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First-hand witness encounters of the Strange and unexplained. The host Nik will take you head first down the rabbit hole in a refreshing and different podcast format. Witness accounts from everyday people from all over the world with uninterrupted monologues of their encounters. The phenomena that people experience shared here range from sightings of UFOs to traumatic alien abductions, scary heart stopping stories of ghosts, demons and the Occult. Accounts of crossing paths with Bigfoot, Sas ...
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The Trashe is a relaxed long form conversation hosted by writer John Hunter. Unfiltered, thought-provoking, crude, funny, and entertaining.
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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. A golden craft, shaped like a chariot, but airborne. It moves not by wheels or wings—but by something called “mercury propulsion.” It can soar from city to city, vanish into clouds, even fire beams of energy. No, this isn’t a futuristic sci-fi novel. These a…
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Ep.41 Beware Of The Flying Saucers (Throwback)
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Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Today's guest is David Emmons from Illinois, and he will be sharing his UFO and ET experience that started at the age of 14. David and his b…
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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. It’s 1716, Sweden is at war. Winter still bites the air, and as dusk falls over the snow-covered hills, something stirs above. A dragon, or so they said. A flaming serpent—enormous, glowing, twisting across the sky. Witnessed not by one, or two but by thousa…
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In tonight’s firsthand account, Melissa takes us back to a quiet Sunday night in 1974, when she was just 11 years old. Her family had just left evening worship at church and was driving a deserted stretch of the newly constructed I-75, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. There was no traffic, no distractions—just the road and something watching from…
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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik. It was April 1665. A quiet day along the shore of the Baltic Sea. Fishermen cast their lines near the German town of Stralsund, as they had for centuries. Salt in the air. Nets in the water. Nothing unusual—until they looked up and saw sh…
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Ep.36 Chased By An Invisible Entity (Throwback)
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Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our guest today is Joseph from Ohio, and he has had one unexplainable thing happen to him and a friend about 15 years ago. He hasn't shared …
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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik, and today we’re taking this series far back. Back to a time when the most powerful empire on Earth ruled under the watchful eye of the gods—or maybe… something else. Long before Roswell, airships, or even the word ‘UFO’ existed, the Roman…
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Tonight, we’re joined by Steven from New York State, who’s had more than his share of strange encounters. One unforgettable night during his teenage years, a quiet swim with a friend turned surreal when a blinding light and a deep, vibrating hum descended above their pool, leaving the boys in stunned silence. Later in life, Steven witnessed a truly…
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Ep.6 The Day the Sky Fought Itself: Nuremberg 1561
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Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik, and today we kick off this series with one of the oldest and most vivid mass sightings ever recorded: the day the sky turned into a battlefield. On April 14, 1561, in Nuremberg, Germany, a peaceful dawn was shattered by chaos in the heave…
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Ep.31 Terry Lovelace Incident At Devils Den part 2 (Throwback)
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Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ This is the concluding part of Terry's witness account. Our guest today is Terry Lovelace, and he has one of the most interesting and also d…
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Ep.30 Terry Lovelace Incident At Devils Den Part 1 (Throwback)
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Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our guest today is Terry Lovelace, and he has one of the most interesting and also disturbing abduction accounts I have heard. It all began …
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Ep.5 Burning Messengers: The Fiery Men of the Desert Sky
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Welcome back to Brief Encounters, the podcast where we sift through the ashes of the past … to find the sparks that just don’t fit. I’m your host, Nik. And tonight, we’re crossing scorching sands back to the Arabian Peninsula, in the year 1487. A time of caliphates and caravans, of mystics and merchants. But deep in the silence of the desert, somet…
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In this gripping episode, our guests tonight come to us from New York state, brothers Chris and Sean O’Leary, lifelong alien abductees whose lives have been marked by decades of chilling encounters. From childhood experiences of missing time to adulthood visits by otherworldly entities, their story is nothing short of astonishing. Sean, a retired p…
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Ep.4 The Hollow Ship: Japan’s Unsolved Maritime Mystery
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Welcome back to Brief Encounters, where history whispers about things that don’t quite fit.I’m your host, Nik. And today, we’re traveling to the shores of feudal Japan—to the year 1803. A time when samurai still held power, and isolation from the outside world was strictly enforced.It’s a story passed down through strange drawings, oral tales, and …
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Ep.26 Alan Godfrey: Who or What Were They (Throwback)
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Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our Special guest today is Alan Godfrey, a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Force in the UK. While on duty…
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Ep.3 Alexander the Great and the Flying Shields
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Welcome back to Brief Encounters, where history’s oddest moments aren’t buried—they’re brought to light. I’m your host, Nik. Today, we’re going to war. It’s the 4th century B.C. Alexander the Great, one of the most formidable military minds in human history, is expanding his empire across the known world. But in the midst of his campaign, something…
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In this episode, we’re joined by Jason Cvancara, a private investigator, former Phoenix police officer, and Air Force veteran, and he comes to us from the state of Arizona. Jason is the creator of The 918 Files, a project dedicated to chronicling the strange, the unexplained, and the downright bizarre happenings across the Grand Canyon State. From …
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Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments meet the unexplained. And today… we’re going to climb a little higher. Last time, we stood on the battlefield at Sigiburg, where “flaming shields” frightened an army into retreat in the year 776. But this time, we’re not looking at a single event—we’re diving into the mind of a medieval…
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Ep.1 Flaming Shields in the Sky: The Siege of Sigiburg
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Welcome to Brief Encounters, where we dig into the oldest—and often the weirdest—encounters between humanity and the skies above. We’re going deep into the past. The year is 776 A.D. The place: Sigiburg Castle, in what is now Germany. It’s a time of war, chaos, and bloodshed. But above the battlefield, something appeared—something none of the soldi…
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Tonight, we meet Phil from Buckinghamshire, UK. From a young age, Phil sensed his world was different One childhood afternoon, home sick with the mumps and resting in his mother’s bed, he glanced toward the doorway—and froze. There stood the apparition of a little girl, silent, dressed in pale blue with corn dollies woven into her hair. Later, a pi…
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Ep.330 The Minot Encounter: One Hour of Silence
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For tonight’s episode, we meet Sarge in Idaho. Sarge brings us a firsthand account that has stayed under wraps for far too long. Picture this: a quiet spring night in 2010 at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota—a critical hub for nuclear security. Out of nowhere, UFOs appear—silent, precise, and unlike anything witnesses had ever seen before. Thes…
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Tonight's guest is Neal from Northern Ireland, who runs the paranormal YouTube channel Saws Lost Souls. Having dedicated over 20 years to paranormal investigation, Neal will share gripping experiences, including an apparition of a woman in an abandoned Polish hospital, strange poltergeist activity at the infamous Sallie House, and other chilling su…
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Tonight, we have the pleasure of welcoming Adam, who joins us from the state of Tennessee. In Hermitage, Tennessee, around 1989, there was a mass sighting of an enormous cigar-shaped craft, which Adam and his family witnessed. It hovered for some time before beginning to move, then suddenly shot off and vanished, leaving people screaming in its wak…
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Our guest tonight is Joe, joining us from the state of Nevada. He will be sharing his experiences with the Men in Black that began 25 years ago, as well as his UFO sightings. He’ll also discuss two bizarre, mysterious scars that appeared on both of his thighs after his first UFO sighting, and an incident of missing time in September 2024. More info…
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Ep.326 Close Proximity / Glimmering Light
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We begin tonight with Diane in the United Kingdom. And Diane was kind enough to join us to share her UFO sightings, one of which occurred circa 1975, observations of orbs, as well as a near-death experience at the dentist. Next, we’ll check in with Early in North Carolina, in the US. Early will be sharing several of his own UFO sightings, ghostly e…
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