Marks Unexplained World

The Pepsi Number Death’s | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 107)  Pepsi Number Fever, also known as the 349 incident, was a promotion held by PepsiCo in the Philippines in 1992, which led to riots and the deaths of at least five people. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frightnights.co.uk --- Credits... Photography by Helen Poolar --- Marks Une...

The Byford Dolphin Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 106) The Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally for various companies in the British, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. The rig was the site of several serious incidents, most notably an explosive decompression i...

The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 105) Brian Randall Shaffer is an American medical student at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. On the night of March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break; later, he was separated from them, and they assumed he had gone home. However, a security camera outside the entrance to...

The Stalker | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 104) Listener Discretion is Advised. Stalker Help Line https://www.suzylamplugh.org/Pages/Category/national-stalking-helpline Stalking is an unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviour's are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or...

The Evil Delusions of Eleanor Williams | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 103) Listeners Discretion is Advised Eleanor Williams is an English criminal who made false claims of multiple serious crimes, including accusations of trafficking, rape, blackmail, and physical violence, none of which were found to have occurred. Following her 2022 trial, Williams was found guilty on nine counts of perverting t...

The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 102)  The Camp Van Dorn Slaughter was a reported hoax popularized in a 1998 self-published book. It is alleged that some 1200 members of the all-black 364th Infantry Regiment were killed in June 1943 by white soldiers at Camp Van Dorn, a U.S. Army installation near Centreville, Mississippi. No hard evidence has ever been found to support t...

The Lonely Hearts Killers | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 101)  Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were an American serial killer couple. They were convicted of one murder but are known to have committed two more and were suspected of having killed up to twenty victims during a spree between 1947 and 1949. After their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949, Fernandez and Beck became known as the...

Pete the Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 100) Poltergeist activity can be a very disturbing phenomena, it can sometimes feel like an unruly child throwing a temper tantrum. The staff at a small lawnmower repair shop in Cardiff witnessed this phenomenon more than once. The disturbances were so regular, in fact, that they decided to give him the name of "Pete." As time went by, the activi...

The Vanishing People of Nome | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 99) Nome in western Alaska, and roughly two dozen residents go missing between 1960 and 2004, sparking a nationwide uproar about their disappearances. With rumours circulating of UFO involvement, alien abduction, and even a serial killer, the community gets desperate for answers. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits w...

The Amherst Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 98) The Amherst poltergeist was a notorious case of reported poltergeist activity in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1878 and 1879. The activity centred on Esther Cox, who lived in a house with her married sister Olive Teed, Olive's husband Daniel, and their two young children. The phenomena continued for some months and became well known...

The History of Skid Row | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 97) Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. The area is officially known as Central City East. Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations (about 9,200–15,000) of homeless people in the United States and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. Its long history of police raids, targ...

The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 96) The Boston Molasses Disaster was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons of molasses, weighing approximately 12,000 metric tons, burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the street...

Text supplied by Tillie Treadwell  Fairies. The wee folk. The fae. Whatever you may name them, they are everywhere- in classic fairytales, allegedly true encounters, and even modern-day books, movies and more. But who are they? What are they? Where do they reside, and what are they capable of naturally? Mark the Medium is a well-known medium in the UK. He has had many experiences with the paranorm...

Rabies | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 95) Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. It was historically referred to as hydrophobia ("fear of water") due to the symptom of panic when presented with liquids to drink. Rabies causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, about 40% of which are in children under the age of 15. More than 95% of human deaths from ra...

The Kera UFO incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 94) Although it is a little-known case in the west, an incident in the Kera region of Kochi City in Japan in the early-1970s is not only one of the most debated in the country, but a case that would leave behind physical evidence. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frightnights.co.uk --- C...

Tulpa | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 93) Tulpa is a concept originally from Tibetan Buddhism and found in later traditions of mysticism and the paranormal of a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human form that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary...

The Cock Lane Ghost | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 92) The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. The location was a lodging in Cock Lane, a short road adjacent to London's Smithfield market and a few minutes' walk from St Paul's Cathedral. The event centred on three people: William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk; Richard Parsons, a parish clerk; and Pa...

Sasquatch | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 91) Bigfoot, also commonly referred to as Sasquatch, is a large and hairy human-like mythical creature purported to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Many of the indigenous cultures across the North American continent include tales of mysterious hair-covered creatures living in forests. Marks Unexplained World Podcast...

The Disappearance of the Amber Room | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 90) The Amber Room was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. After the war, the Amber Room was never seen in public again, though reports have occasionally surfaced stating that pieces of the Amber Room survived the war. Marks...

Daniel LaPlante (The Murderer in the Walls) | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 89) Daniel J. LaPlante is an American convicted murderer serving multiple life sentences for the 1987 murders of Priscilla Gustafson and her two children in Townsend, Massachusetts. He lived with his mother and stepfather, and whilst growing up, he was sexually and psychologically abused by many adults in his life including...

Allison Mack & NEXIUM | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 88) NXIVM was a cult around convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. NXIVM is also the name of the defunct corporation that Keith Raniere founded, which provided seminars in the field of human potential development and served as a front for the organization of criminal activity. Allison Christin Mack was an American actress. She w...

The Therac 25 Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 87) The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units. It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors (also know...

The Aveley Alien Abduction | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 86) On late Sunday evening, October 27th, 1974, a run of the mill Essex family were driving a route between Harold Hill and Aveley to see relatives. The Avis family, were on Hacton Lane about one mile out from Hornchurch. Suddenly, while they were on their journey, the car started jerking violently as a mist curled around the car. One of th...

Gef the Talking Mongoose | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 85) Gef the Talking Mongoose (or the Dalby Spook) was an allegedly talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvin...

The Fae | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 84) The Fae are a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the or...