RELOADED | 373: The Pentagram Under the Stairs
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
4.6 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 373: The Pentagram Under the Stairs, we are joined by Brooke to discuss some of her wild experiences. Her earliest memory involving the paranormal happened when she was 5 years old and she had an imaginary friend, who in turn had a friend of its own! Brooke has also seen an angel and demons, and once moved into a house where she discovered a pentagram under the stairs. Later in the episode, she shares her experiences with sasquatch which occurred during some extreme hiking, and also describes how her husband's friend Casper passed away, but would sometimes continue to come and visit.
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| 0:00.0 | I guess it's time to go back in time. |
| 0:03.2 | Are you telling me that you built a time machine? |
| 0:06.4 | Out of a Dolorian? |
| 0:08.5 | Time is but a stubborn illusion. |
| 0:12.7 | I have a lot of memories of the past. |
| 0:16.6 | People are time traveling within themselves. |
| 0:20.8 | Time travel is possible. |
| 0:24.3 | Merkel. |
| 0:26.5 | Media. |
| 0:27.9 | I start running, and as I'm running out of this bent forest, I finally see the trail. |
| 0:34.1 | And so I'm like, yes, I'm back on the trail. |
| 0:35.5 | And as my foot hits the trail, I just hear this really deep rumble growl. |
| 0:41.2 | Like, this was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:48.3 | I saw three long, boning fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:59.0 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 1:08.7 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen and he starts running and firing at this giant. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, the giant moves. |
| 1:17.5 | He's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears Dan holds him up like this. |
| 1:25.0 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. |
| 1:27.3 | They basically decapitated. |
| 1:28.3 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer. |
| 1:33.3 | When he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days and I blow his head off. |
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