State of the Unknown | Documented Hauntings and Real Paranormal Cases Across America

In the late 1960s, a quiet home in the Black Forest area near Colorado Springs became the center of a disturbing series of events. The family living there claimed objects moved on their own, household items were thrown across rooms, and unexplained disturbances seemed to occur while people were standing there watching.

In this bonus episode of State of the Unknown, join host Robert Barber as he examines the reported events surroundi...

The L-8 Ghost Blimp is one of the strangest unsolved aviation mysteries of World War II — a Navy patrol airship that returned from a mission over the Pacific with its engines running and its crew missing.

In August of 1942, a U.S. Navy patrol blimp lifted off from Naval Air Station Treasure Island for what should have been a routine anti-submarine patrol along the California coast.

Hours later, the aircraft drifted inland over Daly C...

In the late 1980s, a family living in San Pedro, California reported a series of unexplained disturbances inside their apartment. Objects allegedly moved without physical contact. Items fell from shelves. Activity was said to occur in front of multiple adult witnesses who later stated they were standing in the room when it happened.

The incident became known as the San Pedro Poltergeist, one of several Southern California poltergeis...

In November 1966, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia began reporting encounters with a tall, winged figure near the McClintic Wildlife Management Area, known locally as the TNT Area. Police documented statements. The local newspaper recorded names. Witness descriptions were consistent: a figure six to seven feet tall, wings folded behind its back, and red eyes reflecting in headlights.

Sightings continued for more than a yea...

In 2011, a family in Gary, Indiana reported escalating disturbances inside their rental home on Carolina Street. What began as unexplained noises and strange behavior would eventually involve the Gary Police Department, Methodist Hospital medical staff, and the Indiana Department of Child Services.

According to official DCS documentation later obtained by the Indianapolis Star, a hospital caseworker reported witnessing a child walk ...

Coral Castle is one of the most enduring mysteries in American history.
In South Florida, a single man named Edward Leedskalnin spent decades building a massive stone monument entirely on his own. He worked at night, refused help, and left behind no clear explanation. The limestone blocks weigh several tons, yet no witnesses ever saw how they were moved.

Join host Robert Barber on State of the Unknown as he examines the document...

In 1974, a woman named Doris Bither reported a series of disturbing events inside her small rental home in Culver City, California. What began with unexplained object movement soon escalated into reported physical encounters witnessed by family members and later observed by researchers connected to the UCLA parapsychology laboratory.

The case became known as the Culver City Poltergeist and would later inspire the 1982 film The Entit...

In October 1973, two shipyard workers walked into a Mississippi sheriff’s office late at night and claimed they had been taken against their will. What followed was documented by law enforcement, investigated by federal agencies, and quietly recorded when the men believed they were alone.

This episode examines the Pascagoula Incident through police reports, firsthand testimony, and a secret audio recording that captured the men’s re...

Located in Hinsdale, New York, the Hinsdale House has become one of the state’s most frequently discussed haunted locations. Reports of unusual activity date back decades, but this episode focuses on a specific period when one family lived inside the home and documented what they experienced.

According to their accounts, the activity followed a progression. Unexplained sounds. Physical sensations. Sudden illness. Objects reportedly ...

Before it became a pop-culture reference point, Camp Hero was a real military installation in Montauk, New York, on the eastern edge of Long Island. During the Cold War, the base operated as a radar and defense site. Decades later, it would become the center of claims involving secret government experiments known as the Montauk Project.

In this episode, host Robert Barber examines the documented history of Camp Hero alongside the al...

In 1949, a family in the Midwest began documenting a series of disturbing events centered on their teenage son. What began as unexplained disturbances soon escalated into physical incidents witnessed by family members, physicians, and Jesuit clergy.

The events eventually led to St. Louis, Missouri, where priests from Saint Louis University were asked to intervene. Observations were recorded. Medical explanations were pursued first. ...

The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the most unusual cases in American legal history. In this episode of State of the Unknown, host Robert Barber examines a true paranormal story involving a sudden death, a reopened investigation, and testimony that challenged the boundaries of what a court was prepared to hear.

Drawing from documented court records, medical findings, and historical accounts, this episode separates verified facts from re...

In a quiet suburban neighborhood in Bothell, Washington, a family began experiencing unexplained disturbances inside their home. What started as small, dismissible events slowly escalated into more than 600 reported paranormal incidents over the course of a year, witnessed by multiple people. Objects moved, sounds followed occupants through the house, and visitors noticed disturbances without being told what to expect.

In this mini ...

In the late 1980s, a family in Wisconsin brought home a simple set of bunk beds for their children. Nothing about them seemed unusual. There was no known history tied to them, no warning signs, and no reason to think they would change anything at all.

But soon after the beds were assembled, the house began to feel different.

Footsteps were heard moving through empty rooms. Objects shifted on their own. The children reported seeing a ...

The Dybbuk Box is one of the most infamous haunted objects in modern paranormal history.

But behind the viral stories, the museum footage, and the online legends, there was something real: a chain of people who claimed that nightmares, shadows, sickness, and fear followed the small wooden cabinet wherever it went.

In this episode, join Robert Barber as he breaks down the original estate sale in Portland, Oregon, the early owners who ...

A quiet home in Atchison, Kansas. A nursery that never felt empty. Scratches that appeared on skin — fresh, burning, and witnessed in real time.

This is the true paranormal story of the Sallie House haunting, one of the most disturbing and well-documented cases in America’s haunted history.

In this episode of State of the Unknown, we walk through the chilling events exactly as the family reported them: the footsteps, the cold spots, ...

On the fourth floor of Wilson Hall at Ohio University sits a sealed dorm room no one has lived in for decades, Room 428. Students have whispered about it for years: pacing footsteps behind a locked door, lights flicking on in the middle of the night, and the story of a student whose experience inside the room changed everything.

In this mini-episode, we explore the legend as it’s been told for generations — the strange behavior, the...

In the early 1800s, a quiet Tennessee farmhouse became the center of one of the most chilling and well-documented hauntings in American history. For more than two years, the Bell family claimed they were tormented by an unseen voice, one that spoke clearly, answered questions, revealed secrets… and eventually promised to kill the family’s patriarch, John Bell.

Join host Robert B. as he dives deep into the true story of the Bell Witc...

In the early 1980s, new homeowners outside Houston started finding coffins buried beneath their freshly built yards.

Lights flickered, water ran on its own, and fear spread through the neighborhood—until they learned the truth.

Their subdivision had been built over a forgotten cemetery known as Black Hope.

The story of what followed—graves unearthed, strange activity, and a family tragedy—sounds eerily similar to the plot of Poltergei...