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Episode 2.25 // All Aboard The Ghost Blimp!

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the United States employed an old method of surveillance along its west coast: blimps. And when two pilots...

Episode 2.24 // Gilded & Gone: The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold

One December morning in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City, a young society woman went out to run errands and never returned home....

Copy of Episode 2.23 // The Bell Witch: America’s Greatest Ghost Story

In the early 1800s, a Tennessee farm-dwelling family began hearing suspicious noises around their home, seeing strange apparitions along...

Episode 2.22 // This Is The Zodiac Speaking

In the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer terrorized Northern California not necessarily via his body count –only five confirmed victims over...

Episode 2.21 // The Monumental Mystery of Stonehenge

An estimated one million people flock to the enigma that is Stonehenge every year, yet the origin of this circle of stones remains...

Episode 2.20 // Astral Projecting Away From Here

Have you ever left your body, willingly or not? Astral projection has a long history, stretching from ancient religious texts and up...

Episode 2.19 // Get Out of My Head: MK Ultra & The Monarch Project

Mind control –as a conspiracy and fear– has its long, questionable history in the United States. Starting in the 1950s in response to the...

Episode 2.18 // Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Lori Ceci Bova

In the early hours of a June morning in 1997, 26-year-old Lori Ceci Bova stepped outside for a smoke break and never came back. She...

Episode 2.17 // Death by Disney: The Happiest Place on Earth?

Welcome to the magical world of Disney theme parks, where the huggable characters, glistening turkey legs and all around sparkle are a...

Episode 2.16 // Dude, Where’s My Personality?

Imagine surviving a freak accident and coming out the other side unrecognizable – not on the exterior, but inside. Where do our...

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...

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...