So Supernatural
Most mysteries can be solved by looking at the facts. But sometimes, the truth lies somewhere in the unknown… Enter the realm of true crime’s most bizarre occurrences, and unravel all the possible explanations. No matter how strange or surreal they get.
Episodes (157)
THE UNKNOWN: The Third Man Factor
In moments of survival, people have claimed to sense a mysterious presence that helps them through hard times and leads them to safety. From expeditions through the Arctic to escaping the World Trade...
HAUNTED: Bobby Mackey's Music World
Bobby Mackey's Music World, a honky-tonk bar in Wilder, Kentucky, is said to be haunted by a host of restless spirits. From tragic deaths and violent crimes to rumored connections to the occult, the...
ALIEN: Battle of Los Angeles
In February 1942, anti-aircraft artillery lit up the night sky over Los Angeles, firing at unidentified flying objects. Despite the intense barrage, no aircraft were recovered, and no conclusive...
CONSPIRACY: Operation Highjump
In 1946, the Navy sent 4700 men to Antarctica for—what they claimed—was a training mission that would prepare them for battle in extreme temperatures. But after three months the operation was shut...
DISAPPEARED: Anjikuni Lake
In the 1930s, in Northern Canada, a fur trapper named Joe Labelle stumbled upon a small Inuit village that had been recently deserted. Many wondered what drove the villagers out so quickly, as weapons...
Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES
From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every...
THE UNKNOWN: Reincarnation
One of life’s biggest mysteries is what happens to us when we die—but the answer might lie in the early memories of small children. Some kids seem to remember specific and very detailed moments of a...
HAUNTED: Enfield Poltergeist
In the late 1970s, a quiet suburban home in Enfield, London, belonging to the Hodgson family got a new roommate—a poltergeist. The entity seemed to latch on to their 11-year-old daughter, Janet, who...
ALIEN: The Westall UFO Incident
In 1966, over 100 students, faculty, and staff at a high school in Melbourne, Australia, witnessed a UFO hovering over their campus before landing in a nearby field. Hours later, government officials...
LEGEND: Baba Yaga
In some cultures, Baba Yaga is seen as the original wicked witch who lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs. While this witch flies on a mortar and pestle, instead of a broom, the stories about...
MYSTICAL: Occult Elvis
You may know him as the King of Rock and Roll, but what many don’t know is that Elvis Presley supposedly had a deep connection with the supernatural. From astral projection to telekinesis and several...
REVISITING: The Gary Indiana Demon House
In 2011, the Ammons family moved into a new home in Gary, Indiana — but it wasn’t exactly vacant when they arrived. It was said to be haunted by hundreds of spirits that led to wild paranormal...
THE UNKNOWN: Déjà Vu
If you’ve ever had the unsettling feeling you've done something or dreamt something before, you’ve probably experienced déjà vu. While some theories suggest it's a memory processing error, there are...
DISAPPEARED: The Lost City of Atlantis
In his writings, the Greek philosopher Plato spoke of an ancient civilization known as Atlantis. Ever since, others have added to the legend, saying the society had advanced technologies that...
HAUNTED: Cranmer Family Demon with Two Girls One Ghost
In 1988, Bob Cranmer moved his family into the home of his dreams on Brownsville Road, outside of Pittsburgh, PA. But as they settled in, it became clear they weren’t alone. As furniture moved, and...
CONSPIRACY: Skull and Bones
Back in 1832, a secret society was born on the Yale campus called Skull and Bones. Over the centuries, this fraternal order was said to have a hand in everything from the Manhattan Project to sparking...
PRESENTING: Murder True Crime Stories
Murder: True Crime Stories explores the depths of history's most notorious murders like you've never heard before. Go beyond the crime scene as we search for the real story, and focus on the people...
DARK WEB: The Elevator Game
First found on Korean and Japanese forums around 2011, the Elevator Game was said to be a paranormal ritual game that could transport you to alternate dimensions. That if you followed a series of...
ALIEN: Cape Girardeau
Many think the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash was the first of its kind. But six years before, in 1941, a local minister was called to the site of a "plane crash" in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and...
LEGEND: Loch Ness Monster
For centuries, there have been stories of a dinosaur-like cryptid roaming the waters of the Loch Ness in Scotland. To this day, sightings continue to lure in tourists as scientists work to identify or...
THE UNKNOWN: The Mysterious Case of Gloria Ramirez
In 1994, Gloria Ramirez was admitted to a hospital in Riverside, California, with a mysterious unknown illness. She had strange material floating in her blood, an odd sheen on her skin, and anyone who...
MYSTICAL: Healing Waters
Throughout history, people have flocked to certain bodies of water for their healing properties and miraculous cures. From holy grottos to natural springs, magical rivers and mystical lakes, many have...
HAUNTED: Bellaire House
When Kristen Lee bought a new home in Bellaire, Ohio, she had no idea she was purchasing one of the most haunted houses in the country. What started as odd noises and footsteps in the attic soon...
From Root of Evil to So Supernatural: AMA with Rasha & Yvette
Surprise! In this bonus AMA, Rasha and Yvette answer your questions – from honoring the legacy of their mom, Fauna Hodel, to sharing the supernatural moments that shaped their lives. Come for the...
LEGEND: La Llorona
La Llorona – a haunting figure from Latin folklore – is said to be a ghostly spirit who wanders rivers and waterways, searching for her lost children. With her mournful cries and chilling presence, La...
ALIEN: UFOs in the Hudson Valley
Since at least the 1980s, the Hudson Valley area of New York has been a hotspot for UFO activity. Here, various crafts have been spotted by hundreds of people, leading many to wonder what's so special...
DARK WEB: Cicada 3301
In 2012, a series of complex puzzles appeared on the website known as 4Chan. Thousands took to the forums, trying to crack the codes and riddles written by an author known only as Cicada 3301. Some...
DISAPPEARED: The Carroll A. Deering
In 1921, Carroll A. Deering, a five-mastered schooner, was found run aground off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. While the ship was completely abandoned with no sign of the crew – there were other...
INTRODUCING: Killer Minds
Formerly known as Mind of A Serial Killer, Killer Minds takes you deep into the psychology of history’s most chilling murderers—from infamous serial killers to ruthless cult leaders, deadly exes, and...
THE UNKNOWN: Taos Hum
Beginning in the early 90s, residents of Taos, New Mexico, began noticing a mysterious and constant hum. While the sound was perceived differently by everyone – all the residents who could hear it...
LEGEND: Black Eyed Children
For decades, people have reported being visited by Black Eyed Children who mysteriously appear unannounced on their doorstep, or trying to get into their vehicles. The encounters don't just leave...
ALIEN: Alien Implants
In 1995, podiatrist and Ufologist Dr. Roger Lier was introduced to two patients who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials. And both had evidence to prove it – small, seed-sized implants...
HAUNTED: Annabelle the Doll
In the 1970s, two nursing students were given a stuffed doll that seemed to take on a life of its own. Not only would they return to find the doll in new positions around the home, soon it began...
MYSTICAL: The Book of Thoth
For the ancient Egyptians, magic wasn't a mysterious force – it was part of everyday life. But some of the most powerful rituals and spells were said to be preserved in The Book of Thoth, written by...
Introducing: Crime House
Every Monday, join Vanessa Richardson for a deep dive into thrilling true crime cases from that week in history, linked by a common theme.
DARK WEB: Dear David
In 2017, cartoonist Adam Ellis began posting a Twitter thread that terrified his followers. He claimed that after a series of horrifying dreams, the ghost of a boy named Dear David was haunting his...
CONSPIRACY: Apollo 20
Officially, NASA's Apollo program ended in 1972 with Apollo 17. But in 2007, a leaked video showed the Apollo missions may have continued in secret after all. And their mission wasn't just to put more...
THE UNKNOWN: The Tunguska Event
On June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook the remote forests of Siberia, flattening millions of trees and unleashing a blast heard hundreds of miles away. The Tunguska Event remains one of the most...
HAUNTED: Clarita Villanueva
In 1953, 17-year-old Clarita Villanueva was incarcerated in the Philippines. Only a few days into her stay, she began suffering vicious attacks from unseen entities, including bite marks that appeared...
DISAPPEARED: Bennington Triangle
Centered around the Glastonbury Mountains of Vermont, the Bennington Triangle has been the site of numerous unexplained disappearances and supernatural phenomena dating back centuries. Everyone from...
MYSTICAL: The Curse of the Hope Diamond
For centuries, the Hope Diamond has haunted history with its timeless beauty and its sinister legends. Over the years, it fell into ownership of kings, queens, socialites, and celebrity jewelers, many...
LEGEND: Krampus
Throughout history, Krampus has been seen as the dark and sinister counterpart to old Saint Nicholas. This horned, hoofed, half-human, half-goat creature is known for taking charge of the naughty...
THE UNKNOWN: Nightmare Deaths
In the 1980s, doctors in the United States noticed a bizarre phenomenon happening amongst Southeast Asian refugees. Many of them were having terrifying nightmares that seemed to kill them in their...
DARK WEB: Slender Man
In 2009, a mysterious post popped up on internet forums – a series of photographs featuring a sinister entity depicted as a tall, faceless figure in a suit, with elongated limbs and tentacles. Slender...
THE UNKNOWN: Mysterious Monoliths
In November of 2020, a 9-foot-tall metal structure was discovered in a very remote part of the Utah desert. No one was certain how it got there, or who built it, which made it even more perplexing...
MYSTICAL: Crystal Skulls
In 1992, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. acquired a mysterious artifact with unclear origins known as the Crystal Skull. It was the size of an average human skull, made of milky white...
HAUNTED: The Gary, Indiana Demon House
In 2011, the Ammons family moved into a new home in Gary, Indiana – but it wasn’t exactly vacant when they arrived. It was said to be haunted by hundreds of spirits that led to wild paranormal...
Introducing: Mind of a Serial Killer
What makes a serial killer? Mind of a Serial Killer takes you deep into the twisted minds of history’s most notorious serial killers. Every Monday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a...
ALIEN: The Phoenix Lights
On March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses in Phoenix, Arizona, reported seeing a series of bright lights moving silently across the night sky. The phenomenon, known as the Phoenix Lights, sparked...
DARK WEB: Polybius
In the 1980s, a mysterious game began popping up in Portland, Oregon, arcades. Players walked away with a variety of strange side effects, from amnesia, to nightmares, to wild hallucinations. But the...
CONSPIRACY: Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials involved a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. The trials were characterized by mass hysteria, fear, and superstition....
THE UNKNOWN: Phantom Dopplegangers
The internet is flooded with stories of someone meeting their exact double – a copy who looks, acts, speaks, even thinks like them, only they seem to have a… supernatural quality to them. Even...
LEGEND: The Yeti
The Yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, is a legendary creature said to inhabit the Himalayan mountains of Asia. Described as a large, ape-like creature, the Yeti has captured the imagination...
CONSPIRACY: The Oakville Blobs
In 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, woke up to find gelatinous blobs had rained down from the sky, covering the area in a strange, gooey substance. The mysterious blobs caused illness and...
THE UNKNOWN: Mandela Effect
This phenomenon involves large groups of people recalling events or details that conflict with historical records. Named after Nelson Mandela, whom many people falsely remember dying in prison during...
HAUNTED: Curse of the Crying Boy Paintings
In 1980s Britain, a series of haunting portraits featuring a tearful little boy were discovered untouched amidst the ashes of devastating house and business fires. While rumors of the subject and the...
ALIEN: The Cash-Landrum Incident
On the night of December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's grandson Colby were driving through the woods near Dayton, Texas when they encountered a large, diamond-shaped object being...
DARK WEB: Jack Froese Emails
After his sudden death in 2011, friends and family of Jack Froese received mysterious emails from his account containing personal messages and information only Jack could have known. Dubbed the 'Jack...
MYSTICAL: Lincoln’s Ghost
Throughout his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was reportedly plagued by strange premonitions and recurring nightmares. Some say they were omens of his assassination. And in the aftermath of his death,...
ALIEN: The Abduction of Betty & Barney Hill
A weekend road trip ends bizarrely for a New Hampshire couple after they return home with a two-hour gap in their memories. Then the nightmares begin.
HAUNTED: The Amityville House
Competing narratives and fictionalized accounts make it hard to say what exactly happened in the house at 112 Ocean Avenue after the Lutz family moved in. Maybe the Amityville house truly was haunted...
THE UNKNOWN: The Electric Girl
Angélique Cottin was not your typical 19th-century French teenager. For one, she could make huge objects move with the faintest touch. And despite being observed by doctors and scientists across...
MYSTICAL: The Lady in Blue
As a cloistered nun in the 17th century, Maria never left her convent in Spain. But through some miracle, she appeared repeatedly in the American Southwest to spread her religion. Believers said it...
THE UNKNOWN: Werewolves
Werewolves have been terrorizing our collective psyche for millennia. Can we still separate the men from the monsters from the myths?
MYSTICAL: The Comte de Saint Germain
In the 18th century, an alchemist and philosopher became something of an international celebrity, rubbing elbows with royalty, predicting violent revolutions, and allegedly unlocking the secret to...
ALIEN: Ancient Aliens
Fragments of a map from the 1500s sparked a theory that’s been going strong for decades. It holds that extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, gifting humans with advanced...
DISAPPEARED: Granger Taylor
A 32-year-old resident of Vancouver Island vanishes in November 1980, leaving behind a note that says he’s heading off on an adventure. But Granger Taylor is not your regular voyager. He’s a...
ALIEN: Zigmund Adamski
In June 1980, police officer Alan Godfrey investigated the strange death of Zigmund Adamski. While his superiors eventually ruled the death an accident, it bore all the hallmarks of an alien...
HAUNTED: The Great Amherst Mystery
When strange and terrifying events start happening around 18-year-old Esther Cox, locals blame electricity… then ghosts.
THE UNKNOWN: Time Travel
Time travel seems to be firmly in the realm of science fiction, and yet history is filled with alleged cases — from a traveler who broke the internet, to an Italian priest peering into the past.
MYSTICAL: Wolf Messing
Born in Poland in 1899, Wolf Messing could reportedly read minds, control people's thoughts, and tell the future. But he wasn't any ordinary psychic. When he met Joseph Stalin in 1940, his powers...
HAUNTED: The Bell Witch
In 1817, the Bell family noticed strange noises in their log cabin in Red River, Tennessee. For the next four years, they’re tormented by an invisible being. Hundreds of people come to see the...
MYSTICAL: The Red Barn Murder
When Maria Marten disappears in 1827, her stepmother begins having unsettling visions. She dreams that Maria is dead, and buried in a nearby barn.
THE UNKNOWN: The Flatwoods Monster
In 1952, a small group of people in Flatwoods, West Virginia ventured into the dark to find a downed UFO. They came across a strange aircraft… piloted by a monster.
ALIEN: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
In December 1980, just outside of London, several members of the U.S. Air Force spotted an indescribable craft in the forest. But this wasn't an ordinary sighting. It communicated with one of the...
THE UNKNOWN: Robert Johnson and the Devil
In the 1930s, Robert Johnson broke barriers in the American South to become the king of Delta blues. His music is legendary. But his journey from flop to fame? Downright otherworldly. At least, if you...
MYSTICAL: Bridey Murphy
When a housewife in the U.S. undergoes hypnosis in 1952, she recalls detailed memories of a past life in 19th-century Ireland.
CONSPIRACY: Bob Lazar
In 1989, Bob Lazar joined a top secret project out of Area 51 — supposedly reverse engineering alien technologies. When he was threatened to stay silent about his work, Bob took the opposite approach,...
HAUNTED: The Winchester Mystery House
This odd 24,000-square-foot Victorian mansion boasts winding staircases that lead to nowhere, windows built into the floors, and doors that open to 13-foot drops. But the oddest thing about this...
THE UNKNOWN: Gef the Talking Mongoose
In 1931, the Irving family started hearing the pitter patter of a rodent living behind their walls. Three months later, that animal starts to talk. He tells them he’s a mongoose and his name is Gef.
CONSPIRACY: Philip Taylor Kramer
Rock star. Rocket scientist. Computer programmer. Philip Taylor Kramer seemed capable of doing everything. His mysterious disappearance in 1995 may be evidence that he invented a new technology that...
ALIEN: The Pascagoula Abduction
In 1973, fishing buddies Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker turned up terrified at the Pascagoula, Mississippi Sheriff's Station. Over years of hypnosis, interviews, and public ridicule, Charlie and...
DISAPPEARED: The Franklin Expedition
In 1845, the Franklin Expedition left London to chart the Northwest Passage. When Sir Franklin and his crew went missing, his wife turned to the psychic world for answers about his location. But she...
THE UNKNOWN: Sleep Paralysis
In the terrifying, mysterious experience known as sleep paralysis, people wake up to find their bodies completely paralyzed. They are frozen in place, unable to do anything but watch and listen as...
CONSPIRACY: The Chupacabra
After a wave of animal murders terrorized Puerto Rican farms in 1995, locals banded together to hunt a beast they called the Chupacabra. Some called it a genetic experiment. Others swore it was an...
MYSTICAL: The Fountain of Youth
Explorer Juan Ponce de León made the quest for the Fountain of Youth what we know it as today, but it's possible that he was searching for something much larger than simply water that turns back time…
THE UNKNOWN: Charles Hatfield, Rainmaker
Over a hundred years ago, the city of San Diego hired a rainmaker. His fee was huge, his methods were chemical, and he promised rain — then delivered a deluge. Against all odds, Charles Hatfield’s...
MYSTICAL: The Fox Sisters
In the spring of 1848, the Fox sisters heard the chilling sounds of rapping and thumping on their walls. When the noise wouldn't stop, the girls started rapping back. Soon after that, they started...
CONSPIRACY: Valiant Thor
In 1957, an extraterrestrial named Valiant Thor allegedly landed outside of Washington D.C. demanding to speak with President Eisenhower. For the next three years he lived inside the Pentagon working...
ALIEN: Tic Tac, GoFast, and Gimbal
Navy pilots stationed in the Pacific Ocean saw something inexplicable in November 2004. Eleven years later, a different crew saw the same unidentified phenomenon. The U.S. government has confirmed...
HAUNTED: The Possession of “Julia”
In the early 1980s, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Gallagher worked with the Catholic Church to monitor the mental health of people seeking exorcisms. The doctor turned from a rational skeptic to a true...
MYSTICAL: Nostradamus
When tragedies occur, the world often points to Nostradamus as a soothsayer of grim times, but both his legacy and his predictions are a bit more complicated than history has let on...
THE UNKNOWN: Mothman
In the 1960s a half-bird, half-man creature terrorized the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. But it didn't come alone... The Mothman's appearance triggered UFO activity, a vicious Men in...
HAUNTED: The Watseka Wonder
In 1877, a 13-year-old girl named Lurancy Vennum developed mysterious symptoms. Her doctors couldn't determine what was wrong with her, until a spiritualist suggested Lurancy's illness was due to her...
THE UNKNOWN: Spontaneous Human Combustion
What makes a human body burst into flames? Victims leave behind nothing but a pile of ashes and questions. From dark magic and holy fire to unbelievable coincidences, the answers are surprising.
MYSTICAL: Patience Worth
Patience Worth hit America’s literary scene hard in the early 20th century. She was a celebrated poet, novelist, and a charming conversationalist. But she was far from your typical literary celebrity:...
THE UNKNOWN: The Hex Hollow Murder
In 1928, a Pennsylvania faith healer was accused of placing a hex on multiple people in York county, leading to his brutal murder. But the events that followed his death convinced people he was...
ALIEN: The Ariel School Sighting
In 1994, an entire playground full of school children in Zimbabwe claimed they saw a UFO hovering overhead. When experts tried to debunk their claims, they found little evidence to prove the kids...
THE UNKNOWN: Spring-Heeled Jack
In 1838, a strange villain began stalking the London suburbs. For the next 70 years, Spring-Heeled Jack — a fire-breathing, metal-clawed monster — terrorized the city.
CONSPIRACY: The Illuminati
The Illuminati was an 18th-century secret society that supposedly ended just a decade after it began. But conspiracy theorists argue that it never really went away — it just went deeper underground,...
THE UNKNOWN: Green Children of Woolpit
In a 12th-century English village, farmers discovered two young children wandering alone in the woods. The kids’ unrecognizable clothing and language, along with their startling green complexions, led...
MYSTICAL: Nicolas Flamel
In the 14th century, an ordinary bookseller named Nicolas Flamel may have unlocked the secrets of immortality, and learned to turn ordinary metals into gold — all thanks to a mysterious object known...
ALIEN: The Falcon Lake Incident
In 1967, Stefan Michalak went to Falcon Lake for a weekend prospecting trip, where he encountered what has become the best-documented UFO in Canadian history.
DISAPPEARED: Barbara Newhall Follett
Celebrated author Barbara Newhall Follett went missing in December 1939. She's never been seen or heard from again. Is the key to solving her mysterious disappearance in the books she left behind?
MYSTICAL: The Aberfan Premonitions
In 1966, an avalanche struck a school in Wales, killing more than 100 children. Afterwards, dozens of people claimed to have "seen" the disaster in dreams and visions before it happened — inspiring...
MYSTICAL: The Pollock Twins
When his two daughters died in a tragic accident, John Pollock prayed for a miracle that would bring them back. Less than a year later, his wife gave birth to twins who defied the odds of genetics....
MYSTICAL: The Bosco Murders
Toni Bosco dreamed something terrible would happen to her son. In August 1993, it came true — John and his wife Nancy were murdered. But the most unsettling part wasn’t the premonitory dream she had....
DISAPPEARED: Percy Fawcett
In 1925, an explorer led an expedition into the Amazon rainforest and was never seen again. Officials ruled that Percy Fawcett died. But many believe he discovered the lost city of “Z” and a portal to...
CONSPIRACY: The Montauk Project
In the 1970s and '80s, a top-secret research program supposedly took place on the northernmost tip of Long Island. With reports of kidnappings, weather control, time travel and more, it may just be...
HAUNTED: The Loudun Possessions
In 1632, the Devil came to Loudun, France. For nearly five years, dozens of priests performed hundreds of public exorcisms on a convent of nuns who claimed they were possessed by demons. The nuns...
THE UNKNOWN: The Isdal Woman
Over fifty years ago, the body of a woman was found burned to death in Norway’s “Ice Valley.” Her identity has never been confirmed, despite her leaving behind a trail of aliases, eyewitness accounts,...
THE UNKNOWN: Bigfoot
In the summer of 1958, a strange creature terrorized construction crews in rural California. Since then, Bigfoot true-believers have collected a wealth of information on the strange ape-like being —...
ALIEN: The Exeter Incident
After UFO sightings exploded in New Hampshire in 1965, everyone from local police to Air Force officials to the Pentagon began investigating. But no one could conclude what exactly residents had seen...
THE UNKNOWN: Kaspar Hauser
In 1828, a town in Germany received a strange visitor: a teenage boy who claimed he had been imprisoned his whole life. His mysterious murder just a few years later made his true identity more elusive...
HAUNTED: The New England Vampire Girl
In 1892, Lena Brown died at just 19 years old, joining her mother and sister in an early grave. Then her brother, Eddie, got sick too. The working theory? His health was being syphoned by a vampire....
MYSTICAL: The Murder of Charles Walton
The gruesome 1945 pitchfork murder of an elderly townsman brought Scotland Yard’s best detective into one of the most superstitious villages in England.
CONSPIRACY: Men in Black
Most people recognize Men in Black from the movie franchise, but this mysterious organization originated as a real-life alien conspiracy theory. It began in 1947: After Harold Dahl saw UFOs over the...
ALIEN: Roswell
It’s the most famous UFO event in U.S. history: In July 1947, a rancher named Mac Brazel found strange debris scattered across one of his fields. Local military officials told him it came from a...
THE UNKNOWN: Paul Amadeus Dienach
In the spring of 1922, a man named Paul Amadeus Dienach fell into a coma. He eventually woke up — in the year 3906, in another man's body.
THE UNKNOWN: Dancing Plague
One summer day in 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea started dancing. She didn't stop. Her dancing compulsion was contagious, and spread to hundreds of people before it turned deadly.
CONSPIRACY: The Babushka Lady
A mysterious woman in a headscarf was seen filming the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For years, she remained nameless — until one day, she stepped forward with a story no one saw coming.
HAUNTED: The Greenbrier Ghost
A young woman in Greenbrier, West Virginia died mysteriously in 1897. Weeks later, she returned from the dead to identify the man who murdered her.
DISAPPEARED: The Roanoke Colony
In 1590, an English colony on Roanoke Island disappeared without a trace. The only clue was a message carved on a fence post. While some think the settlers integrated with a local tribe, multiple...
THE UNKNOWN: Jersey Devil
Hooves, wings and high-pitched screams… The Jersey Devil has reportedly been seen thousands of times, lurking in and around a forest called the Pine Barrens. How much of its existence is rumor, and...
ALIEN: Frederick Valentich
On October 21, 1978, amateur pilot Frederick Valentich took off for a quick nighttime flight off Australia's southern shore. He was never seen again. But right before he disappeared, he radioed ground...
MYSTICAL: King Tut’s Curse
Can the dead actually curse the living? After the 1922 unearthing of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, a mysterious string of misfortunes plagued the archaeologists who discovered it—and it’s not the first...
HAUNTED: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
In the early 1900s, Eleanor Jourdain and Charlotte Moberly visited the Palace of Versailles. The two academics were hoping for a pleasant trip. Instead, they found themselves transported over a...
CONSPIRACY: The Philadelphia Experiment
In the 1950s, Morris K. Jessup received a letter from a stranger. The man claimed to have intel on an ultra-classified wartime Naval experiment involving teleportation, human test subjects, and...
ALIEN: Skinwalker Ranch
When Terry and Gwen Sherman bought their dream ranch in Utah, they never suspected they were entering a hotspot of paranormal activity: glowing orbs, hovering aircraft, mutilated cows… A team of...
DISAPPEARED: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 seemed to vanish into thin air. Less than an hour after takeoff, the plane disappeared from radar—and though seven countries launched a search and rescue...
MYSTICAL: Pam Reynolds
In 1991, singer-songwriter Pam Reynolds underwent a daring operation to remove a life-threatening aneurysm. Afterwards, Pam was able to describe the entire procedure in detail… even though she was...
HAUNTED: The Devil Made Me Do It
In February 1981, a man named Cheyenne Johnson stabbed his girlfriend’s boss to death. His defense? He’d been possessed. It turns out, he might’ve actually caught a demon from his girlfriend’s brother...
MYSTICAL: Rasputin
In the early 1900s, a strange peasant from Siberia charmed Russia’s royal family. Grigori Rasputin gained entry into the Romanovs’ inner circle using his reputation as a healer and prophet—but not...
ALIEN: The Travis Walton Abduction
A young man went missing for five days in 1975, and when he returned claimed he’d been abducted by aliens. There to witness it? His six lumberjack coworkers, who reported it to the police the night he...
HAUNTED: The Exorcism of Roland Doe
He only wanted to use the Ouija board to contact his Aunt Helen… He didn’t mean to summon anything evil. And yet, Roland Doe became the most thoroughly documented case of demonic possession in...
DISAPPEARED: The Mary Celeste
On December 4th, 1872, the Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was fully stocked with food and drinking water, and its cargo still intact—but the crew was nowhere to be...
THE UNKNOWN: Georgia Guidestones
In small-town Georgia, there’s a strange monument with bizarre instructions for reordering society. The whole town knows how it got there, but nobody knows why—or just how dark a secret it may be...
CONSPIRACY: MK-Ultra
In 1953, Army scientist Frank Olson jumped out of a hotel window in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide, but two decades later, word of a top-secret CIA program cast new light on the case....
THE UNKNOWN: The Beast of Gévaudan
From 1764 to 1767, a strange creature terrorized a mountainous French region called the Gévaudan. But though myths and stories surrounding the “Beast” are still around to this day, nobody knows what...
DISAPPEARED: Louis Le Prince
In September of 1890, inventor Louis Le Prince got on a train in Dijon, France, on his way to present his latest invention to the world… But no one saw him get off, and he was never heard from again.
HAUNTED: The Sallie House
On the last day of 1992, Debra and Tony Pickman moved into a rented house in Atchison, Kansas. A few months later, they began to notice flickering lights, cold spots, and items moving by themselves....
CONSPIRACY: Besa Mafia
From drug sales to human trafficking, the dark web is full of illicit activity. But murder-for-hire websites were always presumed to be a scam—until 2016, when a woman who had been targeted by a...
DISAPPEARED: Flight 19
On December 5th, 1945, Flight 19 flew out over the Atlantic Ocean on a routine training mission. It was a simple exercise—hundreds of pilots had navigated it before. But the flight crew never made it...
CONSPIRACY: Project Stargate
For more than two decades, the CIA and U.S. military ran a top-secret project to study psychic phenomena. The declassified files suggest that psychic powers do exist—and that they were used in some of...
ALIEN: The Lonnie Zamora Incident
In 1964, 30-year-old police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed a strange egg-shaped aircraft landing in the New Mexico desert. After more than 50 years of investigation by the Air Force, FBI, and...
MYSTICAL: Shanti Devi
This story begins in 1926, when Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India. For the first several years of her life, Shanti was a typical girl, except for one thing: she didn’t talk. Her parents began to...
HAUNTED: Zack & Addie
In 2006, a young man jumped to his death from a hotel roof in New Orleans. In his pocket, police found a note with instructions on where to find the pieces of his girlfriend's dismembered body. The...
CONSPIRACY: Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
This World War II era mystery began in England in 1943, when four boys discovered the skeleton of a woman buried inside a hollow tree. With every step, the investigation spawned only more questions:...
MYSTICAL: The Silent Twins
From the time they were children growing up in Wales during the 1970s, identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons refused to speak to anyone or even make eye contact. It earned them the nickname "The...
DISAPPEARED: The Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers
In December of 1900, the three lighthouse keepers stationed at a lighthouse on the uninhabited Scottish island of Eilean Mor disappeared without a trace. The folklore surrounding the island has led...
HAUNTED: The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund
In 1928, an Iowan woman claiming to hear disturbing voices underwent an exorcism—it lasted 23 days. It turns out that Anna Ecklund wasn't just possessed by one demon, but by several. Almost 100 years...
ALIEN: Majestic 12
A series of allegedly leaked documents suggest that, in the aftermath of the infamous 1947 Roswell crash, the U.S. government put together a top-secret task force called “Majestic 12” to conceal the...
THE UNKNOWN: Dyatlov Pass
On a hiking trip in Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959, nine young mountaineers tore their way out of their tent in the middle of the night and went running into the wilderness, half-clothed and without...
DISAPPEARED: Ettore Majorana
In 1938, one of the most prominent physicists in the world boarded a ship from Palermo to Naples—and never got off. His sudden disappearance sparked rumors about kidnapping, government cover-ups, and...
THE UNKNOWN: The Somerton Man
In 1948, an unknown man was found dead of mysterious causes on an Australian beach. 72 years later, investigators are still unable to say who he was or why he died, despite an abundance of intriguing...
ALIEN: The Allagash Incident
In the 1980s, twin brothers Jim and Jack Weiner started having the same recurring nightmares. Under hypnosis, they uncovered the root of the dreams: repressed memories from a bizarre experience...
CONSPIRACY: The Lead Masks Case
In 1966, two electronics technicians were found dead on a hill near Rio de Janeiro, with a cryptic note and two masks made out of solid lead. The investigation raised more questions than answers,...
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