Forbidden Files

About Forbidden Files

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 were never meant to be opened.

Publisher

Forbidden Knowledge Network

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2026

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   The Black Knight Satellite: The Space Mystery That Predates the Space Age

   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 echoes heard in Norway during the nineteen twenties, claims of pre-Sputnik satellites in the nineteen fifties, a tracked object in nineteen sixty, and photographs taken during NASA’s STS-88 shuttle mission in nineteen ninety-eight. The surviving record is more complicated. Tesla did publish his speculation about possible signals from other worlds, but did not identify a satellite. Norwegian researchers documented unusual delayed echoes, but did not establish an extraterrestrial source. A UFO writer repeated an unnamed-source claim about satellites before the Space Age, while a later tracked object was identified in contemporary reporting as debris from a Discoverer satellite. Then came the image that gave the legend its modern visual center: a dark object photographed during STS-88, as astronauts assembled the first elements of the International Space Station. NASA’s records confirm that equipment was lost during the mission, creating a plausible debris explanation. But the public image archive does not identify the object in the frame or conclusively connect it to a particular lost item. This episode examines how separate reports became one powerful narrative, and where the evidence still stops short of certainty. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #ForbiddenFiles #DisputedDiscovery #BlackKnightSatellite #SpaceMystery #STS88

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   The Green Children of Woolpit: The Medieval Mystery of Two Strange Children

   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 refused ordinary food until they were shown beans inside their pods. The boy later died. The girl survived, adapted to life among the people who had taken her in, and eventually gave an account of a dimly lit homeland called Saint Martin’s Land. The story survives in two medieval chronicles: William of Newburgh’s late twelfth-century history and Ralph of Coggeshall’s early thirteenth-century chronicle. Their accounts overlap in striking ways, but they also differ on essential points. William places the discovery during Stephen’s reign and records Saint Martin’s Land. Ralph identifies a knight, Richard de Calne, and his household as his sources, while preserving a separate story of a cavern passage. This episode examines what those records can establish, what they only report, and how later retellings merged their differences into a single, more complete legend. It considers the strongest conventional explanation: a medieval wonder narrative that may preserve an encounter with unfamiliar children. It also tests the proposed Flemish-refugee explanation and the literal otherworld interpretation against the limits of the evidence. The central problem remains simple and unresolved: if the surviving girl lived for years in an identifiable household and could eventually communicate, why do the records preserve an extraordinary homeland story but no secure name, language, or traceable origin? This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #ForbiddenFiles #StrangeIncident #GreenChildrenOfWoolpit #MedievalMystery #Woolpit

3. 

   19 Sept 2026

   Inside North Korea: What Daily Life Is Really Like

   North 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, communicate, and make decisions under extensive political control. This episode traces the collapse of dependable state provisioning in the 1990s, the growth of jangmadang markets, women’s role in household trade, workplace obligations, travel controls, foreign-media restrictions, mobile-phone monitoring, food insecurity, and the post-2020 border crackdown. Drawing on UN investigations, FAO and World Food Programme assessments, UNICEF survey data, satellite analysis, academic research, and testimony from people who left North Korea, the episode examines how families navigate institutions that can provide structure, impose obligations, and rapidly restrict the informal systems on which many depend. At the center is an unresolved conflict: can a government rely on private survival systems while suppressing the independence, relationships, and outside knowledge those systems create? This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #ForbiddenFiles #ClosedSocietiesDailyLifeUnderAuthoritarianRule #NorthKoreaDailyLife #JangmadangMarkets #StateSurveillance

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