In 1139 The Pope of the Catholic Church, Innocent II, issued a landmark order that would create a fundamental shift in power throughout Europe and the Middle East. The mandate would establish an order of highly trained knights that would answer to no one but the Pope. The order of knights would be formally charged…

On the evening of August 21, 1955, a family raced into the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station to report that their house was under attack by a group of alien creatures. These creatures had appeared to try and gain entry to the family’s home and were seemingly fended off by two of the men who opened…

Throughout the world, there are places that have long been thought to be entrances to the underworld. Openings that linked the mortal world to the terrifying domains of demons and devils. In Fengdu, China it’s rumored that two court officials during the Han dynasty had forsaken their posts to seek eternal life and their city…

In the early hours of Jan 12, 1975, in Braddock Park in North Bergen, New Jersey local store owner George O’Barski was in his car when the radio suddenly filled with static. Around the same time, a doorman from the nearby Stonehenge Apartments reported seeing strange floating lights. O’Barski would later go on to describe…

To this day, the Roswell UFO incident remains one of the most intriguing cases of an alleged UFO crash and subsequent recovery. The U.S. Military’s explanation and documents that support the claim of a secret military project to monitor atmospheric radiation from nuclear testing are seen, by many in the world of Ufology, as an…

In 1692 the Puritan colonies of North America had fallen on dark times. The colonists had suffered through two devastating wars with Native American and French neighbors which had left much of the Maine frontier a scorched ruin and produced a refugee crisis. The colonies had their charter revoked and a military governor installed. These…

On May 24, 2006 Mark Whistler, Steven King, and George Rayburn had run into each other on the eighth day after the disappearance of their mutual friend Rey Rivera. Prior to the 24th, the men had been active in handing out missing person flyers and putting up posters in the downtown Baltimore area. The group…

Thanks for following us over to Spotify! We appreciate it. While we are with Spotify, Afterhours will be included with the regular Case Files In 1906 an American astronomer, by the name of Percival Lowell, began his search for a planet beyond Neptune. Based on calculations from the believed irregularities in the orbits of Uranus…

In 1957 the U.S. Chemical Corps of Engineers had been producing chemical munitions, using the deadly sarin nerve gas, to fulfill their stockpile requirements set by the U.S. Department of Defense. After filling these quotas, the Chemical Corps pivoted their means of production of VX nerve gas. VX had the sinister reputation of being three…

During the 1970’s the possibility of global nuclear war was still treated as a very real threat. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union were caught in a seemingly endless race of nuclear weapon proliferation. In the northern state of Minnesota, the U.S. had constructed several bases that housed installations for the launch of nuclear ballistic…