The 918 Files Podcast

A wallet lost in downtown Gilbert in 1958 mysteriously reappears decades later looking almost untouched. When every logical explanation falls apart, Charles Gwillam investigates whether this could be one of Arizona's most compelling alleged time-slip cases.

A hotel shuttle driver picked up an older man requesting a ride to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Just minutes before arriving, the driver glanced into the rearview mirror and the passenger had vanished without a trace.

Three security guards. Three different nights. Three conversations with the same man.
When surveillance footage shows each officer speaking to someone the cameras can't see, private investigator Charles Gwillam is called in to uncover the truth. What he finds raises more questions than answers.

A wildlife researcher working in a remote forest northwest of Flagstaff begins experiencing a strange problem: a trail camera he deploys is repeatedly found powered off. When he installs a second camera to monitor the area, the problem stops. When he removes it, the shutdowns return.
Charles Gwillam travels to the site, conducts drone searches and ground surveys, but finds no evidence of anyone living nearby.

A woman is reported being seen standing motionless in the window of a vacant apartment across a narrow alleyway late at night in an unoccupied apartment. No signs of entry were ever found. Surveillance operations conducted by Charles Gwillam of Zona Investigations produced almost nothing…except for one unexplained sound from inside the empty unit.

A wedding photographer reviewing photos from a private ceremony at a property in Chandler notices something unsettling in a mirror reflection behind the family. The problem? Nobody remembers the man standing there…and he only appears in a single frame.

Late at night near Lowell Observatory, a driver’s radio abruptly cuts from normal programming to a brief, structured transmission...clear, precise and unlike anything meant for public broadcast.
No station change. No interference.
Just a signal that wasn’t meant to be heard.

Before it was a busy intersection and bus facility, this part of Queen Creek was home to a World War II German POW camp, where prisoners were used for agricultural labor between 1942 and 1945.
Decades later, an early-morning worker reports seeing a man moving between rows of buses...dressed in plain, outdated clothing, walking the same path over and over like he’s still working the land.
Security footage shows the worker…but not the man.
Same location. Different time. No explanation.

Just before sunrise, a driver sees a figure approximately a quarter mile away from the roadway...running upright and then drops to all fours and accelerates. Seconds later, it’s gone.

During a routine shift at Chase Field, a concession worker looks up at the screen and sees a completely different game...different teams, different score, unfolding in real time. Moments later, it’s gone, replaced by the correct game like nothing happened.
A brief glitch…or something that didn’t belong to that night.