In 1949, the U.S. government secretly released the largest single dose of radioactive iodine in Hanford's history over Washington and Oregon — and classified it for 37 years. This episode traces the…
In August 1951, the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, France was overtaken by a wave of hallucinations, delirium, and death. This episode walks through the outbreak, the investigation, and the theories that…
There's a legend in northeastern Oregon that's been told for well over a hundred years: something lives in Wallowa Lake, and it isn't a fish.In this episode, we trace the full story of Wally, the…
In September 1982, Sylvia Heitstuman — a mother of six from La Grande, Oregon — vanished while walking her dog along Morgan Lake Road. Five days later, a massive search effort found her body in a…
What happens when the wilderness takes hours instead of a life? This episode traces documented “lost time” accounts — the Missing 411 archive, over a century of consistent reports from Ben MacDhui in…
Warren Forrest was convicted of murder in 1978 — and for decades, that was treated as the end of his story. It wasn't.This episode covers the 2015 identification of a second victim, Martha Morrison,…
Today on Twisted Mysteries... Warren Forrest worked for the Clark County, Washington Parks Department. He was married, had two daughters, and by most accounts was unremarkable — which is exactly how…
In 2002, deep in the mountains of Kandahar Province, a U.S. patrol vanished without a trace. When a Special Forces team was sent to find them, they discovered a cave littered with bones, scattered…
Three real people. Three first-hand ghost stories from the Pacific Northwest wilderness — a vanishing hiker near Zigzag Mountain, marching footsteps on the Tahoma Glacier, and a trail of torn leather…
Between February and May 2023, six women went missing or were found dead across the Portland metro area. For months, investigators denied any connection between the cases. They were wrong.In this…