Strange stories with room to talk.
Expanded Perspectives is a talky paranormal show built around Cam Hale and Kyle Filson’s easy back-and-forth. Hockey jokes, garden updates, family chatter, and book talk give way to stories about giants, cloaked figures, centaurs, UFOs, and haunted-looking wilderness encounters.
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Expanded Perspectives is a paranormal storytelling show with the rhythm of two familiar voices settling in before the lights go low. The episodes often begin far from the uncanny. Cam Hale and Kyle Filson talk hockey, weather, gardening, shirts, book feedback, family schedules, crawfish, or the practical business of getting through a week. Then a story arrives, and the room changes. One episode follows a heart-transplant recipient whose curiosity about his donor becomes an emotional pull toward the donor’s widow. Another lingers over a camper near Mount Rainier who wakes at 3 a.m. feeling watched, then sees dark, spindly figures move over him. A different account describes a cloaked, Predator-like presence beside a sleeping girlfriend, its surface seeming to distort light. The show also works through centaurs, giants in jungle stories, little-people folklore, UFO material, and wilderness encounters that sit somewhere between oral tradition and modern sighting report. It is not a clean museum display of the paranormal. It is more informal than that. The appeal is in the way eerie details get handled by people who are interested, amused, doubtful, and occasionally rattled all at once. A terrifying image may be followed by a joke about damage dice, hockey pads, or Bigfoot wearing an arrowhead. That does not flatten the stories. It makes them feel passed around by people who know that belief is complicated and fear is easier to face when someone else is talking back. The show’s best moments come when narration and commentary overlap: a long, suspenseful account interrupted by a quick reaction, a memory of another case, or a plainspoken refusal to accept the easy explanation. Expanded Perspectives suits listeners who like their strange material conversational, not ceremonial. It has room for folklore, strange creatures, high strangeness, grief, dread, and everyday detours. The result is warm, rambling, and often spooky in spite of itself.
Made for: For listeners who like paranormal accounts, strange creature lore, strange wilderness stories, and folklore told with casual back-and-forth rather than a polished documentary tone. It suits people who enjoy eerie details but still want humor and everyday chatter around the edges.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by letting banter and dread coexist. Its strongest texture comes from Cam Hale and Kyle Filson reacting in real time as stories move from ordinary life into giants, silhouettes, cloaked watchers, centaurs, and emotional mysteries.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Expanded Perspectives traces paranormal stories through family memory, regional lore and older reports, showing how extraordinary claims acquire histories of their own.
Expanded Perspectives turns reports of impossible encounters into campfire narrative, with Cam Hale and Kyle Filson moving between prepared storytelling and loose studio conversation.
A counterfeit Nazi fortune leads to centaurs and cloaked bedroom visitors, with Cam and Kyle cracking wise.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A transplant story that turns grief, curiosity, and an unexpected connection into something intimate.
Expanded Perspectives tracks a transplant story that opens into an unusual relationship: Sonny, who received Terry Cottle's heart, wants to learn more about Terry and eventually reaches out to Cheryl, Terry's widow.
Centaur sightings and roadside lore keep the conversation pleasantly strange.
Cam and Kyle keep this one moving through centaur sightings, a medicine man's warning, and roadside stories that give the episode its offbeat charge.
A loose cabin tale where family stories and giant lore keep the mood unsettled.
Expanded Perspectives starts with Cam Hale in studio beside Kyle Filson, who is framed as a selling author, and it settles into a listener-collected bundle of stories instead of a single polished arc.
A loose paranormal hour that starts with a bedroom sighting and ends on an odd hunting detour.
Expanded Perspectives opens with Cam Hale and Kyle Filson in a loose, talkative exchange, then folds into a listener's account of a cloaked figure in a bedroom, with the girlfriend asleep nearby and the detail around the shoulders, colors, and shape turning the moment uncanny…
A Mount Rainier camping story where paralysis and two tall silhouettes make fear feel alarmingly physical.
Fear takes shape as a physical crisis before it turns into a mystery. Expanded Perspectives follows Dan, a hard-edged biker from Barstow, on a Mount Rainier camping trip that snaps awake at 3 a.m.
A familiar summer route opens onto an orchard, bluebells, and an autumn mood out of season.
Expanded Perspectives takes a familiar teenage walk and lets it slip, quietly, into somewhere that feels wrong. A route known by habit gives way to an unfamiliar apple orchard, an odd house, beehives, and a dirt path leading into a shaded woodland glade thick with bluebells.
A counterfeit-money caper ends at the bottom of Lake Toplitz.
The episode follows a Lake Toplitz mystery through secret documents, a printing press, and Operation Bernhard, the secret German project tied to Adolf Hitler himself.
Henry Eliot walks Paris, Lisbon, and Cambridge to unlock classic novels with expert guests.
Kevin Young and a guest poet close-read one archival New Yorker poem per episode.
Hosts Cam Hale and Kyle Filson share listener-submitted stories of supernatural encounters to start the new year.
Hosts Cam Hale and Kyle Fields open with holiday banter before sharing listener stories of a shape-shifting hog and an indoor 'glimmer man'.
Cam Hale and Kyle Sussman discuss Shark Week and a viral video of a man attempting to rescue a shark.
Cam Hale and Kyle Filson discuss their minimalist lifestyle choices and the upcoming summer season in a casual conversation.
Grumps and Poppy chat about perfect Texas weather, hair, and weight in a lighthearted banter.
["Expanded Perspectives opens with Reverend Cam Hale and Kyle Filson reading a 1978 Girl Scout camping report from Southeast Ohio, where a camper says something dragged her feet-first out of a tent and tore the sleeping bag to shreds.", "The episode then moves to Ben, a property guard in early August 2016, who says he saw a rippled humanoid form near an alder grove, felt intense dread, and later found an L-shaped hole and long gashes in the dirt near a cedar tree.", "A separate report from Blanco, Oklahoma, says Alicia Maxie was knocked down by a dog-like attacker on March 29, 2026, airlifted to Tulsa, and treated after multiple surgeries while investigators weighed dog, bear, and mountain lion possibilities.", "The second half turns to organ-transplant cases involving Terry Cottle, Sonny Graham, and Claire Sylvia, including Graham's marriage to Cottle's widow and Sylvia's new cravings and vivid dreams after surgery."]
Expanded Perspectives opens with Cam Hale and Come Over Kyle Filson discussing Bob Lazar, the April 3 release of S4, the Bob Lazar Story, and Lazar's claims about Project Galileo and element 115.
Cam Hale and Kyle Filson open with Chuck Norris, Bob Nuttles, and Eddie Murphy before moving into listener-submitted creature reports.
Cam Hale and Kyle Philson discuss UFOs, hockey playoffs, and Paralympic sled hockey in a casual conversation.
Cam Hale and Kyle Filson introduce themselves and discuss a Predator shirt before hinting at a surprise Christmas gift for Luke.
Expanded Perspectives with Cam Hale and Kyle Filson uses the new book release to revisit glimmer-man sightings, including a Fort Hood account and a 2019 Idaho hunt.
Dan says two tall shapes at Mount Rainier pressed one finger into him and made him feel "drained away."
Cam Hale and Cal Philson chat about Texas weather, gardening plans, and the loss of Cal's dog.
Hosts Cam Hale and Kyle Felsak introduce guest Lon Strickler to discuss flying humanoids and his appearance on Unsolved Mysteries, focusing on the Mothman phenomenon and recent sightings.