Corporeal Ghost on the Porch: Dead for Months | Van Allen Belts

A chilling corporeal ghost encounter takes center stage as two teens offering to mow an overgrown lawn speak with an unresponsive old man on his porch—only for police to later discover his body inside, long dead. We reconstruct this decades-old suburbia horror, from the thunderous "POW" that sends the boys running to the detective’s claim that the homeowner had been deceased for months, still dressed exactly as they described. Was this a misremembered welfare check, a time slip, or a fully corporeal ghost encounter that looked and moved like a living person?

We also investigate the first recorded eruption of Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano within the slowly stretching East African Rift, separating real geologic risk from viral claims that Africa is splitting in two right now. Then we tackle the Van Allen radiation belts and what they really meant for the Apollo Moon missions, debunking the "wall of death" myth, before turning to the Holly Bobo murder case and a key witness recantation raising fresh wrongful-conviction questions. Plus, reports of an eyeless robed figure shared across cousins, djinn-like nighttime visitations, and a faceless winter follower push us into the liminal territory between sleep paralysis, predatory entities, and human danger.

Hosted by Reese Haldon for Unexplained.co’s Unexplained News Update, this 5 PM bulletin walks the line between hard science, true crime, and high strangeness while inviting you to compare these cases to your own experiences. Share your stories of solid-seeming apparitions, strange visitations, or shifting testimony at Unexplained.co—what do you think really happened on that porch?

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