mysteries

In 2016, five members of the Tromp family fled their farm in a single car, leaving behind their passports, credit cards and mobile phones. Why they fled remains one of Australia's greatest modern mysteries—a mystery that not even the Tromp family can...

MKUltra was the CIA’s secret Cold War programme built around drugs, hypnosis, interrogation, and the dream of controlling the human mind. This episode follows Frank Olson, LSD testing, Operation Midnight Climax, Donald Ewen Cameron, destroyed files, ...

Somerton Man is one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries: an unidentified body found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948, a hidden scrap of paper reading “Tamám Shud”, and a trail of clues that only got stranger.

Bob Lazar claimed he worked at Area 51’s hidden S-4 facility reverse-engineering alien craft powered by Element 115. This episode follows the 1989 George Knapp broadcast, Lazar’s story, the credibility questions and the UFO lore it helped send mainst...

The Room 1046 mystery begins with a man calling himself Roland T. Owen, a hotel room in Kansas City, and a death that never properly made sense. When the victim was later identified as Artemis Ogletree, the case only grew stranger, adding false names...

A four-year-old vanishes in Louisiana and reappears under suspiciously perfect circumstances, sparking a century-long battle over identity and truth. This episode unravels the contradictions, contested claims, and DNA twist that rewrote the case.

A man is found dead in a locked hotel room with no sign of struggle, leaving investigators baffled. We trace the overlooked clues and forensic twists that reveal what really happened to Greg Flanagan.

Emanuela Orlandi vanished after a music lesson in Rome in 1983. Decades later, disputed witnesses, Mafia links, leaked Vatican papers and empty tombs still leave one question hanging: what happened to the Vatican girl?

Fifteen-year-old Emanuela Orlandi left a music lesson in Rome on 22 June 1983 and never came home. What began as a missing-person case soon drew in the Vatican, a papal assassin, anonymous callers and secrets powerful people seemed determined to keep...

In 1949, a 13-year-old American boy underwent weeks of Catholic exorcism rites after his family reported scratching noises, moving furniture, violent outbursts and words appearing on his skin. The case of ‘Roland Doe’ inspired The Exorcist, but the t...

The Lindbergh baby kidnapping became America’s “crime of the century”. We follow the ransom trail, Bruno Hauptmann’s trial and the doubts that never disappeared.

In 1962, Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers vanished from Alcatraz using dummy heads and a raincoat raft. We revisit the escape and the mystery of whether they survived.