Kat Has Questions: True Crime and Unsolved Mysteries

For nearly forty years, construction on the Winchester Mystery House never stopped. Staircases led nowhere. Doors opened into walls. Entire rooms were sealed and forgotten. At the center of it all was Sarah Winchester — a woman who lost her child, her husband, and then devoted the rest of her life to building a house with no clear end. Some believe she was haunted by the spirits of those killed by...

In 1966, two electronics technicians traveled to a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro — and were later found dead, lying side by side, wearing homemade lead masks over their eyes. There were no signs of violence. No clear cause of death. And no explanation for why they were there. In one man’s pocket, police found a handwritten note with strange instructions: a time, a reference to ingesting capsules...

In December of 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from one of the most remote outposts in Scotland — the Flannan Isles Lighthouse . No bodies. No signs of struggle. Just an abandoned tower, a stopped clock, and a logbook that ends too soon. In this episode, we break down what is actually documented about the disappearance — including the official records, the storm damage found below the ligh...

In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote Bavarian farm known as Hinterkaifeck. What makes this case so disturbing isn’t just the violence — it’s what happened before and after the murders. Footprints in the snow that led to the house but never away. Strange noises coming from the attic. A maid who quit because she believed the house was haunted. And after the family was killed… evide...

“Tamam Shud.” It is finished. Those were the last words found hidden inside a secret pocket sewn into the clothing of an unidentified man discovered on an Australian beach in 1948. In today’s deep-dive, I’m unpacking one of the most haunting and complicated mysteries ever recorded: the case of The Somerton Man . A perfectly dressed man with no ID… no labels on his clothes… a coded message… a rare...

Today’s story is one of the strangest cases in American history — a murder investigation pushed forward by a ghost. Yes… a ghost. In 1897, 23-year-old Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in rural West Virginia. Her husband insisted it was an accident. The doctor listed the cause of death as “childbirth,” even though she wasn’t pregnant. And the funeral? Strange. Controlle...

Every Christmas Eve for more than a decade, a woman received a phone call at the exact same minute — always from an unknown number, always with no trace in the phone company logs. And the voice on the other end? It sounded exactly like her mother. Her mother… who had died years earlier. In this special holiday bonus episode, we slow down, dim the lights, and step into one of the eeriest modern gho...

In the late summer of 1944, a quiet Illinois town was suddenly thrown into fear. Residents woke up paralyzed in their beds. A sweet, chemical smell drifted through open windows. And sightings of a shadowy figure sparked a panic that swept through Mattoon for nearly two weeks. Was someone really creeping through neighborhoods with a homemade gas sprayer? A factory chemist? A disguised prowler? A lo...

In 1987, Chicago viewers were watching the nightly news when the screen suddenly glitched… and a man in a Max Headroom mask appeared. No warning. No explanation. Just a bizarre, chaotic broadcast interruption that no one has ever solved. Tonight, we’re diving into one of the strangest unsolved media hijackings in history — a case involving distorted audio, vintage tech, FCC panic, and a masked int...

Is the Dybbuk Box truly cursed, or is it the internet’s biggest haunted hoax? In this episode, we break down the story behind the infamous “haunted wine cabinet” that allegedly caused illness, nightmares, shadow figures, and destroyed electronics. I walk through each owner’s experiences, what a dybbuk really is, and why this object became one of the most viral haunted artifacts online. ⸻ About the...

It’s every babysitter’s worst nightmare: the phone keeps ringing, the caller won’t stop, and when the police finally trace the number, they say the line every horror fan knows by heart: “The call is coming from inside the house.” In this episode of Kat Has Questions, we’re diving into the famous babysitter urban legend — and the real-life crime that may have helped shape it. We’ll explore: ​ The o...

Two mysterious children appear on the edge of a medieval English village… with green skin , unusual clothing, and a language no one can understand . When the surviving child finally learns English, she describes a place where the sun never rises . In this episode of Kat Has Questions , we dive into one of history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries: The Green Children of Woolpit . Were they lost ref...

In 1848, railroad foreman Phineas Gage survived one of the most unbelievable accidents in medical history — a three-foot iron rod blasted straight through his skull and out the top of his head. Against every odd, he lived. But survival was only the beginning. Friends said Gage changed after the accident — his personality, his behavior, even the way he interacted with the world around him. Was this...

On December 26, 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her home — and nearly 30 years later, the case remains one of the most haunting and controversial unsolved crimes in American history. In this episode, Kat breaks down the timeline of that night, the baffling clues left behind, the ransom note that raised more questions than answers, and the theories that cont...