Long roads through strange evidence.
Where Did The Road Go? moves through lost civilizations, occultism, ghost accounts, synchronicity, and alternative readings of the ancient world. Soraya keeps the tone conversational, letting guests make their case while returning strange claims to concrete details.
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Where Did The Road Go? is a long-running fringe-history and paranormal conversation show with a patient, searching temperament. Its center is the interview. Soraya sets a topic in motion, asks plain questions, and then gives guests enough room to build unusual arguments at full length. The subjects are wide but connected. Lost civilizations sit beside alternative science. Occultism sits beside ghost hunting. Ancient symbols lead into cosmology, calendars, ritual alignments, and arguments about what cultures may have inherited from one another. The show can spend time with Edmund Marriage on Eden, druidic knowledge, and the Annunaki. It can follow John Ward into ghost hunting, occultism, and Aleister Crowley. It can let Roy Davies lay out a challenge to Darwin’s originality, then treat the tension in the material as part of the conversation rather than a problem to sand away. Recent episodes keep that same atmosphere while leaning into creepy tales, synchronicity, Bigfoot warnings, and the odd theatrical language of transmissions and open doors. The tone is warm, dry when it wants to be, and rarely hurried. It is not a polished explainer built around crisp conclusions. It is closer to a late-night table where someone has brought notes, someone else has doubts, and everyone is willing to stay with the strange part a little longer. That patience is the point. Where Did The Road Go? works best when a guest’s worldview is allowed to stretch, while Soraya nudges it back toward examples, sources, places, and personal experience. Some claims remain highly speculative. Some stories are more eerie than evidentiary. The show’s distinctive pleasure is hearing those things handled without either instant dismissal or breathless certainty.
Made for: For listeners drawn to paranormal research, alternative archaeology, occultism, ancient mysteries, and open-ended speculation. It suits patient curiosity more than quick debunking or tidy answers.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the unhurried interview shape: guests can roam, but Soraya keeps pulling the conversation back to specific claims, stories, and symbols. The show feels exploratory without becoming slick or overproduced.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It follows paranormal testimony and disputed histories closely enough to show how extraordinary claims build their own systems of meaning.
Where Did The Road Go? gives unusual claims room to reveal their full shape. Soraya steers interview-led conversations from a firsthand account of a vanishing figure and an unexplained voice to arguments about Peruvian stonework, Egyptian sites, occult ritual and ancient…
A vanished stranger, impossible stonework, and ancient symbols await whenever your curiosity takes the scenic route.
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A Darwin dispute that reads like a story and leaves Soraya a little angry.
The conversation with Roy Davies centers on The Darwin Conspiracy and on the larger question of how Charles Darwin arrived at his theories. It also weighs Darlington's view that Darwin left no notes or writings to show that path against Gruber's stronger claim that Darwin was…
A measured conversation turns a circle with a dot into a question about how ancient cultures understood shared meaning.
Laird Scranton's conversation with Soraya follows a bold cross-cultural thread: a circle with a dot carrying related cosmological meanings in Chinese and Egyptian hieroglyphic systems, while also appearing in Dogon ritual shrine alignment.
A vanished figure, a cold whisper, and a station story that keeps its edges rough.
Where Did The Road Go? centers on Brennan's account of a man in old-fashioned clothing at Union Station who vanishes, then moves into the ride back up the escalator, where churning water and a faint, stuttering plea of cold seem to linger in the air.
Gebel el-Silsila turns ancient sandstone into a searching look at Egypt's buried histories.
Gebel el-Silsila comes through as more than an ancient Egyptian sandstone quarry. Dr. John Ward and Scotty Roberts frame it as a lived-in place shaped by shelter, water, food, refuge, and the strange rhythms of seasonal island geography.
A strange, sweeping chain linking ancient traditions, brainwaves, Glastonbury, and Jesus as the living Crestus.
Edmund of Marriage, presented as head of the Golden Age Project, moves from ancient mystery-school ideas into a wide-ranging account of Jesus' British background and connections.
A measured visit to Sacsayhuaman's immense stonework and the speculative forces that might help explain it.
Ancient stonework takes center stage as Soraya and the Brothers of the Serpent move through Sacsayhuaman with an eye on craft, force, and the limits of ancient construction.
An occult conversation where Egyptian ritual, household practice, comic timing, and a sun altar meet.
John Ward's conversation about ritual practice is most interesting where ancient religion meets ordinary comic self-awareness. He describes a sun altar replicated at home, morning and evening rituals, and a wish to reconnect with ceremonies he feels modern culture has made too…
Greek myth told with fatal momentum.
Ancient empire told in old public-domain voices.
John Ward joins Where Did the Road Go?
This episode features a conversation with Timothy Renner about the Albatwitch Day event in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, touching on paranormal topics like Bigfoot and personal anecdotes.
Soraya hosts Kyle and Russ, the Brothers of the Serpent, to discuss their extended trips to Peru.
Steph Young discusses her book Taken in the Woods: The Body Collectors, Chronicle of Stolen Souls, a follow-up to Something in the Woods that examines why people vanish in rural woodlands and mountains.
This episode features an interview with Melanie Zimmer exploring the mysteries and paranormal aspects of the Finger Lakes region.
This episode introduces the podcast 'Where Did the Road Go?' which explores topics like lost history, consciousness, the paranormal, and unexplained mysteries.
This episode features the second part of an interview with Edmund Marriage, discussing topics like the real Garden of Eden, druidic knowledge, and the Annunaki, as part of a podcast exploring fringe and alternative science.
This episode features an interview with John Ward discussing ghost hunting, occultism, and Aleister Crowley as part of a podcast exploring fringe topics like the paranormal and alternative science.
This episode features a mix of advertisements, public service announcements, and podcast promotions, including a warning about drink driving and introductions to various podcasts like 'Why Would You Tell Me That'.
Soraya sits down with Roy Davies, the UK-based author of The Darwin Conspiracy.
["Laird Scranton argues that Dogon, Egyptian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Buddhist symbols preserve one older cosmological system, and Soraya centers the conversation on his book China's Cosmological Prehistory.", "The episode opens with Soraya dedicating the September 27, 2014 show to Christopher Jordan, who died in Cambodia on September 22 after appearing on the program for The Ark of the Covenant Operations Manual.", "Scranton ties his case to Dogon claims about Sirius, the 10-day week in Egypt and China, and word links such as Ama, Amen, and amen.", "He also connects the discussion to Barnard's Loop, Venus's slowed rotation, the Chinese well-field system, and the idea that prehistory reaches back before 3000 BC."]
Soraya kicks off the conversation with Brennan and jokes that he seems half asleep.
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Where Did The Road Go?
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This episode features an interview with Hugh Williams exploring topics like the Wild Hunt, witchcraft, and skinwalkers, delving into supernatural folklore and mythology.
This episode discusses telephone calls from the dead, exploring paranormal communication with the afterlife.