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Episode 1

 
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31st Aug, 2026

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About the Podcast

The Questions That Won't Leave Us Alone
Questions
A podcast about the questions humans have been asking for thousands of years.

Some questions just refuse to stay quiet.

What happens when we die?
Can love be measured?
Does consciousness exist outside the body?
Why do smart people sometimes fall victim to con artists?
Just how far can positive thinking go to change our lives?

And what if the answers to some of our biggest mysteries are stranger—and more fascinating than we ever imagined?

Welcome to The Questions That Won’t Leave Us Alone, a podcast for the curious, the skeptical, the believers, and anyone who has ever looked at the world and thought, Wait… but what if?

Hosted by award-winning journalist and storyteller Erika Celeste, this is where we explore the questions that sit at the edges of what we know and refuse to let them go.

Episodes dive into mysteries surrounding everything from death and the afterlife, to consciousness, unexplained phenomena, extraordinary human experiences, and the nature of existence itself.

But this isn't about telling you what to believe. It’s about asking better questions.

Erika brings her decades of experience as a journalist and storyteller to conversations with fascinating experiencers, experts, and people whose stories challenge everything we thought we understood.

We’ll examine extraordinary claims without automatically accepting them, question conventional explanations without automatically rejecting them, and follow the evidence down rabbit holes wherever they may lead.

Because some of the most interesting questions don't have easy answers.

Come curious. Stay skeptical. Keep an open mind.

Because the biggest mysteries aren't always the ones with answers.

Sometimes, they're The Questions That Won't Leave Us Alone.

About your host

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Erika Celeste

Erika Celeste is an award-winning journalist, author, storyteller, and professional question-asker who has spent more than three decades chasing stories across radio, television, print, and digital media. Her work has appeared nationally with outlets including NPR, Voice of America, and Business Insider, and she has received an Edward R. Murrow Award, Telly Awards, and Emmy recognition.

As a writer, Erika has ghostwritten and co-authored more than 20 books and has become known for reporting on stories that live in the fascinating space between the personal, the mysterious, and the difficult to explain—including adoption fraud, extraordinary human experiences, and crimes that raise bigger questions about who we are.

Now, with The Questions That Won’t Leave Us Alone, Erika brings that lifelong curiosity to the microphone. Along with her co-host Manny and an ever-changing collection of fascinating guests, she explores the questions humans have been asking forever—and the ones that suddenly make us stop and wonder, Wait… but what if?

Because sometimes the most interesting questions are the ones that refuse to go away.