In December of 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from one of the most remote outposts in Scotland — the Flannan Isles Lighthouse. No bodies. No signs of struggle. Just an abandoned tower, a stopped clock, and a logbook that ends too soon.

In this episode, we break down what is actually documented about the disappearance — including the official records, the storm damage found below the lighthouse, and the haunting quotes later attributed to the keepers’ final days. We also explore how myth, poetry, and retellings blurred the line between fact and legend almost immediately after the men were declared missing.

Was it a rogue wave? A tragic accident? Or something far stranger?

This is the mystery of the Flannan Isles — and why, more than a century later, it still refuses to settle into a simple explanation.

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Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

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Sources & Further Reading

- Northern Lighthouse BoardOfficial inspection reports and historical records regarding the Flannan Isles Lighthouse and the disappearance of the keepers in December 1900.

- Joseph Moore (Relief Keeper) – Official Testimony
Firsthand account from the relief keeper who discovered the lighthouse abandoned on December 26, 1900, including details of the condition of the tower, lamps, clocks, and weather damage.

- Graham, Robert. The Flannan Isles MysteryA detailed historical analysis examining documented evidence, weather records, and later embellishments surrounding the case.

- Munro, Roderick. Scottish Lighthouse MysteriesExplores the Flannan Isles disappearance within the broader context of lighthouse history and maritime danger in Scotland.

- Weather Records – December 1900 (Outer Hebrides)Meteorological data confirming severe storm activity in the days leading up to the disappearance, often referenced in official explanations.

-Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1912). Flannan IsleA narrative poem that helped popularize many of the emotional and psychological elements later attributed to the keepers — often mistaken for logbook excerpts but acknowledged as literary interpretation.

- National Library of Scotland Archives
Preserved documents, newspaper coverage, and maritime records related to the Flannan Isles Lighthouse.

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In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote Bavarian farm known as Hinterkaifeck.

What makes this case so disturbing isn’t just the violence — it’s what happened before and after the murders.

Footprints in the snow that led to the house but never away.

Strange noises coming from the attic.

A maid who quit because she believed the house was haunted.

And after the family was killed… evidence suggests the murderer stayed behind — feeding animals, eating food, and living in the house with the bodies.

In this episode, we break down the full timeline of the Hinterkaifeck murders, the warning signs everyone ignored, the night of the killings, the investigation, and why this chilling case remains unsolved over 100 years later.

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Sources & Further Reading

- Wikipedia — Hinterkaifeck Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders- Mental Floss — The Creepy, Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Murders https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57967/creepy-unsolved-hinterkaifeck-murders

- All That’s Interesting — The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Germany’s Most Disturbing Unsolved Crime https://allthatsinteresting.com/hinterkaifeck-murders

- Historic Mysteries — The Hinterkaifeck Farm Murders https://www.historicmysteries.com/hinterkaifeck/

- Investigation Discovery — The Hinterkaifeck Murders https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/the-hinterkaifeck-murders

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“Tamam Shud.” It is finished. Those were the last words found hidden inside a secret pocket sewn into the clothing of an unidentified man discovered on an Australian beach in 1948.

In today’s deep-dive, I’m unpacking one of the most haunting and complicated mysteries ever recorded: the case of The Somerton Man. A perfectly dressed man with no ID… no labels on his clothes… a coded message… a rare poetry book placed in a stranger’s car… a nurse who reacted like she knew him but denied it for decades… and a DNA answer that solved the wrong half of the story.

We’re going long on this one — exploring the discovery, the clues, the hidden pocket, the code, the spy theories, the woman at the center of it, the child who may have been his, and the 2022 DNA twist that answered one question but opened ten more.

If you like unsolved mysteries, Cold War weirdness, coded messages, and cases that refuse to make sense… this one’s for you.

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Sources & Further Reading

– Derek Abbott Genealogy Reports (2022)

– Australian National Archives

– Police Investigation Files: Somerton Beach, 1948–1950

– “The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,” Fitzgerald translation

– ABC News Australia coverage on the DNA findings

– University of Adelaide forensic reports

– Interviews with Thomson family members

– The Advertiser (archived material)

– National Library of Australia digital newspaper archives

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Today’s story is one of the strangest cases in American history — a murder investigation pushed forward by a ghost. Yes… a ghost.

In 1897, 23-year-old Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in rural West Virginia. Her husband insisted it was an accident. The doctor listed the cause of death as “childbirth,” even though she wasn’t pregnant. And the funeral? Strange. Controlled. Secretive.

But her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, refused to accept the official story. For four nights straight, she claimed Zona’s spirit appeared at the foot of her bed… revealing how she died and who killed her.

And here’s where things get wild: when the body was exhumed, the autopsy matched the ghost’s exact description — down to the specific vertebrae in her broken neck.

Was this a supernatural confession?

A mother’s instinct so sharp it bordered on psychic?

Or a haunting born of grief that somehow revealed the truth?

This episode blends true crime, folklore, and a courtroom twist that made history.

Because the Greenbrier Ghost remains the only U.S. murder case where a ghost story became part of the legal narrative.

If you like eerie stories, unexplained moments, and cases where the lines between the living and the dead blur… this one is unforgettable.

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Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

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Sources & Further Reading

• State of West Virginia vs. Edward Shue, 1897 court transcripts

• “The Greenbrier Ghost” — West Virginia Archives & History

• Smithsonian Magazine, How a Ghost Helped Convict a Murderer

• Appalachian Folklore: Ghost Stories and Legends, Vol. II

• National Register of Historic Places: Greenbrier County documentation

• Historical accounts from the Greenbrier Ghost Museum

• Newspaper archives: The Greenbrier Independent (1897)

• Interviews & folklore analysis from the West Virginia Folklife Center

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Every Christmas Eve for more than a decade, a woman received a phone call at the exact same minute — always from an unknown number, always with no trace in the phone company logs.

And the voice on the other end? It sounded exactly like her mother. Her mother… who had died years earlier.

In this special holiday bonus episode, we slow down, dim the lights, and step into one of the eeriest modern ghost stories shared online. Was it grief, a glitch, a long-term hoax, or something that slipped through the thin place between memory and the unknown?

Join me for a cozy, mysterious Christmas Eve tale about a phone that rang when it shouldn’t have — and a voice that never should have been able to call.

✨ Happy Holidays, and stay curious. – Kat

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Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

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Sources & Further Reading

- “The Christmas Phone Call” discussion thread, YourGhostStories.com, archived December 2007.

- Compilation of user-submitted anomalous call accounts, Paranormal Studies Index, 1998–2012.

- “Crisis Apparition Communication Phenomena,” Journal of Survival Research, Vol. 14, 2003.

- “Telephone Contact After Death: Anomalous Case Studies,” Dr. Scott Rogo & Dr. Raymond Bayless, Phone Calls From the Dead, 1979.

- “Untraceable Calls in the Analog/Digital Bridge Era,” Telecommunications Review, 1995.

- Assorted anecdotal retellings from r/Paranormal and r/Ghoststories (2009–2018) consolidated into known variations of the case.

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In the late summer of 1944, a quiet Illinois town was suddenly thrown into fear.

Residents woke up paralyzed in their beds.

A sweet, chemical smell drifted through open windows.

And sightings of a shadowy figure sparked a panic that swept through Mattoon for nearly two weeks.

Was someone really creeping through neighborhoods with a homemade gas sprayer?

A factory chemist?

A disguised prowler?

A local eccentric?

Or did the town accidentally create a phantom out of fear, wartime anxiety, and a few strange coincidences?

In this episode, we dive into the real eyewitness accounts, the suspects the town whispered about, and how the Mad Gasser of Mattoon became one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in Midwestern history.

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Sources & Further Reading

- “Mad Gasser of Mattoon” — Wikipedia: overview of events, timeline, and common theories
- Belt Magazine: “Looking Back at the Mad Gasser of Mattoon — A Case of Mass Hysteria”
- Atlas Obscura: “Airing Out the Mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon”
- University of Illinois Library: Historical summary and WW2-era context
- Eastern Illinois University (EIU) Archives: Newspaper clippings, victim list, and contemporary reporting
- Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (1945): Early academic analysis identifying mass hysteria patterns
- Historian blogs and Illinois folklore sites discussing the Kearney incident, suspects, and local oral history

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In 1987, Chicago viewers were watching the nightly news when the screen suddenly glitched… and a man in a Max Headroom mask appeared.No warning. No explanation.Just a bizarre, chaotic broadcast interruption that no one has ever solved.

Tonight, we’re diving into one of the strangest unsolved media hijackings in history — a case involving distorted audio, vintage tech, FCC panic, and a masked intruder who somehow pulled off a stunt that should have been impossible at the time.

Who hijacked the signal?How did they do it?And why has no one stepped forward in nearly 40 years?

Let’s talk about the Max Headroom Broadcast Interruption — the weirdest TV takeover ever recorded.

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Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

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Sources & Further Reading

- FCC Investigation Archive: “Max Headroom Incident Official Report” (1987–1990)

- Chicago Tribune: “Who Hijacked the Max Headroom Broadcast?” (1987, 2007 retrospective)

- Chicago Sun-Times: “25 Years Later, the Max Headroom Hack Remains Unsolved"

- Vice Media (“Motherboard”): “The Mystery of the Creepiest TV Hack of All Time”

- BBC Archive: “The Max Headroom Incident Explained”

- The Verge: “Inside the Max Headroom Broadcast Hijack”

- RetroTVTech: Documentary – “The Day Chicago’s TV Was Hijacked”

- WTTW Oral History Project: interviews with former employees (2014–2018)

- “Signal Intrusion Cases” – IEEE Spectrum, 2012

- Internet Archive: preserved broadcast footage from both hijackings

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Is the Dybbuk Box truly cursed, or is it the internet’s biggest haunted hoax? In this episode, we break down the story behind the infamous “haunted wine cabinet” that allegedly caused illness, nightmares, shadow figures, and destroyed electronics. I walk through each owner’s experiences, what a dybbuk really is, and why this object became one of the most viral haunted artifacts online.

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Sources & Further Reading

• Haxton, Jason. The Dibbuk Box. Truman State University Press, 2011.

• Mannis, Kevin. Original Dybbuk Box eBay Listing Archive (2003).

• “The Dibbuk Box.” Haunted Museum – Zak Bagans, Las Vegas.

• Kaplan, Jeff. “Dybbuk Box: The Story Behind the World’s Most Haunted Object.” LA Times Interview, 2020.

• Jewish Virtual Library – “Dybbuk: Jewish Folklore Origins.”

• Snopes.com – “Is the Dybbuk Box Real?” (2021 investigation)

• Vox – “The Dybbuk Box and How Internet Creepypasta Became Modern Folklore.”

• NPR – “Haunted Objects and the Psychology of Belief.”

  
  

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