Still Unexplained

Mark Evanoff

Still Unexplained is a weekly short-form podcast exploring unresolved mysteries across history, science, true crime, and human experience. Each episode follows one case, examines the evidence, and weighs the competing theories behind what may have happened. Some stories are strange, some tragic, some ancient, some modern, but all share the same problem: the facts never quite add up to one certain answer.

  1. 6d ago

    The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Vanishing

    The Flannan Isles Lighthouse mystery is one of Scotland's most haunting unsolved cases. In December 1900, three keepers vanished from a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, leaving the station tidy, the lamp ready to light, and one man's coat still hanging on its peg. The official report blamed the sea. The people who knew that island best had never trusted it in the first place.

    The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Vanishing

  2. Oct 7

    The Socorro Encounter

    The Socorro Incident is one of the most credible UFO cases in American history. In April 1964, Socorro, New Mexico police sergeant Lonnie Zamora abandoned a speeding chase to investigate a roar and a flame in the sky, and found a white, egg-shaped craft and two small figures in a desert gully. What he left behind was more than a story: marks in the ground, burned brush that was cool to the touch, independent witnesses, and a case the Air Force's own UFO program could never close.

    The Socorro Encounter

  3. Sep 30

    JFK’s Missing Brain

    President Kennedy's brain went missing from a locked federal archive sometime after his 1963 assassination, and no one has ever been able to fully explain how or why. In 1966, when investigators finally opened the footlocker meant to contain it, along with tissue slides and paraffin blocks from the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, they found nothing but paperwork inside. What follows is a tangle of contradictory witness testimony, a photographer who denies the National Archives photos are his, and a Secret Service agent who admits to destroying evidence in a garbage disposal. Nobody agrees on what actually happened to the most significant biological evidence in twentieth century American history, and after sixty years, nobody may ever be able to.

    JFK’s Missing Brain

  4. Sep 23

    The Green Children of Woolpit

    The Green Children of Woolpit is one of medieval England's strangest documented mysteries. In the 12th century, in the Suffolk village of Woolpit, two children with vivid green skin climbed out of an old wolf pit speaking a language no one could identify, and neither historians nor scientists have ever fully explained where they came from. One child died within months. The other learned English and described a homeland bathed in permanent twilight, a place she called Saint Martin's Land, and then spent the rest of her life never quite belonging to the one she was stuck in.

    The Green Children of Woolpit

  5. Sep 16

    The Marfa Lights

    The Marfa Lights have been glowing over a stretch of West Texas desert since at least 1883, decades before anyone in Marfa, Texas had ever seen a car. Witnesses describe basketball-sized orbs that bounce, split, merge, and vanish over Mitchell Flat, and while modern science has explained away most of what today's tourists see, one long-term study found that roughly three percent of sightings still can't be identified. Was a teenage cowhand fooled by a trick of the desert air a quarter century before headlights existed, or did he see something that still doesn't have a name?

    The Marfa Lights

  6. Sep 9

    The Beale Ciphers

    In 1822, a man calling himself Thomas Beale walked out of a Lynchburg, Virginia hotel and disappeared, leaving behind a locked iron box and a promise of buried treasure worth over sixty million dollars today. Inside were three coded pages. One of them broke, using the Declaration of Independence as the key, and it described a stone vault packed with gold and silver in the hills of Bedford County. The other two never have. For a hundred and forty years, cryptanalysts, treasure hunters, and statisticians have tried every key they can think of, and what they've found instead raises a very different question: was this ever a real treasure at all, or one of the most patient hoaxes in American history?

    The Beale Ciphers

  7. Sep 2

    The Myth and Mystery of Scotland’s Dog Suicide Bridge

    Overtoun Bridge sits outside Dumbarton, Scotland, a quiet Victorian crossing built in 1895 that earned a very different reputation starting in the 1950s. Dogs have leapt from the same stretch of wall for decades, and while viral headlines inflated the death toll into the hundreds, the real pattern underneath is stranger than the myth. Between a canine psychologist's mink scent experiment, a grieving ghost the locals call the White Lady, and Celtic folklore about "thin places" where the ordinary world wears thin, nobody has ever fully closed the case on why this specific bridge, and not the dozens just like it, keeps pulling animals over the edge.

    The Myth and Mystery of Scotland’s Dog Suicide Bridge

  8. Aug 26

    The Oakville Blobs

    The Oakville Blobs are one of the strangest unsolved cases in Washington state history. In August 1994, the small logging town of Oakville was hit by six separate storms of translucent, gelatinous goo that smeared windshields, sickened residents for months, and killed pets and wildlife on contact. When lab results came back showing human white blood cells, digestive bacteria, and cells with no nucleus at all in the same substance, the primary samples disappeared from a state lab before anyone could explain how those three findings could coexist. Now, in 2025 and 2026, the goo may be falling again in the same corner of the state.

    The Oakville Blobs
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Still Unexplained is a weekly short-form podcast exploring unresolved mysteries across history, science, true crime, and human experience. Each episode follows one case, examines the evidence, and weighs the competing theories behind what may have happened. Some stories are strange, some tragic, some ancient, some modern, but all share the same problem: the facts never quite add up to one certain answer.

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  • Creator
    Mark Evanoff
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    44
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Mark Evanoff
  • Show Website
    Still Unexplained

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