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19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents for help after getting stuck in a ditch on a rural Minnesota road. For 47 minutes, they stayed on the phone as Brandon walked through dark farmland, trying to meet his parents at a safe location.
His last words were "Oh, shit!" before the line went dead. He vanished without a trace.
On May 14, 2008, Brandon left a party in Lynd, Minnesota, and drove toward home in Marshall. When his car slid into a roadside ditch, he called his father for assistance. But cell tower data later revealed Brandon wasn't where he thought he was - he was actually 25 miles away from his believed location.
During the 47-minute phone call, Brandon described walking through fields, climbing wire fences, and hearing running water nearby. His parents drove through Lynd searching for him, flashing their headlights while Brandon flashed his phone screen. Neither could see the other's signals.
Then Brandon encountered something in the darkness that made him exclaim in alarm. The call ended abruptly, and Brandon Swanson disappeared forever.
Despite one of the largest search operations in Minnesota history involving over 500 volunteers and 34 search dogs from 9 states, no trace of Brandon has ever been found. Search dogs tracked his scent for three miles to the Yellow Medicine River, where the trail vanished.
17 years later, Brandon Swanson's disappearance remains one of Minnesota's most baffling missing person cases. What happened during those final moments? What did Brandon see that made him cry out? And how does someone vanish completely from flat, open farmland?
The Crime Division examines the evidence, analyzes the timeline discrepancies, and explores the theories surrounding Brandon's mysterious disappearance.
Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide: The UFO Cult That Convinced 39 People to Die for a Spaceship
In March 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, in what remains one of the largest mass suicides in U.S. history. Led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, this UFO religious movement convinced intelligent, educated people to abandon their lives believing they would ascend to a spacecraft traveling behind the Hale-Bopp comet.
This episode explores the 22-year journey of Heaven's Gate from its origins as "The Two" in the 1970s to the tragic "graduation" that shocked the world. We examine Marshall Applewhite's transformation from a music teacher to cult leader, the group's extreme beliefs about gender, technology, and alien salvation, and how they recruited members through early internet websites.
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart climbed into her Lockheed Electra and took off from Lae, New Guinea, heading toward Howland Island — a narrow strip of land in the Pacific she never reached. Somewhere along that last leg, she vanished. No confirmed wreckage. No final message. Just silence.
This episode of Fobia retraces the timeline of that day — from her departure and last radio transmissions to the vast and chaotic search effort that followed. We look at what was known, what wasn’t, and how the official investigation struggled to make sense of her disappearance.
Over the years, a few theories have circulated. Some believe Earhart may have survived the flight and ended up as a castaway on Nikumaroro. Others claim she was captured by Japanese forces after a forced landing. But these ideas remain unproven. No verified wreckage, remains, or recordings ever closed the case.
In 1939, Earhart was declared legally dead in a U.S. court. Yet the fascination has never faded. Her name resurfaces regularly — in classified file dumps, in documentaries, and in grainy photos passed off as evidence. The mystery persists, not because of what we know, but because of everything we never found.
The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel | Real Possession Case
Anneliese Michel was 23 years old when she died—
after nearly a year of Church-sanctioned exorcisms.
Diagnosed with epilepsy and psychosis by doctors,
her family believed something darker was at work.
What followed were 67 exorcism sessions, physical decline,
and a death surrounded by silence and questions.
Was it demonic possession?
Medical neglect?
Or something far more mysterious?
This episode of Fobia explores the real exorcism of Anneliese Michel—
one of the most disturbing and debated paranormal cases in modern history.
A true mystery where faith, fear, and psychology collide.
Ethan loses his mother and his world collapse. he visits her grave and encounters something strange. something should not have been found in a graveyard.
Ethan takes it home, and horror begins.
it does not stop until Ethan is destroyed.
a terrifying dark tale of grief, loneliness and technology.
original horror fiction by Fobia
In 1948, a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. Dressed neatly in a suit, no signs of struggle, no identification — just a small scrap of paper in his pocket with two words: Tamám Shud, or It Is Finished.
The case would become one of the most baffling mysteries of the 20th century. Who was he? Why was the label torn from his clothing? And what was the meaning behind the cryptic Persian phrase — “It is finished”?
Over the decades, the case has drawn cryptographers, coroners, and conspiracy theorists — but no answer has ever satisfied all the questions. DNA breakthroughs have offered new leads, but uncertainty still lingers.
This episode explores the final moments, the code, and the endless speculation around the man who remains, in many ways, a ghost on the shore.
In 2013, a 21-year-old student named Elisa Lam checked into the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Days later, hotel guests began reporting something strange about the water. When maintenance staff investigated, they discovered her body — floating inside the rooftop water tank.
How did she get there? Why was the door alarm silent? And what really happened in the elevator, where she was last seen alive in a video that would go on to haunt the internet?
This episode explores the chilling timeline of Elisa Lam’s final days — from her arrival at the Cecil Hotel to the questions that still remain. Was it a tragic accident, a mental health crisis, or something more sinister?
A case that blends internet obsession, urban legend, and real-life horror — and one that continues to disturb long after the headlines faded.
How far would you go for your freedom? for your family? and for settling the score?
Max waited for 7 years for the perfect plan. Everything was aligned perfectly. Every piece of the puzzle. Every detail.
But fate would have a surprise for him. One that Max could not have seen coming.
In this episode, we live with Max and his uncompromising will to be free. To escape prison. To track down the detective who got him there, and to get his daughter back.
This horror story will stay with you for some time. it is dark, twisted and haunting.
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A man haunted by guilt. A home steeped in silence. And something watching from the dark.
This creepy horror story unravels in whispers and shadows — a dark psychological tale where nothing is as it seems, and the truth hides behind walls both real and imagined.
A slow, chilling descent with an unsettling calm… and a twist ending you won’t see coming.
In 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers set out to cross the icy slopes of the Ural Mountains. What followed became one of the most chilling unsolved mysteries in modern history: the Dyatlov Pass incident.
Days later, their campsite was found abandoned — tents slashed from the inside, belongings untouched. The bodies were discovered scattered in the snow, half-dressed, some with horrific internal injuries, others with crushed skulls, missing eyes and tongues, but no signs of struggle. What could have caused such terror?
Was it a deadly avalanche, military testing gone wrong, or something far more unexplainable?
In this episode of Fobia, we investigate the timeline, the official theories, and the many chilling questions that remain about the unsolved deaths of the Dyatlov Pass hikers — a case that still haunts true crime, mystery, and paranormal investigators to this day.
On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old college student Maura Murray vanished after a car crash on a remote road in Haverhill, New Hampshire. Hours earlier, she emailed her professors about a fabricated family emergency, packed her car, and left the University of Massachusetts Amherst. What was she running from — or toward?
With no signs of struggle, no confirmed sightings, and no solid leads, Maura’s case has become one of the most infamous unsolved disappearances in the United States. It’s been called the “first crime mystery of the social media age,” sparking decades of speculation, true crime documentaries, and online sleuthing.
Join us as we unravel the facts, examine the timeline, and explore the most compelling Maura Murray theories — from foul play and abduction to staged disappearance and voluntary escape.
If you’re drawn to cold cases, true crime, and real-life mysteries, this episode is for you.
There are places in this world where reason doesn’t follow.
A knock on the wall in the middle of the night.
A disappearance that defies explanation.
A mirror that reflects something it shouldn’t.
Each week, Fobia brings you true crimes, unsolved mysteries, and haunting fiction that lingers long after the episode ends.
Some stories are forgotten. Others were never meant to be found.
Remember — terrifying things don’t always look like monsters.
Fobia is created entirely by one person.
From the first idea to the final sound, every moment is crafted alone, with care and obsession.
No team. No shortcuts. Just a single voice, guiding you through dark corners of imagination, human nature, and forces that defy understanding.
We hope the stories unsettle you — just enough to stay with you.
And if they do, your feedback means everything.
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