Still Unexplained
Mark Evanoff
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Still Unexplained is a weekly, short-form podcast exploring unresolved mysteries across history, science, true crime, and human experience. Each episode focuses on a single case and asks one simple question: why don’t we have the full story? These are real events where evidence is incomplete, records are unclear, or conclusions never fully aligned. Some mysteries are heavy. Some are strange. Some are ancient. Some are modern. The show examines what is known, what is missing, and why certainty remains out of reach.
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The Bélmez Faces 08.07.2026 19minIn 1971, a woman in a tiny Spanish village found a human face staring up at her from the concrete floor of her kitchen. Her family destroyed it. It came back sharper. Then came the crowds, the excavation, the medieval bones with missing skulls, the sealed floors and notarized experiments, and fifty years of forensic science that still can't agree on what it's looking at. Episode 28 explores the Bélmez Faces: Spain's most enduring paranormal mystery, the theories that won't close, and the question of what's actually living inside that stone.
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The Man in the Bag 01.07.2026 15minIn August 2010, a British intelligence analyst was found dead, naked, and padlocked inside a red duffel bag in his own bathtub, with the keys to the lock tucked beneath his body. Two escapology experts made 400 attempts to replicate the feat. They failed every time. Gareth Williams worked with the NSA tracing money-laundering routes for Moscow-based organized crime, his phone had been wiped, and the heating was turned to maximum in the middle of summer. The coroner called it unlawful killing. The Metropolitan Police called it probably an accident. They still do. Episode 27 of Still Unexplained.
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The Falcon Lake Encounter 24.06.2026 18minOn May 20, 1967, a World War II veteran and amateur geologist walked toward an unknown craft sitting on a rock in the Canadian wilderness and shouted at the people inside in six different languages. What happened next left him with radiation symptoms, grid-patterned burns, and a 22-pound weight loss in a single week, and triggered a multi-agency investigation involving the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the U.S. government. The Falcon Lake Incident is Canada's most evidence-heavy UFO case, and more than fifty years later, nobody has been able to close it.
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The Tylenol Murders 17.06.2026 17minIn September 1982, seven people in the Chicago suburbs died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with potassium cyanide, and whoever did it was never caught. The case rewrote American consumer safety law, killed the two-piece capsule, and gave us every foil seal and tamper-evident collar on every bottle of medicine you've ever opened. More than forty years later, the identity of the killer remains one of the most frustrating unsolved mysteries in American criminal history.
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The Boy Who Wasn't There 10.06.2026 20minOn March 10, 1928, Christine Collins gave her nine-year-old son a dime for the movies and he never came home. Five months later, the LAPD called with good news: they'd found Walter. But the boy they brought her wasn't her son, and when she said so, they locked her in a psychiatric ward. What followed exposed a serial killer, a culture of institutional gaslighting, and a question that stayed open for the rest of Christine Collins' life: did they ever actually find Walter? Episode 24 of Still Unexplained explores the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, Code 12 commitments, and one of the most haunting cold cases in Los Angeles history.
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The Lead Masks of Brazil 03.06.2026 19minTwo Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a remote hilltop in 1966, dressed in matching suits and raincoats, their eyes covered with crude shields cut from sheets of lead. A cryptic handwritten note beside them instructed them to "ingest capsules," "protect metals," and "await signal." Six decades later, no cause of death has ever been officially confirmed. Episode 23 of Still Unexplained explores the Lead Masks Case of Vintém Hill: the secret society of scientific spiritualists, the missing money, the UFO witness, and the forensic disaster that made sure we'd never know the truth.
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The Hinterkaifeck Murders 27.05.2026 14minIn March 1922, six people were murdered on an isolated Bavarian farm. The killer stayed for four days, fed the livestock, ate from the pantry, and walked away without a trace. The Hinterkaifeck murders remain Germany's most haunting unsolved case, and more than a century later, no one has ever been charged. This episode covers the chilling weeks before the attack, the catastrophic failures of the investigation, and the four competing theories that each explain everything and prove nothing.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 20.05.2026 19minOn March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 carrying 239 people vanished from radar over the South China Sea, made a calculated turn back across the Malay Peninsula, and flew south for seven more hours before disappearing into the Indian Ocean. Twelve years and over 140,000 square kilometers of searched seafloor later, the plane has never been found. What the data does show is a cockpit under deliberate, methodical control at the exact moment all communication went dark, a home flight simulator with waypoints tracing the plane's final route, and 239 families still living inside the question of what happened and why.
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Still Unexplained - Trailer Season 2 15.05.2026 2minSeason 2 of Still Unexplained brings twenty new mysteries - unsolved crimes, unexplained phenomena, and stories that refuse to be forgotten. From vanished planes to eerie encounters, each episode explores the details, the theories, and the questions that still remain. The search for answers continues May 20.
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The Broad Haven UFO Incident 13.05.2026 29minOn February 4th, 1977, fourteen children at a Welsh primary school were separated, handed blank paper, and asked to draw what they saw in the field next to their school. Their headmaster was a skeptic. He designed the test to catch them in a lie. The drawings came back strikingly similar. That was just the beginning. What followed was a year of encounters across Pembrokeshire, Wales, that included a family chased down a country road by an orange light, a 7-foot figure with a blank black visor standing at a farmhouse window, and an entire herd of cattle moved through locked gates in minutes. A hotel owner was publicly dismissed as a liar by RAF officials, while the Ministry of Defence secretly ran an investigation they hid from their own Minister. The children, now in their late fifties and sixties, have never changed their story.
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The Sodder Children Disappearance 06.05.2026 14minOn Christmas Eve 1945, five children vanished from a burning house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, and left behind no remains. The Sodder family spent decades insisting their children had survived, pointing to a missing ladder, two trucks that would not start, cut telephone wires, and a threat made against their father just months before the fire. Then a photograph arrived in the mail in 1967. Still Unexplained explores one of the most haunting cold cases in American history, and the question that never quite goes away: what does a house fire erase, and what does it leave behind?
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The Last Journey of Meriwether Lewis 29.04.2026 16minIn October 1809, Meriwether Lewis, celebrated co-leader of the Corps of Discovery and one of the most accomplished men in American history, died of gunshot wounds at a remote Tennessee inn called Grinder's Stand. Was it suicide brought on by financial ruin, illness, and despair, or something far more deliberate? With a nearly moonless night, a witness who may have seen the impossible, a possible forged letter, and a suspected Spanish spy with motive, the mystery of Lewis's final hours has outlasted every attempt to close it.
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The Monster with 21 Faces 22.04.2026 15minIn March 1984, the kidnapping of a Japanese candy executive was just the opening move in one of the most bizarre and unsolved criminal campaigns in modern history. For seventeen months, a group calling itself the Monster with 21 Faces, named after a fictional literary villain, terrorized Japan's food industry with poison threats, taunting letters, and a ghost-like operative known only as the Fox-Eyed Man, who was spotted monitoring police radio frequencies during live sting operations. The legal window has closed, the perpetrators can never be charged, and the identity of the Fox-Eyed Man remains unknown to this day. Explore the case, the theories, and the strange silence that ended it all at www.stillunexplained.com.
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The Gardner Museum Robbery 15.04.2026 17minIn the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men in police uniforms walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with thirteen works of art worth half a billion dollars, including a Vermeer, two Rembrandts, and a small bronze eagle that one of them had been thinking about for twenty years. The greatest unsolved art heist in history has never produced an arrest, a recovery, or a clear answer. But one name keeps surfacing: Robert "Bobby" Donati, a Boston mob soldier with a decades-long obsession, a coded promise to his imprisoned boss, and a violent death that may have sealed the mystery for good. What did he know? And where is the art now?
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The Battle of Los Angeles 08.04.2026 18minOn the night of February 25th, 1942, the U.S. Army fired 1,440 anti-aircraft shells into the sky over Los Angeles and found nothing. No wreckage. No enemy. No explanation that has ever fully held. The Battle of Los Angeles remains one of the strangest events of World War II on American soil, a night that launched competing theories about mass hysteria, secret technology, government cover-up, and something no official report has ever been willing to name. What was in that sky? And why did the answer matter so much to so many people, for so many different reasons?
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Teresita Basa 01.04.2026 13minIn February 1977, Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment, her killer unknown and the case going cold for months. Then a coworker began entering trances, speaking in a voice that claimed to be Basa's, naming a suspect, and describing stolen jewelry that investigators later found exactly where the voice said it would be. This is the story of a possession that solved a homicide, and the question nobody in law enforcement has ever been able to fully answer: how did she know?
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The Phoenix Lights Phenomenon 25.03.2026 15minOn the night of March 13, 1997, hundreds of witnesses across Arizona reported a massive, silent V-shaped object moving through the sky, followed by a row of glowing amber lights hovering over Phoenix. More than 700 reports were filed. The governor mocked the event, then admitted a decade later he had seen it himself. The Phoenix Lights is the most widely witnessed UFO event in American history, and depending on who you ask, it is either completely solved or not even close. Mark digs into the two events that most coverage collapses into one, the telescope account that almost no one followed up on, and the silence that military jet explanations have never quite explained away.
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The Jigsaw Skeleton 18.03.2026 13minIn 2007, a small fire along Rome's Tiber River led investigators to a near-complete human skeleton arranged with disturbing precision beside the ID of a man who had been missing for four years. DNA testing revealed the impossible: the bones belonged to five different people, collected across two decades. Someone built a person out of strangers and left a name next to it. The Jigsaw Skeleton of Rome is one of the most unsettling and least-known cold cases in modern forensic history. Unsolved Rome mystery, composite skeleton, forensic cold case, Libero Ricci missing, Magliana crime, Italy true crime, unexplained death.
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The Rafael Pacheco Pérez Incident 11.03.2026 16minIn 1976, a routine solo training flight over Mexico turned into one of the strangest aviation anomalies ever recorded.Student pilot Rafael Pacheco Pérez took off for a short 25-mile navigation loop. Less than an hour later, he landed more than 250 miles away in Acapulco. His fuel tank was nearly full. His memory was gone. And air traffic controllers reported hearing a voice over the radio that claimed it was not his.Was this a case of missing time? A classified military incident? A navigational impossibility? Or one of the most credible UFO contact events in modern aviation history?In this episode of Still Unexplained, we examine radar records, fuel data, air traffic testimony, and the unsettling transmission that suggested humanity is not alone. We explore the physics that do not add up, the psychological explanations that fall short, and the possibility that something extraordinary intervened in Mexican airspace that morning.Aviation mystery. UFO encounter. Missing time. Alien contact. Government silence.Whatever happened on June 21, 1976, it still refuses to land cleanly in any category.And it remains… still unexplained.
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The Allagash Abductions 04.03.2026 10minIn 1976, four art students canoeing in the remote Allagash Wilderness of Maine reported seeing a mysterious light over Eagle Lake. Years later, under hypnosis, they recalled being taken aboard a craft and examined by non-human beings. Decades after that, one of them recanted.Were the Allagash Abductions a genuine alien encounter, a case of shared memory reconstruction, or something in between?In this episode of Still Unexplained, we explore UFO sightings, missing time, alien abduction accounts, hypnosis, and the psychological mysteries that keep this case alive nearly fifty years later.For listeners interested in extraterrestrial life, unsolved mysteries, alien encounters, and the science of memory, this is one of the most debated abduction cases in American history.
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