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Step into the shadows of the unknown with "Unsolved Mysteries & Cold Cases," a spine-tingling podcast that dives deep into the enigmatic cases that have eluded resolution and capture. Each week, your host, investigative Steve Matthews, peels back the layers of mystery surrounding baffling disappearances, unsolved crimes, and eerie legends that have withstood the test of time. Armed with an unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth, Laura meticulously examines each case with a fine-toothed comb, combining captivating storytelling with hard-nosed investigative research. Through
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Steve Matthews gives historical crimes, UFO reports, and enduring legends the same patient treatment, testing explanations while keeping unresolved evidence visible.
Unsolved Mysteries & Cold Cases uses Steve Matthews' continuous narration to reconstruct unresolved subjects, lay out competing explanations, and preserve the uncertainty around them.
Marfa Lights beside Bugsy Siegel: your curiosity gets a case file and a view of the sky.
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A small Texas night becomes a lingering question under a very large sky.
Stephenville is the kind of place where a quiet night can turn strange fast, and this episode leans into that mood without overplaying it. It moves from the January 8, 2008 sightings to the MUFON radar report that gave the story more weight, and it gives each beat enough room to…
A slow, solemn ghost story that keeps Chicago's best-known legend rooted in mood and place.
This episode treats Resurrection Mary as a Chicago legend tied to the city's own memory, with the 1930s setting carrying a lot of the weight. The narration stays steady and old-fashioned, which fits a story that wants to feel handed down instead of explained away.
A Cold War mystery told with restraint, unease, and a closing cadence that sticks.
The piece treats the Lake and Heath Bentwaters incident as a Cold War mystery before it gets anywhere near UFO talk, and that order works. Radar anomalies, eyewitness accounts, and the competing explanations are handled with restraint, moving from the stillness of a U.S.
A solemn missing-child story where the DeKalb reunion sharpens, rather than resolves, the loss.
Walter Collins' disappearance is handled as more than a missing child case. The review follows how the story widens into Los Angeles itself, Christine Collins, and an LAPD investigation marked by missing identities and police corruption.
A steady Alcatraz escape story that keeps the mystery unresolved.
It follows Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin as they take on Alcatraz on June 12, 1962, and it lays out the escape with careful detail: cut-through cells, dummy heads, a utility corridor, a ventilator shaft, the roof, a kitchen vent pipe, and a handmade raft…
A solemn, atmospheric look at the Phoenix Lights that stays rooted in uncertainty.
The Phoenix Lights story treats the March 13, 1997 sighting over Phoenix as a citywide moment of witness and argument. The episode keeps a steady, solemn pace as it moves through eyewitness accounts, fear, wonder, and the pull of extraterrestrial theory.
A tense hotel case told with patience and atmosphere, keeping the mystery alive.
Room 1040 settles into a tightening chamber of dread as Unsolved Mysteries and Cold Cases follows the murder of Artemis Ogletree, later identified as Roland T. Owen, through hotel unease, chilling phone calls, a cryptic note, and the case's refusal to settle.
A dark, patient account of Circleville's anonymous letters and the unease they left behind.
The Circleville case unfolds as a slow move from small-town normalcy into suspicion, fear, and a mystery that never quite settles. Its strongest stretch comes from the town's atmosphere and the pressure created by the anonymous letters, while Paul Freshour's 1983 arrest and…
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
On March 13, 1997, Phoenix, Arizona, saw a formation of glowing lights that drew reports from Alice Martin, Hank Johnson, police officer Daniel Rodriguez, and reporter Liz Riley.
Unsolved Mysteries & Cold Cases follows the 1935 death investigation tied to Room 1046 at Kansas City’s President Hotel, where a guest first registered as Artemis Ogletree.
Unsolved Mysteries & Cold Cases traces the Roanoke disappearance from Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 colony to John White's 1590 return to an empty settlement.
Circleville, Ohio becomes the center of a long-running case after Mary Gillespie receives an anonymous letter accusing her of an affair with school superintendent Gordon Massey.
Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is framed as a clash between an extraterrestrial crash and a weather balloon explanation, with Mack Brazel, Sheriff George Wilcox, and Major Jesse Marcel at the center of the first reports.
Bugsy Siegel's death is framed around a Beverly Hills shooting on June 20, 1947, after a run of disputes over the Flamingo Hotel and Casino.
A bomb tears through Wall Street at noon.
The story starts on the dark horizon outside Marfa, Texas.
The episode follows Atlantis as a mystery that has puzzled philosophers, explorers, historians, and archaeologists for millennia.
The story opens in fog-bound Victorian-era London, where Whitechapel becomes the scene of a string of murders that made Jack the Ripper into a legend.
Host Steve Matthews takes listeners deep into the 2008 Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings — one of the most documented mass UFO events in US history.
Host Steve Matthews guides listeners through the full legend of Resurrection Mary, Chicago's most famous ghost — a young woman from the 1930s who died after her last night dancing at the O'Henry Ballroom and whose spirit is said to haunt Archer Avenue near Resurrection Cemetery.
Documentary-style narrative of the August 13-14, 1956 Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident.
Walter Collins vanishes from Lincoln Heights on March 10, 1928.
Three men challenge Alcatraz.