Season 1
The Greenbrier Ghost: Inside America’s Only Murder Case Influenced by a Ghost — Ep. 36
The Greenbrier Ghost remains one of the strangest cases in American legal and paranormal history. In this episode of State of the Unknown, host Robert Barber examines the story of Zona Heaster Shue, a young West Virginia woman whose death in 1897 became the center of an extraordinary murder investig...
600 Incidents: A Year-Long Paranormal Assault on a Washington Home — Ep. 35
The Bothell Hell House case began in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Bothell, Washington, where one family reported a year of escalating paranormal activity inside their home. What started as small, easy-to-dismiss disturbances eventually grew into more than 600 reported incidents. Objects moved wi...
The Tallman Bunk Beds: The Ordinary Object Linked to a Terrifying Haunting — Ep. 34
In the late 1980s, a family in Wisconsin brought home a simple set of bunk beds for their children. There was nothing unusual about them, no known history attached to them, and no reason to think they would change anything inside the house. Then the disturbances began. Footsteps were heard in empty ...
The Dybbuk Box: The True Story Behind America’s Most Haunted Object — Ep. 33
The Dybbuk Box is one of the most infamous haunted objects in modern paranormal history. Its story began with a small wooden wine cabinet purchased at an estate sale in Portland, Oregon. The man who bought it, Kevin Mannis, later claimed that disturbing experiences followed the object from one owner...
The Sallie House: The Terrifying True Haunting That Drove a Kansas Family Out of Their Home — Ep. 32
A quiet home in Atchison, Kansas. A nursery that never seemed empty. Scratches appearing on skin. Footsteps in empty rooms. Toys moving without explanation. The Sallie House became one of the best-known haunting cases in the Midwest after a family living there reported a series of increasingly distu...
What Happened in Room 428? Ohio University’s Haunting Mystery — Ep. 31
On the fourth floor of Wilson Hall at Ohio University is Room 428, a dorm room that has become the center of one of the university’s most enduring ghost stories. For decades, students have repeated stories about footsteps behind the door, lights turning on when the room was supposedly empty, and a s...
The Bell Witch: The Terrifying True Story Behind America’s Oldest Haunting — Ep. 30
In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee, began reporting strange disturbances around their farm. Unexplained noises were heard inside the house. Family members described physical attacks. And eventually, they claimed an unseen presence began speaking to them in a voice tha...
The Black Hope Cemetery: The Real Events That Mirror Poltergeist — Ep. 29
In the early 1980s, new homeowners outside Houston started finding coffins buried beneath their freshly built yards. Lights flickered, water ran on its own, and fear spread through the neighborhood—until they learned the truth. Their subdivision had been built over a forgotten cemetery known as Blac...
Ghosts of Flight 401: The Haunting That Changed Aviation — Ep. 28
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972, killing 101 people. The disaster became one of the deadliest aviation accidents in U.S. history at the time. But in the months that followed, another story began to emerge. Eastern Air Lines employees reportedly b...
The Haunting of Madison Seminary: The Investigation That Spoke Back — Ep. 27
Madison Seminary in Madison, Ohio has nearly two centuries of history and a long reputation for paranormal activity. The building has served several different purposes over the years, including as a school, a home for Civil War widows, and later a state-run institution. Today, it is better known for...