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#14 Kidnapped by Bigfoot: The Albert Ostman Sasquatch Story
Most Bigfoot encounters last seconds: a shadow in the trees, a footprint in the mud, a sound in the dark that makes you run. But the Albert Ostman Bigfoot story is different.
In 1924, Swedish-Canadian prospector Albert Ostman claimed he was kidnapped by a family of Sasquatch in the remote mountains of British Columbia and held captive for six days. Making it one of the strangest Bigfoot encounters ever recorded.
Not just one creature, but an entire Sasquatch family: a towering patriarch, a protective matriarch, and two curious adolescents who treated their human prisoner with both caution and curiosity. Ostman described their diet, social behavior, and how he eventually escaped using nothing but Copenhagen snuff and quick thinking in the wilderness.
The most remarkable part? He kept this Sasquatch story secret for 33 years, until the world finally had a name for the creature he claimed to know up close.
Was Albert Ostman the victim of the most intimate Bigfoot abduction in history? Or did a lonely prospector spin one of the most detailed cryptid hoaxes ever told? Join us as we unpack this classic Sasquatch legend, the Indigenous folklore behind it, and the unanswered question of what might still hide in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest.
From the misty valleys of Toba Inlet to decades of skeptical investigations, this is the Bigfoot story that refuses to die, and the man who carried an impossible secret until people were finally ready to listen.
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01:05:01||Ep. 46In the year 2000, a user calling himself John Titor appeared on obscure internet forums claiming to be a soldier from the year 2036.He didn’t just tell stories.He provided schematics.He explained black hole physics.He described a coming American civil war, a Russian nuclear strike in 2015, and a fractured nation rebuilding from the ashes.Most dismissed him as a hoax.Until one detail, involving an obscure 1975 computer called the IBM 5100, was confirmed years later… and it wasn’t information that should have been publicly available at the time.But that’s not the strangest part.Titor claimed he wasn’t traveling through our past, but to a parallel worldline, one that diverged slightly from his own. In his framework, failed predictions don’t disprove him. They prove timeline divergence.And then there’s the 2564 problem.According to researchers inside the Titor narrative, time travel forward stops at the year 2564. Beyond that point: nothing. No Earth. No sound. No matter. Just void.Tonight, we go deep.The IBM secret.The C204 gravity distortion unit.The civil war that never happened.The Many-Worlds shield that makes the story impossible to falsify.The Florida lawyers who may have been behind it.The hyperstition theory.The savepoint loop.And the unsettling possibility that John Titor didn’t fail at all.Because if timeline divergence is real…How would we know this wasn’t the branch he came to create?This is the complete John Titor file.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com
45. #45 The Hellfire Caves: Where Powerful Men Did What They Wanted
32:49||Ep. 45For years, people have been asking the same question:What really happens when the powerful believe they’re untouchable?Long before modern scandals and “lists” dominated headlines, Britain’s elite were already gathering in secret. Beneath a quiet English hillside, a quarter-mile of tunnels carved into chalk became the private playground of politicians, aristocrats, and men who believed morality was optional.They called themselves the Monks of Medmenham.The Knights of St. Francis.History remembers them as the Hellfire Club.They held mock religious ceremonies beneath a church altar.They dressed in robes.They crossed a river named after the boundary between the living and the dead.And then the hauntings began.In this episode of Paranormal Directive 13, we descend into the Hellfire Caves — one of Britain’s most infamous secret societies and one of its most active paranormal locations.Shadow figures.Chanting in empty chambers.A man searching for his stolen heart.A bride in white who never made it out.Is this just history repeating itself?Or did something get left behind in those tunnels?Because when the powerful go underground, sometimes they don’t come back alone.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com
44. #44 Six Hikers Died in Minutes on a Siberian Mountain - One Teenager Walked Away - The Khamar-Daban Incident
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43. #43 The Danville Devil Monkey (Weirder After Dark Guest Spot)
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42. #42 PD13 After Dark: Sleepless Labs, Hijacked Airwaves, and Why the Sun Is a Problem
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41. #41 The Bennington Triangle: Where the Land Doesn’t Give You Back (feat. Weirder After Dark)
01:56:49||Ep. 41This week on Paranormal Directive 13, we’re joined by Sean, Chris, and Cathy from Weirder After Dark for a deep, no-hand-holding walk into one of New England’s most infamous mystery zones: the Bennington Triangle.The Bennington Triangle didn’t exist until 1992.The disappearances did.Between 1945 and 1950, five people vanished in the mountains of southwestern Vermont hunters, hikers, a college student, a child.... leaving behind no clear answers. Decades later, folklorist Joseph A. Citro gave those tragedies a name, and a legend was born.In this crossover episode with Weirder After Dark, we revisit the Famous Five through original sources, examine the stories that didn’t make the list, and trace the much older history of a landscape the Abenaki warned was not meant for the living. From the man-eating stone and vanished stagecoach travelers to crushed bodies, missing towns, magnetic anomalies, and modern survivor accounts, we ask a harder question:Does it matter if the Bennington Triangle was invented if the fear, the loss, and the danger are still real?This isn’t a debunking.It’s not a verdict.It’s a conversation one that sits with the folklore, challenges the mythology, and lets the land speak for itself.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com
40. #40 Disclosure, Encounters, and the Silence Between the Stars | w/ UAP_Pod
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39. #39 The Flatwoods Monster: The Case That Refuses to Be Explained
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38. #38 A Very Krampus Christmas: The Thirteenth Devil
47:20||Ep. 38Every December 5th, across the Alpine regions of Europe, men put on carved wooden masks, strap bells to their bodies, and become Krampus: the winter enforcer, the punisher, the thing that hunts in the dark. It’s called tradition.But there’s a story the runners whisper when the cameras are off.They count the masks before the run. Twelve.They count the men. Twelve.But during the chaos… someone always notices there are thirteen.In this episode of Paranormal Directive 13, we trace the true history of Krampus. From ancient Pagan winter spirits and Christian attempts to chain the devil, to America’s Belshnickel tradition and modern Krampuslauf violence that still sends people to the hospital every year. We examine documented injuries, police reports, bans, riots, and the unsettling psychology of ritual masks that don’t just hide the wearer, but change them.And then we ask the question nobody wants to ask out loud:What if the rituals aren’t symbolic?What if belief, fear, and repetition have built something real?Because when you put on the mask…you might not be the only one wearing it.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com