Eight true stories that have never been solved, told slowly over rain on the roof. The letters that came to 657 Boulevard. A farmhouse fire in West Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1945. A young pilot over Bass Strait and the last thing he said on the radio. A woman with eight names, found in a valley above Bergen. Three women gone from a house in Springfield, Missouri. A student in a red parka on Vermont's Long Trail. Two men on a hill in Brazil, wearing lead masks. And a ship found sailing across the Atlantic with nobody on board. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:16 The Watcher

4:50 Christmas Eve

8:56 It's Not an Aircraft

12:28 The Woman in Ice Valley

16:13 The Porch Light

19:29 The Red Parka

23:04 Await the Signal

26:21 The Ship That Sailed On

29:45 Rain until morning

These are real events, told from the record. Where the sources disagree, or a story is a claim rather than a fact, the narration says so. No one named here has been charged with anything. If you know something about one of these cases, tell the police, not the comments.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

SOURCES

The Watcher (Westfield, NJ, 2014): NBC New York, https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/the-creepy-true-story-behind-the-watcher-on-netflix/3918650/ ; TODAY, https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna51754 ; CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/netflix-the-watcher-based-on-a-true-story-westfield-nj-house

Christmas Eve (the Sodder children, 1945): Sodder children disappearance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance ; Legends of America, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/missing-sodder-children/ ; The Line Up, https://the-line-up.com/sodder-children-disappearance-1945

It's Not an Aircraft (Frederick Valentich, 1978): Disappearance of Frederick Valentich, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich ; Skeptical Inquirer, https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/11/the-valentich-disappearance-another-ufo-cold-case-solved/

The Woman in Ice Valley (the Isdal Woman, 1970): Isdal Woman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman ; Life in Norway, https://www.lifeinnorway.net/isdal-woman/

The Porch Light (the Springfield Three, 1992): Springfield Three, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three ; KY3, https://www.ky3.com/2024/06/07/springfield-three-32-years-since-disappearance-suzie-streeter-sherill-levitt-stacy-mccall/ ; KOAM, https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/joplin-news-first/now-missing-34-years-the-springfield-3/article_f2cd04fa-60c4-4428-aef6-658472ccc60a.html ; KOLR OzarksFirst, https://digital-release.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-the-disappearance-of-the-3-missing-women/

The Red Parka (Paula Welden, 1946): Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Paula_Jean_Welden ; Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/mystery/bennington-triangle-paula-welden-vermont-mystery ; Bennington Triangle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle

Await the Signal (the lead masks case, 1966): Lead masks case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_masks_case ; Estado de Minas, https://www.em.com.br/trends/2026/01/7329055-alem-de-varginha-5-casos-ufologicos-que-marcaram-a-historia-do-brasil.html

The Ship That Sailed On (the Mary Celeste, 1872): Mary Celeste, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste ; HISTORY, https://www.history.com/articles/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste