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Astonishing Legends

by Astonishing Legends Productions

The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!

Chart trend

Position in the Society & Culture chart (US), last 90 days.

#60
all-time peak
52
days in the top 100 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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S2 Ep34: The Lady in the Rocking Chair

In tonight's dead letter, listener Mothmaiden remembers a time when she was four years old and an only child in a neighborhood with no other kids, and she had an imaginar

Sep 8
46 min

Special: Richard Hatem's Light in the Dark Tour 2026

Hey folks! We're gearing up to go to the Wet Hot Bad Magic Summercamp next week but after that we're back on our regular schedule! In the meanwhile here's a chat Scott an

Sep 4
52 min

S2 Ep33: The Inn at Folck's Mill

In tonight's dead letter, listener Chris takes us back to the early 2000s, when he was the head brewer at a restaurant on the east side of Cumberland, Maryland, in a buil

Sep 1
53 min

Richard Hatem's Light in the Dark Tour 2026!

Our friend Richard Hatem is taking his Paranormal Bookshelf on the road! The Light in the Dark Tour 2026 is an all new live show playing six cities in seven days, Septemb

Aug 29
2 min

S2 Ep32: But We didn't Break the Glass

In tonight's dead letter, a teenager in rural Arkansas in the late 2000s goes poking around an abandoned schoolhouse and comes home with a mirror she likes the look of. Y

Aug 25
52 min

S2 Ep31: DLO-231: The Kids in the Parking Lot

In tonight's dead letter, in the summer of 1996, two college kids from New Jersey were road-tripping to Gen Con when they got off I-80 near Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, look

Aug 20
59 min

S2 Ep30: DLO-230: A Finger Down the spine

In tonight's dead letter, listener John is nineteen, home from his freshman year and a few shifts into a summer dishwashing job at a grand old house on Michigan's Old Mis

Aug 11
50 min

Amy Bruni’s Cuisine to Kill For

In 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found dead beside the hearth in her Rhode Island home. Afterward, her ghost allegedly appeared to accuse someone of murder and her son was tr

Aug 9
1 h 27 min

S2 Ep29: The Boy Who Wanted her Hand

In tonight's dead letter, listener Mary is on a ghost tour in Key West when the guide stands her group under an old, unmarked movie marquee and asks them what happened th

Aug 4
48 min

S2 Ep28: Milo

In tonight's dead letter, a truck-riding barn cat named Milo becomes the witness our listener Amy needs to affirm that she’s not seeing and hearing things. The old stone

Jul 28
43 min

S2 Ep27: The Light Beneath the Boats

In tonight's dead letter, Eric, a longtime listener on active duty in the Navy, pulls into Juneau, Alaska for a port call in the summer of 2009 and hikes up the Mount Rob

Jul 21
50 min

S2 Ep26: The Ghost with No Nose

In tonight's dead letter, our listener Kayla takes her two-and-a-half-year-old son to a private family viewing for his great-grandmother and keeps him in a back room so h

Jul 14
31 min

Chris McKinnell and the Warren Legacy

Chris McKinnell grew up as the grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, surrounded by haunted objects and terrifying investigations that left him afraid of the dark until one

Jul 12
2 h 35 min

S2 Ep25: Old Man Dayton

In tonight's dead letter… three families lived in the same old house across the years, none of them knowing each other, and each one wound up sharing the place with the s

Jul 7
37 min

S2 Ep24: Pitched in Blue

In tonight's dead letter… our listener Daniel moves into a freshly built ranch house in the Salt Lake Valley back in 2011 — a house barely five years old, no tragic past,

Jun 30
42 min

S2 Ep23: Pop's Cat

In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office as you can get — the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand — for a story from Billy, a working artist wh

Jun 23
33 min

S2 Ep22: The Mechanic and Mr. Machine

In tonight's dead letter, listener Dean takes us to his grandmother's old Victorian house in a region of Scott’s home state of North Carolina known as the Sandhills. His

Jun 19
51 min

The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion

In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in British history. What began with a

Jun 14
2 h 23 min

S2 Ep21: The Emerald Valley

In tonight's dead letter, Daniel, a self-described skeptic writes in about the one thing he's never been able to explain away. He was a third-grader in northeast Washingt

Jun 9
45 min

S2 Ep20: What Does a House Remember?

In tonight's dead letter, our listener’s family trades a rented place for an old Victorian villa tucked into the quiet border country between England and Wales. The previ

Jun 2
46 min

Chart positions

Where Astonishing Legends ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 12, 2026).

#179 ▼ 29 Society & Culture US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Longtime listener, and I can hardly believe that such an awesome podcast can possibly even be improved upon. I am loving Deadletter Office as an addition to the already amazing content. Can’t wait for the next installment, and also digging that the intro music reminds me of Angelo Badalamenti’s for Twin Peaks!

thermosprotection1 · Nov 2024

My husband introduced me to the show a few episodes in to their first year and we’ve been listening ever since. I love the broad range of topics and GREATLY appreciate the level of research. I think some people have gotten used to the short bits of information given on other podcasts (like blurbs on ticktock) but they all repeat each other. this podcast does a great job of giving new or lesser known info about the topics.

Shivley18 · Oct 2024

I was raised on Art Bell and George Noory, so I feel like paranormal shows are a bit conferring — call it nostalgia for the times when my family and I would listen to the radio and hear stories about bigfoot. This is no different, and it take me right back to those memories. I love this show! It accompanies me at work, on walks, drives, etc. I especially loved the Number Stations episode. I also love Mel’s Hole and the episodes about the Betz Sphere and Missing 411. I enjoy all of the details and energy and effort they put into researching their topics. For folks complaining about ads — just skip them? Thank you!

aeonianveranda · Sep 2024

I listen to hundreds of podcasts, and Astonishing Legends has become a favorite. No hyperbole or people who think they are funny, deep dives worth taking into even familiar subjects. But good lord, Richard Hatem, what a bombastic moron. He is so pleased with himself. I cannot deal with that man.

mysterymach · Nov 2024

Early episodes are great; recent ones rambling and tough to listen to. Overall quality of podcast has declined with increase in the focus on the presenters. Just present the topic and discuss. Far too much random banter and self-fluffing. Show has completely sold out for the $$

DB3440 · Sep 2024

The ads and banter used to be tolerable, but over the last year or so it’s become so bad it’s not even worth listening to anymore. There’s plenty of other podcasts that fill the same role without having so many advertisements it feels like a cable TV show.

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