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Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

The Hoia Baciu Forest

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Natural Sciences, Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7948 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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The Haunted Hoia Baciu Forest | Paranormal Podcast We headed deep into the forests of Transylvania this episode to cover the Hoia Baciu Forest — Romania's answer to Skinwalker Ranch, except somehow weirder — a one square mile stretch of twisted, clockwise-spiraling trees that has been freaking people out since the Neolithic period and shows absolutely no signs of stopping. We broke down the urban legends, the anomalies, and the theories, from a little girl who disappeared for five years and came back in pristine clothes with zero memory, to a clearing where nothing will grow, UFO photographs that ended a military career, and a list of side effects from visiting that reads like a pharmaceutical ad for a drug you would absolutely never take. Three Reddit encounters rounded out the episode — each one creepier than the last — including two guys spending the night while something intelligent circled their campfire, and a group of college girls who heard a voice in the dark that was definitely not coming from their friend. Whether it's a portal, an alien base, ancient Fae energy, or just the world's most unsettling square mile of real estate, we both walked away going believable on this one — and that doesn't happen as often as you'd think. Episode Keywords: Hoia Baciu Forest, haunted forest Romania, Transylvania paranormal, Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania, Romanian urban legends, UFO sightings Romania, paranormal forest encounters, cursed forest, Fae forest legends, forest disappearances, electromagnetic anomalies forest, dimensional portal paranormal, paranormal podcast, European cryptids, forest ghost encounters 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on ⁠Suicide Forest⁠. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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 #hoiabaicuforest #hauntedforest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Would you take a stroll through a forest straight out of a nightmarish fairy tale?

0:05.2

What if a missing person of five years reappeared as if nothing had happened?

0:10.5

Is the most paranormal forest located in Transylvania?

0:15.8

Today, we test the believability of the Hoyabatchew forest.

0:48.6

Thank you. We test the believability into the unknown and the unusual.

0:51.6

And tell you whether we find it believable or not.

0:53.3

A little change there.

0:53.6

Yeah.

0:54.4

I like it. It's good base in that, too. Cadence, you know? You not. A little change there. Yeah. I like it.

0:56.0

It's a good base in that, too.

0:57.1

It's a cadence, you know?

0:58.7

It's got to change your cadence every now and again.

1:00.5

Today's like my favorite day.

1:01.8

I love this day.

1:02.6

I love recording day.

1:04.8

It's a good energy.

1:06.6

I think I meant Tuesdays in general.

1:11.1

Well, it's, well, I do like Tuesdays because our episodes drop by, like, recording days. Yeah, recording days are fun.

1:12.7

It's nighttime now.

1:13.7

It's nighttime by like 4 o'clock now.

1:15.4

Yeah.

1:15.8

I saw a shooting star in the highway today.

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