Astonishing Legends

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The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!

  1. 1d ago

    The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion

    In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in British history. What began with a glowing object hovering over Ripperston Farm escalated into months of unexplained phenomena: failing electronics, mysterious figures at the windows, silent visitors in a silver car, missing cattle that appeared miles away, and an encounter Pauline Coombs believed took place aboard an otherworldly craft. As sightings spread across the region — including the famous Broad Haven school incident witnessed by fourteen children — the area became known as the Welsh Triangle. With declassified government investigations, admitted hoaxes, and a mystery that remains unresolved nearly fifty years later, we ask: what really happened over St Brides Bay?Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.

    2h 23m
  2. S2 Ep21: The Emerald Valley

    5d ago

    S2 Ep21: The Emerald Valley

    In tonight's dead letter, Daniel, a self-described skeptic writes in about the one thing he's never been able to explain away. He was a third-grader in northeast Washington in 1985, riding home one evening, when an intense green light blinded him and his mom in their car. For years he figured he'd made it up, or pulled it from some movie. Then it came up years later over lunch with his sister, and he found out he wasn't the only one in the car who never forgot it.REFERENCE LINKS When Mysterious Green Fireballs Worried the U.S. Government — HISTORY Project Twinkle and the Green Fireball Investigation The Green Flash: What Causes the Rare Sunset Phenomenon — EarthSky Fairchild Air Force Base History — HistoryLink.org Faded Giant by Robert Salas and James Klotz The 1967 Malmstrom Missile Shutdown — CUFON Archive Robert Hastings — UFOs and Nukes Astonishing Legends Ep. 155: Abduction at Devil's Den (Terry Lovelace)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!

    45 min
  3. S2 Ep20: What Does a House Remember?

    Jun 2

    S2 Ep20: What Does a House Remember?

    In tonight's dead letter, our listener’s family trades a rented place for an old Victorian villa tucked into the quiet border country between England and Wales. The previous owner had loved the house for more than half a century, and the neighbors were quick to say she'd have approved of the new arrivals. But the littlest member of the family keeps mentioning an old woman with white hair. We’ll get into faceless figures, formidable women who hold a home together, and an old plaque that quietly says exactly what this whole story is about. REFERENCE LINKS William Morris's Bed and the Kelmscott Manor Poem — Society of Antiquaries of London Lucy M. Boston, the Green Knowe Books, and Memory in a House — Britannica The Manor at Hemingford Grey (the real Green Knowe) Folklore of the Stiperstones and the Devil's Chair The Devil's Chair: The Story Behind the Shropshire Landmark — Shropshire Star The White Lady of Ludlow Castle (Marion de la Bruyère) — Shropshire Star The Phantom Funeral of Ratlinghope and Shropshire Ghost Stories — The History Press Shropshire Folklore, Wild Edric, and the Long Mynd Black Dog — Shropshire Star We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!

    46 min
  4. S2 Ep19: The House on 109

    May 26

    S2 Ep19: The House on 109

    In tonight's dead letter, we head into Grafton, West Virginia — a small railroad town built on a B&O junction, Civil War supply lines, and two national cemeteries. The house at the center of this story sat right in the middle of all that history. When a listener named Jonathan moved in with his family as a kid, it was, as he puts it, just off — and the footsteps upstairs were the easy part. Small things kept stacking up, the kind you could maybe almost explain away one at a time but never all together. Decades later he's still working through what happened in that house, and what stayed there.REFERENCE LINKS Grafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia B&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton Grafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker Grafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration Thornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War International Mother's Day Shrine Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day The Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia The Grafton Monster Festival The Grafton Monster in Fallout 76 George Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton Ruth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales Astonishing Legends Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1 Astonishing Legends Archived Episodes — The Bell Witch Series The Enfield Poltergeist (1977) The Smurl Haunting (West Pittston, PA) Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — Lacatski, Kelleher, Knapp Hypnopompic Hallucinations — Sleep Foundation The Old Hag Phenomenon and Sleep Paralysis The Blemmyes — Headless Men with Faces in Their Chests West Virginia Paranormal Investigations Paper Moon (1973) We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!

    44 min

  5. May 23

    The Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela

    In January 1956, rush-hour drivers crossing Pittsburgh’s icy Homestead High Level Bridge watched a nightmare descend from the sky: a silent B-25 bomber gliding just feet above the roadway with both engines dead. Veteran Air Force pilot Major William Dotson pulled off a flawless emergency landing on the freezing Monongahela River, saving all six men from the crash itself. But within minutes, two crew members vanished into the current, and the bomber sank beneath only 25 feet of water… never to be seen again. How does an entire military aircraft disappear in shallow water, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and stay missing for nearly seventy years?Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.

    2h 23m
  6. The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

    May 21 ·  Bonus

    The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

    Scott and Forrest present a preview of a new podcast called Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat!Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias. Vanished civilizations. Medical oddities. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating across centuries, as if history is trying to tell us something. Hidden History doesn't dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as open case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn't a failure of explanation. It's a constant in human experience, one that evolves, repeats, and sometimes deepens the more we learn. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube @hiddenhistorypod. Listen here: https://play.megaphone.fm/65qgwrg-sq-mmvg7tpqgfa

    9 min
  7. S2 Ep18: Mom is Still Here

    May 20

    S2 Ep18: Mom is Still Here

    In tonight's dead letter, listener Andrew writes in from a quiet little back house in Monterey Park, California — a place that during the early pandemic felt even quieter than usual. He's a self-described skeptic, he disabled the motion sensor on his own bathroom light because it kept tripping on him, or so he thought. But on the worst night of his life, something happened in that house he still can't quite explain. Scott and Forrest also share a few of their own recent stories — alarm clocks, flickering nightlights, dying batteries that turned out to be just dying batteries — about what's mundane and what isn't when grief is fresh.REFERENCE LINKS History of Monterey Park — Official City Website The Tongva (Gabrielino) People — Wikipedia Monterey Park, California — Wikipedia Hello From Heaven by Bill and Judy Guggenheim The ADC Project — After-Death Communication Research Astonishing Legends Ep 101: ARCapalooza! Part 2 Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf — Official Site Anomaly: Paranormal Podcast by Paul Gledhill The Monroe Institute — Founded by Robert Monroe Black Mirror: "White Christmas" — Wikipedia We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!

    56 min

  8. May 10

    The Strange Death of Gloria Ramirez

    In 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother of two dying from cancer, arrived at a Riverside ER with strange odors, an oily sheen on her skin, and crystalline particles in her blood — then doctors and nurses around her began collapsing, vomiting, burning, and struggling to breathe. The ER was evacuated and HAZMAT suits came out. Gloria died in the chaos, and the official explanation still leaves troubling questions. Behind the nickname “The Toxic Lady” is a human being whose final night remains one of the most haunting medical mysteries of our time.Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.

    2h 4m
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The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!

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