In 1886, Sarah Winchester – widow of William Winchester, the son of the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company – took her $20 million inheritance ($550 million in today’s money), moved from Connecticut to California, and began a project that…

In October 1849, now-legendary horror and suspense writer Edgar Allan Poe was found in a tavern in Baltimore, delirious, with clothes that didn’t appear to be his and no concrete answer for where he’d been since he left Richmond, Virginia almost a…

This week, we’re teaming up with our friends at the New York Mystery Machine podcast for a crossover look at UFOs and abductions in the Hudson Valley! Adam and Christina from NYMM join us for part 1 of the saga as Sean introduces us to the Hudson…

Graduation Night, 1992.
Suzie Streeter and Stacey McCall arrive home to Suzie’s mother Sherrill’s house in a giddy daze. They’re finally done with high school, and they have summer – and their whole lives – ahead of them. The next day they’re heading…

We’re back from the sick bay and rounding out the holiday season with some Yule-tide cheer this week! Sean takes us through the folklore and traditions that inspired our modern-day American Santa Claus, from pagan ritual sacrifices to jolly old St….

Happy holidays from your favorite ghoulish couple! No, not Gomez and Morticia…okay, maybe second favorite, then.
Due to health reasons we unexpectedly have to take a break this week (fingers are crossed that Omicron hasn’t come down our chimney) but…

The weather outside is frightful…but not as frightful as the weather on Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world and highest point on Earth! In honor of the chilly season we’re taking a dangerous journey to explore the most horrific…

In 1892, 19-year-old Mercy Brown’s corpse was exhumed and her vital organs were ritually burned by Exeter, Rhode Island townsfolk convinced the recent consumption victim was a vampire, feasting on her surviving younger brother’s life force from the…

In honor of the Beatles documentary Get Back premiering over Thanksgiving on Disney+, Carrie takes us through one of her favorite conspiracies of all time: “Paul is Dead”. This conspiracy theory, which spread across the globe like wildfire beginning…

Plenty of trigger warnings apply as Sean takes us back to the grim world of serial killers with the human string of misadventures known as Paul John Knowles. After killing (probably) 20 people on a cross-country crime spree, Knowles was dubbed the…