Marks Unexplained World
By: Mark Hughes
Language: en
Categories: History, Society, Culture, Documentary, True Crime
Marks Unexplained World (Because there’s more to the Paranormal than meets the Third Eye) Looking at UFO’s, time-slips, missing people, hauntings, alien abduction, cryptids, parallel universes, missing time, Mandela effects, living in the matrix, Disaster’s, and the occasional serial killer.
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What Happened to the Frog Boys? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 181)
Jan 11, 2026What Happened to the Frog Boys? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 181)
The Frog Boys were a group of five boys who were murdered while trying to catch salamander eggs in Daegu.
The incident attracted national attention, leading to a massive manhunt and extensive media coverage.
The case remains one of South Korea's most infamous unsolved crimes.
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Duration: 00:37:40The Jack Family Disappearance | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 180)
Jan 04, 2026The Jack Family Disappearance | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 180)
The Jack family of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, disappeared under mysterious circumstances on August 2, 1989.
The Indigenous Canadian family were last seen stepping into a pickup truck belonging to an unidentified man who had reportedly offered the family jobs at a logging camp.
The whereabouts of the family remain undetermined.
An anonymous call in January 1996 claimed that their bodies were buried on a ranch, but the caller did not elaborate on the claim and efforts to track down the caller were unsuccessful.<...
Duration: 00:39:16What Happened to the Clown that Cried? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 179)
Dec 20, 2025What Happened to the Clown that Cried? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 179)
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The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis about a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
The film has gained notoriety and mystique over the decades both for its controversial premise and as a well-known example of an unfinished film.
Lewis repeatedly insisted that The Day the Clown Cried would never be released.
Still, Lewis seemed to relish...
Duration: 00:40:55The Great Smog of London | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 178)
Dec 13, 2025The Great Smog of London | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 178)
The Great Smog of London, which occurred in December 1952, was a severe air pollution event that lasted from December 5 to December 9.
It was caused by a combination of industrial pollution and high-pressure weather conditions, leading to a thick fog that blanketed the city.
The smog resulted in approximately 12,000 deaths and had lasting health repercussions, ultimately paving the way for significant reforms such as the Clean Air Act of 1956.
The event highlighted the dangers of air pollution and the need for regulatory...
Duration: 00:37:50What Happened at New Mexico’s Dulce Base | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 177)
Dec 05, 2025What Happened at New Mexico's Dulce Base | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 177)
For decades, ufologists have claimed that extraterrestrials experiment on humans with the military's help inside a secret base underneath Archuleta Mesa in Dulce, New Mexico.
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Duration: 00:39:00The Crop Circle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 176)
Nov 28, 2025The Crop Circle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 176)
A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal.
The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles are suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human causation.
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Duration: 00:41:19What Happened to Richard Chadek? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 175)
Nov 21, 2025What Happened to Richard Chadek | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 175)
Richard Chadek III was an 11-year-old boy who went missing in 1986 from a quiet suburb in Nebraska.
His disappearance led to an extensive search operation, but he was later found dead eight days later, confirming the worst-case scenario.
The case remains one of Omaha's most infamous cold cases, and detectives are still looking for leads to solve it.
If anyone has information regarding his abduction, they are encouraged to contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
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Duration: 00:35:23The Haunting of Wizard Clip | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 174)
Nov 14, 2025The Haunting of Wizard Clip | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 174)
The legend of the Wizard Clip is a popular ghost story about an incident said to have occurred in Middleway, West Virginia, in the 1820s.
The story of the Wizard Clip is part of the oral history of the area and was called by Rev.
Alfred E. Smith, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Review and secretary to Cardinal Gibbons, "The truest ghost story ever told."
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... Duration: 00:39:32The Survival Story of Juliane Koepcke | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 173)
Nov 07, 2025The Survival Story of Juliane Koepcke | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 173)
Juliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash.
When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries, including a concussion, broken collarbone, and a torn knee ligament.
She survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she located a lumberjack camp.
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Oct 31, 2025Donald and Gua | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 172)
Gua was a chimpanzee raised as though she were a human child by scientists Luella and Winthrop Kellogg alongside their infant son Donald.
For nine months the Kellogg's raised the two as "brother and sister", and comprehensively recorded the development of the chimpanzee and the human child. When she was around one year old, Gua often tested ahead of Donald Gua was the first chimpanzee to be used in a cross-rearing study in the US.
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Duration: 00:38:05The Golar Clan | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 171)
Oct 24, 2025The Goler Clan | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 171)
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The Goler clan is a family group in Nova Scotia, Canada, known for inter-generational poverty and the conviction in the 1980s of many family members for sexual abuse and violent interfamily relationships.
The family became infamously known in the 1980s following a series of criminal cases that exposed their isolated and impoverished living conditions, as well as alarming instances of abuse within the family.
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Duration: 00:36:25What Were the Ghost Rockets? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 170)
Oct 16, 2025What Were the Ghost Rockets? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 170)
Ghost rockets were rocket (or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946), mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.
Investigations concluded that many ghost rocket sightings were probably caused by meteors. However, debate continues as to the origins of the unidentified ghost rockets.
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Duration: 00:40:25Jacobo Grinberg (Living and Disappearing in the Matrix) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 169)
Oct 10, 2025Jacobo Grinber (Living and Disappearing in the Matrix) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 169)
Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum was a Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist who studied Mexican shamanism, Eastern disciplines, meditation, astrology and telepathy through the scientific method.
However, Grinberg disappeared in December 1994. There are many conspiracy theories surrounding Grinberg's disappearance, with one of them implying that the CIA caused his disappearance because his studies put in danger the pharmaceutical and medical industry.
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Duration: 00:36:50The Dark Story Behind Tony Hancock | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 168)
Oct 01, 2025The Dark Story Behind Tony Hancock | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 168)
Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor.
Across his career, Hancock twice won the BAFTA Award for Light Entertainment Artist in 1958 and 1960.
He was later nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for his performance in The Rebel (1961).
Spike Milligan said regarding Hancock, that he was a very difficult man to get on with as he used to drink excessively.
Hancock died by suicide by overdose, in Sydney, on 25 June 1968...
Duration: 00:38:30Chernobyl | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 167)
Sep 24, 2025Chernobyl | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 167)
On 26th April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded.
With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of the biggest nuclear energy accidents ever rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The response involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles.
It remains both the worst nuclear disaster and the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion.
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<... Duration: 00:41:10The Thornton Heath Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Sep 20, 2025The Thornton Heath Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
In the 1970s, in Thornton Heath, England, a family was tormented by Poltergeist Phenomena that started one August night when they were woken in the middle of the night by a blaring bedside radio that had somehow turned itself on, tuned into a foreign language station.
This was the beginning of a string of events that lasted nearly four years.
Duration: 00:21:10The Cottingley Faries | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 166)
Sep 17, 2025The Cottingley Fairies | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 166)
The Cottingley Fairies are the subject of a hoax that purports to provide evidence of the existence of fairies.
They appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old, and Frances was 9.
The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned...
Duration: 00:38:47The Strange Story of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Sep 13, 2025The Strange Story of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities.
Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 people survived.
During the following months and years, stories began circulating that employees of Eastern
Air Lines, and numerous passengers, had reported sightings of the dead crew members, captain...
Duration: 00:22:07The Outreau Case | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 165)
Sep 10, 2025The Outreau Case | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 165)
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The Outreau case refers to a criminal case of paedophilia which took place between 1997 and 2000 in Outreau, a French commune in northern France.
The case involved the Delay family, Thierry Delay and Myriam Badaoui, who were investigated on claims of child abuse after their four sons were taken from the home and placed in care.
The case had a lasting impact on the victims and the town’s residents for the rest of their lives.
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Duration: 00:35:03The Disaster that was Balloon Fest ’86 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Sep 06, 2025The Disaster that was Balloon Fest '86 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in which the local chapter of United Way set a world record by releasing almost 1.5 million balloons.
The event took place on September 27, 1986, and was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area, causing problems for traffic and a nearby airport.
The event also interfered with a United States Coast Guard search for two boaters...
Duration: 00:21:25The Flight 105 UFO Sighting | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 164)
Sep 02, 2025The Flight 105 UFO Sighting | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 164)
The Flight 105 UFO sighting occurred on the 4th of July 1947, when three crew members aboard a United Airlines flight reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects in the skies over the Pacific Northwest.
The incident was among at least 800 similar sightings in the United States within a few weeks in the summer of 1947, but the first report by professional pilots.
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Duration: 00:35:20The Jaboticabal Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Aug 30, 2025The Jaboticabal Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS OF SEXUAL ASSUALT AND VIOLENCE, YOU LISTEN AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
The Jaboticabal Poltergeist is a persistent and malevolent Poltergeist case with a tragic end in Jaboticabal, Brazil, in the 1960s. It is one of the most vicious on record.
The report on the case was witnessed and signed by many respected people.
Duration: 00:17:54The Disappearance of Trevaline Evans | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 163)
Aug 27, 2025The Disappearance of Trevaline Evans | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 163)
The disappearance of Trevaline Evans is a missing persons case from 1990 concerning a 52-year-old woman who vanished without trace from her antiques shop in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
The last confirmed sighting of Evans was near her home on the 16th of June 1990 at 2:30pm.
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If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Trevaline Evans, please contact the police on 101 or call crime stoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 from the UK, and for international tips, you can use the contact...
Duration: 00:37:40The Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Aug 23, 2025Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 was a UFO incident that occurred on November 17, 1986, involving a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft.
The aircraft was en route from Paris to Narita International Airport, near Tokyo, with a cargo of Beaujolais wine. On the Reykjavík to Anchorage section of the flight, at 17:11 over eastern Alaska, the crew first witnessed two unidentified objects to their left.
These abruptly rose from below and closed in to escort their aircraft. Each had two rectangular arrays of w...
Duration: 00:20:15The Nazi Gold Train | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 162)
Aug 21, 2025The Nazi Gold Train | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 162)
The Nazi gold train or Wałbrzych gold train is an urban legend about a train laden with gold and treasure that was hidden by the Nazis in southwest Poland during the last days of World War II.
Between 2015 and 2018, the train received renewed global media interest when two Polish men claimed to have discovered it using ground-penetrating radar.
However, excavations were halted when the detected anomaly was found to be natural geology.
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Aug 16, 2025The Kuykendall Phone Stalker | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
16-year-old Courtney Kuykendall alleges that her phone started sending text messages out to her friends all on its own.
And if that weren't terrifying enough, next came ominous calls at all hours of the day and night.
Threats were rasped over the line in a scratchy voice.
If you, or someone you know, thinks they have been a victim of stalking, contact the National Stalking Helpline on 0808 802 0300 or through their online tool, where there are Independent Stalking Advocates who will help you...
Duration: 00:23:48The Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 161)
Aug 13, 2025The Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 161)
Emma Fillipoff is a Canadian woman who has been missing since November 28, 2012. Fillipoff was last seen in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 26.
Most evidence indicates she was planning to return home to Ottawa, but there was no proof that she ever left Victoria, and the cell phone she bought had never been activated.
She has never been seen since.
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Duration: 00:38:46Don Decker and the Rain | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Aug 09, 2025Don Decker and the Rain | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Don Decker is known to the paranormal world as the Rain Man.
Decker’s story is arguably one of the most well-recognized paranormal events in recent history.
What makes this case so compelling is the credibility of the witnesses, including those who were law enforcement officers.
Duration: 00:20:00The Dark Story of Lou Costello | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 160)
Aug 06, 2025The Dark Side of Lou Costello | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 160)
Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor, and producer.
He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?"
In 1943, while rehearsing at their NBC studio, Costello received word that his infant son Lou Jr. had accidentally drowned in the family pool. Later, during his career in 1945,. due to the strained relationship that they both shared,
Lou Costello announced that he would no longer work with Bud...
Duration: 00:40:32The Cursed Grave of Carl Pruitt | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Aug 02, 2025The Cursed Grave of Carl Pruitt | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
It was said that the grave of Carl Pruitt has caused five deaths that were all the same and couldn’t be explained.
Pruitt’s relatives insisted that he be buried in a different cemetery than his wife. Strange things started to be seen by visitors concerning Carl’s burial.
His tomb was surrounded by circular spots of discoloured grass that resembled a chain. Then came the stories of hauntings and vandalism.
Duration: 00:18:44Sleepwalking | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 159)
Jul 29, 2025Sleepwalking | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 159)
Disclaimer, ... I am not a doctor, a psychiatrist, or any other sort of sleep specialist, … as all the information that I have used in this show is from various NHS, Wikipedia, and wellbeing websites.
So, if you do have any sleep issues, please don’t use this podcast as a way to help you get better, if you need help, … go see a GP or sleep specialist, … as this show is (strictly) just for entertainment purposes only.
Sleepwalking, (also known as somnambulism), is a sleep disorder characterized by walki...
Duration: 00:37:41The Isdal Woman | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jul 26, 2025The Isdal Woman | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
The Isdal Woman: is a placeholder name given to a Norwegian unidentified woman who was found dead at Isdalen in Bergen, Norway, on 29 November 1970.
Duration: 00:17:35The Utah Monolith | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 158)
Jul 22, 2025The Utah Monolith | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 158)
The Utah monolith was a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States.
The pillar was 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism. It was unlawfully placed on public land between July and October 2016; it stood unnoticed for over four years until its discovery and removal in late 2020. The identity of its makers is unknown, as are their objectives.
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Duration: 00:40:02The Somerton Man | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jul 19, 2025The Somerton Man | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
The Somerton Man: is an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Duration: 00:24:47Havana Syndrome | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 157)
Jul 16, 2025Havana Syndrome | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 157)
Havana syndrome refers to a series of debilitating symptoms first reported by U.S. intelligence officers and embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, in late 2016.
Symptoms include hearing strange noises, headaches, dizziness, and cognitive dysfunction. The condition has been described as a disputed medical phenomenon, with some experts questioning its validity and attributing it to psychological factors rather than a specific medical cause.
Recent investigations have sought to uncover potential causes, but no definitive evidence has been found linking the symptoms to a specific source.
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Duration: 00:38:46The Phoenix Lights | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jul 12, 2025The Phoenix Lights | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
On the 13th of March 1997, Between the hours of 7:30pm and 10:30pm lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson.
There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area.
The United States Air Force identified the second group of lights as flares dropped...
Duration: 00:17:55The Yogurt Shop Murders | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 156)
Jul 09, 2025The Yogurt Shop Murders | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 156)
The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide that took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991.
The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah. Jennifer and Eliza were the shop employees, while Sarah and her friend Amy were in the shop to get a ride home with Jennifer after it closed at 11:00 pm.
A Y-chromosome match for the perpetrator...
Duration: 00:39:44What Happened to the Sarah Joe? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jul 05, 2025What Happened to the Sarah Joe? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
On the 11th of February 1979, five local men took the day off to go on a fishing trip in their seventeen-foot Boston whaler, the Sarah Joe, from the town of Hana, located on the southeast shore of the Hawaiian island Maui.
They were never seen alive again.
After a total of five days and seventy-three thousand miles had been covered, the search for the men was officially suspended, no trace of the Sarah Joe or the five men was found.
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Duration: 00:19:07The Twisted Story of Samantha Azzopardi | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 155)
Jul 02, 2025The Twisted Story of Samantha Azzopardi (The GPO Girl) I Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 155)
Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi is an Australian con artist who has been accused of many instances of conning families and authorities, not only in her native Australia but also in Ireland and Canada.
In May 2021, the Melbourne Magistrates Court sentenced her to two years imprisonment, meanwhile she has found herself the subject of many true crime documentary's.
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Duration: 00:39:35The Voice of Vrillon | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jun 28, 2025The Voice of Vrillon | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
On Saturday 26 November 1977, at 17:10 UTC, as ITN's Andrew Gardner presented a news summary where he reported on clashes in then-Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between security forces and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the TV picture wobbled slightly, followed by a deep buzz.
The audio was replaced by a distorted voice delivering a message for almost six minutes.
It was the Voice of Vrillon and to this day the perpetrator behind this voice has never been identified
Duration: 00:24:20The Maury Island UFO | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 154)
Jun 25, 2025The Maury Island UFO | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 154)
The Maury Island incident refers to claims made by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl of falling debris and threats by men in black following sightings of unidentified flying objects in the sky over Maury Island, Washington, United States.
The pair claimed that the events had occurred on June 21, 1947.
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Duration: 00:39:29The Bennington Triangle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jun 21, 2025The Bennington Triangle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
"Bennington Triangle" is a phrase coined by American author Joseph A. Citro to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of people went missing between 1945 and 1950.
Precisely what area is encompassed in this hypothetical "mystery triangle" is not clear, but it is purportedly centred on Glastonbury Mountain and would include some or most of the area of the towns immediately surrounding it, especially Bennington, Woodford, Shaftsbury, and Somerset.
Duration: 00:26:20The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 153)
Jun 18, 2025The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 153)
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital.
The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
The lack of proper care and access to sanitation led to a large number of deaths at the asylum, while the official count of patients who have died in the asylum is not available, research is currently underway to determine an accurate count, Weston...
Duration: 00:40:36The Rendlesham Forest Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
Jun 14, 2025The Rendlesham Forest incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra
The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in late December 1980, which became linked with claims of UFO landings.
The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force.
Duration: 00:23:32Sam the Sandown Clown | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 152)
Jun 10, 2025Sam the Sandown Clown | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 152)
Sam the Sandown Clown was a strange being encountered by two young children vacationing at Lake Common, Sandown, on the Isle of Wight in the UK in May of 1973.
Following a strange sound, the two children wandered across a footbridge and met an odd unidentified creature that was described as "a cross between a clown, a robot, and an alien."
After a time, the strange creature seemingly disappeared and has never been seen again.
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Duration: 00:36:26The Dark Story of the Ovitz Family | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 151)
Jun 03, 2025The Dark Story of The Ovits Family | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 151)
The Ovitz family was a family of Hungarian Jewish actors/travelling musicians originating from present Romania, who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and survive intact.
The family of twelve ranged from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman.
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Duration: 00:38:00The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 150)
May 28, 2025The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 150)
Glen and Bessie Hyde were newlyweds who disappeared while attempting to run the rapids of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona in 1928. Had the couple succeeded, Bessie Hyde would have been the first woman known to accomplish this feat. Still to this day, their whereabouts remain unknown, and are still classified as missing.Marks Unexplained World
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<... Duration: 00:36:50The Vanishing and Reappearance of Katherine Van Alst | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 149)
May 21, 2025The Vanishing & Reappearance of Katherine Van Alst | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 149)
While on holiday with her family at Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas, Katherine Van Alst wandered away from her brothers while they fishing near a creak.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Katherine suddenly vanished, and despite the cries of her family who were desperately trying to find her, she failed to respond and had completely disappeared.
Then, after six days of park rangers and volunteers searching the area, as quickly as she disappeared, she reappeared safe and well.
<... Duration: 00:33:36Joseph Denny at Dartmoor Prison | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 148)
May 14, 2025Joseph Denny at Dartmoor Prison | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 148)
Joseph Denny was a coloured native of Barbados.
He was described as a habitual criminal who, at times, would resort to violence. His first term in prison was at Carmarthen Prison where he served six months for housebreaking, next came seven years in Liverpool jail for manslaughter, this was then followed by a term of eight years in Dartmoor Prison for the crime of felony, and during his term at Dartmoor he had 124 breaches of discipline, where his punishments included, flogging, solitary confinement and spells...
Duration: 00:38:51The Lies of Elizabeth Finch | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 147)
May 07, 2025The Lies of Elizabeth Finch | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 147)
Elisabeth R. Finch is an American television writer best known for her work on the series True Blood and Grey's Anatomy.
Finch gained public notoriety for her abrupt resignation from Grey's Anatomy, which was prompted by an investigation into a series of lies that she told about her personal and medical history.
Finch had altered her appearance to appear sick while working and used stories about her medical diagnoses to gain accommodations at work.
Finch also reportedly made allegations that her...
Duration: 00:40:27The Death Smog of Donora | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 146)
Apr 30, 2025The Death Smog of Donora | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 146)
The 1948 Donora smog killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, Pennsylvania.
Sixty years later, the incident was described by The New York Times as "one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation's history." Even 10 years after the incident, mortality rates in Donora were significantly higher than those in other communities nearby.
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Apr 23, 2025What Happened to Jeanette DePalmer? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 145)
Jeannette DePalma was an American teenager who is believed to have been murdered sometime on or around August 7, 1972, in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, United States.
Her body was discovered the following month on a cliff (known to locals as "the Devil's Teeth") located in Springfield's Houdaille Quarry.
The events of her death were subject to sensationalist coverage in local media for rumoured connections to alleged occult activity in the area.
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The Dark Story Behind Janis Joplin | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 144)
Apr 16, 2025The Dark Story Behind Janis Joplin | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 144)
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, as well as her "electric" stage presence.
However, on Sunday evening, of the 4th of October 1970, she was found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel by her road manager and close friend John Byrne Cooke.
Her death was ruled accidental.
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The Fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 143)
Apr 08, 2025The Fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 143)
On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, three disgruntled employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, intentionally set a fire.
The fire killed between 96 and 98 people and injured 140 others, making it the most catastrophic hotel fire in Puerto Rican history and the second deadliest hotel fire in U.S. territory in history.
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Duration: 00:39:52The Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 142)
Apr 01, 2025The Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 142)
One of the most haunted places in South Korea is the Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital. The place is said to be full of legends, rumours, and tales of murderous patients and insane doctors.
The world found this place so spooky that in 2012, the TV station CNN called it one of the world’s most freakiest places, making it one of the biggest hotspots for ghost seekers in Korea.
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Duration: 00:37:20The Tuskegee Syphilis Study | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 141)
Mar 26, 2025The Tuskegee Syphilis Study | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 141)
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study, medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable.
The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and as a...
Duration: 00:41:00The Corruption of Adam Air I Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 140)
Mar 19, 2025The Corruption of Adam Air I Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 140)
Adam Air was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore.
Its main base was Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. Large numbers of pilots joined the airline when it was founded in 2003, but most of them quit years later over safety concerns.
Prior to its demise, the company was in serious financial trouble, with the company's owner (Sandra Ang) having allegedly embezzled the company's money, with...
Duration: 00:40:20Route 666 (The Devils Highway) l Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 139)
Mar 11, 2025Route 666 (The Devil's Highway) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 139)
Route 666 is a road full of unexplained phenomena that has occurred throughout history and is considered to be one of the most famous roads in North America.
The road itself expands for approximately two hundred miles, and even though the highway is very popular, many travellers try to evade this barren stretch of road.
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Mar 04, 2025The Salta UFO l Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 138)
On the 17th August 1995, while having lunch at around 1:45 pm in afternoon, Tony Galvano would witness “a sort of flying saucer” of a “bright metallic colour” come screaming out of the brilliant blue skies over the Serrania Colorado region.
As the object passed over the small community, it was followed by “two other objects which would impact against it.
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The Mysterious Case of Timothy Wiltsey | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 137)
Feb 26, 2025The Mysterious Case of Timothy Wiltsey | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 137)
Timothy Wiltsey was a 5-year-old boy from South Amboy, New Jersey, United States, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski, told police that he went missing from a carnival in nearby Sayreville on May 25, 1991.
Almost 11 months later, his remains were discovered across the Raritan River in the marshlands of nearby Edison, near an office park where his mother had once worked.
Due to changes in his mother's account of how her son disappeared within a month of his disappearance, and her unemotional demeanour on the...
Duration: 00:48:01The Dark Story behind Margot Kidder | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 136)
Feb 18, 2025The Dark Story behind Margot Kidder | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 136)
Margaret Ruth Kidder was a Canadian–American actress and activist, who amassed several film and television credits in her career spanning five decades, including her best known portrayal of Lois Lane in the original Superman films (1978–1987).
She received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 1988, which she rejected at the time, and after many personal struggles, died on the 13th May 2018, due to an alcohol and drug overdose, which was later ruled a suicide.
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Duration: 00:40:45The Tragic Story of Amanda Todd | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 135)
Feb 12, 2025The Tragic Story of Amanda Todd | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 135)
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Amanda Todd was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
A Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, who was already imprisoned for sexual blackmail in the Netherlands, was extradited to Canada to face trial on charges of harassing and sexually extorting Todd before her suicide. In response to her death, then-Premier of British Columbia Christy Clark, made an online statement of condolence and suggested a national discussion on...
Duration: 00:40:31The Dark Story Behind Hansel and Gretel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 134)
Feb 04, 2025The Dark Story Behind Hansel and Gretel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 134)
"Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
However the story of Hansel and Gretel itself, was inspired by the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317 in Europe, causing a period of widespread cold weather and torrential rains to Europe, that infected livestock and food shortages. And as a result, this lead to murder, child abandonment, and even cannibalism.
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Duration: 00:38:22What Happened to Snippy the Horse | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 133)
Jan 28, 2025What Happened to Snippy the Horse | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 133)
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The mutilation of "Snippy" the horse was the death and alleged dissection of a Colorado horse that was first widely-reported on October 5, 1967.
Mainstream experts concluded the death was the result of natural causes, though sensationalized press and unsubstantiated folklore questioned whether the death and mutilation might be linked to satanic cults, intelligence operations, or even flying saucers.
The skeletal remains are currently part of a UFO tourism attraction.
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Duration: 00:39:16The Goiania Accident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 132)
Jan 22, 2025The Goiania Accident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 132)
The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city.
It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths, and according to Time magazine it has identified the accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters."
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... Duration: 00:40:16The Radium Girls | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 131)
Jan 14, 2025The Radium Girls | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 131)
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The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials and watch dials with self-luminous paint.
After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip.
Dentists were among the first to see numerous problems among dial painters, with Dental pain, loose teeth, lesions, and ulcers, with many of...
Duration: 00:38:05The Death of Dominique Dunne | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 130)
Jan 07, 2025The Death of Dominique Dunne | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 130)
Dominique Ellen Dunne was an American actress, who got her big break starring as Dana Freeling in the horror film Poltergeist in 1982.
On the 30th October 1982, she was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, during an argument on the driveway of her West Hollywood home.
She fell into a coma and died five days later. In a court case that gained significant media coverage, John Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Dominique's death, and served three and a half years in...
Duration: 00:40:58The Holmesburg Prison Experiments I Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 129)
Jan 02, 2025The Holmesburg Prison Experiments I Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 129)
Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. It was the site of controversial decades-long dermatological, pharmaceutical, and biochemical weapons research projects involving testing on inmates.
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The Case of Nahir Galarza | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 128)
Dec 17, 2024The Case of Nahir Galarza | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 128)
The Nahir Galarza case was an Argentine judicial process, officially called "Galarza, Nahir Mariana s/homicidio doblemente agravado", in which the 19-year-old Nahir Mariana Galarza was convicted of murdering her 20-year-old boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo, at dawn on the 29th of December 2017, in the city of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina, where both lived.
The case was widely covered by both national and international media. Galarza was sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide, which was aggravated by the fact that she and Pastorizzo were under a stable re...
Duration: 00:38:25Hans Schmidt (The Evil Priest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 127)
Dec 10, 2024Hans Schmidt (The Evil Priest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 127)
Contains Graphic Detail. Hans B. Schmidt was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer.
He was executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States.
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The Dark Side of the Mother Earth Cult | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 126)
Dec 03, 2024The Dark Side of the Mother Earth Cult | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 126)
Love Has Won is an American new religious movement which was led by Amy Carlson, who is referred to within the group as "Mother God", who described herself as, among other things, the creator of the universe.
The group has been described as a cult by many, including ex-members and media outlets. Ex-members accused the group of physical abuse and sleep deprivation, with members allegedly only being allowed to sleep for 4–5 hours a night.
The Saguache County Sheriff's Office reported that th...
Duration: 00:42:02Genie Wiley (The Feral Child) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 125)
Nov 26, 2024Genie Wiley (The Feral Child) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 125)
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Genie Wiley is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation.
Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology.
When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room.
During this period, he almost always strapped her to a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her arms and...
Duration: 00:53:30The 1930’s Dust Bowl | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 124)
Nov 18, 2024The 1930’s Dust Bowl | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 124)
The 1930s Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies.
The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region.
The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939 to 1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as...
Duration: 00:42:38The Shag Harbour UFO | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 123)
Nov 11, 2024The Shag Harbour UFO | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 123)
The Shag Harbour UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, a tiny fishing village on the Atlantic coast, on 4 October 1967.
The reports were investigated by various Canadian civilian (RCMP and Canadian Coast Guard) and military (Canadian Forces navy and air force) agencies as well as the U.S. Condon Committee.
The Chronicle-Herald and local radio stations reported a glowing object that was seen by many people who called their newsroom.
They reported...
Duration: 00:42:05The Colt Clan Incest | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 122)
Nov 05, 2024The Colt Clan Incest | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 122)
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The Colt family incest case concerns an Australian family discovered in 2012 to have been engaging in four generations of incest beginning with a couple known as Tim and June Colt, who emigrated from New Zealand in the 1970s.
They all lived on a farm near Boorowa, New South Wales.
The family members' true identities remain unknown to the public, so the name "Colt" is a pseudonym used by New South Wales courts and government agencies.
Marks Unexplained World... Duration: 00:38:47What Happened to the Springfield Three | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 121)
Oct 29, 2024What Happened to the Springfield Three | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 121)
The Springfield Three refers to an unsolved missing persons case that began on June 7, 1992, when friends Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter and Stacy McCall, and Streeter's mother, Sherrill Levitt, went missing from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
All of their personal belongings, including cars and purses, were left behind.
There were no signs of a struggle except a broken porch light globe; there was also a message on the answering machine that police believe might have provided a clue about the disappearances, but...
Duration: 00:41:52The Death of Naya Rivera | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 120)
Oct 22, 2024The Death of Naya Rivera | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 120)
On July 8, 2020, American actress and singer Naya Rivera was declared missing after she failed to return from a boating excursion on Lake Piru near her home in California.
Shortly afterwards, her rented boat with her 4-year-old son, Josey Dorsey, was located. Dorsey was unharmed.
After her body was found, her death was ruled accidental, with the investigation determining Rivera exhausted herself saving her son's life in the water.
The public manner of the search and Rivera's celebrity status contributed to extensive media...
Duration: 00:40:12Aokigahara (The Suicide Forest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 119)
Oct 15, 2024Aokigahara (The Suicide Forest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 119)
Listener Discretion is Advised. Aokigahara, also known as the Sea of Trees , is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan.
The forest has a historical reputation as a home to ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology.
Aokigahara has become associated with suicide, eventually becoming known in English by the nickname the "Suicide Forest," and gaining a reputation as one of the world's most-used suicide sites.
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The Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 118)
Oct 08, 2024The Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 118)
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Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighbourhood friends.
The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Sep 30, 2024The Dark Story Behind Lena Zavaroni | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 117)
Lena Hilda Zavaroni was a Scottish singer and television show host.
At the age of 10, with her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), she was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart.
Later, she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest-star appearances, and appeared on stage.
However, from the age of 13, Zavaroni suffered from anorexia nervosa, and when she was aged 15, she developed clinical depression.
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Duration: 00:43:09The Year of Alan Godfrey’s Strangeness | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 116)
Sep 24, 2024The Year of Alan Godfrey’s Strangeness | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 116)
In June 1980, Alan Godfrey investigated the death of 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski, with his body eventually being found three days later on top of a 10-foot-high (3.0 m) Todmorden coal pile.
Godfrey told reporters that he believed it possible that Zigmund Adamski may have been abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile "by someone or something", saying that he was "open minded".
Then six months later Alan Godfrey reported an unidentified flying object during this patrol, claiming he saw a bright light ho...
Duration: 00:41:27Steven Pladl (Incest/Murder/Suicide) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 115)
Sep 16, 2024Steven Pladl (Incest/Murder/Suicide) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 115)
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On April 12, 2018, Steven Walter Pladl, a 43-year-old man from Knightdale, North Carolina, murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milford, Connecticut.
He also went on to murder his and Katie's seven-month-old child, Bennett Kieron Pladl.
He later committed suicide in Dover, New York.
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Duration: 00:35:45The Arial School UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 114)
Sep 10, 2024The Arial School UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 114)
On 16 September 1994, there was a UFO sighting outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe.
Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school.
Some of the children claimed that one or more creatures dressed all in black then approached and telepathically communicated to them a message with an environmental theme, frightening them and causing them to cry.
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Duration: 00:36:59The Disappearance of Natalie Holloway | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 113)
Sep 03, 2024The Disappearance of Natalie Holloway | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 113)
Natalee Ann Holloway disappeared on the 30th of May 2005, and was declared dead on the 12th of January 2012.
She was an 18-year-old American high school graduate from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who disappeared from the Caribbean island of Aruba.
Her disappearance resulted in an international media sensation, especially in the United States.
Natalee Ann Holloway has never been found since.
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Duration: 00:41:35The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 112)
Aug 27, 2024The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 112)
The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders took place on the morning of June 13, 1977, at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States.
The victims were three Girl Scouts, between the ages of 8 and 10, who were raped and murdered.
Their bodies were then left on a trail leading to the campsite's showers, about 150 yards from their tent.
The case was classified as solved when Gene Leroy Hart, a local jail escapee with a history of violence and rape, was arrested. However, Hart was acquitted...
Duration: 00:41:04The Hermann House Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 111)
Aug 19, 2024The Hermann House Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 111)
The Hermann Poltergeist House is said to be the genuinely terrifying real-life ghost story that inspired the 1982 supernatural horror movie Poltergeist.
The chilling tale is made even more terrifying by the real-life inspiration behind the film.
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Duration: 00:40:40After Dark with Tillie & Mark - Episode 2: Incest
Aug 15, 2024Now available on YouTube, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, Spotify and most other Podcasts Apps.
Join Tillie Treadwell (The Weird Walk Home) and Mark Hughes (Marks Unexplained World), as we delve deep into the darker side of life, and discus the subject of "Incest."
Incest is a taboo subject in any cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between certain members of the same family, mainly between individuals related by blood.
All known human cultures have norms that exclude certain close relatives from those considered suitable or permissible sexual or marriage partners, making...
Duration: 01:14:08The Missing Children of the Runaway Train Song | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 110)
Aug 12, 2024The Missing Children of the Runaway Train Song | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 110)
There were three original versions of the video in the United States, totalling 36 missing children shown.
26 missing children were found after being featured in the video for the "Runaway Train" song, and as of 2022, the whereabouts of 10 of the 36 children who appeared in the video, still remain missing.
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Duration: 00:40:04Cowboy Bob: The Mysterious Bank Robber | Marks Unexplained World (Ep.109)
Aug 05, 2024Cowboy Bob: The Mysterious Bank Robber | Marks Unexplained World (Ep.109)
Cowboy Bob was an American bank robber who would cross-dress as a man to conceal her identity.
She robbed a total of five banks in Texas between 1991 and 1992 before she was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Due to her never using a weapon during her robberies, she received a light sentence of 33 months.
In 2005, after living quietly for the past decade, she committed suicide by cop after police caught up to her escaping the scene of her final bank...
Duration: 00:38:36The Dark Side of (Ex-Colonel) Russell Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 108)
Jul 29, 2024The Dark Side of (Ex-Colonel) Russell Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 108)
David Russell Williams is a Canadian serial rapist, murderer and former colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
He is currently serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years for two murders, committed in November 2009 and January 2010.
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Jul 22, 2024The Pepsi Number Death’s | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 107)
Pepsi Number Fever, also known as the 349 incident, was a promotion held by PepsiCo in the Philippines in 1992, which led to riots and the deaths of at least five people.
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Duration: 00:38:33The Byford Dolphin Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 106)
Jul 15, 2024The Byford Dolphin Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 106)
The Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary.
It drilled seasonally for various companies in the British, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea.
The rig was the site of several serious incidents, most notably an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injuring another dive tender.
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Duration: 00:38:00The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 105)
Jul 08, 2024The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 105)
Brian Randall Shaffer is an American medical student at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.
On the night of March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break; later, he was separated from them, and they assumed he had gone home.
However, a security camera outside the entrance to a Columbus bar recorded him briefly talking to two women just before 2 a.m., April 1, and then walking off-screen without any further evidence of him leaving the area.
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Duration: 00:43:07The Stalker | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 104)
Jul 02, 2024The Stalker | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 104)
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Stalking is an unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.
Stalking behaviour's are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them.
According to a 2002 report by the U.S. National Centre for Victims of Crime, "virtually any unwanted contact between two people that directly or indirectly communicates a threat or places the victim...
Duration: 00:38:10The Evil Delusions of Eleanor Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 103)
Jun 24, 2024The Evil Delusions of Eleanor Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 103)
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Eleanor Williams is an English criminal who made false claims of multiple serious crimes, including accusations of trafficking, rape, blackmail, and physical violence, none of which were found to have occurred.
Following her 2022 trial, Williams was found guilty on nine counts of perverting the course of justice, contrary to English common law.
She was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
The fictitious claims spread by Williams on the internet had lasting impacts...
Duration: 00:54:00The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 102)
Jun 17, 2024The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 102)
The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter was a reported hoax popularized in a 1998 self-published book.
It is alleged that some 1200 members of the all-black 364th Infantry Regiment were killed in June 1943 by white soldiers at Camp Van Dorn, a U.S. Army installation near Centreville, Mississippi.
No hard evidence has ever been found to support the allegations, despite more than a year long investigation by the Department of Defence.
However, most observers have dismissed this "Hoax" claim, and as a result it is s...
Duration: 00:41:38The Lonely Hearts Killers | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 101)
Jun 10, 2024The Lonely Hearts Killers | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 101)
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were an American serial killer couple.
They were convicted of one murder but are known to have committed two more and were suspected of having killed up to twenty victims during a spree between 1947 and 1949.
After their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949, Fernandez and Beck became known as the Lonely Hearts Killers for meeting their unsuspecting victims through personal ads, posted in newspaper lonely hearts columns.
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Duration: 00:40:50Pete the Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 100)
Jun 03, 2024Pete the Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 100)
Poltergeist activity can be a very disturbing phenomena, it can sometimes feel like an unruly child throwing a temper tantrum.
The staff at a small lawnmower repair shop in Cardiff witnessed this phenomenon more than once.
The disturbances were so regular, in fact, that they decided to give him the name of "Pete."
As time went by, the activity of "Pete the Poltergeist" became more and more apparent.
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Duration: 00:38:54The Vanishing People of Nome | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 99)
May 27, 2024The Vanishing People of Nome | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 99)
Nome in western Alaska, and roughly two dozen residents go missing between 1960 and 2004, sparking a nationwide uproar about their disappearances.
With rumours circulating of UFO involvement, alien abduction, and even a serial killer, the community gets desperate for answers.
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Duration: 00:44:36The Amherst Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 98)
May 20, 2024The Amherst Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 98)
The Amherst poltergeist was a notorious case of reported poltergeist activity in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1878 and 1879. The activity centred on Esther Cox, who lived in a house with her married sister Olive Teed, Olive's husband Daniel, and their two young children.
The phenomena continued for some months and became well known locally. Visitors to the cottage, including clergymen, heard banging and knocking and witnessed moving objects, often when Esther herself was under close observation.
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