Category: Unexplained
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Ep 151: The Axeman of New Orleans
Leave the lights on and make sure some jazz is playing, the Axeman of New Orleans is striking Blurry Photos! A horrific true crime account of an early 20th century serial killer, the Axeman of New Orleans terrorized the folks of the Big Easy yet his identity remains a mystery. Flora and Stecco put on detective…
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Episode 147: Spontaneous Human Combustion
Fire up the media player and put the oven mitts on, Blurry Photos dive into spontaneous human combustion in this one! Urban legend or scientific possibility? That’s the sizzling question everyone wants to know about spontaneous human combustion. Is it possible for a person to burst into flames and incinerate suddenly and horribly? The boys…
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Episode 145: Cicada 3301
Forget the thinking caps, grab the whole thinking suit as the boys of Blurry Photos try to crack Cicada 3301! One of the oddest recent mysteries of the Internet Age, Cicada 3301 is the term for a series of incredibly complex cryptographic puzzles that have stumped and intrigued folks for years now. What are these…
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Episode 134: Mel’s Hole
David and Dave round out the regular episodes for 2015 with a look at Mel’s Hole. A story straight from the annals of Coast to Coast AM, Mel’s Hole is a tale of strangeness, conspiracy, and otherworldly occurrences that supposedly happened to a man named Mel Waters over a number of years. From bottomless pits…
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Episode 132: Elisa Lam
The boys of Blurry Photos take on a recent mystery as they examine the odd death of Elisa Lam. Spurred into the limelight by a strange viral video in 2013, the death of Canadian student Elisa Lam captured the world’s attention and scrutiny. What happened to this poor girl at the Cecil Hotel in downtown…
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Episode 131: The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Grab some fresh water and ration the foodstuffs, you’re taking a trip to find the lost colony of Roanoke! Steeped in mystery and dipped in legend, the lost colony of Roanoke is the infamous and unfortunate initial attempt to establish an English settlement in America. Things didn’t go as planned, however, and what followed was a…
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Episode 127: The Flatwoods Monster
The Blurry Photober machine cruises along with an infamous cryptid from the 50’s, the Flatwoods Monster! A classic story of a close encounter of the third kind, the Flatwoods Monster was an entity seen by a group of West Virginians in the early 1950’s. While witnessed by a number of locals, it was never seen…
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Episode 125: Reality
Dave and David come back to reality in this mega-episode. A concept as ubiquitous as it is perplexing, reality is everything we experience, but we don’t even know what it is. Enter Blurry Photos. With a flight through cultural realities, perception, and numerous theories on what it is, the boys really dig into what is real…
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Episode 112: Morgellons Disease
Looking for a strange, little-known, and possibly delusive disease? Let Blurry Photos scratch that itch with an episode all about Morgellons Disease! A weird, uncomfortable skin condition, Morgellons Disease sufferers claim sores and crawling sensations appear on and under their skin and sometimes colored fibers are produced. It hit the medical scene in earnest in ’02-’03,…
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Episode 111: DB Cooper
The Davids are hijacking the airwaves with the help of DB Cooper in this episode! One of very few to hijack a plane and not be caught by the FBI, DB Cooper’s motives, methods, and whereabouts are still a mystery to this day. With the lax security of 1970s airports, a man was able to take over…
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Episode 104: The Hinterkaifeck Murders
Season 3 of Blurry Photos closes on a creepy note with an episode all about The Hinterkaifeck Murders. A gruesome, unexplained, and ultimately unhappy incident, The Hinterkaifeck Murders is perhaps Germany’s strangest and most baffling unsolved crimes. Flora and Stecco delve into the weird events that happened on a small German farm in 1922. Who could…
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BullStone 3: Greg Bach
BullStone’s third installment is a raucous one, as Blurry Photos welcome Greg Bach aboard! Long time friend of the podcast, Milwaukee comedian Greg Bach pays a visit to the Darkroom to talk about the strange case of the Belmez Faces. By the way, we’re calling the studio the Darkroom now. We’ll see how it fits.…
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Episode 96: Dark Matter
David and Dave take on the cosmos and talk about the mysterious subject of dark matter. A modern mystery of galactic proportions, dark matter makes up more of the universe than the matter we’re accustomed to, yet we don’t even know what it is. Numerous observations infer its existence, but what “it” is remains as…
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Episode 91: Men in Black
Blurry Photober dawns anew with an episode all about the men in black! Join David and Dave as they begin another month of creepy coolness by discussing one of the most infamous icons in Forteana. Mysterious, unsettling, and to-date unexplained, men in black aren’t the dashing do-gooders Hollywood wants you to think they are. They’ve…
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Episode 89: Siberia’s Valley of Death
Grab your para-fan and saddle the reindeer, Blurry Photos will be taking you to Siberia’s Valley of Death in this one! A remote area of Russian marsh/taiga, this mysterious section of nowhere known as Siberia’s Valley of Death is home to strange and dangerous structures. The Davids discuss the region’s history as well as the…
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Episode 88: The Philadelphia Experiment
Blurry Photos attempt to lift the green haze surrounding The Philadelphia Experiment in this episode! A harrowing tale of a naval experiment gone awry, The Philadelphia Experiment has all but transcended an old salt’s story and teleported to urban legend. Was the U.S. Navy playing with forces they did not understand in 1943? What information…
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Episode 76a: Dreams
All your dreams are coming true in this 2-part episode! Flora and Stecco take a ride into one of science’s greatest mysteries in another podcast mega-installment. A phenomenon that has been part of human experience since humans human’d, dreams are one of the most common experiences we don’t know much about. The Davids scope out…
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Episode 74: Lake Anjikuni Mystery
Grab your Elk and seal stew, you’re taking a trip to Northern Canada for the Lake Anjikuni Mystery! David and Dave traverse the frozen tundra of the Nunavut Territory to examine a mystery that has been floating around the Canadian wilderness for almost 100 years. Lake Anjikuni, a nondescript body of water along the Kazan…
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Episode 72: Black Knight Satellite
Get your oxygen tank filled and your helmet on, because you’re going to space to track down the mysterious Black Knight Satellite! Flora and Stecco brave the growing cloud of debris and orbiting equipment to see what the fuss is about in this one. Possibly a 13,000 year old device that escapes scrutiny and evades…
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Episode 69: Oak Island
Grab your shovels and galoshes, Blurry Photos are taking you to beautiful and enigmatic Oak Island! A small blob of land just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Oak Island is home to some trees, some rocks, and a crap ton of mystery! For hundreds of years, people have been trying to plumb its depths,…
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Episode 65: Voynich Manuscript
The boys of Blurry Photos take a look at the infamous Voynich Manuscript in this episode! A mystery that has remained perplexing for more than 500 years, the Voynich Manuscript defies intelligence with its cryptic language and boggling illustrations. With no clear origins and no clear purpose, it has excited generations of code breakers, mathematicians,…
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Episode 53: Black Eyed Kids
Blurry Photober kicks off in creepy style, as David and Dave open the door to Black Eyed Kids. A disturbing, eerie phenomenon that has been gaining exposure in recent years, Black Eyed Kids, BEKs, or Black Eyed Children are unknown beings hell-bent on getting inside your home for reasons unknown. Adding to the dreadfulness of…
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Episode 52: Nautical Mysteries
Avast, ye swabs – prepare to be boarded by an onslaught of nautical mysteries! The Davids cast off on the high seas and bring you stories of ghost ships, abandoned vessels, and maritime madness. The sea is a vast, unknown realm, the perfect place to house the unexplained. Hear the harrowing nautical tales of some…
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Episode 47: Numbers Stations
Atencion! One interesting show is in the works, as the boys of Blurry Photos talk about Numbers Stations. To say they are puzzling is an understatement, although information about them has come to light in recent years. Three people have been prosecuted since 2003 in connection with them, and the Davids tell you why. For…
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Episode 42: Shadow People
Ever get the feeling you’re being watched, only you’re the only person in the room, it’s night, and you’re sort of asleep? Well, rest easy knowing that you probably are being watched – by Shadow People. The Davids delve into the dread-inducing world of the enigmatic phenomenon known as Shadow People in this episode of…
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Episode 40: Strange Sounds
Bloops, booms, and baritone horns are the strange sounds berating our ears these days, and the boys of Blurry Photos brainstorm a possible basis for each. Sometimes spooky, sometimes startling, many times unexplainable, strange sounds are happening all over the earth, in the ocean, even in space. Science is doing its best to find answers,…
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Episode 39: Dyatlov Pass
Few mysteries of the modern age can compare to that of the Dyatlov Pass Event. Fortunately for the Davids, that’s exactly how they like it. In this episode of Blurry Photos, they examine the spooky, surreal story of a group of Russian skiers and what happened one night in 1959. The events that took place…
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Episode 32: Time Slips
Step into the past before you even know it with this episode of Blurry Photos. Flora and Stecco examine the phenomenon known as Time Slips and dive into stories of supposed events both famous and not so much. If you’re walking along and suddenly find yourself outside a turn-of-the-century 1900s tailor shop, or maybe come…
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Episode 29: Nazca Lines
If you had a huge easel that would preserve your art for millennia like the ancient Nazca had, what would you draw? Blurry Photos might draw conclusions, according to this episode of the podcast. The Davids take a look at Peru and the mysterious lines that criss and cross the desert plateau and delve into…
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Episode 28: EVP
Did you hear something? Blurry Photos did. The boys take a moment to listen to the dead via EVP in this episode of the podcast. Electronic Voice Phenomena has been around since people have been recording stuff, and as technology improves, so too do EVPs. David and Dave discuss their history, possible explanations of what…