10 TRUE CREEPY Stories Shared on Joe Rogan’s Podcast

Paranormal Investigations

• 👻 Matt Refe discusses his ghost hunting hobby, including witnessing unexplained movements and receiving answers on EVPs, and his visit to the Conjuring House with its history of lay lines and buried bodies.
• 🚢 Sam and Colby recount their first chilling paranormal encounter in Queen Mary's room B340, where a faucet turned on and they had a 35-minute yes/no conversation with taps.
• 😈 The Queen Mary experience culminated in a "no" answer to "Is there a heaven?", leading their religious friends to believe they were encountering a demon trying to steer them from God, profoundly impacting Sam's beliefs.

Unexplained Encounters

• 👽 A Brazil Roswell incident involved the military sealing a town after a strange, weak being was captured, with witnesses describing it asking for help, leading to a pervasive, paralyzing stench.
• 🕵️‍♂️ The incident included reports of "men in black" offering money and threats to silence witnesses, and a military officer who drove the alien and a doctor who X-rayed it through a body bag.
• 🇺🇸 A military control officer testified about a USAF plane landing without Brazilian government authorization to transport something, causing the case to go cold.

Historical & Natural Horrors

• 😷 Historian Lindsey Fitzharris explains the 17th-century plague doctor mask, designed to filter "myasma" with sweet herbs, reflecting historical misunderstandings of disease and the lack of effective treatments.
• 🐆 An Amazon guide describes being lost in the jungle, encountering a jaguar inches from his face, and blending in with nature to avoid detection by animals.
• 🏹 He also details uncontacted tribes communicating with animal calls and their mysterious survival methods, such as making fire in the wet rainforest and their unique botanical knowledge.

Extreme Environments & Survival

• 🌊 Astronaut Garrett Riceman recounts living for two weeks in an underwater habitat at 60 feet, where decompression is critical to avoid blood boiling like soda.
• 🦈 His most terrifying moment involved a Goliath grouper staring at him in the pitch-black ocean while he was outside the habitat without a tank, attracting fish during a bizarre defecation ritual.
• ⛰️ Climber Emily Harrington describes a 50-foot fall during "simal climbing," hitting a ledge, getting knocked out, and suffering a severe rope burn, highlighting the dangers of insufficient protection and her rapid recovery.

Psychological Impact of Fear

• 🎬 Joey Diaz shares his intense experience watching The Exorcist, praising its direction for creating fear without explicit visuals and its profound psychological impact on viewers.
• 👧 He recounts his young daughter's instinctive fear and running from the room, demonstrating the movie's ability to evoke primal terror even without understanding the plot.
• 🎭 The film pushed boundaries for its time, with its extreme content and the subsequent career struggles of actress Linda Blair, illustrating the lasting effects of such roles and the changing perception of horror in cinema.