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Decoding The Unknown explores history's deepest mysteries to see if we can draw any conclusions about what actually happened. Russian hikers killed by a yeti? Aircraft lost to sea monsters? Probably not, so let's try and figure out what really happened. New episodes every Friday. Also on YouTube!

Spoken has transcripts of 305 Decoding The Unknown episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 8, 2026.

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Missing 411: Is There Really a Pattern to National-Park Disappearances?

October 8, 2026

Simon Whistler (0:00)

Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Decoding The Unknown. As always, I'm your host Simon. Welcome back to the show. Today, what we're going to do is we're going to talk about missing 411 Is there really a pattern to National Park Disappearances? Uh, is there some serial killer out there doing this? I…

The National Parks of North America are some of the most visited areas on the continent with millions of local and foreign visitors heading to the great outdoors every year. Most people have probably heard of Yellowstone, Yosemite.

SPEAKER_2 (0:50)

When they gaze upon Yosemites, Yosemites, towering Sequoias.

Simon Whistler (0:57)

And the Grand Canyon National Parks, but Great Smoky Mountains National Park seems to be the most popular, logging over 11.5 million visitors in 2025 Holy shit. Must be a good ass park. People go to camp, hike, fish, canoe, have close encounters with bears, and generally try to get back to nature, especially in our…

What? Don't know what you're talking about, Katie. What are you talking about?

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