We’ve made it to April 14th, 1912, and the RMS Titanic is midway through its maiden voyage from England to New York. All is calm, all is normal. Until – “Iceberg, right ahead!” But the warning would come too late. The Titanic would scrape across an iceberg far from its destination in America, and within…

In 1907, English businessman J Bruce Ismay sat down with his partners at the shipping company White Star Line to dream up the newest three ships in the White Star Line’s fleet, destined to be bigger, more luxurious, and possibly even faster than anything White Star Line or any of their competitors had managed to…

Hey Scary Squad! We’re still wrapping up important family obligations this week, so in lieu of a full episode – but still wanting to get some new ‘tent out to ya – we wanted to include a sample Patreon minisode here to be accessible by all (and hopefully get more of you beautiful people over…

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,…