Mysterious
Mysterious explores the mysteries in the world around us. Brought to you by authors from a variety of genres, we each tell you about a mystery related to our particular field of expertise. From mysterious disappearances and UFOs to the unexplainable behavior of a pig to an unsolved mass murder at sea to a nun who suddenly disappeared. We will explore mysteries in nature, mysterious occurrences in history, and the enigmas of space. Join us and take a closer look at the mysterious world around us.
Episodes
July 29, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 67: The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Welcome to a journey through one of America’s most haunting enigmas—the Mothman of Point Pleasant.
Plus -- The Phantom Dogsled by Steve Levi.
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Take a stroll through a haunted amusement park!
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July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Episode 66: The Clara Nevada -- Accident or Murder?
No saga of the Alaska Gold Rush would be complete without a touch of the mysterious. Every rush has its eerie events, and the Alaska Gold Rush was no exception. Perhaps the most perplexing incident of that era was the saga of the Clara Nevada. Here was a tale of greed, robbery, and murder, along with a ghostly re-visitation. But it was more than that. It is also one of the la...
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June 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 64: The Mysterious Grand Canyon
Since well before the “Americans” discovered the magnificent Grand Canyon, the incredible geologic formation has been shrouded in mystery. The Hopis—who live there on the southern escarpments of Black Mesa in eastern Arizona--are one of the oldest living cultures in documented history, with a past stretching back thousands of years. The Hopi trace their ancestry to the Ancient Puebloan and B...
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June 3, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 63: What Happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald?
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called Gitchee Gumee
The lake it is said never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy
Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics memorialize the tragedy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but the mystery remains - what sunk the great ship?
Sources:
Stonehouse, Frederick. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...
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May 20, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 62: Where's Joe?
The endless supply of larger-than-life characters in Alaska makes the state fertile ground for reality television shows and movies based on true stories. If you made a list of the strong, fascinating individuals in the history of this vast state, though, Joe Vogler would rank near the top. Picture a sharply dressed man, wearing a fedora, a bolo tie, and a plaid flannel shirt while he stands in front of a g...
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May 6, 2025 • 28 mins
Episode 61: Ghosts in the Goldfields
Alaska has always been a land of extremes—untamed, ruthless, and seductive to those who believe they can master its wilderness. It has lured explorers, trappers, and fortune seekers into its vast and treacherous landscapes for centuries. Many never returned, but those who did were forever changed by the unforgiving land, where survival depended on grit, resourcefulness, and a willingness _to end...
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April 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Episode 60: Mysterious Area 51 and The Skunk Works
In the mid-1980s, I was involved in a civil trial in Lancaster, California. Both sets of attornies came from Los Angeles. One of them was openly scornful of the northern part of LA county where the trial was being held. He loved LA with its chewable air, and Hollyweird. During voir dire, he took exception to the answers given him by several potential jurors. The Q & A went like th...
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April 8, 2025 • 17 mins
Episode 59: The Hex Hollow Murder
Picture this: late November, 1928. York County, Pennsylvania. The trees are bare, clawing at a gray sky, and the air’s thick with the kind of chill that seeps into your bones. In a little farmhouse tucked away in Rehmeyer’s Hollow, a man named Nelson Rehmeyer is going about his evening. He’s tall, quiet—a farmer and a healer known to the locals. But not everyone sees him as a friend. Some whisper h...
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March 25, 2025 • 27 mins
Episode 58: The Mystery of the First Broken Arrow
Fat-Boy Bomb
The U.S. military defines a “Broken Arrow” as an “unexpectedent involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon.” The first Broken Arrow event occurred in 1950 during a mission from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska. Questions still surround this event and the mystery of what happened to the...
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March 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Episode 57: With all the Chaos Surrounding it, How Was the Alaska Railroad Ever Built?
One of the greatest mysteries in Alaska – even though it is quite visible to the naked eye – is the Alaska Railroad. Every year, more than 400,000 visitors to Alaska ride the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Fairbanks with a stop in Denali National Park. And it is not a modest railway. It has 656 miles of track and carries 5.11 million tons o...
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February 25, 2025 • 24 mins
Episode 57: Justice for Jon Benet
On December 26, 1996, the police responded to a kidnapping call, which later turned into a murder investigation. There were two possibilities: an intruder murdered Jon Benet Ramsey or someone in the house killed her.
Sources
ABC News. Ex-DA Opens Up About Why She Cleared the Ramsey Family of JonBenet’s Murder. October 28, 2016
Netflix. Trial by Murder. “Dingo’s Got My Baby.” https://www.usatoday...
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February 11, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 56: The Mystery of Artificial Intelligence
In 1950, a robotic mouse named Theseus found its way through a maze and remembered the route. AI had taken its first baby step, the first step in a journey that would change the world as we know it. It is doubtful that the significance of this achievement was fully understood at the time.
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January 28, 2025
Episode 55: The Mysterious Pig
How did a 200-pound pig become the "darling" on an Arabian horse ranch?
Owning a ranch isn’t very mysterious. It’s a lot of plain hard work. But some mysterious things have happened here. I’m going to tell you about one of them.
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Prince Ali had everything: talent, charisma, and a devoted best friend, Becky Howard. He won every time he set a hoof in a show ring. ...
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January 14, 2025 • 27 mins
Episode 54: The Mysterious Alaska Triangle
First named in 1972, the Alaska Triangle stretches from Anchorage in southcentral Alaska to Juneau in the southeast panhandle to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) on Alaska's northern coast. Since 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished from this area, and every year, approximately four people go missing per every 1000 Alaska residents. This rate is twice the national average.
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Alex...
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December 31, 2024 • 23 mins
Episode 53: Will a Massive Deportation of Aliens Work?
Donald Trump has said that on Day One of his Presidency, he would begin the largest deportation of aliens in American history. Best of luck, President Trump. We tried that before. In 1919. It didn’t go as planned. Well, what happened? For an answer, let’s look back in history.
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December 17, 2024 • 21 mins
Episode 52: A Texas Christmas Murder Mystery
Who murdered Latricia White, and what happened to her boyfriend, Lee Wackerhagen (nicknamed Dub), and his nine-year-old son, Chance? This tragic tale occurred in 1993 in McMahon, Texas.
Sources:
“Episode 47: Murdered and Missing in Lockhart.” March 12, 2019. All Murder, No Cattle.
Cargile, E. “New hope for a Caldwell Co. cold case.” June 25, 2010. KXAN.
“Dub’s Last Stand.” March 15...
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December 3, 2024 • 21 mins
Episode 51: Secret Cargo
A thick, impenetrable overcast concealed the heavily forested hills below, leaving only the jagged peaks of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains visible as they pierced the night sky. Far above, a U.S. Army Air Forces C-49K military transport aircraft navigated the cold, unforgiving skies of British Columbia. The plane, a Douglas C-49K—a variant of the Douglas DC-3—was a sturdy, reliable workhorse routinely use...
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November 19, 2024 • 26 mins
Episode 50: Why Did Japan Twice Attempt to Take Alaska?
It almost happened, you know.
Japan almost took Alaska.
Not during the Second World War; just after the First World War.
It was a very clever plan and almost succeeded.
Now, let me tell you the whole story!!
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November 5, 2024 • 20 mins
Episode 49: The Mysterious Michigan Stonehenge
Stone circles found in many places in the world are remnants of the Neolithic Age and are predominantly found in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Most people are familiar with Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England. It was built about 5,000 years ago and continues to make the curious wonder - who and why. The 300 stone circles found in Britain and Ireland are interesting, and peo...
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October 22, 2024 • 15 mins
Episode 48: E. T. Barnette, the man who embezzled the entire town of Fairbanks – AND GOT AWAY WITH IT!
The citizens of Fairbanks should have been so lucky. Fairbanks, like Juneau and Nome, was founded by accident. In August of 1901, Elbridge Truman Barnette convinced a gullible steamboat captain that his steamship could easily ascend the Tanana River without striking bottom. However, when it became apparent that Barnette did not kn...
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