Marks Unexplained World

The Maury Island UFO | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 154) The Maury Island incident refers to claims made by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl of falling debris and threats by men in black following sightings of unidentified flying objects in the sky over Maury Island, Washington, United States. The pair claimed that the events had occurred on June 21, 1947. --- Marks Unexplained World  Socials:...

The Bennington Triangle | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra "Bennington Triangle" is a phrase coined by American author Joseph A. Citro to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of people went missing between 1945 and 1950. Precisely what area is encompassed in this hypothetical "mystery triangle" is not clear, but it is purportedly centred on Glastonbury Mountain and wou...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 153) The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994. The lack of proper care and access to sanitation led to a larg...

The Rendlesham Forest incident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast Extra The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in late December 1980, which became linked with claims of UFO landings. The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force.

Sam the Sandown Clown | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 152) Sam the Sandown Clown was a strange being encountered by two young children vacationing at Lake Common, Sandown, on the Isle of Wight in the UK in May of 1973. Following a strange sound, the two children wandered across a footbridge and met an odd unidentified creature that was described as "a cross between a clown, a robot, and an...

The Dark Story of The Ovits Family | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 151) The Ovitz family was a family of Hungarian Jewish actors/travelling musicians originating from present Romania, who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and survive intact. The fa...

The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 150)  Glen and Bessie Hyde were newlyweds who disappeared while attempting to run the rapids of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona in 1928.   Had the couple succeeded, Bessie Hyde would have been the first woman known to accomplish this feat.   Still to this day, their whereabouts remain unknown, and are...

The Vanishing & Reappearance of Katherine Van Alst | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 149) While on holiday with her family at Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas, Katherine Van Alst wandered away from her brothers while they fishing near a creak. Then, in the blink of an eye, Katherine suddenly vanished, and despite the cries of her family who were desperately trying to find her, she failed...

Joseph Denny at Dartmoor Prison | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 148) Joseph Denny was a coloured native of Barbados. He was described as a habitual criminal who, at times, would resort to violence. His first term in prison was at Carmarthen Prison where he served six months for housebreaking, next came seven years in Liverpool jail for manslaughter, this was then followed by a term of eight...

The Lies of Elizabeth Finch | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 147) Elisabeth R. Finch is an American television writer best known for her work on the series True Blood and Grey's Anatomy. Finch gained public notoriety for her abrupt resignation from Grey's Anatomy, which was prompted by an investigation into a series of lies that she told about her personal and medical history. Finch had alte...

The Death Smog of Donora | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 146) The 1948 Donora smog killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, Pennsylvania. Sixty years later, the incident was described by The New York Times as "one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation's history." Even 10 years after the incident, mortality rates in Donora...

What Happened to Jeanette DePalmer? | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep.  145) Jeannette DePalma was an American teenager who is believed to have been murdered sometime on or around August 7, 1972, in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, United States. Her body was discovered the following month on a cliff (known to locals as "the Devil's Teeth") located in Springfield's Houdaille Qua...

The Dark Story Behind Janis Joplin | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 144) Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, as well as her "electric" stage presence. However, on Sunday evening, of the 4th of October 1970, she was found dead on the floor of her room...

The Fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 143) On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, three disgruntled employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, intentionally set a fire. The fire killed between 96 and 98 people and injured 140 others, making it the most catastrophic hotel fire in Puerto Rican history and the second deadliest hotel fire in U.S. t...

The Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 142) One of the most haunted places in South Korea is the Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital. The place is said to be full of legends, rumours, and tales of murderous patients and insane doctors. The world found this place so spooky that in 2012, the TV station CNN called it one of the world’s most freakiest places, making it one of...

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 141) The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease whe...

The Corruption of Adam Air I Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 140) Adam Air was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore. Its main base was Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. Large numbers of pilots joined the airline when it was founded in 2003,...

Route 666 (The Devil's Highway) | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 139) Route 666 is a road full of unexplained phenomena that has occurred throughout history and is considered to be one of the most famous roads in North America. The road itself expands for approximately two hundred miles, and even though the highway is very popular, many travellers try to evade this barren stretch of road. --...

The Salta UFO l Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 138) On the 17th August 1995, while having lunch at around 1:45 pm in afternoon, Tony Galvano would witness “a sort of flying saucer” of a “bright metallic colour” come screaming out of the brilliant blue skies over the Serrania Colorado region. As the object passed over the small community, it was followed by “two other objects which would impa...

The Mysterious Case of Timothy Wiltsey | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 137) Timothy Wiltsey was a 5-year-old boy from South Amboy, New Jersey, United States, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski, told police that he went missing from a carnival in nearby Sayreville on May 25, 1991. Almost 11 months later, his remains were discovered across the Raritan River in the marshlands of nearby Edison, n...

The Dark Story behind Margot Kidder | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 136) Margaret Ruth Kidder was a Canadian–American actress and activist, who amassed several film and television credits in her career spanning five decades, including her best known portrayal of Lois Lane in the original Superman films (1978–1987). She received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 1988, which she rejected at...

The Tragic Story of Amanda Todd | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 135) WARNING: Contains DIstressing Content Amanda Todd was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, who was already imprisoned for sexual blackmail in the Netherlands, was extradited to Canada to face trial on...

The Dark Story Behind Hansel and Gretel | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 134) "Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales. However the story of Hansel and Gretel itself, was inspired by the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317 in Europe, causing a period of widespread cold weather and torrential rains to Europe, that...

What Happened to Snippy the Horse | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 133) Listener discretion is advised The mutilation of "Snippy" the horse was the death and alleged dissection of a Colorado horse that was first widely-reported on October 5, 1967. Mainstream experts concluded the death was the result of natural causes, though sensationalized press and unsubstantiated folklore questioned whet...

The Goiania Accident | Marks Unexplained World Podcast (Ep. 132) The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths, and according to Time magazine it has identi...