Episodes
Fragments | Zozo: When a Ouija Board Gives You the Name of a Demon — Ep. 10
Some Ouija board stories disappear as soon as the planchette stops moving. Others keep returning, attached to the same strange name. In this episode of State of the Unknown: Fragments, Robert Barber explores the Zozo demon legend, a modern paranormal story involving Ouija boards, alleged demonic enc...
Fragments | The Eliza Battle: The Ghost Ship on the Tombigbee — Ep. 09
The Eliza Battle ghost ship legend is one of the most enduring paranormal stories connected to the American South. Along Alabama’s Tombigbee River, people have passed down a story about a steamboat, a terrible night, and something that may still appear on the water. In this episode of State of the U...
Fragments | Ryan Hammons: The Boy Who Remembered a Past Life in Hollywood — Ep. 08
The Ryan Hammons reincarnation case is one of the most compelling paranormal stories involving a child who claimed to remember a past life. Beginning in Oklahoma around 2008, four-year-old Ryan started asking his mother to take him home. But he didn’t mean the house where they lived. He meant Hollyw...
Creature Encounter: The Pender County 911 Call | “That’s Not Human!” — Ep. 66
On July 31, 2021, a driver traveling along Highway 210 in Pender County, North Carolina, spotted what appeared to be an injured man standing beside the road. There seemed to be blood running down from his head. Concerned that the man needed help, the driver called 911 and continued down the highway ...
Fragments | Jonathan Reed: The Man Who Says He Brought an Alien Home — Ep. 07
In 1996, Jonathan Reed said he went hiking in Washington’s Cascade Mountains with his golden retriever, Susie. What he claimed happened in those woods would eventually become one of the strangest UFO stories of the 1990s. Reed said he encountered a small humanoid creature, discovered a mysterious bl...
Fragments | Ok, So Who the Heck Was Philip K. Dick? — Ep. 06
Philip K. Dick spent his career writing about unreliable memories, artificial people, altered realities, surveillance, and the uneasy question of whether the world around us is really what we think it is. After finishing the full Philip K. Dick episode of State of the Unknown, host Robert Barber kep...
Fringe Theories: Philip K. Dick | “We Are Living in a Computer-Programmed Reality” — Ep. 65
Philip K. Dick spent his career writing about false memories, alternate worlds, and people discovering that reality wasn’t quite what they thought it was. Then, in 1974, something happened to him. Join host Robert Barber as we follow Philip K. Dick’s 2-3-74 experiences — a series of strange events t...
Fragments | The Kentucky Meat Shower: When Flesh Fell from a Clear Sky — Ep. 05
In March 1876, residents near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, reported one of the strangest events ever recorded in the state: pieces of what appeared to be raw meat falling from a perfectly clear sky. Join host Robert Barber as he revisits the bizarre event that became known as the Kentuc...
Fragments | The Leadville Ghost: The Tenants Who Refused to Go Back — Ep. 04
In April 1907, two miners in Leadville, Colorado, rented a small house and paid three weeks in advance. Four nights later, they were done. Join host Robert Barber as he follows a strange newspaper account of a paranormal encounter that frightened two working miners badly enough to abandon the house—...