True crime, strange lore, steady conversation.
Mile Higher is a case-and-mystery show with a conversational table feel. Recent episodes move from murder investigations and disappearances to reincarnation claims, ancient texts, AI controversy, and crimes made stranger by pop-culture afterlives.
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Mile Higher is a conversational mystery show with one foot in true crime and the other in the unexplained. It does not keep its subjects in neat lanes. A run of recent episodes moves from missing twins and suspicious crime scenes to ancient religious texts, reincarnation stories, AI ethics, and a robber whose life later became movie material. The common thread is curiosity about what is officially known, what still feels unresolved, and what people do when a story refuses to close cleanly. True crime episodes often center families pushing against indifference or incomplete answers. The disappearance of Jeanette and Annette is framed through early warning signs, missed police action, and the painful consequences of calling vulnerable children runaways too quickly. The Yvonne Baldelli episode follows digital clues, relationship danger, and the awful weight of messages that no longer sound trustworthy. The Suchir Balaji episode is more delicate, weighing a disputed death, whistleblowing claims, AI backlash, and the need for mental-health resources. Even when the subject is heavy, the format stays direct and conversational. The room pauses for practical explanation, then keeps moving. A technical detail like an email header becomes something ordinary listeners can follow. A historical or religious claim becomes a prompt for talking through calendars, Watchers, ancient knowledge, and the idea of a pre-flood civilization. Paranormal episodes lean into wonder. Reincarnation stories are treated with open interest, especially when children seem to know names, places, or family details they should not know. The show also allows ordinary life into the recording: pregnancy updates, pre-recorded leave plans, producers chiming in, and quick pop-culture detours. That looseness is part of its identity. Mile Higher feels less like a sealed documentary and more like a table of people building the story together, reacting as the disturbing, strange, or strangely moving details arrive.
Made for: For listeners who like case detail, unresolved questions, and conversational reactions more than clipped documentary narration. It suits people comfortable moving between serious crime, speculative history, paranormal claims, and current-tech controversies.
What sets it apart: Mile Higher stands out by letting true crime sit beside fringe history and paranormal material without changing into a different show. Its strength is the group-table rhythm: facts, reactions, plain-language explanations, and digressions all stay in motion together.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mile Higher combines chronological case narration with candid discussion of disputed evidence, investigative failures, and the limits of what can be known.
Mile Higher pairs detailed case narration with an open conversation about evidence, uncertainty, and institutional failure. Josh and the other speakers reconstruct timelines, pause over disputed details, and distinguish confirmed information from their own interpretations.
Missing-person timelines, past-life memories: your inner detective may need a second hat.
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A 365-day year claim turns the Book of Enoch into a vivid, speculative question about ancient knowledge.
The Book of Enoch gives Mile Higher a roomy frame for ancient-knowledge questions, following Enoch's encounters with Uriel, the Watchers, and a record of every human deed.
A disputed death case opens into a blunt talk about AI, authorship, and the limits of online certainty.
Malhar Podcast centers this episode on Suchir Balaji, the OpenAI whistleblower whose death remains disputed between his parents, who believe he was murdered, and the authorities, who ruled that he took his own life.
A sharp account of how a missing-persons response can go wrong fast.
Jeanette and Annette's disappearance is handled as a breakdown in response rather than a neat mystery. The episode lays out the chain clearly: the girls are last seen near MLK by a pump and shop, they spend the day trying to get bus money, and when they do not come home and miss…
Email headers from California give Yvonne Baldelli's disappearance a crucial digital turn.
Yvonne Baldelli's disappearance is framed through the digital trail that followed an unanswered email to her sister. Michelle's concern hardens into suspicion that Yvonne had not simply left Panama, and the episode follows that doubt into the email headers.
A conversational reincarnation story that stays strongest when the details turn personal.
The episode treats reincarnation as something to wonder about rather than settle. It moves from children recalling past lives into the James Houston Jr. case, and the material gains force once the meeting with Houston's sister and the trip to Shishijima come into view.
A clear overnight timeline keeps Carly's disappearance grounded in careful, case-first detail.
Mile Higher stays tightly focused on the overnight sequence around Carly's disappearance, using the late text, the movie night, the checks on her eyes, and the point by morning when the house realized she was gone.
An unresolved double murder, with scene evidence, legal fallout, and no clean answer.
Mile Higher returns to the unsolved Valentine's Day murders of Stephanie Hart Grizzell and Nick Kunzelman, and the case still lands with the same mix of grief and frustration.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
The Mile Higher Podcast revisits the 2018 disappearance of 16-year-old Karlie Gusé from Bishop, California.
The Mile Higher Podcast examines the unsolved 2000 Valentine's Day murders of high school sweethearts Stephanie Hart Grizzell and Nick Kunzelman, who were shot execution-style in a Subway in Littleton, Colorado.
The episode begins with a commercial for Beachwood Cemetery, followed by the hosts Kendall and Josh introducing the show and discussing a minor injury to crew member Janelle.
Josh and Kendall introduce a true crime episode about the 1999 disappearances of Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible after a sleepover turns into a nightmare.
The Mile Higher Podcast discusses the unsolved 1978 Burger Chef murders, criticizing police incompetence and exploring theories.
Mile Higher episode 411, hosted by Kendall and Josh, follows Neil Hopper, a Royal Cornwall Hospital vascular surgeon whose feet turned septic after an Easter 2019 camping trip and whose legs were amputated below the knee on May 17, 2019.
Emily Longley’s 2011 death in Bournemouth began with Anita Turner’s emergency call and a tight necklace cited as a possible cause.
Mile Higher episode 409 examines Karina Ditto's 2011 death after David said she fell down the stairs in Mira Mesa.
["Mile Higher's episode on The Book of Enoch compares the Catholic Bible's 73 books, the Protestant Bible's 66, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible's 81 to 88 while Josh frames Enoch as a missing text.", "Josh, Ian, and Janelle trace Enoch from Adam's seventh generation to Methuselah, Noah, and a 365-year lifespan that keeps coming up in the discussion.", "The conversation centers on the Watchers, 200 angels who teach swords, makeup, astrology, and enchantments before fathering the Nephilim with human women.", "The episode then weighs two readings of the flood story: an ancient-alien civilization with sky beings and a DNA-style ark, or a pre-flood myth cycle tied to the Younger Dryas and the Ararat anomaly."]
Mile Higher's episode on Suchir Balaji focuses on the OpenAI worker's disputed death, the parents' murder allegation, and the authorities' suicide ruling.
["Mile Higher Podcast covers the 1990 disappearance of Jeanette and Danette Millbrook, fraternal twins born on April 2, 1974, from Augusta, Georgia.", "Ian, the host speaking while Kendall is absent, says the episode was recorded months earlier and frames the case as under-covered.", "After church on March 18, 1990, the twins walked to Ted, then toward Juanita's house and the Pump and Shop at MLK and 12th, where Gloria was the last confirmed sighting.", "Mary Sturgis, called Miss Louise, and Shantae say the Richmond County Sheriff's Office treated both girls as runaways after the white-van warning, while NECMEC did more early awareness work than local police or news."]
The hosts discuss the bizarre 911 call and suspicious scene in the Tiffiney Crawford case.
The hosts introduce an episode about Jeffrey Allen Manchester, the real-life serial robber who escaped prison and hid in a Toys R Us, and discuss the movie based on his story.
Mile Higher Podcast episode 383 covers the murder of Yvonne Baldelli, a former Procter & Gamble manager from Southern California, who was killed in November 2011 on the Panamanian island of Caranaro by her boyfriend Brian Brimager, a former U.S.
Mile Higher Podcast co-hosts cover reincarnation and past life memories in children, anchored by the case of James Leininger, a Louisiana boy born in 1998 who from age two began describing himself as WWII Navy pilot James Houston Jr., who died during the battle for Iwo Jima aboard the USS Natoma Bay.
The Mile Higher Podcast discusses the shocking case of Erin Patterson, who allegedly murdered someone using mushrooms.
The hosts of Mile Higher Podcast revisit the mysterious disappearance of teenager Karlie Gusé, discussing new information that fills some gaps in the case.