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Mysterious Universe

34.22 - MU Podcast - Tomb Raider

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

Spirituality, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences, Science, Philosophy

4.56.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A cache of looted relics, stolen bones, and vanished cultures sets the stage as we explore the astonishing true story of Don Miller, the Indiana retiree whose quiet suburban home concealed one of the largest illicit artifact collections in U.S. history. From the FBI’s painstaking recovery and repatriation efforts to the worldwide scramble over sacred objects, we trace how one man’s obsession spiraled into an international archaeological scandal. Then for our Plus+ members we crack open old issues of Psychic Australian to uncover tales of Nazi UFO experiments, Hitler’s alleged Antarctic escape, and the shadowy blueprints of a secret Fourth Reich, before shifting closer to home with eerie accounts of hauntings, strange lights, and ghostly encounters echoing through the misty streets and sandstone cliffs of Katoomba. The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right Art Crime FBI Seeks to Identify Rightful Owners in Cultural Artifacts Case While seizing thousands of artifacts from an Indiana home, FBI makes "staggering" discovery China claims artifacts FBI seized from Indiana home How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in, of All Places, Rural Indiana The FBI’s Repatriation of Stolen Heritage Death of Real-Life Indiana Jones Tomb Raider Don Miller Leaves Massive Artifact Collection in Limbo The Hitchhiker Effect Psychic Australian Magazine Psychic Australian Paranormal and Psychic Australian Vintage PSYCHIC AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE June 1976 “Paranormal & Psychic Australian” – Rare 1977–78 Collectors’ Items LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:03.0

Not much to it is there?

0:06.0

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:16.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Delicious.

0:44.1

Welcome to Mysterious Universe, Season 34, Episode 22.

0:46.8

Coming up on the show, we've got the Ghosts of Kutumba,

0:50.4

the Third Reich Secrets of Hipsi Lund,

0:54.4

and the case of the world's greatest grave robber.

0:55.9

I'm your host, Benjamin Grundy.

0:56.9

Joining me is Aaron Wright.

0:58.5

I saw this book doing the rounds.

0:59.8

You picked it up today, I see.

1:05.1

You saw this one, the grave robber by Tim Carpenter, the biggest stolen artifacts case in FBI history and the Bureau's quest to set things right.

1:10.5

So yeah, Tim Carpenter, FBI agent,

1:13.0

the, well, you used to be the head of the FBI's art crime team. Oh yes. Yeah. And that's just like

1:17.9

a scattering of agents all around the country. Yep. And, you know, they work on the cases together

1:23.1

when they come up. But this one is just bananas. This guy is 90 years old, lived in some rural

1:30.9

part of Indiana, and he had a collection that rivals the world's biggest museums.

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