In this third episode of our Jack the Ripper series, we move past the events of the case and review selected main suspects to see if any can fit into the role of Saucy Jack. We discuss multiple serial poisoners, doctors and quacks, famous authors and artists and even an ex-lover of one of the…

In the second episode of our Jack the Ripper series, we continue and finish the story of the initial 1888 killing spree with the final 3 of the “Canonical Five” victims: Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Stride and Eddowes would, shockingly, be murdered the same night in September 1888…and the Ripper would…

IT’S THE BIG 100! That’s right, we’ve hit 100 episodes and 2 years of the show…so, in celebration, we’re heading back to 1888 London to investigate one of the biggest true crime cases of all time: the grisly murder spree of Jack the Ripper. In the Whitechapel district of London, England in the fall of…

From 1962 to 1972, the U.S. government ran a top-secret program that teleported child spies through space and time. At least, that’s the claim of Andrew Basiago, former time traveler and holder of the hotly contested title of “Strangest 2016 Presidential Candidate.” Join us for a tour through Basiago’s meeting with George Washington, his failed…

Father of the Pod Paul Ferrante returns to the show this week to talk blood – the bloody history of the Tower of London, of course! First built up way back in 1066 after William the Conqueror’s invasion of England, the Tower of London has risen from being known as just another British castle to…

This week we take our first blazing steps into the dark, yet sorta wacky, world of millennial death cults with the tragic tale of the Order of the Solar Temple and its power-mad leaders, Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret. Ostensibly a fraternal secret society like the Freemasons, the OST escalated from goofy chants with…

The American region of Appalachia, much like our native New England, is a land of folklore and high strangeness, and this is perfectly exemplified in the story of the Flatwoods Monster – a maybe-alien, maybe-cryptid that burst onto the scene 70 years ago to completely throw locals for a loop and enchant an entire nation….

This week we hit the foreign districts and seedy neighborhoods of pre-war Beijing with a look at the unsolved murder of Pamela Werner. The 19-year-old was found beaten to death and gruesomely mutilated one January morning in 1937, as Beijing found itself awash in refugees and expatriates and Japanese Army units camped closer and closer…

On July 17th, 1996 TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 jet carrying 230 passengers and crew, exploded over the Center Moriches New York bay, setting fire to a peaceful summer night. Hundreds of witnesses along the Long Island coast watched as a strange flare-like object seemed to rise from the horizon, turn in the air,…

On November 5, 1975, a crew of loggers driving home after a long day of work saw a strange light through the trees. They decided to follow it, and found themselves face to face with a flying saucer. For Travis Walton, nothing would be the same. This week, Sean takes us through the facts(?) of…