This week, we’re teaming up with the New York Mystery Machine podcast to bring you the best Bigfoots the Northeast has to offer! After Adam and Christina gave us the lowdown on the Sasquatches of New York over at their feed, we bring the NYMM crew into OUR house as Sean shares the best of…

We’re back at it after a 2-week break to travel abroad and move house! And we’re chatting another house…of worship, that is. Catholicism is a mysterious religion based in millennia of faith and worship, and of course in those hundred years, conspiracies have developed around the seat of Roman Catholic power: The Vatican. Inspired by…

This week we finish our quick tour through the purported adventures of the UFO prophet Raël, whose Raëlian Movement once claimed nearly a hundred thousand followers worldwide. While Raël was spreading his message here on Earth, his alien benefactors returned in 1975 to take him on a trip through the stars – and a tour…

ETs are back on Ain’t It Scary in a two-part primer on one of the most prominent UFO religions on Earth – the Raëlian Movement! In this first installment, Sean introduces Claude Vorilhon – the man who would be renamed Raël – as the erstwhile pop singer-turned-racing journalist meets an ancient alien master and learns…

This week, we explore how a crime story can inform pop culture with the true tale of Grace Brown’s murder at the hands of Chester Gillette in 1906. In a collaboration with the You’re Missing Out podcast, we took a (virtual) trip to Upstate New York to investigate the famous “Murder in the Adirondacks”: the…

In the second of a two-parter on the Roman Empire’s most hated rulers, Sean illustrates the *colorful* life and times of Nero, Rome’s fifth emperor, who got up to a lot more than just fireside fiddling. Join us for a twisted tale of matricide, fratricide, parricide, arson, plain ol’ torture murders and more forced suicides…

We’re going back to ancient Rome for a two-part look at the most notoriously evil emperors the empire ever had! This week, Sean gets us warmed up with Caligula, the man whose name has become a byword for madness and sexual depravity. Rome’s third emperor ruled for less than four years, so what could this…

Have you ever heard anything that you couldn’t explain? The most mysterious sounds in the world vary from impossibly loud deep sea groans to possibly Biblical trumpets calling in the sky. And many, chillingly enough, still have no real scientific explanations. The stories of mysterious sounds we’re exploring today include: …The Bloop, the loudest undersea…

Between 1911 and 1912, at least 11 Black families were murdered with an axe in their beds, in towns along the Southern Pacific railway line in Louisiana and Texas. The only person ever punished for any of these crimes was a teen girl named Clementine Barnabet.  In this week’s episode, Sean caps off Axe Murder…

In this 4th and final part of the Lizzie Borden story, we round out the rest of the sensational Borden Murders trial, hear the final verdict, and learn what Lizzie Borden did with the rest of her life after her (spoiler alert) acquittal in June 1893. Meet the witnesses that added quite a bit of color…