Hidden In The Shadows Podcast

Hidden In The Shadows Podcast Uncovering high strangeness, UFOs, cryptids & liminal mysteries. Hosted by Megan & Isaac. Based in NC.

Hello 👋 guys! Happy Thursday!!We are currently working on researching and collecting stories for our Part 3 for Haunted ...
09/03/2026

Hello 👋 guys! Happy Thursday!!

We are currently working on researching and collecting stories for our Part 3 for Haunted Onslow County & Camp Lejeune.

And it got us reflecting on how we rarely make posts about local paranormal encounters.

For those that don’t know, we are based out of Jacksonville, North Carolina. A smallish city smack dab next to a bunch of military bases, but specifically Camp Lejeune.

Over the years, we’ve sprinkled in our experiences from living in the area. I (Megan) was born and pretty much raised here and have experienced the paranormal and strangeness here for years. In fact, I joke and say the stuff I experienced here got me prepared for the plethora of stuff I experienced while living in Texas.

When we started the podcast in 2020, I had a natural instinct to start digging around paranormal experiences here. I knew I had many experiences living here but didn’t know the degree of how widespread it was until I started talking to people and getting on pages and Reddit forums.

Everything from alien encounters, haunted resident houses, strange creatures in the woods, haunted locations, terrifying supernatural encounters on base, black-eyed kids, and even gnomes!

Even back in 2023, when we hosted a live podcast at Pizza Bonez, we started handing out flyers around town. We started talking to more and more people about experiences. People who were skeptical of the idea of the paranormal even gave me a look when I mentioned Camp Lejeune. He basically said, “I don’t believe in the paranormal, but Camp Lejeune… that s**t is haunted.” These encounters have spanned decades as well!

We started collecting and connecting dots since our last episode on the local area. Doing investigations and experiencing wild encounters ourselves. Our next episode (Part 3) is diving into the WHY and will be coming out before the end of the year!

If any of these stories resonate with you and you experienced something similar, we wanna hear your story! Feel free to share it!
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08/08/2026

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Have you ever wondered about the science behind why we get goosebumps? We feel them when we’re cold, excited, scared, or...
07/18/2026

Have you ever wondered about the science behind why we get goosebumps? We feel them when we’re cold, excited, scared, or even when resonating with information. But why? And how exactly does this happen?

Well, it wasn’t just a modern-day reaction. This goes back to our ancestors, and we’re not the only mammals that do this! Goosebumps originally served a dual purpose, helping when you were either cold or feeling threatened.

When you’re cold, raising the hairs traps a layer of warm air close to the skin, helping with insulation. Meanwhile, goosebumps that occur when you feel threatened cause raised “fur,” which makes an animal look bigger and more intimidating to predators or rivals.

While humans no longer have enough body hair for this to be on full display, our bodies still go through the exact same reflex and motion.

The brain detects a trigger whether it be cold, fear, excitement, or a powerful emotion. Your sympathetic nervous system then sends a signal, and tiny muscles called arrector pili muscles tighten.

As they contract, they pull each hair upright, creating those distinct little bumps on the skin.
In a paranormal setting, this is often said to happen when a spirit, presence, or entity is nearby. It can also signify a moment of validation, a spike in intuition, sudden energy shifts, or heightened psychic sensitivity.
Goosebumps during investigations are definitely something to log and talk about!

Where have you gotten goosebumps before?

Happy Thursday! Ready to go down a strange rabbit hole with me? ✨A couple of days ago, I started using a smart watch to ...
07/16/2026

Happy Thursday! Ready to go down a strange rabbit hole with me? ✨

A couple of days ago, I started using a smart watch to track my daily steps and monitor my sleep. I have incredibly vivid dreams, so I was really curious to see the data. Well, I noticed that the nights I had the highest dream recall were the nights I was heavily in a light sleep state not REM or deep sleep.

This completely boggled my mind. Like most people, I always assumed REM and deep sleep were the absolute harbingers of those heavy, vivid dreams. I figured any premonition-style dream had to happen when I was dead to the world.

But as I went down this rabbit hole, I learned the science is completely different.

In sleep studies, researchers constantly observe a phenomenon where subjects swear they were wide-awake all-night processing thoughts, but the EEG machines show they were actually in Stage 2 light sleep. It’s a literal hybrid state where your physical body is asleep and recovering, but your logical, conscious mind is still running in real-time.

When you bridge this neuroscience with the paranormal, it makes perfect sense: light sleep is one of the thinnest veils you can actively exist in. It’s a natural, quiet twilight zone where your physical firewall is down, but your awareness is wide open to the frequencies of spirits, psychic impressions, and future premonitions.

Slide through to see the science behind how this "I Swear I Was Awake" state works, and how it acts as an open antenna to the unseen world overnight.

(Disclaimer: While the sleep stages and EEG data are rooted in actual cognitive neuroscience, the paranormal connections are my own interpretation of blending these two worlds together. So, take that part with a grain of salt! 😉)

06/03/2026

Our latest episode this week is diving into our eyes! Before we tumble down the rabbit hole of how we “see” the paranormal, we need to break down how our eyes actually function. Honestly, for myself, I had absolutely no clue. When you start giving me the technical functions of the body, my brain starts itching fast! I was searching high and low for an easy way to grasp it, and that’s when it clicked: our eyes work exactly like a digital camera.

Everything around us has light bouncing off it, and that light travels straight to your eye, passing through the cornea first. This acts just like the glass front of a camera lens, bending the light so it can focus as it squeezes inside.

Next up is the colored part of your eye, the iris, which acts like a camera's adjustable Aperture blades, while the black pupil in the middle serves as a tiny open door. If a room is bright, those blades squeeze tight to make the door small so the camera doesn't get blinded, and if it's dark, the door opens wide to scoop up every bit of light it can find. This is exactly what’s happening when your eyes dilate or constrict!
Once the light passes through this lens door, it flashes onto the retina at the back wall of your eye, which acts just like a digital sensor or film strip inside a camera. But here is the glitch: the camera lens naturally captures the picture completely upside down! Your brain then has to act like the camera's smart internal computer processor, instantly grabbing that upside-down image file and flipping it right-side up so you can see the final, processed photo. This entire operation happens automatically, faster than you can even blink! Imagine everytime you look at an object this happens.

Hey! Happy Wednesday! This week we're diving into our eyes and how we perceive the paranormal! Researching the science s...
06/03/2026

Hey! Happy Wednesday! This week we're diving into our eyes and how we perceive the paranormal! Researching the science side of how our eyes work was absolutely fascinating. We thought it would be fun to share some facts we learned that are eerie but interesting at the same time. (Full disclosure: I passed on posting about the mites that are found on our eyelashes, eyebrows, and sides of our nose. They're microscopic, but they gave me total goosebumps! You can find out more about them in the comments if you're curious.)

After reading these facts, did you already know any of this about your eyes? Let us know in the comments!

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Research Help: We’re deep into the research for Haunted Camp Lejeune / Onslow County Part 3, sifting through stories, h...
06/02/2026

Research Help:
We’re deep into the research for Haunted Camp Lejeune / Onslow County Part 3, sifting through stories, history, and the strange threads that keep pulling us back to this series in our episodes. We are still looking for locals to hear their stories and experiences to fully connect the dots we have been forming over the years.

If something unexplained happened to you on Camp Lejeune or anywhere nearby, we’d love to talk with you and see how your story fits into the bigger picture.

Send us a DM on any of our social platforms or email us at hiddenintheshadows.com. Or [email protected]

If you are unfamiliar with CE-5 and what it actually is... this is the post for you.Throughout this spring, we’ve dived ...
05/28/2026

If you are unfamiliar with CE-5 and what it actually is... this is the post for you.

Throughout this spring, we’ve dived heavily into alien and UFO categories. But there was one specific category we found it imperative to test for ourselves: CE-5.

To understand it, you have to go back to The Hynek Scale. Created by astronomer J. Allen Hynek, this original system allowed researchers to categorize exactly what people were experiencing, ranging from CE-1 to CE-4 (Close Encounters of the 1st through 4th kind).

However, Dr. Steven Greer believed there was more to the story. He created CE-5 (Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind), which flips the script on the traditional scale. Instead of humans being purely passive observers, CE-5 plays on the concept that we can actually initiate contact ourselves.

🛸 The Controversy:
This is where things get heavily debated. There are numerous claims from critics that some of Greer's mass interactions were hoaxed. Plus, there's the fact that you have to pay thousands of dollars to attend his official sessions essentially paying for contact.

🧘‍♂️ The Protocols:
Despite the drama, the actual CE-5 protocols are fascinating. They require deep meditation within a group, reaching a state of consciousness where you "vector in" your exact physical location to extraterrestrial beings. This is paired with using specific frequencies, tones, or lasers to signal the sky, all while radiating a peaceful, non-hostile energy.

There are a couple of famous mass-contact events where the evidence gets a bit crazy, and we will definitely be diving into those in a later post!

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🎙️ GUEST EPISODE DROPPING FRIDAY! 🎙️Guest interviews are easily some of our favorite episodes to record. We love diving ...
05/28/2026

🎙️ GUEST EPISODE DROPPING FRIDAY! 🎙️

Guest interviews are easily some of our favorite episodes to record. We love diving deep into the strange encounters, unique backgrounds, and fascinating insights of those pushing the boundaries in the paranormal community.

This week, we are thrilled to welcome Chris from podcast! We’re sitting down to chat about everything that first sparked his interest in the paranormal and inspired him to launch his own show.

Keep your eyes on our feed for exclusive clips from the episode coming soon! In the meantime, go check out Chris on his social media and podcast!

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