The State Files Podcast

The State Files is a documentary-style podcast exploring America’s strangest cases and unresolved mysteries—one state at a time. From UFO sightings and government secrecy to folklore, hauntings, and historical anomalies, each episode examines what’s known, what’s claimed, and what remains unanswered. No forced conclusions. No sensationalism. Just careful storytelling, grounded analysis, and the questions that refuse to go away.

The State Files Podcast is a society podcast hosted by The State Files, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The State Files hosts The State Files Podcast, a society show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #22

  The Backrooms: Tracing the Origin of the Internet's Most Famous Room

  Sep 30, 202637 minS1

  What if you took one wrong step... and fell out of reality?In 2019, a photograph of an empty yellow room appeared online with a simple warning: if you're not careful, you could noclip out of reality and end up in the Backrooms. **Looking for The Backrooms: Uncut?**Watch the Uncut version on **The State Files Patreon**, featuring stronger language, more adult humor, and a little more room for Harry to be Harry. Same mystery. Fewer filters. https://www.patreon.com/TheStateFiles/posts/backrooms-what-170587881?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkThat single image became one of the internet’s biggest modern myths.But the story of the Backrooms goes much deeper than endless yellow hallways.In this Case File, we trace the Backrooms from the original 2019 post and the internet mythology that grew around it, to Kane Parsons’ terrifying vision, the real-world location behind the famous photograph, and the strange stories that existed long before anyone used the word “noclip.”Missing time. Roads that seem to change. Places that shouldn't exist. Mall World. Time slips. Reality glitches. **Explore the Case File**Go deeper into The Backrooms with the companion article on **The State Files website**, exploring the stories, origins, and theories behind the episode. https://thestatefiles.com/backrooms-true-story-origin/Did the internet invent the Backrooms?Or did it simply give an old fear a new name?In this Case File:• The original Backrooms post• What “noclipping” actually means• How the internet built the Backrooms mythology• Kane Parsons and the Backrooms phenomenon• The search for the original photograph• Oshkosh, Wisconsin• Why liminal spaces feel so unsettling• Mall World and strange shared-place stories• Time slips and reality glitches• The theories behind the Backrooms• The A24 Backrooms movieWhat do you think?Are the Backrooms just one of the greatest pieces of internet folklore ever created, or is there something much older hiding underneath the story? Chapters 00:00 Introduction01:14 Mall World03:18 The Lamp05:51 Versailles, France (August 10, 1901)08:17 Bold Street | Liverpool, England (July, 1996)09:58 Back to Mall World14:17 Act 1: The BackRooms16:27 Act 2: NoClipping Out of Reality18:19 Act 3: The Internet Starts Building19:36 Act 4: Kane Parsons22:05 Act 5: Where Is This?23:19 Act 6: Oshkosh, Wisconsin25:00 Act 7: Why That Room?26:38 Act 8: The Part That Came First27:53 Act 9: Harry Puts It Together29:31 Act 10: Theories30:50 Act 11: The Movie31:44 Closing34:10 Backrooms Update (Dee)35:08 Credits Reel Banter (Harry, Dee, Cowboy)35:50 Disclaimer (Duncan)36:15 Pick A Video (Cowboy) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STATE FILES Explore the Archive https://thestatefiles.com/case-files/https://thestatefiles.com/the-dispatch/https://thestatefiles.com/debriefings/ Support The State Files https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheStateFiles FOLLOW THE STATE FILES https://www.youtube.com/@TheStateFileshttps://www.tiktok.com/@thestatefileshttps://www.instagram.com/the.state.files/https://www.facebook.com/thestatefiles/https://twitter.com/thestatefileshttps://www.twitch.tv/thestatefileshttps://discord.gg/MS4mWUCxkThreadshttps://www.threads.com/@the.state.filesBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/thestatefiles.bsky.social━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE STATE FILES The State Files investigates UFOs and UAPs, cryptids, paranormal encounters, unexplained events, folklore, historical mysteries, and the stories that refuse to disappear.We examine documented evidence, eyewitness accounts, official explanations, competing theories, and the unanswered questions — then leave the final conclusion to you. CASE FILE REQUESTS https://thestatefiles.com/requests© The State Files / WOA Productions, LLC

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  Episode #22

  Picnic Table 29: Griffith Park’s Strangest Ghost Story

  Aug 26, 202621 minS1

  Deep inside Los Angeles’ Griffith Park sits a picnic table crushed beneath a fallen tree.According to the legend, Picnic Table 29 is where a young couple named Rand and Nancy died on Halloween night in 1976.View The Full Case File Articlehttps://thestatefiles.com/picnic-table-29-the-griffith-park/And supposedly... they never left.Over the years, the story grew stranger.A city worker terrified by voices near the tree.A supervisor who allegedly died trying to remove it.A park ranger confronted by red-eyed figures.Messages warning people to “LEAVE US ALONE” and “NEXT TIME YOU DIE.”There’s just one problem.When we went looking for Rand and Nancy...we found something far stranger than the ghost story.In this State Files Case File, Cooper and Harry investigate the legend of Picnic Table 29, the alleged hauntings surrounding it, the people supposedly connected to the case, and the surprising origin of one of Griffith Park’s most enduring paranormal stories.And once the truth comes out, it raises another question:What happens when people begin having real paranormal experiences connected to ghosts who may never have existed?That might be creepier than the original story.Also featured after the case: Dee’s 2026 Picnic Table 29 Update and post-credit banter with Harry, Dee and Cowboy.If you enjoyed this case, check out our Hollywoodland: The Ghost of Peg Entwistle episode for another strange story from Griffith Park.Subscribe to The State Files for UFOs, paranormal cases, cryptids, unexplained history, high strangeness and the stories hiding in plain sight.#PicnicTable29 #GriffithPark #GhostStories #UrbanLegends #Paranormal #HauntedPlaces #TheStateFilesChapters00:00 Cold Open01:39 Act 1: The Table In The Hills03:05 Act 2: Rand And Nancy05:41 Act 3: Leave Us Alone07:37 Act 4: The Man Who Went Back09:09 Act 5: Next Time You Die10:46 Act 6: Where Are Rand And Nancy?13:32 Act 7: When A Fake Ghost Story Becomes Real15:37 Closing (Cooper's Take)17:25 Picnic Table 29 Update (Dee)18:05 Post Credit Banter (Harry, Dee, Cowboy)20:04 Disclaimer (Duncan)20:29 Pick A Video (Cowboy)

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  Episode #20

  Hollywoodland: The Woman in the Fog

  Aug 8, 202627 minS1

  In 1932, actress Peg Entwistle climbed into the hills above Los Angeles beneath the enormous letters of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign.She never came back down.Her death would eventually become one of Hollywood’s darkest legends—but the story most people know leaves out almost everything about the woman herself.READ THE FULL CASE FILEHollywoodland: The Tragic Life and Ghost of Peg Entwistlehttps://thestatefiles.com/hollywoodland-the-tragic-life-and-ghost-of-peg-entwistle/ Peg Entwistle wasn’t simply a “failed actress.” She was a respected stage performer. She appeared on Broadway. She inspired a young Bette Davis. She came to Hollywood looking for the same opportunity thousands of others were chasing during one of the most difficult periods in American history.Then, on the night of September 16, 1932, Peg made her way toward the Hollywoodland sign.What happened afterward transformed her life into folklore.For decades, hikers, joggers, park rangers, and visitors around Griffith Park and Mount Lee have reported strange encounters near the Hollywood Sign: a woman dressed in clothing from another era, the unexplained scent of gardenias, sudden cold spots, and a mysterious figure appearing through the fog.Some believe Peg Entwistle still walks those hills.Others believe the legend has grown far beyond the evidence.In this episode of The State Files, we investigate the real story behind Peg Entwistle, the original HOLLYWOODLAND sign, the tragedy that made international headlines, and the ghost story that refuses to disappear.Was the Woman in the Fog really Peg?Or has Hollywood created one final role for her?⚠️ Content Advisory: This episode discusses suicide and death in a historical documentary context. Viewer discretion is advised.Chapters/Timestamps00:00 Cold Open02:31 Before She Became A Ghost04:49 Hollywoodland09:12 The Last Night12:02 The Letter That Came Too Late13:46 The Woman In The Fog17:52 Is It Actually Peg?20:10 The Hollywoodland Sign Itself22:07 Peg Is More Than Her Worse Moment24:12 Aftterword (Dee)24:46 Credits Reel Banter (The Crew)26:29 Disclaimer (Duncan)26:55 Pick A Video (Cowboy)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THE STATE FILESExplore the Archivehttps://thestatefiles.com/Support The State Fileshttps://www.patreon.com/cw/TheStateFilesFOLLOW THE STATE FILEShttps://www.youtube.com/@TheStateFileshttps://www.tiktok.com/@thestatefileshttps://www.instagram.com/the.state.files/https://www.facebook.com/thestatefiles/https://twitter.com/thestatefileshttps://www.twitch.tv/thestatefileshttps://discord.gg/MS4mWUCxkThreadshttps://www.threads.com/@the.state.filesBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/thestatefiles.bsky.social━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT THE STATE FILESThe State Files investigates UFOs and UAPs, cryptids, paranormal encounters, unexplained events, folklore, historical mysteries, and the stories that refuse to disappear.We examine documented evidence, eyewitness accounts, official explanations, competing theories, and the unanswered questions — then leave the final conclusion to you.CASE FILE REQUESTShttps://thestatefiles.com/requests© The State Files / WOA Productions, LLC

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  Episode #20

  Chris Bledsoe: The Real Missiles

  Jul 30, 202620 minS1

  Chris Bledsoe’s prophecy has become one of the most debated predictions in the UAP community. But was Easter 2026 ever meant to be an exact deadline—or did later interpretations shift the focus toward Regulus, the Sphinx, and the fall of 2026?In this special report, we return to the original claims and trace how the timeline evolved. We examine:• What Chris Bledsoe wrote about Easter 2026• The message attributed to “The Lady”• Why Regulus and the gaze of the Sphinx became central clues• How a late-August-to-October window entered the discussion• The unusual astronomical event occurring on October 7, 2026• Whether the prophecy was misunderstood—or whether nothing extraordinary will happen at allThis is not presented as a confirmed prediction. It is an investigation into the claims, interpretations, astronomical connections, and unanswered questions surrounding one of the most closely watched dates in modern UFO lore.Watch the extended edition of this report on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheStateFilesExplore more case files and investigations:https://thestatefiles.comWhat do you think? Was Easter only an approximation? Does the Regulus connection point toward the fall—or are people finding patterns that were never intended?#ChrisBledsoe #UAP #UFO #Regulus #TheLady #UFOProphecy #TheStateFiles`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Chapters00:00 Cold Open02:38 The Message06:43 The Powder Keg09:09 The Nuclear-UAP Connection11:21 The Real Missiles15:00 New Knowledge16:53 A New Age``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````The Case File Archive: https://thestatefiles.com/case-files/The Dispatch Archive: https://thestatefiles.com/the-dispatch/Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheStateFilesLue Elizondo’s book, "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs"https://luiselizondo-official.com/Chris Bledsoe’s book, "UFO of GOD: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe"https://www.ufoofgod.com/

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  Episode #18

  Amityville Horror: The True Story

  Jul 24, 202612 minS1

  112 Ocean Avenue may be the most infamous haunted house in America.In November 1974, Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. murdered six members of his family inside their Amityville, New York home. Just over a year later, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house with their children—and fled only 28 days later, claiming they had experienced something terrifying.Strange odors. Unexplained cold spots. Invisible forces. Glowing red eyes outside the windows. A mysterious figure appearing in photographs. And claims of a presence so dark that the story would eventually become known around the world as The Amityville Horror.But almost from the beginning, questions followed.Was the Lutz family really terrorized by something inside 112 Ocean Avenue? Did the brutal DeFeo murders somehow leave something behind? Or did lawyers, authors, paranormal investigators, and Hollywood help transform a real tragedy into one of the most successful supernatural stories ever told?In this State Files case, we go back to where it all began—the murders, the Lutz family’s 28 days inside the house, the paranormal investigation, and the controversy that still surrounds Amityville more than 50 years later.Because when you strip away the movies and the mythology, one question remains:What really happened at 112 Ocean Avenue?Subscribe to The State Files as we investigate the stories, legends, sightings, and unexplained cases that refuse to disappear.#AmityvilleHorror #HauntedHouse #TrueStory #Paranormal #TrueCrime #GhostStories #TheStateFilesChapters00:00 - Welcome to 112 Ocean Avenue00:54 - The DeFeo Family Murders (November 1974)01:47 - The Lutz Family Moves In02:22 - The Haunting Begins: 3:15 AM & the Priest03:03 - Jodie the Demon Pig, Green Slime & Levitation03:35 - Ed & Lorraine Warren and the Ghost Boy Photo04:08 - The Hoax Confession: William Weber Speaks04:55 - Debunking Every Claim (Cat, Spaghetti & No Snow)05:49 - The Ghost Boy Was Just Paul06:19 - The Book, the Movies & the Money06:41 - What Happened to the Real House07:11 - The True Horror of Amityville08:02 - The Legend That Never Left (Dee)08:58 - Credit Reel Banter: The Real Mystery (The Crew)10:45 - Disclaimer (Duncan)11:12 - Next Time on The State Files (Cowboy)``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheStateFiles Website: https://thestatefiles.comCase File Requests: https://thestatefiles.com/requestsCase File Archive: https://thestatefiles.com/the-amityville-horror/

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