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THE WHISPERING WOODS PODCAST Obscurata is evolving! Beginning November 2025, all new Obscurata episodes will now be released under The Whispering Woods: After Dark — our new late-night series. You’ll still hear the same in-depth mysteries, unsolved cases, and disturbing true stories you love, but now presented in The Whispering Woods ’ signature style. For the time being, we’ll continue releasing...

The following episode explores real events involving sexual violence, ritualistic murder, and graphic descriptions of death linked to the Fall River cult killings of 1979–1980. It also includes references to the Satanic Panic era and the exploitation of vulnerable young women. Some listeners may find the details deeply distressing. Please listen with care. In the industrial city of Fall River, Mas...

The following episode explores real events involving suicide, murder, and the hysteria of the 1980s Satanic Panic. Some listeners may find the details distressing. Please listen with care. In the summer of 1988, 17-year-old Tate Rowland was found hanging from a tree outside Childress, Texas. What police first called a suicide soon spawned rumours of dark rituals and a hidden cult. Three years late...

In the autumn of 1978, a private nurse named Caroline Spencer arrived at Greythorne Hall, a secluded country manor in southern England, to care for a young woman named Emily Harper. What began as a routine convalescence soon descended into terror. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER...

In September 2013, two friends, Dr. Jo Elliott-Blakeslee and Amy Linkert, set out for a short hike in Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument and never returned. Their truck was found locked at the trailhead, their dogs alive inside, and their phones left behind. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAG...

December 1992, Lake Andes, South Dakota. A Chevy Monte Carlo skids on black ice and flips into a frozen ditch. Inside, 17-year-old Tracy Dion is trapped upside down, while Ruby Bruguier scrambles out into the darkness. Arnold Archambeau, the driver, is already gone. When rescuers arrive minutes later, Arnold and Ruby have vanished without a trace. Three months later, their bodies reappear in the s...

In June 1986, a tanker truck crashed on Spain’s treacherous Somosierra Pass. Inside the wreckage, rescue crews found the bodies of a husband and wife burned by the spilled acid cargo. But their 10-year-old son, Juan Pedro, who had been traveling with them, was gone. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM...

In 1657, young Richard Jones of Shepton Mallet fell victim to bizarre fits after meeting an elderly woman. Accused of witchcraft, Jane Brooks was tried and executed, leaving behind one of Somerset’s most infamous witchcraft cases. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEB...

In 1768, Owen Parfitt, a paralyzed man in Shepton Mallet, vanished from his chair outside his sister’s cottage without a trace. Was it abduction, escape, or something supernatural? His disappearance remains one of England’s strangest unsolved cases. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITT...

In May 1932, police forced open the door to a small apartment in Stockholm’s Atlas district. Inside lay the body of 32-year-old Lilly Lindeström, a sex worker last seen on Walpurgis Night. She had been bludgeoned to death during a sexual encounter, but the scene held something far stranger: her body had been drained of blood, and a gravy ladle smeared with it lay nearby. Newspapers dubbed the unkn...

On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, went up in flames. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children, but five more were trapped inside. By morning, the house was reduced to ash — yet no trace of the missing children was ever found. Were they consumed by fire, or taken under the cover of smoke? From vanished bones to cut phone lines, strange...

In the 1930s, reports began to circulate across Europe of a song so mournful it was said to drive listeners to suicide. From Budapest to London, victims were found with sheet music in their hands, gramophones still spinning the tune, or notes quoting its lyrics. The song was Szomorú Vasárnap – “Gloomy Sunday” – written by struggling Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress after a heartbreak. SURVEY Obscura...

In 1916, on the outskirts of Budapest, authorities uncovered a suburban nightmare. Dozens of metal barrels buried around a quiet home contained the pickled corpses of women – victims of Béla Kiss, a tinsmith who charmed, defrauded, and murdered through newspaper ads. Dubbed the “Monster of Cinkota,” Kiss vanished into the chaos of World War I and was never caught. His trail of blood stretched acro...

A lover’s lane under a moonless Tuscan sky. Two bodies, a ritual signature, and a .22 that ties eight double homicides across nearly two decades. This episode unravels the crimes, the botched manhunts, and the spiraling occult theories that turned a serial killer into modern folklore. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories J...

A lover’s lane under a moonless Tuscan sky. Two bodies, a ritual signature, and a .22 that ties eight double homicides across nearly two decades. This episode unravels the crimes, the botched manhunts, and the spiraling occult theories that turned a serial killer into modern folklore. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories J...

On a late-night broadcast of Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell introduced a chilling tape. What spilled from the speakers was a nightmarish roar of countless human screams – the infamous “Sounds from Hell.” The recording, Bell explained, was said to come from a Soviet drilling project in Siberia during the 1980s, where geologists allegedly bored nine miles into the earth. According to legend, their inst...

In February 1997, a man named Mel Waters phoned into Coast to Coast AM with a story so strange it would become one of the program’s most infamous legends. On his rural property near Ellensburg, Washington, Mel claimed there was a mysterious pit – a hole with no bottom. He said he had lowered fishing line more than 80,000 feet without hitting the end, that objects tossed into the hole never made a...

In 1922, a remote Bavarian farmstead became the scene of one of Germany’s most gruesome and enduring mysteries. The Hinterkaifeck murders claimed the lives of six family members and a maid, slaughtered with a mattock by an unknown assailant who may have been hiding in their attic for days—or even weeks—before striking. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to...

In 1922, a remote Bavarian farmstead became the scene of one of Germany’s most gruesome and enduring mysteries. The Hinterkaifeck murders claimed the lives of six family members and a maid, slaughtered with a mattock by an unknown assailant who may have been hiding in their attic for days—or even weeks—before striking. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOOK GROUP The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to...

When 11 members of a Delhi family are found dead under bizarre circumstances, investigators uncover eerie rituals and a series of cryptic diaries. This Obscurata episode dives into the mysterious 2018 Burari deaths of the Chundawat family – exploring the chilling discovery of their bodies, the family’s seemingly ordinary life in Burari, and the haunting clues that blurred the line between a shared...

When 11 members of a Delhi family are found dead under bizarre circumstances, investigators uncover eerie rituals and a series of cryptic diaries. This Obscurata episode dives into the mysterious 2018 Burari deaths of the Chundawat family – exploring the chilling discovery of their bodies, the family’s seemingly ordinary life in Burari, and the haunting clues that blurred the line between a shared...

In the summer of 1981, 20-year-old Cindy Anderson vanished without a trace from her Toledo law office. No witnesses. No struggle. Just a locked door, a ringing phone, and a deepening mystery. What followed was one of Ohio’s most unsettling cold cases — a story tangled in prophetic nightmares, shadowy suspects, and the lingering question: did Cindy see it coming?. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOO...

In the summer of 1981, 20-year-old Cindy Anderson vanished without a trace from her Toledo law office. No witnesses. No struggle. Just a locked door, a ringing phone, and a deepening mystery. What followed was one of Ohio’s most unsettling cold cases — a story tangled in prophetic nightmares, shadowy suspects, and the lingering question: did Cindy see it coming?. SURVEY Obscurata Discussed FACEBOO...

Once the home of Herb Baumeister, Fox Hollow Farm hides a dark past — the site where at least 11 men met brutal deaths. Decades after Baumeister’s suicide, the new owners began witnessing chilling phenomena: disembodied knocks, vanishing figures, and even violent attacks in the pool room where victims once perished. From the man in the red shirt to the whispered phrase “the married one,” this epis...

Once the home of Herb Baumeister, Fox Hollow Farm hides a dark past — the site where at least 11 men met brutal deaths. Decades after Baumeister’s suicide, the new owners began witnessing chilling phenomena: disembodied knocks, vanishing figures, and even violent attacks in the pool room where victims once perished. From the man in the red shirt to the whispered phrase “the married one,” this epis...