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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November 18, 2025 • 18 mins
Episode 75: The Murderer Who Helped Write The Oxford English Dictionary
Words build worlds. They shape laws, compose prayers, ignite wars, and whisper love. Every word we speak carries centuries of meaning Chester Minor, was a murderer and one of the greatest architects of the English language.
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November 4, 2025 • 30 mins
Episode 74: The Mysterious Plagues of Egypt
Most people know the biblical story about the Ten Plagues of Egypt. I learned the story in Sunday School. However, in recent months, I have learned more subtle facts about the story that can only be understood with knowledge of ancient Egyptian society. First, I need to share the biblical history that led to why the Egyptian Plagues occurred.
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October 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Episode 73: The Valley of Headless Men: Nahanni National Park
With landmarks bearing the names of Deadmen Valley, Headless Creek, Funeral Range, and Hell’s Gate Rapids, you might think twice before planning a trip to Nahanni National Park in Canada. However, the legends behind these names make the park even more daunting.
Sources
Berge, Chloe. “The haunting history of this Canadian National Park.” March 9, 2020. Fodors.com.
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October 7, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 72: The Lost Pages
Picture this: You walk into the New York Public Library. Those marble halls, the whispered conversations of scholars, the smell of old paper and binding glue. You might think you're in one of the safest places in the world for precious documents. You'd be wrong.
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September 23, 2025 • 19 mins
Episode 71: George Hinton Henry, The Father osf Alaska Journalism Found at Last ---Maybe
No chapter on newspapers in Alaska would be complete without a section on the most-sued member of the press, George Hinton Henry. Henry published/edited six papers in four cities between 1907 and 1915. These included the Yukon Press, Tanana Citizen, Hot Springs Echo, Tanana News, Free Press (Fairbanks), and Socialist Press in Fairbanks. He was...
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September 9, 2025 • 24 mins
Episode 70: Voynich Manuscript Mystery
There is a book, a book that has broken the minds of the world's greatest codebreakers, a book that has resisted every attempt at translation for over a century. A book that shouldn't exist but does. Today we're diving deep into the Voynich manuscript. A 600 year old enigma that has stumped the NSA defeated World War the Second cryptographers and continues to mock every attempt to unlock its ...
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August 26, 2025 • 16 mins
Episode 69: The Greenbrier Ghost: A True Tale of Murder and the Supernatural
In the misty hills of 1897 Greenbrier County, a young woman’s sudden death sparked a chilling mystery that would echo through history. Join us as we unravel the haunting tale of the Greenbrier Ghost, where a spirit’s whisper from beyond the grave led to a murderer’s conviction.
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August 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Episode 68: Gift Mortgages
HERE’S A DOUBLE MYSTERY FOR YOU! THE FIRST ONE IS: DIDN’T YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET THE MORTGAGE ON YOUR HOUSE PAID OFF FOR FREE? THE SECOND MYSTERY IS WHY ARE YOU LETTING THE BANKS GIVE AWAY YOUR TAX MONEY FOR FREE?
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July 29, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 67: The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Welcome to a journey through one of America’s most haunting enigmas—the Mothman of Point Pleasant.
Plus -- The Phantom Dogsled by Steve Levi.
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July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Episode 66: The Clara Nevada -- Accident or Murder?
No saga of the Alaska Gold Rush would be complete without a touch of the mysterious. Every rush has its eerie events, and the Alaska Gold Rush was no exception. Perhaps the most perplexing incident of that era was the saga of the Clara Nevada. Here was a tale of greed, robbery, and murder, along with a ghostly re-visitation. But it was more than that. It is also one of the la...
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June 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 64: The Mysterious Grand Canyon
Since well before the “Americans” discovered the magnificent Grand Canyon, the incredible geologic formation has been shrouded in mystery. The Hopis—who live there on the southern escarpments of Black Mesa in eastern Arizona--are one of the oldest living cultures in documented history, with a past stretching back thousands of years. The Hopi trace their ancestry to the Ancient Puebloan and B...
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June 3, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 63: What Happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald?
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called Gitchee Gumee
The lake it is said never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy
Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics memorialize the tragedy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but the mystery remains - what sunk the great ship?
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Stonehouse, Frederick. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...
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May 20, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 62: Where's Joe?
The endless supply of larger-than-life characters in Alaska makes the state fertile ground for reality television shows and movies based on true stories. If you made a list of the strong, fascinating individuals in the history of this vast state, though, Joe Vogler would rank near the top. Picture a sharply dressed man, wearing a fedora, a bolo tie, and a plaid flannel shirt while he stands in front of a g...
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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
Fat-Boy Bomb
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.
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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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