State of the Unknown | Exploring Paranormal Stories and Dark American Folklore
Hosted by Robert Barber, State of the Unknown is a documentary-style podcast exploring urban legends, paranormal stories, and unsolved mysteries buried across America. From haunted hotels and forest disappearances to ghost towns and forbidden folklore, each episode dives deep into the eerie, the forgotten, and the unexplained—brought to life with immersive sound and cinematic storytelling. If you believe some places remember… and some stories were never meant to be solved, this show is for you. 🎧 New episodes every other week. 🌐 Visit: www.stateoftheunknown.com 📸 Instagram & Facebook → @stateoftheunknownpodcast
Episodes
In our last episode, we explored the true story of the Perron family haunting—better known as The Conjuring House. But behind every possession, every exorcism, and every claim… stood two people.
Host Robert Barber returns to examine the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren—the couple who shaped America’s most famous hauntings, and sparked a paranormal movement still unfolding today.
This preview introduces our next full epis...
The weathered farmhouse on Round Top Road in rural Rhode Island holds secrets far deeper than what you've seen on screen. Before the Warrens arrived, before the Perron family's terrifying encounters, and long before Hollywood transformed it into the centerpiece of a horror franchise, this colonial-era home already carried whispers of something unsettled.
Join host Robert Barber as our journey throug...
Host Robert Barber takes you deep into one of America’s most chilling haunted places—the Conjuring House. This haunted places podcast unpacks the urban legends, true crime connections, and real paranormal encounters that inspired The Conjuring film series.
From unexplained phenomena to the Warrens’ controversial investigation, discover what really happened behind the haunting—and why this case still terrifies believers...
Join us for one of the creepiest podcasts exploring haunted places in America—starting with Dead Man’s Hollow, a forest shrouded in ghost stories, urban legends, and unexplained disappearances.
Host Robert Barber takes you deep into the shadows of this Pennsylvania landmark, where folklore and fact blur, and where some believe the land itself remembers every tragedy that touched it.
In this episode of State of the Unkno...
Discover haunted legends in this eerie podcast preview, focusing on chilling urban myths from Dead Man’s Hollow—one of Pennsylvania’s most mysterious and infamous forests.
Host Robert Barber sets the stage for an episode that explores murders, disappearances, and ghost stories that refuse to fade.
Is the land cursed? Or simply a place where fear grows like the trees?
This is a haunted places podcast for those drawn ...
Join host Robert Barber as he explores one of the strangest paranormal stories in American folklore.
In the forests of Washington State lies a tale of a bottomless pit—Mel’s Hole—where reality seems to unravel.
A man finds a hole that swallows objects, light, even time itself… and then he vanishes.
From late-night radio to whispered rumors, this mystery refuses to be buried.
Is it a hoax, a government secret, or...
Step into haunted folklore with host Robert Barber as he unravels the bizarre legend of Mel’s Hole—one of Washington State’s most chilling urban myths.
In this episode, we introduce the story of a bottomless pit that has defied explanation for decades. First made famous on late-night radio, Mel’s Hole is said to swallow objects without a sound, attract government surveillance, and shimmer with otherworldly power.
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Hosted by Robert B., State of the Unknown invites you into the chilling world of the Crescent Hotel—one of the most haunted places in America. Nestled in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, this historic hotel has gained a dark reputation over the years for its ghost sightings, tragic past, and disturbing paranormal stories that continue to echo through its halls.
In this episode, we peel back the layers of haunted histor...
Step inside one of America’s most haunted places.
Hosted by Robert Barber, this preview of State of the Unknown sets the stage for a chilling descent into the Crescent Hotel—where paranormal stories, ghost sightings, and urban legends have lingered for over a century.
As part of our haunted places podcast, this episode teases the eerie history, strange deaths, and spectral rumors that surround the Ozark landmark.
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Robert Barber presents a chilling deep dive into one of America’s earliest witch trials.
Before Salem, fear gripped Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1662, unexplained deaths, superstition, and hysteria sparked the nation’s first witch panic — and left a legacy history nearly forgot.
In this episode of State of the Unknown, we trace the eerie and emotional story of the Hartford Witch Trials — a dark origin point in America'...
Step into the haunted history of Hartford, Connecticut—site of America’s first witch trials and a chilling legacy that predates Salem.
This creepy preview of State of the Unknown explores one of the darkest, most overlooked chapters in colonial history.
If you love paranormal stories, forgotten tragedies, and unsettling truths, this haunted places podcast delivers something deeper.
Full episode drops this Wed...
In the heart of Massachusetts lies a stretch of land filled with curses, cryptids, and unexplained encounters.
Known as the Bridgewater Triangle, this region has been home to ghostly sightings, UFOs, Bigfoot reports, and strange disappearances for decades.
In this premiere episode, host Robert Barber explores the history of the triangle and the legends that still haunt it.
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In rural Wisconsin, something strange stalks the roads.
Witnesses have reported a towering, fur-covered creature with glowing eyes and canine features—a beast some believe to be a werewolf.
In this episode, host Robert Barber dives into the 1990s Bray Road sightings, local lore, and the possibility that something primal still hunts the countryside.
🐺 Listen now—and follow the show for more American legends that blu...
In 1892, a family in Rhode Island was dying one by one. Locals believed something—or someone—was feeding from the grave.
When the coffin of 19-year-old Mercy Brown was opened, what they found sparked one of the most chilling vampire legends in U.S. history.
Host Robert Barber uncovers the real story behind New England’s vampire panic, tuberculosis, and the ritual that made Mercy a legend.
🧛♀️ Love dark history and...
n 1903, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, was terrorized by a mysterious winged creature that defied explanation.
Was it a cryptid, a mass panic—or something else entirely? Robert Barber unpacks the eyewitness accounts and legends behind one of Iowa’s strangest unsolved mysteries.
🎧 Listen now to uncover the truth.
State of the Unknown is a documentary-style podcast tracing the haunted highways, forgotten folklore, and unexp...
In 1955, a small farmhouse in Kentucky became the site of one of America’s most bizarre UFO encounters.
The Sutton family claimed they were terrorized by small, metallic-skinned creatures—what we now call the Hopkinsville Goblins.
In this episode, host Robert Barber investigates the timeline of the incident, the military response, and the long legacy of this rural legend.
👽 Alien visitors? Mass hysteria? Or somethi...
What if America’s strangest stories weren’t just legends… but coordinates?
State of the Unknown is a documentary-style podcast mapping the supernatural, the unexplained, and the forgotten mysteries tucked into the quiet corners of all 50 states. Each episode dives deep into a single location-based legend—cryptids, hauntings, cursed places, and events that can’t be explained.
Blending investigative st...
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