Unexplained Mysteries

As alchemists were persecuted over time, their teachings became the basis of myths and legends. But these stories had a darker purpose — to hide the secrets alchemists had discovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happened to the ancient alchemists and their writings? Over thousands of years, practitioners tried to turn metals into gold and obtain immortality. Instead, they developed a precursor to pharmacology and chemistry. But that may not be all…  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 1970s, astronomers noticed something odd in the Milky Way. Somehow, the entire galaxy was moving in the wrong direction. It was being pulled by a mysterious force — one that defied the laws of physics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a small Texas town in 1936, two hikers discovered a perplexing artifact: a modern hammer encased in ancient rock. It was an archaeological mystery — and it might be proof that humans and dinosaurs once walked side-by-side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1943, the U.S. government seized eight trunks of Nikola Tesla's papers. Years later, they returned just six trunks to his family. The government said the missing papers were a result of consolidation… but perhaps they'd actually stolen some of Tesla's most incredible inventions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Nikola Tesla revolutionized electricity. He spent his days sketching countless incredible inventions, accumulating 8 trunks full of notebooks. Upon his death, the U.S. government seized his papers. Was it a routine investigation — or something more sinister? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your...

After the Sutton family's incredible encounter with aliens, their story ignited a pattern of encounters across the American South during the 1950s. Was it an invasion — or a hoax? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Near midnight on August 21st, 1955, the entire Sutton family burst into the police station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They claimed to have been in a shootout with extraterrestrial creatures. When police investigated the Suttons' land, they found no evidence… until the aliens came back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

After an experimental treatment helped sleeping sickness patients, doctors had new clues about the origin of the disease. But would they be able to stop a new outbreak? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As WWI raged across Europe, diseases spread along with it. One of them was a strange pandemic that turned victims into living statues — conscious, but unable to communicate. Fifty years later, some of them woke up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1990, an enigmatic sculpture with four encoded messages written on its surface was revealed at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. One of them has remained unsolved for over 30 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For centuries, doctors, morticians, and bystanders have found newborn babies alive in coffins, funeral homes, and graves of their deceased mothers. It has led many to wonder...can expectant mothers deliver children postmortem? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rumor about an underground society in New York City sent a journalist into the depths of subway tunnels to investigate. She discovered a culture that had existed for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From ancient caves to subterranean cities, humans have lived underground for centuries throughout history. Why? And what happens when people from above descend into the dark?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Around 2016, fishermen in a remote Inuit village in Canada began picking up a strange ping on their SONAR devices. Nobody knew where it came from, why it had only recently begun — or whether it had any connection to the mass exodus of local marine animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the night of May 14th, 2008, Brandon Swanson crashed his car on a rural Minnesota road. He called his parents for help, but when they came to the location he gave them, Brandon wasn’t there. Strangest of all, he was still on the line at the moment he vanished.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...

In October 2000, the first and only Persian mummy in history was offered for sale. This unique discovery rocked the world of archeology — and raised immediate questions. Where did it come from? Who found it? And above all… was it real? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Miracle of Fatima astounded thousands of Portuguese Catholics in 1917. Nobody knows for certain what happened that day, but theories range from holy fire to psychological terror — and there is tantalizing evidence for each possibility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1917, at the height of WWI, thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in a Portuguese field to witness a miracle. Three children prophesied that Our Lady of Fatima would appear — but the crowd saw the sun plummet toward Earth instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to prophecy, when thirteen ancient crystal skulls come together, they'll reveal humanity's destiny. Museums, spiritualists, and archaeologists claim to have found some of the foretold artifacts — and they’ve been linked to miraculous healings, psychic visions, and communication with extraterrestrial life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more abo...

On September 10th, 2001, Dr. Sneha Philip was seen for the last time in her neighborhood near the World Trade Center. Her husband believes she was a victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. NYPD detectives believed something else entirely.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2002, former NBA star Bison Dele and his girlfriend Serena sailed into the waters near Tahiti and were never seen again. Nobody knows if they're alive or dead, but Bison's brother's strange behavior after the disappearance may hold the key to the mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1900, a crew of divers came across an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. Hidden among its treasures was a mechanical contraption that some believe is the oldest computer in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kidnappings, espionage, poaching operations — when it comes to the ghost ships, theories abound. A 1977 disappearance, ocean survival stories, and international fishing regulations may hold answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For decades, wrecked ships have been washing ashore in Japan and Russia. Given the text on their sides, they seem to be from North Korea. But nobody knows what became of their crews, or why the frequency of these wrecks has increased since the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices