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Real people. True stories. Unexplained encounters — and experts to help us make sense of it all. Hosted by Justin Gearheart, Close Encounter Club dives into UFO sightings, alien encounters, and paranormal phenomena through firsthand accounts that challenge your sense of reality.
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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 people who’ve experienced the unexplainable and don’t want to feel so alone anymore.
In this special crossover, Courtney joins Justin and Josh to talk about hauntings, family secrets, and why making space for joy and weirdness might be the best way to navigate the paranormal.
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Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
What if the strangest night of your life happened before you even knew how to explain it? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, host Justin Gearhart sits down with Annie—a speech pathology student whose memory holds something much louder: a night when every car alarm in her apartment complex went off at the exact same time.
She was only eight. Just a summer night, heading down to the car with a friend to grab a DVD.
They noticed the old powder blue pickup behaving… oddly.
Without warning, every car alarm in the lot erupted at once.
No one else seemed to hear it. Not even their moms, just a few feet away.
Join us as we explore one of the most subtle—and chilling—childhood encounters we’ve ever heard.
It’s also the first episode to feature Scully, our new AI investigator—helping us dig deeper, question harder, and stay grounded in the search for truth.
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Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
What if your earliest memories weren’t dreams at all—but visitations? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, host Justin Gearheart speaks with ForbiddenSnackie, a lifelong experiencer whose connection to extraterrestrial beings began in early childhood. Raised in a devout Mormon household, she drew detailed pictures of aliens before she even had the words to describe them—beings she called her “night family.”
Over time, her memories expanded: telepathic communications, moments of missing time, and vivid encounters aboard craft that defied logic and gravity. But this isn’t just a story of abduction—it’s one of identity, consciousness, and rediscovering truths that were once hidden.
Join us as we explore one of the most emotionally resonant and symbolically rich accounts of contact we’ve ever heard.
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Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
What if the traumas you carry aren’t just from this lifetime?
Steve Burgess — world-renowned hypnotherapist and author of The Power of Past Life Regression and The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist — joins the Close Encounter Club to explore how hidden memories from past lives, ancestral trauma, and even otherworldly experiences can shape who we are today.
Steve has guided over 15,000 regression sessions across the globe, uncovering cases of healing that defy conventional explanation. In this conversation, we dive into the science of the subconscious, the mysteries of reincarnation, and stories that blur the line between past and present.
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Steve Burgess' Links
Website: steveburgesshypnosis.com
YouTube: Hypno4all
The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist: "Was I Under?"
The Power of Past Life Regression
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
On a quiet night at a golf resort in Wyong, Australia, Clark Watson looked up and saw something that would change his life forever.
In this gripping episode, Clark recounts his extraordinary multi-night encounter with unexplained aerial phenomena—flashing lights, erratic movements, and a massive, silent triangular craft that hovered just above his balcony. He captured it all on video, but what followed was even stranger: time loss, emotional shifts, memory gaps, and a journey into deeper questions about consciousness, reality, and what these craft might really be.
Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, this is one of the most compelling UFO experiences you’ll hear—made even more powerful by Clark’s honesty and vivid detail.
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