Members Preview | 832: Bigfoot and the Goatman Followed Him Home
The Confessionals
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Joe joins Tony to share a harrowing series of encounters that began in rural Wisconsin and never truly stopped. What started as a shocking sighting of two Bigfoot alongside a horned Goatman quickly escalated into daylight stalking, missing time, physical evidence, and a UFO that appeared to cloak and glitch out of reality just as Joe returned to investigate. From being surrounded in the woods by multiple entities to experiencing activity that followed him home, Joe describes a life overtaken by relentless paranormal and demonic phenomena. As the encounters intensify, patterns began to emerge, portals forming around him, friends witnessing the same activity, and entities reacting to green lasers and emotional states. Once a hardcore atheist, Joe now believes these experiences reveal a single, darker intelligence behind cryptids, UFOs, and spiritual oppression. This episode is a raw descent into sustained high strangeness, fear, and the cost of seeing something you were never meant to see.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing, |
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| 0:17.1 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:23.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:44.1 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.8 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, the giant moves. |
| 0:52.9 | He's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. |
| 0:56.5 | It spears, Dan, holds him up like this. Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. |
| 1:02.6 | They basically decapitated. |
| 1:06.4 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days and I blow this head off. |
| 1:14.9 | I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities |
| 1:22.6 | pulling it. |
| 1:24.2 | And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. |
| 1:26.6 | I reached my hand into this bush, |
| 1:28.7 | and I touch air. Couldn't breathe and I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. |
| 1:59.4 | Yeah! Welcome to the show, everybody listening to the Confessionals podcast. I'm your host, Tony Merkel. Thanks for being here. |
| 2:17.6 | If you have a crazy experience, you want to share with me on the show, go ahead and shoot me an email. My email address is contact at theconfessionalspodcast.com. That's contact at the confessionalspodcast.com. Or go to the website, theconfessionalspodcast.com. Hit the contact section, and you can reach me that way as well. Other words for me, just get a hold of me. |
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| 2:41.5 | didn't just involve one unexplained phenomenon, but several happening altogether. What began |
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