Second Guess Everything

Alex Underbakke
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Welcome to Second Guess Everything - a podcast that dives into the strange, the unsettling, and the unexplained. Each season explores a specific topic, ranging from true crime, the paranormal, disturbing historical events, and more. Hosted by Alex Underbakke, proud member of the Cultiv8 Podcast Network. Show art by John Consignado.

  1. Sep 15

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery Feat. Lindsay of Ye Ole Crime (Season 3)

    SEASON FINALE: tune in to learn more about what happened to three lighthouse keepers who vanished without a trace, featuring Lindsay - host of Ye Ole Crime (https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/) Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: National Records of Scotland - ‘Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers: The disappearance’    - Jocelyn Grant - December 13th, 2023 — https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2023/12/12/flannan-isles-lighthouse-keepers-the-disappearance/  BBC - ‘Letter on mystery of three missing lighthouse keepers to go on display’ - June 3rd, 2026 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7942e4gdnpo  Northern Lighthouse Board website - ‘Flannan Isles’ - https://www.nlb.org.uk/history/flannan-isles/ Royal Museums Greenwich website - ‘The Flannan Isle Mystery’ - March 26th, 2019 - https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/what-caused-disappearance-flannan-isle-lighthouse-keepers  History website - ‘THE FLANNAN ISLE MYSTERY: THE THREE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS WHO VANISHED” - by BP Perry - https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-flannan-isle-mystery-the-three-lighthouse-keepers-who-vanished  Youtube - ‘The Eerie Vanishing of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers’ - Buzzfeed Unsolved - October 16th, 2020

  2. Sep 8

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: Damien Nettles (Season 3)

    What happened to Damien Nettles? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: Damien Nettles website - www.damiennettles.uk/damien.php  StoryMapJS Interactive map - ‘Where is Damien Nettles?’ - https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/aec4c0804cd3db64ac9705ac45d89d8f/damiens-last-movements/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0jt4i90LNVd2rw1aOvWPiTT-uBViSaUIagTIG5VVI6e03ufe_yugpupEQ  newspapers.com Isle of Wight County Press article - ‘Following in Damien’s footsteps, 20 years on’ - by David Newble - November 4th, 2016 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/1076463289/?match=11&terms=Damien%20Nettles  Itvnews - ‘Missing Nettles Review - Police Statement’ - MERIDIAN - April 8th, 2013 - https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2013-04-08/missing-nettles-review-police-statement  YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode One’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016  YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode Two’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016  YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode Three’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016  YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode Four’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016  YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode Five’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016 YouTube - ‘Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared | Episode Six’ - by BBC deepwatch - July 25th, 2016 Crime Junkie Podcast - ‘MISSING: Damien Nettles’ - December 19th, 2021 - Ashley Flowers/Audiochuck Media Company  Gloucestershire Live - ‘Teen who vanished 20 years ago 'murdered by drug dealer: Damien Nettles was 16 when he disappeared on a night out’ - By Alex Shipman - May 1st, 2017 - https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/teen-who-vanished-20-years-40601  Inside Housing - ‘Injunction bars addict from her house of death’ - by Administrator - June 25th, 2003 - https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/injunction-bars-addict-from-her-house-of-death-5274  BBC News - ‘Mother of Damien Nettles talks of drugs debt murder theory’ - February 28th, 2012 - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-17182361

  3. Sep 1

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: The Sodder Children (Season 3)

    What happened to Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie, and Betty Sodder? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: Youtube - ‘The Mysterious Disappearance of the Sodder Children’ - uploaded by Buzzfeed Unsolved Network - December 16th, 2016  Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18304176/jennie_lauriessa-sodder: accessed June 28, 2026), memorial page for Jennie Lauriessa Cipriani Sodder (2 Mar 1903–15 Feb 1989), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18304176, citing High Lawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Robin Hager (contributor 46843239). The Doe Network - ‘The Children Who Went Up In Smoke A tragic Christmas mystery remains unsolved more than 60 years after the disappearance of five young siblings’ - by Karen Abott for smithsonian.com - December 25th, 2012 - https://doenetwork.org/media/sodders.pdf  NPR - ‘Mystery of Missing Children Haunts W.Va. Town’ - by Stacy Horn - December 23rd, 2005 - https://www.npr.org/2005/12/23/5067563/mystery-of-missing-children-haunts-w-va-town  Youtube - ‘What Happened to the Sodder Children?’ - uploaded by Nexpo - April 11th, 2025  Legends of America website - ‘Missing Sodder Children in West Virginia’ - by Kathy Alexander - August 2024 - https://www.legendsofamerica.com/missing-sodder-children/

  4. Aug 25

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: The Jack Family (Season 3)

    What happened to Ronald, Doreen, Russel & Ryan Jack? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: Prince George Citizen News - ‘Mystery remains around disappearance of Jack family’ - by Mark Nielsen - September 10th, 2019 - https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/mystery-remains-around-disappearance-of-jack-family-3737801 Canada Unsolved Website - ‘MISSING: The Jack Family - 08/02/1989 - Prince George, B.C.’ - By S.M. - Published June 5, 2020, updated August 23, 2020 - https://www.canadaunsolved.com/cases/missing-jack-family-1989-bc  YouTube - ‘The Puzzling Story of The Jack Family | True Crime Documentary’  - by Cold Case Detective - September 23rd, 2022  APTN News (4 April 2019). Smithers Hearings Part 2 - Retrieved June 15th, 2026 – via YouTube. newspapers.com Omineca Express article - ‘A Virgil remembers the missing Jack Family’ - by Binny Paul - August 15th, 2024 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/1221959500/?match=18&terms=Jack%20Family  Omineca Express article - ‘29th anniversary of the missing Jack family’ - by Kelly Little - August 15th, 2018 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/905432716/?match=19&terms=Jack%20Family  The Prince George Free Press - ‘Jack Family: Putting the pieces together’ - by Arthur Williams - August 29th, 2009 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/1230460514/?match=1&terms=Jack%20Family  Government of Canada website, RCMP - ‘Case reference: 2014002868’ - https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2014002868&id=5&lang=en  Vancouver Sun article - ‘Investigation continues into 1989 disappearance of Prince George family’ - by Stephanie Ip - September 10th, 2019 - https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/investigation-continues-into-1989-disappearance-of-prince-george-family  Prince George Citizen article - ‘Family is safe’ - September 7th, 1989 - http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1989-09-07/-/Prince%20George%20Citizen%20-%20September%2007,%201989 Evaporate website - ‘Smoke on the Asphalt’ - June 5 - K.C. LeRoy - https://www.evaporatethemissing.com/missing-persons/smoke-on-the-asphalt Sabo, Don. "Highway of Tears." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published June 06, 2016; Last Edited February 06, 2025 - https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/highway-of-tears

  5. Aug 18

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: Alicia Griffin (Season 3)

    What happened to Alicia Griffin? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: Unsolved Mysteries Podcast - ‘Where’s Alicia?’ - June 30th, 2021 -  NamUs - Missing Person / NamUs #MP57603 - https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP57603  Unsolved Mysteries Wiki - Alicia Griffin -  https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Alicia_Griffin  The Charley Project - Alicia Lin Griffin - https://charleyproject.org/case/alicia-lin-griffin Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences website - “Bipolar Disorders” - https://www.ontarioshores.ca/bipolar-disorder?psafe_param=1&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=11199593179&gbraid=0AAAAACUVIhd2CyV7ofotxRJqQUeTCz4AN&gclid=CjwKCAjwrNrQBhBjEiwAoR4VO1MCdFCt0U2q3D968qvCdVHsZhC13o3kQtUqW3dl0Uo_LkWdBuHG1xoCwt8QAvD_BwE

  6. Aug 11

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: The Indiana Dunes Disappearances (Season 3)

    What happened to Patricia Blough and Renee Bruhl, and Ann Miller? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: YouTube: “How Did 3 Friends Disappear Without a Trace? The Indiana Dunes Cold Case” - uploaded by Crime Junkie - March 21st, 2025  Websleuths website - ‘IN - Renee Bruhl, Patricia Blough & Ann Miller, Indiana Dunes SP, 2 July 1966’ - by Richard - July 4th, 2005 - https://websleuths.com/threads/in-renee-bruhl-patricia-blough-ann-miller-indiana-dunes-sp-2-july-1966.25728/ NBC News - "What happened to three young sunbathers who disappeared at Indiana Dunes State Park 57 years ago?” - by Kyani Reid - February 2nd, 2023 - https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/happened-three-young-sunbathers-disappeared-indiana-dunes-state-park-5-rcna69110  American Hauntings Ink - “YOUNG WOMEN LOST: THE INDIANA DUNES DISAPPEARANCE OF 1966” - https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/young-women-lost  Readers Digest - “15 Mysterious Disappearances That No One Can Explain” - by Lauren Cahn - September 22nd, 2025 - https://www.rd.com/list/mysterious-disappearances-no-one-can-explain/  newspapers.com The Times article - “Vanished from the Dunes” - By Susan Erler - August 3rd, 2009 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/304613036/?match=1&terms=Indiana%20Dunes%20Disappearance  The Call-Leader article - “Mystery of Women Missing from Indiana Dunes Deepens” - July 7th, 1966 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/87891818/?match=1&terms=Indiana%20Dunes%20Disappearance  The Kokomo Morning Times - “Debris of wrecked boat found” - July 7th, 1966 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/32529538/?match=1&terms=Indiana%20Dunes%20Disappearance  NPS history website - ‘NPS Morning Reports/Coalition Reports from 1989-2025’ - https://npshistory.com/morningreport/incidents/indu.htm The Chicago Tribune - ‘Found Near Where The Girls Disappeared: Boat Wreckage Close to Dunes’ - July 7th, 1966 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/371951286/?terms=Indiana%20Dunes%20Disappearance The Doe Network - 662DFIN - Patricia Blough - https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=662dfin  The Doe Network - 656DFIN - Ann Miller - https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=656DFIN  The Doe Network - 384DFIN - Renee Bruhl - https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=384DFIN Medium - ‘What is the Likeliest Solution to the Indiana Dunes Mystery?’ - by William Keckler - November 11th, 2018 - https://icestationpoetry.medium.com/what-is-the-likeliest-solution-to-the-indiana-dunes-mystery-45492c60ec42 Chicago Tribune article - “WITHOUT A TRACE’ - by Chicago Tribune - June 21st, 1987 - https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/06/21/without-a-trace-3/ NBC News - “Boy, 6, swallowed by sand dune expected to recover, doctors say” - by  Daniel Arkin and Andrew Rafferty - July 15th, 2013 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-6-swallowed-sand-dune-expected-recover-doctors-say-flna6c10633599  Palatine Historical Society website - ‘Farms’ - https://palatinehistoricalsociety.com/history/farms/  Chicago Tribune - ‘OFFICIALS PIN MORE TERROR ON ‘THE HORSE SYNDICATE’ - by STAFF REPORTS - March 23rd, 1995 - https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/03/23/officials-pin-more-terror-on-the-horse-syndicate/ Documents to the People website - ‘Investigating a Serial Killer: The Development of the FBI’s Role Told Through Public Documents’ - by Kaylee Osowski 0 November 2018 - https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/6892/ Wikipedia - ‘Richard Speck’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck

  7. Aug 4

    Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: Yuba County 5 (Season 3)

    What happened to Bill Sterling, Jack Huett, Ted Weiher,  Jack Madruga, and Gary Mathias? Enjoy this episode? Please consider leaving a rating & review on your podcast player. For inquiries and feedback, please email sgepodcast@outlook.com. Resources: All That’s Interesting - “Inside the Bewildering Case of the Yuba County Five and Their Unsolved Disappearance” - by Amber Morgan, Edited by John Kuroski - April 24th, 2023 - https://allthatsinteresting.com/yuba-county-five ABC News Australia - “Five men disappear on a snowy February night — four are found dead, and one is never seen again. What happened to the 'Yuba County Five’?” - by Brianna Morris-Grant - February 23rd, 2024 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-24/yuba-county-five-missing-persons-case/103472558 A&E - “What Happened to the Yuba County Five?” - by Adam Janos - October 17th, 2025 - https://www.aetv.com/articles/what-happened-to-the-yuba-county-five Strange Outdoors website - “The Mysterious case of the Yuba County Five” - 03/10/2024 - https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/category/Yuba+county+five The Human Exception website - “The Yuba County 5 - revisited” - by Cayla - May 14th, 2021 - https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/the-yuba-county-5-revisited/?utm_source=chatgpt.com  Reddit - r/UnsolvedMysteries - OP: ConspiracyTheorist07 - https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1bm45ed/american_dyatlov_passyuba_county_five_case_update/ Mayo Clinic - ‘Schizophrenia’ - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443 HubPages - ‘The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain’ - by Kimberly Parr - Updated September 7th, 2023 - https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Yuba-County-5-Terror-on-the-Mountain  Medium article - “Why did 5 young men drive 50 miles in the wrong direction, only to abandon their car on a mountain road?” - by Kimberly Parr - May 31st, 2025 - https://kimparr.medium.com/the-yuba-county-5-a5ee6894ab83  Den of Geek - "Files of the Unexplained: What Netflix’s Yuba County Five Doc Leaves Out” - by Tony Sokol - April 9th, 2024 - https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/files-of-the-unexplained-what-netflixs-yuba-county-five-doc-leaves-out/  Files of Unexplained - Season 1 Episode 3: File: Missing Yuba County Five - Netflix Documentary Series - Produced by Vox Media - Release date: April 3, 2024 US Department of Agriculture Forest Service website - https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/plumas/about-area

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Welcome to Second Guess Everything - a podcast that dives into the strange, the unsettling, and the unexplained. Each season explores a specific topic, ranging from true crime, the paranormal, disturbing historical events, and more. Hosted by Alex Underbakke, proud member of the Cultiv8 Podcast Network. Show art by John Consignado.

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