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Strange Files: The Man Who Claimed to Be 137
Charlie Smith claimed to be 137 years old, a former enslaved man from Liberia, a Civil War vet, and the oldest man in America. For a time, people believed him. But aft...
5 UFO Mysteries Before Roswell
Before flying saucers became part of modern thought, people were already reporting strange lights, impossible machines, and unexplained objects in the sky. From the 15...
Chasing the Marfa Ghost Lights | With Adam Stilwell
Filmmaker Adam Stilwell shares his experience seeing the Marfa Lights, and his attempt to find their source while accidentally driving to Mexico. His experience raises...
The Redpath Mansion Murder Mystery | with Jesse Ikeman
Re-Release of a classic episode. In 1901, one of Canada’s most wealthy and powerful families found themselves players in a real murder mystery. Ada Redpath and her son...
The Hinterkaifeck Murders
In 1922, on a farm in the Bavarian countryside, six people were killed in one of the most strange unsolved murders in history. Whoever the killer was, he might have be...
The House That Drips Blood
In 1987, an elderly couple in Atlanta called police after finding weird red droplets in multiple rooms of their home. The substance appeared on the floors, low on the ...
The People Who Shouldn’t Have Been There | Three Tales of Time Travel, Teleportation, and Impossible Visitors
A woman washes ashore in a mysterious hollow ship, carrying a box no one is allowed to open. A Spanish soldier instantaneously transports to Mexico City from Manila. A...
Gareth Williams "The Body in the Bag"
The death of Gareth Williams in 2010 has become one of the most unusual and cryptic mysteries after his nude body was discovered padlocked inside a duffel bag. William...
The Lost Bugatti | With Tim Donahue
Re-release of a classic episode! One of WWII's lost treasures was the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic "La Voiture Noire", and it is estimated to be worth over $100 million ...
The Bathroom Mirror Murder: The True Story Behind Candyman
The chilling strange crime said to have inspired the original horror film Candyman is the 1987 murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy in Chicago. McCoy called 911 and said someone...
Did Jack the Ripper Kill More Than Five?
Jack the Ripper is history’s most infamous unidentified killer, but the Whitechapel murder files included 11 brutal and still-debated killings. Beyond the names most p...
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He Called 911 After Every Murder: The Weepy Voice Killer
In the early 1980s, a serial killer terrorized the Twin Cities, and after every attack he called 911. Sobbing. Confessing. Begging police to find him before he killed ...
The Five Most Dangerous Documents in History
We tend to measure destruction in body counts and blast radii. But some of the most catastrophic forces ever unleashed on humanity came from words on paper. We're coun...
Denmark's Most Shocking Unsolved Murder
On February 20, 1948, detectives in Copenhagen are called to Peter Bangs Vej 74 after a couple had been brutally murdered in their apartment. The crime scene contained...
The San Francisco Witch Killers
On January 12, 1983, hitchhikers Michael Bear Carson and his wife Suzan murdered their driver, John Hellyar, in view of other motorists. After a high speed chase and t...
The Dungarvon Whooper
This Canadian ghost story involves an alleged murder in the dense forests of New Brunswick in the 1820s. Ever since, the sounds of Whoops, Calls, and Screams can be he...
The Serial Photographer | Killer William Bradford
William Bradford posed as a photographer to lure women into the Mojave Desert, promising them careers as models. Bradford was convicted of two murders but he is assume...
Werewolf Of Bedburg
In 1589, a quiet German farming community was gripped by terror. Villagers swore they were being hunted by the mythical werewolf. Soon local farmer Peter Stumpp was ar...
Carl Großmann: The Butcherin' Berlin Beggar
A re-release of a classic episode. In 1921 police caught Carl Großmann in a frightening, murderous act that caused the papers to label him the "Berlin Butcher". Großm...