Dale Earnhardt Jr. does not believe in Bigfoot or Sasquatch, he thinks ghosts could be real and he possibly once had a paranormal encounter, unsurprisingly, at a race track.

On the retired NASCAR driver‘s weekly podcast, the Dale Jr. Download, fans asked questions regarding this topic, and not only did Earnhardt explain why he thinks paranormal activity is real, but he also opened up about an experience he had while behind the wheel of a race car on fire.

Despite accidentally calling it “paranoia” activity at first and laughing at himself, Junior shared his views on spirits or the afterlife. He said on the podcast:

“I do believe in paranoia activity. … That’s so bad, oh my god. I do believe in that stuff. I think that our personalities and our souls have so much — we’re so much more than just blood vessels and bones and muscle, ya know? And I feel like that it’s quite possible that, in certain situations, when we die — our bodies die — that maybe there’s a spirit capable of continuing on. In certain situations, not all the time. “So haunted places? Sure. I believe that there’s quite possibly some haunted places in this (world). But I don’t think that I’ve ever encountered a spirit or seen a ghost with my own eyes.”

But with the help of a little probing from podcast co-host Mike Davis, Earnhardt reconsidered that last statement. He’s still not sure about seeing a spirit, but he believes he felt one.

At Sonoma Raceway in 2004, Earnhardt was behind the wheel of a Corvette in a sports car event when he crashed and his car almost immediately burst into flames. He made it out OK, but he’s confident someone pulled him out of the fiery wreck, despite the video clearly showing he was alone.

He continued on the Dale Jr. Download:

“When I wrecked in the Corvette in 2004 at Sonoma — it caught fire — somebody pulled me out of that car. And I thought that it was a corner worker because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits and pull me out of the car. I didn’t get out. I don’t have any memory of myself climbing out of the car. And I remember sort of moving like in motion going to lean forward and try to climb out of the car, and then something grabbed me under the armpits, pulled me up over the door bars and then let go of me. “And I fell to the ground, and there’s pictures of me laying on the ground next to the car. I know that when I got to the hospital, I was like, ‘Who pulled me out of the car? I gotta say thanks to this person,’ because it was a hand! It was physical hands grabbing me! I felt it. And there was nobody there.”

When he was told there was no one there helping him, his response was, “Bull(expletive).” But he said he clearly remembers that’s how it happened.

He also elaborated on his feelings about Sasquatch. He said he’s confident that type of creature doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean exclude something similar living on the planet at some point in history.