STATE OF THE UNKNOWN

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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—...

In July 1969, six people were parked near Greer Island on Lake Worth, just outside Fort Worth, Texas, when something came down from a tree and landed on their car. John Reichert would later describe a strange creature covered in fur and scales, with long, claw-like hands. Within days, his report had...

When 20-year-old Carl Lawson took a job helping renovate Bobby Mackey’s Music World, a country nightclub in Wilder, Kentucky, he had no idea he was stepping into what would become one of America’s most infamous paranormal haunting cases. What began with footsteps echoing through an empty dance hall ...

Two listeners pointed me toward Franklin Castle, one of Ohio’s most famous haunted houses and the center of decades of ghost stories and paranormal claims. I expected to find another ghost story. Instead, I found something far stranger. In 1980, a woman living inside Franklin Castle claimed the spir...

In November 1718, the pirate known as Blackbeard was killed in the waters near Ocracoke Island. His head was carried away as proof of his death, while his body disappeared beneath the surface. But around the Outer Banks, people believed the story didn't end there. Join host Robert Barber for a short...