SPECIAL - Black Eyed Kids - Unpleasant Dreams Premiere

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Black Eyed Kids are the subject of today's podcast. In this special to The Paranormal Podcast feed for this week ONLY we are replacing our usual show with the first episode of our new podcast, Unpleasant Dreams.

The Paranormal Podcast will be back next week as usual with a brand new episode. If you like Unpleasant Dreams, you can find it HERE and subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast app.

For our first episode, the subject is that of Black Eyed Kids. BEKs terrify experiencers with their solid black eyeballs and odd behavior. It is a fitting start to our journey into the unknown.

Cassandra Harold is your host.

EM Hilker is our principal writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. Jim Harold is our Executive Producer.

Unpleasant Dreams is a production of Jim Harold Media.

Sources and further reading:

Dying for more stories of alleged BEK encounters? Please see the following articles:

16 Terrifying Encounters with ‘the Black Eyed Kids’ compiled by Chrissie Stockton

10 Terrifying Stories About the Black-eyed Children compiled by Lyra Radford

Witness Reports: My Friend Died After Meeting Black Eyed Children by Greg Newkirk

Witness Reports: I Let The Black Eyed Children into my Home and Now I’m Slowly Dying by Greg Newkirk

Dying for more analysis of the phenomenon? We recommend these books as an excellent starting place:

The Black Eyed Children, 2nd ed. By David Weatherly

The Chilling, True Terror of the Black-Eyed Kids: A Monster Compilation – Second Edition By G. Michael Vasey

And, of course, the following article by the excellent Ryan Sprague:

Can we Come In? The Lore of the Black Eyed Children by Ryan Sprague

You can find EM Hilker’s full article that this podcast was based upon HERE

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today we're talking about the topic of Black Eye Kids, but in a little different way than usual.
0:05.7	The Paranormal Podcast, this week on the feed only will be back next week with another
0:11.2	interview with a fascinating figure. But this week we are going to replace the Paranormal
0:16.0	Podcast episode with an episode of our newest podcast in Jim Herald media. It's called Unpleasant
0:22.6	Dreams. It's hosted by Sandra Herald and written by E. M. Hilker, Maddie, who you know as my
0:30.0	assistant producer for many years. And I think you're absolutely going to love it this week. They
0:35.4	have trained their sights on the topic of Black Eye Kids and that is a scary spooky topic.
0:41.5	And we released the first episode yesterday. People on social media seem to love it and I think
0:47.4	that you will too. If you do like it make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.4	Here it is. Strange stories are my specialty here. Tonight I'll share a particularly chilling tale.
1:02.8	I'm Cassandra Herald. Lie back, listen in and steal yourself for. On Pleasant Dreams.
1:11.2	Whether it's throughout the internet or around campfires, whispered furtively from friend to friend
1:18.8	behind pints of ale in the darkened corners of a pub or scribbled into journals late at night.
1:25.9	Incidents of encounters with Black Eye Kids, BEKs for short,
1:31.6	appeared to be increasing in frequency. Black Eye Children were virtually unheard of until the late
1:38.8	1990s, but stories of encounters with these creatures are becoming more and more common as time
1:45.6	wears on. In addition to allegedly true accounts submitted to websites and in chat rooms across
1:52.0	the internet, Black Eye Kids and the lore surrounding them have inspired a short, a full-length
1:57.8	movie, dozens of books, both fact and fiction. And yes, even a tote bag. But what are these mysterious
2:08.4	children? And where did they come from? Are they just tall tales to be told around the campfire?
2:16.2	Or something far more sinister? There is no consensus on what a Black Eye Kids actually is.
2:26.6	Experiences with these entities run from encounters on road sides, to forests, to fields,
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