Somehow, we've been doing this for eight years and 200 episodes. This week, we talk about that one "true" story from the third Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book.

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Hermann Home - Newspapers.com™

POPPER THE POLTERGEIST — American Hauntings

Mystery in L. I. House Deepens; Family, Experts, Police Stumped; HOUSE OF MYSTERY IS ACTING UP AGAIN - The New York Times

Hermann house, 1958 - Newspapers.com™

House of Flying Objects

The Naturalization of the ‘Poltergeist’ - Forbidden Histories

On the cusp of episode 200, John decides to clear some of his backlog and finally cover a cryptid he's been trying to write about for years. Turns out it wouldn't be that easy.

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Monsters and Mysteries: Season 3 Episode 3 - Sabine Thing and Lightening Psychics

Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana) - Wikipedia

Bipedal Creature Reports Logged Along the Sabine River, 1970s – Headcount Coffee

BFRO Report 1213: Encounter on Toledo Bend

The Lone Star Bigfoot, Chester Moore Jr.

Chupacabra on Display at Kingdom Zoo: Education Center - PR.com

Photos: Check out the micro zoo in Orange

Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians - John R. Swanton

Legend of Nalusa Falaya | Mythfolks

Writer’s Debut – The Battalion

This week, Brandon takes the reins again, as John comes down off some kind of persistent cough. We almost talked about the cryptid, but someone needs to let everyone know that Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame is also the singer for Blur.

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Cryptids and Historical Memory: The Asserted Antecedents of the Michigan Dogman - Daniel McMahon

Who’s a good boy? Not the Michigan Dogman.

Michigan Dogman - Wikipedia

Cryptidz - Michigan Dogman

Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast - Julie Albrecht Royce

Dogman of Michigan - Chad Stuemke

Chad Stuemke's Articles and Essays

Michigan Dogman - Newspapers.com™

TERRIFIED In Manistee National Park

This week, Brandon talks about a sea monster that isn't a lump of fat or a whale penis!

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Big stories about big squids: The story of the Britannia and the birth of a wartime urban legend - Jonathan Dyer

As the second Snowpocalypse of 2026 rages, we somehow manage to record an episode on time as we talk about Canada's Roswell.

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In Search of the Truth Behind Canada's Most Infamous UFO Sighting

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

Shag Harbour UFO incident - Wikipedia

The Shag Harbour UFO - Skeptoid

Shag Harbour Incident: Canada's Undeniable UFO Mystery

Dark Object | Avalon Library

Canada "FOIA"

Shag Harbour Articles

We're late this week because someone's gonna be able to go into someone else's hospital room. Brandon verifies his hypothesis in the most ill-advised manner possible.

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https://www.scribd.com/document/537549481/1972-Santa-Isabels-strange-visitor

https://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/09/argentina-anthropomorphic-phenomena-of.html

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-santa-isabel-entity.71697/

https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Villa_Santina_Aliens

https://strangestrangestrange.com/paranormal/ufo/the-1947-villa-santina-incident/

We're back after a bit of a hiatus! This week, we're talking about some of the weirder Yōkai John could find.

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https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520271029/page/n3/mode/2up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake

https://yokai.com/shirouneri/

https://yokai.com/chouchinobake/

https://yokai.com/byoubunozoki/

https://yokai.com/tenjouname/

https://yokai.com/ungaikyou/

For the (probably) last episode of the year, we figured we would go out on a sort of depressing one. We talk about the time that the US government personally destroyed a person's mental health, as opposed to in a broader societal term.

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PROJECT BETA - Greg Bishop