In March 1984, the kidnapping of a Japanese candy executive was just the opening move in one of the most bizarre and unsolved criminal campaigns in modern history. For seventeen months, a group calling itself the Monster with 21 Faces, named after a fictional literary villain, terrorized Japan's food industry with poison threats, taunting letters, and a ghost-like operative known only as the Fox-Eyed Man, who was spotted monitoring police radio frequencies during live sting operations. The legal window has closed, the perpetrators can never be charged, and the identity of the Fox-Eyed Man remains unknown to this day. Explore the case, the theories, and the strange silence that ended it all at www.stillunexplained.com.

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men in police uniforms walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with thirteen works of art worth half a billion dollars, including a Vermeer, two Rembrandts, and a small bronze eagle that one of them had been thinking about for twenty years. The greatest unsolved art heist in history has never produced an arrest, a recovery, or a clear answer. But one name keeps surfacing: Robert "Bobby" Donati, a Boston mob soldier with a decades-long obsession, a coded promise to his imprisoned boss, and a violent death that may have sealed the mystery for good. What did he know? And where is the art now?

On the night of February 25th, 1942, the U.S. Army fired 1,440 anti-aircraft shells into the sky over Los Angeles and found nothing. No wreckage. No enemy. No explanation that has ever fully held. The Battle of Los Angeles remains one of the strangest events of World War II on American soil, a night that launched competing theories about mass hysteria, secret technology, government cover-up, and something no official report has ever been willing to name. What was in that sky? And why did the answer matter so much to so many people, for so many different reasons?

In February 1977, Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment, her killer unknown and the case going cold for months. Then a coworker began entering trances, speaking in a voice that claimed to be Basa's, naming a suspect, and describing stolen jewelry that investigators later found exactly where the voice said it would be. This is the story of a possession that solved a homicide, and the question nobody in law enforcement has ever been able to fully answer: how did she know?

On the night of March 13, 1997, hundreds of witnesses across Arizona reported a massive, silent V-shaped object moving through the sky, followed by a row of glowing amber lights hovering over Phoenix. More than 700 reports were filed. The governor mocked the event, then admitted a decade later he had seen it himself. The Phoenix Lights is the most widely witnessed UFO event in American history, and depending on who you ask, it is either completely solved or not even close. Mark digs into the two events that most coverage collapses into one, the telescope account that almost no one followed up on, and the silence that military jet explanations have never quite explained away.

In 2007, a small fire along Rome's Tiber River led investigators to a near-complete human skeleton arranged with disturbing precision beside the ID of a man who had been missing for four years. DNA testing revealed the impossible: the bones belonged to five different people, collected across two decades. Someone built a person out of strangers and left a name next to it. The Jigsaw Skeleton of Rome is one of the most unsettling and least-known cold cases in modern forensic history. Unsolved Rome mystery, composite skeleton, forensic cold case, Libero Ricci missing, Magliana crime, Italy true crime, unexplained death.

In 1976, a routine solo training flight over Mexico turned into one of the strangest aviation anomalies ever recorded.

Student pilot Rafael Pacheco Pérez took off for a short 25-mile navigation loop. Less than an hour later, he landed more than 250 miles away in Acapulco. His fuel tank was nearly full. His memory was gone. And air traffic controllers reported hearing a voice over the radio that claimed it was not his.

Was this a case of missing time? A classified military incident? A navigational impossibility? Or one of the most credible UFO contact events in modern aviation history?

In this episode of Still Unexplained, we examine radar records, fuel data, air traffic testimony, and the unsettling transmission that suggested humanity is not alone. We explore the physics that do not add up, the psychological explanations that fall short, and the possibility that something extraordinary intervened in Mexican airspace that morning.

Aviation mystery. UFO encounter. Missing time. Alien contact. Government silence.

Whatever happened on June 21, 1976, it still refuses to land cleanly in any category.

And it remains… still unexplained.

In 1976, four art students canoeing in the remote Allagash Wilderness of Maine reported seeing a mysterious light over Eagle Lake. Years later, under hypnosis, they recalled being taken aboard a craft and examined by non-human beings. Decades after that, one of them recanted.

Were the Allagash Abductions a genuine alien encounter, a case of shared memory reconstruction, or something in between?

In this episode of Still Unexplained, we explore UFO sightings, missing time, alien abduction accounts, hypnosis, and the psychological mysteries that keep this case alive nearly fifty years later.

For listeners interested in extraterrestrial life, unsolved mysteries, alien encounters, and the science of memory, this is one of the most debated abduction cases in American history.