⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of alleged creature encounters including disturbing humanoid entities, unexplained sounds, and potentially frightening situations. It also contains personal reflections on loss and grief. This one is a little different. Before we get to the creatures — and there are some genuinely unsettling ones — Bubah has something to say. In the last several months, life has delivered a series of losses. A stepfather. A woman who was like a grandmother, whose pecan pie recipe died with her and whose restaurant gave Bubah one of the best friendships of his life. Friends from high school, taken too soon. And most recently, Pops — one in a million, a man who loved his '65 Chevy truck, built a Yenko Camaro clone from scratch, and made a road trip to pick up a 1950 Chevy coupe one of the best days Bubah can remember. Each of them left an echo. This episode is for them. With Z taking a well-earned break, Bubah sits down solo to share four listener encounters that came in from across the country — Pennsylvania, Oregon, Oklahoma, and Florida. Each one is different. Each one is unsettling. And each one shares a thread you'll notice the longer you listen: the feeling of being watched, eyes that don't blink, and a silence that comes right before something wrong steps into the light. A teenage girl in Bucks County who almost walked up to something that looked like a baby until it turned its head and grinned. A trail worker at Crater Lake who lost two hours of his life standing over a set of four-toed tracks. A couple camping in Norman, Oklahoma, whose nights were watched over by an owl — and ended with something chasing her husband through the brush. A young girl in Pasco County, Florida, who turned around in her own bedroom doorway and found something standing there that smiled at her. Bubah ties each account to the folklore of its region — the Squonk, the Below World of Crater Lake, the Ozark Howler, and the ancient tradition of the threshold creature — and asks the question that sits at the center of all of it: are these stories evidence of something real, or echoes of the same fear we've been passing down for centuries? And at the end, a reminder that life is short. Hold your people close. Make memories worth echoing. If you've had your own encounter — a creature, a sound, something in a doorway — we want to hear it. You don't need to use your real name. Email: EchosOfThaPast@gmail.comX: @EchosPoddCastFacebook: Search Echosofthepast — where the paranormal is normal! If this episode brought up feelings of grief or loss, support is available. Call or text 988 for the Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7. Text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. For grief support, The Compassionate Friends can be reached at https://www.compassionatefriends.org Echos of the Past is hosted by a father and daughter who have both experienced the unexplained firsthand. We love the supernatural, the strange, and the mysterious — but we come with the facts. Every episode we dig into the cases, the history, and the evidence, searching for answers and sharing everything we find with you. Follow on Spotify and Apple Podcasts — a quick rating helps more people find the show. #ListenerEncounters #Cryptids #CreepyEncounters #Paranormal #Humanoid #OzarkHowler #CraterLake #Bigfoot #TrueCrimePodcast #SupernaturalPodcast #ParanormalPodcast #UnexplainedMysteries #CryptidSightings #Folklore #ThingsInTheWoods #CreepyStories #Supernatural #Oklahoma #Pennsylvania #TrueStories © B&Z Moreno 2026 – Echos of the Past
