It's the Secret Squirrel Files season finale — and we're traveling to Bergen, Norway and Laurel, Maryland to discuss two unsolved cases.

Phoebe takes us to Bergen, Norway, in 1970, where a badly burned, unidentified woman is found in a valley literally named "Ice Valley." No ID, no labels in her clothes, eight false identities, a coded notebook, wigs, foreign currency — and over 55 years later, we still don't know her name. Was the Isdal Woman a Cold War spy, or just a woman desperate to disappear?

Then Katie closes out the season with the strange, still-unsolved murder of retired FBI Special Agent Scott Horn — a 23-year Bureau veteran beaten to death outside his home, in the middle of a brutal divorce, discovered by his own son wearing a GoPro. Two people were arrested. Neither was convicted. No weapon, no wallet, no answers.

Thank you for spending Season One with us in the shadows! We'll see you for Season Two.

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It's episode nine, and the squirrels are digging into two Cold War cases. First, a quick case update: new court filings on the David Rush gold bars case, including an extended indictment deadline and a judge's ruling on flight risk.

Then we head underground with Operation Monopoly — the FBI's decades-long, multimillion-dollar tunnel dug beneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., a project so secret it was betrayed before it even started by FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen. We go beyond the espionage to look at the family Hanssen left behind: his wife Bonnie, their six children, and the decades of fallout from a betrayal that went far beyond national security.

From there, we cross into the Ural Mountains for the Dyatlov Pass Incident: nine experienced hikers, a tent slashed open from the inside, and a death certificate that blames it all on an "unknown compelling force." Avalanches, infrasound, failed missile tests, and a decades-old nuclear cover-up all make their case — but sixty-plus years later, no single theory explains everything investigators found.

Stay curious and stay cautious, because in a world of secrets, the truth always leaves a trail.

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What happens when America's most closely guarded secrets fall into the wrong hands?

In this episode of Secret Squirrel Files, Phoebe tells the incredible story of the USS Pueblo, a U.S. Navy intelligence ship captured by North Korea in 1968. With thousands of classified documents onboard and only minutes to destroy them, the crew faced impossible choices before spending nearly a year as prisoners of war.

Then Katie explores one of the most consequential insider threat cases in modern history: Chelsea Manning. From Iraq to WikiLeaks, discover how one intelligence analyst's decision to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents reshaped government cybersecurity, insider threat programs, and the way classified information is protected today.

From Cold War espionage to the digital age, this episode examines two moments that forever changed American intelligence.

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