Penelope - the Sierra Nevada Monster

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sierra Nevada Monster Penelope | Paranormal Podcast We finally solved the mystery of the creepy woman on our cryptid poster — her name is Penelope, she's the Sierra Nevada Monster, she's seven feet tall with bone-white skin, razor claws, long black matted hair, and empty red eye sockets, and we genuinely wish we had never looked her up. We broke down her origin story — which involves a snowstorm, a decapitated husband, and a barrel of toxic waste that somehow turned a grieving woman into an unkillable skeletal nightmare — and then got into three firsthand encounters from people camping and driving through the Sierra Nevada mountains who came face to face with something pale, impossibly fast, and deeply wrong. The second and third encounters in particular had us shaken — two separate witnesses describing the same creature crawling low to the ground with backwards-seeming joints, no eyes, just hollow sockets, sinewy pale skin, and broad human shoulders, moving like a marionette in a way that no known animal should be able to — and the similarities were way too specific to dismiss. We both landed on viable, which honestly says a lot coming from us, and if you're planning any hiking in Central California, maybe just stay on the trail, don't wear anything waterproof, and definitely don't stop to investigate anything moving low in the dark. Episode Keywords: Sierra Nevada Monster, Penelope cryptid, pale crawler California, Sierra Nevada paranormal, cryptid encounters California, skeletal pale creature, unknown creature California, pale crawler cryptid, California monster sightings, paranormal hiking encounters, creepy cryptid stories, unexplained creature sightings, believing the bizarre podcast, humanoid creature California, cryptid podcast 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on ⁠the Dark Watchers. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 Subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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	What's lurking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
0:04.1	Have you ever witnessed a skeletal, pale entity with sharp claws?
0:08.7	What would you do if you saw a creature like this dashing towards you?
0:13.3	Today, we test the believability of Penelope, the Sierra Nevada monster.
0:46.1	Thank you. The Sierra Nevada Monster The Sierra Nevada Monster. The Sierra Nevada Monster. Welcome to Believing the Bazaar, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
0:48.4	And tell you whether or not we find a believable.
0:55.4	That is right. It is Tuesday. It is a new episode. We just did cryptids, and we're going to throw a couple more at you.
0:58.5	Yeah, and also, you know, there's a quiz of this episode.
0:59.1	There is.
1:05.9	If you are a patron of Believe in the Bazaar, if you like that bonus content and you are a member, go check it out.
1:07.3	I did quiz Charlie.
1:08.4	There were 10 questions.
1:09.5	Did he do well?
1:10.2	Did he do bad?
1:11.4	I want to know how you did.
1:13.3	Did it come down to the final shot?
1:14.5	The buzzer beater?
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:15.4	Maybe.
1:16.6	Maybe it did.
1:17.1	I don't know.
1:19.2	But Penelope, how this started.
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