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…

Hotels are places of transition, whose rooms have seen intense passions, furious hatred, great joys, deep sorrows, and even murder. Not surprisingly, hotels are also places that seem to attract the spirits of their former tenants. 
From a golf course…

On March 16th, 1957, a Venusian named Valiant Thor landed his flying saucer in Alexandria, Virginia. After meeting Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon at the White House, Thor would live in an a luxury apartment in the base of the Pentagon for the…

Here we are at the long-awaited final episode in our Salem Witch Trials series. What is there to say aside from that on this episode we examine the worst miscarriages of justice in the whole hysteria: the 20 innocent people executed on blatantly vague…

What does that mishmash of an episode title mean? Well, gentle listeners, this week in honor of the approaching All Hallow’s Eve we are taking a short break to prepare our intense final episode of our “Salem Witch Trials” series and dropping in a…

In this 2nd part of what’s become a 3-part series, we dive deeper into the tragic events of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and how the hysteria began to rapidly spread across Salem and beyond – now in the guise of dozens of arrests and hearings with…

We’ve finally come to our long promised two-parter on one of Carrie’s pet interests, the Salem Witch Trials!In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, tensions were already high. The Puritan colonists were struggling through the “Little Ice Age” devastating their…

Halloween is SPOOKY SEASON, and Sean is kicking us off with a howlin’ all-werewolf episode! We take a whirlwind tour of the mythology and history of werewolves (including skinwalkers and the Rougarou) before tackling real life monsters like Gilles…

Dr. John Dale Cavaness was a beloved small-town doctor and respected member of his community, so there was a public outcry when he was accused of murdering his own son, Sean, for insurance money in 1984. It didn’t come out until his trial that…

Jamestown, Virginia was the first successful English settlement in North America (for the first UNsuccessful one, go check out our episode on Roanoke) – but it came close to failing completely many, many times. The worst of these failures being the…

In 1998 – then again, in 2000 – our world got a hero, born of another reality. A man who traveled through time to warn us of coming catastrophe. Or, maybe, just one more Internet meme spun out of control.
A man calling himself John Titor first faxed…

Natalie Wood was one of the biggest film stars of the late 50s and early 60s, starring in such classics as Miracle On 34th Street while still a child and continuing on to acclaimed roles in Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, West Side…

If you’re looking for a well-researched, yet grisly story told with a wink and a laugh…well, we have 49 other episodes we can recommend. To celebrate our big 50th episode, we wanted to do something a little different. 
Coast to Coast AM, the cream…

King Henry VIII. Beheader of wives. Noted fat guy. Lover of turkey legs. 
Henry the 8th has become a punch line, known for his break with the Roman Catholic Church over his obsession with Anne Boleyn and gradual decay into a stinking, ulcerating…

For almost as long as America’s been a country, there have been stories of strange lights and objects zipping around the North American skies. This week, we’ve chosen some particularly intriguing tales from the New England states – Massachusetts,…

Theaters are places of intense emotion – the laughter of a hilarious comedy, the love of a romantic musical, the tears of an affecting tragedy. It’s no wonder that these magnets for, well, drama, tend to be some of the most haunted places in the…

Satanic Panic is having something of a renaissance these past few years, and that’s where we’re ending our four-part series today! 
Once again, whispers are flying around of a vast underground conspiracy of child abusing Satanists. But this time, it’s…

For part 3 in our tour of Satanic hysteria, it’s 1993 and the ritual abuse panic of the ’80s is coughing its last gasp in Arkansas!
Faced with the horrific murder of three young boys, West Memphis law enforcement, media and the community at large…