Forgotten News Podcast
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Welcome to the Forgotten News podcast. This is your window to hear true stories from long ago. Stories that once made headlines. Stories that people thought would be unforgettable, but soon were lost in the sands of time, or were buried deep in the dustbin of history. In this podcast, we brush off the sand and dust, and share those stories with you, today — as fresh as when they were first told.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Old crimes and strange records become careful narrative history, with documentary detail carrying more weight than easy solutions.
FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST reconstructs overlooked cases through the records and uncertainties that survived them. The case-based episodes build narrative history from precise pieces of evidence: timed sequences, letters, diary entries, witness accounts, alibis and the suspicions…
Scrooge shares the shelf with an unsolved murder; your taste for both has found its podcast.
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A wartime mystery built from clocks, calls, and patient uncertainty.
Forgotten News Podcast frames a wartime disappearance as a patient, scene-driven mystery. The episode moves through timestamps, phone calls, and small steps in church offices and a parsonage, giving the case a lived-in procedural feel before the larger question settles in.
A courtroom dress-code fight becomes a sharper story about public attention and changing norms.
Forgotten News Podcast turns a courtroom clothing dispute into a story about who gets to define decency, and how a small hearing can widen into a public cause.
A haunted house story treated as a true account, with a book tie-in and enough extra material to make the pacing a little messy.
The Black Hope Mystery leans into a classic haunted house setup, but it frames the story as a true account rather than fiction. It points to Ben and Jean Williams' account, notes their book The Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting, published in 1991, and gives the…
Burned matches and an unexplained liquid make Nora's basement death a quiet, stubborn historical mystery.
Nora's basement death gives Forgotten News Podcast a stark, unsettled center: a case shaped less by spectacle than by details that would not quite fit the first official theory.
A live-audience Christmas special gives Scrooge's reckoning the warmth of old-fashioned radio performance.
This Christmas special turns Forgotten News toward a radio-style version of Scrooge's reckoning. Jacob returns after seven years of remorse, warning Ebenezer that three spirits are coming, and the narration makes the first visitor feel uncanny: both childlike and aged, with…
A supernatural episode where a burning sink and a dusty attic make the warnings feel close to home.
A Ouija board, a sink that catches fire, and an attic in a house built around 1900 give this single-episode supernatural review its household shape.
A Halloween anthology that favors short, varied pieces over one long story.
Forgotten News Podcast leans into its fifth annual Halloween special with a mix of scary, creepy, and oddball stories, songs, and seasonal bits.
A bleak old murder case where the strangest clue is the father identity nobody could quite verify.
The episode treats Lydia Thompson's killing as a case with a rotten center: a secretive marriage, a farewell note, a suspicious husband, and names that never fully settle into certainty.
History argued after dark.
Piracy stripped of romance.
Forgotten women, complicated on purpose.
This Christmas special features the 1939 Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' starring Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge and produced by Orson Welles.
Lydia's nearly headless body was found with wounds from knife, ice pick, and hatchet.
This episode of the Forgotten News Podcast explores the historical murder of Dr.
This episode introduces the Forgotten News Podcast and includes a promotional segment for other podcasts before transitioning into a sci-fi narrative.
Forgotten News Podcast centers on Ullman Owens, the Holland Bar lighthouse keeper found dead in Crisfield, Maryland, after the light went dark during the March 11, 1931 hurricane.
Forgotten News Podcast episode 76 pairs the 1878 murder of 14-year-old Catherine Richards in Plainfield, New York, with Helen Hulick's 1938 slacks fight in Los Angeles.
Forgotten News Podcast Episode 75 centers on the Black Hope Mystery in Newport, Texas, and frames the story around Black History Month.
Forgotten News Podcast Episode 74 presents two unexplained deaths from 1932: Elizabeth Cooke dies aboard the Chinese Prince after a false cablegram reports her fiancé’s death, while Nora Smithson is found burned behind a furnace in Tucson.
The Forgotten News Podcast's 2024 Christmas Special returns to the 1939 Campbell Playhouse audio dramatization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol after listeners rejected the 2023 presentation of Dancing Dan's Christmas.
The Forgotten News Podcast's 2024 Halloween episode presents a surprise anthology of unusual stories involving a commuter who hears 6:29 while his watch reads 8:29, a farmhouse ghost called Mother, and unexplained attic noises.
This episode begins with a promo for another podcast before presumably diving into a forgotten historical news story.
Forgotten News Podcast episode 53, "A Bad, Bad Woman," follows Sharon Kinne from a March 19, 1960 shooting in Independence, Missouri, where she said two-year-old Dana fired the .22 pistol that killed her husband James.
The episode begins with a cross-promotion for another podcast before presumably diving into a forgotten historical news story.
The episode begins with promotions for other podcasts before presumably diving into a forgotten historical news story.
This episode begins with promotions for other podcasts before presumably diving into a forgotten historical news story.