Tall Tale Social Club

Tall Tale Social Club
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Tall Tale Social Club is a paranormal comedy podcast from the beautiful woods of Wasilla, Alaska. Every other Thursday we share true scary stories of ghost sightings, cryptids, UFOs, and unsolved mysteries, balancing genuinely creepy research with dry humor and the kind of funny tangents that derail every good ghost story. We also read a listener-submitted paranormal experience to cap off every episode. Have your true story shared, email mothy@talltalesocialclub.com or dial the Frightline 801-997-0051. Shop merch, cryptid-inspired streetwear and sticker packs at www.talltalesocialclub.com

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  1. Sep 22

    288 | There's More To Lucid Dreaming Than You're Being Told

    You figure out you're dreaming, and instead of waking up, you decide to see just how far down this dream goes. You walk to the middle of the room and you drop straight through the floor on purpose, because a hundred people online swore that's how you get somewhere better. Problem is, you didn't get anywhere better, and now you're nowhere, in a place with no floor, no walls, no light, no body, just you and the black and the slow, sinking understanding that you don't know the way back, and nothing out here is going to wake you up. That is lucid dreaming. A dream-walking technique that allows people to freely control and navigate their own dreams. A feeling people chase on purpose, and a skill everybody wants, not realizing that like all things in life, it has an undeniable dark side that is often overlooked. Tonight we're peaking behind the curtain, only slightly, to look into some true stories from folks that got good at doing just that, and would later go on to wish they hadn't. Fire up those nature sounds, baby, we're going under. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Fire Up Those Nature Sounds, Baby 0:58 - Intro 2:30 - Welcome Back / Tangent Spiel 3:50 - Christian Lucid Dreams 5:30 - Social Plugs, Members & Merch 6:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 6:31 - STORIES: DON’T FALL THROUGH THE FLOOR 10:00 - Don't Think About Your Fears (Good Luck) 13:00 - Dream Science & The Gap Between Dreams 14:00 - Nostalgic For a Time We Can Never Return To 16:00 - STORIES: FALSE AWAKENING LOOPS 20:40 - DREAM LOGIC INTERMISSION 22:43 - That Didn't Make Sense 25:31 - STORIES: “I KNOW, ME TOO” & NPC INTERACTIONS 28:00 - Researchers Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey 30:28 - Scott's Lucid Dream Memory 34:00 - Funny Correction From Last Episode 37:00 - STORIES: ENTER - THE DEMON DREAMS 40:00 - Sleep Science & Theories 44:00 - Do Dreams Serve a Purpose? 48:00 - I zoned out, no idea what is here. The from earlier void maybe? 50:00 - OUTRO ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

  2. Sep 17 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    BIGFOOT Encounters You Can't Unhear (That's Not How Hearing Works) | BGH 009

    Welcome back to The Butterscotch Gang Hang. We've got four firsthand Bigfoot encounters, told in the witnesses' own words. A night camper in the Cascades meets a pair of yellow eyes at a gated road and can't convince his (seemingly blind) friend that it's real. Two squirrel hunters in rural North Carolina watch something huge climb up from the river in broad daylight. Two boys in a Utah canyon are followed home in the dark by something that hides in their outhouse and find what it left behind (spoiler alert: it's not dookie!). And at a church camp in Oklahoma, a girl wakes in the night to something furry tracing her face. A big no thank you on that. Let's get into it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Heater Turned On Today (Winter is Coming) 1:00 - Christian Is Barely Here 1:54 - STORY: Eyes at the Gate 8:45 - Never Bring Your Blind Friend to the Woods 9:30 - The Bigfoot Community Is a Strange Place 13:19 -STORY: Up From the River 19:41 - INTERMISSION: 20:07 - Dirk 21:15 - STORY: Something Was in the Outhouse 22:00 - Christian Talks About Stuff 30:00 - Old Bigfoot Stories Were Wild 31:00 - Bigfoot Nest Beds 34:00 - Ants are Huge in Alaska… 36:15 - STORY: It Traced My Face 39:30 - CHRISTIAN, THE MISOGYNIST (or whatever) 41:00 - BuT hE hAs No EvIdEnCe 44:11 - IT'S CLOSING TIME / OUTRO

    BIGFOOT Encounters You Can't Unhear (That's Not How Hearing Works) | BGH 009

  3. Sep 10

    287 | The Hat Man Has Been Here For A Thousand Years

    Almost everyone who sees him describes the exact same thing. A tall shadow in a wide brimmed hat, sometimes a top hat, sometimes a bowler (he's a man of many hats I guess you could say), standing in the doorway at two in the morning, watching, while you lie there unable to move. This episode is the Hat Man in the witnesses' own accounts. A woman woken by her own mother's voice, sisters who both saw him from their bunk beds, a little girl who watched him stand over her dying grandmother. This time we took it a step further than first hand accounts. We track him backward through every culture that's already met him, because it keeps looking like one visitor under a laundry list of names. Odin wandered the old Norse world as a tall man in a broad hat who appeared in doorways right before someone died. Papa Legba stands at the Haitian crossroads, and that same crossroads figure became the tall stranger in black you meet at midnight in the American South. Baron Samedi waits at the grave in his top hat. El Sombrerón haunts a girl's window in Guatemala. The Alp stands over your bed in Germany. Same hat, same threshold, from cultures that never touched. If you've ever woken up and felt someone in the room, this one's for you. Real firsthand Hat Man encounters, the cross cultural entity behind him, and the sleep paralysis science, all in one. Be sure to share your personal experiences with the hat man in the comments below for a chance to make it into our Hat Man Listener Stories episode which is coming down the road once we collect enough stories from all of you! Buckle up, this ones a doozy. We'll see you on the other side. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Same Visitor, One Hundred Names 1:01 - Intro 2:33 - Too Tall Jones / Welcome Back Tangent Warning 5:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 5:45 - Who Is The Hat Man? 7:55 - EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: THE ONES WHO WOKE UP TO HIM 10:45 - Enter: Odin, The Norse Wanderer 13:25 - Displacing the old gods (courtesy of the Lord) 16:00 - You Like Historical Hat Facts? 17:00 - EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: THE HAT SHOWS UP WIDE AWAKE 20:20 - Papa Legba, Baron Samedi, Robert Johnson & A Man At The Crossroads 24:00 - THE NEXT 8 MINUTES ARE PRETTY TANGENT HEAVY, PLEASE STFU 24:04 - Chocolate Thunda / The Cat In The Hat Is Absolute Cinema 25:00 - Crossroads, The Pick of Destiny, Robert Johnson Again & Supernatural 27:00 - Anyone Under a Microscope is a Horrible Person 28:30 - Actually Back on Topic (Let The Angry Tangent Haters Comment Away!) 29:30 - Christian Wants Hat Man Romance Books 31:40 - Let's Get Back to the Actual Episode Again 32:00 - El Sombrerón & The Alp 34:37 - STORY: HE CAME FOR GRANDMA 36:34 - Christian Mentions The Old Hag (Okay) 37:30 - Is The Hat Man Just a Bald Shadow Person? 41:00 - Did Christian Have a Glimmer Man Experience as a Child? 42:25 - SKEPTIC TAKES / SLEEP PARALYSIS & OTHER THEORIES 46:40 - Scott Scared a Shadow Person While Living in Las Vegas 50:00 - Are Shadow People Astral Projectors That We Can't Fully Decipher? 51:30 - Please Share The Show on Socials, Repost Reels on IG! 54:00 - Sweet Dreams, Mr Hat Man ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

  4. Sep 3 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    After Dark | 4 True Skinwalker Stories To Keep Christian Up at Night

    It's that time again, welcome to Tall Tale After Dark. Four people, and four nights that rewrote what they thought was possible. We're going back to a favorite topic of ours, as we dip our toe into the world of skinwalkers, once again. A cabin in the Colorado pines. A lone camp deep in Louisiana. A boy's twelfth birthday under a Utah sky, and a family hogan ten miles from the nearest door. Apparently, you're not supposed to say the word skinwalker, otherwise you might inadvertently draw one to you. Christian did not get this memo, so if we don't see him after this episode airs, we'll just all collectively assume the worst. Let's get it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Old Man Yells at Clouds 3:00 - Be Nice(ish) to Christian 5:00 - Let's Talk Skinwalkers 5:02 - STORY: IT'S RICHARD 5:30 - Christian Interrupts to Mansplain Flashlights 9:51 - Christian Shares Tales From His Childhood, Forgetting About the Story Entirely. 10:45 - I'm convinced Chris doesn't even listen to the stories, tbh 14:15 - STORY: HELP ME 19:18 - Apparently, It's NOT Cool To Be Kind 19:40 - Our Podcast Computer is 6 Years Old, and We're Broke 20:45 - The Personal Education Levels of a Skinwalker 21:45 - @smitherenes hilarious skinwalker content 23:55 - STORY: LEAVE US BE 30:00 - Christian Ponders if the Ute Warriors were Mormons (mmm) 35:00 - Scott and His Friends Hunted Chupacabras in California City 36:32 - Comment The Stupid Things You Did In Your Youth 36:50 - STORY: IT'S UNDER THE FLOOR 41:48 - Navajo Hogans, Hogan's Heroes, Hulk Hogan & More 43:00 - Shoutout Bruce Campbell / Evil Dead 44:00 - Livestreams & More Coming in the Future (Waiting For Parts) 45:53 - Skinwalker Outro: Hogan's Horrors _______ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

    After Dark | 4 True Skinwalker Stories To Keep Christian Up at Night

  5. Aug 25

    286 | Edison's Secret Machine to Speak with the Dead

    Thomas Edison, the man who quite literally lit up the world, spent the last years of his life trying to build a telephone that could call the dead. Not a séance, or ouija board. An actual machine with wires, valves, probably a few odd little pulleys and gears, sitting on a bench in his lab pointed straight at the afterlife. And he's honestly not even the strange one in tonight’s episode.. Tonight, five men who wrote the rulebook for how modern science is supposed to work. The ones with their names carved into buildings all over the country. Every one of them went on the record saying he'd seen something no scientist is allowed to believe. Seems like maybe the people who wrote the rules turned out to be the ones who’d later go on to break them. Let's get into it. Did these men truly experience the supernatural splendor of the other side? Or were they bamboozled by the crafty ways and parlor tricks of spiritualist con artists? Let's get into it. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Ol' Tommy Edison, Geniuses & Ghosts 0:40 - Intro 2:41 - Welcome Back Tangent Warning 5:30 - EPISODE STARTS HERE 6:22 - STORY 1: Thomas Edison & The Phone to the Dead 8:00 - Rage-baiting Trolls 12:55 - Frank Sumption's (RIP) Spirit Box Invention in 2002 14:50 - STORY 2: Carl Jung & His Crafty Cousin 19:46 - Christian Likes Em Jung 20:35 - THE RAGEBAIT INTERMISSION 22:30 - STORY 3: THE FATHER OF CRIMINOLOGY, CESARE LOMBROSO 24:30 - Italian Doctors & Scott Really Does Tan Well Please Stop Doubting It 25:30 - Back to Cesare… 29:00 - Parlor Tricks Vs. Real Paranormal Phenomena 34:16 - STORY 4: HANS BERGER & THE BRAIN MACHINE 38:00 - Ideas & Whatnot 41:00 - Christian Says Way Too Much Without Saying Anything At All 43:20 - STORY 5: THE NOBEL LAUREATE - CHARLES RICHET 52:00 - Listener Stories Will Return (We Have MANY) 52:15 - Coming Up: Shared Death Experiences & The Hat Man Through Cultures 55:00 - Share The Show, Repost & Send The Reels, Por Favor 0:00 - Goodbye ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

  6. Aug 20 • Subscribers Only

    The Tall Man With No Face & More Accounts To Keep You Up (BGH8)

    Folks welcome back to The Butterscotch Gang Hang, we love you. This month we've got a bit of a grab bag, including what is probably the longest story we've ever shared, with a few interesting twists an turns along the way. Scott also shares way too much about his health battles, and Christian just talks too much, as is tradition. It's a tale as old as time, really. Let's get it. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Work Life Imbalance & The Beetus 1:52 - Welcome 3:12 - STORY: STALKER IN THE SHADOWS 17:30 - Demons? 19:00 - Can Demons Exist Within The Walls of a Church? 22:18 - The Demon Intermission 22:59 - Christian Says Stuff 24:32 - STORY 2: IT'S FREAKING ME OUT… 29:59 - Christian Says More Stuff 30:30 - What is a Crawler Tho… 33:00 - What Does Dogman Do at 3pm on a Tuesday? 35:25 - STORY 3: ABOUT THE WALK HOME 41:00 - Don't Taunt Alien Life (Unwise) 41:30 - Real Men Cry (Remember That) 43:00 - Another Ridiculous Theory From Christian 0:00 - OUTRO

    The Tall Man With No Face & More Accounts To Keep You Up (BGH8)

  7. Aug 13

    285 | Alien Encounters Too Strange To Report Anywhere Else

    This week we skipped the headlines and the documentaries and went straight into the forum archives, comment sections, and the places where only the most reliable of witnesses openly talk about the strangest night of their lives. These are (ALLEGEDLY!) firsthand alien encounters and abduction stories, told in the witnesses' own words. Grey aliens standing at the edge of your bed, ufo sightings witnessed by multiple people at the same time, saucers that stop a whole homeless shelter in its tracks over an Arizona highway on a not so average Tuesday night, and even a camper in the Sierras who woke up next to a dead fire after being plopped inside a craft and told the origins of humanity (finally, concrete evidence, amiright?) We can't verify any of these, but that's kind of the whole point. We got no news crews, and no proof, just people who were dead sure of what they saw and had nowhere else to say it. If you're a sucker for alien encounters, abduction stories, and obscure UFO accounts pulled from the deep corners of the internet, you're in for a treat. Seen an alien face to face? Let's talk about it. Send your story to mothy@talltalesocialclub.com ----- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - *raises hands to chest* "Aliens." 0:53 - INTRO 2:26 - Welcome Back, Amigos. 0:00 - Thank You For Your Stories 5:34 - STORIES: IT'S STANDING OVER YOUR BED 9:00 - Dreams or Something Darker? 13:06 - The Validity of Multiple Witnesses 14:00 - Christian Does Episodes Too 19:32 - STORIES: DOWN FROM ABOVE 22:53 - Known Different Alien Species 23:14 - ROAST COMMENT INTERMISSION 23:44 - Always Feed The Trolls In Our Comments, Folks 24:30 - How Many UFO Sightings Are Just Government Ops? 27:40 - STORIES: IT CAME TO THE DOOR 30:10 - STORIES: IN GOOD COMPANY 36:43 - Explaining To Christian Why UFOs Need Lights… 38:40 - ALIEN LIGHTS INTERMISSION 40:41 - STORY: THE ABDUCTION 51:00 - Episodes Coming Up & Stories Received 54:00 - Scott Tries To Close Out The Episode 30 Times But Christian Never Stops Talking 56:00 - Betty & Barney Hill, Grey Aliens & Whitley Strieber's Communion ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

  8. Aug 6 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    After Dark | Astral Oddities: Out of Body, Into the Dark

    Welcome back to another episode of After Dark. This month we're just itching to get out of our bodies and into these truly bizarre astral projection experiences. We talk everything from someone being lured out of their body by a friendly voice, to entities moonlighting as teachers in the astral plane. We even touch on an absolutely bonkers story of astral armor and light swords, vanquishing vampires and Christian's never ending hatred of men for some odd reason. Gather around, it is once again, that time to get weird. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Belief Hole / Zonked / Astral Projection Armor 3:25 - STORY 1: THE VOICES ARGUING OVER ME 7:40 - Christian Says Words 12:15 - STORY 2: THE NOT SO WISE TEACHER 17:58 - Christians Dream Live Stream Intermission 18:08 - Comedy Reels Don't Perform As Well As Stories (Boo) 19:30 - Scott Sounds Like Matt Damon (Was Called Fatt Damon in High School) 22:00 - Please Stop Complaining 23:39 - STORY 3: THE LADY WITH THE KNIFE 28:00 - Astral Projection v. Sleep Paralysis 30:00 - Christian's Toxic Femininity & Hatred of Men 33:39 - STORY 4: THE VAMPIRE AT THE WINDOW 43:00 - Christian Hates Dogman ________ Become a Member at www.talltalesocialclub.com Shop Merch at www.talltalesocialclub.com/merch Follow us on Socials @talltalesocialclub Follow Mothy on X @heymothy Submit your story → mothy@talltalesocialclub.com

    After Dark | Astral Oddities: Out of Body, Into the Dark
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Tall Tale Social Club is a paranormal comedy podcast from the beautiful woods of Wasilla, Alaska. Every other Thursday we share true scary stories of ghost sightings, cryptids, UFOs, and unsolved mysteries, balancing genuinely creepy research with dry humor and the kind of funny tangents that derail every good ghost story. We also read a listener-submitted paranormal experience to cap off every episode. Have your true story shared, email mothy@talltalesocialclub.com or dial the Frightline 801-997-0051. Shop merch, cryptid-inspired streetwear and sticker packs at www.talltalesocialclub.com

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  • Creator
    Tall Tale Social Club
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    159
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tall Tale Social Club
  • Show Website
    Tall Tale Social Club
  • Provider
    Scott Walker

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