Still Unexplained

On February 4th, 1977, fourteen children at a Welsh primary school were separated, handed blank paper, and asked to draw what they saw in the field next to their school. Their headmaster was a skeptic. He designed the test to catch them in a lie. The drawings came back strikingly similar. That was just the beginning. What followed was a year of encounters across Pembrokeshire, Wales, that included...

On Christmas Eve 1945, five children vanished from a burning house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, and left behind no remains. The Sodder family spent decades insisting their children had survived, pointing to a missing ladder, two trucks that would not start, cut telephone wires, and a threat made against their father just months before the fire. Then a photograph arrived in the mail in 1967. Sti...

In October 1809, Meriwether Lewis, celebrated co-leader of the Corps of Discovery and one of the most accomplished men in American history, died of gunshot wounds at a remote Tennessee inn called Grinder's Stand. Was it suicide brought on by financial ruin, illness, and despair, or something far more deliberate? With a nearly moonless night, a witness who may have seen the impossible, a possib...

In March 1984, the kidnapping of a Japanese candy executive was just the opening move in one of the most bizarre and unsolved criminal campaigns in modern history. For seventeen months, a group calling itself the Monster with 21 Faces, named after a fictional literary villain, terrorized Japan's food industry with poison threats, taunting letters, and a ghost-like operative known only as the F...

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men in police uniforms walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with thirteen works of art worth half a billion dollars, including a Vermeer, two Rembrandts, and a small bronze eagle that one of them had been thinking about for twenty years. The greatest unsolved art heist in history has never produced an arrest, a recovery, or a clea...

On the night of February 25th, 1942, the U.S. Army fired 1,440 anti-aircraft shells into the sky over Los Angeles and found nothing. No wreckage. No enemy. No explanation that has ever fully held. The Battle of Los Angeles remains one of the strangest events of World War II on American soil, a night that launched competing theories about mass hysteria, secret technology, government cover-up, and s...

In February 1977, Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment, her killer unknown and the case going cold for months. Then a coworker began entering trances, speaking in a voice that claimed to be Basa's, naming a suspect, and describing stolen jewelry that investigators later found exactly where the voice said it would be. This is the story of a possession that solved a homicide...

On the night of March 13, 1997, hundreds of witnesses across Arizona reported a massive, silent V-shaped object moving through the sky, followed by a row of glowing amber lights hovering over Phoenix. More than 700 reports were filed. The governor mocked the event, then admitted a decade later he had seen it himself. The Phoenix Lights is the most widely witnessed UFO event in American history, an...

In 2007, a small fire along Rome's Tiber River led investigators to a near-complete human skeleton arranged with disturbing precision beside the ID of a man who had been missing for four years. DNA testing revealed the impossible: the bones belonged to five different people, collected across two decades. Someone built a person out of strangers and left a name next to it. The Jigsaw Skeleton of...

In 1976, a routine solo training flight over Mexico turned into one of the strangest aviation anomalies ever recorded. Student pilot Rafael Pacheco Pérez took off for a short 25-mile navigation loop. Less than an hour later, he landed more than 250 miles away in Acapulco. His fuel tank was nearly full. His memory was gone. And air traffic controllers reported hearing a voice over the radio that cl...

In 1976, four art students canoeing in the remote Allagash Wilderness of Maine reported seeing a mysterious light over Eagle Lake. Years later, under hypnosis, they recalled being taken aboard a craft and examined by non-human beings. Decades after that, one of them recanted. Were the Allagash Abductions a genuine alien encounter, a case of shared memory reconstruction, or something in between? In...

In April 2013, unknown gunmen carried out a highly coordinated sniper attack on the Metcalf Transmission Substation in California, one of the most critical nodes in the United States power grid. They cut fiber-optic lines, fired more than 120 precision rifle rounds, and disappeared before police arrived. No group claimed responsibility. No suspects were arrested. The FBI ruled it was not terrorism...

Percy Fawcett vanished into the Amazon jungle in 1925 while searching for a legendary ancient civilization he called the Lost City of Z. He never returned. In this episode of Still Unexplained, we follow Fawcett’s final expedition into one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth and examine the clues he left behind. Was Z a real advanced civilization hidden deep in the rainforest, inspired b...

For decades, Venus was imagined as Earth’s twin. A warm ocean world hidden beneath thick clouds. Some scientists even believed it might support life. Then the data came back, and the illusion collapsed. In this episode of Still Unexplained , we explore how Venus became one of the most hostile planets in the solar system and why its transformation still raises unsettling questions. What exactly wen...

In February 1978, five young men vanished after a college basketball game in Northern California. Their abandoned car was found in the mountains, perfectly operable yet inexplicably left behind. Months later, their remains were discovered scattered across the wilderness, some in places that made survival seem possible, even likely. Food went untouched. Shelter was ignored. One man was never found...

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are remembered as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, yet no physical evidence of them has ever been found. In this episode of Still Unexplained , we explore the mystery through a different lens, tracing the legend beyond Babylon and into the powerful Assyrian Empire , where some historians believe the gardens may have actually existed. Were they built by...

In the summer of 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg began dancing uncontrollably in the streets. Some collapsed from exhaustion. Some reportedly died. No music. No celebration. Just an unstoppable compulsion that spread through the city. Was it mass hysteria, poisoning, religious belief, or something we still don’t understand? In this episode of Still Unexplained, we explore the strange histor...

In January 1935, a teenage boy checked into a Kansas City hotel under a false name and was brutally murdered behind a locked door. The crime scene was stripped of clues, the victim refused to identify his attacker, and nearly everything that could explain what happened vanished with him. Decades later, the mystery of Room 1046 remains unsolved. In this episode of Still Unexplained , we examine the...

In 1977, a calm and unexplained voice interrupted a live television news broadcast in the United Kingdom, claiming to represent an extraterrestrial command and warning humanity about its future. The transmission lasted nearly six minutes and was never repeated, and no one ever claimed responsibility. This episode explores how technically difficult the broadcast would have been to fake, why the off...

During the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a woman in a headscarf stood calmly in Dealey Plaza, filming as gunshots rang out and chaos erupted around her. She did not run. She did not duck. And afterward, she vanished without ever identifying herself or producing her footage. Known only as the “Babushka Lady,” her presence has puzzled investigators and researchers for decades. This epi...

Some mysteries are famous. Others are barely remembered. All of them remain unresolved. Still Unexplained is a weekly, short-form podcast exploring unsolved mysteries across history, science, true crime, and human experience. Each episode examines a single case where the evidence is incomplete, the records are unclear, or the answers never fully arrived. This trailer introduces the scope and tone...