Podcast
The Mystery Kids Podcast
A podcast about the weird and unexplained! Think Unsolved Mysteries for kids!
- Education for Kids chart
- #61
- Episodes
- 217
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 14 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 days ago
Episodes
217 episodes, newest first
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16 min
189: Halloween Costumes Throughout History
Season 1, Episode 189
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Why do we dress up for Halloween?
From ancient Celtic traditions and medieval disguises to homemade ghost costumes, classic movie monsters, and modern superheroes, Halloween costumes have a fascinating history!
Discover how costumes changed over hundreds of years and how old traditions helped shape the Halloween we celebrate today.
It is our favorite Halloween month, and we are celebrating with another strange trip through history on the Mystery Kids Podcast!
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17 min
188: The Halloween Lanterns That Weren't Pumpkins
Season 1, Episode 188
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Before pumpkins became the stars of Halloween, people in Ireland were carving spooky faces into turnips! In this favorite Halloween month episode, we're uncovering the strange history of the original jack-o'-lantern, exploring the legend of Stingy Jack, meeting the real Ghost Turnip preserved in Ireland, and discovering how an old tradition crossed the ocean and became one of Halloween's most recognizable symbols. It's spooky history with a surprising twist! Happy Halloween from the Mystery Kids Podcast!
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19 min
187: Ghost Photographs
Season 1, Episode 187
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What happens when a photograph appears to capture a ghost? 👻
Long before Photoshop and AI, photographers were creating mysterious images that convinced people they had captured the supernatural. In this Halloween month episode of the Mystery Kids Podcast, we're exploring William Mumler's famous spirit photographs, the trial that challenged his claims, and the Cottingley fairy photographs that fooled even famous adults for decades.
Discover the real stories behind these spooky pictures and learn why a photograph isn't always proof of what we think we're seeing.
It's the perfect historical mystery for our favorite month of the year: Halloween month!
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15 min
186: Pablo Escobar’s Hippos
Season 1, Episode 186
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Four hippos were brought to Pablo Escobar’s private estate in Colombia in the 1980s. After his death, the hippos were left behind, escaped into the surrounding waterways, and began multiplying. Today, their descendants have become one of the strangest invasive species stories in the world. 🦛
I tell the full story in this episode, from Escobar’s bizarre private zoo to the scientific problem Colombia is dealing with today.
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16 min
185: Godzilla: What If He Were Real?
Season 1, Episode 185
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What if Godzilla wasn't just a movie monster?
For this Mystery Kids Podcast episode, we're having some fun imagining what it would actually take for a creature like Godzilla to exist. From the square cube law to the deep ocean, giant animals, mysterious underwater sounds, dinosaur footprints, and the real science behind discovering unknown species, we're turning one of the world's most famous monsters into a scientific mystery.
Could an animal that enormous really survive?
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14 min
184:Ghost City/Forest City
Season 1, Episode 184
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Forest City in Malaysia was designed to become a futuristic city for hundreds of thousands of people, but a combination of changing regulations, China's property crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other challenges left huge portions of the development dramatically under-occupied. The result was a surreal landscape of towering apartments, beautiful landscaping, and unusually quiet streets that earned it the nickname “Ghost City.” But Forest City isn't actually abandoned, and its story is changing as new residents, businesses, and government-backed economic plans begin bringing activity back.
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16 min
183: Nickajack Cave Rescue
Season 1, Episode 183
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What would you do if someone was trapped more than 1,000 feet inside a flooded cave?
In 1992, David Gant became trapped inside Tennessee's Nickajack Cave with his scuba air running out and only a tiny pocket of air keeping him alive.
Rescuers searched for him, found an old map of the cave, and came up with an incredible solution...
They lowered the lake.
The water level dropped, giving Gant more air space and rescuers a better chance of reaching him.
After roughly 16 hours underground, rescuers finally heard his voice.
He was alive.
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22 min
182: Peggy’s Cove: The Lighthouse on the Edge of the Atlantic
Season 1, Episode 182
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What’s hiding behind one of Canada’s most famous lighthouses? Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, looks like the perfect postcard, but its story includes centuries of history, generations of fishermen, a mysterious legend about Peggy, a lighthouse built to guide ships, incredible granite carved by ancient glaciers, and the tragic story of Swissair Flight 111. Join Tess as we explore the real stories behind one of Canada’s most fascinating coastal villages.
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16 min
181: The Four Kids Who Survived 40 Days in the Rainforest
Season 1, Episode 181
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Forty days lost in the Amazon rainforest. 🌿
In 2023, four siblings disappeared into the Colombian rainforest after a plane crash.
The oldest was just 13 years old, and the youngest was only 11 months.
For 40 days, search teams followed tiny footprints, found abandoned shelters, and searched through one of the most difficult environments on Earth.
Then, on day 40, they found them.
Alive. ❤️
Their survival wasn't just luck.
The children's knowledge of the rainforest, lessons passed down through their Indigenous Huitoto community, and the determination of hundreds of rescuers all played a role.This is one of the most incredible true survival stories of our time.
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10 min
180: Green Skies
Season 1, Episode 180
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When strange green skies appeared over parts of Virginia, people wondered if it was aliens, pollution, or something even stranger. In this episode of The Mystery Kids Podcast, we uncover the real science behind one of nature's most eerie weather events, explore famous green skies from around the world, and learn why these glowing storms are both beautiful and worth taking seriously.
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17 min
179: The Princes in the Tower
Season 1, Episode 179
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👑 Two young princes entered the Tower of London in 1483, and then they vanished.
More than 540 years later, no one knows for certain what happened to Edward V and his younger brother, Richard.
Did they disappear because of a royal power struggle, or is the truth still hidden somewhere in history?
Join me as we explore one of England's greatest unsolved mysteries and separate the facts from the legends in this week's episode of The Mystery Kids Podcast!
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13 min
179: Ningen
Season 1, Episode 182
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What if one of the world's strangest creatures was hiding beneath the ice of Antarctica? This week on Mystery Kids Podcast, we're investigating the legend of the Ningen—a mysterious giant white sea creature that some sailors claim to have seen. We'll separate fact from fiction, examine the evidence, and discover why the deep ocean is still one of Earth's greatest mysteries. Is the Ningen real...or just an icy illusion? Dive in and decide for yourself!
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11 min
178: Meowing Nuns
Season 1, Episode 178
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Why did a group of nuns suddenly start meowing like cats? In this episode of The Mystery Kids Podcast, we travel back to medieval France to investigate one of history's weirdest true stories. Was it stress? A prank? Something supernatural? Join us as we explore the real events behind the mystery of the Meowing Nuns and other strange outbreaks that baffled entire communities.
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13 min
177: The Van Meter Visitor
Season 1, Episode 177
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In 1903, the tiny town of Van Meter, Iowa, was terrified by reports of a strange winged creature unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Witnesses claimed it had glowing eyes, enormous wings, and even a bright light shining from a horn on its forehead. Was it a giant bird, an unknown animal, or something even stranger? Join Tess as we explore one of America's oldest cryptid mysteries: The Van Meter Visitor.
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12 min
176: The Mystery of the Buried Video Games
Season 1, Episode 176
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What if millions of video games were buried in the desert? For decades, people thought it was just a strange rumor. Then, in 2014, archaeologists dug into a New Mexico landfill and uncovered a real-life gaming mystery. Discover the story of Atari, the infamous E.T. video game, the Video Game Crash of 1983, and the treasure hunt that proved one of gaming's wildest legends was true.
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16 min
175: 1988 Yellowstone Fire
Season 1, Episode 175
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In 1988, one of the most famous places in America seemed doomed. Massive fires swept through Yellowstone National Park, turning forests black, filling the sky with smoke, and terrifying visitors and rangers alike. People thought the park might never recover. But the truth behind the Yellowstone fires is more surprising than most people know. In this episode, we explore the real stories of firefighters, trapped tourists, exploding trees, wildlife survival, and how one of the worst fire seasons in history actually changed science forever.
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12 min
174: Rosie the Shark: The Shark Left Behind
Season 1, Episode 174
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A giant shark nicknamed Rosie sat abandoned inside an old wildlife park aquarium for years. People explored the creepy building, took photos beside her huge body, and shared stories online. But who was Rosie? Why was she left there? And how did an old shark become one of the internet’s strangest abandoned mysteries?
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9 min
173: 1913 China Flood
Season 1, Episode 173
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In 1913, relentless rains caused the Yangtze River to overflow, flooding entire villages and leaving families stranded for weeks. With no warning systems and limited resources, people relied on courage, quick thinking, and each other to survive. This episode shares real moments from one of history’s lesser-known floods—and the strength it took to rebuild afterward.
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11 min
172: The Boiling River of the Amazon
Season 1, Episode 172
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A real river in the Amazon is hot enough to boil… with no volcano nearby.
The Shanay-Timpishka has stunned scientists, but local communities have respected it for generations. Is it geothermal energy or something we still don’t fully understand?Birthday Shout Out Form
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11 min
171: The Man Who Lived in an Airport
Season 1, Episode 171
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This week on The Mystery Kids Podcast, we explore the unbelievable true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who lived inside Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years after losing his travel documents. His bizarre life later inspired the movie The Terminal—but the real story is even stranger than Hollywood.
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