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...
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Scott and Forrest have been called the 'Click and Clack of esoterica' by their listeners. Their mission is to take a look at legendary strange and unusual events from throughout history and...
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20 of 442 episodesS2 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...
S2 Ep11: The Nightshift Protocol
In tonight’s dead letter, a routine room cleaning following a patient's passing turns into a puzzling technological glitch. A sensor alarm d...
The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
In the lonely New Mexico desert, police discover an abandoned Volkswagen Beetle containing a 12-string guitar, a wallet, clothes, and a box...
S2 Ep10: Stranger Danger
In tonight’s Dead Letter, Forrest and Scott read a submission from Stacey, which delves into the "Uncanny Valley" phenomenon in a true-life...
Live Junk Drawer Tonight on Patreon!
Tonight, Forrest and I are sitting down with Jeremiah Byron for an exclusive live video interview about the unprecedented, real-time flap of...
S2 Ep9: Another Bunny
In tonight’s dead letter from listener Amanda, the boundary between an adorable trusted holiday icon and nocturnal terror is tested in the d...
Through a Laser Darkly
This episode dives into one of the strangest modern consciousness experiments ever proposed. Starting with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffma...
S2 Ep8: The Camden High Street Haunting
In tonight’s dead letter… we travel back to 2010 to a hotel in the heart of Camden in the UK. Two brothers looking to soak up some local pun...
S2 Ep7: Mind Invasion
In tonight’s dead letter, we dive into a bizarre encounter that proves the unexplained doesn't always wait for a dark and stormy night on bo...
The Scole Experiment Part 3: Endgame
In the final chapter of our Scole series, the story stops looking like a séance and starts feeling like science fiction. What began with cla...
S2 Ep6: The Smiling Pillar of Avoca
In tonight’s dead letter, a routine hike along a converted railroad bed transforms into a standoff with the inexplicable for Patron and List...
The Scole Experiment Part 2: The Germanium Receptor
This week, we return to the pitch-black depths of the Scole Experiment, where a sealed room in rural Norfolk became the testing ground for a...