This Book Might Be Cursed | Am I the Haunted?

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Natural Sciences, Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 948 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast In our first-ever "Am I the Haunted?" episode inspired by the popular "Am I the Asshole?" format, we read three Reddit submissions and decide whether people are experiencing genuine paranormal activity using our new scale of haunted, probably haunted, or not haunted. Our first story comes from someone who moved into a new house and feels an overwhelming anxiety in their small office-turned-bedroom, bursting into tears the first time they stepped in and experiencing constant anxious spirals whenever they enter the room, with prayers and rebuking negative energy failing to provide relief. The second submission involves a person who woke up in the middle of the night to feel a mysterious presence in their pitch-black room, sensing someone standing there before feeling their mattress sink as if something placed a single foot on the bed to hoist itself up—yet nothing ultimately happened despite the mix of fear and curiosity they experienced. Our final story features someone convinced they're spreading a curse through their favorite book, which they've recommended to five different people including their boyfriend, best friends, and cousin—with every single person having a massive falling out with them within days to a month after borrowing the book, leading them to wonder if there's something supernatural at play. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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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0:39.1	You know, am I the asshole?
1:03.6	This is Am I the haunted?
1:07.4	Yeah, like the intro says, you know what I am the asshole is.
1:08.5	Am I the asshole?
1:14.1	If you don't know what that is, it's where content creators, podcasters, whoever, read stories typically found on Reddit, where people are like, am I the asshole in this situation?
1:19.6	And then they give their thoughts and opinions.
1:22.5	And we're doing that, except it's, am I the haunted?
1:26.1	So we're going to be looking at submissions, Reddit encounters, things like that,
1:30.3	and giving our thoughts on whether or not they are experiencing paranormal activity, not the movie.
1:35.1	Yeah, it could be haunted, crypted, aliens, UFOs.
1:39.5	Yeah, and like our normal episodes, we have a scale.
1:42.2	Yes, we're going to be doing haunted,
1:44.9	probs haunted, and not haunted. Nice and easy. Yeah, ABC. We've got three stories. Try to keep
1:51.7	around three stories in episode. Yeah. And so we'll go through the story and then we'll rate
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