Oct 24, 202623 min
In May 1925, British surveyor and explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett entered Brazil’s Mato Grosso interior with his twenty-two-year-old son Jack and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimell. Their destination was an ancient settlement...
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The Forbidden Files is a cinematic storytelling podcast that opens the world’s most fascinating mysteries, hidden history, secret projects, unexplained events, and forgotten files. Each episode investigates a different case from the shadows of history — from classified government programs and strange disappearances to lost civilizations, ancient secrets, paranormal encounters, military experiments, declassified documents, and mysteries that still refuse to be explained. Blending immersive narration, historical research, unsettling details, and unanswered questions, The Forbidden Files takes you beyond the official story and into the evidence, theories, witnesses, and forgotten records behind the world’s strangest stories. Some files are lost. Some are buried. And some we
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What is Forbidden Files about?
The Forbidden Files is a cinematic storytelling podcast that opens the world’s most fascinating mysteries, hidden history, secret projects, unexplained events, and forgotten files.
What has Forbidden Files covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Percy Fawcett: The Explorer Who Vanished Searching for the Lost City of Z" (24 October 2026, 23 minutes), "The Black Knight Satellite: The Space Mystery That Predates the Space Age" (11 October 2026, 21 minutes), and "The Green Children of Woolpit: The Medieval Mystery of Two Strange Children" (4 October 2026, 22 minutes).
How often does Forbidden Files publish?
Forbidden Files publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 34 episodes.
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Forbidden Files is a society podcast with 34 episodes published.
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- Oct 11, 202621 min
The Black Knight satellite is often described as an ancient alien object that has watched Earth for thousands of years. The story links Nikola Tesla’s reports of unusual signals in eighteen ninety-nine, delayed radio...
- Oct 4, 202622 min
In medieval Suffolk, two children were reportedly found near the village of Woolpit during the reign of King Stephen. They were said to have green skin, unfamiliar clothing, and speech no one could understand. They...
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Inside North Korea: What Daily Life Is Really Like
Sep 19, 202622 minNorth Korea is often viewed through military parades, nuclear tests, sealed borders, and curated images of Pyongyang. Those images reveal far less about how households obtain food, earn money, attend school, travel...
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Roanoke: The Colony That Vanished and Left One Word Behind
Sep 12, 202621 minIn August 1590, Governor John White returned to Roanoke Island after nearly three years away. He had come to find more than one hundred English colonists, including his daughter Eleanor Dare, her husband Ananias Dare...
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- Sep 7, 202621 min
In 1885, a small pamphlet published in Lynchburg, Virginia, offered readers three pages of numbers and an extraordinary claim. Decipher them, it said, and they would reveal the location, contents, and intended heirs of...
- Aug 23, 202622 min
In 1845, Sir John Franklin led one of the Royal Navy’s best-equipped Arctic expeditions into the Canadian North. His two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, carried 129 officers and men, reinforced hulls, steam engines...
- Aug 16, 202628 min
The Voynich Manuscript, cataloged as Beinecke MS 408 at Yale University, is a real medieval codex filled with unidentified writing and unusual illustrations. Radiocarbon testing dates the parchment to the early...
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Amelia Earhart: The Last Flight and the Island Theory
Aug 9, 202623 minOn July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific while trying to reach Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca received several radio...
- Aug 3, 202626 min
In early twenty thirteen, twenty-one-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam disappeared while staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, then partly operating as Stay on Main. The Los Angeles Police Department...
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The Zodiac Killer: The Ciphers, the Letters, and the Identity That Still Haunts America
Jul 26, 202626 minOn July thirty-first, nineteen sixty-nine, three Bay Area newspapers received letters from an unidentified killer. Each envelope contained one-third of a cipher and a demand for publication. The writer claimed...
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Black Dahlia: The Hollywood Myth That Buried Elizabeth Short
Jul 13, 202624 minOn January fifteenth, nineteen forty-seven, the body of twenty-two-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The homicide investigation was led by the Los Angeles Police Department, with...
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The Mary Celeste: The Ship Found Without Its Crew
Jul 13, 202646 minDescription (must begin with this line on its own): https://www.FKNpods.com The Mary Celeste remains one of maritime history’s most documented unresolved cases: an American brigantine found in the Atlantic in December...
- Jul 12, 202618 min
On December first, nineteen forty-eight, a well-dressed dead man was found on Somerton Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. He carried no identification. His fingerprints did not match South Australian police records...
- Jul 11, 202621 min
https://www.FKNpods.com On a rainy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a man known as Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305, setting the stage for one of America's most enduring mysteries. With a calm demeanor and a...
- Jul 4, 202625 min
https://www.FKNpods.com In 1590, John White returned to Roanoke Island with high hopes, only to find the colony he governed eerily deserted. The sole clue left behind was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post, sparking...
- Jun 30, 202627 min
https://www.FKNpods.com In the heart of the Ural Mountains, a chilling and unresolved mystery unfolded that continues to captivate the world. The Dyatlov Pass incident, involving the sudden and inexplicable deaths of...
- Jun 28, 202629 min
https://www.FKNpods.com Explore the hidden archives and forbidden chronology of Operation Mockingbird, the alleged covert CIA program that aimed to manipulate media narratives during the Cold War. Dive deep into this...
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The Restricted Zone Files
Jun 14, 202623 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com In this episode of Forbidden Files, we delve into the shadowy realm of restricted military zones, areas where access is tightly controlled and information is often shrouded in secrecy. These...
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The Stargate Program Files
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