Episodes
MYSTICAL: Nostradamus
When tragedies occur, the world often points to Nostradamus as a soothsayer of grim times, but both his legacy and his predictions are a bit more complicated than history has let on…
THE UNKNOWN: Mothman
In the 1960s a half-bird, half-man creature terrorized the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
HAUNTED: The Watseka Wonder
In 1877, a 13-year-old girl named Lurancy Vennum developed mysterious symptoms.
THE UNKNOWN: Spontaneous Human Combustion
What makes a human body burst into flames?
MYSTICAL: Patience Worth
Patience Worth hit America’s literary scene hard in the early 20th century.
THE UNKNOWN: The Hex Hollow Murder
In 1928, a Pennsylvania faith healer was accused of placing a hex on multiple people in York county, leading to his brutal murder.
ALIEN: The Ariel School Sighting
In 1994, an entire playground full of school children in Zimbabwe claimed they saw a UFO hovering overhead.
THE UNKNOWN: Spring-Heeled Jack
In 1838, a strange villain began stalking the London suburbs.
CONSPIRACY: The Illuminati
The Illuminati was an 18th-century secret society that supposedly ended just a decade after it began.
THE UNKNOWN: Green Children of Woolpit
In a 12th-century English village, farmers discovered two young children wandering alone in the woods.
MYSTICAL: Nicolas Flamel
In the 14th century, an ordinary bookseller named Nicolas Flamel may have unlocked the secrets of immortality, and learned to turn ordinary metals into gold — all thanks to a mysterious object known as the philosopher’s stone.
ALIEN: The Falcon Lake Incident
In 1967, Stefan Michalak went to Falcon Lake for a weekend prospecting trip, where he encountered what has become the best-documented UFO in Canadian history.