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The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion Jun 14, 2026

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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 British history. What began with a glowing object hovering over Ripperston Farm escalated into months of unexplained phenomena: failing electronics, mysterious figures at the windows, silent visitors in a silver car, missing cattle that appeared miles away, and an encounter Pauline Coombs believed took place aboard an otherworldly craft. As sightings spread across the region — including the famous Broad Haven school incident witnessed by fourteen children — the area became known as the Welsh Triangle. With declassified government investigations, admitted hoaxes, and a mystery that remains unresolved nearly fifty years later, we ask: what really happened over St Brides Bay?

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S2 Ep21: The Emerald Valley Jun 09, 2026

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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 third-grader in northeast Washington in 1985, riding home one evening, when an intense green light blinded him and his mom in their car. For years he figured he'd made it up, or pulled it from some movie. Then it came up years later over lunch with his sister, and he found out he wasn't the only one in the car who never forgot it.

REFERENCE LINKS

When Mysterious Green Fireballs Worried the U.S. Government — HISTORY

Project Twinkle and the Green Fireball Investigation

The Green Flash: What Causes the Rare Sunset Phenomenon — EarthSky

Fairchild Air Force Base History — HistoryLink.org

Faded Giant by Robert Salas and James Klotz

The 1967 Malmstrom Missile Shutdown — CUFON Archive

Robert Hastings — UFOs and Nukes

Astonishing Legends Ep. 155: Abduction at Devil's Den (Terry Lovelace)

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S2 Ep20: What Does a House Remember? Jun 02, 2026

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In tonight's dead letter, our listener’s family trades a rented place for an old Victorian villa tucked into the quiet border country between England and Wales. The previous owner had loved the house for more than half a century, and the neighbors were quick to say she'd have approved of the new arrivals. But the littlest member of the family keeps mentioning an old woman with white hair. We’ll get into faceless figures, formidable women who hold a home together, and an old plaque that quietly says exactly what this whole story is about.

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William Morris's Bed and the Kelmscott Manor Poem — Society of Antiquaries of London

Lucy M. Boston, the Green Knowe Books, and Memory in a House — Britannica

The Manor at Hemingford Grey (the real Green Knowe)

Folklore of the Stiperstones and the Devil's Chair

The Devil's Chair: The Story Behind the Shropshire Landmark — Shropshire Star

The White Lady of Ludlow Castle (Marion de la Bruyère) — Shropshire Star

The Phantom Funeral of Ratlinghope and Shropshire Ghost Stories — The History Press

Shropshire Folklore, Wild Edric, and the Long Mynd Black Dog — Shropshire Star

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S2 Ep19: The House on 109 May 26, 2026

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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 two national cemeteries. The house at the center of this story sat right in the middle of all that history. When a listener named Jonathan moved in with his family as a kid, it was, as he puts it, just off — and the footsteps upstairs were the easy part. Small things kept stacking up, the kind you could maybe almost explain away one at a time but never all together. Decades later he's still working through what happened in that house, and what stayed there.

REFERENCE LINKS

Grafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia

B&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton

Grafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker

Grafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration

Thornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War

International Mother's Day Shrine

Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day

The Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia

The Grafton Monster Festival

The Grafton Monster in Fallout 76

George Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton

Ruth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

Astonishing Legends Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1

Astonishing Legends Archived Episodes — The Bell Witch Series

The Enfield Poltergeist (1977)

The Smurl Haunting (West Pittston, PA)

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — Lacatski, Kelleher, Knapp

Hypnopompic Hallucinations — Sleep Foundation

The Old Hag Phenomenon and Sleep Paralysis

The Blemmyes — Headless Men with Faces in Their Chests

West Virginia Paranormal Investigations

Paper Moon (1973)

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The Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela May 23, 2026

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In January 1956, rush-hour drivers crossing Pittsburgh’s icy Homestead High Level Bridge watched a nightmare descend from the sky: a silent B-25 bomber gliding just feet above the roadway with both engines dead. Veteran Air Force pilot Major William Dotson pulled off a flawless emergency landing on the freezing Monongahela River, saving all six men from the crash itself. But within minutes, two crew members vanished into the current, and the bomber sank beneath only 25 feet of water… never to be seen again. How does an entire military aircraft disappear in shallow water, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and stay missing for nearly seventy years?

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The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat May 21, 2026

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Scott and Forrest present a preview of a new podcast called Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat!

Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something.

Hidden History doesn't dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as open case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn't a failure of explanation. It's a constant in human experience, one that evolves, repeats, and sometimes deepens the more we learn.
New episodes drop every Monday. Follow now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube @hiddenhistorypod. Listen here: https://play.megaphone.fm/65qgwrg-sq-mmvg7tpqgfa

S2 Ep18: Mom is Still Here May 20, 2026

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In tonight's dead letter, listener Andrew writes in from a quiet little back house in Monterey Park, California — a place that during the early pandemic felt even quieter than usual. He's a self-described skeptic, he disabled the motion sensor on his own bathroom light because it kept tripping on him, or so he thought. But on the worst night of his life, something happened in that house he still can't quite explain. Scott and Forrest also share a few of their own recent stories — alarm clocks, flickering nightlights, dying batteries that turned out to be just dying batteries — about what's mundane and what isn't when grief is fresh.

REFERENCE LINKS

History of Monterey Park — Official City Website

The Tongva (Gabrielino) People — Wikipedia

Monterey Park, California — Wikipedia

Hello From Heaven by Bill and Judy Guggenheim

The ADC Project — After-Death Communication Research

Astonishing Legends Ep 101: ARCapalooza! Part 2

Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf — Official Site

Anomaly: Paranormal Podcast by Paul Gledhill

The Monroe Institute — Founded by Robert Monroe

Black Mirror: "White Christmas" — Wikipedia

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The Strange Death of Gloria Ramirez May 10, 2026

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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 skin, and crystalline particles in her blood — then doctors and nurses around her began collapsing, vomiting, burning, and struggling to breathe. The ER was evacuated and HAZMAT suits came out. Gloria died in the chaos, and the official explanation still leaves troubling questions. Behind the nickname “The Toxic Lady” is a human being whose final night remains one of the most haunting medical mysteries of our time.

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S2 Ep17: The Sealed Room May 05, 2026

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In tonight's dead letter, we're across the harbor from Boston, in the densely layered city of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Our listener grew up in a building that began its life as a 19th-century clinic, served as a surgery, and ended its years as a hospice before becoming a multi-generational family home. But the house already had a few residents. Different presences on every floor, each with their own habits and rules. What's harder to explain is the room someone worked very hard to make sure no one would ever find.

REFERENCE LINKS

Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 — Wikipedia

Chelsea Conflagration 1973: The Biggest Fire You've Never Heard Of — Fire Rescue 1

Chelsea on Fire: 1908 —Chelsea conflagration: The biggest fire you’ve never heard of GBH/WGBH Boston

Domovoy: Slavic Household Spirit — Wikipedia

Domovoy: The Guardian Spirit of the Home and the Family — Slavic Lore

Domovoy — Britannica

Modern Spolia: Harvesting Building Materials from Demolition Sites — ArchDaily

Electronic Voice Phenomenon — Wikipedia

Ghosts in the Machine: The Truth About EVP — Homespun Haints

Sensing What Others Cannot: Anomalous Experiences and Autism — Psychology Today

Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions Experience Increased Levels of Anomalous Perception — PLOS ONE / PMC

Is There a Connection Between Autism and the Paranormal? — Association of Paranormal Study

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S2 Ep16: The Mennonite Girl Apr 29, 2026

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In tonight’s dead letter, a peaceful retreat at a friend's historic property in the country yields a brush with something that defies explanation. The old homes in these rural communities are steeped in generations of human memory, and sometimes, those overlaid paths from the past seem to bleed right through the present day. We unpack an incredibly vivid, solid sighting that leaves us questioning the true nature of time, space, and the boundaries of our own backyards.

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The Finger Lakes Region

History of the Amish and Mennonite Schism

Spolia in Architecture

Belhurst Castle and the Lady in White

Al Jaffee and the Mad Magazine Fold-In

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