face. Truth Beyond looks at one of the strangest ideas in modern conspiracy culture — humanoid reptiles living among us, and the claim that they secretly run the world. Josh and Frank start with the picture, not the politics. If one of these creatures were standing in front of you, what would you actually be looking at? Scales, eyes, a face that almost passes until it doesn’t. Then they separate two ideas people keep gluing together: finding an unknown species does not mean that species is in charge of Earth. We also discuss ancient imagery and how people look back to these images as proof of something sinister going on.  From there, David Icke. The books, the bloodline claims, the idea that presidents, royals, and bankers are reptiles wearing human skin. What people believe, where it came from, and why a story this wild still gets repeated. We’re not here to prove shapeshifters are in the room. We’re here to ask what the claim is actually saying — and what would count as evidence. P.S. - We love Fan Mail and Comments. Click the link above to drop us a line for suggestions on future episodes or just your crazy thoughts.

Send us Fan Mail If you were inside a perfect simulation, how would you know? Truth Beyond is not here to prove the universe is a computer. There is no accepted scientific evidence that it is. Josh and Frank start there, then walk the idea anyway: Nick Bostrom’s 2003 argument, whether someone could pause the whole thing without us noticing, why “glitches in the Matrix” make better stories than evidence, and the part simulation talk usually skips — we still don’t know if consciousness can be simulated at all. What if we’re not the experiment? What if whoever built this is waiting for something that hasn’t happened yet? And if the stack of simulations goes down forever, you still have the oldest question left: why does anything exist? Then the personal one. If scientists proved it tomorrow, what actually changes about your life? Strange doesn’t mean simulated. We’re asking whether we could ever tell the difference. PS - We love Fan Mail! Click on the link above to send us your questions!

Send us Fan Mail Last week was the funeral home in Southington. This week is the woods. Dudleytown isn’t a town. It’s what’s left of a small farming settlement in Cornwall, Connecticut — Dark Entry Forest, cellar holes, stone walls, and a reputation that got louder after the people left. Insanity. A bloodline curse from England. Children who walked into the trees and didn’t come back. A house that burned. Visitors who say the birds stop. Shadow figures between the trunks. Ed and Lorraine Warren later talking about it like something was running the place. Truth Beyond is not here to tell you Dudleytown is haunted. Or that it isn’t. Josh and Frank walk the history, the legend, and the claims — then the other version: bad land, a dying iron industry, a 1926 town history that storytellers kept expanding, and a forest people planted over a grave. Same question as Part 1. Is something in there? Or does the story get in first and your brain finishes the job? This is Part 2 of our Connecticut Hauntings series. If you haven’t heard The Haunting in Connecticut / the Snedeker funeral home episode, start there. Don’t follow the voice. PS. We love fan mail. Send us your thoughts at the link above!

Send us Fan Mail The Haunting in Connecticut didn’t start as a movie. It started as a family who moved into a former funeral home in Southington because their son was dying of cancer and they needed to be closer to the hospital. The basement still had the leftover tools of the taking care of the dead. Then the Warrens showed up and called it demonic. This is Part 1 of Truth Beyond’s two-part look at Connecticut’s ugliest paranormal stories. Hosts Josh and Frank unpack what the Snedekers said happened in the old Hallahan Funeral Home, why Ed and Lorraine Warren believed something worse than ghosts was already in the walls, and why the writer hired to tell the “true” story later said the accounts didn’t match. Frank isn’t just reading a case file here either. As a teenager he went through the house himself. He also sat in on an Ed and Lorraine Warren seminar. That first-hand piece is what this episode is built around — not the Hollywood version. Was it desecration and a dormant presence that locked onto a sick kid? Or illness, fear, money, and a story that got sharper every time someone retold it? Next week: Part 2. Dudleytown. The abandoned village in the Connecticut woods people still won’t walk into after dark. Listen if you want the Connecticut cases without the movie trailer.

Send us Fan Mail On the rainy night of November 2, 1966, salesman Woodrow Derenberger was driving home on Interstate 77 near Parkersburg, West Virginia, when something blocked the highway. What stepped out was not the internet’s “Grinning Man.” According to Derenberger’s first account — given on local television within 24 hours — it was a normal-looking man in a dark coat. He smiled. He asked Woody to roll down the window. And he spoke without moving his mouth. This episode of Truth Beyond goes back to the original Indrid Cold encounter before the legend took over. We separate Derenberger’s roadside story from later claims about the planet Lanulos, repeated contact, and trips to another world. We look at why the case exploded thirteen days later when Mothman reports hit Point Pleasant, how John Keel folded Cold into a larger West Virginia wave, and how a separate New Jersey “Grinning Man” sighting got blended into the same face. We also cover the problems the story never escaped: no physical evidence, astronomy that doesn’t hold up, details that grew over time, almost no independent witnesses, and a TV prank caller who invented a Lanulos visit that Derenberger publicly confirmed. Was it a hoax, a misperception, a psychological event, or something that wanted to look human? We don’t tell you what to believe. We ask the question the original story actually leaves behind: what if the most unsettling visitor wouldn’t look like a monster at all? This is Truth Beyond. Belief isn’t required. Only curiosity.

Send us Fan Mail In 1992, Peter Khoury woke up in his Sydney bedroom to find two strange women sitting on his bed. One had enormous blue eyes. She grabbed him. He bit her. Then they vanished—leaving behind two strands of extremely fine blonde hair. Years later that hair was DNA-tested and became one of the most debated pieces of physical evidence in UFO history.  We follow Peter’s account in the order he lived it, then separate the story from the speculation: unusual genetics, sleep phenomena, contamination questions, and what Bill Chalker’s investigation actually found. Don’t just believe. Don’t just dismiss. Look closer.

Send us Fan Mail Sleep Paralysis — The Thing Your Brain Can't Explain It’s 3:17 in the morning. Your eyes open. You recognize your bedroom. Everything looks normal… until you try to move and realize you can’t. You’re awake, but your body isn’t. In this episode of Truth Beyond, we explore one of the most terrifying and least understood experiences of the human mind: sleep paralysis. What begins as a simple neurological glitch — REM atonia, the brain’s way of keeping you from acting out your dreams — can quickly spiral into something far more disturbing. Shadow figures. A crushing weight on your chest. Footsteps approaching the bed. A presence you can feel but never see. Science offers clear explanations: hypnopompic hallucinations, disrupted body awareness, and a brain hardwired to detect threats even when none exist. But across cultures and centuries, people have described the same encounters — the Hat Man, shadow people, demons sitting on their chests — long before anyone had heard of REM sleep. We dig into the science of false awakenings, sensed presence, and why your brain would rather invent a monster than admit it doesn’t know what’s happening. Then we leave the door slightly open: Is sleep paralysis simply the mind turning against itself… or is consciousness stranger than we currently understand? If you’ve ever woken up trapped in your own body, this episode is for you. Question everything. Even what you see when you open your eyes. — Truth Beyond

Send us Fan Mail What if humanity isn’t the highest intelligence on Earth? In this episode of Truth Beyond, Josh and Frank explore one of the most controversial ideas in modern UFO lore — the theory that non-human intelligences may have been quietly influencing or observing civilization for thousands of years. We examine government secrecy around UAP, the Zoo Hypothesis, why advanced beings might choose to stay hidden, and whether human leaders are truly in control. Along the way we carefully separate documented facts, eyewitness testimony, and pure speculation. Topics include: Why decades of government secrecy fuel these theoriesThe idea that Earth could function like a protected wildlife preserveClaims of hidden influence, technology exchanges, and compartmentalized knowledgeWhether the phenomenon is more about consciousness than physical controlThe skeptical case against the “hidden rulers” ideaThis is an exploration of extraordinary claims — not a declaration of certainty. Tune in and decide for yourself.

Send us Fan Mail Entity Mimics: When Something Pretends to Be Someone You Know What if the voice calling your name… isn’t who you think it is? In this episode of Truth Beyond, Josh and Frank dive into one of the creepiest corners of the paranormal: entity mimics — unknown intelligences that appear to imitate the people, voices, and even pets we trust most. We explore real reports of people hearing a loved one call their name, seeing a family member who couldn’t possibly be there, and encounters that feel far too personal to dismiss. Along the way we look at religious warnings about deception, interdimensional theories, and the psychological explanations that might account for these experiences. Expect creepy stories, a few jokes to keep things from getting too heavy, and some unsettling questions about how much we can really trust our own senses. If you’ve ever heard your name called when no one was there… this one’s for you. Listen now and ask yourself: the next time someone you love calls your name, will you answer right away?

Send us Fan Mail The Mandela Effect: False Memories or Something Stranger? What if millions of people vividly remember something that never actually happened? In this episode of Truth Beyond, Josh and Frank dive into the Mandela Effect — the strange phenomenon where large groups of people share the exact same false memories. From the Berenstain Bears (or is it Berenstein?), the Monopoly Man’s missing monocle, Darth Vader’s real quote, the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia that never existed, to classic movie lines everyone gets wrong, we explore the most famous examples. We break down the psychological explanations (why your brain fills in the gaps) and the wilder theories floating around: parallel universes, timeline shifts, CERN conspiracy claims, simulation theory, and the idea that reality itself might not be as fixed as we think. Along the way, we keep it fun, throw in some jokes, and ask the bigger questions: Is memory trustworthy? Why do so many people remember the exact same incorrect details? And what does it say about reality if our most confident memories can be completely wrong? Whether you lean toward psychology or something stranger, this episode will make you question what you think you know. Listen now and ask yourself… how many of your own memories would hold up?