Hello Scary Squad! We apologize for not getting a new episode out this week – due to a death in our family, we’ve been tied up, understandably, with quite important matters. Sean wanted to hop on and give this little update, so you wouldn’t think we’d left you in the dust of Christmas past! We…

It’s been a hell of a week over at the Crypt, so this episode Sean & Carrie take a break from the bleak with a little holiday fun! Inspired by Fantasy Football drafts, Sean & Carrie recast an entire 10-character Christmas movie (featuring such Christmastime archetypes as Santa Claus, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Krampus) with figures…

In 1985, a gang of mail-order assassins staged a string of murders-for-hire across the country – but this hitman story is less “John Wick” and more “Fargo by way of The Three Stooges.”  Sean introduces the sordid tale of Richard “Doc” Savage, a Vietnam veteran and strip club owner who arranged paid killings through an…

After a few weeks of brutality, Carrie returns with a slightly silly tale from pre-WW2 Britain: the story of Gef, a trickster entity (or spirit? or poltergeist? or cryptid? or…) who presented himself as a talking mongoose to the Irving family, and both harassed and cozied up with the Irvings until the end of World…

Listener beware: beheadings and heart-rippings abound in this week’s tour through the history of human sacrifice! Ritual murder to please the gods or stave off disaster may stretch back as far as human civilization. Every civilization that sacrificed people put its own special spin on the ball, from babies left on mountain tops to warriors…

New Orleans, one year post Hurricane Katrina. A man is found dead after jumping from the roof of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel. In his pocket is a note directing police to go back to his apartment. There, the note says, they’ll find the dismembered body of Addie Hall. The police had no idea the…

Can you imagine a hunger so deep it can never be filled, no matter how you try or what you eat? Cravings wracking your whole existence, pushing you past the limits of biology, decency and morality? That was the constant condition of Tarrare, the hungriest man who ever lived. This week, Sean tells the fascinating,…

Could America’s most famous house also be its most haunted? That’s what many think of the White House, the United States’ office, residence, and seat of the Presidency. Inhabited by the most powerful men in the world since 1800, the White House boasts centuries of history, some of the biggest names of all time…and a…

What would your last words be, if you knew you were about to die? Would you go out with a joke, a last “I love you”…or an expression of regret? This week, Sean takes us on a tour of his favorite last words throughout the ages, from Pythagoras to Groucho Marx. Assassins, revolutionaries, kings and…

We’re all familiar with the trappings of Halloween that we know and love today: trick or treating, jack o’ lantern carving, costume parades, witches and skeletons and ghosts and black cats…but why are those Halloween traditions? Why do we go from house to house asking for candy? Why do we dress up as ghouls and…