Listener accounts

Something
happened
to you
out there.

You've told it maybe twice. Once to someone who changed the subject, and once to someone who laughed. So you stopped telling it. Tell it here instead.

Tell us what happened →
accounts on file states and provinces earliest encounter Every account read by a person
What belongs here

If it happened,
it counts.

You don't need proof. You don't need a photo. You don't need to know what it was. You need to have been there.

Wilderness Untold is one story per episode, told straight. No dramatization, no sound effects pretending to be footsteps, no host talking over you to guess what it was. What you experienced is the episode.

Most of what we run comes from people who never reported it to anyone. The forest service, the sheriff, the newspaper — none of them were going to write it down, and you knew that at the time. So it stayed with you.

01

Something upright

Bipedal. Wrong proportions. Too tall, too fast, or too quiet for what it should have been.

02

Something in the sky

Craft, light, or object that moved in a way nothing you know of moves.

03

Someone who wasn't there

A person on the trail, in the cabin, at the window. Then gone, or never possible to begin with.

04

Missing time

Hours you can't account for. A drive that took twice as long as it should have.

05

The place itself

Ground that felt wrong. A canyon that went silent. A road you turned around on and can't explain why.

06

Something you can't name

No category fits. That's often the best kind. Tell us anyway.

After you send it

What actually
happens next.

Four steps. No submission disappears into a void, and nothing airs without your say-so.

1

A person reads it

Not a filter, not a queue that never empties. Every account gets read within a week and you get an email confirming it landed, with a file number.

2

We check what can be checked

Dates, weather, moon phase, road closures, whether anyone else reported something nearby that week. Not to catch you out — corroborating detail is what makes an episode land.

3

We call you

If your account is a fit, we set up a conversation. Recorded or not, your choice. Most of the best detail comes out in that call, not in the form.

4

You approve it before it airs

You hear the episode first. If the name is wrong, the location is too specific, or you've changed your mind entirely, it doesn't run. That holds forever, including after it's published.

Witness statement

Tell us what happened.

Take your time. There's no length limit and no wrong way to write it. If you only remember fragments, send the fragments.

Account intake DRAFT — NOT YET FILED
01 — Who you are
We need your real name to verify. It is not what we broadcast — that's the next field.
Only if you're open to a call.
02 — Where and when
As specific as you're comfortable being. We never broadcast an exact location without asking you first.
A season and a year is plenty.
03 — The account
What kind of thing was it *
0 characters — 200 minimum
A second witness makes an account much stronger. Note if any of them would speak to us.
Is there anything physical
Previously told is fine. We just like to know.
04 — Permission

Your name, email and phone are never published and never sold. Location detail is generalized unless you tell us otherwise.

Filed

It's on record.

WU—0000

Check your email for confirmation. Someone will read this within the week, and you'll hear from a real person either way.

Season one

Five cases nobody closed.

Between 1947 and 1969 the U.S. Air Force ran Project Blue Book — 12,618 sighting reports, 701 of which it could not explain and stopped trying to. Those files are public. Almost nobody reads them.

Season one is five of them, told from the documents. Season two is you.

  1. 01
    The Marks in the SandSocorro, New Mexico · April 24, 1964

    A police officer breaks off a traffic chase, finds something in a gully, and leaves with four impressions pressed into the desert floor.

  2. 02
    The Kid on Route 150Exeter, New Hampshire · September 3, 1965

    An eighteen-year-old walks into a police station at 2:24 in the morning. An officer drives him back out to the field — and sees it too.

  3. 03
    Eleven CallsLevelland, Texas · November 2–3, 1957

    One night, one county, and a dozen drivers whose engines died at the same time. The Air Force spent one day on it.

  4. 04
    Something Happened to DalePortage County, Ohio · April 17, 1966

    Two deputies chase something eighty-five miles across a state line. Then the Air Force tells the country they were chasing a planet.

  5. 05
    Twelve Hours Up a TreeCisco Grove, California · September 4, 1964

    A bow hunter is separated from his party at dusk. He comes down at dawn with no arrows and no clothes.

Episodes are in production. Join The Signal below and you'll know when the first one lands.

From the file

Nothing here yet.

This is where accounts go once they've been checked and the witness has approved them. Right now it's empty, because the show is new and nobody has said yes yet.

Everything published here will be a real account from a real person who read it first. If you'd rather not be the first, that's fair. If you would — the form is above.

The Signal

You don't have to have a story to stay.

One email when an episode drops. The invite to the listener room comes with it.

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