Paranormal Directive 13

On August 5th, 1993, a group of seven experienced hikers set out across a high ridge in the Khamar-Daban mountains of southern Siberia. They were trained. They were prepared. They were led by a veteran instructor who had guided expeditions for decades.Within an hour, six of them were dead.According to the only survivor, a seventeen-year-old girl named Valentina, the collapse happened fast. Too fast. One hiker began screaming and convulsing. Foam poured from his mouth. Something darker followed. Moments later, their leader went down. Then another. Then another. People ran. People hid. One woman beat her head against a rock. Some of them tore off their clothes in freezing wind and sleet.And Valentina watched it all happen.Officially, the cause of death was hypothermia. Exposure. Exhaustion. A tragic but explainable wilderness accident.But the details don’t line up.Hypothermia doesn’t usually kill an entire group at the same time. It doesn’t explain convulsions, panic, bleeding, or the speed of the collapse. It doesn’t explain why experienced hikers lost all coordination at once, or why one teenager remained calm, made rational decisions, and walked off the mountain alone.In this episode of Paranormal Directive 13, we take a deep dive into the Khamar-Daban incident, often compared to the Dyatlov Pass tragedy, but in some ways even more disturbing. We reconstruct the expedition step by step, examine survivor testimony, analyze the official findings, and explore competing explanations ranging from mass panic and physiological collapse to infrasound and toxic exposure.And through it all, one question refuses to go away:If this was just bad weather… why did it break them all at once?Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com

For more than a century, something strange has been reported in the woods of New Hampshire.Witnesses describe a small, dark, upright creature fast, aggressive, and disturbingly familiar. Too small to be a bear. Too wrong to be a dog. And moving in a way animals aren’t supposed to.Locals called it the Devil Monkey.In this episode, I’m guest-spotting with the guys from Weirder After Dark to dig into the history, the sightings, and the uncomfortable consistency behind this strange New England cryptid. From 19th-century encounters to modern reports, we break down what people actually saw and why this case refuses to go away.Was it a misidentified animal?A regional cryptid?Or something else entirely that just happened to pick New Hampshire as home?Because whatever it was…It wasn’t acting lost.And it didn’t act afraid.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com

This week, we’re switching things up. Last week we really went hard into the Bennington Triangle, so I figured we could us a little palate cleanser.Instead of a traditional full episode, I stitched together three of my favorite Patreon minisodes to give non-Patreon listeners a taste of the chaos happening behind the paywall.We start with The Russian Sleep Experiment, one of the most infamous and disturbing stories ever passed around the internet. Then we dive into The Wyoming Incident, a creepy broadcast hijacking that still raises way too many unanswered questions. And finally… we completely derail into a 20-minute rant about how the sun is way too hot and is absolutely part of some larger conspiracy. No, I will not be taking questions at this time.If you’ve ever wondered what the Patreon minisodes are like, this is your free trial.If you already know… yeah, this one gets weird.Enjoy the sampler. Sunglasses recommended.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com

This 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

In this episode of Paranormal Directive 13, I’m joined by Vince, the mind behind the Instagram page UAP_Pod, for an open, no-script conversation about aliens, UFOs, and where the disclosure conversation actually stands right now.We talk about how Vince got pulled into the UAP world, what made him start documenting encounters, and why so many experiences go unreported. We get into his encounter journal, patterns he’s noticed in reports, and how people can better document the strange things that happen to them.From there, the conversation widens covering favorite alien cases, personal beliefs about non-human intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, government transparency, and what “disclosure” even means anymore. We also dig into controversial figures, interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS, and the possibility that the truth about UFOs might be far stranger and more uncomfortable than a simple yes-or-no answer.No definitive conclusions. No clean answers. Just a grounded, curious discussion about one of the biggest unanswered questions of our time: are we alone, or have we never been?UAP_Pod IG: https://www.instagram.com/uap_podPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com

On September 12th, 1952, a strange red light streaked across the sky over a quiet town in West Virginia.Seven people followed it. What they encountered on a dark hillside would leave them violently ill, traumatized for life, and at the center of one of the most disturbing close-encounter cases in American history.They described a towering figure with a glowing red face, self-illuminating eyes, a metallic body, and a presence that didn’t move like anything living. The air burned their throats. The smell lingered for hours. One of them, the dog, didn’t survive.The U.S. Air Force investigated and closed the case as a meteor, a barn owl, and mass hysteria.But the details don’t line up.The size.The movement.The chemical-like symptoms.And the pulsing red object that drew them up the hill in the first place.This is the story of the Flatwoods Monster: one of the most documented, dismissed, and unresolved encounters ever recorded.And seventy years later, no explanation accounts for everything that happened that night.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com

Every 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

In the mid-1960s, according to a series of leaked documents and insider claims, the United States government made a decision so extreme it still defies belief: It sent human beings off-world as part of a secret exchange program with a non-human intelligence.The project was allegedly called SERPO.Twelve military specialists. Thirteen years on another planet. No official records. No public acknowledgment. And no clear way to separate truth from disinformation.In this episode of Paranormal Directive 13, we tell the SERPO story straight, before pulling back the curtain on the Cold War secrecy, black-budget programs, and intelligence architecture that may have made a story like this possible… whether it actually happened or not.We examine:The origins of Project SERPO and its connection to Majestic 12How Special Access Programs and compartmentalization work in realityWhy government disinformation doesn’t necessarily mean “nothing happened”And why stories like SERPO, the Moon landings, and UFO mythology follow the same structural patternsThis isn’t about proving aliens exist. It’s about understanding how secrecy, silence, and perception shape reality. And how easily truth can disappear inside the system built to protect it.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com