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9 Best Mystery Podcasts of 2024

Updated: Apr 2025


Limetown

By Two-Up  

Drama  Fiction  True Crime  
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22 Episodes

Started: Jul 2015

Latest: Year ago

Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, "What happened to the people of Limetown?" Limetown is produced by Two-Up, the producers of 36 Questions, The Wilderness and Shipworm.

Best Episodes of Limetown:

   

Introducing: Shipworm

Limetown is created by Two-Up. Weā€™d like to tell you about our latest podcast, [Shipworm] (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shipworm/id1561888136) . [Shipworm] (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcā€¦

Infinite Hermit Podcasts

By Barry Dodds and Ray Peacock  

Comedy  
0

Podcast stream for Ian Boldsworth's Infinite Hermit podcasts. For early access to new episodes, you can join the patreon page, where you'll also get immediate access to thousands of posts of bonus podcasts, animation, art, videos, the full story of the making of the ParaPod movie (including deleted scenes), and so forth...patreon.com/ianboldsworth

Best Episodes of Infinite Hermit Podcasts:

   

Unexplained

By Richard MacLean Smith  

Society & Culture  Science  

354 Episodes

Started: Jan 2016

Latest: Week ago

SEASON 07 WILL BEGIN FRIDAY JULY 28TH Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ā€˜reality,ā€™ whatever that isā€¦ More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast

Best Episodes of Unexplained:

   

Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.2 of 3)

Part 2 of Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon From the moment he is born, Carl Edon's mother senses there is something a little different about him. The story he will come to tell, is beyond anything sā€¦

Alice Isn't Dead

By Night Vale Presents  

Drama  Fiction  

55 Episodes

Started: Feb 2016

Latest: Year ago

A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.

Best Episodes of Alice Isn't Dead:

   

From the creator of Alice Isn't Dead: Unlicensed

From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre defining fiction podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isnā€™t Dead, comes the new LA noire Unlicensed, starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, aā€¦

Blackwood

By Skylark | Wondery  

Fiction  True Crime  

7 Episodes

Started: Oct 2018

Latest: Year ago

Five years ago, Molly Weaver, Bryan Anderson, and Nathan Howell started a podcast focused on the local legend of a monster called The Blackwood Bugman. Quickly, the investigation grows out of their control, as they discover that, not only are the legends seemingly true, many people in Blackwood have turned up dead or disappeared without a trace. Worse, there may be a reason why no one has ever uncovered the truth before. Someone is watching them, willing to do whatever it takes to keep the secret. Their recordings have finally been released. Directed by Mark Freiburger Produced by April Lamb Written by Will Rogers

Best Episodes of Blackwood:

   

The Questions | 6

Nathan is missing. Bryan isā€¦ gone. Molly Weaver has spent five years running from her past and the investigation, but it seems Blackwood isnā€™t done with her. Subscribe to Blackwood on [Apple Podcasts]ā€¦

SPINES Podcast

By ZoomDoom Stories  

Performing Arts  Arts  Fiction  

28 Episodes

Started: Jan 2018

Latest: Year ago

One day, Wren wakes up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult ritual. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way. Listen to the complete series now.

Best Episodes of SPINES Podcast:

   

Red Hail

A new novel from the creator of Spines. Now available for preorder at the following locations: Amazon: <a href= "https://tinyurl.com/ye4kg9we">https://tinyurl.com/ye4kg9we</a> Barnes and Noble: <a hreā€¦

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

By Parcast Network  

True Crime  Society & Culture  

388 Episodes

Started: Jun 2016

Latest: 6 months ago

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a podcast drama with a modern twist on old time radio that delves into the mystery of true cold cases and unsolved murders. With the help of an ensemble cast, follow our hosts as they take you on an entertaining journey through the crime scene, the investigation and attempt to solve the case. With many surprising plot twists, itā€™s important you start listening from the first episode of a cold case. New episodes are released every Tuesday. Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a Spotify Original.

Best Episodes of Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories:

   

Disappearance at the Vatican: The Orlandi Case

What happens when a teenager goes missing in the worldā€™s smallest, and supposedly safest, country? Emanuela Orlandiā€™s sudden disappearance remains the only missing personā€™s case in Vatican City, yet mā€¦

Unfound

By Unfound  

True Crime  

499 Episodes

Started: Sept 2016

Latest: Week ago

Established in September 2016, Unfound is a missing persons program concentrated on interviewing family, friends, and reporters who are closest to the cases. The focus is on turning up new leads to move investigations forward. Behind the scenes, Ed Dentzel, the host, also works for families as a researcher and confidant. .

Best Episodes of Unfound:

   

Episode 479; NEW EPISODE!!!!! Wendy Gessing: Something In The Way

Wendy Gessing was a 50 year old from Crest Hill, IL. She was the mother of one and had a sister and two brothers. On June 12, 2021, Wendy left her job at a pizza place without any warning. Wendy was lā€¦

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