In the early 1900s, Harry Price was the preeminent psychical researcher of the English spiritualism movement. His meticulous research took him all across Europe, usually culminating in series of experiments at his purpose-built, fraud-proofed psychical lab. Ever the skeptic, Price was driven by an obsessive mission to not just to expose frauds who claimed they could reach over to the other side, but to find anyone who actually could. This Week's Sponsors: Smalls- Head to Smalls.com/STRANGE and u...
Oct 19, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Bubble, bubble, toil and lots of trouble. The Puritanical witch hunt of Salem, Massachusetts took the lives of 19 innocent people as one of the most dramatic instances of scapegoating in American history. Was there something in the rye? Evil in the water? Sexism in the air? Well, that goes without saying. This Week's Sponsors: Ritual- Ritual is offering my listeners 30% off during your first month. Visit ritual.com/ STRANGE to start Ritual or add Synbiotic+ to your subscription today. CoPilot- H...
Oct 12, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Anna Mae Aquash was a passionate and outspoken First Nations activist and one of the few female leaders of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. In the wake of her brutal murder, blame was thrown in every direction but lips ultimately remained sealed. Thirty years later, some of those on the inside might find the courage to break their silence. Sponsors: Magic Spoon- Remember, get your next delicious bowl of cereal at MagicSpoon.com/STRANGE and use the code STRANGE to save five dollars off....
Oct 05, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 23
In 1975, Jim Sullivan had all the potential of a classic rocker on the verge of making it big. After the release of his sophomore album, while driving from LA to Nashville, he disappeared somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Did he run afoul of the law? Did he get mixed up with a dangerous mafia family? Or did Jim Sullivan somehow foreshadow his own disappearance with an album he wrote, titled, UFO? Rocket Money- Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions - and...
Sep 28, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 22
In 1973, two teenagers ventured to a festival in upstate New York to see their favorite bands play. With just a few dollars in their pockets and a hitchhiking sign that read “To Watkins Glen”, no one knows if they ever made it to the concert. There they stood, two kids on the side of the road with sleeping bags strapped to their backs, slowly fading in the rearview, never to be seen again. Their disappearance would become one of the oldest missing persons cases in United States history. This Wee...
Sep 21, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Any place that is a repository for transitory people is bound to attract some wayward souls looking to free themselves of their corporeal body. It seems the more fancy the hotel, the more ghosts it plays host to. Chicago’s ornate Congress Plaza Hotel is said to be one of the most haunted in the country. It’s cursed guestbook features killer clowns, a staggering number of tragic deaths, and one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Miracle Brand- Upgrade your sleep with Miracl...
Sep 14, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Hey, Strangers! We're off this week for the holiday, but will be back next week with an all new episode. For this week we wanted to bring back one of our favorite early episodes, Elevators: Terror and Death in a 6 by 6 Foot Box . Elevators: they’re a modern convenience that we take for granted. But maybe we shouldn’t. This week we bring you two stories about terror and death in a 6 by 6 foot elevator car. If you're looking for more Strange & Unexplained content to binge right now, sign up fo...
Sep 07, 2023•33 min
In early 1978, five young men went out for a fun night together watching college basketball. On the way home they disappeared into the dark late-winter wilderness, high in the mountains of Yuba County, California. What followed was a tense investigation, devastating discoveries, and over 40 years of unanswered questions. What led them out there that night? Where were they going? And why didn’t they turn back? This Week's Sponsors: Miracle Brand- Go to TryMiracle.com/STRANGE and use the code STRA...
Aug 31, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 19
In the mid-1990s Michael Alig was king of New York City nightlife, ruling over a group of misfits known as the Club Kids. His parties made him the vanguard of shock-factor cool, inflating his ego and his drug problem, until it all went spiraling out of control. How do you know when the party's over? When someone ends up dead. This Week's Sponsors: IQBAR- Now get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. To get your 20% off, just text STRANGE to 64000. Smalls- Head to Smalls.com/STRANGE...
Aug 24, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Alberta Williams was a promising young woman who’s life was taken from her without warning in the summer of 1989. Despite some promising leads, witnesses remain silent, investigations remain deadlocked, and Alberta’s family remains without closure. As decades pass, Alberta’s case has become one of the ever-growing number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls cases that remain unsolved today. Our Patreon is now live!!! For bonus content and ad-free episodes, head to patreon.com/stran...
Aug 17, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 17
What if something so strange happened to you that even the authorities and paranormal enthusiasts alike had no idea how to explain it? One night in 1987, the Georgia home of an elderly couple erupted into a geyser of human blood. Red liquid drenched the walls and floors, leaving behind a horrifying scene and many unanswered questions. Where did the blood come from? How did it end up splattered all over this quiet residence? And, who is responsible? **EXCITING NEWS!!** Hey, Strangers! Next week w...
Aug 10, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Could you identify a monster hiding in plain sight? What if he was your colleague, neighbor, or even your own father? Brewing beneath the surface of a seemingly mild-mannered accountant, was a horrific family annihilator driven by a twisted world view. One day John List snapped, committed an unimaginably gruesome mass murder, and then he simply disappeared into thin air. Smalls- Head to Smalls.com/STRANGE at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! Dave- Go to dave.com/strange a...
Aug 03, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 15
An unidentified, well dressed man was found dead on an Australian beach in November 1948. He lay on the sand as if sleeping, with no immediate signs of struggle or foul play. Stitched into a secret pocket in his trousers was a scrap of paper torn from a book of 18th century poetry, with a confusing jumble of letters and numbers scribbled alongside. Was it a cypher for a secret code? Could the man have been a spy? Or was he merely an unfortunate, unclaimed soul? The mystery would remain for over ...
Jul 27, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Could you identify when you were under attack, even if you couldn’t see it? Over the last decade a number of U.S. Officials on assignment abroad have reported sudden and explainable attacks of troubling psychic symptoms. Out of nowhere they’re struck by invisible vibrations and overwhelming pressure to the head, causing extreme dizziness, temporary blindness and memory loss, known as Havana Syndrome. Who is behind the attacks? How are they doing this? Is this the effect of a top secret weapon? O...
Jul 20, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Does life imitate art? Does Bart imitate life? Does Homer know more than he’s letting on?? Despite being a work of fiction and, yes, a cartoon, in 34 years on the air The Simpsons seem to have predicted the future a truly astounding number of times. We’ve all heard that truth is stranger than fiction, but is it possible that our most absurd and speculative fiction could come true? This Week's Sponsors: Grammarly- Go to grammarly.com/tone to download and learn more about Grammarly Premium’s advan...
Jul 13, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Is any place safe? When a child guarded by life in a wholesome, All-American community disappears, is that proof that evil is lurking around every idyllic corner? In the fall of 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while delivering newspapers in the suburban neighborhood of West Des Moines, Iowa. The mystery of his disappearance and the investigation surrounding it would go on to change his family, and the country, forever. This Week's Sponsors: Miracle Brand- TryMiracle.com/STRANGE and us...
Jun 29, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 11
What would you sacrifice to live freely? Would you fight every day, out loud, to defend your way of life? For Marsha P. Johnson, living on her own terms was a non-negotiable part of her existence. Her outspoken activism and advocacy led her to be one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. She was a living legend, until one tragic day in 1992 her body was found floating in the Hudson River. Over 30 years later, her death is still shrouded...
Jun 22, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 10
What would you do if you knew your were ahead of your time, if only by a brief moment? In the late-1950s, Connie Converse was young musician at the forefront of New York City’s burgeoning folk scene. Her groundbreaking songs poised her for greatness, but soon the male-dominated scene spearheaded by the likes of Bob Dylan had sucked out all the air around her. Connie Converse never got her due. Then she disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again. This Week's Sponsors: Ritual- Ritual is o...
Jun 15, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Throughout history, flashes of group mania have taken hold of entire societies without warning. From dancing 'til you're dead, to laughing yourself into a stupor for days on end, the people struck down by these so-called plagues certainly weren’t having a good time, despite what might seem like a non-stop party attitude. One thing has perplexed researchers to this day: what is behind this mysterious phenomenon? This Week's Sponsors: Smalls - So head to Smalls.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRAN...
Jun 08, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Hey, Strange & Unexplained listeners! We’re off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but didn’t want to leave you with an empty feed, so we’re featuring an episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries” Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking and horrifying to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, many of these crimes have been forgotten or lost to history. Until now. Each week, award-winning report Amber Hunt takes a deep di...
Jun 01, 2023•39 min
In the summer of 1976, a group of college students experienced something otherworldly while on a camping trip in the wilderness of Maine. The mystery surrounding the phenomenon would entangle the men for the next forty years, leading them down a road of experimentation and hypnosis in their search for answers as to what exactly happened to them that night. This Week's Sponsors: Cerebral - You can get an exclusive 50% off your first month of therapy by going to cerebral.com/strange Grammarly - Go...
May 25, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Communing with nature sounds nice, sure, but wilderness can hide darkness in it’s miles of untamed trails. No matter how experienced a hiker you are, bad things have a tendency to be lurking out in the woods. Spanning over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is the longest foot-path in the world, but or some, it’s long walk straight into the hands of a killer. This Week's Sponsors: Ritual - Visit ritual.com/STRANGE to start Ritual or add Synbiotic+ to your subscription today...
May 18, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Before the days of Jack the Ripper, there was another Jack terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Spring-Heeled Jack, the fashionable shape-shifting Victorian Era boogeyman terrorized citizens from all walks of life for upwards of 50 years without ever directly taking a single life. Over a century later, the mystery remains: was this monster truly a lunatic on the loose, or merely an urban legend? This Week's Sponsors: Manukora - Head to manukora.com/STRANGE and use code STRANGE to get a f...
May 11, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In 1974, The Lady of the Dunes was discovered dead on the beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Who was she? How did she end up on the beach? And what monster was behind her gruesome murder? For nearly 50 years these answers have remained a mystery… until now. This Week's Sponsor: IQBar - Get 20% off all IQBar products, plus get FREE shipping by texting STRANGE to 64000
May 04, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 4
For some true crime cases, saturation of the headlines can lead to a rabid thirst for public details so vicious and all-consuming that it transforms an criminal investigation into media frenzy. Entangled in a winding web of misconstrued details, misinformed opinions, and mishandled investigations, the space between “The Truth” and “The Story” can grow wider and wider. In the nearly thirty years since the murder of JonBenet Ramsey speculation has swirled around a number of suspects, including her...
Apr 27, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On a snowy morning in December 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey awoke to find their entire world turned upside down as their beloved six year-old daughter JonBenet lay dead in the basement of their Colorado home. A decades-long media frenzy has swirled around this murder of a child beauty queen. Over the years many fingers have been pointed, but little answers have been found, and the mystery of who killed JonBenet Ramsey haunts the tabloids to this day. There comes a time in every podcast’s life whe...
Apr 20, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Can a region absorb the dark energy of its historical monstrosities? Can land become innately evil, soil cursed by the wounds of violence? In Massachusetts the Bridgewater Triangle seems to be a vortex of the paranormal, perhaps created by horrific bloodshed that occurred centuries ago. The history of bloody conflict has given way to ghosts, UFOs, a wide variety of cryptids, satanic activity, and of course, murder most foul. On this episode we trudge into the swamps of the Bridgewater Triangle, ...
Apr 13, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Does a monstrous society breed monsters? Hate can twist, contort and mutate into something truly evil within an individual, propelling them to do unspeakable things. In the 1970s, a serial killer stalked the clubs and lounges of San Francisco, targeting gay men. His darkly artistic trademark request to draw his would-be victims led to his nickname, “The Doodler.” His victims lived quietly in fear of being targeted, silenced due to their greater fear of societal discrimination. Fifty years later,...
Mar 30, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 43
What is memory? The Oxford English Dictionary defines memory as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Or something remembered from the past; a recollection. But the OED doesn’t weigh in on the factual accuracy of those recollections, nor does it mention how or where memories are stored. Our current understanding is that they form and are stored in our brains. Our brains after all are the motherboards of our bodies, but what if memories could also live somewhere else wit...
Mar 23, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Grief is a powerful thing. It's extremely personal and can make us act in ways unforeseen. So what happens when an entire nation experiences a loss, as they did in 1865 when President Lincoln was assassinated? The powers that were at the time decided to give the people an outlet for their grief with a small tour of part of the country featuring their dead president. It would be known as the Lincoln Ghost Train, which would serve as a public display of grief and all of it's strange and unexplaine...
Mar 16, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 41
