From The Void Podcast

The Springfield Three | The House on Delmar Street On June 7th, 1992, three women vanished from a quiet home in Springfield without a trace. Their cars remained in the driveway. Their purses sat untouched inside the house. The television was still on. A small dog wandered nervously through the home. And somewhere in the middle of it all… there was reportedly a strange message left on the answering...

👁️ Episode Overview What happens when a Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist from Harvard University risks everything to study one of the most controversial phenomena of our time? In this episode, we explore the life and work of John E. Mack—a respected academic who turned his attention to individuals claiming to have experienced alien abductions. Were these encounters psychological? Symbolic? Some...

For five days, Travis Walton was missing. No body. No evidence. No explanation. Then—he came back. In Part 2, we pick up where the story turns from a disappearance into one of the most controversial and debated UFO encounters in modern history. What Travis described wasn’t just an abduction story—it was something stranger… more fragmented… and far less like the narratives that would come later. Th...

🧭 Episode Summary On November 5, 1975, a group of loggers in the forests of northeastern Arizona witnessed something that would become one of the most famous—and controversial—alien abduction cases in history. A glowing object. A beam of light. And a man—gone. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we step into the dense woods near Snowflake, Arizona, where Travis Walton vanished in front of six eyew...

Whitley Strieber, Communion, and the Question That Won’t Go Away In this episode of From the Void , we examine one of the most famous — and most controversial — alien abduction accounts ever recorded: the experiences of Whitley Strieber . Strieber wasn’t a fringe figure chasing attention. He was a successful horror novelist living in upstate New York when, in the mid-1980s, he began reporting a se...

Episode: The Kahamar-Daban Incident – A Mystery in the Siberian Mountains In August 1993, a group of hikers entered the remote Kahamar-Daban mountain range in southern Siberia. Only one would return alive. What followed was a story that defies easy explanation: sudden illness, violent physical reactions, internal bleeding, and deaths that occurred rapidly—without clear warning and without a confir...

In the late 1960s, a small law office in the quiet Bavarian town of Rosenheim became the center of one of the most well-documented—and most controversial—poltergeist cases in modern history. Lights exploded. Phones rang without being connected. Heavy filing cabinets moved on their own. Electrical meters spun wildly, recording surges no one could explain. And unlike many alleged hauntings, this one...

A Conversation with Psychic Medium Jenson Smith —  Part 2 What happens when you realize the world is more porous than you were ever taught to believe? In Part Two of this two-part conversation, we sit down with psychic medium  Jenson Smith  for an open, thoughtful discussion about how she first discovered her abilities — and what it was like to recognize that her experiences weren’t shared by ever...

A Conversation with Psychic Medium Jenson Smith —  Part 1 What happens when you realize the world is more porous than you were ever taught to believe? In Part One of this two-part conversation, we sit down with psychic medium Jenson Smith for an open, thoughtful discussion about how she first discovered her abilities — and what it was like to recognize that her experiences weren’t shared by everyo...

Episode Summary On a warm June night in 1960, four teenagers zipped themselves into a tent on the shores of a quiet lake just outside Helsinki, Finland. By morning, three of them were dead. The fourth — battered, bloodied, and barely alive — would survive… only to be accused of the murders more than forty years later. In this episode of From The Void , we travel back to Lake Bodom , one of the mos...

Episode Overview In this episode, we travel back to London’s Whitehall district—a place infamous for political intrigue, shadowy alleyways, and, in the autumn of 1888, a mystery so disturbing it was almost forgotten beneath the thunder of the Jack the Ripper murders happening at the same time. This is the story of The Whitehall Women —a case involving multiple unidentified female remains discovere...

Episode Overview On April 1st, 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer went out for drinks with friends at the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus, Ohio. Surveillance cameras captured him entering the bar… and then, somehow, not leaving. Despite being surrounded by cameras, witnesses, and the heartbeat of a busy college nightlife district, Brian Shaffer simply vanished. Tonight, we walk through t...

Episode Overview In this episode, we step out of the world of ghosts, time slips, disappearances, and strange creatures — and venture into a mystery far closer to home: Your own brain. For decades, scientists believed memory worked like a filing cabinet: one idea, one location. But a few unexpected experiments — severed neural pathways, maze-running rats, shattered holograms, and neurological oddi...

In this episode, we travel back to the summer of 1942 in Pascagoula, Mississippi — a warm coastal town where people slept with their windows open to catch the night breeze. But that summer, something else moved in the dark. A figure slipped into homes while families slept. Not to steal valuables. Not to leave a message. But to quietly cut a single lock of hair from the heads of sleeping residents....

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In this episode, John dives into one of the most astonishing mass UFO sighting and close-encounter cases in modern history — The Ariel School Encounter . On September 16, 1994, in a small rural schoolyard outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe , more than 60 children claimed to witness a mysterious craft land nearby and strange, humanoid beings emerge. What followed were eerily consistent eyewitness reports that...

Long before The Exorcist terrified moviegoers, a quiet middle-class family in 1940s Maryland claimed something unholy had taken hold of their son. In this episode, we revisit the chilling, real-life case that inspired William Peter Blatty’s novel — the 1949 exorcism of a boy known only by the pseudonym Roland Doe . We’ll retrace the case from its first strange knocks and flying objects in the fami...

In this episode, we dive into the strange mystery of the Hexham Heads — two small carved stone heads unearthed in 1971 (or ’72) in a suburban garden in the town of Hexham in Northumberland, England.  The discovery was followed by reports of poltergeist-type phenomena: objects moving, bottles flying, a bizarre half-man/half-animal creature appearing, and a scholar who claimed to be haunted after ta...

In the 3rd installment of our Possession Series , we turn to one of the most controversial figures to bridge psychology and the paranormal: Dr. M. Scott Peck , psychiatrist, best-selling author of The Road Less Traveled , and—later in life—a reluctant believer in demonic possession. This episode explores how Peck’s clinical background shaped his approach to exorcism, the patients who challenged hi...

In this episode, we explore one of the most infamous poltergeist cases in North America: the so-called Great Amherst Mystery, which occurred in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1878-79. Centering on 18-year-old Esther Cox, her sister’s household and the investigator Walter Hubbell, we walk through the bewildering phenomena of objects flying, knocks on the wall, unexplained fires, swelling seizures, and the...

In 1976, a 23-year-old German woman named Anneliese Michel died after undergoing 67 Catholic exorcisms over 10 months. Her death would spark one of Europe’s most controversial legal battles — pitting faith against medicine, and belief against responsibility.   Was Anneliese a victim of possession? Or of a system that failed to recognize mental illness as something sacred, not demonic? In this haun...

In the spring of 1990, families across Britain began reporting visits from strangers claiming to be social workers.  They spoke with authority, carried clipboards, even asked to photograph or examine children — and then vanished. Police launched Operation Childcare, a nationwide manhunt involving more than twenty forces, but no arrests were ever made. Were these criminals, insiders, or the product...

From The Void: The Ammons Family Exorcism   In 2011, in a small house in Gary, Indiana, something terrifying took hold of a family. The Ammons household became the site of strange noises, violent possessions, and chilling encounters that drew in police, social workers, and eventually the Catholic Church.   This case would come to be known as the “House of 200 Demons”—a story so unsettling that sea...

In this episode, we dig into one of Brazil’s most baffling unsolved mysteries: the 1966 deaths of two electronics technicians, found wearing lead masks on Vintém Hill. What were they trying to do? What clues did they leave behind? And why has this strange case captivated investigators, UFO hunters, spiritualists, and conspiracy theorists for decades? Key Topics Covered The timeline and discovery:...

This week, I’m not sitting by the fire alone. Joining me is my old podcast partner and good friend, Adam, for a special conversation about something near and dear to both of us: horror movies.   Together, we dig into: Why horror has such a grip on us The movies that first hooked us as fans The films that still give us chills (and laughs) today A few deep-cut recommendations you might not expect  ...