The Haunted Bunker: Paranormal Mysteries & the Unexplained

61:56

The Axeman of New Orleans | Jazz or Die, 1919

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2026/05/19

Dave brings this mystery to the bunker with Kim and Josh this week, and the gang explores a case where an entire city's survival may have depended on keeping the music playing. The Axeman was never identified, never caught, and left behind only questions.Some researchers believe the letter wasn't written by the killer at all, but by a musician hoping to sell copies of a song called "Don't Scare Me Papa, " inspired by the events. The Axeman's attacks resumed briefly afterward,

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54:57

The Perfect Disappearance

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2026/05/12

Zoinks! The trail leads from a Cleveland bank vault to a quiet Massachusetts life, and the only person who ever knew the full truth took most of it to his grave.Josh brings this mystery to the bunker this week while Kim and buddy Dave join him, asking the questions that remain: How did a man who supposedly couldn't find his own socks maintain a double identity for five decades? How did he explain away his missing family, his absent past? And perhaps most intriguing of all, did he really do it

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33:52

The Gay Bomb

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2026/05/05

Zoinks! What do pheromones, the Pentagon, and an elite ancient Greek army have in common? More than you would ever guess, and Josh is here to connect the dots in one of the wildest episodes the gang has tackled yet.It started with cologne. Josh has been on a lifelong quest for the perfect scent, one powerful enough to, as he puts it, land a big hairy silver fox. While researching pheromone-based fragrances, he stumbled onto something the United States government would probably rather forget: the Gay

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39:00

Skinwalker Ranch | Utah's Most Haunted Property

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2026/04/28

Jinkies! What happens when a family moves into a 512-acre cattle ranch in northeastern Utah and discovers every door, window, and cabinet bolted shut from the inside? For the Sherman family, the locks were just the beginning.In 1994, Terry and Gwen Sherman purchased a remote ranch in the Uintah Basin, lured by cheap land and wide-open skies. Within weeks, they understood why the previous owners had fortified every inch of the house. Cattle started turning up dead with surgical wounds, organs

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28:52

Moon Mining Mystery | Why We're Really Going Back

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2026/04/21

The gang investigates a mystery hiding in plain sight. Humanity is headed back to the moon, and while the Artemis 2 crew circles our closest neighbor for reconnaissance photos and crater naming ceremonies, the real question might not be about exploration at all. It might be about what is buried in the lunar dust.Helium-3 is one of the rarest minerals on Earth. A single kilogram costs roughly $18.7 million, and the entire global supply is valued at around $125 million. That is about seven kilograms

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46:56

The Phoenix Lights | Arizona's Mass UFO Sighting

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2026/04/14

Jinkies! On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Arizona looked up and saw something that would change their lives forever. From Henderson, Nevada to Tucson, a massive V-shaped formation of lights moved silently through the desert sky, and nearly three decades later, no one can explain what it was.The Phoenix Lights weren't one event. They were two. The first began around 8:00 PM, when a structured formation of five to seven lights traveled roughly 300 miles across the state. Retired

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42:19

Madame de Montespan | The King's Dark Mistress

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2026/04/07

Jinkies! When you think royal mistresses had it easy, think again. The story of Madame de Montespan reads like something the gang would uncover in a crumbling French castle, complete with accusations of satanic rituals, infant sacrifices, and poisoned gowns.Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart came from one of the oldest noble houses in France. Beautiful, ambitious, and cunning, she caught the eye of King Louis XIV and became his official mistress, bearing him seven children. Her entire

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70:52

The Hinterkaifeck Murders

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2026/03/31

Zoinks. Six people killed on an isolated Bavarian farm in the middle of a snowbound March night -- and then, for four days, the killer didn't leave. He fed the cattle. He stoked the fire. He ate their food. He slept in their beds. And nobody knew.The gang is heading to Bavaria.In the early hours of April 1, 1922, the Gruber family farm at Hinterkaifeck -- a remote homestead about 70 kilometers north of Munich -- fell silent in a way that had nothing to do with sleep. Six people were dead: farmer

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49:07

Ancient Equinox Sites | Three Civilizations, One...

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2026/03/24

Jinkies! Three ancient civilizations, separated by oceans and thousands of years, independently built the same thing -- a structure that marks the exact moment the sun crosses the sky's midpoint. No GPS. No satellites. No communication between them. And every single one of those structures still works today, right on schedule.This week Josh brought a mystery that swings in the opposite direction from most of what the gang explores. No crime. No ghost. No cover-up. Just a category of question

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34:36

The Alien Origins of Water | Half Your Glass Is Older...

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2026/03/17

Jinkies! The gang stumbles onto a mystery hiding in plain sight this week - the water in your glass right now might be older than the sun itself, and it definitely did not originate on Earth.Josh brings a cosmic puzzle to the bunker that rewrites everything you thought you knew about the most common substance on our planet. Water has no natural formation process on Earth - it arrived here during the Late Heavy Bombardment Period, roughly 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, when our planet had no

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34:36

Josh's Water Mystery

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2026/03/10

Jinkies! The gang stumbles onto a mystery hiding in plain sight this week - the water in your glass right now might be older than the sun itself, and it definitely did not originate on Earth.Josh brings a cosmic puzzle to the bunker that rewrites everything you thought you knew about the most common substance on our planet. Water has no natural formation process on Earth - it arrived here during the Late Heavy Bombardment Period, roughly 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, when our planet had no

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34:19

Encephalitis Lethargica - The Sleeping Sickness

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2026/03/03

The Sleeping Sickness | The Plague That VanishedCharacter count: 45/60EPISODE TITLESEO Package: HB Episode 158Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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40:22

The Tombstone Thunderbird

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2026/02/24

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92:25

The Abduction of Nancy Guthrie | Vanished from Tucson

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2026/02/17

Jinkies! When an 84-year-old woman vanishes from the same home she's lived in for half a century, and the only witness is a doorbell camera that someone deliberately disconnected -- the gang knows something deeply wrong has happened.In this special combined episode, Shane brings the mystery of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to Josh and Kim for a full deep-dive investigation and unmasking. On the night of January 31, 2026, Nancy was dropped off at her Catalina Foothills home outside Tucson,

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28:19

The Bridgewater Triangle

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2026/02/03

The Wampanoag called it Hockomock—"place where spirits dwell." They named it that twelve thousand years before anyone else noticed something was wrong with this swamp.Tonight we descend into the Bridgewater Triangle, a 200-square-mile region in southeastern Massachusetts where Bigfoot stalks the wetlands, UFOs hover over highways, and the ghost of an 80-year-old war captain still guards the rock where he surrendered three centuries ago.In 1978, Joseph DeAndrade walked into Hockomock Swamp

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41:47

The Voice That Vanished: Hollywood's Darkest Secret

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2026/01/27

What's up, gang? This week, Josh takes the wheel for one of the most heartbreaking mysteries in Hollywood history—the tragic story of Judith Barsi.You probably know her voice even if you don't recognize her name. At just ten years old, Judith had already appeared in over 70 commercials and landed iconic voice roles that still resonate with audiences today. She was the voice behind Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven—characters whose optimistic catchphrases

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34:36

The Lead Masks of Vintem Hill | Brazil 1966

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2026/01/20

Two men in suits. Two homemade lead masks. One cryptic note. And a mystery that's haunted Brazil for nearly sixty years.In August 1966, a teenager flying a kite on a hillside outside Rio de Janeiro stumbled onto a scene that would become one of South America's most baffling unsolved cases. Two electronics technicians—Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana—lay dead on the grass, positioned side by side like they'd simply fallen asleep. But they weren't sleeping. And the crude

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31:56

The Salish Sea Feet | 21 Sneakers, No Bodies

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2026/01/06

Jinkies—since 2007, at least twenty-one human feet have washed ashore along the coastlines of British Columbia and Washington State. All of them still wearing athletic shoes. No bodies. No explanations. Just feet.In this episode, Shane, Josh, and Kim investigate one of the strangest forensic mysteries of the 21st century. The gang traces the trail from that first disturbing discovery on Jedediah Island—when a twelve-year-old girl found a Size 12 Adidas sneaker that was far too heavy—through

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29:28

The Tomte: Scandinavian Spirits That Came Before Santa

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2025/12/30

Long before Santa Claus squeezed down chimneys with bags of presents, Scandinavian families knew something else watched over their homes during the darkest nights of winter—something small, ancient, and very particular about its porridge.The MysteryIn the folklore of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, the Tomte (or Nisse, depending on where you're from) has been guarding homesteads for centuries. These diminutive spirits—typically described as elderly men the size of young children with long

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36:55

The Greenbrier Ghost: America's Only Murder Solved by...

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2025/12/23

Alright gang, buckle up—because this case gets weird.In January 1897, a young bride named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in her rural West Virginia home. The local doctor took one look and said "heart trouble." Her husband Erasmus—who went by "Trout," which should've been everyone's first red flag—played the grieving widower perfectly. Case closed, right?Not so fast.Zona's mother, Mary Jane Heaster, wasn't buying it. Something about her new son-in-law just

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