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Astonishing Legends

Astonishing Legends

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The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC Social Sciences World
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  • A Tale of Ghost Ships Three!

    A Tale of Ghost Ships Three!
    Sep 27 2026

    In 1933, a Scottish botanist watched a seemingly abandoned steamship drift past the Alaskan coast on an ice floe. It appeared upside down in a strange mirage, with no crew and no one at the wheel. This ship was the Baychimo, which was abandoned two years earlier, but refused to disappear. Having repeatedly resurfaced across the Arctic, it earning a reputation as one of history’s great ghost ships.

    In this episode, we explore the strange history of ghost ships from the the Baychimo, to the frozen Octavius, and the Ourang Medan, whose crew was reportedly found mysteriously dead shortly before the ship itself exploded and sank. Three ships, three enduring legends, and at least one vessel whose final resting place remains unknown.

    Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
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    2 hrs and 17 mins
  • S2 Ep36: The Mimic

    S2 Ep36: The Mimic
    Sep 22 2026
    In tonight's dead letter, our listener Ed and his wife are newlyweds, sharing the apartment he's lived in for about two years in Clay Center, Nebraska. One morning in early 2020, he hits snooze on his alarm and sees a figure walking out of their bedroom, silhouetted by the living room lights he'd set on a timer, and it looks just like his wife, but it’s not.
    Relevant Prior Episodes
    Ep 26: Shadow People
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    Ep 64: Electronic Fog
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    Ep 226: Boundless Remote Viewing with Lori Williams Part 1
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    Links and Further Reading
    Ed's Floor Plan of the Apartment
    Clay Center, Nebraska, Wikipedia
    World's Largest Ball of Twine, Kansas Tourism
    Note: We call it the world's biggest ball of yarn in the episode. It's actually a ball of sisal twine. I always mess that up! (Scott)
    Doppelganger, Britannica
    Hypnagogic Hallucinations, Cleveland Clinic
    A-Yokai-A-Day: Ikiryo, Matthew Meyer
    Alexander Cannon (psychiatrist), Wikipedia
    STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing], Federation of American Scientists
    Astral Projection Hypnosis by Dr. Steve G. Jones
    Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe
    Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf
    Beyond the Bermuda Triangle by Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor
    We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
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    32 mins
  • S2 Ep35: The Benevolent Warning

    S2 Ep35: The Benevolent Warning
    Sep 15 2026
    In tonight's dead letter, our listener named Mark is driving through western Michigan at two in the morning in 1978, working off a paper map and handwritten directions to a house he's never been to. He comes up a hill and into a curve on US 131, and there are four people standing in his lane. Two of them are waving him over to the right, and the other two have their arms raised above their heads in an X. Had they not been there he may have had a fatal collision, and when he went to find them shortly after, they had vanished.
    Relevant Prior Episodes
    Ep 102: Resurrection Mary Part 1
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    Ep 116: Small Town Monsters
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    Links and Further Reading
    Lydia: The Ghost of Jamestown Bridge, NCpedia
    A History of the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Beardsley and Hankey, 1943
    The Bray Road Beast, Small Town Monsters
    Jim Harold's Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Books 1 through 6
    Note: We call it the National Highway Transportation Safety Association in the episode. The ‘A’ is actually for Administration.

    We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
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    41 mins
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