Close Encounter Club

Dr. Jeff Meldrum (1958–2025) was one of the world’s leading experts on Sasquatch, footprints, and human evolution. As a professor of anatomy and anthropology, he brought scientific rigor to a mystery often dismissed by mainstream science — the search for Bigfoot.

In this exclusive conversation, Dr. Meldrum discusses the evidence for Sasquatch, including footprint casts, the Patterson-Gimlin film, and the mysterious Sierra Sounds. H...

At a Fleetwood Mac tribute concert in Palm Springs, Keston and Andrea witnessed something impossible: the band slowed, their bodies slumped, and for a few surreal seconds it felt like time itself froze. Even stranger—the moment was captured on video, complete with a bizarre audio anomaly.

In this episode of Close Encounter Club, we unpack their story and explore what might explain it:

👁 Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and how t...

A peaceful cabin retreat should have been the perfect family getaway — until it wasn't.

In this chilling firsthand account, Robert Maxwell from the Cabin in the Woods YouTube channel describes the unnerving sequence of events that unfolded deep in the woods, including a rock thrown toward his daughter.

Was it a curious animal, a calculated warning, or proof of something far more mysterious?

Join Justin and Josh as they piece togeth...

A former Marine is sent to a secret radar site on Eglin Air Force Base… and discovers they're tracking something far more mysterious than enemy aircraft.

In this episode, William Ray Carter reveals what happened inside Site C-6 — a massive radar installation hidden in plain sight. What he saw, what he overheard, and what no one will officially confirm… until now.

🔍 Are we really alone? Or has the military been watching something t...

What happens when a lifelong skeptic, a science communicator, and an astrophysicist sees something in the sky he can’t explain?

In this episode, we step back from the eerie and the unexplainable… and zoom all the way out. To galaxies, black holes, and the limits of what we think we know.

We talk with Ethan Siegel about the moment that shook his worldview—and what it really means to stay grounded in science while keeping your mind o...

What does an unexplained encounter sound like from the outside looking in?

In this Close Encounter Club bonus episode, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Ryan, husband of Jennifer Jones, to hear his first-hand account of the chilling night his family experienced what they came to call “The Breathing.”

From his bedroom, Ryan was pulled into the experience when Jennifer and their son heard something outside the second-story window ...

What if a mysterious sound in the night could change your life forever?

In this episode of the Close Encounter Club, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Jennifer Jones of Knoxville, Tennessee, who experienced one of the most chilling and transformative encounters we’ve ever covered. It began with an unexplainable sound outside her second-story window — a deep, mechanical-yet-organic breathing that filled her entire room. Days late...

Courtney has been seeing ghosts for as long as she can remember.

At first, she kept it to herself—unsure if anyone would believe her. But after opening up, she realized this ability wasn’t just hers alone. It ran deep in the family.

What began as a secret became a calling.

She started Jaunty Haunts, a podcast where ghost stories are shared with humor, honesty, and just the right amount of spookiness. Now she’s built a community for...

Some nights unfold like scenes from a horror movie.

In EP13: That One Night, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Annie, who shares a terrifying childhood memory that has haunted her for years. What began as two kids heading outside to grab a DVD turned into a night of pure fear — an old powder-blue pickup truck, flashing headlights in the dark, and a sudden eruption of car alarms from every vehicle in the lot.

The most chilling pa...

What if contact with extraterrestrials wasn’t a single moment — but a lifelong relationship?

In EP12: The Night Family, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Reddit experiencer ForbiddenSnackie, who has shared her extraordinary story with rare openness and detail. From early childhood drawings of purple aliens with suction-cup fingers to vivid onboard memories of telepathic star navigation games, Snackie’s story reveals a reality where...

Can past life regression unlock healing, reveal hidden traumas, and even connect us to lifetimes lived beyond Earth?

In EP 11: Steve Burgess – Past Life Regression, Healing & Consciousness, host Justin Gearheart speaks with world-renowned hypnotherapist Steve Burgess, who has guided more than 15,000 sessions of regression therapy. With decades of experience and books like The Power of Past Life Regression and Adventures of a Hy...

A quiet night at an Australian golf resort turned into one of the most astonishing UFO encounters we’ve ever covered. In EP 10: The Wyong UFO Incident, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Clark Watson about a sighting that began as a distant flashing light over the coast and escalated into aerial “orbs” accelerating and chasing each other with impossible agility—then forming a rotating “wheel of light.” Moments later, a vast, organic...

What if aliens weren’t just visiting — but actively planning to replace humanity?

In EP 9: The Rising (Part 3), host Justin Gearheart concludes his three-part conversation with Jeff Selver, whose lifelong contact story pushes into the most unsettling territory yet. Traveling alone across Canada in 1998, Jeff was taken in broad daylight by a massive cloaked craft. Inside, he met the Twins — two identical Gray beings who revealed a d...

What if a voice in your head told you to drop everything and leave — and it ended up saving your life?

In EP 8: Escape from Lahaina, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Michaela, a cruise ship bartender whose mysterious intuition led her to quit her job in Hawaii just one week before the deadly Lahaina wildfires. Without warning, a clear voice in her mind urged, “Leave now. Get off the ship. Don’t come back.” She listened — and days ...

What if an alien abduction didn’t just take you aboard a craft — but let you pilot one to a hidden city on Venus?

In EP 7: The Rising (Part 2), host Justin Gearheart continues his conversation with Jeff Selver, whose story pushes far beyond a typical UFO encounter. After being shown visions of the afterlife in Part 1, Jeff’s experiences escalate into direct, physical contact with extraterrestrial beings — encounters that incl...

What if a dream of your own death wasn’t just a dream — but a memory from another lifetime?

In EP 6: I Forgive You, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Michael Clifford, a retired audio engineer whose life has been shaped by vivid dreams, powerful premonitions, and what he believes are glimpses of past lives. From a chilling black-and-white dream of being shot during a robbery in the 1940s to saying the words “I forgive you” with ...

What if the UFO phenomenon isn’t benevolent at all — but something far darker?

In this Close Encounter Club bonus episode, host Justin Gearheart sits down with Matt Hurley, founder of BadAliens.info, one of the most controversial and unflinching resources on UFO research. Matt’s work focuses on the disturbing side of the phenomenon: abductions, cattle mutilations, missing persons, and even cases of human mutilation that echo the sa...

What happens when an alien encounter shatters everything you believe about reality?

In EP 5: The Rising (Part 1), host Justin Gearheart speaks with Jeff Selver, an author and consciousness researcher whose extraordinary abduction story began when he was just 16 years old. Jeff describes being taken aboard a craft, encountering a female Elder Gray, and experiencing revelations about DNA manipulation, implants, time distortion,...

What if the scariest moment of your life wasn’t a dream — but something sitting at the end of your bed?

In EP 4: Noble Park, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Josh from Melbourne, Australia — the very conversation that would later lead Josh to become the producer of Close Encounter Club. This is where it all began.

At just 18 years old, while alone in his family’s creaking, century-old home, Josh witnessed a shadow on his roof one ...