Tue, Oct 12, 2021
The mysterious ghost ship the Mary Celeste was found near the Azores in 1872 with all sails set and the crew having abandoned the vessel in a small lifeboat, never to be seen again. Another brigantine found her and brought the vessel into Gibralter where a British maritime court considered leveling charges of piracy, murder and insurance fraud against the finders despite finding almost no evidence to support the crimes. So what did happen to the crew of the Mary Celeste? Where they abducted by aliens, eaten by a Kraken, spooked by a seaquake or waterspout or did explosions of the cargo of denatured alcohol force the captain to abandon ship? Simon Whistler analyzes all of the above and offers his conclusions.
Mon, Mar 28, 2022
Simon discusses the the abandonment of the Alaskan cannery town called Portluck, from which the population fled during the 1940s, when several Dall sheep hunters disappeared in the hills nearby, their dismembered bodies washing ashore nearby. Many villagers blamed the unexplained deaths and disappearances on a Bigfoot-like creature referred to locally as Nantinaq.[
Thu, Apr 21, 2022
Simon discusses Cicada 3301, the nickname given to the entity that posted three sets of puzzles online between 2012 and 2014. Called the most elaborate and mysterious puzzles of the internet age, they focused heavily on data security, cryptography, steganography, and internet anonymity.
Thu, Apr 28, 2022
Simon discusses the strange case of the Pollock family. The two elder sisters were killed by a car when a woman who was grieving the death of her own children and committed vehicular homicide. John Pollock predicted that the two girls would soon be reincarnated as twins and, when his wife gave birth to two girls, he insisted that this was evidence of reincarnation.
Mon, Jun 20, 2022
Simon discusses the fate of the renowned Amber Room, a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors and located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg. It was looted by the German army during World War II and taken to Konigsburg. in 1944, it was disassembled and crated for shipment for shipment west away from advancing Soviet forces, but its fate and current location, if it was not destroyed by Allied bombing, remain a mystery.
Sun, Jul 24, 2022
Simon Whistler tackles the creation of one of comic book's most iconic character's, Spider-Man, who first appeared in Amazing Fantasy in 1962. But was the character based on early costumes sold as early as 1954? Simon discusses whether or not the character was stolen by Stan Lee from its true creator.
Thu, Jul 28, 2022
Simon reads Kevin Jennings' account of trying to identify a celebrity depicted as pop art that appeared on his shower curtain. He was able to identify the other seven actors/models and locate the original photographs the art was based on, but Celebrity No. 6 remains elusive despite intensive Reddit analysis.