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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 theories
• The idea that Earth could function like a protected wildlife preserve
• Claims of hidden influence, technology exchanges, and compartmentalized knowledge
• Whether the phenomenon is more about consciousness than physical control
• The skeptical case against the “hidden rulers” idea

This is an exploration of extraordinary claims — not a declaration of certainty. Tune in and decide for yourself.

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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?

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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?