Inspired by the new hit show “Our Flag Means Death”, we’re covering the most famous pirate in history: Blackbeard! At the dawn of the 18th century, the Caribbean was ruled by roving bands of seaborne criminals who robbed and murdered with impunity. The British colony of the Bahamas even lost an entire island to pirate…

After a long month of axe-murder mayhem, Carrie takes a break from the grim and gory to tell a strange tale about what may be the most adorable cryptids of all time! The Fresno Nightcrawlers first came on the scene in security camera footage from 2007, when a California homeowner named José checked his tape…

Axe Season 2022 comes to a close with the end of our discussion of Bill and Rachel James’ ‘Man From The Train’ theory. We follow our proposed serial murderer from his probable several-year stint in prison to his roving, cross-country murder spree – a spree that will claim dozens of victims as the axeman tears…

We’re rounding out Axe Murder Month with two weeks on Sean’s favorite solution to last week’s unsolved mystery, the 1912 axe murders in Villisca, Iowa: the roving serial-murderer theory proposed by famed baseball writer Bill James in his 2017 book “The Man From The Train.” This week Sean spends a long time raving about Bill…

Sometime in the overnight hours of June 9-10, 1912 in the tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, eight people – including six children – were killed by an intruder, with an axe, in cold blood. The case caused a national uproar and years of investigation…and it remains unsolved to this day. This week, Sean takes us…

Sean has officially declared March to be axe murder month – much to the chagrin of March-born Carrie – and so we begin a multi-part series on horrific axe murders! Well, in like a lion, out like a lamb, as they say. Our first part focuses on one of the most famous early unsolved murder…

Is Union Cemetery in Easton, CT the most haunted cemetery in America?

We’re singin’ more sea shanties on the finale to our 2-part series on ghost ships! This week Sean rounds things out with two twentieth-century tales of ships turning up abandoned at sea, their crew and passengers vanished without a trace. First,…

In this first of two nautical episodes, Sean introduces us to three of history’s eeriest ghost ships.First, the Flying Dutchman sets the stage (and sails) for all ghost ships to come. Then, the passengers and crew of the Mary Celeste vanished on…

“A long, long time ago, I can still remember…” February 3rd, 1959. Three of the brightest stars in the rock ‘n roll galaxy – Buddy Holly, the bespectacled frontman of the Crickets; Ritchie Valens, the first crossover Latino artist in rock; and JP…