Mark's Unexplained World

Although it is a little-known case in the west, an incident in the Kera region of Kochi City in Japan in the early-1970s is not only one of the most debated in the country, but a case that would leave behind physical evidence. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frightnights.co.uk --- Credits... Photography by Helen Poolar --- Marks Unexplain...

Tulpa is a concept originally from Tibetan Buddhism and found in later traditions of mysticism and the paranormal of a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human form that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration. Modern practitioners, who call themselves "tulpamancers", use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend which practitioners consider to be...

The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. The location was a lodging in Cock Lane, a short road adjacent to London's Smithfield market and a few minutes' walk from St Paul's Cathedral. The event centred on three people: William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk; Richard Parsons, a parish clerk; and Parsons' daughter Elizabeth. Marks Unexplained World Podc...

Bigfoot, also commonly referred to as Sasquatch, is a large and hairy human-like mythical creature purported to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Many of the indigenous cultures across the North American continent include tales of mysterious hair-covered creatures living in forests. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearch...

The Amber Room was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. After the war, the Amber Room was never seen in public again, though reports have occasionally surfaced stating that pieces of the Amber Room survived the war. --- Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedrese...

Daniel J. LaPlante is an American convicted murderer serving multiple life sentences for the 1987 murders of Priscilla Gustafson and her two children in Townsend, Massachusetts. He lived with his mother and stepfather, and whilst growing up, he was sexually and psychologically abused by many adults in his life including his father, stepfather and psychiatrist. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at an...

NXIVM was a cult around convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. NXIVM is also the name of the defunct corporation that Keith Raniere founded, which provided seminars in the field of human potential development and served as a front for the organization of criminal activity. Allison Christin Mack was an American actress. She was a member of NXIVM, and in 2018, she was arrested by federa...

The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units. It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radi...

On late Sunday evening, October 27th, 1974, a run of the mill Essex family were driving a route between Harold Hill and Aveley to see relatives. The Avis family, were on Hacton Lane about one mile out from Hornchurch. Suddenly, while they were on their journey, the car started jerking violently as a mist curled around the car. One of the children then asked his parents about a strange light that h...

Gef the Talking Mongoose (or the Dalby Spook) was an allegedly talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and gho...

The Fae are a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as ei...

Nancy Laura Spungen was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious, and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. In October 1978, Spungen was found dead in the bathroom of the couple's room, with a single stab wound to the abdomen. Vicious was charged with her murder, but died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 1979 before the case went to trial. Various authors and filmmake...

A family of five disappeared on a tech-free road-trip only to turn up one by one after a week-long odyssey of more than 1,600km (995 miles), which ended with a police investigation and two of them in psychiatric care. This was a missing person mystery that held Australia spellbound. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frightnights.co.uk -...

The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons of beer were released in total. The resulting wave of porter destroy...

The history of the plague in the village Eyam began in 1665 when a flea-infested bundle of cloth arrived from London for Alexander Hadfield, the local tailor. Within a week his assistant George Viccars, noticing the bundle was damp, had opened it up. Before long he was dead and more began dying in the household soon after. Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description & Credits www.hauntedresear...

“The Pied Piper of Hamelin” isn’t just a fairy tale. According to an inscribed façade from around a Hamelin house, on the 26th of June 1602, the day of St. John and St. Paul, 130 children (born in Hamelin) were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing Calvary near the Koppenberg, they disappeared forever. --- Marks Unexplained World Podcast Description &...

In the winter of 1975, two eight year old school boys had a shocking face to face confrontation with a pair of small, wrinkled, triple fanged ufonauts that immediately propelled the distraught adolescents squarely into the eye of a media maelstrom. Sometime before 7 pm., on the evening of February 23rd , 1975, Masato Kawano and Katsuhiro Yamahata, were roller skating near the Hinode Housing Estate...

Sleep paralysis is a temporary loss of muscle control just after falling asleep or before waking up. Sleep paralysis frequently involves hallucinations or a feeling of suffocation. No one knows exactly what causes sleep paralysis, but it is linked to sleep disorders and certain mental health conditions. Marks Unexplained World PodcastDescription & Credits www.hauntedresearchcentre.com www.frig...

The Highway of Tears is a 447 mile corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupertin British Columbia, which has been the location of crimes against many missing and murdered women beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, Britisg Columbia in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was thinking of the victims' families crying over there loved ones. There is a di...

Contains Graphic Details The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning on December 13, 1937, the massacre lasted six weeks. The perpetrators also committed other war crimes such as mass rape, looti...

CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS David Reimer was a Canadian Man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. Well known as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went publicwith his story to help discourage similar medical practices. Sadly, at the age of 38, David commited suicide after suffering severe...

On the 5th August 1993, a small Siberian hiking expedition led by hiking expert Lyudmila Korovina came to a tragic end on the slopes of the Hamar-Daban mountain range. Six out of seven members of the young group died in a matter of minutes, under mysterious, violent circumstances. They collapsed in spasms, suffering from profuse bleeding from their noses and mouths. The members of the group all st...

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. The unit is estimated to have killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people. Marks Unexplained World Podcast...

⚠️ Warning: Contains Graphic Details ⚠️ In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries by women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant resulted in the "biggest man-made medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages. Description & Credits www.haunt...

On the night of February 1, 1993, motorists saw a man wandering on the highway near Rivard Road in the town of Moxee. They turned to warn other drivers after passing him, but when they returned they found the man had been struck by another vehicle which had left the scene. He was quickly pronounced dead. He was not identified as David Glenn Lewis for another 11 years, after a police officer discov...