Episode 2.15 // The Hum Heard Around the World
Can you hear that? It’s like a car –idling in the distance– or a plane on a tarmac, with a tinge of oil crackling in a pan. Since the...
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Episode 2.14 // Stairway to Hell: The Legend of Stull Church
In 1974, an article in a local paper turned the sleepy town of Stull, Kansas upside down. It was about an abandoned church and its...
Episode 2.13 // Into the Multiverse
The possibility of parallel universes has long been considered in science fiction, pop culture and even plain, old physics. Accounts of...
Episode 2.12 // The Smurl Haunting: A Demonic Drama
Jack and Janet Smurl were your typical, civically engaged, small-town couple. That is, until they –and their four kids– moved into a...
Episode 2.11 // Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 2 (Pride Series)
The trial of teenage murderer Alice Mitchell was an all out spectacle. After killing her former lover Freda Ward in a crime of passion,...
Episode 2.10 // Murder in the Name of Love: Alice & Freda Part 1 (Pride Series)
When 19-year-old Alice Mitchell jumped from a carriage and slit the throat of 17-year-old Freda Ward one fateful day in 1892, a rampant...
Episode 2.9 // How We Lost the Plot on the Lost City of Atlantis
The mythic metropolis of Atlantis has long been an object of our curiosity, but the search for where it was and who lived there has left...
Episode 2.8 // Lights, Camera, Moon Landing!
When Neil Armstrong touched down and said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” he meant it, right? The 1969 moon...
Episode 2.7 // A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 2
We left off in the ill-fated Dryden, NY with two high school cheerleaders missing and a town in mourning for years of tragedy under its...
Episode 2.6 // A Decade of Terror: Village of the Damned Part 1
Dryden, New York is your typical, small town nestled among forestry, ponds and plains. But in the 1990s, that peace was disrupted by a...
Episode 2.5 // An Assassin’s Escape: What Happened to John Wilkes Booth?
After former president Abraham Lincoln was shot dead at Ford’s Theatre, a manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ensued immediately. History tells...
Episode 2.4 // Lucid Dreaming: Controlling Worlds Inside Our Heads
The dream world is a mysterious place of delights, nightmares and lots and lots of memories. But what if we could control it? Many do by...
Episode 2.3 // The Philadelphia Experiment Fallacy
What started as mysterious letters to a UFOlogist turned into a rumor straight out of science fiction. The USS Eldridge –a naval...
Episode 2.2 // Ed Edwards: The Killer You Might've Missed
History’s most infamous serial killers had calling cards, from names and symbols to systems and strategies of predation. But the only...
Episode 2.1 // Mandela Effect Mayhem
The Berenstain Bears, Tony the Tiger’s blue nose and a ‘90s movie starring Sinbad as a genie have all come back to haunt us. What started...
Episode 52 // The Mothman Cometh!
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... a humanoid, moth-like creature? The Mothman entered the scene of Point Pleasant,...
Episode 51 // Skeletons Beneath the Surface: Lake Lanier’s Troubling Past
One of Georgia’s most popular tourist attractions is also the site of some dark history. From the bottom up, the manmade Lake Lanier...
Episode 50 // The Tragicomedy of Typhoid Mary
This is the story of a cook who refused to wash her hands and the health department that chased her around New York City in search of a...
Episode 49 // Secret Society Sampler: Freemasonry & The Illuminati
From their esoteric symbols to their elusive rituals & doings, secret societies control our curiosity. If we can’t join them, we can...
Episode 48 // The Lady of the Dunes
There she lay facedown on a beach towel, naked in the sand: handless, dead and with a mouth full of expensive dental work. In 1974, when...
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