Marks Unexplained World

The Radium Girls | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 131) Contains Graphic Details The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials and watch dials with self-luminous paint. After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their l...

The Death of Dominique Dunne | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 130) Dominique Ellen Dunne was an American actress, who got her big break starring as Dana Freeling in the horror film Poltergeist in 1982. On the 30th October 1982, she was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, during an argument on the driveway of her West Hollywood home. She fell into a coma and died five days lat...

The Holmesburg Prison Experiments I Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 129) Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. It was the site of controversial decades-long dermatological, pharmaceutical, and biochemical weapons research projects involving testing on i...

The Case of Nahir Galarza | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 128) The Nahir Galarza case was an Argentine judicial process, officially called "Galarza, Nahir Mariana s/homicidio doblemente agravado", in which the 19-year-old Nahir Mariana Galarza was convicted of murdering her 20-year-old boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo, at dawn on the 29th of December 2017, in the city of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Arge...

Hans Schmidt (The Evil Priest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 127) Contains Graphic Detail. Hans B. Schmidt was a German Catholic priest, rapist, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer. He was executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York State for murdering and dismembering a pregnant woman in the United States. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcent...

The Dark Side of the Mother Earth Cult | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 126) Love Has Won is an American new religious movement which was led by Amy Carlson, who is referred to within the group as "Mother God", who described herself as, among other things, the creator of the universe. The group has been described as a cult by many, including ex-members and media outlets. Ex-members accused the group...

Genie Wiley (The Feral Child) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 125) Contains distressing detail, listener Discretion is Advised Genie Wiley is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. When she was approximately 20 months old,...

The 1930’s Dust Bowl | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 124) The 1930s Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably th...

The Shag Harbour UFO | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 123) The Shag Harbour UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, a tiny fishing village on the Atlantic coast, on 4 October 1967. The reports were investigated by various Canadian civilian (RCMP and Canadian Coast Guard) and military (Canadian Forces navy and air force) agencies as...

The Colt Clan Incest | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 122) Listener discretion is advised The Colt family incest case concerns an Australian family discovered in 2012 to have been engaging in four generations of incest beginning with a couple known as Tim and June Colt, who emigrated from New Zealand in the 1970s. They all lived on a farm near Boorowa, New South Wales. The family members' true ident...

What Happened to the Springfield Three | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 121) The Springfield Three refers to an unsolved missing persons case that began on June 7, 1992, when friends Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter and Stacy McCall, and Streeter's mother, Sherrill Levitt, went missing from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri, United States. All of their personal belongings, including cars and purses, we...

The Death of Naya Rivera | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 120) On July 8, 2020, American actress and singer Naya Rivera was declared missing after she failed to return from a boating excursion on Lake Piru near her home in California. Shortly afterwards, her rented boat with her 4-year-old son, Josey Dorsey, was located. Dorsey was unharmed. After her body was found, her death was ruled accidental,...

Aokigahara (The Suicide Forest) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 119) Listener Discretion is Advised. Aokigahara, also known as the Sea of Trees , is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan. The forest has a historical reputation as a home to ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology. Aokigahara has become associated with suicide, eventually becoming known in...

The Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 118) Contains Graphic Detail, Listener Discretion is advised. Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighbourhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens di...

The Dark Story Behind Lena Zavaroni | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 117) Lena Hilda Zavaroni was a Scottish singer and television show host. At the age of 10, with her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), she was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Later, she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest-star appearances, and appeared...

The Year of Alan Godfrey’s Strangeness | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 116) In June 1980, Alan Godfrey investigated the death of 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski, with his body eventually being found three days later on top of a 10-foot-high (3.0 m) Todmorden coal pile. Godfrey told reporters that he believed it possible that Zigmund Adamski may have been abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile "...

Steven Pladl (Incest/Murder/Suicide) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 115) Listener Discretion is advised. On April 12, 2018, Steven Walter Pladl, a 43-year-old man from Knightdale, North Carolina, murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milfor...

The Arial School UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 114) On 16 September 1994, there was a UFO sighting outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school. Some of the children claimed that one or more creatures dressed all in black then approached a...

The Disappearance of Natalie Holloway | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 113) Natalee Ann Holloway disappeared on the 30th of May 2005, and was declared dead on the 12th of January 2012. She was an 18-year-old American high school graduate from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who disappeared from the Caribbean island of Aruba. Her disappearance resulted in an international media sensation, especially in the...

The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 112) The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders took place on the morning of June 13, 1977, at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The victims were three Girl Scouts, between the ages of 8 and 10, who were raped and murdered. Their bodies were then left on a trail leading to the campsite's showers, about 150 yards from their tent...

The Hermann House Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 111) The Hermann Poltergeist House is said to be the genuinely terrifying real-life ghost story that inspired the 1982 supernatural horror movie Poltergeist. The chilling tale is made even more terrifying by the real-life inspiration behind the film. --- Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre....

Now available on YouTube, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, Spotify and most other Podcasts Apps. Join Tillie Treadwell (The Weird Walk Home) and Mark Hughes (Marks Unexplained World), as we delve deep into the darker side of life, and discus the subject of "Incest." Incest is a taboo subject in any cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between certain members of the same family, mainl...

The Missing Children of the Runaway Train Song | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 110) There were three original versions of the video in the United States, totalling 36 missing children shown. 26 missing children were found after being featured in the video for the "Runaway Train" song, and as of 2022, the whereabouts of 10 of the 36 children who appeared in the video, still remain missing. --- If yo...

Cowboy Bob: The Mysterious Bank Robber | Marks Unexplained World (Ep.109) Cowboy Bob was an American bank robber who would cross-dress as a man to conceal her identity. She robbed a total of five banks in Texas between 1991 and 1992 before she was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Due to her never using a weapon during her robberies, she received a light sentence of 33 months. In 2005...

The Dark Side of (Ex-Colonel) Russell Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 108) David Russell Williams is a Canadian serial rapist, murderer and former colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is currently serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years for two murders, committed in November 2009 and January 2010. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credit...