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Hosted by Justin Gearheart · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 38 episodes
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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 investigates UFO sightings, anomalous encounters, consciousness, and the big questions that emerge when firsthand experiences collide with science and skepticism.
Justin Gearheart hosts Close Encounter Club, a society show with 38 episodes published.
Nearly 30 years after witnessing the Phoenix Lights, software engineer Dustin Wilkins found an image that stopped him in his tracks. On March 13, 1997, Dustin and five members of his family watched five strange lights ap
After losing their baby in 2019, Mike and Sheena Bidwell found themselves in a place where nothing seemed to help. Eventually, a therapist friend suggested psilocybin mushrooms as a last resort for grief. That first expe
Are UAPs a modern phenomenon, or are they connected to a much older, forgotten history? Join us as we sit down with researcher and host of The Micah Hanks Program to bridge the gap between hard science and the unexplaine
Millions of people say DMT changed their lives. For Adam Butler, it didn't just change his life—it saved it. In this episode, we sit down with Adam Butler to hear his journey from absolute collapse to a radical spiritual
I’m tired of grainy photos. It's time we start collecting hard data. In this episode of Close Encounter Club, physicist Dr. Jim Segala (formerly of Hal Puthoff’s team) breaks down the measurable physics of UAP encounters
There’s a claim that if you smoke DMT and look into a diffracted laser… you can see the code of reality. Some swear it’s real. Others call it bullsh*t. So we tested it. In this episode, Josh takes DMT on camera and descr
Is there new evidence that supports Bob Lazar’s story? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, we sit down with Luigi Vendittelli, director of S4: The Bob Lazar Story, to discuss his four-and-a-half-year journey working
"I went to the barber, and he stopped everything."In one of our most chilling interviews yet, an anonymous witness reveals the terrifying physical mark left behind after a 30-minute encounter with a mysterious green orb.
Is empathy simply the ability to understand another person’s emotions… or could it represent something far more mysterious? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, we explore the neuroscience of empathy and the controve
Three people were sitting at a dinner table when they noticed an elderly man walking slowly through their backyard. He looked completely normal. He didn’t react to them. He didn’t seem lost or confused. Concerned, one of
What if something showed up in the sky… and it shouldn’t have been there? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, we analyze real footage captured by Justin during a strange aerial sighting now known as The Henry Tic Ta
In this episode of *Close Encounter Club*, Justin and Josh are joined by Danny Goler, an independent researcher and creator behind *Code of Reality*, whose work explores perception, consciousness, and informational struc
In this episode of Close Encounter Club, Justin and Josh speak with Fred Roehl, an Alaska Native subsistence hunter and founder of Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch, about one of the most intense wilderness encounters ever shar
What happens when a scientist known for his precision and skepticism has a paranormal experience he can’t explain? In EP 21: The Physicist Who Saw a Ghost, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Dr. Melvin Vopson, a theoretic
Dr. Jeff Meldrum (1958–2025) was one of the world’s leading experts on Sasquatch, footprints, and human evolution. As a professor of anatomy and anthropology, he brought scientific rigor to a mystery often dismissed by m
At a Fleetwood Mac tribute concert in Palm Springs, Keston and Andrea witnessed something impossible: the band slowed, their bodies slumped, and for a few surreal seconds it felt like time itself froze. Even stranger—the
A peaceful cabin retreat should have been the perfect family getaway — until it wasn't. In this chilling firsthand account, Robert Maxwell from the Cabin in the Woods YouTube channel describes the unnerving sequence of e
A former Marine is sent to a secret radar site on Eglin Air Force Base… and discovers they're tracking something far more mysterious than enemy aircraft. In this episode, William Ray Carter reveals what happened inside S
What happens when a lifelong skeptic, a science communicator, and an astrophysicist sees something in the sky he can’t explain? In this episode, we step back from the eerie and the unexplainable… and zoom all the way out
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
Adam Butler
Director of Conservation Development and former Wild Turkey Program Coordinator · Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
1 appearance on this show
Danny Goler
2 appearances on this show
Jeff Meldrum
researcher and primate bi-pedal locomotion expert · Idaho State University
1 appearance on this show
Robert Maxwell
Security Operations Leader
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Jones
Beauty Marks for Girls: Addressing Trauma for Girls With Incarcerated Mothers through long-term Mentorship, Care & Community · Howard County Economic Development Authority
1 appearance on this show
Fred Roehl
Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch
1 appearance on this show
Courtney
Jaunty Haunts
1 appearance on this show
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