Does life imitate art? Does Bart imitate life? Does Homer know more than he’s letting on?? Despite being a work of fiction and, yes, a cartoon, in 34 years on the air The Simpsons seem to have predicted the future a truly astounding number of times. We’ve

Is any place safe? When a child guarded by life in a wholesome, All-American community disappears, is that proof that evil is lurking around every idyllic corner? In the fall of 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while delivering newspapers in the

What would you sacrifice to live freely? Would you fight every day, out loud, to defend your way of life? For Marsha P. Johnson, living on her own terms was a non-negotiable part of her existence. Her outspoken activism and advocacy led her to be one of t

What would you do if you knew your were ahead of your time, if only by a brief moment? In the late-1950s, Connie Converse was young musician at the forefront of New York City’s burgeoning folk scene. Her groundbreaking songs poised her for greatness, but

Throughout history, flashes of group mania have taken hold of entire societies without warning. From dancing 'til you're dead, to laughing yourself into a stupor for days on end, the people struck down by these so-called plagues certainly weren’t having a

Hey, Strange & Unexplained listeners!  We’re off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but didn’t want to leave you with an empty feed, so we’re featuring an episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries” Crime is so commonp

In the summer of 1976, a group of college students experienced something otherworldly while on a camping trip in the wilderness of Maine. The mystery surrounding the phenomenon would entangle the men for the next forty years, leading them down a road of e

Communing with nature sounds nice, sure, but wilderness can hide darkness in it’s miles of untamed trails. No matter how experienced a hiker you are, bad things have a tendency to be lurking out in the woods. Spanning over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Main

Before the days of Jack the Ripper, there was another Jack terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Spring-Heeled Jack, the fashionable shape-shifting Victorian Era boogeyman terrorized citizens from all walks of life for upwards of 50 years without e

In 1974, The Lady of the Dunes was discovered dead on the beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Who was she? How did she end up on the beach? And what monster was behind her gruesome murder? For nearly 50 years these answers have remained a mystery… until