Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled in an F-89 Scorpion to intercept a UFO flying over Lake Superior.
They and their plane were never seen again.
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In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada.
Bleary-eyed and holding a briefcase in one hand, while clutching at his stomach with the other, the story of what he was doing there exactly, is one of the strangest in Canadian history.
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Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War.
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In 1898 a story written by Mildred Darby was published in London’s Belgravia magazine titled, “A House of Horrors.”
Darby later claimed it was in fact a true reflection of the many strange goings-on that occurred during her time living at Leap Castle in Ireland.
This episode is an adaptation of “A House of Horrors” by Mildred Darby.
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In this episode, we look at the history of criminal profiling and how the practice first came about. But more importantly, just how effective is it anyway?
The answers might surprise you.
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‘Mad Bomber’ George Metesky after his arrest
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Third and final part of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town
With many giving up hope of ever finding the killer, Detective James Wilkerson is convinced he has the guilty man in his sights.
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Part Two of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town
In the wake of the horrific murders in Villisca, investigators struggle to find a culprit. But is the killer already in their midst?
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Rev. Lyn George Kelly
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In June 1912, one quiet rural community in southwest Iowa, USA, became the scene of one of the most brutal and inexplicable unsolved murders in American history. It remains no less shocking today than it was over 100 years ago.
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Perhaps the strangest and most mysterious story to come out of the 'Bennington Triangle' was that which took place in the early 1800s, which ultimately led to the first officially recorded case of a wrongful conviction for murder in the United States, but was it?
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Between 1945-1950, four people vanished without trace in an area of Vermont in the USA, dubbed the Bennington Triangle due to the array of strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there.
In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second of those four people to disappear in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.
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Some look for gold in rock seams and mineral deposits. Others prefer their search for riches served with a healthy side order of deep and mystical conspiracy...
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Back in 1892, 29-year-old Julia Thomas headed out into the heart of Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of an apparently lost gold mine, after having its location disclosed to her by a dying man. Said to have been the richest mine in the world at the time it has since become known as The Lost Dutchman's Mine.
Some say it still lies out there, just waiting to be discovered...
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Photo of Weaver’s Needle by Ken Lund (flickr.com/photos/kenlund/15598091206)
Just like Miguel Jose Viana and Manual Pereira da Cruz, 32-year-old Granger Taylor, from Vancouver Island, Canada, also had extensive knowledge of electronics and a burning desire to visit another world.
And just like Miguel and Manuel, his too is a tragic tale clouded in mystery.
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In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outside the city of Niteroi, could well be victims of the country's cruel new reality.
Within minutes of surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear to police that something far more bizarre was going on.
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It may seem far-fetched to believe that a vampire had been living at the site of London's Highgate Cemetery since the 18th century.
But did you know the so-called vampire plague said to have ravaged parts of eastern Europe in the 1730s was in one way or another, entirely real...
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In the late 1960s, a large number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black magic.
In Highgate Cemetery in North London especially, the evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to deny.
Something dark and sinister, it seemed, was brewing...
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David Farrant in 1971
Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or rather location, for which he had a particular soft spot.
The place, a mid-terraced Georgian townhouse in London’s Berkeley Square is often referred to as quite simply the most haunted house in London...
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(Please note: the following episode is adapted from the live episode I presented at the London Podcast Festival in 2016 and later released on this stream, so may be familiar to some listeners).
In the English northwestern town of Runcorn in 1952, like most typical working families of the time left dealing with the economic aftershocks of the second world war, the Jones and Glynns of 1 Byron Street had little choice but to keep calm and carry on regardless.
But nothing could prepare them for the extraordinary events that were soon to engulf their lives...
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Almost every culture it seems has a story of wild mythical creatures living out in the woods and mountains.
Sometimes they break out from the myth, to be apparently captured on film, recorded on audio, and seen in real-life.
And in 1850, one was even said to have been caught...
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In July 1924, a group of prospectors returned from a trip working their claim in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, with an incredible tale to tell having apparently come face to face with some kind of terrifying ape-like creatures...
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