Part Two of Season 06 Episode 2: Valleys of the Uncanny
A few months after the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski, PC Alan Godfrey sets out on a routine night patrol around the town of Todmorden in North England. That night will change his life forever...
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Alan Godfrey and alleged craft he saw
Once in a while something so extraordinary occurs that can leave its mark so deeply on a place that it appears destined to shape our impression of it forevermore.
For the town of Todmorden, in the North West of England, that something occurred just over forty years ago today. It’ll be sometime before it’s forgotten...
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Zigmund Adamski
This week's episode looks at the strange and mysterious Houska Castle, a place that has long fascinated people on account of its peculiar location and supposedly dark origins...
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In July 2009, at the height of war in Afghanistan, US and British forces struggle to get to grips with fighting a mostly invisible enemy, while simultaneously trying to win the hearts and minds of the people whose land they have invaded.
As part of Operation Khanjar, the US government's latest roll of the dice in their efforts to beat back the influence of the Taliban in Helmand Province, 4000 marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment have been deployed to the region. Among them are eight Marines, tasked with occupying a strange and isolated observation post, known simply as The Rock.
Their war is about to get far stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, 210th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Whatever you believe about the use of Hurkos’ supposed talents, it is hard to deny the extra layer of fascination his involvement brings to a police investigation.
With that in mind, there is one case in particular that makes for intriguing listening. Not least of all, because it also happened to involve one of America’s most curious and shocking crimes of the 20th century...
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Melvin David Rees
Part Two of S05 Episode 18: Learning to See
After accepting a call from the Strangler Taskforce, Peter Hurkos arrives in Providence, Rhode Island to see what he can do to help.
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In 1964 the eleventh in a series of brutal murders occurred in and around the city of Boston, Massachusetts, that police had come to believe were all perpetrated by the same individual - referred to in the press as The Mad Strangler.
No closer to finding the culprit after 18 months of investigations, an incredible decision was made in an attempt to crack the case...
Featuring the extraordinary story of self-proclaimed psychic Peter Hurkos.
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Many are fascinated by Heinrich Himmler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party's (NSDAP) association with the occult. It is an association that in ways, along with the term 'Nazi,' has clouded one of the fundamental truths about Himmler and the NSDAP.
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Dutch SS Soldiers (History Net Archives)
By all accounts, Robert Taylor wasn’t a man prone to exaggeration. Certainly, encounters of the strange were the furthest thing from his mind when he headed out to work on the outskirts of Livingston, in Scotland, one chilly morning in November 1979.
Soon, it would be all people would want to talk about...
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The issue of relying on the memory of individuals to recall events in criminal matters, particularly eye-witnesses to a crime, is one that continues to plague the criminal justice system.
Pioneering psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, who's spent the last fifty years looking into the subject, has arguably done more than anyone to help us understand why.
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Part Two of S05 Episode 16: Built On Shifting Sands
The discovery of George Jayne's phone number among the belongings of Pat Blough, Ann Miller, and Renee Bruhl, found at the Indiana Dunes State Park, takes the story of their disappearance on a wholly unexpected path...
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In July 1966, a Park Ranger for the Indiana Dunes State Park came across a blanket of sandy belongings that had been left behind on the beach by three young women.
And so began one of the greatest mysteries the American Midwest would ever know.
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In 1975 in Ukraine, a quarry worker found a strange, black spherical object buried in a seam of clay eight meters below the surface.
Some believe it was nothing more than a gallo - a type of antiquated ironing tool made of glass. Others however believed it was something a little more interesting...
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In January 1986, a strange object was witnessed crashing into a mountain in a far eastern region of the then Soviet Union.
Described by some as Russia's Roswell, analysis of the crash site is also said to have revealed intriguing similarities with one of the world's greatest mysteries involving something falling to earth from space...
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WARNING: Please be advised this episode contains disturbing and graphic scenes of torture. Parental discretion is advised.
In Scotland, England, and Wales, one powerful individual's fear of witchcraft almost single-handedly set off a series of witch panics throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, resulting in the torture and death of thousands of innocent people. And it all began one stormy night back in 1589...
Featuring the story of King James VI and the North Berwick Witch Trials
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In 1595, just outside the town of Tyldesley in Lancashire, in the northwest of England, two children started exhibiting worrying signs they had become possessed by demonic spirits. The strange and sinister case of the Lancashire Seven had begun...
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One real-world locked-room mystery that has enthralled and mystified some of the world’s best crime writers from PD James to Raymond Chandler, occurred only a few years before Artemus Oggeltree’s death, in Liverpool, England back in 1931.
It was as Chandler himself described, “the impossible murder because [the main suspect] couldn’t have done it and neither could anyone else...”
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The locked-room mystery in literature is widely thought to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe’s shocking and disturbing The Murder in Rue Morgue published in 1841.
In 1935, in a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, a real-life locked-room mystery occurred, as compelling and strange as any fiction...
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It is thought that neighbours of the Evangelista family were reluctant to help the investigation into their murder, due to fear of reprisal from the culprit. Or more pertinently, fear of reprisal from La Mano Nera, or the Black Hand, who many suspected was ultimately responsible for the murders.
But who were The Black Hand and were they even real at all?
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Part Two of S05 Episode 12: Prophet and Loss
Police cast their net ever wider in their effort to find a culprit for the brutal murder of the Evangelista family, drawing increasingly dark and strange connections to the case, but will any of it lead to an answer?
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