Bizarre News: Victorian Ghost, AI Whale Communication, and a Slenderman Sighting

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Natural Sciences, Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 948 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Bizarre News - February 2026 | Paranormal Podcast From a chilling ghostly photograph captured inside a 140-year-old UK theater undergoing renovation to a haunted hospice center in Norfolk that had staff so rattled they called in a priest, we covered a lot. We also dove into a viral dashcam video from a late-night driver in North England who encountered a towering, unsettling figure on the road that left the internet completely divided on what it could be. On the lighter side, we explored a fascinating scientific breakthrough where researchers used AI to actually communicate with a humpback whale — and the implications it could have for one day making contact with extraterrestrial life. We wrapped things up with a bonus story connecting Bigfoot sightings and UFO encounters. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 ⁠⁠Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit it here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to this month's bizarre news.
0:32.6	And what a bizarre month that has been.
0:34.7	Has it been?
0:35.4	We're going to find out.
0:36.4	I think so.
0:37.2	Hopefully we don't have the same stories because we don't check.
0:41.0	Well, I've got a bonus one. And also you. I also, I'm not, what was my undergrad?
0:48.3	Psychology. What was my grad?
0:50.2	Career of Writing. None of it was math. And either for Charlie either.
1:30.1	No. Theater and English. Statistics, uh, they, they hated to see me coming. Hey, guess what? If you are a Patreon member, you can watch this. Raw. I will put in, I'll put in the things we'll put in the things we talk about, like photos and videos if they fit. But I'm not going to edit if... If you want the triple... If I projectile vomit. Keep it in. It's in. Good shit. It's in. So that's over on Patreon. Yeah, it's triple X. I'm just kidding. Or am I? But everyone else, you can listen to this beautiful monthly episode of Bizarr News where we're talking about weird, strange news stories that happened in February of 2026 for this year.
1:36.2	Sometimes I find a really good story.
1:39.1	I'll give you a, for example, not on a topic, but on what I'm trying to refer to here.
1:44.1	Sometimes I'll find a really good news story, and it'll be like, this took place January 30th.
1:50.3	And I'm like, can I use it?
1:52.8	I would use it.
1:53.6	Because it'll be like published in a news source on like February 2nd.
1:57.3	But it's like it took place on January 30th.
1:59.9	Oh my God, I'd use that. Both my stories came from TikToks. What? Yeah. One actually sent me one of them. Someone sent me the first one. And then they're just trying to build their own TikTok pages by making news stories. Oh, a person found a haunted pool. Check out this BTB episode about a haunted pool. They're both like actually news stories. Okay. Go ahead. Oh, okay. You go first? No, I'll go first. Okay. All right. So I forgot that we had decided before we hit. I know. He threw me off here. Sorry, I apologize. Ghostly photo reignites haunting tales at historic Oldham Coliseum.
2:34.5	You scare the fuck me for a second.
2:36.0	I was like, this is my story?
2:38.6	It's not.
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