Dead Signal Radio

A small wooden cabinet appeared on eBay in 2003 with a disturbing backstory: a Holocaust survivor, atrapped spirit from Jewish folklore, nightmares, illness, strange smells, and a warning never to open the doors. The Dybbuk Box became one of the most famous cursed objects of the internet age. But the deeper the storyis investigated, the stranger it becomes. Traditional dybbuk folklore does not des...

Skinwalker Ranch has become one of America's most famous paranormal locations - a place associatedwith UFOs, cattle mutilation claims, strange animals, glowing orbs, electronic anomalies, private scientificinvestigations, and government-linked aerospace research. In Episode 20 of Dead Signal Radio, Michael goes deeper into the Sherman family's original reports, RobertBigelow and NIDS, the...

In twelfth-century Suffolk, England, villagers near Woolpit reportedly discovered two frightenedchildren unlike anyone they had ever seen. Their skin appeared green. Their clothing was unfamiliar. Nobody could understand their language. And for days, they refused nearly everything they were offered to eat - until they saw broad beans. The boy eventually died. The girl survived, learned English, an...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we tune into one of the strangest rumors of the early Space Race: the legend of the Lost Cosmonauts. The official story says Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12, 1961. But almost immediately, darker rumors began to circulate. Some claimed the Soviet Union had secretly launched other cosmonauts before Gagarin — missions that failed, deaths...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we step inside one of Kansas' most infamous haunted locations: the Sallie House in Atchison. According to legend, the house is haunted by a little girl named Sallie who died during emergency surgery. But the stories surrounding the house go far beyond childlike footsteps and moving toys. In 1993, Tony and Debra Pickman moved into the home and reported esca...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we visit Key West, Florida, to meet one of America’s most famous haunted objects: Robert the Doll. Once owned by Robert Eugene “Gene” Otto, Robert now sits behind glass at the Fort East Martello Museum, where visitors are warned to be respectful, ask permission before taking his picture, and avoid mocking him. Over the years, stories have claimed the doll move...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we head into the creek bottoms of southwest Arkansas to explore the legend of the Fouke Monster, also known as the Beast of Boggy Creek. For decades, people near Fouke, Arkansas, have reported encounters with a large, hairy, foul-smelling creature moving through the woods and swampy bottoms near Boggy Creek. The legend exploded after the famous 1971 Bobby Ford...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we tune into one of the world’s most famous shortwave mysteries: UVB-76, better known as The Buzzer. Broadcasting around 4625 kHz, The Buzzer is known for its repetitive buzzing signal, occasionally interrupted by Russian voice messages containing names, numbers, and coded phrases. Some believe it is a Russian military channel marker. Others have connected it...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we tune into one of the strangest broadcast mysteries in American television history: the Max Headroom Incident. On November 22, 1987, Chicago viewers saw two television stations hijacked by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom-style mask. First WGN’s 9 p.m. newscast was interrupted. Then, later that night, WTTW’s airing of Doctor Who was taken over for ro...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we turn our attention from haunted places to the stars. On August 15, 1977, Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius. It lasted roughly 72 seconds, appeared near the hydrogen line, and was unusual enough that astronomer Jerry Ehman circled the printout and wrote one word beside it: “Wow!” The...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we step aboard the legendary RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Once a luxury ocean liner and later a World War II troopship known as the Grey Ghost, the Queen Mary is now permanently docked as a hotel, museum, and one of America’s most famous haunted locations. From the first-class swimming pool and stateroom B340 to Door 13, the engine room, shadowy c...

In this special guest episode of Dead Signal Radio, Michael is joined by Lucy — the listener who demanded Mothman. Together, they explore the legendary sightings around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the abandoned TNT area, the glowing red eyes, the Silver Bridge tragedy, John Keel’s high-strangeness version of the story, and the theories that still surround one of America’s most famous cryptids....

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we enter one of America’s most infamous haunted houses: the Villisca Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa. In June 1912, eight people were murdered inside the home while they slept. The case remains unsolved, and more than a century later, visitors report children’s voices, footsteps, moving objects, strange sounds, and the feeling that the house is not empty. I...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we enter the massive stone halls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Opened to patients in 1864 and later known as Weston State Hospital, the asylum began as a place built for care under the Kirkbride Plan. But overcrowding, institutional failure, and more than a century of human suffering helped turn it into one of America’s most i...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we enter Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia — a prison built around silence, isolation, and the belief that solitude could reform the soul. Opened in 1829, Eastern State became one of America’s most influential prisons and one of its most infamous haunted locations. From the Pennsylvania System and Charles Dickens’s criticism to shadow figures, whisper...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we visit Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky — one of America’s most infamous haunted locations. Built to treat tuberculosis patients during the early 20th century, Waverly Hills became a place of isolation, hope, suffering, and death before gaining a modern reputation for shadow figures, voices, Room 502, the body chute, and unexplained activity....

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we visit the 1886 Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas — one ofAmerica’s most famous haunted hotels. But behind the ghost stories is a darker documented history: Norman Baker, a fake doctor who turned theCrescent into a fraudulent cancer hospital in the late 1930s and sold false hope to desperate patients. Is the Crescent haunted by spirits, memory, trag...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio, we step into one of America’s most infamous haunting legends: TheBell Witch. In early 1800s Tennessee, the Bell family allegedly endured years of knocks, voices, attacks, curses, and apresence that seemed to hate John Bell most of all. Was it a ghost, a witch, a demon, a hoax, or folklore thatgrew darker with every retelling? Strange Stories From The Edge of S...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio , we investigate The Hum — a mysterious low-frequency sound reported by people around the world. From the Bristol Hum and the famous Taos Hum to the Windsor Hum that may have finally been solved, we explore what people hear, why only some can hear it, and whether the explanation lies in industry, human hearing, low-frequency sound, or something stranger. Strang...

In this episode of Dead Signal Radio , we follow the strange legend of the Black Knight Satellite — a mysterious object some claim has been orbiting Earth for thousands of years. From Nikola Tesla’s unusual radio signals and long-delayed echoes to Cold War satellite confusion and the famous NASA STS-88 photograph, we separate fact from folklore and ask whether the Black Knight is an ancient alien...

Episode 1: Numbers Stations — The Creepiest Radio Broadcasts Ever What if mysterious coded messages were being broadcast through the air… right now? In the debut episode of Dead Signal Radio , we dive into the strange and unsettling world of numbers stations — eerie shortwave radio broadcasts featuring robotic voices, repeating numbers, strange music, and messages seemingly meant for someone else....