It's the curling finger from the doorway, the faint and familiar voice down the hall, and the warm glow of an inviting manor in the forest that bids you to let your guard down, follow, and step inside.. Don't take bait, Beliefling!
Tonight, we’re looking at encounters with the dead (or some non-human entity 👀) that wishes to draw you out from safety and lure you into the dark for some unknown purpose.
We’ve got: Creepy Crawl-Space Hags, Smiling Totem Pole Men, Vanishing Houses in the Woods and much much more!
🔥 Special Highlight: Book and Author
Real Ghost Stories by Brad Steiger: a massive anthology of ghostly encounters, hauntings, apparitions, phantom figures, and eerie firsthand-style accounts. Brad Steiger was a prolific paranormal and Fortean writer who spent decades collecting stories about ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, psychic phenomena, and unexplained mysteries.
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⏰ Timestamps
00:40 | Coming Up: Encounters with the things that wish to LURE YOU into unknown places
03:47 | Brad Steiger background — the book Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
6:49 | Story 1: "Join Me in the Crawl Space" — HVAC worker encounters an old woman beckoning him into a crawl space, Ogden, Utah
10:33 | Discussion — Fremont culture burial grounds, Mound Fort, Ohio earthworks
16:28 | Story 2: Totem Pole Man — camping encounter near Ogden Canyon/Pineview Reservoir
20:56 | Synchronicity segment — ghosts on staircases; the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
31:13 | Story 4: "Vanishing House on Christmas Eve" — 1820s coach travelers see a mansion that no longer exists; SPR investigation
27:44 | Jer and Chris Abducted? — mysterious lightning flash and ozone smell on a local road (not a cloud in the sky!)
31:13 | Story 4: "Vanishing House on Christmas Eve" — 1820s coach travelers see a mansion that no longer exists; SPR investigation
45:12 | Story 5: The France Time Slip (Phantom Hotel) (Gisby/Simpson account, 1979) — two English couples stay at an anachronistic hotel that vanishes two weeks later
56:26 | Discussion — comparing to transdimensional gas station story, Versailles 1901 time slip
1:05:36| Story 6: "Spirit Imposter Tried to Woo His Girlfriend" — entity impersonating Jerry via phone calls, trying to lure Kelly away
1:12:14 | Discussion — imposter entities, mimics, Emilie Sagée bilocation case (1845)
📚Books:
Online Sources
- Vanishing House on Christmas Eve
Fortean Times: 466 JANUARY 2026 - Ghostwatch: Ghosts at the party - Jacob Barlow, "Site of Mound Fort", June 5, 2014.
- Facebook, You know your from Ogden if, "Has anyone ever experienced or had weird encounters in the Ogden canyon at night??", Sighting by Anonymous Participant 110, September 6, 2025.
- The Phantom Hotel: An Extraordinary Time-Slip Story
- Strange Company | The Phantom Hotel
