Episodes

  • S2 Ep19: The House on 109
    May 26 2026

    In tonight's dead letter, we head into Grafton, West Virginia — a small railroad town built on a B&O junction, Civil War supply lines, and two national cemeteries. The house at the center of this story sat right in the middle of all that history. When a listener named Jonathan moved in with his family as a kid, it was, as he puts it, just off — and the footsteps upstairs were the easy part. Small things kept stacking up, the kind you could maybe almost explain away one at a time but never all together. Decades later he's still working through what happened in that house, and what stayed there.

    REFERENCE LINKS

    Grafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia

    B&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton

    Grafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker

    Grafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration

    Thornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War

    International Mother's Day Shrine

    Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day

    The Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia

    The Grafton Monster Festival

    The Grafton Monster in Fallout 76

    George Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton

    Ruth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist

    The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

    Astonishing Legends Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1

    Astonishing Legends Archived Episodes — The Bell Witch Series

    The Enfield Poltergeist (1977)

    The Smurl Haunting (West Pittston, PA)

    Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — Lacatski, Kelleher, Knapp

    Hypnopompic Hallucinations — Sleep Foundation

    The Old Hag Phenomenon and Sleep Paralysis

    The Blemmyes — Headless Men with Faces in Their Chests

    West Virginia Paranormal Investigations

    Paper Moon (1973)

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    44 mins
  • The Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela
    May 23 2026

    In January 1956, rush-hour drivers crossing Pittsburgh’s icy Homestead High Level Bridge watched a nightmare descend from the sky: a silent B-25 bomber gliding just feet above the roadway with both engines dead. Veteran Air Force pilot Major William Dotson pulled off a flawless emergency landing on the freezing Monongahela River, saving all six men from the crash itself. But within minutes, two crew members vanished into the current, and the bomber sank beneath only 25 feet of water… never to be seen again. How does an entire military aircraft disappear in shallow water, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and stay missing for nearly seventy years?

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    2 hrs and 23 mins
  • The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
    May 21 2026

    Scott and Forrest present a preview of a new podcast called Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat!

    Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something.


    Hidden History doesn't dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as open case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn't a failure of explanation. It's a constant in human experience, one that evolves, repeats, and sometimes deepens the more we learn.
    New episodes drop every Monday. Follow now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube @hiddenhistorypod. Listen here: https://play.megaphone.fm/65qgwrg-sq-mmvg7tpqgfa
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    9 mins
  • S2 Ep18: Mom is Still Here
    May 20 2026

    In tonight's dead letter, listener Andrew writes in from a quiet little back house in Monterey Park, California — a place that during the early pandemic felt even quieter than usual. He's a self-described skeptic, he disabled the motion sensor on his own bathroom light because it kept tripping on him, or so he thought. But on the worst night of his life, something happened in that house he still can't quite explain. Scott and Forrest also share a few of their own recent stories — alarm clocks, flickering nightlights, dying batteries that turned out to be just dying batteries — about what's mundane and what isn't when grief is fresh.

    REFERENCE LINKS

    History of Monterey Park — Official City Website

    The Tongva (Gabrielino) People — Wikipedia

    Monterey Park, California — Wikipedia

    Hello From Heaven by Bill and Judy Guggenheim

    The ADC Project — After-Death Communication Research

    Astonishing Legends Ep 101: ARCapalooza! Part 2

    Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf — Official Site

    Anomaly: Paranormal Podcast by Paul Gledhill

    The Monroe Institute — Founded by Robert Monroe

    Black Mirror: "White Christmas" — Wikipedia

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    56 mins
  • The Strange Death of Gloria Ramirez
    May 10 2026

    In 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother of two dying from cancer, arrived at a Riverside ER with strange odors, an oily sheen on her skin, and crystalline particles in her blood — then doctors and nurses around her began collapsing, vomiting, burning, and struggling to breathe. The ER was evacuated and HAZMAT suits came out. Gloria died in the chaos, and the official explanation still leaves troubling questions. Behind the nickname “The Toxic Lady” is a human being whose final night remains one of the most haunting medical mysteries of our time.

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    2 hrs and 4 mins
  • S2 Ep17: The Sealed Room
    May 5 2026

    In tonight's dead letter, we're across the harbor from Boston, in the densely layered city of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Our listener grew up in a building that began its life as a 19th-century clinic, served as a surgery, and ended its years as a hospice before becoming a multi-generational family home. But the house already had a few residents. Different presences on every floor, each with their own habits and rules. What's harder to explain is the room someone worked very hard to make sure no one would ever find.

    REFERENCE LINKS

    Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 — Wikipedia

    Chelsea Conflagration 1973: The Biggest Fire You've Never Heard Of — Fire Rescue 1

    Chelsea on Fire: 1908 —Chelsea conflagration: The biggest fire you’ve never heard of GBH/WGBH Boston

    Domovoy: Slavic Household Spirit — Wikipedia

    Domovoy: The Guardian Spirit of the Home and the Family — Slavic Lore

    Domovoy — Britannica

    Modern Spolia: Harvesting Building Materials from Demolition Sites — ArchDaily

    Electronic Voice Phenomenon — Wikipedia

    Ghosts in the Machine: The Truth About EVP — Homespun Haints

    Sensing What Others Cannot: Anomalous Experiences and Autism — Psychology Today

    Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions Experience Increased Levels of Anomalous Perception — PLOS ONE / PMC

    Is There a Connection Between Autism and the Paranormal? — Association of Paranormal Study

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    44 mins
  • S2 Ep16: The Mennonite Girl
    Apr 29 2026

    In tonight’s dead letter, a peaceful retreat at a friend's historic property in the country yields a brush with something that defies explanation. The old homes in these rural communities are steeped in generations of human memory, and sometimes, those overlaid paths from the past seem to bleed right through the present day. We unpack an incredibly vivid, solid sighting that leaves us questioning the true nature of time, space, and the boundaries of our own backyards.

    REFERENCE LINKS

    The Finger Lakes Region

    History of the Amish and Mennonite Schism

    Spolia in Architecture

    Belhurst Castle and the Lady in White

    Al Jaffee and the Mad Magazine Fold-In

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    47 mins
  • UFO Insiders Iced?
    Apr 26 2026

    A retired Air Force major general walks out of his Albuquerque home in 2026 and vanishes with a revolver. But William Neil McCaslind wasn’t just anyone. He once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory and carried deep knowledge of America’s most advanced defense systems. His disappearance soon becomes part of a much darker pattern online. From Los Alamos to NASA JPL to Caltech, nuclear scientists and defense experts seem to have been erased from the grid. Is someone quietly removing high-value scientific minds from the board? Are brilliant people cracking under unbearable pressure? Or could this be a pattern of our own design?

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    2 hrs and 12 mins