On February 10th, 1990, a bowling alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico was stirring. Four people - two staff members and and a pair of teenagers that were going to work in the building's day care - were inside the building, preparing for the busy Saturday ahead.

At around 8:20 AM, two armed men entered the bowling alley through an unlocked door. They took the four people inside hostage, and began pilfering the safe inside the manager's office... all the while, promising to let the women live if gave in to their demands.

However, things took a turn when a small family entered the bowling alley, and stumbled upon the evolving crime scene. What followed was one of the most shocking crimes in American history, which remains unsolved to this day...


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

ROZKOL - "The Full Empty"

Lee Rosevere - "The Rain Falls"

Vitus Von Degen - "The Two-Headed Saint"

Kai Engel - "Soli"

Graham Bole - "Rhubarb Cover"

ROZKOL - "If These"

ROZKOL - "Hoenikker"

Daniel James Dolby - "Yearning"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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On July 17th, 2009, a Reddit user named /u/2-6 announced that their friend - another Reddit user named /u/ReligionOfPeace - had passed away.

This announcement was made on Reddit to very little fanfare. Other than serving as a moderator on a creepy subreddit, /u/ReligionOfPeace was known for being an old, gruff weirdo, who claimed to have a storied military history.

However, over the coming months, curious web-sleuths began to dig into the history of these two Reddit accounts, and found that they were each linked to a website. This website - named Lake City Quiet Pills - had hidden messages buried in its code, which hinted at the site being much more than meets the eye...


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Mystery Mammal - "Xanadont"

ROZKOL - "If These"

Sann Gusmo - "Acho Que Comecei a Esquecer Pra Descobrir Como Voltar a Se Lembrar e Te Mostrar Como"

ROSKOL - "Please tell me youre seeing this too"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Levanger"

OKAM vs ps - "Understanding the Limits of Symbiotic Echolocation"

Vitus Von Degen - "Oath Of Blood"

Mystery Mammal - "Asylum"

ROZKOL - "Stay Quiet"

ROZKOL - "Happiness Free For Everyone and Let No One Be Forgotten"

ROZKOL - "All the Little Pieces"

Mystery Mammal - "Pragia"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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On October 13th, 2011, an animal rescue group in Bethany, Oklahoma made a startling discovery: two bags, which contained the dismembered human remains of a young woman.

Police would eventually identify the remains as 19-year old Carina Saunders, a bright-but-troubled young woman that had disappeared just days before. Despite having a history of drug abuse, she had been on the road to recovery in the preceding weeks; and by all accounts, had been attempting to get her life back on-track.

Despite charging two men with her murder, this mystery has continued to perplex investigators throughout Oklahoma.


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Borrtex - "Atmosphere"

Kai Engel - "Soli"

Vitus Von Degen - "The Diesel People"

Rotten Bliss - "Lighthouse"

Alan Spiljak - "Forgotten"

Sergey Cheremisinov - "Sleepwalker IV"

ROZKOL - "Hell Slime"

Chris Zabriskie - "Last Night I Dreamt I Saw True Love in Your Eyes"

ROZKOL - "Burn It All Down"

ROZKOL - "Hoenikker"

Rest You Sleeping Giant - "Disconnect"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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Every morning, a group of retirees - who jokingly referred to themselves as the "Board of Directors" - met up at a Huddle House in North Augusta, South Carolina for coffee. They had done so for nearly two decades.

On the morning of November 22nd, 2005, this group of friends separated for the day. They began going their separate routes just after 6:00 AM - right around the same time that an armed gunman attempted to carjack a woman in the parking lot of a nearby Burger King.

Two of the men from the Huddle House found themselves in the cross-hairs of this crazed gunman, who has gone unidentified in the years since this tragic incident unfolded...


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Graham Bole - "Nae Shaam"

The Music Plays You - "Dusk To Dawn"

Kai Engel - "Touch the Darkness"

ROZKOL - "Monkey and Moulage"

Dexter Britain - "Seeing the Future"

Daniel James Dolby - "Longing"

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On December 25th, 1964 - Christmas Day - a housewife living just outside of the English town of Warminster reported an odd experience. She claimed to have heard an odd sound that reverberated across the countryside, described as "branches being dragged across gravel."

A small newspaper clipping would report this woman's finding several weeks later, but the woman's account was verified by dozens of other witnesses who all reported the same exact thing.

Soon enough, the town of Warminster was besieged by UFO enthusiasts, who hoped to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon that the media had started calling "The Thing." Decades later, the mystery continues to linger...


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

ROZKOL - "Go Then There Are Other Worlds Than These"

Borrtex - "Creeping"

Pulse Emitter - "Moonlit Valley"

ROZKOL - "Golden Sphere"

Marcos H. Bolanos - "Radioheart"

Percival Pembroke - "Untitled Nude No. 7"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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Between April and November of 1971, five young black women were abducted and murdered along the Washington Beltway. All had been killed by an enigma nicknamed "The Freeway Phantom," who had become known for leaving the bodies alongside major roadways.

The sprawling investigation was headed by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) - who were then joined investigators from the Maryland State Police force, as well as Maryland's Montgomery and Prince George's (PG) counties. The FBI even spearheaded a task force.

Investigators believed the Freeway Phantom to be dormant... until he struck again in September of 1972. Ever since, his crimes have continued to haunt the region of Washington DC, and whoever he was, he remains the region's first known serial killer.


Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Borrtex - "Black Out"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Arbic Tallow"

Graham Bole - "Lurking"

Percival Pembroke - "Pembroke-Schaffer Manifold (Parts 1 & 2)"

Vitus Von Degen - "Pieta"

Rest You Sleeping Giant - "Dead Waters"

ROZKOL - "If These"

Sann Gusmo - "Reescrever Fotografias Sobre Dias Que Me Rasgam"

Organoid - "Cassini"

Krackatoa - "Under An Ending Sun"

Other music written and composed by Ailsa Traves

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On March 26th, 1998, thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach went to school (in the Höchst district of Frankfurt). He had tried to skip class, telling both his father and his teachers that he needed to see a doctor, but he would be in-attendance for most of the school day.

Early that afternoon, Tristan would be granted an early release (by school officials) to see a doctor. Using public transportation, Tristan headed to a nearby train station... where - bizarrely - he ended up sitting around for several hours. Classmates would later recall that he might have been waiting for someone.

Hours later - in the early evening - the body of Tristan Brübach would be found in a nearby underpass. He had become the victim of a bizarre and savage killer, who has not been identified in the 20+ years since...

 

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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This podcast features a promo for The Nowhere Dispatch, hosted by my friend, Lucas

 

Music Credits

ROZKOL - "Hoenikker"

Borrtex - "Realization"

Rest You Sleeping Giant - "Sleep"

Kai Engel - "Wake Up"

Xenojam - "Abduction"

Percival Pembroke - "Ammonia"

The Pangolins - "Beneath Dark Clouds"

Noiseonport - "Spectre"

Graham Bole - "Soylent Green"

Rotten Bliss - "Lighthouse"

Other music written and composed by Ailsa Traves 

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On February 3rd, 1980, the riot at the New Mexico State Pen carried on into its second full day. Negotiations continued, but with a handful of prison guards still captive, the inmates were holding most of the leverage.

Eventually, a peace would be brokered and order would be restored to the penitentiary. The facility itself, though, was in total disarray, and the expensive cleanup effort that followed would prove costly (not only financially, but emotionally).

In the months and years that followed, the story would continue to plague the region. After-effects of the riot would be felt for years to come, and many still question certain aspects of it...

 

Part three of three

 

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Graham Bole - "Lurking"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Arbinac"

Percival Pembroke - "Op. 10 Sigma Variations (Excerpt)"

ROZKOL - "If These"

ROZKOL - "Palaver"

Borrtex - "The Undertake"

Rotten Bliss - "Lighthouse"

Rest You Sleeping Giant - "Moss"

Other music written and composed by Ailsa Traves

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In the early morning hours of February 2nd, 1980, a dozen inmates at New Mexico's State Penitentiary took four prison guards hostage. Within an hour, more than ten guards would be taken captive, and hundreds of inmates were freed from their cells.

The facility, which had been made aware of the dangers in the months preceding the riot, had done little to prepare for it. The rioting inmates made easy work of the lax security protocols meant to keep them at-bay, and - within hours - had free rein of the entire prison.

What would follow would be hours of bloodshed... the likes of which were nearly-unparalleled in American history. As prison officials and law enforcement struggled to gain control of the situation, they quickly learned that they had underestimated the unadulterated rage that had been festering for years...

 

Part two of three

 

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Xenojam - "Chtonic"

ROZKOL - "Hell Slime"

How the Night Came - "IV - C6H807"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Thread of Clouds"

Parvus Decree - "Hive Mind"

ROZKOL - "The Institute Laboratories"

Kai Engel - "Silence"

Other music written and composed by Ailsa Traves and Monty Buckles

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Throughout the 20th century, the New Mexico State Penitentiary earned a reputation of being, ironically, a lawless place - where violent and non-violent prisoners were forced to co-exist in cramped and deplorable conditions.

Violence was constant, and certain cell blocks were allowed to run rampant over others. To make matters even worse, the prison's revolving door of wardens through the 1970's kept implementing changes, but just ended up creating vacuums... which were only ever filled with apathy and disorder.

This eventually reached a head in the final days of 1979, when rumors of a vicious uprising began spreading through the facility. Prison officials thought nothing of it at the time, but in the early morning hours of February 2nd, 1980... the powder keg could no longer be contained.

Part one of three

 

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

OKAM vs ps - "Understanding the Limits of Symbiotic Echolocation"

Parvus Decree - "First Encounter"

Murmurous - "Fathom"

Other music written and composed by Ailsa Traves

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