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5 min read“I’m not missing. It was only Wednesday, and if you didn’t believe me, touch me. I’m not a ghost.” That line came from a Hmong police officer in Minnesota who went deer hunting one morning, sat in his tree stand for what felt like a few hours, and walked out to find that three days had passed. His father, the county sheriff, and an ambulance were all waiting for him. He has not hunted since.
This episode of Expanded Perspectives collects several such first-person accounts of strange encounters in the woods and at home—time slips, silent blurs that move like heat waves, a pale crawler that mimics a woman’s scream, a shadow figure seen as two different things by two people in the same room, and a glowing worm-like creature that seemed to heal the men who watched it. The throughline is not a single cryptid or phenomenon, but the recurring sense that the world is thinner than we assume—that something else hunts, watches, or passes through alongside us, and that some people are more visible to it than others.
The Glimmer Man and the Silent Blur
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:13) **Show Open & Host Banter** - Cam and Kyle introduce the episode from Skelekin Studios in Texas, welcoming new listeners.
- 2 (02:25) **Time Slip While Deer Hunting** - A police officer named John recounts losing three days while sitting in a tree stand in rural Minnesota.
- 3 (06:56) **Cam's Pig Standoff Story** - Cam describes a tense encounter with a group of feral hogs after an evening archery hunt.
- 4 (08:50) **Kyle's Gunfire Scare & Cam's Revenge** - Kyle hears gunshots near their hunting property and fears Cam is in danger, only to learn Cam was shooting at pigs.
- 5 (10:26) **Crawler Encounter in Independence, Kansas** - A witness named S reports seeing a pale, slender humanoid that mimicked a woman's scream to lure him closer.
- 6 (13:23) **The Glimmer Man: Two Encounters Decades Apart** - A man from Tennessee describes seeing a blurred, transparent figure while hunting as a child, then again 25+ years later in his suburban backyard.
- 7 (21:18) **Discussion: Glimmer Man vs. Ghost** - The hosts speculate on what the Glimmer Man could be and why some people see it while others don't.
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Show Notes
On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by enjoying the long-awaited arrival of cooler weather here in North Central Texas. With fall finally settling in, Kyle and Cam talk about the changing seasons, their recent appearances on other podcasts, and the incredible influx of new listeners discovering the show. They also take a moment to welcome everyone who's recently joined the Expanded Perspectives family before diving headfirst into another collection of bizarre encounters and unexplained mysteries.
Then, things take a turn for the strange. A possible time slip leaves someone questioning everything they thought they knew about reality. In Kansas, a witness encounters an impossibly tall figure that unleashes a bloodcurdling scream before attempting to mimic a woman's voice. Elsewhere, a terrifying encounter with a towering, pure-white humanoid brings to mind something straight out of the science-fiction nightmare Prometheus. And if that isn't unsettling enough, mysterious shadow beings continue to make their presence known.
Deep in the wilderness of Idaho, campers hear a horrifying screech coming from an abandoned train tunnel, only to discover that something resembling a Wendigo may be lurking in the darkness. Meanwhile, during an elk hunt in northern Idaho, a witness spots something almost impossible to describe: a glowing, worm-like creature stretching 10 to 12 feet long, pulsing with light as it floats and weaves silently between the trees. What on earth could it have been?
But the weirdness doesn't stop there. Enormous flying creatures resembling manta rays are reportedly spotted soaring over Philadelphia. An innocent afternoon searching for arrowheads in Nebraska turns into a bizarre encounter with what may have been the mysterious Fae Folk. In southern New Mexico, a witness comes face-to-face with a strange, white, baboon-like creature that seems completely out of place in the American Southwest.
Finally, a frightening roadside Bigfoot encounter in West Virginia is followed by another sighting on a rural Pennsylvania farm. But the story takes an even stranger turn when the property's former owner reveals that the creature is no stranger to the land. In fact, according to him, Bigfoot has been living there for years.
What are these things? Unknown animals, visitors from somewhere beyond our understanding, or something far stranger hiding just outside the boundaries of what we believe is possible?
From screaming giants and glowing creatures in the forest to shadow beings, mysterious flying monsters, and Sasquatch lurking in the darkness, this episode is packed with the kinds of encounters that remind us just how little we truly know about the world around us.
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