My Dark Path

In late 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese citizens are vanishing without a trace.  These are ordinary folks - a high school girl walking home from badminton practice, a couple on a romantic beach stroll, just regular people living their lives.  For years, these disappearances are shrouded in mystery. Families are left wondering, the public is baffled, and there are all sorts of theories floating aro...

It's probable that the same person committed a series of axe murders between 1898 and 1912 across the United States, including the infamous 1912 Villisca axe murders in Iowa.  And, this serial killer appears to have traveled by train to perform these heinous acts.  If it were the same person, he was responsible for at least 59 deaths, with the potential to have committed up to nearly 100.   T...

Haunted Cemeteries.  Everyone knows of at least one. It is not a coincidence that “Midnight” Mary Hart and “Crazy” Sarah Winchester lie within a short distance of each other in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.  Both are daughters of New Haven, buried in the city that raised them. These two women now, through no fault of their own, are associated with death and places of death.  The reality is, how...

On March 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM a magnitude-9.0 earthquake occurred in the western Pacific Ocean, 80 miles east of the Japanese city of Sendai.  The seismic activity caused significant displacement of the Pacific Plate, which, in turn, led to the generation of highly destructive tsunami waves.  A wave measuring 33 feet tall hammered the coast and submerged parts of Sendai, including its airport and ...

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world, with 61 streets and over 4,000 shops covering 330,000 square feet or about the area of 6 football fields.  Between 250,000 and 400,000 people visit it daily.  This may make it first among the world's most-visited tourist attractions, with about 91 million annual visitors.  The Grand Bazaar is also repu...

In 2007 Murat Yalcin Yalman was working in the holiday village of Kumburgaz Turkey as a night watchman. From this vantage point, he started seeing odd lights in the sky over the water. After seeing these objects on multiple evenings, he finally bought a video camera and started shooting.  In the series of videos taken over 3 years, several types of objects were captured.  All appear round or oval...

In 1974, archeologists discovered a junk, or a Chinese ship, that was abandoned sometime around 1270 in the port of Quanzhou.  Onboard was cargo that conclusively proved the ship had been up and down the east coast of Africa.   Subsequent investigations showed extensive contact between Africa and China from as early as 800.  Chinese coins and pottery have been found in archeological digs in East A...

UFOs continue to be a worldwide conversation topic, with new footage of UAPs sparking debate about the origin of these images.  And truly, the investigation of unidentified flying objects is a global phenomenon.  Today, we'll investigate some of the most famous incidents from Mexico. Mexico ranks seventh globally for the number of UFO sightings.  Today on My Dark Path, we will look at several...

In the early hours of Monday, June 10, 1912, an unknown intruder entered a two-story wooden house through the unlocked back door. The small Midwest settlement had a population of around 2,000, where everyone knew each other by sight, and the residents did not worry about crime.  But on that June night in 1912, once the killer had completed these grisly acts, he then did several things that mystifi...

I visited Moscow a few years ago for a My Dark Path research trip so I could finish the mini-series about the Secrets of the Soviets.  Those episodes, like Stalin’s Bunker 42 and Soviet Psychic Spies, are available for My Dark Path Plus subscribers on Patreon. In addition to these stories, I also found other stories that were more contemporary, not only from the dark Soviet era.  Those stories inc...

With an evocative name like the Glasgow Necropolis, you'd expect this massive graveyard in Scotland to have a history rich in paranormal lore.  But you'll be surprised by all the events here, including the well-documented hunt in 1954 for the Vampire with Iron Teeth.  Here’s the unusual, spooky history of the Necropolis. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy...

There’s a sign, mounted on a locked door, four decks down from the flight deck on the USS Ticonderoga, a giant aircraft carrier, a sign reads “RESTRICTED SECURITY AREA / KEEP OUT / AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY / IT IS UNLAWFUL TO ENTER THIS AREA WITHOUT WRITTEN PEMISSION OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER” No one, except the men assigned to work in that room, was allowed to go through  that door.  Because beh...

How could nuclear weapons, the most dangerous tools in the history of war, go missing?  What are the events that cause them to go missing and how are they recovered?  Join me as we explore a few of the stories of America’s Broken Arrows. February 13, 1950, loss of a B-36 over Canada. March 10, 1956, loss of a B-47 over the Mediterranean Sea July 28, 1957, loss of a C-124 over the Atlantic February...

Every Halloween, news coverage spikes about the risks of children consuming poisoned candy.  This episode tells the stories of those who have intentionally tried to hurt children through adulterated candy and the origin of reason why parents all tell their children… don’t take candy from strangers. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A...

In 1925, Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole failed and his two planes were force to land on the ice without reaching their destination.  His team of six barely to civilization aboard a single, stripped down plane.  Amundsen, already a seasoned explorer, decided that he’d never again allow himself to be stuck on the ice.  A year later, he successfully reached the North Pole aboard the Ai...

Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula completely transformed the idea of vampires.  And the pop culture image of Dracula’s castle is based on a building that never existed, but was an amazing creation of a writer’s imagination of a location in Romania he never visited.  Today Romania is a tourist desination, in part driven by visitors’ desire to visit a place where the fictional events of the novel were set...

The story of the study of UFOs in the USSR reveals the conflict between the desire for knowledge and the communist objective of strict control over topics the government deemed to be unacceptable. This episode will share the stories of two of the most famous Soviet UFOlogists and some of the sightings which motivated them to fight against the government’s control of scientific discourse. Read MF T...

Delve into the mysterious life and sudden death of Gerald Cotten, the founder of QuadrigaCX, once Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange. It starts by tracing Cotten’s early interest in digital currencies and his founding of QuadrigaCX, which quickly became a key player in the cryptocurrency market.  In December 2018 Cotten reportedly died from complications due to Crohn's disease whil...

Learn the history of Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, the famous frozen dead guy, of Nederland Colorado and his grandson, Trygve Bauge, who cryopreserved him.   1.     Origins of the town of Nederland Colorado 2.     How Grandpa Bredo came to be cryopreserved then stored in a shed in Nederland. 3.     Father of Cryonics, Robert Ettinger 4.     The process of cryonic preservation 5.     Two of the most cont...

Dive deep with us into the underground horrors where the V2 was produced after the destruction of Peenemunde in WWII.  Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

As a special offer to My Dark Path listeners, sign up for a free Advance Readers Copy of Like Clockwork at www.mfthomas.net. Like Clockwork will be released in print and ebook form in late August 2022. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

The World’s Fair is supposed to be a festival for accomplishments and advances in humanity throughout the world, but that wasn’t the case in 1904.  Take a tragic stroll through St. Louis and learn about the unethical events that happened at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://...

Episode Summary:  My Dark Path podcast explores the fringes of history, science, and the paranormal. This episode is a continuation of the “Vegas Field Trip” where stories of eerie  happenings are explored as a backdrop following different tragic and fatal events  in the past. In this conversation, Thurkettle, Townsend, and Hodur explored hotel hallways,  walking the floors of casinos ranging from...

Learn about the chilling details of how Lake Mead and Nevada experienced a series of bodies in barrels. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

Learn about the darker side of New Orleans and about the voodoo legend of Madame Marie Laveau.  Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...