Interview with Author Stuart Mullins
On Australia Day 1966, three children — Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont — were dropped off at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. Their mother expected them home by noon. They never arrived. N...
18 Mar 1h
When the System Arrived and Still Fell Short
Three decades. Three cases. And the same question running through all of them like a fault line. In 1947, Kenneth Hager walked out of his Baltimore home and the world had no mechanism to find him. No ...
16 Mar 8min
Episode 67-The Disappearance of Kenneth Hager, 1947
There's a kind of case that haunts differently than the rest. Not because of what happened — but because of how little is left to tell you what happened at all. In April 1947, an eleven-year-old boy n...
13 Mar 22min
Two Cases Hindered by Their Era
Some patterns only become visible when you stop moving forward and look at what's already behind you. In the last episode, we told the story of Alva Parris — a nine-year-old girl who walked out her fr...
9 Mar 4min
Episode 66: The Disappearance of Alva Parris-1960
Some cases announce themselves — with headlines, with suspects, with details that burn into public memory the moment they break. This isn't one of those cases. The disappearance of Alva Parris begins ...
6 Mar 16min
One Historical Mystery to Another
Some mysteries live in isolation — on a windswept island at the edge of the North Atlantic, where three lighthouse keepers vanished in December 1900 and left behind a locked door, an untouched meal, a...
2 Mar 4min
Episode 65-The Flannen Isles Lighthouse
In December of 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from a remote island off the coast of Scotland. When relief crews arrived at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, they found the light extinguished, mea...
27 Feb 12min
From Boys on the Tracks to the Flannan Isles: When Cases End in Silence
Before we move on, it’s worth pausing. In this mini episode of The Midnight Mystery Archive, we close the chapter on Boys on the Tracks — the case of Don Henry and Kevin Ives — and reflect on what mad...
23 Feb 4min
