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.
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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
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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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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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October 8, 2024 • 22 mins
Episode 47: How Many People Did Mary McKnight Murder, and Why?
Accurately recognizing and treating many diseases, including mental illness, was not prevalent in the 19th or early 20th centuries. Rural farm communities were accustomed to injuries and illnesses that often resulted in death. Some deaths could not be explained that’s just the way it was.
On Monday, April 20, 1903, Gertrude Murphy left her three-month-old baby, Ruth, ...
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September 24, 2024 • 18 mins
Episode 46: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death
Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809, was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic, who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Probably the best known--and least understood--mystery he authored was that of his own death on October 7, 1849. There have been many descriptions of his last days, the poss...
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September 10, 2024 • 27 mins
Episode 45: The Mystery of Space
Space has always been filled with mystery. Strangely, the more astronomers and astrophysicists learn about the makeup of the Universe, the more mysterious space becomes.
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August 27, 2024 • 38 mins
Episode 44: What Killed Chris McCandless?
On September 6, 1992, two young hikers from Anchorage arrived at the old Fairbanks city bus #142, a makeshift shelter located on the Stampede Trail, twenty-five miles west of Healy. They immediately noted a stench emanating from the bus. A red leg warmer swung from an alder branch near the vehicle’s rear door. A note taped to the door terrified the hikers. It read:
S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP...
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August 13, 2024 • 29 mins
Episode 43: What REALLY Happened to the SS Jessie?
One of the oddest and most mysterious stories of the Alaska Gold Rush is the fate of the steamship Jessie. Depending on who you choose to believe, it is either the largest massacre of whites by Indians in Alaska history or it is absolute historical garbage. Further, this being said, the entire saga of the steamship Jessie is odd, and it will take a knowledge of the Alaska Gold Ru...
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