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Episode 4.49// New Kid, Who Dis? The Curious Case of Bobby Dunbar/Bruce Anderson

When four-year-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared from a family fishing trip in 1912 it sparked a century-long saga that changed two families...

Episode 4.48// Say What Now? The Copiales 3 Cipher

Copiale Cipher pages 16-17. Credit: Kevin Knight, Beáta Megyesi, Christiane Schaefer, Public Domain For more than two and a half...

Episode 4.47// Get Thee to a Therapist! The Great Amherst "Mystery"

Alleged haunted house. Young Esther Cox managed to escape a very bad date with a very bad man. Unfortunately, she brought her trauma home...

Episode 4.46// Vortices, and Portals, and Lights! Oh My! The Phoenix Lights and Other Strange Goings On in Arizona

https://visitsedona.com/ Sedona, Arizona has long been a destination spot for wellness-types. Turns out humans aren't the only ones who...

Episode 4.45// A Beast by Any Other Name Would Smell as Rank: The Australian Bigfoot, Yowie

Wooden Yowie statue in Kilcoy, Queensland , Australia . Legend has it a humanoid, ape-like beast roams the Australian wilderness....

Episode 4.44// That Time Democracy Almost Collapsed: The Forgotten History of Smedley Butler and the Plot to Overthrow FDR

Maj Gen Smedley D. Butler served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1898 to 1931. Marine Corps History Division. In the 1930s some shadowy...

4.43// Three's (Tragic) Company: The Disappearance of The Springfield Three

In 1992 three women in Springfield, MO inexplicably vanished from their home leaving almost no clues. To this day, no one knows what...

Episode 4.42// There's a Ghost in my Quarter Pounder! Haunted Fast Food Restaurants

Turns out indigestion may not be the hauntiest thing about some fast food joints. " Strange and Unexplained " is a podcast from Grab Bag...

Episode 4.41// A Future Foretold? The Wreck of the Titan

First edition, 1898 14 years before the unsinkable Titanic set sail into the iceberg and sank into the Atlantic, author Morgan Robertson...

Episode 4.40// No One Mourns the "Wicked": Jack the Ripper and his Victims

In October 1888, the front cover of the Illustrated Police News included the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, who were...

Episode 4.39// Squonkapalooza!

By Coert Du Bois and by William T. Cox; - "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods" 1910; Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by...

Episode 4.38// Bullied to Death? The Tragic and Untimely Death of Aubreigh Wyatt

Aubreigh Wyatt. Photo: A ubreigh Wyatt/TikTok When eighth-grader Aubreigh Wyatt took her own life, her devastated mother took her...

Episode 4.37// Tragedy on the Tarmac at Tenerife: The Deadliest Airplane Accident in History

In 1977, a Rube Goldberg-type chain of small events led to the deadliest accident in the history of air travel on the tarmac in Tenerife,...

Episode 4.36// Art Imitating Life or Vice Versa? The Stanley Hotel

Nestled beneath the picturesque, snow-capped mountains in Colorado is a legendary hotel with a storied history. But when one novelist...

Episode 4.35// A Terrible Episode of SVU: The Disappearance of Bianca Carrasco

In May of 2016 Bianca Carrasco's husband claims the two had a fight after which Bianca just walked away from her marriage, her three...

Episode 4.34// Ford! The Engine that Drove the Holocaust

Ford cars are about as American as baseball and apple pie, but did you know the man behind the empire, Henry Ford helped fuel one of the...

Episode 4.33// He Will Never be Satisfied: Terrare, the Man Who Ate Everything

Today we bring you a truly stomach-turning tale of a man who ate anything and everything and definitely did not live to tell the tale....

Episode 4.32// Jessica Buttafuoco is Coming for Them: Special Bonus episode interview with Jessica Buttafuoco

In 1992, Jessica's mother, Mary Jo, was shot at point-blank range by her husband's very young mistress. The event caused massive waves...

Episode 4.31// "I Want to Go Home." The Many Lives of Dorothy Eady/Omm Sety

English-born Dorothy Eady's life was never the same after she took a tumble down the stairs at age three. But a bump on the head can't...

Episode 4.30// A Race to the Bottom: Charles Dawson and the Piltdown Man

In the late 19th/early 20th centuries the competition to find fossils of human's ancient relatives (and, for some, to prove racial...