Fragments | The Kentucky Meat Shower: When Flesh Fell from a Clear Sky — Ep. 05
In March 1876, residents near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, reported one of the strangest events ever recorded in the state: pieces of what appeared to be raw meat falling from a perfectly...
25 Aug 10min
Fragments | The Leadville Ghost: The Tenants Who Refused to Go Back — Ep. 04
In April 1907, two miners in Leadville, Colorado, rented a small house and paid three weeks in advance. Four nights later, they were done. Join host Robert Barber as he follows a strange newspaper acc...
22 Aug 8min
Creature Encounter: The Lake Worth Monster | The 1969 Sighting That Sparked a Monster Hunt — Ep. 64
In July 1969, six people were parked near Greer Island on Lake Worth, just outside Fort Worth, Texas, when something came down from a tree and landed on their car. John Reichert would later describe a...
18 Aug 29min
Paranormal Encounter: Bobby Mackey's Music World | The Caretaker Who Started the Legend — Ep. 63
When 20-year-old Carl Lawson took a job helping renovate Bobby Mackey’s Music World, a country nightclub in Wilder, Kentucky, he had no idea he was stepping into what would become one of America’s mos...
11 Aug 26min
Fragments | Franklin Castle: The Ghost Who Confessed to Murder — Ep. 03
Two listeners pointed me toward Franklin Castle, one of Ohio’s most famous haunted houses and the center of decades of ghost stories and paranormal claims. I expected to find another ghost story. Inst...
4 Aug 9min
Fragments | Blackbeard’s Ghost: The Light That Never Left Ocracoke — Ep. 02
In November 1718, the pirate known as Blackbeard was killed in the waters near Ocracoke Island. His head was carried away as proof of his death, while his body disappeared beneath the surface. But aro...
28 Jul 9min
Creature Encounter: The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp | The Night Browntown Road Changed Forever — Ep. 62
Join host Robert Barber as he examines one of America’s most enduring cryptid and unexplained creature encounters. In the summer of 1988, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis stopped along a quiet roa...
21 Jul 31min
Fragments | The Devil’s Footprints: The Tracks That Crossed Rooftops — Ep. 01
Welcome to State of the Unknown: Fragments. Every other Tuesday, alongside our full documentary episodes, I’ll be sharing a shorter story—forgotten newspaper accounts, enduring folklore, strange witne...
14 Jul 11min
