The Midnight Mystery Archive
Unsolved. Unnerving. Unforgettable. Enter the world of Midnight Archive—a documentary-style podcast that explores history’s most haunting mysteries. From baffling disappearances to ghost ships and forgotten crimes, each episode opens a new case file, blending immersive storytelling with chilling soundscapes. If you’re drawn to the strange, the unsolved, and the stories that time couldn’t bury—you’re in the right place. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday!
Episodes
Episode 35-Lucille Butterworth
Episode 35-Lucille Butterworth 25 August 1969, Claremont, Tasmania. At 5:55 p.m. radio copy-writer and beauty-pageant finalist Lucille Butterworth waited for the city bus outside the Shalimar Hostel. Ten minutes later the shelter was empty,…
Episode 34-The Case of Laureen Rahn
Episode 34-Laureen Rahn Spring 1980, Manchester, New Hampshire: Fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn vanished from a third-floor apartment on Merrimack Street. When her mother returned after midnight, every hallway bulb on all three floors had be…
Episode 33-The Disappearance of Ronya Livoni
Episode 33-The Disappearance of Ronya Livoni On the warm, humid night of March 9, 1980, sixteen-year-old Ronya Livoni walked out of her mother’s home in the Darwin suburb of Moil. She didn’t take money, a change of clothes, or any belonging…
Episode 32-The Unsolved Case of the Zodiac Killer Part 2
Episode 32-The Zodiac Killer PT 2 In Part II of The Midnight Mystery Archive’s two-part investigation into the Zodiac Killer, we shift from the chaos of the early murders to the cryptic aftermath. Who were the leading suspects? What was rea…
Episode 31-The Zodiac Killer Part 1
Episode 31-The Zodiac Killer In this first installment of a special two-part episode, The Midnight Mystery Archive investigates the terrifying origins of one of America’s most enigmatic killers: the Zodiac. We retrace the bloody path from L…
Episode 30-The Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse
Episode 30 – “Vanished Without a Trace: The Jennifer Kesse Mystery” In January 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse vanished from her Orlando condo just hours after speaking with her boyfriend. Her car was later discovered at a nearby apartment…
Episode 29. The Stigmata
Episode 29 – “Marked by the Divine: The Mystery of the Stigmata” They bled from their hands, feet, and sides—wounds mirroring those of Christ. Throughout history, individuals have claimed to bear the physical marks of the crucifixion. But w…
Episode 28-Amy Bradley
Episode 28 – “The Vanishing of Amy Bradley” In March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley boarded the Rhapsody of the Seas with her family for a Caribbean cruise. She never made it home. Within hours of docking in Curaçao, Amy had vanished—le…
Episode 27-Jeffrey Epstein Part II
Episode 26 – “The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Part 2 – The Network” Jeffrey Epstein is dead — but the story is far from over. In Part 2 of our two-part special, The Midnight Mystery Archive dives deep into the enduring theories, questions, and c…
Episode 26-Jeffrey Epstein Part 1
Episode 26 – “The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Part 1 – The Empire” He was a financier with no clear source of wealth, a jet-setter with powerful friends, and a convicted sex offender who somehow stayed above the law for decades. Then in 2019, he…
Episode 25-Danny Casolaro Part 2
Episode 25-Danny Casolaro Part 2 In this second and final part of our investigation into the death of journalist Danny Casolaro, we dive deep into the tangled theories he was chasing — a network he called The Octopus. We examine the officia…
Episode 24-Danny Casolaro Part 1
Episode 24-Danny Casolaro Part 1 In August 1991, journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in a West Virginia hotel bathtub — his wrists slashed, his briefcase missing, and his manuscript nowhere to be found. Days earlier, he had told friend…
Episode 23-Tamam Shud/Somerton Man
Episode 23-Tamam Shud/Somerton Man On the first morning of December 1948, a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He had no wallet, no ID, and every label had been cut from his clothes. In a hidden pocket, police disc…
Episode 22-MK Ultra
Episode 22 – MK Ultra For over two decades, a secret CIA program operated in the shadows — dosing civilians with LSD, experimenting on prisoners, and pushing the limits of psychological torture. Its name was MK-Ultra. In this episode of The…
Episode 21-The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Episode 21: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand On June 28, 1914, two gunshots fired on a street in Sarajevo shattered the peace of Europe and set the world on fire. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Aust…
Episode 20-The Ark of the Covenant
Episode 20 – The Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant Revered as the most sacred object in ancient Israel, the Ark of the Covenant once led armies, parted rivers, and housed the very presence of God. And then, sometime after the fall of…
Episode 19-The Circleville Letters
Episode 19 – The Circleville Letters: Secrets, Scandals, and a Town on Edge In the late 1970s, the small town of Circleville, Ohio, was struck by a wave of anonymous letters that exposed secrets, accused residents of crimes, and threatened …
Episode 18-Room 1046
Episode 18 – Room 1046: The Man Who Checked Out Without a Name In 1935, a man checked into the Hotel President in Kansas City under the name Roland T. Owen. He had no luggage, paid in cash, and requested a windowless room. Over the next two…
Episode 17-Brandon Swanson
Episode 17 – Into the Darkness: The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson On a quiet spring night in 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson drove into the dark Minnesota countryside — and vanished without a trace. After crashing his car into a ditch,…
Episode 16: Jodi Huisentruit
Episode Title: Vanished Before Sunrise: The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit It was a morning like any other in Mason City, Iowa — until the familiar voice of local news anchor Jodi Huisentruit didn’t appear on the air. Just hours earlier,…
Episode 15-The October Surprise
Episode Title: The October Surprise – Politics, Hostages, and a Hidden Deal? In the final weeks of the 1980 U.S. presidential election, 52 American hostages remained imprisoned in Iran. President Jimmy Carter had failed to bring them home, …
Episode 14-The Clinton Body Count
Episode 14: “The Clinton Body Count” For over three decades, whispers have haunted the corridors of American power. A growing list of names — associates, advisors, adversaries — all dead under mysterious or controversial circumstances. Some…
Episode 13 Bonus: Dancing Plague of 1518
Episode Title: The Dancing Plague of 1518 – Strasbourg’s Strange Summer of Madness In the shadow of our last episode—Germany’s Hinterkaifeck murders—we pivot from the tragic and terrifying to the utterly bizarre. This time, The Midnight Mys…
Episode 12: Hinterkaifeck
Episode Title: The Hinterkaifeck Murders – A Farmhouse in the Snow In 1922, on a remote farmstead deep in the forests of Bavaria, six members of the Gruber family were brutally murdered — one by one — with a pickaxe. No one saw the killer. …
Episode 11: Andrew Gosden
Episode Title: The Boy Who Walked Into Darkness – The Disappearance of Andrew Gosden On September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden left his home in Doncaster, England, withdrew £200 from his bank account, and boarded a one-way train to L…
Episode 10 Part 2-The Springfield Three
Episode Title: The Springfield Three – Part 2: Into Darkness In the second half of our two-part investigation, The Midnight Mystery Archive descends deeper into the mystery of the Springfield Three — a disappearance that has haunted Missour…
Episode 10 Part 1: The Springfield Three
Episode Title: The Springfield Three – Part 1: A Quiet Night, A Vanishing Act On a warm June night in 1992, three women vanished without a trace from a quiet home in Springfield, Missouri. Suzanne Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sherrill Levitt…
Episode 9: Frederick Valentich Mystery
Episode Title: The Last Transmission – The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich On October 21, 1978, a young Australian pilot named Frederick Valentich vanished while flying over Bass Strait. His final radio transmission sent a chill throug…
Episode 8: The Disappearance of Leah Roberts
Episode Title: Into the Wild – The Disappearance of Leah Roberts In March 2000, 23-year-old Leah Roberts left her North Carolina home without warning, abandoning her daily life for a road trip west. Inspired by the writings of Jack Kerouac…
Episode 7: Cases from the Chippewa Valley
Episode Summary: The Chippewa Valley of western Wisconsin is known for its quiet towns, winding rivers, and tight-knit communities. But beneath that calm lies a troubling pattern — a series of disappearances and deaths, stretching back deca…
Episode 6: Conclave Conspiracy-Poison in the House of God
Episode 7: The Conclave Conspiracy – Poison in the House of God In the spring of 1550, cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. The doors were locked. The outside world shut out. But as the votes were cast, something fa…
Episode 5: The Disappearance of Evelyn Hartley
Episode 6: Vanished on Vine Street – The Disappearance of Evelyn Hartley La Crosse, Wisconsin. 1953. Fifteen-year-old Evelyn Hartley was supposed to spend the evening babysitting. She never came home. When her father arrived at the house on…
Episode 4: The Oakland County Child Killer
Episode 4: Hunted – The Oakland County Child Killer Between 1976 and 1977, four children vanished from the quiet suburbs of Oakland County, Michigan. Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich, and Timothy King were each taken, held fo…
Episode 3: The Case of Asha Degree
Episode 3: The Girl Who Walked Into the Dark – The Disappearance of Asha Degree Description: On a stormy Valentine’s night in 2000, 9-year-old Asha Degree quietly packed her school bookbag, slipped out of her family’s North Carolina home, a…
Episode 2: The Mary Celeste
Episode 2: Ghost Ship – The Mystery of the Mary Celeste On December 5th, 1872, the merchant ship Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean—sails tattered, cargo untouched, and her entire crew missing without a trace. There were …
Episode 1: The Case of Maura Murray
Episode 1: The Vanishing Point – Maura Murray In 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car on a remote New Hampshire road… and vanished. No footprints. No phone calls. Just a wreck and a mystery that still echoes 20 years later. In our…