Marks Unexplained World

The Thornton Heath Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra In the 1970s, in Thornton Heath, England, a family was tormented by Poltergeist Phenomena that started one August night when they were woken in the middle of the night by a blaring bedside radio that had somehow turned itself on, tuned into a foreign language station. This was the beginning of a string of events that lasted nea...

The Cottingley Fairies | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 166) The Cottingley Fairies are the subject of a hoax that purports to provide evidence of the existence of fairies. They appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 1...

The Strange Story of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 total fatalities. Three of the four cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 1...

The Outreau Case | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 165) Contains Graphic Details The Outreau case refers to a criminal case of paedophilia which took place between 1997 and 2000 in Outreau, a French commune in northern France. The case involved the Delay family, Thierry Delay and Myriam Badaoui, who were investigated on claims of child abuse after their four sons were taken from the home and...

The Disaster that was Balloon Fest '86 | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in which the local chapter of United Way set a world record by releasing almost 1.5 million balloons. The event took place on September 27, 1986, and was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city,...

The Flight 105 UFO Sighting | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 164) The Flight 105 UFO sighting occurred on the 4th of July 1947, when three crew members aboard a United Airlines flight reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects in the skies over the Pacific Northwest. The incident was among at least 800 similar sightings in the United States within a few weeks in the summer of 1947,...

The Jaboticabal Poltergeist | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS OF SEXUAL ASSUALT AND VIOLENCE, YOU LISTEN AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION. The Jaboticabal Poltergeist is a persistent and malevolent Poltergeist case with a tragic end in Jaboticabal, Brazil, in the 1960s. It is one of the most vicious on record. The report on the case was witnessed and signed by many re...

The Disappearance of Trevaline Evans | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 163) The disappearance of Trevaline Evans is a missing persons case from 1990 concerning a 52-year-old woman who vanished without trace from her antiques shop in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom. The last confirmed sighting of Evans was near her home on the 16th of June 1990 at 2:30pm. --- If you have any in...

Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 UFO Incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 was a UFO incident that occurred on November 17, 1986, involving a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft. The aircraft was en route from Paris to Narita International Airport, near Tokyo, with a cargo of Beaujolais wine. On the Reykjavík to Anchorage section of the flight, at 17:11...

The Nazi Gold Train | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 162) The Nazi gold train or Wałbrzych gold train is an urban legend about a train laden with gold and treasure that was hidden by the Nazis in southwest Poland during the last days of World War II. Between 2015 and 2018, the train received renewed global media interest when two Polish men claimed to have discovered it using ground-penetrat...

The Kuykendall Phone Stalker | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra 16-year-old Courtney Kuykendall alleges that her phone started sending text messages out to her friends all on its own. And if that weren't terrifying enough, next came ominous calls at all hours of the day and night. Threats were rasped over the line in a scratchy voice. If you, or someone you know, thinks they have been a victi...

The Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 161) Emma Fillipoff is a Canadian woman who has been missing since November 28, 2012. Fillipoff was last seen in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 26. Most evidence indicates she was planning to return home to Ottawa, but there was no proof that she ever left Victoria, and the cell phon...

Don Decker and the Rain | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra Don Decker is known to the paranormal world as the Rain Man. Decker’s story is arguably one of the most well-recognized paranormal events in recent history. What makes this case so compelling is the credibility of the witnesses, including those who were law enforcement officers.

The Dark Side of Lou Costello | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 160) Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor, and producer. He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?" In 1943, while rehearsing at their NBC studio, Costello received word that his infant son Lou Jr. had accidentally drowned in the famil...

The Cursed Grave of Carl Pruitt | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra It was said that the grave of Carl Pruitt has caused five deaths that were all the same and couldn’t be explained. Pruitt’s relatives insisted that he be buried in a different cemetery than his wife. Strange things started to be seen by visitors concerning Carl’s burial. His tomb was surrounded by circular spots of discoloured...

Sleepwalking | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 159) Disclaimer, ... I am not a doctor, a psychiatrist, or any other sort of sleep specialist, … as all the information that I have used in this show is from various NHS, Wikipedia, and wellbeing websites. So, if you do have any sleep issues, please don’t use this podcast as a way to help you get better, if you need help, … go see a GP or sleep s...

The Isdal Woman | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra The Isdal Woman: is a placeholder name given to a Norwegian unidentified woman who was found dead at Isdalen in Bergen, Norway, on 29 November 1970.

The Utah Monolith | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 158) The Utah monolith was a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States. The pillar was 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism. It was unlawfully placed on public land between July and October 2016; it stood unnoticed for over four years until it...

The Somerton Man | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra The Somerton Man: is an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Havana Syndrome | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 157) Havana syndrome refers to a series of debilitating symptoms first reported by U.S. intelligence officers and embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, in late 2016. Symptoms include hearing strange noises, headaches, dizziness, and cognitive dysfunction. The condition has been described as a disputed medical phenomenon, with some experts questioning...

The Phoenix Lights | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra On the 13th of March 1997, Between the hours of 7:30pm and 10:30pm lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over...

The Yogurt Shop Murders | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 156) The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide that took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991. The victims were four teenage girls: 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old...

What Happened to the Sarah Joe? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra On the 11th of February 1979, five local men took the day off to go on a fishing trip in their seventeen-foot Boston whaler, the Sarah Joe, from the town of Hana, located on the southeast shore of the Hawaiian island Maui. They were never seen alive again. After a total of five days and seventy-three thousand miles had been co...

The Twisted Story of Samantha Azzopardi (The GPO Girl) I Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 155) Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi is an Australian con artist who has been accused of many instances of conning families and authorities, not only in her native Australia but also in Ireland and Canada. In May 2021, the Melbourne Magistrates Court sentenced her to two years imprisonment, meanwhile she has f...

The Voice of Vrillon | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra On Saturday 26 November 1977, at 17:10 UTC, as ITN's Andrew Gardner presented a news summary where he reported on clashes in then-Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between security forces and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the TV picture wobbled slightly, followed by a deep buzz. The audio was replaced by a distorted voice delivering a...