Marks Unexplained World

The Doris Bither Haunting | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 191) Listener discretion advised The Doris Bither case, also known as the Entity haunting, was a 1974 investigation into alleged paranormal phenomena in Culver City, California, experienced by a woman named Doris Bither. The case inspired Frank De Felitta's 1978 book The Entity, which was made into a 1982 film of the same name starri...

What Happened to Barry Sherman? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 190) Barry Sherman, a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist, was found dead in his home on December 15, 2017. The couple, Barry and Honey Sherman, were discovered hanging by belts from a railing surrounding their indoor pool. The cause of death was determined to be ligature neck compression or strangulation, and the...

The Disappearance of Maura Murray | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 189) On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray a 21-year-old nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, disappeared after a car crash on Route 112 near Woodsville, a village in the town of Haverhill, New Hampshire. She was completing her junior year at the time and has not been seen since. Her whereabouts remain unkn...

The Aurora Texas UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 188) The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the pilot. The pilot was "not of this world" and was said to...

The Little Albert Experiment | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 187) The Little Albert Experiment by Watson and Rayner tested whether an infant could be classically conditioned to fear a neutral stimulus. By pairing a white rat with a loud noise, they induced fear that later generalized to similar furry objects, demonstrating learned emotional responses – but raising major ethical concerns by...

Who Was Peter Bergmann? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 186) The Peter Bergmann case pertains to the mysterious death of an unidentified man in County Sligo, Ireland, in the early hours of 16 June 2009. The man, using the alias "Peter Bergmann," had checked into the Sligo City Hotel on 12 June, where he stayed during the majority of his visit to Sligo. The man's movements were captured on C...

The Disappearance of Lars Mittank | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 185) Lars Joachim Mittank (born 9 February 1986) is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was on holiday at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight and was unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting st...

Amiee Betro (The Botched Contract Killer) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 184) Aimee Jean Betro (born 27 August 1979) is a former American disc golfer, and criminal, convicted in the United Kingdom of attempting to carry out the contract killing of a shopkeeper in Birmingham in September 2019. After striking up an online relationship with one of her co-conspirators, Betro travelled from the...

The Monster Study | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 183) Listener Discretion Advised The Monster Study was a non-consensual experiment performed on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939 about stuttering. The study was never published, and as a result was relatively unknown until a 2001 San Jose Mercury News article conducted by an investigative reporter, Jim Dyer. He revealed the deta...

The Boy in the Box (Joseph Zarelli) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 182) Contains Graphic Details  Joseph Augustus Zarelli , previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was an American 4-year-old male whose nude, malnourished, and beaten body was found on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. Zarelli app...

What Happened to the Frog Boys? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 181) The Frog Boys were a group of five boys who were murdered while trying to catch salamander eggs in Daegu. The incident attracted national attention, leading to a massive manhunt and extensive media coverage. The case remains one of South Korea's most infamous unsolved crimes. --- Marks Unexplained World  Socials:  Facebook...

The Jack Family Disappearance | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 180) The Jack family of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, disappeared under mysterious circumstances on August 2, 1989. The Indigenous Canadian family were last seen stepping into a pickup truck belonging to an unidentified man who had reportedly offered the family jobs at a logging camp. The whereabouts of the family rema...

What Happened to the Clown that Cried? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 179) Contains distressing content regarding the Holocaust The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis about a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. The film has gained notoriety and mystique over the decades both for its contr...

The Great Smog of London | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 178) The Great Smog of London, which occurred in December 1952, was a severe air pollution event that lasted from December 5 to December 9. It was caused by a combination of industrial pollution and high-pressure weather conditions, leading to a thick fog that blanketed the city. The smog resulted in approximately 12,000 deaths and ha...

What Happened at New Mexico's Dulce Base | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 177) For decades, ufologists have claimed that extraterrestrials experiment on humans with the military's help inside a secret base underneath Archuleta Mesa in Dulce, New Mexico. --- Marks Unexplained World  Socials:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/755482988915649/   Instagram: Mark Hughes (@mark_the_medium...

The Crop Circle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 176) A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles are suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consist...

What Happened to Richard Chadek | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 175) Richard Chadek III was an 11-year-old boy who went missing in 1986 from a quiet suburb in Nebraska. His disappearance led to an extensive search operation, but he was later found dead eight days later, confirming the worst-case scenario. The case remains one of Omaha's most infamous cold cases, and detectives are still loo...

The Haunting of Wizard Clip | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 174) The legend of the Wizard Clip is a popular ghost story about an incident said to have occurred in Middleway, West Virginia, in the 1820s. The story of the Wizard Clip is part of the oral history of the area and was called by Rev. Alfred E. Smith, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Review and secretary to Cardinal Gibbons, "The tr...

The Survival Story of Juliane Koepcke | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 173) Juliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash. When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous...

Donald and Gua | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 172) Gua was a chimpanzee raised as though she were a human child by scientists Luella and Winthrop Kellogg alongside their infant son Donald. For nine months the Kellogg's raised the two as "brother and sister", and comprehensively recorded the development of the chimpanzee and the human child. When she was around one year old, Gua often teste...

The Goler Clan | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 171) Contains Graphic Details The Goler clan is a family group in Nova Scotia, Canada, known for inter-generational poverty and the conviction in the 1980s of many family members for sexual abuse and violent interfamily relationships. The family became infamously known in the 1980s following a series of criminal cases that exposed their isolate...

What Were the Ghost Rockets? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 170) Ghost rockets were rocket (or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946), mostly in Sweden and nearby countries. Investigations concluded that many ghost rocket sightings were probably caused by meteors. However, debate continues as to the origins of the unidentified ghost rockets. --- Marks Unexplained World...

Jacobo Grinber (Living and Disappearing in the Matrix) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 169) Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum was a Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist who studied Mexican shamanism, Eastern disciplines, meditation, astrology and telepathy through the scientific method. However, Grinberg disappeared in December 1994. There are many conspiracy theories surrounding Grinberg's...

The Dark Story Behind Tony Hancock | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 168) Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor. Across his career, Hancock twice won the BAFTA Award for Light Entertainment Artist in 1958 and 1960. He was later nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for his performance in The Rebel (1961). Spike Milligan said regarding...

Chernobyl | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 167) On 26th April 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of the biggest nuclear energy accidents ever rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The response involved more than 50...