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Creature Encounter: The Pender County 911 Call | “That’s Not Human!” — Ep. 66

July 31, 2021 starts like a straightforward emergency: a driver on Highway 210 in Pender County, North Carolina sees someone standing on the...

Fringe Theories: Philip K. Dick | “We Are Living in a Computer-Programmed Reality” — Ep. 65

Philip K. Dick is famous for science fiction about false memories, artificial worlds, and the creeping suspicion that reality is unstable, b...

Creature Encounter: The Lake Worth Monster | The 1969 Sighting That Sparked a Monster Hunt — Ep. 64

Around midnight on July 10, 1969, a quiet fishing trip near Lake Worth, just outside Fort Worth, Texas, turns into one of the state’s most e...

Paranormal Encounter: Bobby Mackey's Music World | The Caretaker Who Started the Legend — Ep. 63

Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, Kentucky has been called a haunted nightclub for decades, but the story doesn’t begin with TV crews or...

Creature Encounter: The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp | The Night Browntown Road Changed Forever — Ep. 62

In the summer of 1988, Christopher Davis, a 17-year-old in Lee County, South Carolina, finishes a late shift and drives home past Scape Ore ...

Creature Encounter: The 1909 Jersey Devil Panic | The Week Police Opened Fire — Ep. 61

In January 1909, the Jersey Devil legend stops being a campfire story and becomes a documented regional panic. State of the Unknown tracks h...

Men in Black: Albert Bender | The Visit That Silenced America's First UFO Bureau — Ep. 60

Albert Bender is a key name in Men in Black history because his story begins with ordinary paper, not a dramatic UFO crash. In early 1950s B...

Alien Abduction: Travis Walton | The Abduction Experience Behind Fire in the Sky — Ep. 59

Travis Walton’s story doesn’t begin with a grand cosmic message. It begins with disorientation: opening his eyes in a bright room that doesn...

Alien Abduction: Travis Walton | The Disappearance Six Witnesses Couldn’t Explain — Ep. 58

On November 5, 1975, a logging crew finishes a long day in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona and starts the drive home on a...