In today's episode, we're looking back at one of the strangest, most inexplicable events in television history. A moment when reality was hijacked — literally — and no one has ever figured out who did it or why. This is the story of the Max Headroom Signal Hijacking — one of the most famous, and certainly the most bizarre, TV broadcast intrusions that has ever taken place.

In today's episode, we’re traveling back to 1986 in order to delve into the brutal murder of Cindy Blazek. She was a 23-year-old elementary school teacher who lived and worked on the Onion Lake Cree Nation reserve, which is a small First Nation community in Saskatchewan, Canada. Nearly four decades later, it remains one of the province's most haunting unsolved cases.

In today's episode, we’re traveling back to 2008, where we'll revisit the disappearance of college student Brandon Swanson. It remains one of Minnesota's most perplexing missing persons cases. Brandon vanished during a phone call with his parents, leaving investigators and family members with more questions than answers. The case has become notable not just for its baffling nature, but also for the legislation it would later inspire.

In today's episode, we're traveling to the heart of America's Dairyland, where a quiet road in rural Wisconsin has become infamous for sightings, stretching back decades, of a strange creature known as the Beast of Bray Road. The entity has become one of America's most enduring cryptid stories, and dozens of eyewitness accounts have spawned regional folklore that persists to this day.

In today's episode, we'll be digging into the tragic disappearance in 2001 of 15-year-old Erin Pospisil — one of Iowa's most haunting unsolved cases. When she vanished one summer night, she left behind a devastated family, and a community searching for answers that remain elusive to this day. It's a truly perplexing mystery that has endured for more than two decades.

In today's episode, we’re looking back at the chilling case of the Ardenwald Axe Murders, a brutal crime that shook the small, tight-knit community of Ardenwald, Oregon in 1911. It stands as one of the state's most horrific and perplexing unsolved crimes.

In today's episode, we'll be getting a taste of the world's sweetest diamond heist. It was carried out in 2007 by a trusted customer at a bank in Antwerp's Diamond District, who had become friendly with the bank staff by bringing them weekly gifts of Belgian chocolates. One day, he calmly walked into a sophisticated, high-security bank vault, and walked out with $28 million worth of diamonds.

In today's episode, we’re delving into one of the earliest and most enduring missing persons cases in American history — the baffling disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater. The New York Supreme Court judge hailed a cab in the heart of Manhattan … and vanished without a trace. It's a tale so entwined with corruption, secrets and high society that it still fuels speculation nearly a century later. The disappearance of Judge Crater stands as one of America's most intriguing missing persons cases, blending elements of political corruption, organized crime, and the glittering yet dangerous world of 1930s New York City. The case became so famous that Crater earned the nickname "the missingest man in America," and his vanishing act would perplex investigators for decades to come.

In today's episode, we’re traveling back to the spring of 1981, where Keddie, California became the site of one of America's most disturbing, unsolved mass murders. The brutal slaughter of four people at the Keddie Resort has haunted investigators and true crime enthusiasts for decades. This tragic case was indelibly marked by investigative failures, compromised or destroyed evidence, and persistent questions about possible law enforcement protection of the killers.

In today's episode, we're delving into the puzzling disappearance of Patricia Adkins, a 29-year-old woman from the small town of Marion, Ohio.  She vanished into the darkness just before a planned July 4th getaway, after clocking out of the night shift at the local Honda manufacturing plant. It was the beginning of a nightmare that has haunted the community for over two decades, standing as one of the state's most perplexing unsolved disappearances.

In today's episode, we’re digging into one of the most bizarre, tangled, and controversial unsolved murders in Canadian, and Bahamian, history. This is the story of a wealthy gold baron, a tropical paradise, a botched investigation — and a murder so mysterious, it drew in British royalty. The 1943 murder of Sir Harry Oakes remains one of the most baffling unsolved cases, stretching from the goldfields of Ontario, Canada to the tropical shores of Nassau, Bahamas.

In today's episode, we’re traveling to the close-knit suburban town of Bowie, Maryland, to explore a chilling crime that left an indelible scar on that community. This is the tragic story of the murder of a teenage girl named Donna Dustin following a party — and the painfully frustrating effort over the subsequent five decades to find her killer.

In today's episode, we're traveling back to 1996, when a strange series of events unfolded that led to one of Canada's most perplexing unsolved murders. A young man from British Columbia was found dead — half naked and brutally battered — in the parking lot of a hotel under contruction in Knoxville, Tennessee. His truly bizarre cross-continental journey continues to baffle investigators three decades later.

In today's episode, we’re traveling back to 2006 to delve into the disappearance in Orlando of a young woman named Jennifer Kesse. To this day, it remains one of the most baffling missing persons cases in modern American history. The only clue was a haunting surveillance video the FBI dubbed "the luckiest and unluckiest footage ever."

In today's episode, we’re delving into the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, which stands as one of Vermont's most perplexing cold cases. One March day two decades ago, the teenage girl's car was found abandoned in front of a collapsing farmhouse. The search for her continues to this day, and the case has presented investigators with a complex web of theories and unanswered questions.

In today's episode, we're digging into the death of the trailblazing media figure Dorothy Kilgallen, which remains one of journalism's most compelling mysteries. She was found dead one morning in her Manhattan townhouse, her death the result of a lethal combination of alcohol and sleeping pills. Although officially ruled an accidental overdose, many believe she was murdered to stop her from revealing new evidence about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In today's episode, we’re looking back at a haunting case from the emerald green woods of western Oregon. In July 2005, two respected educators — Jeanette Bauman and Steve Haugen — hiked into the pine forest for a peaceful weekend camping trip. They never made it home, and were later found brutally murdered. Two decades later, the tragic case still baffles detectives.

In today's episode, we're traveling back to Christmas Eve 1945, where we'll investigate the baffling disappearance of five children in Fayetteville, West Virginia. What started out as a festive holiday evening for the Sodder family was transformed into an inexplicable tragedy that would haunt generations and become one of the most discussed unsolved cases in American history.

In today's episode, we’re traveling to a resort town on the Black Sea coast of northern Bulgaria, where a young German man named Lars Mittank was enjoying a summer vacation with friends. What followed is one of the strangest disappearances in recent history. In a climactic moment captured on surveillance footage that continues to haunt viewers, Lars sprinted out of an airport in broad daylight ... never to be seen again. 

In today's episode, we’re plunging into a story that’s sticky, sweet, and criminally Canadian. We’re heading to the quiet forests of Quebec, where one of the strangest and most lucrative thefts in modern history took place. Not diamonds ... not art ... not even gold. No, we’re talking about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.