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Decoding The Unknown

Decoding The Unknown

Cloud10

History

4.81.1K Ratings

Overview

Decoding The Unknown explores history's deepest mysteries to see if we can draw any conclusions about what actually happened. Russian hikers killed by a yeti? Aircraft lost to sea monsters? Probably not, so let's try and figure out what really happened. New episodes every Friday. Also on YouTube!

256 Episodes

Was ANY of Braveheart Accurate?

Was Braveheart total nonsense? Dive into Mel Gibson’s epic, expose wild historical inaccuracies, real William Wallace, missing bridge, and how one film reshaped Scottish history, tourism, and national identity forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2025

Operation Majestic 12: The Document Leak That Spawned a Thousand Conspiracy Theories

Inside the leaked Majestic-12 papers: UFO crashes, presidential secrets, and the greatest hoax—or cover-up—in UFO history. From Truman to the FBI, unravel the conspiracy that changed ufology forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2025

The Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy

Uncover the bizarre 100-year mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite—from Tesla’s signals to NASA’s photos—and learn why this so-called alien craft is really just a tangled web of myths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2025

The Mysterious Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Explore the Edmund Fitzgerald’s final voyage—its stormy disappearance, eerie omens, disputed theories, and hidden truths. A gripping deep-dive into mystery, legend, and tragedy beneath Lake Superior’s unforgiving waters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2025

Project Blue Beam: NASA's Plans to Fake the Second Coming?

Explore the chilling theory behind Project Blue Beam—is NASA plotting a global deception to stage the Second Coming? Uncover hidden agendas, advanced holograms, and mind control secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2025

What Really Became of the 'Princes in the Tower'?

Unearth the chilling mystery of the lost princes of the Tower of London—betrayal, power, and murder. Were they victims of ambition or survivors of deceit? History’s darkest royal secret awaits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2025

Lost in Space: The Chilling Echoes of the Phantom Cosmonauts

Uncover the chilling legend of phantom cosmonauts: secret signals, erased names, fiery re-entries, and Soviet cover-ups. From Laika to Komarov, did Gagarin go first? Strap in for a space mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2025

The Vela Incident: Why Did the U.S Government Cover It Up?

Two mysterious flashes. A secret 1979 nuclear test. CIA vs KGB, Israel–South Africa ties, and a White House cover-up. Unpack the Vela Incident and why the truth was buried deep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2025

The Mystery of the Oakville Blobs.

1994, Oakville, Washington: it rained translucent blobs. People fell ill, animals died, samples vanished, and ‘men in black’ appeared. Aliens, jellyfish, chemicals, or cover-up? We investigate the sticky truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 2 October 2025

Was Anything Useful Learned From WWII Human Experimentation?

Explore the darkest chapters of WWII: Nazi and Japanese human experiments. Were any findings scientifically useful, and should they ever be used? A chilling, thought-provoking deep dive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2025

Zombies: Horror Movie Trope or Grim Reality?

From Haitian voodoo rituals to parasites in nature and real medical cases, zombies blur the line between myth and reality. Explore their horror origins, science, and survival tips in this chilling dive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2025

Is it True That Nuclear Weapons Don’t Exist?

Conspiracy or cold reality? This episode dives into claims that nuclear weapons don’t exist, faked test footage, Hiroshima doubts, and the overwhelming evidence proving nukes are terrifyingly real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 August 2025

What Will the World Look Like in 2050?

Bold, funny, and fiercely argued predictions for 2050: AI everywhere, climate reckoning, megacities, proxy wars, moon bases, lab-grown organs, AR over VR, and America’s political shift. Agree? Disagree? Dive in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2025

Déjà vu: Have We Been Here Before?

From reincarnation to brain glitches, we explore déjà vu’s strangest theories and the science that finally cracked its mystery—revealing it’s not future vision, but a fascinating illusion of memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

How Many People Actually Died Because of Chernobyl?

Chernobyl’s official death toll is 31—but estimates range up to a million. This video dives into the cover-ups, chaos, and radioactive aftermath of history’s worst nuclear disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025

England’s Most Haunted Mansion?

A haunted house, a mysterious skull, and a ghost-hunting con man—Borley Rectory’s legend has it all. But was England’s “most haunted” home just smoke, mirrors, and one hell of a hoax? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

Conspiracy Theories About US Presidents You Never Knew About

JFK’s assassination insurance, Adams the alleged pimp, Roosevelt’s real coup, and Eisenhower’s alien deal? This whirlwind tour of presidential conspiracies separates the absurd from the alarmingly plausible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2025

Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?

A forgotten prisoner. A velvet mask. A secret so dangerous, it vanished behind locked doors for 34 years. Dive into the real mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask—no fiction required. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2025

The Kennedy Curse.

A dynasty marked by tragedy or just reckless privilege? This deep dive into the so-called “Kennedy Curse” uncovers the family’s darkest moments and asks: was it fate, misfortune, or hubris? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025

Aafia Siddiqui: Terrorist or Victim?

Was Aafia Siddiqui a terrorist mastermind or an innocent scapegoat? Uncover her shocking story of disappearance, arrest, trial, and global controversy in one of America’s most divisive cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

The Unexplained Texas Ghost Lights

Strange orbs flicker across the Texas desert sky—some say headlights, others say ghosts, aliens, or glowing pterodactyls. Here's everything we know—and still don’t—about the mysterious Marfa Lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2025

Introducing: Almost Interesting by Simon Whistler

Welcome to Almost Interesting, the podcast designed to be just interesting enough - but not too interesting, obviously. In each episode, I'll dive gently and aimlessly into topics that are, frankly, not exactly gripping - but perfect for drifting off, relaxing, or just having some pleasant background noise. Think of it like those stories your slightly boring friend tells, but without the social obligation to pretend you're listening. Listen now on ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, or wherever you get your podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 June 2025

The Florida Skunk Ape Mystery...

Join us as we trek into the steamy swamps of Florida in search of the smelly, shaggy legend known as the Skunk Ape—part Bigfoot, part mystery, and all weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Is There Any Truth to Ghosts and Hauntings?

Millions claim ghostly encounters—but are they real, hallucinations, or hoaxes? This spine-tingling journey explores poltergeists, skeptics, hoaxers, science, and the psychology behind seeing dead people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Polybius: The Killer Arcade Game That Got Erased from History

Was Polybius a killer arcade game—or the greatest gaming hoax of all time? Dive into a mind-bending tale of memory, mystery, and the 1981 cabinet that vanished without a trace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

The Illuminati.

The truth about the Illuminati—from Bavarian beginnings to Beyoncé conspiracies, mind control symbols, secret temples, and shape-shifting alien elites. What’s fact, what’s fiction, and why it matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

The Mystery Behind the Death of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a legend in life, but the mystery of his death remains hotly debated. From Triad conspiracies to heat stroke or hidden drug use—what really killed the Dragon at 32? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

Are Vaccines Really Dangerous?

Vaccines save lives—but myths and misinformation have fueled distrust. This deep dive unpacks their history, science, real risks, and lies from both skeptics and officials to ask: are vaccines truly dangerous? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

Did Mallory and Irvine Succeed in Summitting Everest?

In 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine vanished on Everest. Did they reach the summit decades before Hillary? A boot, a body, and a missing camera may hold the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

Homeopathy: Is there Anything To It?

Homeopathy claims water has memory—and people believe it. But is there any science behind the sugar pills? Let’s dive into the origins, logic, and utter absurdity of homeopathy’s magical thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

Africa's Stonehenge.

Is Adam’s Calendar the oldest manmade structure on Earth—or a pile of stones hyped up by ancient alien fans? We dig into South Africa’s strangest mystery to find out what’s real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

Jeanne Calment: Was The World's Oldest Person a FRAUD?

She lived to 122—or did she? Jeanne Calment stunned the world with her age, but new evidence suggests a shocking identity switch with her daughter. Is history’s oldest woman a fraud? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

John Zegrus: The Impossible Man from a Country That Didn't Exist...

A passport from nowhere. A man with no past. In 1960s Japan, John Zegrus claimed to be a diplomat from a nation no one had ever heard of. This is his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

Pyramids In Antarctica?

Satellite images, conspiracy theories, and ancient alien speculation—are there really pyramids buried beneath Antarctica’s ice? Let’s separate science from sci-fi in this chilling tale of frozen secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

Lycanthropes: Are Werewolves Real?

From ancient myths to real-life wolfmen, the werewolf legend has haunted humanity for centuries. But where do the stories come from? And could there be a grain of truth behind them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

Paranormal Activity: The Guyra Ghost

A haunted house, a grieving family, and a poltergeist that defied logic. Was it supernatural, or just a desperate cry for attention? The eerie mystery of the Guyra Ghost, explained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

Zardulu: Urban Legend Maker or Giant Hoax?

Zardulu—mythmaker, mastermind, or just a clever hoax? Dive into the strange world of viral urban legends, trained rats, and mystery. Who is Zardulu, and what’s real? Let’s investigate! Sponsor: Factormeals.com/factorpodcast and use code factorpodcast to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

In Search of the Legendary King Arthur: More Than a Myth?

Was King Arthur a real warrior king or just a legend? Dive into the myths, history, and latest discoveries that challenge everything we know about Britain’s most famous ruler! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

Frank Abagnale Jr: Everyone is Wrong About this Story...

Frank Abagnale Jr. – con man, check forger, or something else entirely? The truth behind Catch Me If You Can is wilder than you think. Let’s uncover the real story… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Is Congo's 'Living Dinosaur' Real?

Deep in the Congo, tales of a 'living dinosaur' spark mystery and debate. Could Mokele-Mbembe really exist? Dive into the evidence, legends, and science behind this fascinating cryptid! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Elizabeth Bathory: Serial Killer or Victim of Insane Injustice?

Uncover the chilling story of Elizabeth Bathory—history’s “Blood Countess.” Was she a ruthless serial killer or framed in a web of political intrigue? The truth is darker than you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Was Robin Hood real?

Discover the untold evolution of Robin Hood: from a temperamental bandit to a symbol of justice. Explore the origins, cultural impact, and timeless relevance of this legendary outlaw! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

HAARP: What's Going on in Alaska?

Extreme weather, HAARP, and conspiracy theories—how do science and speculation collide? Dive into the truth behind this mysterious research facility and the narratives shaping public perception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

These Internet Mysteries Actually Got Solved...

Internet mysteries unraveled! From Unfavorable Semicircle to 'The Most Mysterious Song,' discover the fascinating resolutions behind these enigmas and how curiosity shapes identity in the digital age. Listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

The Great Mystery of Mel’s Hole: 80,000 Feet Deep?

Is Mel's Hole a bottomless pit or just a wild legend? Join us as we dive into the bizarre tales, strange encounters, and unanswered questions surrounding this mysterious abyss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

Violet Charlesworth: The Edwardian Heiress Who Never Was...

Uncover the shocking tale of Violet Charlesworth, the Edwardian con artist who fooled high society with her fake fortune. Glamour, deception, and scandal await in this jaw-dropping historical exposé! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Edgar Cayce: ‘The Sleeping Prophet’

Discover the mysteries of Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet," whose astonishing readings revealed visions of health, history, and the future. Explore his life, predictions, and enduring impact in this fascinating journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

Gregor MacGregor: The Prince of Lies

Uncover the wild tale of Gregor MacGregor, history's greatest conman, who sold a fake country to unsuspecting investors. Lies, ambition, and disaster—this story has it all. Listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024

The Dead Internet Theory: The Internet in 2024 is A Lie

Is the internet alive or a cleverly crafted illusion? Dive into the Dead Internet Theory and uncover the truth about bots, manipulation, and what’s really happening online in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

Did the British Government Really Murder a Whistleblower?

Uncover the shocking story behind the Iraq War protests, Dr. David Kelly's mysterious death, and the UK's push for war. Was it assassination or something deeper? Dive into the untold truth! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

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