Six people. An isolated farmhouse. Footprints leading from the woods towards the house... but none leading back.

In 1922, the residents of Hinterkaifeck began noticing stange things around their remote German farm unexplained sounds a missing key and signs that someone may have been watchibf them. Days later, every person in the household was dead.

But perhaps the most disturbing part came afterward. Someone appeared to remain at the farm.

The animals were fed. Smoke rose the chimney. And for days, no one outside knew what had happened.

More than a century later, the hinterkaifeck murders remain unsolved.

Who was already there...before the family knew they were in danger?

Have you ever heard something you knew wasn't meant for you?

For decades, mysterious voices have appeared over shortwave radio, calmly reading sequences of numbers into the static. To most listeners, they sound meaningless. But to someone, somewhere, those numbers could be instructions.

In this episode of A Strange Knowing, we uncover the eerie world of number stations and the true story of Ana Belen Montes a respected US intelligence analyst who secretly spied for Cuba and received coded messages through shortwave radio.

The broadcast were real. The spies were real. And somewhere on the other side of static..someone was listening

Have you ever walked into an empty hallway and felt like something was...off?

The fluorescent lights buzz. The rooms all look the same. You turn around and suddenly, you can't remember which way you came from.

This week on A Strange Knowing, we step into the Backrooms: an endless maze of yellow walls, damp carpet, strange sounds, and the terrifying possibility that you may not be alone

Because according to the legend, you don't find the Backrooms. You fall into them.

And once you're there...

finding your way in might be a lot easier than finding your way out.

Somewhere on the darkest corners of the internet, there's a story about a website you're never supposed to find.

A countdown appears. A payment is made. And when the clock reaches zero, a livestream supposedly begins.

They're known as RED ROOMS secret dark web sites where anonymous viewers are rumored to pay to watch, and even control horrifying acts happening in real time.

But after years of stories supposed to links, screenshots and online warnings, one question remains:

Has anyone ever proven that a RED ROOM actually exists?

In this episode of A Strange Knowing, Carmen Ramos explores the dark web's most disturbing urban legend, where the story came from, the scams hiding behind it, and why the lack of evidence somehow makes the mystery even harder to kill.

Because sometimes the scariest thing isn't knowing what's behind the screen.

It's wondering if you should have clicked in the first place...

They're supposed to be harmless little figures from folklore, tiny guardians hidden among gardens, forests, and old homes

But for centuries, stories of gnomes and other small humanoid beings have taken a much stranger turn.

People have claimed to see small figures darting between trees, watching from the edge of their property, or appearing where no person should be. And in more recent alleged encounters, witnesses insist what they saw wasn't a statue, an animal...or their imagination.

So where did the belief in gnomes actually come from? And why do stories of mysterious little beings continue to appear across different cultures and generations?

In this episode of A Strange Knowing, Carmen Ramos explores the folklore, alleged sightings, and unsettling possibility that the creatures we turned into garden decorations were once believed to be something very different.

Because maybe the strangest thing in your garden...isn't the statue.

FOR GENERATIONS, PEOPLE ACROSS Latin America HAVE BEEN WARNED ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WANDERS NEAR THE WATER AFTER DARK, CRYING FOR THE CHILDREN SHE LOST. THEY CALL HER LA LLORONA ALSO KNOWN AS THE WEEPING WOMAN. SOME SAY SHE'S NOTHING MORE THAN AN OLD LEGEND MEANT TO KEEP CHILDREN FROM WANDERING AT NIGHT. OTHERS SWEAR THEY'VE HEARD HER CRIES THEMSELVES. BUT THERE'S ONE WARNING YOU SHOULD REMEMBER: IF HER CRYING SOUNDS FAR AWAY..SHE MAY ALREADY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.

IN THIS EPISODE OF A STRANGE KNOWING, CARMEN RAMOS EXPLORES THE HAUNTING LEGEND OF LA LLORONA, THE TRAGEDY BEHIND HER STORY, AND WHY HER CRIES HAVE TERRIFIED GENERATIONS.

IN 1901, TWO ENGLISH ACADEMICS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE GARDENS OF VERSAILLES WHEN SOMETHING BEGAN TO FEEL...WRONG

THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGED. THE GROUNDS BECAME STRANGELY STILL. THEY ENCOUNTERED PEOPLE DRESSED AS THOUGH THEY BELONGED TO ANOTHER CENTURY.

AND THEN ONE OF THE WOMEN SAW SOMEONE SITTING NEAR THE PETIT TRIANON, QUIETLY SKETCHING

YEARS LATER, SHE BECAME CONVINCED THE WOMAN SHE'D SEEN WAS Marie Antoinette MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER HER DEATH

DID TWO WOMEN SOMEHOW GLIMPSE VERSAILLES AS IT EXISTED IN THE PAST? OR DID MEMORY COINCIDENCE, AND IMAGINATION TRANSFORM AN UNUSUAL AFTERNOON INTO ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST FASCINATING ALLEGED TIME SLIPS?

IN EPISODE 3 OF A STRANGE KNOWING, CARMEN RAMOS EXPLORES THE EERIE 1901 ENCOUNTER THAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE VERSAILLES TIME SLIP

WHAT IF SOMETIMES WE DON'T TRAVEL TO THE PAST.. WE SIMPLY WALK INTO IT?

YOU WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. YOU CAN SEE YOUR BEDROOM. YOU KNOW YOU'RE AWAKE. BUT YOU CAN'T MOVE. AND THEN YOU NOTICE SOMETHING STANDING IN THE CORNER. TALL. DARK. FACELESS. WEARING A WIDE BRIMMED HAT

PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED ENCOUNTERS WITH A SHADOWY FIGURE NOW KNOWN AS THE HAT MAN, OFTEN DURING THE TERRIFYING PHENOMENON OF SLEEP PARALYSIS BUT WHY DO SOME PEOPLE DESCRIBE SEEING SUCH A SIMILAR FIGURE? IS IT SIMPLY THE HUMAN BRAIN CAUGHT BETWEEN DREAMING AND WAKING... OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE BEHIND THE STORIES?

IN EPISODE 2 OF A STRANGE KNOWING, CARMEN RAMOS EXPLORES THE PSYCHOLOGY FOLKLORE, AND UNSETTLING ACCOUNTS BEHIND THE HAT MAN.

AND TONIGHT, IF YOU WAKE UP AND CAN'T MOVE

DON'T LOOK IN THE CORNER