S2 Ep24: Pitched in Blue
In tonight's dead letter… our listener Daniel moves into a freshly built ranch house in the Salt Lake Valley back in 2011 — a house barely f...
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20 of 453 episodesS2 Ep23: Pop's Cat
In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office as you can get — the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand — for a story f...
S2 Ep22: The Mechanic and Mr. Machine
In tonight's dead letter, listener Dean takes us to his grandmother's old Victorian house in a region of Scott’s home state of North Carolin...
The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion
In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in Briti...
S2 Ep21: The Emerald Valley
In tonight's dead letter, Daniel, a self-described skeptic writes in about the one thing he's never been able to explain away. He was a thir...
S2 Ep20: What Does a House Remember?
In tonight's dead letter, our listener’s family trades a rented place for an old Victorian villa tucked into the quiet border country betwee...
S2 Ep19: The House on 109
In tonight's dead letter, we head into Grafton, West Virginia — a small railroad town built on a B&O junction, Civil War supply lines, and t...
The Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela
In January 1956, rush-hour drivers crossing Pittsburgh’s icy Homestead High Level Bridge watched a nightmare descend from the sky: a silent...
The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
Scott and Forrest present a preview of a new podcast called Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat! Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist an...
S2 Ep18: Mom is Still Here
In tonight's dead letter, listener Andrew writes in from a quiet little back house in Monterey Park, California — a place that during the ea...
The Strange Death of Gloria Ramirez
In 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother of two dying from cancer, arrived at a Riverside ER with strange odors, an oily sheen on her s...
S2 Ep17: The Sealed Room
In tonight's dead letter, we're across the harbor from Boston, in the densely layered city of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Our listener grew up i...
S2 Ep16: The Mennonite Girl
In tonight’s dead letter, a peaceful retreat at a friend's historic property in the country yields a brush with something that defies explan...
UFO Insiders Iced?
A retired Air Force major general walks out of his Albuquerque home in 2026 and vanishes with a revolver. But William Neil McCaslind wasn’t...
S2 Ep15: The Fog, The Man, and The Golden Gate Bridge
In tonight’s dead letter, listener Jeannette shares a deeply atmospheric story from a bike commute across one of the most famous bridges in...
The Lead Masks of Vintem Hill Part 2
What if the infamous Lead Masks Case wasn’t a one-off tragedy, but the final step in a years-long chain of dangerous experiments? In part 2,...
S2 Ep14: The Elephant Slides of Sofia
In tonight’s dead letter, we’ll take you through the brutalist monuments and ancient layers of Sofia, Bulgaria looking for what may have bee...
The Lead Masks of Vintém Hill Part 1
In one of Brazil’s strangest unsolved mysteries, two electronics technicians travel to Niterói in 1966, buy matching raincoats, hike up a re...
S2 Ep13: No Human Could Throw Books Like This
In tonight’s dead letter, we hear from a librarian who works the desk at a fairly new building down in the Southeast. But the ground it sits...
S2 Ep12: The Carousel in the Ravine (Reposted)
In tonight’s dead letter, we hear a story from a listener who along with her husband encountered something bizarre hovering low near their l...