ParaReality

Strange sounds in a Florida swamp. A possible Skunk Ape reaching out from the trees. A shadowy figure at the foot of a bed. The people we met in Gatlinburg brought plenty of stories to share.

Join Sandman and co-host Eric at the 8th Annual Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference, held on July 25, 2026, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Hear personal accounts of possible cryptid enc...

Bigfoot brought us to Townsend, Tennessee—but the stories went far beyond the woods.Join Sandman for Beyond Bigfoot: Stories from the Smokies, recorded at the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival on May 2, 2026. Festival attendees share personal accounts of shadowy figures, a frightening house, unexplained lights, and a strange creature crossing an Ohio road. Two siblings also reco...

Turn down the lights and join Sandman for Tales from the Darkness, ParaReality’s 2026 Halloween Special—a journey into vintage radio horror, where every shadow has a story. Tonight’s collection features four chilling plays: The Blackness of Terror from The Hermit’s Cave, The Shadow People from The Hall of Fantasy, Arch Oboler’s The Dark, and Those Who Walk in Darkness from Creep...

What does it mean to channel a consciousness beyond your own—and who might be speaking? Steve Rother returns to ParaReality to discuss his experiences channeling the collective he calls the Group of 9. Sandman explores Steve’s account of Lilith, the group’s ninth member, and the message of equality and empowerment presented in The Order of the Red Winged Angels. The conversation...

In Part One, we examined the cases that helped establish the modern alien-abduction phenomenon. Now, the investigation turns inward. In Part Two: Inside the Experience, Sandman explores what could cause an abduction experience without a person being physically taken by extraterrestrial beings. Could some accounts be deliberate hoaxes or stories that became more elaborate over ti...