Don't Look Now

The TV reality/mystery/true crime series Unsolved Mysteries has run for 15 seasons across multiple networks and streaming services.  Come learn the origins of the show and some of the mysteries that were solved due to its impact.

On today's podcast we discuss the history of happiness.  How have both the definition of and search for happiness changed through history?  How has it become one of our most primary drivers in decision making when a few hundred years ago it was rarely a consideration.  Come take a listen and learn about the pursuit of happiness.  

Feral children have appeared throughout history in cultures around the world.  We discuss some famous cases of children literally raised by wolves, or monkeys, or just terrible parents.

On Christmas Eve 1945 tragedy struck the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  Fire swept through the home in the wee hours of the night and the house burnt to the ground in just 45 mins.  The parents and four of nine children made it outside, five of the youngest perished in the fire... or did they?  No remains were ever found and there were sightings of the children after the fire.  Was it simply a tragedy, or was the fire simply set to cover up their kidnapping?  Take a listen and decide for yourself.

Most people have heard of the old west outlaw, Jessie James.  However, how much do you really know about him?  Take a listen and learn about the wild west Robin Hood.

The Beale Papers were a text published in 1885 that contained three ciphers that supposedly relay the location, content, and ownership of a treasure hidden in the mountains of Virginia.  Over the years only one cipher has been decoded through the use of the Declaration of Independence as a book key.  This cipher noted the content of the treasure.  However, no one has successfully decoded either of the other two which most importantly denote the treasure's location.  Is the treasure real?  Are the ciphers just a hoax that continues to live on?  Take a listen and find out about the Beale Treasure. 

In the tradition of one of our favorite childhood books, Haunted Heartland, come tales of creepiness and hauntings from around the globe.  Creepy dolls in Mexico, a deceased thespian in Australia, and a haunted tavern in the US to name a few.  Pull up a chair and listen to some wide ranging ghost stories. 

There are local legends across the globe and across cultures about locations that are gateways to hell.  We discuss some examples including a local legend familiar to people in NW Kansas.

We discuss the strange case of the disappearance of Zebb Qinn, a teenager from Ashville, NC that mysteriously disappeared in 2000 after leaving work with a co-worker to go look at a used car for sale.  Quinn's car was found four days later, parked with the headlights on, with drawings in lipstick on the back window, and various items not belonging to him inside it, most notably a Labrador puppy that was later adopted by a policeman. 17 years after his disappearance, the co-worker he left with, Robert Jason Owens, was arrested for his murder and now awaits trial.  

We discuss one of the highly overlooked physical measurement devices, the humble pendulum.  Used for everything from telling time, to defining the length of a meter, determining the gravity of the earth, and serving as a horrific torture device in Edgar Allen Poe's fiction, the pendulum has a long and proud history.  Come check it out.