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Unexplained America The Podcast

Unexplained America the Podcast

Unexplained America is a weekly podcast, hosted by Lisa Ponson. I discuss true crime, paranormal, cryptid, legend, and anything unexplained connected with America. Join me for episodes rich in researching the history, background and nuance of the story perhaps a bit quirky. If possible, I love to explore the places myself and discuss the story from a personal perspective. The more creepy and unexplained the better!!!

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00:38:25

48 Years Missing Persons Case of Martha and Flora...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/09/29

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa discusses the missing persons case of Martha and Flora Helmick and John "Ed" Keyton. Martha, Flora and Ed left out around noon on Friday August 3, 1973, They lived in Bridgewater, Virginia, and were driving to Kentucky to pick up Ed's brother for a family reunion. The three would never make it. They are reported missing and days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years and zero sign of the 1967 Ford Fairlane Ed

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00:49:44

Episode 106: The Witch of Yazoo City

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/09/22

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa has special guest host Amber delight us with the lore of the Yazoo City Witch of Yazoo City, Mississippi.Amber begins with a little background of Yazoo City, Mississippi; then lets us know the story of the town--that in 1884, there was an alleged woman that was found to have killed some men and the men were found in her shack down in the swamps of the Yazoo River. Then allegedly the women was buried in the town cemetery and her grave had iron

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00:37:24

Episode 105: Spontaneous Human Combustion: Origin and...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/09/15

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss cases and origin of Spontaneous Human Combustion.We will begin way back in the 1400's discussing an origin and then in the 1700's a case that would bring a poet to coin the actual term Spontaneous Human Combustion. Then we will get into 3 cases, Mathilda Rooney of 1885 in Illinois, Mary Hardy Reeser case in 1951 Florida, and then a case in Ireland in 2010 of Michael Faherty.Decide for youself what you think about SHC!!Listen

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01:45:03

Episode 104: Dr. Andrew Bagby Case (Part 2-the death...

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2025/09/08

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the murder of Dr. Andrew Bagby-this is part 2 of a 2 part episode.Listener Discretion: Discussion of Murder, Suicide Attempts, and Small touch of Alleged Child Abuse.On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby tells his supervisor that his on again/off again girlfriend whom he had ended things with just a couple of days ago had shown up at his doorstep that morning. She had driven 15 hours overnight to see him and discuss with him how

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01:15:22

Episode 103: Dr. Andrew Bagby Case (Part 1)

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/09/01

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the murder of Dr. Andrew Bagby-this is part 1 of a 2 part episode.Listener Discretion: Discussion of Murder, Suicide Attempts, and Small touch of Alleged Child Abuse.On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby tells his supervisor that his on again/off again girlfriend whom he had ended things with just a couple of days ago had shown up at his doorstep that morning. She had driven 15 hours overnight to see him and discuss with him how

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00:52:52

Episode 102: Faith Hedgepeth - Killing At UNC Chapel...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/08/25

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Faith Hedgepeth Case--requested by listener Parker. ****Warning--listener discretion--the episode contains murder, SA, and rape.On September 7, 2012, Faith Hedgepeth is found brutally killed in her friends apartment in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Faith was a 19 year old student at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill. She had begun her college career there in the Fall of 2010; she was currently a biology major in

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01:19:25

Episode 101: Amazing Life & Tragedy of Amelia Earhart

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2025/08/18

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the life, achievements, and then the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart.On July 2, 1937, world renowned lady aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were in communications with the US Coast Guard ship the Itasca. The Itasca was anchored right close to Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean awaiting the arrival of Amelia and Fred who were on their last legs of their famous flight around the world. Amelia was the

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01:53:11

Episode 100: Amityville: The Lutz Family Hauntings

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/07/28

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Amityville case but this episode is specifically starting at the time George and Kathy Lutz move their family into 112 Ocean Ave, Amityville, New York.On December 18, 1975, the Lutz family move into their new home. Right away the Lutz experience phenomenon that they cannot explain. They only live in the home for 28 days but their experience in the home will be made infamous in 1977, with the writing of a best selling novel

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01:26:48

Episode 99: Amityville: The Defeo Family Murders

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/07/21

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Amityville case but this episode is specifically covering the Defeo Family Murders.On November 13, 1974, Ronald Defeo Jr. (Ronnie) ran into a local bar close to his home in Amityville, New York, and screamed "someone has shot my mom and dad". Police would find 6 members of the Defeo Family shot and dead in the beds wearing pajamas on the night of the 13th of November. The only surviving Defeo being Ronnie, who would

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01:55:58

Episode 98: The Night Stalker Serial Killer Richard...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/07/14

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Night Stalker, serial killer Richard Ramirez.This is Part 3--the final episode to Richard Ramirez-- in this episode I will be picking up on August 31, 1985, when Richard was arrested. I will be discussing in depth his court case, all through the 4 years of it. We will then work through the after math of his court case into his jail accommodations, his wedding in 1996, his final appeal information and more heinous crime tied to

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02:23:16

Episode 97: The Night Stalker Serial Killer Richard...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/07/02

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Night Stalker, serial killer Richard Ramirez.This is Part 2 (Part 1 was a deep dive into Richard's whole family history, his childhood and into his first 2 murders): in this episode I'll start with the rest of the events on March 17, 1985 and go through every known victim until Richard is arrested on August 31. 1985.Warning--this episode will be brutal and detail his heinous assaults, and killings. SA is involved so

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01:36:06

Episode 96: The Night Stalker Serial Killer Richard...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/06/23

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Night Stalker, serial killer Richard Ramirez.June 28, 1984, Richard Ramirez whom had been burglarizing LA County for years, went on the hunt for more than just a burglary. He found the apartment of Jennie Vincow, a 79 year old retired woman from New York, and brutally murdered her in her own bed.Eight months later he would follow up with a double homicide in 1 night. This episode takes a deep dive into Richard's

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00:54:16

Episode 95: Jersey Devil A Famous Cryptid

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2025/06/16

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the famous cryptid the Jersey Devil; the demon devil of New Jersey.The origin story of the Jersey Devil goes way back to the Province of New Jersey in 1735, one story begins with a "Mother Leeds" who is pregnant with her thirteenth child and in her frustration and exhaustion prays to God to make this baby a devil...her prayer comes true allegedly and the devil child is said to haunt the area forever....We will further

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00:52:19

Episode 94: The Phoenix Lights: UFO Sighting

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/06/09

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss The Phoenix Lights-a UFO sighting phenomenon event in Phoenix, Arizona.On March 13, 1997, tens of thousands of people between California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico witnessed a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) that covered 400 + miles, multiple hours and could never be explained over the past 28 years.In this episode, we will cover the events of that night, events leading into that evening, the aftermath of the event

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01:02:18

Episode 93: Cleveland Torso Murders AKA Mad Butcher...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/06/02

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the Cleveland Torso Murders--also known as, the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run and also was called the Kingsbury Slayer and other things in the press.The killings begin in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935 (1934 depending in victim inclusion of the "Lady in the Lake")--a body is found without a head in a dark, dank area of Cleveland called Kingsbury Run.Over the course, of a few months more mutilated and dismembered bodies are found

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01:10:09

Episode 92: Myrtles Plantation: The Most Haunted...

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/05/19

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the most haunted place in America; the Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, Louisiana."General" David Bradford of Pennsylvania fled to the territory of Louisiana in 1794 after getting into some trouble with first President George Washington over the excise tax or slang the Whiskey Rebellion situation.Once he landed in Louisiana, he purchased some land to settle for his family and built what he called Laurel Grove which was a

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01:19:50

Episode 91: The Mysterious Death of Ellen Greenberg

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/05/12

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the sad and strangely mysterious death of Ellen Greenberg.On January 26, 2011, Ellen Greenberg would be found dead in her apartment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that she shared with her fiance. Ellen's death is at first ruled as a homicide by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner Dr. Marlon Osborne; however, the Philadelphia Police Department decide that lack of an intruder made the scene look like a suicide; even though Ellen

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00:51:34

Episode 90: 1990 I-75 Pileup: Deadly Fog

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/05/05

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss this horrible, tragedy in 1990's Tennessee.On December 11, 1990; around 9:15am a dense, thick fog all of a sudden came upon motorist driving on I-75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. On the southbound lane a first collision of two semi-tractor trailer trucks quickly becomes deadly when a 1981 Oldsmobile Sedan collides into the back of one of the trucks carrying dicumyl peroxide --a slew of multi-car accidents endue

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01:40:04

Episode 89: The Murder of Billy Joe Holder (Part 2)

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/05/01

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa and guest host Dorothy, will discuss the Murder of Billy Joe Holder-Part 2--listen to Part 1.On February 9, 1976, Billy Joe Holder (ex-Sheriff and current Agent with the Alcohol Beverage Control Department in Arkansas) was watching television in his living room with his wife June when all of a sudden he was shot by an assailant outside of his home.This episode is a deep dive into the actual Arkansas State Police case file. In Part 2, we will

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01:16:09

Episode 88: The Scary Skirvin Hotel

Unexplained America The Podcast ·

2025/04/28

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa discusses the haunts, history and scary stories of the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.William Balser Skirvin built a fortune in real estate ventures. He began his ventures being an original 89er in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. After becoming a widow, he decided to build the most luxurious hotel in Oklahoma. He would build the Skirvin Hotel in 1911.We will discuss the Skirvin family history leading up to the hotel. We will

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