The Faceless Guest

Summary

Hosts Cam and Kyle of Expanded Perspectives read a Halloween-week batch of listener encounter stories, ranging from a red-eyed hellhound in rural Idaho to a toad-faced goblin in a Maryland marsh. The most haunting account comes from a listener who says a faceless, seven-foot pale figure followed them from home to home for nearly a decade during an abusive childhood, then faded away once they began therapy. Along the way the hosts weigh shapeshifting Bigfoot, the cloaked 'Glimmer Man,' flying manta rays over the Ohio River Valley, and uncanny 'not-deer' that seem to be failed copies of real animals.

Key takeaways

• 1A couple in rural northern Idaho say a red-eyed creature, too big for a wolf but too small for a bear, chased them from a well site; a local identified it as a hellhound and said seeing it once brings happiness, twice sorrow, and three times an end
• 2In Manor, Texas, a man jokingly called out to Sasquatch, then watched what looked like a 400-500 lb boar hog stand on its hind legs and walk off like Bigfoot
• 3A Kentucky witness in Owensboro reported a giant, light-brown 'flying manta ray' on October 18, 2026, and found similar reports across the Ohio River Valley
• 4Two men near Wetlands Overlook Park in North Beach, Maryland, described a 3-foot green creature with a toad face, a trunk-like nose, three clawed fingers, and glowing white eyes; the hosts compared it to the 1955 Hopkinsville Goblins case in Kentucky
• 5A park ranger at Little Buffalo State Park in Pennsylvania reported a 7-8 foot hairy biped in August 2006, along with local reports of deer torn apart but not eaten
• 6Listener Erin described a faceless 7-foot 'Pale Man' who appeared for about a decade during childhood emotional abuse and stopped appearing after therapy began
• 7Other accounts include a water-like 'Glimmer Man' creature in Killeen, Texas, a glitching gray figure and distorted 'not-deer' in metro Atlanta, and a cream-colored, bat-winged creature on Route 9 in Fulton County, Illinois, on October 26, 2026
• 8The hosts promoted their Glimmer Man book and an upcoming appearance on the Blurry Creatures podcast in Franklin, Tennessee

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Transcript excerpt

everybody and thank you all again so very much for joining us here today on expanded perspectives well with me of course cam hell and as always hanging out today is el bobby grande himself how's it going everybody yes i'm here in skeleton studios uh halloween week halloween's approaching i love it spooky time of year we've been getting a lot of stories we got a lot of new followers oh yeah yeah so thank you man everybody that's here thank you for checking us out following us on all the socials it's been great yeah it's been a really good year like we have gone all over we just did another podcast yep yeah with god's country yep very cool i can find that on was it the brothers hunt i think so you can find that all on youtube there's links to all that stuff and then we're heading out again yeah we're heading up to franklin tennessee on the day after halloween get to go hang out with nate and luke at blurry creatures yeah go sit in there in their new studio that'll be fun yeah good time yeah it's been hectic but it's been fun and like kyle said the stories goodness people yeah they just keep flowing in goodness that's what i was telling andrew i was like man if you start asking your listeners for stories you'll start getting them too man you're gonna have to curate through them yeah but you'll get some bangers and then when you tell them on the air it inspires other people to tell theirs yeah so it's like every time we have a wild story we get 20 more and uh it's just been going good i got one if you want to start the...

Excerpt from Expanded Perspectives, Oct 30, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.