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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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Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
The Breathing: Ryan's Story
Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
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 — a deep, metallic, labored breathing unlike anything he had ever encountered. He recalls the sound in vivid detail: slow, powerful, mechanical yet organic, and so close it felt pressed against the wall of their house. The moment he pulled back the curtains, the breathing stopped.
Ryan shares his honest, skeptical perspective: weighing possible rational explanations, ruling out machinery or neighbors, and grappling with the eerie fact that there were no vibrations despite the sheer volume of the sound. He also reflects on the connection between this strange event and Jennifer’s sudden, unexplained recovery from years of debilitating back pain — something he admits defies explanation.
This conversation offers a grounded, outsider’s view of an encounter that challenges logic and raises unsettling questions about what might be lurking just beyond our perception.
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
EP 15: The Breathing: Alien Healing, Arcturians, and Unexplained Recovery
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
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 later, something even stranger happened: Jennifer’s decades of chronic spinal pain vanished completely.
Backed by years of documented medical records, MRIs, and neurology visits, Jennifer’s story raises profound questions. Was this a case of spontaneous healing, or could it have been an extraterrestrial intervention? During a QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) session, Jennifer recalled the presence of Arcturian beings, said to be advanced extraterrestrials known for healing and guiding humanity.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Jennifer’s medical history and the severity of her back pain.
The night she and her family heard “The Breathing.”
How her pain disappeared overnight after the encounter.
Insights from her QHHT session and connection to the Arcturians.
Commentary from Scully, our AI researcher, exploring scientific and psychological explanations.
This isn’t just a UFO story. It’s about healing, consciousness, and the unexplained mysteries that push us to rethink reality itself.
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Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
EP 14: The New Yorker who talks to Ghosts
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
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
EP 13: That One Night – A Truck, Flashing Lights & Unexplained Chaos
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
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 part? Annie and her friend remember it vividly, but the adults upstairs — just a few feet away — heard nothing. No alarms. No chaos. Nothing at all.
This episode marks the first appearance of Scully, our AI researcher built to keep Close Encounter Club grounded, skeptical, and scientific. Together, Justin and Scully break down the events, explore possible explanations — from electromagnetic interference to altered perception — and ask the questions that matter: What really happened that night? Was it human, paranormal, or something we don’t yet understand?
If you’re fascinated by paranormal encounters, UFO phenomena, unexplained mysteries, or consciousness research, this is a story that will stay with you long after you finish listening.
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Wednesday May 14, 2025
EP 12: The Night Family – Lifelong Alien Encounters & Star Visitors
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
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 encounters aren’t isolated events — they are part of an ongoing connection.
Raised in a Mormon household, Snacky grew up with both spiritual and paranormal frameworks that shaped her understanding of what was happening. Over time, she uncovered memories of being aboard craft, interacting with beings she calls her “night family,” and even learning directly from them through consciousness-based teaching tools. These encounters blurred the line between dream, memory, and lived experience, echoing the themes we’ve heard in other Close Encounter Club episodes — yet with a uniquely human depth.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Childhood encounters, drawings, and early memories of aliens.
How her family sometimes experienced these events together — and sometimes forgot them.
Inside-the-ship experiences, from organic architecture to telepathic technology.
Snackie’s reflections on consciousness, time, and the afterlife as explained by the beings.
How she reconciles lifelong encounters with skepticism, memory gaps, and the challenges of sharing her story.
This is one of the most detailed and personal alien contact stories ever shared on Close Encounter Club. It raises not only questions about UFOs and abduction, but also about consciousness, memory, and humanity’s place in the cosmos.
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