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Education for Kids · Tess O'Driscoll

The Mystery Kids Podcast

by Tess O'Driscoll

A podcast about the weird and unexplained! Think Unsolved Mysteries for kids!

Latest episodes

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184:Ghost City/Forest City

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,

Sep 10
13 min

183: Nickajack Cave Rescue

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

Sep 3
16 min

182: Peggy’s Cove: The Lighthouse on the Edge of the Atlantic

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, gen

Aug 28
22 min

181: The Four Kids Who Survived 40 Days in the Rainforest

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

Aug 21
15 min

180: Green Skies

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 Pod

Aug 13
9 min

179: The Princes in the Tower

👑 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 yo

Aug 6
17 min

179: Ningen

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

Jul 29
13 min

178: Meowing Nuns

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 w

Jul 28
10 min

177: The Van Meter Visitor

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 ey

Jul 16
12 min

176: The Mystery of the Buried Video Games

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 la

Jun 25
12 min

175: 1988 Yellowstone Fire

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,

Jun 19
16 min

174: Rosie the Shark: The Shark Left Behind

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 sha

May 28
11 min

173: 1913 China Flood

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 reso

May 14
9 min

172: The Boiling River of the Amazon

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 genera

Apr 30
10 min

171: The Man Who Lived in an Airport

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 af

Apr 16
11 min

170: Mt. St. Helens Eruption

A peaceful mountain. A warning no one expected. And an explosion that changed everything. On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted sideways, flattening forests, darkeni

Apr 10
7 min

169: Lost Beneath the Waves- Famous Shipwrecks

Some shipwrecks are fully understood—torpedoes, storms, and icebergs explain exactly what happened. ⚓ Titanic struck an iceberg 🌪️ Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in a storm

Apr 2
17 min

168: The Almas – The Wild People of the Mountains

Deep in the mountains of Mongolia and Russia, people have reported sightings of something strange for centuries… The Almas. Not quite human. Not quite animal. Witnesse

Mar 26
8 min

167: The Red Waterfall of Antarctica

A waterfall that looks like blood flowing from the ice. Deep in Antarctica’s frozen Dry Valleys, bright red water pours out of a glacier in a place called Blood Falls. F

Mar 23
11 min

166: Cities Hidden By Jungles

Deep beneath some of the thickest jungles on Earth lie the ruins of entire ancient cities. From the mountaintop wonder of Machu Picchu to the giant temples of the Maya an

Mar 13
14 min

Chart trend

Position in the Education for Kids chart (US), last 90 days.

#9
all-time peak
3
days in the top 10 since Jan 2025

Chart positions

Where The Mystery Kids Podcast ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 15, 2026).

#64 ▲ 7 Education for Kids US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

My kids and I enjoy the stories and information as it’s short and fun! Some challenges are the pronunciation of certain words. We understand some of these stories are from different countries so please research how to correctly pronounce them to honor that story and the culture. Love the worksheets, coloring pages and pictures too.

MoAniJo · Dec 2022

My kids love listening. The content is interesting and educational. Tess’s voice is hard for me to listen to, maybe I’m just sensitive but there’s so much breathing and mouth sounds in between words. Plus noisy kids in the background. It would be easier to listen to if those were cut out. Hopefully that’s helpful feedback?

KatiefromAlaska · Jul 2022

Finally something I can listen to along with my kids. They love this show and so do I. We all love spooky, scary things like true scary stories but they’re not always appropriate for kids. Thanks for making something family friendly!

Nicole Miller Comedy · Jun 2022

Our daughter started listening to Mystery Kids Podcast at bedtime to wind down before faking asleep. The episodes are always interesting and educational for kids. There are a variety of different topics. As parents, we have learned new things ourselves like details on Amelia Earhart, Skeleton Lake, or the Yeti. Our daughter has listened to episodes dozens of times. It’s a big hit for our kid that loves to learn!

kpeyton07 · Nov 2021

My daughter loves mysteries so we had high hopes for this podcast. Some of the episodes are well-told, but MANY of them have terrible audio quality (as if the hostess is walking around the room and sometimes across the room and hard to hear while at other times is close to the mic and louder), and lots of background noise. It’s even more frustrating that she mispronounces names. Please take the time and effort to learn the correct pronunciations. Finally, it often feels as if she is reading directly from a book or website (or multiple sites). She ends up reading long lists of mispronounced names or boring timelines, then skipping around the story, circling back, repeating herself and generally confusing the listener. I think there is potential for the podcast to be really excellent and feel that what is missing is prep time to learn how to pronounce names and to rewrite the research into a coherent and captivating story.

fivelittleacorns · May 2024

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