The Creature in the Vanity

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Natural Sciences, Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 948 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Creature in the Vanity | Paranormal Podcast We've got three listener submissions this week that each hit differently — starting with a birthday trip to the Stanley Hotel where flickering lights, a disembodied little girl's giggle, and a mysterious cigar smell in the elevator made for a haunting you'd actually want to have. Then we dove into Kevin's story out of Santa Fe, where an ornate family vanity became the home of something tall, impossibly thin, and very much aware of him — and the second time he saw it, this thing was done just standing there. We wrapped up with Sarah, a girl from a Mescalero Apache family with a long line of seers, whose mother had a dream so terrifying it sent the whole house into lockdown mode the next morning — and the missing necklace that started it all was never found. Episode Keywords: Stanley Hotel haunted, haunted hotels paranormal, Santa Fe paranormal encounter, tall thin creature sighting, shadow figure encounter, Mescalero Apache supernatural, paranormal podcast, true listener encounters, creepy true stories, horror podcast, real ghost stories, unexplained phenomena, demon sighting, supernatural encounter stories 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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	You pass your mother's vanity at night, thunder rumbling in the distance, and the power is out.
0:10.0	Something pulls your gaze to the angled mirror. At first, it looks like a shadow, tall,
0:16.0	impossibly thin, standing just behind you. But you didn't hear anyone come in. The figure doesn't move,
0:22.4	doesn't breathe, just stands there in the glass like it's been waiting. Then you hear a crack of
0:27.6	lightning. In that single flash, the room brightens and you see its mouth. Rows of jagged,
0:33.5	broken teeth stretched into the widest smile you've ever seen. Today, we test the belie we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
1:10.8	And tell you whether or not we find it believable. That's right. Happy Tuesday, a new episode of Believing the Bazaar from the Bazaar Boys. I am a wee bit under the weather. I think it sounds good. I think you sound manly, fatherly. I like it. Transparency.
1:43.6	The only reason we do throwback files is because I want you guys be able to hear how much my voice is deepened since 2020. I've changed. So much. Now, I'm not as deep. And you can attest to this. Not as deep as when we were going to West Virginia. Yes. No, I know. That was like. You were a different planet. ended kind of sick.
1:44.4	Yeah, that was,
1:45.3	I'm not that sick.
1:46.9	I do have a cough drop in my mouth.
1:48.1	Which is good. So it'll be clangy. No, I know. That was like... You were a different planet. It was kind of sick. Yeah, that was...
1:44.5	I'm not that sick.
1:45.3	I do have a cough drop in my mouth.
1:47.3	So it'll be clanging around my teeth like a pinball throughout the episode. Be fine. You only notice. Look forward to that. Noah, if I have a coughing fit or if I have to blow my nose, please take it out. Keep it. Please take it out.
1:59.0	But yeah, super excited about today's episode.
2:00.8	It's listeners submissions.
2:02.0	We got three stories for you today.
2:03.8	But before we move on to that, Keep it. Keep it. Please take it out. But yeah, super excited about today's episode. It's listeners
2:01.2	submissions. We got three stories for you today. But before we move on to that, I do want to thank
2:06.1	our newest patrons, Bill, Linda, Anton, and Tito. Thank you so much for supporting the podcast,
2:12.6	joining us on Patreon, getting that new content every single Wednesday and Friday, including last week, which
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