Marks Unexplained World

The Death of Nancy Spungen | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 83) Nancy Laura Spungen was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious, and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. In October 1978, Spungen was found dead in the bathroom of the couple's room, with a single stab wound to the abdomen. Vicious was charged with her murder, but died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 19...

The Strange Story of the Tromp Family | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 82) A family of five disappeared on a tech-free road-trip only to turn up one by one after a week-long odyssey of more than 1,600km (995 miles), which ended with a police investigation and two of them in psychiatric care. This was a missing person mystery that held Australia spellbound. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description...

The Great London Beer Flood of 1814 | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 81) The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons o...

The Dark Story of the Village Eyam | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 80) The history of the plague in the village Eyam began in 1665 when a flea-infested bundle of cloth arrived from London for Alexander Hadfield, the local tailor. Within a week his assistant George Viccars, noticing the bundle was damp, had opened it up. Before long he was dead and more began dying in the household soon after. Marks...

The Real Pied Piper of Hamelin | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 79) “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” isn’t just a fairy tale. According to an inscribed façade from around a Hamelin house, on the 26th of June 1602, the day of St. John and St. Paul, 130 children (born in Hamelin) were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing Calvary near the Koppenberg, they disap...

The Kofu UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 78) In the winter of 1975, two eight year old school boys had a shocking face to face confrontation with a pair of small, wrinkled, triple fanged ufonauts that immediately propelled the distraught adolescents squarely into the eye of a media maelstrom. Sometime before 7 pm., on the evening of February 23rd , 1975, Masato Kawano and Katsu...

That Old Hag Called Sleep Paralysis | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 77) Sleep paralysis is a temporary loss of muscle control just after falling asleep or before waking up. Sleep paralysis frequently involves hallucinations or a feeling of suffocation. No one knows exactly what causes sleep paralysis, but it is linked to sleep disorders and certain mental health conditions. Marks Unexplained World...

The Highway of Tears | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 76) The Highway of Tears is a 447 mile corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of crimes against many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was t...

Tillie Treadwell is a retired professional paranormal investigator and a retired paranormal counsellor from the United States of America. She is also a modern-day author and quantum/paranormal educator. So join me as we talk to her about her otherworldly experiences with quantum storytelling, liminal spirits, non-human people, high strangness, and her paranormal work with the Catholic Church. Chec...

The Nanjing Massacre | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 75) Contains Graphic Details The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning on December 13, 1937, the massacre lasted six weeks. The perpetrators...

The Tragic Story of David Reimer | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 74) ⚠️Contains Graphic Details⚠️  David Reimer was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his...

The Korovina Group Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 73) On the 5th August 1993, a small Siberian hiking expedition led by hiking expert Lyudmila Korovina came to a tragic end on the slopes of the Hamar-Daban mountain range. Six out of seven members of the young group died in a matter of minutes, under mysterious, violent circumstances. They collapsed in spasms, suffering from profuse bleedi...

Unit 731 | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 72) WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS  Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. The unit is estimated to have killed between 200,000 and 30...

The Sodder Children | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra One snowy Christmas Eve, back in 1945, a fire broke out and destroyed the Sodder residence. The surviving Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived. Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frightnights.co.uk Credits... --- Photography by Helen Poolar --- Marks Unexplaine...

Thalidomide | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 71) ⚠️ Warning: Contains Graphic Details ⚠️ In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries by women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant resulted in the "biggest man-made medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of mi...

The Strange Death of David Glenn Lewis | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 70) On the night of February 1, 1993, motorists saw a man wandering on the highway near Rivard Road in the town of Moxee. They turned to warn other drivers after passing him, but when they returned they found the man had been struck by another vehicle which had left the scene. He was quickly pronounced dead. He was not identifie...

The Manises UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 69) The Manises UFO incident took place on 11 November 1979, forcing a commercial flight of the Spanish company Transportes Aéreos Españoles, with 109 passengers, to make an emergency landing at the Manises' airport in Valencia, Spain, when they were flying over Ibiza. After the emergency landing, a Spanish Air Force fighter aircraft took off...

The Sauchie Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World (Ep 68) This is undoubtedly the biggest poltergeist case of its kind in Scotland (if not the United Kingdom). Not only were the poltergeist events witnessed in the family household, but they also followed the unfortunate little girl to her local school, where the poltergeist was equally disruptive in full view of Virginia's classmates and teacher....

The Disappearance of Anthonette Cayedito | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 67) Cayedito disappeared from her home in Gallup, New Mexico, in the early morning hours of April 6, 1986. That evening, Cayedito's mother, Penny, had been out with friends at a local bar, and Anthonette, along with her younger sisters Wendy and Sadie, were with a babysitter. Penny arrived home around midnight and sent the bab...

The Kozyrev Mirror | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 66) The Kozyrev mirror is a device made from long sheets of aluminium (sometimes from glas or a reflecting, mirror-like material) curled into a cylindrical spiral. Kozyrev mirrors were used in experiments related to extrasensory perception (ESP), conducted in the Institute of Experimental Medicine of Siberia, division of the Russian Academy of Scie...

Mass Murderer Andrea’s Lubitz | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 65) Andreas Günter Lubitz was a German pilot for the international airline Lufthansa. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, French and German authorities, as well as executives of Lufthansa, have issued statements that they believe that Lubitz intentionally crashed the Airbus A320 of Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps, killing hims...

The 1952 Washington UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 64)   From July 12 to 29, 1952, a series of Unidentified Flying Object sightings were reported in Washington DC, and later became known as the Washington flap.    The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27. 

The Missing Fort Worth Trio | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 63) The Fort Worth Missing Trio refers to an unsolved missing persons case that began on the 23rd December 1974, when three girls - Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson and Julie Ann Moseley - went missing while Christmas shopping at the Seminary South Shopping Center in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.  The car the girls were driving, a...

Mel’s Hole: The Mysterious Infinite Pit | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 62) Mel's Hole is, according to an urban legend, a "bottomless pit" near Ellensburg, Washington.    When Waters brought it to the public, it caught the interest of curious minds everywhere and quickly became an urban legend

The Dudley Town Curse | Marks Unexplained World (Ep. 61) For many years, ghost hunters have been fascinated by tales of the lost village of Dudleytown. A vanished Connecticut village that was apparently plagued by ghosts, demons, and residents who vanished without a trace. These grave events were said to be caused by a curse brought by the Dudley family to the New World.