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The Hit The Lights PodcastScary & Unexplained Paranormal Encounters Sent in by Our Viewers...Here at Top5s our viewers are everything, and during the creepy marathon month we like to give you a chance to share your own personal paranormal experiences with us. It is also a way of reaching out to see if anyone else has experienced something similar or has an explanation as to what may have happened.So here are five Creepy, unexplained encounters experienced by our viewers, please feel free to offer respectful explanations or thoughts in the comments.Support the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your...2022-11-1714 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastREAL Paranormal Stories Experienced & Told by The Top5s Team (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)For this Halloween special, 5 members of the Top5s team share their own creepy paranormal stories... Hit the lights, sit back and enjoy. SockeytomeThis is a collection of friends talking about anything, something or nothing...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it really helps! Check our our videos on YouTube Got any questions? email us at: info@top5s.co.uk Thanks for listening and stay spooky! 2022-10-3134 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe Last Cabin in Portlock: Alaska's Terrifying Bigfoot Story | PODCAST EXCLUSIVEWas This Village Abandoned Because of Bigfoot? In today's episode we dive further into the mystery touched upon in our Bigfoot video over on the Top5s YouTube. What events occurred so that all of the residents left this town?Support the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it really helps! Check our our videos on YouTube Got any questions? email us at: info@top5s.co.uk Thanks for listening and stay spooky! 2022-08-1012 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastGhost Stories, Haunted Locations & True Crimes From Our Listeners Hometowns | TCTH #19Welcome to another episode of Too Close to Home, the series where we dig up creepy stories, haunted places and mysteries from our very own Patreons hometowns… In this episode we’re looking at Joshua, Dave, Will, Ally and Emilio… and do we have some good stories in store for you five. If you want us to dig up stories from your area, head on over to Patreon and join our ‘Too Close to Home’ tier! https://www.patreon.com/Top5sOfficalSockeytomeThis is a collection of friends talking about anything, something or nothing...Listen o...2022-08-0831 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastSeriously Dangerous SCP Monsters You'll Be Glad Are in Containment...SCP stands for Secure, Contain Protect. The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization responsible for capturing and containing various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena that are unexplained by mainstream science. Their aim is to ensure their existence and dangers are hidden from society. The foundation holds thousands of files that document an SCP object and the means of keeping it contained. However, despite its extremely secretive nature, the foundation is tasked by governments around the world to capture and manage various unexplained phenomena that defy the known laws of nature…This includes anything from living beings and cr...2022-08-0528 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastUnsettling Horror Stories (That ACTUALLY Happened) That'll Fuel Your Insomnia...Many of us are familiar with fictitious scary stories - whether they're rooted in hollywood movies, folklore, or wild rumours. Sometimes, however, the truth can be much, much stranger than fiction - and often, much more horrific. The truth doesn't lie, or sugar-coat itself, it simply shows itself for what it is. Throughout history, many real-life horror stories have been told in their own gruesome, creepy or unsettling ways, and today, we're bringing you 10 of the very best. Hit the lights, sit back, and enjoy. Support the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a r...2022-08-0120 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastYou DO NOT Want to Mess with This Battle-Scarred Great White Shark...Animals are incredible; as pets, they are faithful, loveable companions; in the wild, they are majestic, enigmatic, unpredictable and incredibly tough; they fight to survive and use every ounce of their inner strength to overcome some of the most extreme circumstances or situations they find themselves in. In this video, we look at not only the largest and most ferocious animals on the planet but also the diminutive small ones whose incredible will to survive sees them take on anything. For a variety of reasons they don’t come much tougher than these five.2022-05-1618 minThe Hit The Lights Podcast5 Real Life Horror Stories You Will NEVER Forget...Sometimes if you want to find true horror, you only have to look at humans. For centuries, they have inflicted terrible cruelty and pain on their fellow species. Not necessarily because they are psychopaths or sadists, but simply because they believe in an ideology that dehumanises their victims, whether that is through war, or a strong belief in injustice, religion or immorality, the grim truth is that almost anyone is capable of committing staggering atrocities given the right circumstances. So from the ominous looking cliff in the thumbnail, here are five truly disturbing horror movies, you won’t be...2022-05-0223 minThe Hit The Lights Podcast5 Ancient Egyptian Mysteries That Will Hurt Your Brain…We’ve got a lot to thank the Ancient Egyptians for; they appeared to be at the forefront of everything we know today. From creating the modern calendar to inventing surgical instruments and writing techniques, the ancient Egyptians were indeed masters of innovation. However, even with today’s modern techniques, we still can’t figure out how they did some of the things they did....A classic example being how did they build the pyramids! In recent years though, archaeologists and scientists are slowly unravelling some of the long-standing mysteries of Ancient Egypt and in this video we will l...2022-04-1815 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastDid 'Little Green Men' Invade This Family’s Home?In this video, we will investigate the strange tale that took place on a warm summer night at a rural farmyard in 1955 and the family who became so haunted by what they experienced that they had to leave their livelihoods behind. What did the Sutton family see and experience on that night? Would anyone believe them? What would become of those haunted souls and what explanations are there for what they endured?No internet. No phones; just a terrified family trying to make sense of the fear and turmoil at something they couldn’t explain...2022-03-1416 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThis Terrifying Disease Baffled Scientists in 1916, and Then it Mysteriously Vanished...The planet we live on is full of mysteries, some that are modern-day and with the passing of time will become solved, and then others that have endured for centuries with no solution in sight. In this video, we’ll be taking a look at both modern and old… So from the CIA’s version of a Cicada 3301 statue outside their HQ that no one can seem to crack, to an unusual and disturbing illness that mystified doctors in the 19 hundreds. Here are 5 Incredible Unsolved Mysteries of the World...Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG2022-03-0719 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe BIGGEST Conspiracy in The Music Industry...The genetic makeup of identical twins has always been a fascinating biological occurrence- not to mention a miracle for families to conceive. But what if the creation of a twin or lookalike was purposely configured to preserve the status of a worldwide phenomenon? In this video we revisit the age of peace and love; an era that defined music, artistic expression and one of the most bizarre cases of mistaken identity the world has ever seen. Together we will investigate the conspiracy surrounding the biggest band of the 1960’s- The Beatles- and the question which plagued a nation for ye...2022-02-0715 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastMORE True Crime, Ghost Stories & Haunted Locations From Our Audiences Hometowns...Want us to dig up creepy stories and unsolved mysteries from your hometown? Check out our 'Too Close to Home' tier over on Patreon for more information: https://www.patreon.com/Top5sOfficalEpisode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________SockeytomeThis is a collection of friends talking about anything, something or nothing...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it really helps! Check our our videos o...2022-01-3141 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastReal-Life Horror Stories What Will Keep You Up ALL Night...The saying goes that fact is stranger than fiction - but the same can be said for horror. Oftentimes, the horror stories that unfold before us in the real world are so much creepier and disturbing than the likes of a Stephen King novel or a Conjuring movie. In today's video, we'll be taking a look at 5 Scary Real Life Horror Stories… Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Support the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it rea...2022-01-2415 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastIs The World Controlled by a Group of Elite Reptilians?The reptilians, which are often called lizard people, reptiloids, saurians or draconians, are the blood-drinking, humanoid shapeshifters that are believed to roam the Earth with the single objective of enslaving the human race in mind. These extra-terrestrial reptilians are suspected of taking important and greatly influential roles in human society, such as being political leaders, corporate executives, award-winning celebrities, and billionaires. Therefore, by shapeshifting into their human form and occupying these ranks in the hierarchy of society, they’re allegedly capable of exerting their power, effectively working toward their end goal of dominating the whole of Mankind. As of to...2022-01-1714 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe Science Behind A Zombie Apocalypse is Scarier Than You Think...When you say the word “zombie” people often conjure up images of hordes of the undead walking the Earth and feasting on the living. This image has been greatly influenced by popular culture’s take on the phenomena which has even built on it to include diseases and science creating their own zombie hordes... But just how did this perception of zombies come about and is there any truth in it? Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________SockeytomeThis is a collection of friends talking about anythin...2022-01-1031 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastMysterious Brain Disorders We Just Can't Understand...The human brain is an extraordinary organ. Functioning at optimal levels, it is our best friend, performing tasks from regulating our breathing and heart rate, to coordinating our movements, allowing us to interpret touch, and develop reasoning. There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the brain, which fire information electrochemically, via connections called synapses, at speeds of up to 250 mph.But illness, disease and damage to this sophisticated instrument that we rely upon, can produce some extraordinary and hugely distressing results in how we perceive reality, and how we behave. Here we look at 5, thankfully rare, but truly...2022-01-0311 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastGhost Stories & Haunted Locations From Our Audience's HometownsWant us to dig up creepy stories and unsolved mysteries form your hometown? Check out our 'Too Close to Home' tier over on Patreon for more information: https://www.patreon.com/Top5sOfficalEpisode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________SockeytomeThis is a collection of friends talking about anything, something or nothing...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it really helps! Check our our videos o...2021-12-2729 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastHaunted Places in the UK You Don't Want to Visit at Night...A recent poll has revealed that a third of british people believe in ghosts, spirits or other types of paranormal phenomena....could that be because they have experienced paranormal activity themselves or have come face to face with an entity?Well it seems if you live in the U.K the chances are that you have, as there appears to be a ghost or creepy story around every corner, in fact we found so many during our research for our previous haunted UK video that we thought we would make another one, that also includes a personal a...2021-12-2017 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastCREEPY Cryptids that Might Actually Be Out There...Currently, around 8.7 million known species of eukaryotic have been identified, and that figure is constantly growing, but these are just a fraction of what could be out there, and it is no surprise that people frequently witness creatures they have never seen before. These creatures that are proposed to exist without being formally recognised by science are known as cryptids, but just because they have not been formally recognised... doesn't mean they don't exist! In this video, we will look at five Creepy Cryptids that could actually be living amongst us.Episode narrated by Top5s...2021-12-1314 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastSCARY Horror Stories That Will Scare You to Death...From macabre tales of killer clowns, monsters or alternate universes. There is nothing better than sitting by the fireside or being tucked up warm in bed and listening to a spine-chilling story. Whether it’s a creepy pasta internet legend or a story written over a hundred and fifty years ago, here are five scary tales to freak you out.Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Support the show Support us on Patreon Consider leaving us a review on your preferred podcast platform, it really helps! Ch...2021-12-0616 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastSCARY Poltergeist Horror Stories That Will Make Your Skin Crawl...Since the early Victorian era spiritualists and followers of the paranormal have tried to classify the supposed inhabitants from the world of the supernatural. There are the servants of God and Satan – Angels and Demons. There are ghosts and phantoms, the souls of those who have passed over but are still trapped here on earth for whatever reason. There are ancient ‘elementals’ and spirit animals. Then there are poltergeists. Today we look at five poltergeist horror stories.Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Supp...2021-11-2918 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastTERRIFYING Ouija Board Horror Stories That Will Put You on Edge...Is an Ouija board a harmless family game or is there something more sinister about them? Unless you have experienced anything strange happening to you after playing an ouija board the answer is probably harmless fun.However there are those that are either susceptible to suggestion or genuinely believe they can contact the other side that will swear that an apparently ordinary piece of wood with numbers and letters on is able to summon up both spirits and demons and that you mess with an Ouija board at your peril... after all dicing with the unknown is a...2021-11-2213 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastParanormal Hotspots in Britain You Wouldn't Want to Live Close To...The United Kingdom has thousands of years worth of history, so it is no surprise that it is one of the most haunted places in the world, and when you consider how small the UK is it seems to have more than its fair share of ghosts and paranormal activity, it seems every village and every old buildings has at least one ghost story to tell, in this video we have selected just a fraction of the locations said to be teeming with the spirits of the dead. So hit those lights, sit back and enjoy five of the...2021-11-1518 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe Ghosts of New York City | DocumentaryWith roots dating back to colonial times, and a centuries-long pattern of hosting millions upon millions of people, New York City is not without its paranormal side, either. No city on Earth with a rich history like New York has functioned without a darker underbelly, with stories full of supernatural entities and creepy characters lurking in dark subway tunnels or shadows of a fog-filled alley near the port. They may not be what defines New York City, nor may they be the most documented aspect of its history, but one thing’s for sure; there’s more than one reas...2021-11-0844 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastChilling Cases of Stockholm Syndrome...In today's video we are going to look at cases of so-called Stockholm Syndrome, where someone who has been kidnapped and held against their will, subconsciously develops a bond with their captors as a survival mechanism. The condition is seen in around 8% of kidnap victims, and it can be confusing for the sufferer as they have often been treated appallingly and held in horrific conditions for many years, so why would they feel anything other than hatred for their captor? Here we look at 5 Chilling Cases of kidnapping where the victims survived their ordeal by showing compassion towards their...2021-11-0118 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastScariest & Most Dangerous Prison Inmates Alive...The late Thomas Silverstein and Charles Bronson have frequently been cited as being the scariest prison inmates, both having committed numerous crimes while incarcerated. Here, we look at 5 criminals who have committed such heinous crimes and shown so little remorse for their acts, that they will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to all the families affected by the deeds of these violent and dangerous individuals.Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Support the show Support us on...2021-10-2520 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastWhat Things Would We Find if We Drained the Worlds Oceans?Ocean water makes up 70% of the surface of the Earth. Just imagine it. We can empty the oceans and drain away all of the water. If we ignore the fact that our world is going to end up just like the planet Venus with scorching temperatures and unbreathable air. In the few weeks before the seas become deserts. What secrets would we find on the ocean floor? Ancient sunken cities, the remnants of battles fought at sea or even pirate treasure are just a few of the things we would find if we could drain the oceans.2021-10-1117 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastREAL Life Horror Stories That Will Scare You To Your Core...Some real-life stories defy belief and we are amazed how many truly horrific true stories there are to choose from. In this episode, we look at five tragic cases, one that is so disturbing we couldn't go into too much detail. It’s hard for us to say hit those lights, sit back and enjoy as these cases aren't enjoyable, they are the stuff of nightmares, but here are five deeply disturbing real-life horror stories…. Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Our episodes deal with...2021-10-0425 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastMost Mysterious RECENTLY Discovered Sea Creatures...There is an unquenchable desire within the human species that leads them on to the never-ending quests of development, enlightenment, exploration and discovery. Throughout recorded history and even in archaeological finds all over the world, humans have never stopped trying to understand their world, how it works and what it contains. During the past year, with all the difficulties surrounding the protection of the world from a virus that has spread to every continent, the same drive to explore and discover has not been abandoned. Many discoveries have been made while the news of the day reported things of...2021-09-2715 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe Disturbing Japanese Airlines UFO Encounter...On November 17, 1986 Japan Airlines flight 1628 took off on the Iceland to Alaska leg of its journey. The Boeing 747 – 200f cargo plane was travelling from Paris France to Narita airport near Tokyo. What was supposed to be a routine flight carrying a cargo of bottles of Beaujolais wine turned into a nightmare journey for the Captain and his crew. What actually happened to them that evening over the Alaskan skies has been hotly debated over the years. Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Our episodes de...2021-09-2020 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastDisturbing REAL Life Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up Tonight...Who doesn’t love a good horror story? Lots of us love to watch creepy movies and read Stephen King books but it’s all just fiction. A made-up tale to get our hearts racing and make us check under the bed before we go to sleep. But what if some of these stories aren’t just made up in a writer’s imagination. Here are five disturbing real-life horror stories… Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing...2021-09-1317 minThe Hit The Lights PodcastThe Most Violent Extraterrestrial Incident Ever Documented...It is known as one of the most violent cases involving extraterrestrials ever to be documented. UFOs appeared in the skies above a small Brazilian city and discharged lights that caused injuries to many men, women and children. It is a rare case that culminated in at least two deaths and the alleged suicide of the Commander of the Brazilian Airforce.Episode narrated by Top5sMusic by CO.AG________Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing cases involving serial killers. Listener discretion is advised.2021-09-0617 min