Episodes

  • 131: Trail Mix - Deadly Flora

    131: Trail Mix - Deadly Flora
    Dec 9 2025
    There’s something appealing and romantic about foraging and there’s a special kind of calm that comes from working in your yard or garden. But when plant encounters go wrong, you don’t just get a bad taste in your mouth, it could be your last meal.

    Sources:
    CDC, News.com, KSBW, NIH, BBC, MDA State, Food Safety, Bon Appetit, Poison Control Utah, Local 12

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    39 mins
  • 130: The Wilcox Expedition

    130: The Wilcox Expedition
    Dec 2 2025
    Imagine this - you're standing on a mountain ridge almost four miles above sea level. The wind is howling, and screaming, and you’re barely able to stay standing. The world around you is white in every direction. You’re cold and you know that there will be no rescue tonight. You’re experiencing a fierce storm on Denali. A place that can be deadly when the weather turns . Luckily you’re only imagining this scenario but in the summer of 1967, twelve men walked straight into one of the worst storms the mountain had seen in decades. Only five returned.

    Sources:
    Outside Online, Explorers Web, Britannica, Wikipedia, AAC Publications, UAA

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    28 mins
  • 129: The Missing Mushroom Hunter

    129: The Missing Mushroom Hunter
    Nov 25 2025
    Some people spend their lives searching for treasure. For mushroom hunters, that treasure grows quietly in the shadows. But sometimes, unknown dangers can also be lurking in those same shadows.

    Sources:
    NamUs, Seattle Times, Facebook, Reddit, Your Source One, YouTube - The Missing Enigma

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    53 mins
  • 128: Unsolved in Colorado - Tom Young and Keith Reinhard

    128: Unsolved in Colorado - Tom Young and Keith Reinhard
    Nov 18 2025
    In a small mining town in the Colorado Rockies, a man and his dog walked into the mountains and never returned. Less than a year later, another man working in the exact same location took interest in the disappearance from the year before. Soon he would follow the same trail and he too would vanish. One mountain, two men, countless theories.



    Sources

    FRNWH Unsolved Strange Outdoors CBSNEWS Chicago Tribune Historic Mysteries Colorado.gov MRA.org

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    51 mins
  • 127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance

    127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance
    Nov 4 2025
    It was supposed to be a peaceful setting—an artist setting up his easel by the roadside, surrounded by the wild, glacier-cut beauty of Washington’s North Cascades. But for days, his car would sit abandoned. His canvas, unfinished. And the man himself—gone. What happened to Alexander Pisch?

    Sources:
    Go Skagit, NPS, Fox13 Seattle, KATV, Reddit, Facebook, Websleuths, Strange Outdoors, More Than Just Parks, Instagram

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    36 mins
  • 126: Sunday Scary - Haunted Hikes

    126: Sunday Scary - Haunted Hikes
    Nov 2 2025
    Some trails are just trails, a good workout, fresh air, a chance to clear your head, and maybe a nice view. And then there are the other ones. The ones that feel… different. Maybe it’s the way the trees seem to close in around you. Or how the silence gets heavier the farther you go. Sometimes, it’s the way the hair on the back of your neck stands up when you catch a shadow. In this episode these are trails that are beautiful by day and eerie by night.


    jahernandez.com Portland Ghosts Willhiteweb Find a Grave Blue Ridge Country.com Lexington Virginia Outside Online Maine Trail Finder News Center Maine

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    36 mins
  • 125: Flight 571 - The Price of Survival

    125: Flight 571 - The Price of Survival
    Oct 29 2025
    It should have been a quick flight, just a few hours across the Andes Mountains from Uruguay to Chile. Onboard were members of a rugby team, and many of their friends, and family. Spirits were high, the mood light. But as they crossed into the mountains cloud cover dropped visibility to almost nothing. What would happen next would end or define the lives of the 45 people on board.

    Victims
    • Gastón Costemalle
    • Alexis Hounié
    • Guido Magri
    • Daniel Shaw
    • Carlos Valeta
    • Dr. Francisco Nicola, Team physician
    • Esther Horta Pérez de Nicola
    • Eugenia Dolgay Diedug de Parrado
    • Fernándo Vázquez
    • Francisco Abal
    • Felipe Maquirriain
    • Julio Martínez-Lamas
    • Graciela Augusto Gumila de Mariani
    • Susana Parrado
    • Daniel Maspons
    • Juan Carlos Menéndez
    • Liliana Navarro Petraglia de Methol
    • Gustavo Nicolich
    • Marcelo Pérez, Captain of rugby team
    • Enrique Platero
    • Diego Storm
    • Arturo Nogueira
    • Rafael Echavarren
    • Numa Turcatti

    Survivors
    • José Pedro Algorta
    • Roberto Canessa
    • Alfredo Delgado
    • Daniel Fernández
    • Roberto Francois
    • Roy Harley
    • José Luis Inciarte
    • Álvaro Mangino
    • Javier Methol
    • Carlos Páez Rodríguez
    • Fernando Parrado
    • Ramón Sabella
    • Adolfo "Fito" Strauch
    • Eduardo Strauch
    • Antonio "Tintin" Vizintín
    • Gustavo Zerbino
    Sources
    Rare Historical Photos Britannica Wikipedia BBC All Thats Interesting Mental Floss ABC News Find a Grave


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 124: The Yosemite Mystery - Jeanne Hesselschwert’s Final Hike

    124: The Yosemite Mystery - Jeanne Hesselschwert’s Final Hike
    Oct 21 2025
    Today, we’re heading deep into Yosemite National Park- a place known for its stunning granite cliffs, towering waterfalls, and wild, untouched beauty. But even in a place so breathtaking, things can go wrong fast. This is the story of Jeanne Hesselschwert- a woman who vanished on what should have been a simple roadside stop… and the chain of events that followed.

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    32 mins