Welcome to High Desert Vault, where every story has a history, every legend has a beginning, and every mystery deserves a closer look. Join three siblings as we dive into folklore, ghost stories, cryptids, conspiracies, true crime, and the unexplained—sharing the stories, questioning the evidence, and occasionally disappearing down a few rabbit holes along the way.
Every state has its stories.
Places you're not supposed to go after dark.
Things somebody's grandfather swears he saw. A road everyone drove in high school because somebody said something weird happened there.
Most of those stories stay local.
But Utah… Utah seems to collect them differently. Maybe it's the landscape. We have red rock that looks like it belongs on another planet. Basins so empty...and so quiet...you can hear your own pulse.
Mountains that can hide entire communities from one another.
Lakes so blue they don't look real.
And stretches of desert where you can drive for miles...
without seeing another person.
Maybe when you put people in a landscape like that… stories are inevitable.
Because when there's this much silence around you...
eventually...your mind starts filling in the rest.
But here's the thing about the stories we're opening tonight.
Every one of them has something real underneath it.
26 Aug 2026
The Dybuk Box
HIGH DESERT VAULT
Vault Entry 007
The Dybbuk Box
The Spirit That Wouldn't Stay Sealed
Classification: Haunted Object
Subject: The centuries-old Jewish folklore of the dybbuk, and the 2003 eBay listing that turned a wine cabinet into modern legend.
Primary Locations: Eastern Europe (16th–17th century) • Portland, OR • Missouri • Las Vegas, NV
Time Span: 1500s to present
Question Before the Vault:
What happens to a ghost story once the person who invented it admits he made it up?
19 Aug 2026
Missing 411
Vault Entry 006
Missing 411
The People Who Never Came Home
Classification: Missing Persons
Subject: Unexplained disappearances in North American wilderness.
Time Span: 1969–2015
Question Before the Vault:
Why do some missing person cases refuse to make sense?
12 Aug 2026
Phoenix Lights
Classification: Mass UFO Sighting
Subject: Thousands of witnesses report seeing unexplained lights over Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997.
Primary Locations: Henderson, NV • Prescott, AZ • Phoenix, AZ • Tucson, AZ
Time Span: Approximately 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., March 13, 1997
Question Before the Vault:
How do thousands of strangers witness the same event...and still leave behind one of America's greatest mysteries?
29 Jul 2026
Ghost Towns
Across America...there are thousands of ghost towns. Places where schools closed. Church bells stopped ringing. Businesses locked their doors...and never opened again.
Some disappeared because the mines ran dry. Some because the railroad moved.
Others...because people simply left. Today...they're tourist attractions. Places to take photographs. Places to wander for an afternoon.
But ask the people who live nearby...and you'll hear different stories.
Stories about footsteps in empty hotels. Lights in buildings without electricity. Voices echoing down abandoned streets. Figures standing in second-story windows...where no one has lived for decades.
So tonight… we're asking a simple question. When a town dies...does anything stay behind?
22 Jul 2026
Desert Big Foot
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15 Jul 2026
Skinwalkers
https://youtu.be/A6iGPy25ANUWelcome to the introductory episode High Desert Vault, a podcast hosted by three siblings. In this episode Pam, Mark, and Chris introduce themselves and discuss what the overview of the podcast will be and what got them into ghost stories, cryptids, unsolved mysteries, conspiracies, and forgotten legends. The goal is not to convince you of what is true or not, but to have the conversation.
6 Jul 2026
Welcome to High Desert Vault
Welcome to High Desert Vault.
Before we dive into ghost stories, cryptids, conspiracies, and the unexplained, we're opening the Vault to introduce ourselves and the stories that brought us here. Join three siblings as we talk about growing up with local legends, why every family has that one story nobody can quite explain, and why humans have been fascinated by the unknown for thousands of years.
This isn't a podcast about proving what's real.
It's a podcast about the stories we can't stop telling.
So grab a seat and join us as we unlock the very first entry in the High Desert Vault.
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