About

WBUR’s Last Seen podcast is a collection of mysteries about unexpected people, places and things that have all gone... missing.

Season 4, called "Postmortem", is about the stolen bodies of Harvard and the grey market for human remains. Find out what happened at Harvard Medical School: how body parts were stolen and sold across the country. Who did this and why? Coming soon, April 2024.

Season 3 continued our exploration of what missing something means, why we keep searching, and whether we can — or even should — find what we’re looking for. Tenacious public radio storytellers hunt for Quebec’s most famous pie, go on a quest for berried treasure, search for a real-life Willy Wonka, and examine the fallout of a murder in Boston's Haitian community.

In Season 2, we brought together a diversity of stories and storytellers from around the globe to explore the human experience through the lens of things that aren’t there — mysterious tales of obsession, injustice, lies, and levity that aspire to elevate and bend the genre of true crime. A community theater con-man. A planet no one can find. An urn containing a stranger’s ashes. And that’s just the beginning. Mysterious tales about the esoteric and the obvious, from our own backyard to the outer edges of the solar system.

Millions of listeners tuned into the first season of Last Seen for the true-crime investigation of the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The Boston Globe teamed up with WBUR to ask why, 28 years later, this still unsolved crime exerts its irresistible pull.

Listen to the newest season of Last Seen wherever you get your podcasts — The easiest way to know when we have new episodes is to click "Follow" on your podcast platform of choice.