Best Shadows Of Sanity Podcasts (2024)

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6.12 | True Paranormal Stories! Airplane Gremlins, Harpers Ferry Ghosts, and Haunted Urns | SLS 29 1:29:01

4d ago1:29:01

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🔥 Watch on Youtube🔗👉👉 https://youtu.be/t_pai0O4jXE You’ve felt it, haven’t you? That sense that the world around you isn’t quite as solid as it seems. But what if, in these fleeting moments, you’re catching glimpses of shadows, shadows cast by the light that’s leaking beneath the doorway to another world? From a flight attendant’s encounter with a …

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Expert Tips: how to preserve safety and sanity when covering the US presidential elections 40:59

24d ago40:59

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In this final episode of Trouble with the Truth that concludes Season Two, we turn to the most inescapable topic of the summer - the upcoming US presidential elections. We will leave the details of the political drama to the pundits and instead focus on what we know best - journalists covering the elections. With president Trump’s divisive rhetoric…

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6.11 | Horror Down Under: The Pilliga Leg Collector, Deadly Yowies, UFO Abduction, Australia Mysteries 1:36:22

1M ago1:36:22

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🔥Sponsor: Aura: Stop data brokers from exposing your personal information. Go to our sponsor https://aura.com/beliefhole to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold 🙌 It Begins: Since the land first began to breathe, Australia has been a place of dreamlike mystery. When the European settlers first arrived, they were told stor…

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The Healing Power of Psychedelics with Rogers Masson 1:52:16

1M ago1:52:16

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On today’s show I’m talking with Roger Masson, a friend and remarkable human, who opens up about his journey with PTSD, and the transformative effects he experienced through psychedelic assisted therapy. We talk about why trauma is such a challenging thing for us to navigate, and how the effects of MDMA were significantly more healing for him than …

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In the shadow of the National Security Law: what remains of Hong Kong independent journalism? 26:17

1M ago26:17

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On the surface, Hong Kong remains a dazzling city and a successful financial hub with hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. However, local journalists and activists will tell you a very different story. In 2019-2020, Hong-Kong was swept up in a wave of protests in response to the draconian National Security Law introduced by China to end Ho…

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6.10 | Camp Creeply 5 - True Paranormal Encounters in the Wood 1:38:57

1M ago1:38:57

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🔥Sponsor: Aura: Stop data brokers from exposing your personal information. Go to our sponsor https://aura.com/beliefhole to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold 🙌 🔥 Watch the Youtube Video 👉 https://youtu.be/PDJAanuPobs Summer has finally arrived, tents are being pitched and trails explored. I’ts a time of year where we t…

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Pegasus strikes again: how Russian and Belarusian independent journalists became new targets of the hacking software 32:46

2M ago32:46

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On 30 May, a new report produced by the digital rights organisation Access Now and Citizen Lab revealed the details of the latest Pegasus attack on Russian and Belarusian journalists and activists. Pegasus, a sophisticated spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group made headlines in 2021 when it was discovered to have been targeted at thousands of people f…

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6.9 | Strange Listener Stories 27 - Red Eyed Mimics, Reservation Witches, and Window Watchers 1:30:28

2M ago1:30:28

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🔥Sponsor: Aura: Stop data brokers from exposing your personal information. Go to our sponsor https://aura.com/beliefhole to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold 🔥 Watch Youtube Premiere You’ve heard the stories. Stories that most wouldn’t believe. Run-ins with something so inexplicable, it changes your reality forever. Th…

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Taken for Granted: The precarious state of media freedoms inside the EU 36:37

2M ago36:37

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Online harassment, intimidation, lack of access, government monopolies on media - we’re used to seeing such offences in countries with poor media freedom records. But what if all this was happening right on our doorstep, here in Europe? In this episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana discusses the declining state of media freedoms in the EU with Ol…

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Eight Practices for Living Consciously with Steve Taylor 1:01:15

3M ago1:01:15

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Steve Taylor is a transpersonal psychologist, researcher and author of 15 best-selling books on psychology and spirituality. Our conversation begins with one of his earlier books: “Disconnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty, and How Connection Can Heal the World” which explores the continuum of human nature from psychopathy to spirituality and then w…

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Freaky Bigfoot Encounters and Hairy High Strangeness | 3.18 EXP | Main Release 1:07:51

2M ago1:07:51

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🔥 Join us for the Youtube Premiere of Expansion Episode 3.18 Tonight at 9pm EST! 🔗 https://youtu.be/p8h0KCirjSo 🔥 What you are about to experience is a special release of our members-only Expansion episode: 3.18 EXP | Freaky Bigfoot, Hairy High Strangeness". Filled with Sasquatch Speculation and mind-bending accounts, this is one of our favorites a…

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Georgian ‘Foreign Agents’ Law- what’s next? 34:59

3M ago34:59

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On the 28th May, the Georgian parliament overturned the presidential veto of the highly contentious ‘Foreign Agents’ law that had sparked weeks-long mass protests across the country and was strongly condemned by the international community. Should it come into force, any non-profit or media that receives over 20% of funding from overseas sources wi…

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6.8 | Alaska's Dark Pyramid and Orca-Abducting UFOs 1:58:19

3M ago1:58:19

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🔥 Watch the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Lje-xO6zk Alaska. A land of wild beauty, rugged magic, and burried secrets. Throughout it’s marbled history, strange reports have been drifiting from Alaska’s cold and cryptic embrace. Tales of sky giants - crafts that slip from serene seas and into the arctic atmosphere above. They creep…

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Rana Ayyub on Indian elections, the terrors of online harassment and why she refuses to be silent 39:47

3M ago39:47

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In this new episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana secures an exclusive with Rana Ayyub, one of India’s most prominent journalists. In 2016 she published an investigative book titled the ‘Gujarat files’ looking into the 2002 Gujarat riots that took the lives of nearly 1000 people, mainly Muslims. In 2024, Rana reflects on how the current anti-Musl…

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Terror at Portlock: What Really Happened | Nantinaq Encounters! (4.11 EXP) 1:07:53

3M ago1:07:53

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🔥 Please to enjoy this re-imagined release of Expansion Episode 4.11 Sign up for more Expansion Episodes like this! https://expansion.beliefhole.com/ New Episodes coming this weekend! Jutting into the Bay on the southern tip of the Kenia Peninsula is the mysterious ghost town of Portlock, Alaska. Legend has it that this once peaceful and successful…

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6.7 | Barks from Beyond - Pet Visitation from the Other Side | For Jake 1:32:18

3M ago1:32:18

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🐺 Youtube Premiere Tonight 8pm EST https://youtu.be/3zT55TvVvqY - Come have a good cry with other Belieflings in the LiveChat. Hey guys. This was a really hard one for us. We're all pretty emotionally drained producing this episode after the sudden loss of Jake 🐺. While we'll be absent from the LiveChat tonight, we know the Hole community doesn't n…

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‘Black Snow’- a portrait of a Siberian journalist taking on corrupt coal industry 30:34

4M ago30:34

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Before 2019, Natalia Zubkova was a homemaker and a mother of three from a coal-mining Siberian city of Kiselyovsk. But when extreme air pollution caused by open-pit coal mining covered white snowy cityscape with black soot, it was time to act. ‘Black Snow’, a documentary directed by Alina Simone and produced by Kirstine Baford, tracks Natalia’s jou…

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6.6 | Bunny Man Horror, Bedside Witches, and True Paranormal Accounts | SLS 26 1:29:48

4M ago1:29:48

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🔥 TONIGHT - the Youtube Premiere of Strange Listener Stories 26! @ 9pm EST! Join us in the Live Chat for a much needed hangout in the Hole 👊 🔗https://youtu.be/dx4nFCOzudE Welcome to your new home, my friend. Safe from the dangers and the strangers of the outside world. Here you can rest without worry. It is, after all, YOUR house. But who’s was it …

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Tehran Bureau: how to build a successful media in exile while staying safe 28:28

4M ago28:28

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In this episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana speaks with the founder of the Tehran Bureau media Kelly Golnoush Niknejad. As a teenager, Golnush left Iran with her family following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and later became a journalist in the US. In 2008 she launched Tehran Bureau, at first as a blog and then as a website. Since then, this Eng…

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6.5 | The Collectors: Sky Scanners and UFO Cube Abduction - True Otherworldly Encounters 1:44:37

4M ago1:44:37

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🔥 Join us TODAY @ 3PM PST/ 6PM EST - We’ll be taking a journey through the abyss above us, to explore terrifying secrets in our skies. 🔗 Premiere Link: https://youtu.be/K7q17LpeiJU We’ll be going deep into strange cases of violent encounters with tentacled cubes and bizarre abductions, connecting the nodes of truth that surround a nefarious type of…

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"Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness" with Margaret Wheatley 1:20:20

5M ago1:20:20

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Meg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit. After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interve…

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The Asparagus Queen 15:48

5M ago15:48

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The Asparagus Festival used to select a Mrs. Asparagus, but times have changed and they now crown an Asparagus Queen. One man fights to change things back to the way they used to be, for his own gain. And other sketches.Featured music by the band, Shadows of Sanity, with their permission of course. Thanks again.www.facebook.com/shadowsofsanity/www.…

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Journalists vs. the President- how Kyrgyz authorities keep silencing their critics 32:54

5M ago32:54

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In 2022, Kyrgyzstan was ranked 72nd out of 180 countries on the press freedom index but in 2023, it plunged all the way to the 122nd spot, the sharpest decline of any country ever. Despite high levels of corruption and state-mandated human rights violation, Kyrgyzstan has always had a strong civil society and thriving independent media. However, si…

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6.4 | Strange Encounters in Liminal Spaces - True Paranormal Stories 1:36:05

5M ago1:36:05

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🔥Youtube Premiere Tonight! Hang Out in the Chat! @ 10:30pm EST 🔗 https://youtu.be/shalI85Bm5c Hey Gang! Join us tonight - in the lands between - where we'll be investigating the strange ether that lingers in Liminal Spaces and tethers the unknown to enchanting places: Dead Malls, Airport Terminals, Hotel Hallways, The Freakin Beach! - These are pla…

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The War against Ukrainian Journalists: two years on 37:28

5M ago37:28

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Russia’s illegal and brutal war against Ukraine has entered its third year. For two years, Ukrainian journalists have tirelessly covered the full-scale invasion while taking cover in bomb shelters and arranging the evacuation of their loved ones. Not only have they uncovered the horrific massacres of Bucha and Irpin and documented the siege of Mari…

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"Writing By Heart - Discovering the Medicine and Magic of Your Muse" with Meredith Heller 1:13:14

5M ago1:13:14

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In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary. Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived. In our conversation today Meredith d…

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6.3 Junkyard Demons, Transdimensional Gas Stations and Phantom Polar Bears - True Paranormal Encounters - SLS 25 1:01:17

5M ago1:01:17

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🔥 Join us in the live chat NOW! Sunday - 9pm EST - for the Youtube premiere of the main episode - 6.3 | Strange Listener Stories 25 🏕️🐺 Watch Premiere NOW! 🔗 https://youtu.be/SK6XJKcFgFA From transdimensional gas stations on the Nebraskan Interstate, to Junkyard poltergeist Assaults and phantom Polar bears in bedroom closets, on this episode of bel…

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Threats, curfews, exile, perseverance - how Ecuadorean journalists survive in the increasingly violent environment 32:17

6M ago32:17

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In Ecuador, 2024 set off to a dramatic start, as the whole country anxiously watched masked gunmen storm a local TV station and take journalists hostage on live broadcast. This was part of a series of coordinated attacks that spread across the country like wildfire, resulting in 30 car explosions and kidnapping of seven police officers - a grim rea…

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6.2 | A Deadly Dogman: Land Between the Lakes 1:31:30

6M ago1:31:30

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🔥 Join us in the live chat TONIGHT! - for the Youtube premiere - Mon, Feb 26th 9pm EST: Watch Here: https://youtu.be/BalxizDU5Q4 Straddling the divide of Kentucky and Tennessee is the land between the lakes. Once a land between the rivers, a desire for progress would lead to the damming of these ancient waterways, reshaping the land, submerging gra…

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Tracking Magic Through the Shadows 1:20:17

6M ago1:20:17

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Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way. We talk about: Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live it trusting the love that binds us and powerfu…

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Big Tech, AI and Disinformation: a journalist’s perspective 27:16

6M ago27:16

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In this episode of Trouble with the Truth, we pivot from our usual themes by delving into the murky world of disinformation campaigns amplified on social media platforms and the ways to combat it with a Coda Story senior reporter Isobel Cockerell. The rapid advancement of Big Tech over the past decade and the more recent AI revolution is irrevocabl…

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6.1 Strange Listener Stories 24 | Mirror Demons, Giant Roadside Arachnids, Beach House Ghosts, and Telepathic Fire 1:51:41

6M ago1:51:41

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🔥 Premiering now! Join us on in the Youtube live chat for for Season 6 Premiere: https://youtu.be/BLokVOGjQIw The fading light washes the tree line, and shadows are beginning to bleed down the alleyways. And the secret things tucked within the dark corners of our world are waking up and are stepping out into the gloom. You may not see them, but the…

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Letters to Evan: The campaign to release Evan Gershkovich 33:23

7M ago33:23

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In this episode, Lana talks to the Financial Times correspondent Polina Ivanova about the arrest of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges by Russian authorities, and the inspiring campaign for his release. It has been ten months since the arrest of US citizen Evan Gershkovich, whose parents emigrated from the Soviet…

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The Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLean 1:28:35

7M ago1:28:35

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Show Notes: Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body. Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make it…

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5.24 | Arctic Ghosts, Strange Survival, and the Third Man Factor 1:43:18

7M ago1:43:18

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For at least 100 years there have been documented cases of those on the brink of life and death experiencing the presence of a guiding phantom, inexplicably manifesting from somewhere beyond. From flash floods in New Zealand forests, tofrigid Mount Everest Expeditions, to plane crash rescues at sea, adventure with us to the ends of the earth in the…

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