• 1 hour 12 minutes
    The Buck and the Beast

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by talking about Kyle and Luke’s recent trip to the Texas Fright Fest, where Luke finally got the chance to meet horror icon Matthew Lillard along with several other legendary figures from the world of horror and the paranormal.

    Then, they dive headfirst into the strange and unexplained.

    First, the guys discuss the disturbing account of Homer, Alaska resident Lisa Merrell, who between 2013 and 2018 claimed to witness small crawler-like humanoids moving silently through the trees near her property. What began as fleeting glimpses through binoculars allegedly escalated into repeated sightings of numerous entities, followed by a horrifying transformation of the surrounding forest itself. Years later, when Lisa returned to the location with a television crew, they reportedly found the trees blackened, rotten, and dying.

    Then, a chilling encounter out of Red River, New Mexico involving a mysterious deer-like creature seen twice by the same man years apart. The story takes an even darker turn after his girlfriend witnesses the same entity for herself, leaving both of them convinced that whatever they encountered may have followed them home.

    Next, the guys explore a bizarre and deeply unsettling series of experiences connected to the Bear Canyon and Bear Peak trail areas near Boulder, Colorado. In the early 1980s, one resident experienced an intense nighttime vision warning him to stay away from the area near the Flatirons. Decades later, another individual described an eerily similar encounter involving overwhelming dread, psychological pressure, and an unshakable feeling that something unseen was watching. The mystery becomes even more compelling considering the region’s deep Indigenous history and long-standing reputation for strange activity.

    After that, they cover a terrifying encounter from a West Texas patrol officer who found himself face-to-face with a tall, dark, foul-smelling figure while working a quiet late-night shift through isolated farmland lined with abandoned orchards and towering cornfields. What started as a routine stop quickly turned into something out of a nightmare. Even more disturbing, another deputy reportedly encountered the same entity a year later in the same area, leaving behind one unforgettable piece of evidence — a massive handprint pressed onto the patrol vehicle.

    Finally, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran recounts two unforgettable wilderness encounters from his military service. The first involved unexplained voices heard during winter training exercises near Algonquin Provincial Park. The second, far more physical incident occurred near Wainwright, Alberta, where he claims to have witnessed a massive reddish-brown, hair-covered creature violently attacking a white-tailed buck in broad daylight — an image he says stayed with him for the rest of his life.

    All of this and more on this eerie installment of Expanded Perspectives.

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    22 May 2026, 12:11 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    They Came From the Water

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by talking about what they’ve been up to lately, including pruning tomato plants, flinging arrows at the range, attending graduation ceremonies, and even making a stop at a moonshine distillery deep in the countryside.

    Then, the show takes a hard turn into the strange. First, they discuss reports of a possible Bigfoot encounter near Sherman, Texas back in 1960. Then, two teenagers riding a motorcycle through the backroads of rural Kentucky come face to face with a towering bipedal creature crouched in the road, feeding on the carcass of a dead horse.

    After that, a listener from Kentucky shares a deeply unsettling encounter that has haunted her for years. While sitting beside a dark lake during a moonless October night, she and her boyfriend witnessed glowing humanoid figures emerging from vacant lakeside homes and gathering silently along the shoreline. Moments later, three massive bioluminescent objects rose from the water and glided across the lake while the strange entities appeared to greet them. What followed left the couple terrified and questioning everything they thought they knew about reality.

    Later, the guys cover a bizarre phantom van witnessed by a group of fishermen before it seemingly vanished into thin air, along with stories of a deeply haunted house that may hold something sinister within its walls.All of this and more on this eerie installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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    15 May 2026, 12:56 pm
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    The Creature in the Garden

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by talking about Kyle’s trip to the coast, the heartbreaking end of the Dallas Stars’ playoff run, and the destructive tornadoes that recently swept through the area. Then, the strangeness takes over with bizarre listener encounters involving polymorphing opossums, mysterious walking trees, a terrifying red minotaur, and a massive dogman-like creature caught rooting through someone’s garden in the dead of night. All of this and more on this eerie installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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    8 May 2026, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    The Faceless Woman

    This episode of Expanded Perspectives brings together a set of encounters that all share one thing in common: something happened, and no one involved has ever been able to fully explain it. Kyle and Cam talk about a long-haul drive across the country that should have been routine, until a stretch of empty highway near Roswell, New Mexico seems to break the rules of distance and time. What should have been a two-hour drive somehow loops back on itself, complete with a witness who remembers it happening.

    From there, a late-night search for a local legend in rural Virginia turns into a face-to-face encounter with something that looks almost like a deer… but isn’t. And it doesn’t end there.

    They also hear from a former Air Force airman who was quietly reassigned during the aftermath of Mount St. Helens, tasked with guarding something in a remote, high-security site. Decades later, he’s still not convinced they were dealing with human victims.

    Out in the Arizona desert, two brothers come across something massive, silent, and completely unlike any known animal. No eyes, no face, no clear shape—just a presence that passes over them and disappears.

    And in the mountains near Yellowstone, a couple driving through the snow encounters a lone figure walking the road in clothing from another time… untouched by the falling snow, and possibly missing something even more unsettling.

    No conclusions. No easy answers. Just firsthand experiences that don’t quite fit into the world as we understand it. All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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    24 April 2026, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Why the Woods Feel Wrong

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off with some easygoing chatter about an unusually cool, rain-soaked spring—before heading straight into far darker territory. Because once the sun goes down and the trees close in, something changes… and everyone feels it.

    First, a listener shares two chilling encounters with a creature known only as the Hoof Man, said to stalk the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Reservation in Arizona. What begins as a family cookout quickly spirals into confusion, fear, and missing meat… but the second encounter? That’s when things get up close—and far more terrifying.

    Then, we head deep into the swamps of Louisiana, where another listener recounts a night of illegal hunting that turned into something he’s never been able to explain. Step for step, something walked alongside them in the darkness—always just out of sight, always just beyond the beam of their lights. Was it the legendary Honey Island Swamp Monster… or something even stranger?

    After the break, Cam brings a collection of truly unsettling camping and backpacking encounters that all circle back to one question:

    Why is being in the woods so unnerving?

    Is it just our imagination playing tricks on us… or is there something primal—something ancient—watching from between the trees?

    Lighthearted moments, eerie stories, and a deep dive into that universal, creeping fear of the wilderness… all of that and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives.

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    17 April 2026, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    When the Heart Remembers

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys discuss what happens when a heart is transplanted… but something else comes with it?

    The guys explore one of the strangest and most unsettling medical mysteries of our time—reports of personality changes, vivid dreams, and unexplained emotional shifts following organ transplants.

    From documented cases like Claire Sylvia, who experienced sudden cravings and haunting dreams after receiving a donor heart, to chilling stories of recipients who felt drawn to people and places they had never known… the question begins to surface:

    Is it possible that our organs carry more than just biological function?

    Could fragments of memory, emotion, or identity somehow persist… even after death?

    The guys also dive into the controversial work of Paul Pearsall, who collected accounts of transplant recipients reporting changes that seemed to mirror their donors’ lives—fueling the debated concept of “cellular memory.” But not all of these stories are grounded in documented cases. Some drift into darker territory… including disturbing accounts of children who, after receiving transplants, began recalling details they should have never known. Are these simply psychological responses to trauma and survival? The brain trying to make sense of a second chance at life?

    Or is there something deeper happening beneath the surface—something science has yet to fully understand?

    Join us as we step into the space between medicine and mystery… where the line between identity and biology begins to blur. Because sometimes…the heart doesn’t just keep you alive. Sometimes… it remembers.

    All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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    10 April 2026, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Halfway Down the Hill

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by discussing the upcoming S4 documentary from Bob Lazar, set to release on April 3rd. From there, they dive headfirst into a series of bizarre and unsettling encounters from across North America.

    A listener from Ontario shares a chilling brush with what can only be described as the fae, while another story out of Wyoming tells of a mysterious woman’s spirit wandering a deserted highway in the dead of night. Then things take a truly strange turn with a shocking centaur sighting that reportedly led to a car crash.

    The guys also explore a long history of Sasquatch sightings concentrated in one particular area, followed by a disturbing encounter in southwest Texas involving what may have been a juvenile Dogman… or even a Chupacabra.

    All of this and more on this eerie installment of Expanded Perspectives.

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    29 March 2026, 11:08 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    A Cabin In The Woods

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off with a heartfelt conversation about the legendary Chuck Norris—reflecting on his iconic films, larger-than-life persona, and the impact he’s had on pop culture over the years.

    Then, they dive headfirst into a series of chilling and bizarre encounters. From a group of goblin-like creatures spotted among a remote boulder field, to reports of a towering giant seen in El Salvador, the stories only get stranger. You’ll also hear about unsettling encounters with feral wildmen deep in the forests of Tennessee.

    And if that’s not enough, the episode features multiple terrifying Dogman encounters—including one harrowing story where three hunters are surrounded in their remote cabin by something unknown. The creature circles them all night… scratching at the walls… breathing just outside… and at one point, even tries the doorknob—as if testing whether it could get inside.

    All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives.

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    20 March 2026, 11:32 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    The UFO That Came for a Cookout

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, Kyle dives into a collection of spine-chilling, one-off encounters that blur the line between the ordinary and the truly inexplicable.

    We start in the dense woodlands of central Indiana, 1985, where a routine squirrel hunt turns into a nightmare. One man’s tranquil afternoon shatters when he witnesses something immense and ape-like descend from the treetops—a creature so enormous, so unnatural, it leaves him certain he is staring death in the face. This isn’t an isolated sighting; the region has a history of strange, upright figures and encounters that suggest the forest may hold more than just trees and wildlife.

    From the shadows of the Indiana woods, we move to the sun-scorched deserts of Kelvin, Arizona, where four men searching for turquoise make an encounter stranger than science fiction. A UFO descends silently from the sky, revealing not monsters or aliens, but a family—two men, two women, and three children—dressed in casual clothes, unpacking a barbecue, toys, and a picnic in broad daylight. And when one of the men approaches the witnesses with an oddly human comment about rocks, the mystery deepens: are these beings extraterrestrial, or something far closer to home?

    Finally, we step inside the quiet terror of home, with two chilling “creature-in-the-house” stories. In The Corner Man, a young boy awakens to find a shadowy, humanoid figure watching him from the darkest corner of his bedroom. In The Hallway Crawler, an eleven-year-old faces something crawling down the hall at night—its movements disturbingly human, yet painfully wrong, leaving a lasting fear of the darkness itself.All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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    13 March 2026, 12:45 pm
  • 57 minutes 33 seconds
    Tiny Terrors: The Dark Side of the Little People

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, Kyle kicks things off by recounting a recent trip he and Luke took to San Antonio for a horror festival—an event packed with eerie atmosphere, strange encounters, and plenty of inspiration for the unexplained.

    From there the show dives straight into a series of chilling listener stories. One woman shares a disturbing encounter deep in the woods of West Virginia, where she claims to have stumbled upon what appeared to be a clan of feral people living far from civilization. Another strange report comes out of rural Arkansas, where a witness describes a large, Bigfoot-like creature sneaking onto her property and stealing chickens in the dead of night.

    After the break, Kyle explores a far more unsettling corner of folklore and legend—the terrifying side of the world’s little people.

    Most people imagine these beings as harmless figures from fairy tales: gnomes beneath toadstools, fairies dancing in moonlit glades, pixies darting through the trees like sparks of light. Across many cultures, these small humanoids are said to dwell in hidden corners of the world, quietly watching from forests, caves, and ancient hillsides. But not all of the stories paint such a gentle picture.

    Kyle examines darker legends of mysterious tiny beings reported across the globe. From the eerie tales of the Ebu gogoon the Indonesian island of Flores, to the clawed, nocturnal river creatures of Cuba known as the Guije, and the mysterious underground builders of Hawaii called the Menehune.

    Along the way, the discussion even touches on the real-world discovery of Homo floresiensis, the tiny ancient humans uncovered on Flores—nicknamed “the Hobbits”—and the unsettling possibility that some legends may have deeper roots in reality than we once believed.

    From strange sightings in Epping Forest to bizarre wartime encounters on the windswept cliffs of Orkney Islands, tonight’s episode explores the darker side of a legend most people think they understand.

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    6 March 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    The Cloaked Watchers

    On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, Kyle and Cam announce the release of their brand-new book, Glimmer Man: Cloaked Beings That Move Among Us — and take you deep into the mystery that inspired it.

    What would you do if you came face to face with something that shouldn’t exist? In this chilling installment, the guys explore multiple eyewitness encounters involving a bizarre, translucent, human-shaped entity often called the “Glimmer Man.” From darkened bedrooms to remote wilderness trails, from quiet apartment balconies to isolated hunting grounds, the descriptions are strikingly consistent. Witnesses report a tall humanoid figure that appears to bend light around itself — shimmering like heat waves rising off hot pavement — moving with impossible speed, agility, and near-total silence.

    Spanning decades and reported across North America and even parts of Europe, the pattern is hard to ignore. Those who’ve seen it describe a being that is:

    • Completely transparent, yet visibly distorted
    • Cloaked like a ripple in reality
    • Able to climb and leap between trees without making a sound
    • Associated with missing time, sudden disorientation, or an eerie silence in the environment
    • Occasionally seen with glowing yellow or red eyes
    • Seemingly intelligent… aware… and watching

    Is it a spirit? An interdimensional entity? Advanced extraterrestrial technology? Or something far older that has always moved just beyond the edge of our perception?

    What is it — and what does it want?

    All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives.

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    27 February 2026, 1:00 pm
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