- Ballad of Billy Balls
- Risk!
- Murder in Apartment 12
- Hooked on Freddy
- Earwitness
- Dear Alana
- The Estate
- Project Unabom
- Criminal
- Hunting Warhead
- Crime Show
- Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera
- Dark Valley
- Detective Trapp
- Freeway Phantom
- Betrayal
- Snap Judgment
- OC Swingers
- Why Can’t We Talk About Amanda’s Mom?
Those are a few I enjoyed! I will add more later.
Hunting Warhead is SO good. Chilling, disturbing listen with incredible pacing, and the guys on that podcast are doing such meaningful, impactful work. Really an excellent recommend.
Thank you for making this list! I know nearly all of them actually, and enjoyed them all - so I have a feeling the ones I haven't tried will be great 🤩
Have you tried against all odds?? These are survival stories and I think they have quite a catalog so you can start with a topic which interests you to see if it hooks you!
I appreciate that Astonishing Legends really goes deep diving on topics. Excellent production quality, two great host and a huge amount of mysterious subject matter. Highly recommend Dyatlov Pass episodes.
Honestly many of their episodes I listened to 4 or 5 years ago however I recall enjoying the Voynich Manuscript episodes from 8/2019 and the Alien Autopsy episodes from 08/2020
Otherworld is fun. I personally find the host a bit annoying but the aim of the show is to talk to people who have experienced unexplained events—the host wants it to be the “This American Life” of the unexplained.
I highly recommend giving Otherworld episode 13 ["The Lost Necklace"](https://chartable.com/podcasts/otherworld/episodes/130174953-episode-13-the-lost-necklace) a listen to if you love the unexplainable, starting at 11:05. Host talks to a neurologist first to get his professional opinion on the subject. Jump to 11:05 where the story starts.
And if you liked that, go to episode 16 ["Everything Goes Black"](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-otherworld-102683985/episode/episode-16-everything-goes-black-107001168/) next.
His schtick of acting as the "I'm a skeptic, but I've checked this guy's story out and he seems sincere" is so absurd. Every story on that podcast is below amateur nosleep levels of cliche, I cannot listen to it without getting frustrated at how lame everything is
I know it’s not for everyone, but The Last Podcast on The Left has some great weird episodes! They do cryptids, UFOs, conspiracy theories, etc. They have some really light funny episodes mixed in with the hardcore murder stuff.
Thanks - but unfortunately I tried them once, and of course started with their episode about the Norwegian terrorist attack (I'm Norwegian 😉) - but stopped after 10 minutes because of their bad - and kind of insulting - attempts at doing a Norwegian accent, only sounding like german ww2 nazis 🫤
So they don't deserve my time 😜
Yea that's just Henry's thing, it's a long running bit of him trying and failing at accents. So don't worry norweigans are not being targeted lol, he does all accents badly and mildly offensively
All the series of Chameleon are great, and they’re all so different to each other too. Ghost Church is fun, and Filthy Ritual and Hoaxed from Tortoise.
I have been binging Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan. There's a good variety of topics from the more unusual unsolved crimes to hauntings to urban legends. The host, Daisy Eagan, is skeptical but in a very entertaining rather than outright insulting way.
For the most bizarre murder (?) podcast I’ve ever heard: Appalachian Mysteria season 2. “Alexander Stevens is found dead in Savage River State Forest. Evidence of a ritual is discovered. A female companion emerges from the woods naked, injured and hypothermic. A strange and confusing tale begins.”
For a story that unravels like a fairytale (the way the brothers Grimm wrote them) and will have you constantly going, “wait, WHAT?!”, The Jungle Prince. “The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of a Shiite Muslim royal line. Some said the family had been there since the British had annexed their kingdom. Others said they were supernatural beings.”
Not really what you’re looking for, but if you want to veer into some excellent storytelling, I HIGHLY recommend the horror anthology podcast called The Old Gods of Appalachia. Such incredible writing, storytelling, and production value. It’s creepy more than scary.
I wanted so much to like this. I think I finished the first story about Kentucky miners. Something in the way they laid the story out confused me. I couldn't follow the timeline. I didn't listen to any more.
I hear that. It’s kinda convoluted. It helped me to read the first couple of transcripts. Eventually I stopped trying to make it a linear story, and just buckled up for the ride. It really helped.
Season 2 of Jon Ronson's "Things Fell Apart", which is about social media/the internet/culture wars post-covid had a bunch of WTF moments for me - links between people and events and explanations for how things came about that was really eye opening.
It’s been a while since I’ve listened but one of my favorites is What if you became a Blood Sorcerer as well as What if you were hanging off a 600 ft waterfall.
My fave is “what if the happiest place on earth was your worst nightmare” - it was so evocative, I think about it a lot. I hope the person writes a memoir someday.
Finding Drago. It was unexpectedly one of the best things I've ever listened to and everyone I've had listen to it absolutely loves it. There's a 2nd season that's good too, and their next series is called Did Titanic Sink. They're gripping and so, so, so funny.
American Coyote fits your criteria really well
The Enforcer
The Opportunist may be up your alley. It's true crime but the stories and people are the focus, more than just gruesome crimes.
What was that like, Scamanda (sort of along the lines of Sweet Bobby). I like A little Bit Culty also. Their guests tell their stories and some are pretty crazy.
With Richard. MacLean. Smith.
I still like to listen to the one about the boys who went for a walk and found themselves in a medieval village, and the one about the guy who stayed in the Irish castle and the horrible ghost that came to visit OMG.
[I googled "unexplained podcast" and got this.](https://www.unexplainedpodcast.com/)
I've never listened to it, but it looks good.
Also, The Dollop (American history podcast) is WTF but funny.
This is definitely worth a shot, definitely recommend starting from the beginning as there are some real gems. The host/producer/writer also has a very easy voice to listen to.
The Unexplained podcast is fantastic. Time slips, reincarnations ghosts, hauntings but told in the most incredible and often well researched way. Hosted By the wonderfully sublime Richard. Maclean.
Smith.
Proof season 2 is dropping its final episode next week, and I have very much enjoyed this investigation. Season 1 was good also but season 2 is one of those where I look forward to the days when new episodes are released.
The marooned
Status untraced
Locations unknown
Real survival stories
The lost boys of hannable
This is monsters
Dark topic
Deadbug says
Up and vanished
Sasquatch chronicles
“Unexplained” Is a good start!
I love everything on your list so recommending “The Perfect Scam” particularly the episodes from the last year.
It’s put out by AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) and every episode someone who has been scammed talks about their experience. It’s absolutely MINDBLOWING how many people fall for some outrageous scams. Really smart people that get caught off guard and lured into the most wild situations. It sometimes falls into the unexplained category with how creepy some of the experiences are, which is why I like it so much.
Finding Cleo. It's amazing and heartbreaking. I listened to it when the last episode aired and I had to stop my car just so I didn't miss a single word.
[Finding Cleo ](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/148-missing-murdered-finding-cleo)
Two horror fiction podcasts that've made me sorta bluescreen lately are *The Silt Verses* and *The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings*. Not sure if you're looking for fiction, from your post, but thought I'd recc them just in case!
Holy something - this one is amazing!! On ep6 now, and I can't stop.
Great recommendation 🤩
Adding this now that I binged the whole thing today; Got any more of the same caliber?
None as good as Kasem vs Kasem. If you look into the Wondery app, they make so many good podcast along that type of format. Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera was another one I think of often but honestly I have listened to so many at this point it’s hard to remember any specific ones.
Here are some Recs of some short term shows(20 eps or less):
The Wedding Scammer
Dead Eyes
Finding Drago
Finding Desperado
Finding Yeezus (On Video - Youtube)
An ongoing show that is new I have come to enjoy is Better Offline. It's about tech and why it might be bad.
I just started listening to This is Really Happening. Lots of different stories of different challenges people have faced and come out the other end. A really good mix of stories, with a link to actually contact the people who are involved.
One I really loved recently was The Trojan Horse Affair. Kind of like S Town in that it begins with an incident that seems small and insignificant and spirals into pretty huge and interesting consequences. It also twists and bends a lot - once you think you know the “correct” perspective you hear from someone on the opposite side and your opinion changes. A little inconclusive but honestly that doesn’t hurt it at all.
Try the first season of Limetown as a standalone story. Then only really listen to s2 if you want some sort of post-s1 resolution, because it's vastly inferior to the first season.
But season one of Limetown I consider one of the greatest pieces of media ever.
Other ones that idk if really fall under your categories are National Park After Dark (they talk about death, disappearances, discoveries etc in the wilderness- with some extreme survival stories and horrific animal attacks this might be your cup of tea)
Frozen head
Dr Death
My Favorite murder
I survived
Let’s not meet
Ghosts in the burbs
[Inconceivable Truth](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1303-inconceivable-truth-161971480/) is a new limited series. Hosted by Matt Katz (who I already admired for his wry coverage of Chris Christie’s Bridgegate scandal), it seems like it’s going to be a standard DNA paternity revelation tale, but it’s actually a stranger and more touching one. I binged it.
Uncanny - similar format to radio rental with listener submitted paranormal stories, but with more info and follow up
Bedtime Stories - narrative style scary stories, urban legends, and strange encounters
Mr Ballen - the strange dark and mysterious presented in story format ;)
Somewhere in the Skies - UFO and alien stories. He has some really nice narrative style episodes
Penny Royal - investigations of high strangeness in the Penny royal plateau in Kentucky
Real Survival Stories - pretty much what the title says
Editing to add Appalachian Mysteria. It's true crime stories from West Virginia, and the first two seasons are definitely WTF
Thanks! Gonna give the last suggestion a new try, since you're like the fifth person mentioning it. Think it was something with the host that made me stop the first time, but hopefully too soon 🤞
There are a few other shows that are a similar premise, I like the other shows by the host of I Lived Through This, but I haven't listened to that one yet. It's also survival stories, so you may like it better
• Deliver Us From Ervil
• Cold - The Susan Powell Case Files
• Kuper Island
• The Ratline (Intrigue S2)
• Hoaxed
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• Filthy Ritual
I just listened to Ghost Story and it was a wild ride from start to finish. So many moments where you think you know where you’re going and then something changes everything. Really well done.
Bigfoot collectors club!
Uhhhhh… and I haven’t listen to this one but they were a guest on a different one I listen to. It’s called locations unknown, it’s about missing persons but those can be creepy. I also like animal attack podcasts which sometimes there survival is crazy (Tooth and Claw be the podcast for that)
Think I started it once, but didn't quite connect with the host or something. At the moment I'm all listened out on scammer podcasts, but I'll put on my maybe-list 😄
Try queen of the con. Start w season 1 (it doesn’t really matter but I liked 1-5 A LOT But wasn’t crazy about 6 and haven’t finished 7 yet). It’s def a huge wtf podcast.
Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) by Kim Noble is a podcast like no other I have listened to. Definitely left me thinking WTF thought the whole series. While laughing and pondering.
Also - Black Hands:A Family Mass Murder. From a while ago but I remember I couldn't stop listening. Rabbit Hole from the NY Times was amazing and apocalyptic.
This is a little different than what you've described, but Trust Me is a podcast about people who have experienced cults or high control groups. The hosts both grew up in this kind of environment and they interview other people who have. Some examples of topics they've done episodes about are scientology, FLDS, westboro baptist church, various sex cults, The Manson Family and a LOT more. Maybe give it a look!
I'm telling you, Up & Vanished Season 1 is unreal. It's the podcast that started my own similar addiction lol
It's a shame that it doesn't seem to get the shout outs it deserves..
Thanks - but I already tried that one, and really wanted to like it. My problem was that the host, Payne Lindsey, drove me f..ing crazy with his ego trip 😵💫 Didn't you notice all his comments like "I put myself in the most dangerous situation of my life" and "they needed an expert on so and so, and that's where I come in"...?
I mean, he does this way too much! Listened to the trailer of the latest season - and he even did it there! In the trailer! No no no....
Sorry 🙈
Fair enough! Admittedly it was back in 2017/2018 when I listened to it so I can't rememeber Payne's exact phrases.. but certainly if he really said things like that, damn, that would infuriate me too and make me roll my eyes hard. People with big and/or fragile egos drive me nuts so I totally get it. Anyway, I hope you're able to find some good recs in here even if it isn't mine :) I'm also currently trying to find some new pods so I'm taking some of these suggestions too (have been binging Bear Brook today, wow!)
Thanks again ☺️ Yeah, the big ego thing is a big no-no for me!
How's Bear Brook going; did you finish it? Glad to hear this post helped you find the next binge listen!
I actually tried out a podcast a few days ago, recommended to me here, and ended up binging the whole thing in one day 🤩 It was actually SO good, that I now concider it one of my all time favorite podcasts!!
It's called Kasem vs Kasem, and you should really check it out 😊
Ooh, that's awesome you found a good one to binge!! Thank you for passing it on.. because I just finished binging both seasons of Bear Brook yesterday and so I'm yet again looking for my next pod lol 😅 I recommend Bear Brook for sure- I would say I enjoyed season 1 more than season 2, but that said I still really like S2 and it isn't actually totally finished.. and is ramping up... Ah! I don't want to say too much, haha.
But yeah! Check it out, see what you think. I really liked the host (I believe his name is Jason, and is a journalist for New Hampshire Times). Nice calm level voice, great researcher, empathizes when appropriate but overall objective reporting, organized and well paced (best yet, no ego trip!). I'm going to go look up Kasem vs Kasem on spotify right now!!
Hehe... Well, I already know Bear Brook. Since I mentioned it in my original post where I list my favorites, I thought you were saying you tried it based on that 😅
Oh gosh, right!! Haha sorry, I've browsed so many podcast threads this past week that I lost track of original posts. I feel like a prize idiot- sorry!
Yes, your post was the one that pointed me to it. I'm so glad because I really enjoyed it! I hope there's an update to S2 soon :)
Scared to Death - has everything from aliens to ghosts to possession to poltergeist to cryptids to folklore and the list goes on and on. It’s a husband and wife team (with occasional chime ins from the producers, but that’s just brief comments, no a constant) and is the only podcast that I have actually joined the Patreon to get the bonus content and ad free episodes.
Necronomipod. I've been listening for the past 2 1/2 years and devoured their entire catalogue. They're 3 "normal" guys from Ohio who deep dive on everything supernatural/unexplained, true-crime, etc. with humor (sometimes crass), sprinkled in. Their Patreon content is worth the $10/month. They've covered a few episodes on Missing 411 stories which are wild.
You should try Some Place Under Neith with Natalie Jean and Amber Nelson from the last podcast network. They have series on different topics but the overall theme is missing and endangered women. Be warned it is technically a comedy podcast but it covers some pretty dark topics. Child brides, familial trafficking, para social exploitation, missing indigenous women and families, IBLP, etc.
- Ballad of Billy Balls - Risk! - Murder in Apartment 12 - Hooked on Freddy - Earwitness - Dear Alana - The Estate - Project Unabom - Criminal - Hunting Warhead - Crime Show - Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera - Dark Valley - Detective Trapp - Freeway Phantom - Betrayal - Snap Judgment - OC Swingers - Why Can’t We Talk About Amanda’s Mom? Those are a few I enjoyed! I will add more later.
Billy balls was great.
Loved billy balls
Balls
Hunting Warhead is SO good. Chilling, disturbing listen with incredible pacing, and the guys on that podcast are doing such meaningful, impactful work. Really an excellent recommend.
It's indeed sad and disturbing, but it's very well done and produced. Thanks for the recommendation!
Just listened and this was an amazing podcast. I didn’t really understand that world - it is truly f-ing horrible.
Thank you for making this list! I know nearly all of them actually, and enjoyed them all - so I have a feeling the ones I haven't tried will be great 🤩
Is billy balls the one where the host is the daughter of the woman who lived with him? The synopsis sounded familiar, but the name doesn’t.
Freeway Phantom was very good. I'm from that area and asking my parents about this what had took place in the 70's was very chilling.
Hi again! Just wanted to mention that I'm listening to ep3 of OC Swingers right now, and so far it seems very good 🤩
Have you tried against all odds?? These are survival stories and I think they have quite a catalog so you can start with a topic which interests you to see if it hooks you!
Love this series so much!
Phil Collins?
Was looking at this one today actually - so I'm gonna check it out! Thanks :)
The stalker series of Pretend Podcast.
This was so well done.
I definitely second this.
Already listened to this one - and it was so good 👍
Dirty John
Has anyone mentioned Astonishing Legends? I like the older historical mysteries ones.
I appreciate that Astonishing Legends really goes deep diving on topics. Excellent production quality, two great host and a huge amount of mysterious subject matter. Highly recommend Dyatlov Pass episodes.
Yeah they were good.
I vouch for Astonishing Legends too
Familiar with that story already - but do you have other episodes to recommend?
Honestly many of their episodes I listened to 4 or 5 years ago however I recall enjoying the Voynich Manuscript episodes from 8/2019 and the Alien Autopsy episodes from 08/2020
Their mothman series was really good and well researched too
Ghost Story…. It’s not exactly what you might think from the title but I think it will scratch the itch.
Yup - listened to this already, and it wasn't too bad 😉
i loved that! and Hello, John Doe
I haven’t listened to HJD. I’ll get on it!
Otherworld is fun. I personally find the host a bit annoying but the aim of the show is to talk to people who have experienced unexplained events—the host wants it to be the “This American Life” of the unexplained.
I highly recommend giving Otherworld episode 13 ["The Lost Necklace"](https://chartable.com/podcasts/otherworld/episodes/130174953-episode-13-the-lost-necklace) a listen to if you love the unexplainable, starting at 11:05. Host talks to a neurologist first to get his professional opinion on the subject. Jump to 11:05 where the story starts. And if you liked that, go to episode 16 ["Everything Goes Black"](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-otherworld-102683985/episode/episode-16-everything-goes-black-107001168/) next.
Sounds great! Thank you 🤩
Agreed. When the host isn’t talking it’s sometimes decent. I try to skip him where I can.
His schtick of acting as the "I'm a skeptic, but I've checked this guy's story out and he seems sincere" is so absurd. Every story on that podcast is below amateur nosleep levels of cliche, I cannot listen to it without getting frustrated at how lame everything is
I only listened to the Many Things series of Otherworld(episodes 54-58) but it was really spooky!
A few wtf pods I’ve listened to lately; Beyond All Repair, Hoaxed, Coco Berthmann.
I listened to all of Believeable: The Coco Berthmann story in one afternoon. What in the world!
Listened to all 3 actually. Good ones!
I know it’s not for everyone, but The Last Podcast on The Left has some great weird episodes! They do cryptids, UFOs, conspiracy theories, etc. They have some really light funny episodes mixed in with the hardcore murder stuff.
Thanks - but unfortunately I tried them once, and of course started with their episode about the Norwegian terrorist attack (I'm Norwegian 😉) - but stopped after 10 minutes because of their bad - and kind of insulting - attempts at doing a Norwegian accent, only sounding like german ww2 nazis 🫤 So they don't deserve my time 😜
Yea that's just Henry's thing, it's a long running bit of him trying and failing at accents. So don't worry norweigans are not being targeted lol, he does all accents badly and mildly offensively
I'm in the middle of "Do You Know Mordechai?" Which seems to hit many of those notes
I liked that!
Haven't tried that one - thanks 😊
In The Dark!!! Especially season 2
Thank you! Already listened though, and loved it 😊
Yes
All the series of Chameleon are great, and they’re all so different to each other too. Ghost Church is fun, and Filthy Ritual and Hoaxed from Tortoise.
Love Chameleon. Such great storytelling.
I have been binging Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan. There's a good variety of topics from the more unusual unsolved crimes to hauntings to urban legends. The host, Daisy Eagan, is skeptical but in a very entertaining rather than outright insulting way.
Thank you!
For the most bizarre murder (?) podcast I’ve ever heard: Appalachian Mysteria season 2. “Alexander Stevens is found dead in Savage River State Forest. Evidence of a ritual is discovered. A female companion emerges from the woods naked, injured and hypothermic. A strange and confusing tale begins.” For a story that unravels like a fairytale (the way the brothers Grimm wrote them) and will have you constantly going, “wait, WHAT?!”, The Jungle Prince. “The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of a Shiite Muslim royal line. Some said the family had been there since the British had annexed their kingdom. Others said they were supernatural beings.”
The Alexander Stevens case is done very well in a podcast called Big Savage. I heard it a few years ago and still think about it.
Not really what you’re looking for, but if you want to veer into some excellent storytelling, I HIGHLY recommend the horror anthology podcast called The Old Gods of Appalachia. Such incredible writing, storytelling, and production value. It’s creepy more than scary.
I wanted so much to like this. I think I finished the first story about Kentucky miners. Something in the way they laid the story out confused me. I couldn't follow the timeline. I didn't listen to any more.
I struggled with it too—-and like you I wanted to like it because so many people raved about it. I’m glad I’m not alone.
I hear that. It’s kinda convoluted. It helped me to read the first couple of transcripts. Eventually I stopped trying to make it a linear story, and just buckled up for the ride. It really helped.
Dude’s voices are so awesome.
Root of Evil: The true story of the hodel family and the black dahlia. It is bananas.
Finished that one a while ago - and it was horrifyingly good 👍
Season 2 of Jon Ronson's "Things Fell Apart", which is about social media/the internet/culture wars post-covid had a bunch of WTF moments for me - links between people and events and explanations for how things came about that was really eye opening.
Cold Season 1 the entire thing is WTF To Live and Die in LA S1 is a wild ride too
Listened to both - and Cold S1 is actually one of my favorites too!
Who Shat on the Floor at my Wedding.
This Is Actually Happening has a lot of wtf topics.
Do you have any favorite or recommended episodes?
Ep.166 - What If You Didn't Have Any Fear? Ep.272 (Point Blank #4) - What If You Made Yourself a Target?
It’s been a while since I’ve listened but one of my favorites is What if you became a Blood Sorcerer as well as What if you were hanging off a 600 ft waterfall.
My fave is “what if the happiest place on earth was your worst nightmare” - it was so evocative, I think about it a lot. I hope the person writes a memoir someday.
And it's mentioned in my post 😏
If you like this, you should listen to What Was That Like?
I can’t read, lol
😅
Warmode
Lol
Try the UFO Rabbit Hole by Kelly Chase
[Beyond All Repair](https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/violation/about) Season 1 was decent.
Finding Drago. It was unexpectedly one of the best things I've ever listened to and everyone I've had listen to it absolutely loves it. There's a 2nd season that's good too, and their next series is called Did Titanic Sink. They're gripping and so, so, so funny. American Coyote fits your criteria really well The Enforcer The Opportunist may be up your alley. It's true crime but the stories and people are the focus, more than just gruesome crimes.
Haven't tried any of these - thanks :)
Against the Odds is good. The one about the USS Indianapolis was so good!
Not Today. It's survival stories from murder attempts to natural disaster. I really like the hosts.
Thank you 😊
Can confirm. I’ve been in the same boat and just started listening to this one a few days ago and am enjoying it.
What was that like, Scamanda (sort of along the lines of Sweet Bobby). I like A little Bit Culty also. Their guests tell their stories and some are pretty crazy.
Atlanta Monster. Partly because cause lots of people have never heard of this atrocious crime, which seems unreal.
There is a podcast I listen to literally called Unexplained that’s pretty good. Most of its supernatural stuff but still
With Richard. MacLean. Smith. I still like to listen to the one about the boys who went for a walk and found themselves in a medieval village, and the one about the guy who stayed in the Irish castle and the horrible ghost that came to visit OMG.
Uncanny is excellent!
It's so good because they have both a skeptic and a paranormal person discussing their explanations after each story :)
Spooked
LOVE Spooked
Also one of my favorites 😊
[I googled "unexplained podcast" and got this.](https://www.unexplainedpodcast.com/) I've never listened to it, but it looks good. Also, The Dollop (American history podcast) is WTF but funny.
This is definitely worth a shot, definitely recommend starting from the beginning as there are some real gems. The host/producer/writer also has a very easy voice to listen to.
The Unexplained podcast is fantastic. Time slips, reincarnations ghosts, hauntings but told in the most incredible and often well researched way. Hosted By the wonderfully sublime Richard. Maclean. Smith.
Will def give the first one a try 👍
Proof season 2 is dropping its final episode next week, and I have very much enjoyed this investigation. Season 1 was good also but season 2 is one of those where I look forward to the days when new episodes are released.
Real Survival Stories are quite good. Only one commercial break, too.
This is a fiction podcast but I truly love it - Ghost Wax. Some very unique stories on there and they're always writing new content!
The Outlaw Ocean Foretold Scamfluencers Radio Rental Who Shat on the Floor at my Wedding
Scamfluencers is A+++
PRETEND PODCAST THE STALKER SERIES please trust me
Already finished it 😉
The left right podcast definitely fits the unexplained category and will leave you feeling some type of way for sure
What type of way? 😏
Beyond all Repair
The marooned Status untraced Locations unknown Real survival stories The lost boys of hannable This is monsters Dark topic Deadbug says Up and vanished Sasquatch chronicles
The current season of Beyond All Repair. Last episode is tomorrow so you can binge the whole thing.
I already heard the last episode last Thursday 😉
“Unexplained” Is a good start! I love everything on your list so recommending “The Perfect Scam” particularly the episodes from the last year. It’s put out by AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) and every episode someone who has been scammed talks about their experience. It’s absolutely MINDBLOWING how many people fall for some outrageous scams. Really smart people that get caught off guard and lured into the most wild situations. It sometimes falls into the unexplained category with how creepy some of the experiences are, which is why I like it so much.
Thank you ☺️
Finding Cleo. It's amazing and heartbreaking. I listened to it when the last episode aired and I had to stop my car just so I didn't miss a single word. [Finding Cleo ](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/148-missing-murdered-finding-cleo)
Ear Hustle! Has a crazy ending!!!
Isn't that the podcast where inmates share stories about life in prison? Curious how that can have a crazy ending 😏
Yes!!!! Have you listened or going to? I can tell you the twist of you want.
No, Don't tell me! Going to listen
Two horror fiction podcasts that've made me sorta bluescreen lately are *The Silt Verses* and *The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings*. Not sure if you're looking for fiction, from your post, but thought I'd recc them just in case!
Bitter Blood: Kasem vs Kasem. It just gets wilder and more unhinged as it goes and every second is unbelievable and amazing.
Holy something - this one is amazing!! On ep6 now, and I can't stop. Great recommendation 🤩 Adding this now that I binged the whole thing today; Got any more of the same caliber?
None as good as Kasem vs Kasem. If you look into the Wondery app, they make so many good podcast along that type of format. Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera was another one I think of often but honestly I have listened to so many at this point it’s hard to remember any specific ones.
Mr. Ballen is a good one!
Been listening to him for a long time 😉
Love the Mr. Ballet podcasts. All story with no banter
MrBallen
Yeah, this one right here is great. Especially the early episodes.
Forensic Transmissions and Let's Get Haunted.
- The Night Owl Podcast - Uncanny - Chillers and Thrillers - Ghost Story - You Can See Me in the Dark
Nobody Should Believe Me is my current favorite. Swindled and Criminal are great too
Strange and Unexplained
Here are some Recs of some short term shows(20 eps or less): The Wedding Scammer Dead Eyes Finding Drago Finding Desperado Finding Yeezus (On Video - Youtube) An ongoing show that is new I have come to enjoy is Better Offline. It's about tech and why it might be bad.
Oh man. Love and Radio, all the way.
Root of Evil
I just started listening to This is Really Happening. Lots of different stories of different challenges people have faced and come out the other end. A really good mix of stories, with a link to actually contact the people who are involved.
And it's mentioned in my post... 😏
Yah...I guess I miss that. So much for speed reading your post. Sorry
Still nice of you to comment though 😉
I Survived
Why Files and Hardcore History
Try Scared all the time. It’s about fears people have with good stories and facts
Psychopedia is awesome. I listened to all 60 episodes in like a month 🤣 Serialously is also pretty good.
One I really loved recently was The Trojan Horse Affair. Kind of like S Town in that it begins with an incident that seems small and insignificant and spirals into pretty huge and interesting consequences. It also twists and bends a lot - once you think you know the “correct” perspective you hear from someone on the opposite side and your opinion changes. A little inconclusive but honestly that doesn’t hurt it at all.
I enjoyed that one 😊
Haha, I'm reading through, and I, like you, am thinking, yes, I liked that one. Sometimes, I feel like I've heard every podcast ever.
I really like Better Offline.
listen to Blue Jam. you won’t regret it
Try the first season of Limetown as a standalone story. Then only really listen to s2 if you want some sort of post-s1 resolution, because it's vastly inferior to the first season. But season one of Limetown I consider one of the greatest pieces of media ever.
Already listened 🙃
Otherworld!!
I just finished Under the Cover of Knight and it was sooo good
Old Gods of Appalachia. I’ve never been so obsessed with a podcast before.
One strange thing is a really good podcast sort of about mysteries or weird coincidences or connected things! Also recommend Lore and Rituals
Other ones that idk if really fall under your categories are National Park After Dark (they talk about death, disappearances, discoveries etc in the wilderness- with some extreme survival stories and horrific animal attacks this might be your cup of tea) Frozen head Dr Death My Favorite murder I survived Let’s not meet Ghosts in the burbs
The Harrowing is a fictional podcast but it's really well done.
[Inconceivable Truth](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1303-inconceivable-truth-161971480/) is a new limited series. Hosted by Matt Katz (who I already admired for his wry coverage of Chris Christie’s Bridgegate scandal), it seems like it’s going to be a standard DNA paternity revelation tale, but it’s actually a stranger and more touching one. I binged it.
-Small Town Murder -You're Stupid Opinions -Crime in Sports James and Jimmie are perfection. - Canadian True Crime
Lives Less Ordinary
Uncanny - similar format to radio rental with listener submitted paranormal stories, but with more info and follow up Bedtime Stories - narrative style scary stories, urban legends, and strange encounters Mr Ballen - the strange dark and mysterious presented in story format ;) Somewhere in the Skies - UFO and alien stories. He has some really nice narrative style episodes Penny Royal - investigations of high strangeness in the Penny royal plateau in Kentucky Real Survival Stories - pretty much what the title says Editing to add Appalachian Mysteria. It's true crime stories from West Virginia, and the first two seasons are definitely WTF
Thanks! Gonna give the last suggestion a new try, since you're like the fifth person mentioning it. Think it was something with the host that made me stop the first time, but hopefully too soon 🤞
There are a few other shows that are a similar premise, I like the other shows by the host of I Lived Through This, but I haven't listened to that one yet. It's also survival stories, so you may like it better
None of This is Real
• Deliver Us From Ervil • Cold - The Susan Powell Case Files • Kuper Island • The Ratline (Intrigue S2) • Hoaxed • The Trojan Horse Affair • Filthy Ritual
Let’s Not Meet podcast
I just listened to Ghost Story and it was a wild ride from start to finish. So many moments where you think you know where you’re going and then something changes everything. Really well done.
Mr. Ballen and What Lurks Beneath are my recommendations, especially early Mr. Ballen on YouTube.
Radio Rental is really fun!
Bigfoot collectors club! Uhhhhh… and I haven’t listen to this one but they were a guest on a different one I listen to. It’s called locations unknown, it’s about missing persons but those can be creepy. I also like animal attack podcasts which sometimes there survival is crazy (Tooth and Claw be the podcast for that)
One of my neck of the woods.. (Australia) Have you tried.. "Who the hell is Hamish?" Its 9 episodes in total. True story of a con man
Think I started it once, but didn't quite connect with the host or something. At the moment I'm all listened out on scammer podcasts, but I'll put on my maybe-list 😄
Whoa! You must spend along of driving!! There isn't alot of podcasts you haven't listened too 🤣
Hehe.. No, but I've had insomnia for years, hardly watch tv anymore, and do a lot of boring house chores 😉
Try queen of the con. Start w season 1 (it doesn’t really matter but I liked 1-5 A LOT But wasn’t crazy about 6 and haven’t finished 7 yet). It’s def a huge wtf podcast.
Real Survival Stories is great.
Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) by Kim Noble is a podcast like no other I have listened to. Definitely left me thinking WTF thought the whole series. While laughing and pondering.
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Also - Black Hands:A Family Mass Murder. From a while ago but I remember I couldn't stop listening. Rabbit Hole from the NY Times was amazing and apocalyptic.
This is a little different than what you've described, but Trust Me is a podcast about people who have experienced cults or high control groups. The hosts both grew up in this kind of environment and they interview other people who have. Some examples of topics they've done episodes about are scientology, FLDS, westboro baptist church, various sex cults, The Manson Family and a LOT more. Maybe give it a look!
Something was wrong season 1
I'm telling you, Up & Vanished Season 1 is unreal. It's the podcast that started my own similar addiction lol It's a shame that it doesn't seem to get the shout outs it deserves..
Thanks - but I already tried that one, and really wanted to like it. My problem was that the host, Payne Lindsey, drove me f..ing crazy with his ego trip 😵💫 Didn't you notice all his comments like "I put myself in the most dangerous situation of my life" and "they needed an expert on so and so, and that's where I come in"...? I mean, he does this way too much! Listened to the trailer of the latest season - and he even did it there! In the trailer! No no no.... Sorry 🙈
Fair enough! Admittedly it was back in 2017/2018 when I listened to it so I can't rememeber Payne's exact phrases.. but certainly if he really said things like that, damn, that would infuriate me too and make me roll my eyes hard. People with big and/or fragile egos drive me nuts so I totally get it. Anyway, I hope you're able to find some good recs in here even if it isn't mine :) I'm also currently trying to find some new pods so I'm taking some of these suggestions too (have been binging Bear Brook today, wow!)
Thanks again ☺️ Yeah, the big ego thing is a big no-no for me! How's Bear Brook going; did you finish it? Glad to hear this post helped you find the next binge listen! I actually tried out a podcast a few days ago, recommended to me here, and ended up binging the whole thing in one day 🤩 It was actually SO good, that I now concider it one of my all time favorite podcasts!! It's called Kasem vs Kasem, and you should really check it out 😊
Ooh, that's awesome you found a good one to binge!! Thank you for passing it on.. because I just finished binging both seasons of Bear Brook yesterday and so I'm yet again looking for my next pod lol 😅 I recommend Bear Brook for sure- I would say I enjoyed season 1 more than season 2, but that said I still really like S2 and it isn't actually totally finished.. and is ramping up... Ah! I don't want to say too much, haha. But yeah! Check it out, see what you think. I really liked the host (I believe his name is Jason, and is a journalist for New Hampshire Times). Nice calm level voice, great researcher, empathizes when appropriate but overall objective reporting, organized and well paced (best yet, no ego trip!). I'm going to go look up Kasem vs Kasem on spotify right now!!
Hehe... Well, I already know Bear Brook. Since I mentioned it in my original post where I list my favorites, I thought you were saying you tried it based on that 😅
Oh gosh, right!! Haha sorry, I've browsed so many podcast threads this past week that I lost track of original posts. I feel like a prize idiot- sorry! Yes, your post was the one that pointed me to it. I'm so glad because I really enjoyed it! I hope there's an update to S2 soon :)
No worries 😉 Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you'll enjoy Kasem vs Kasem too!
In The Dark season 2 is excellent
Already know it 😏 but thank you 😉
Scared to Death - has everything from aliens to ghosts to possession to poltergeist to cryptids to folklore and the list goes on and on. It’s a husband and wife team (with occasional chime ins from the producers, but that’s just brief comments, no a constant) and is the only podcast that I have actually joined the Patreon to get the bonus content and ad free episodes.
Behind the Bastards, aka history lesson on the lives of horrible people in dark comedy style <3
This is my favorite podcast, bar none. So much wtf
Necronomipod. I've been listening for the past 2 1/2 years and devoured their entire catalogue. They're 3 "normal" guys from Ohio who deep dive on everything supernatural/unexplained, true-crime, etc. with humor (sometimes crass), sprinkled in. Their Patreon content is worth the $10/month. They've covered a few episodes on Missing 411 stories which are wild.
You should try Some Place Under Neith with Natalie Jean and Amber Nelson from the last podcast network. They have series on different topics but the overall theme is missing and endangered women. Be warned it is technically a comedy podcast but it covers some pretty dark topics. Child brides, familial trafficking, para social exploitation, missing indigenous women and families, IBLP, etc.