260: Haunted Objects and Manifestations Too Terrifying to Ignore
Haunting faces in floors, the Devil's footprints in snow, a cursed diamond torturing its owners, and a screaming skull longing for a proper burial... these are some of the most bizarre physical manifestations of the paranormal in the world. Are they hoaxes? Or are they unexplained mysteries and possibly proof of the paranormal?
59m Aug 25, 2025
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259: The Walmart Witch That Convinced Her Coven To Kill
Everyone's worst nightmare. Masked intruders break into a family home in the middle of the night and begin stabbing the occupants randomly. Two people end up dead, one critically injured, and another stabbed in the leg— but why? The intruders did not know the victims personally. As the story unfolds, police follow the only lead they have: an occult hex. Could witchcraft have caused the bloodbath?
49m Aug 18, 2025
49m
258: Drug Trips, Satanic Worship & A Brutal Murder That Shocked Long Island
The Acid King, Ricky Kasso, was an affluent kid from a troubled home. Kicked out of the house by an abusive father at 13, he found himself on the streets with other wayward teenagers of Northport, New York. Heavy drugs kept him there, an obsession with Satan manifested, and the murder he would later commit would become one of the most sensationalized Satanic Panic crimes in US history.
1hr 52m Aug 11, 2025
1hr 52m
257: 3,000 Paranormal Encounters in a Single Hotel… The Scariest Haunted Hotels in the UK
The vast and rich history of the UK has made many of its oldest buildings vulnerable to paranormal activity. Many of these centuries-old buildings happen to be hotels, where countless souls have passed through. Each with its own tragic tale leaves a spectral imprint. While most entities are harmless and playful, some have a tendency to lash out and petrify anyone who crosses their path.
1hr 6m Aug 04, 2025
1hr 6m
256: Vacation Disasters That Will Make You Never Leave Home
This week, we're covering some of the craziest vacation disasters around the world. Active volcanoes, the world's largest indoor rollercoaster, lethal coconuts, deadly shark attacks, and falling off cruise ships can all ruin the perfect vacation. While many vacationers don't make it, some survivors are lucky enough to tell the tale.
1hr 29m Jul 28, 2025
1hr 29m
255: The Quiet "Family Man” Who Hunted Women For Sport
This week we join National Parks After Dark to cover Alaska's most notorious serial killer, Robert Hansen.
2hr 47m Jul 21, 2025
2hr 47m
254: Serbia’s Human Slaughterhouse… Government Corruption and Gruesome Murder
Thousands of criminals were able to plan, document, and share violent crimes, including murder, using encrypted phones from the startup Sky Global. Authorities were able to crack the company’s encryption which opened the Pandora’s Box of “hallucinatory” crimes worldwide. One string of messages revealed a Serbian Slaughterhouse, an unsuspecting home in the Balkans where victims were being fed in...
1hr 12m Jul 14, 2025
1hr 12m
253: Incestuous Millionaire Mormon Cult Leader Fathered 300 Children
A dive into Utah's most secretive, polygamist cult. The Kingston Clan has been accused of incest, generations of inbreeding, blood tests, child abuse, sexual abuse, labor exploitation, fraud, and tax evasion. Recent controversies have brought this cult under the spotlight, although they've had run-ins with the law for almost a century. Prosecutors have labeled the Kingston Clan one of the large...
1hr 37m Jul 07, 2025
1hr 37m
252: Deranged Daughter Lived With Her Parents’ Corpses for 4 Years
"Intelligent manipulator" and “next-level psychopath,” Virginia McCullough, murdered her parents and lived with their corpses for over 4 years. While their bodies decayed inside the family home, she collected their pensions and used their money to buy gifts and gamble online. To maintain the lie that her parents were still alive, she weaved intricate narratives to explain why they weren't ever ...
1hr 16m Jun 27, 2025
1hr 16m
251: Sinister "Queen of Canada" Threatens Her Own Cult Followers with Public Executions
The self-declared "Queen of Canada," born from an alien race, Romana Didulo, has been called many things— including "a glorified content creator" and a "Q-Anon cult leader." Through her pseudo-law decrees, she has attempted to violently overthrow various governments and laws with nothing to show for it. In recent years, she used threats of executions and scare tactics to take over a small town ...
1hr 47m Jun 20, 2025
1hr 47m
250: This Beauty Influencer Murdered Her Doppelgänger to Perform A Black Magic Ritual
A self-obsessed, wannabe influencer stalked the social media profiles of nearly 20 women. Her reason? They looked almost exactly like her. Her goal? To brutally murder a doppelganger to fake her own death and frame her ex-husband. The motive isn't entirely clear, but some suspect it had something to do with her failed marriage, a violent past, and possibly a black magic spell.
1hr 6m Jun 13, 2025
1hr 6m
249: How A Deranged Serial Killer Almost Got Away With It: The Ghosts of Highway 20
A mysterious string of disappearances, sexual assaults, and murders haunted several small communities along an isolated stretch of highway in Oregon in the late 1970s. Women and girls, who were often marginalized and vulnerable, vanished over 15 years. With a new generation of investigators, clear connections tied each case together, which revealed one suspicious highway mechanic as the violent...
1hr 22m Jun 06, 2025
1hr 22m
248: The Terrifying Witch Farm Haunting... Dark Secrets Remain In Heol Fanog
A dark history of murder, cultists, apparitions, demonic possessions, environmental disturbances, and curses— Heol Fanog has it all. The happenings at this remote, Welsh farmhouse tormented a young family that resided there for seven years in the 80s and 90s. Desperate for answers, a young mother took a deeper look at the property's history and uncovered a slew of tragic events, secret societie...
48m May 30, 2025
48m
247: Death by Alien Abduction… The Unsolved Case of Zigmund Adamski
Zigmund Adamski was found dead in broad daylight on a 10-foot coal pile in a locked coal yard more than 20 miles from his home. This would soon become the UK’s biggest mystery in 1980. His clothing was in disarray, he had been given a botched haircut, and suspicious burn marks covered his neck and shoulders. His facial expression was locked into a permanent state of terror. Someone— or somethin...
1hr 18m May 23, 2025
1hr 18m
246: Smiley Faces & A Slew of Highway Murders… The Happy Face Killer
The violent, misogynistic giant, Keith Jesperson, signed his confession letters with a single smiley face to brand his brutal serial killings and taunt law enforcement agencies. He stood at 6' 6" and weighed 250 lbs— eager to use his size to overpower and control his victims. For 5 years, he murdered at least 8 women, possibly more. With each killing, he grew more confident, but his arrogance u...
1hr 46m May 16, 2025
1hr 46m
245: When Your Video Game Addiction Becomes Deadly... The World's Worst Gamers
How can seemingly harmless games become lethal? From horrific child neglect to children murdering their own parents, have videogames become a scapegoat for these horrific crimes, or is there some truth in their danger? In this episode, we dive into the most disturbing cases involving videogames and try to understand if gaming disorders lead to death or if they're just another form of moral panic.
2hr 3m May 09, 2025
2hr 3m
244: Psycho Snake-Handling Preacher Serves 99-Year Sentence
"Psycho Preacher" is what Darlene Summerford called her ex-husband, Glenn, an Appalachian Pentecostal pastor who tried to murder Darlene with a poisonous serpent used in religious ceremonies. Officers who worked the case said they had never seen anything like it— a 5-foot-long rattlesnake used as a deadly weapon. But the circumstances of the crime quickly became a "he-said, she-said" argument. ...
1hr 32m May 02, 2025
1hr 32m
243: This Fashion Mogul Is Canada’s Worst Serial Predator of All Time
Canada’s Fashion King Became the Worst Sexual Predator of All Time How a Fashion Mogul Became Canada’s Most Dangerous Predator From Fashion Extraordinaire to Worst Sexual Predator In Canadian History This Fashion Mogul Built an Island House of Horrors in the Bahamas
1hr 54m Apr 25, 2025
1hr 54m
242: A Real-Life Vampire, Killing Bigfoot & An Alien Autopsy: Infamous Paranormal Hoaxes
Alien autopsies, Bigfoot shot dead, accidental time travelers, real vampires, and alien weapon-testing on livestock are some of the weirdest and downright stupidest hoaxes in history. But they gained so much traction in their time. Is it because people are too gullible or because there's a nugget of truth in each hoax?
1hr 57m Apr 18, 2025
1hr 57m
241: From Loving Grandma to Cold-Blooded Killer... The Shocking Lois Riess Case
Lois and Dave Riess were the generous, fun-loving couple of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. They raised three children together and led a storybook American life. But behind closed doors, their story was much different than the one portrayed. Theft and gambling addiction tore the couple apart to the point where Lois murdered her husband in cold blood. This marked the beginning of an odd killing sp...
2hr 1m Apr 11, 2025
2hr 1m
240: This "Witch-Killing" Couple Is Trying To Get Out of Prison
Self-declared "vegetarian Moslem warriors," Michael and Suzan Bear, enacted a "holy war" against witches in the early 1980s and murdered at least 3 people in cold blood. Their targets ranged from their own family and friends to complete strangers, including then-President Ronald Reagan. Although they show no remorse for their crimes, they are consistently eligible for parole due to a reformed C...
1hr 26m Apr 04, 2025
1hr 26m
239: When Taking Ayahuasca Ends In Murder…
Ayahuasca’s reputation ranges from a life-changing miracle medicine to a disorienting concoction that can fundamentally change people for the worse. At times, it’s peddled by pseudo-shamans looking to harm vulnerable tourists. In others, it’s caused participants to become uncharacteristically violent. What was once simply a healing medicine for the indigenous people of the Amazon has boomed int...
1hr 56m Mar 28, 2025
1hr 56m
238: The Most Terrifying Paranormal Entity Hiding In Your Bedroom Right Now
For every misbehaving child there is a terrifying creature looking to feed on their bones. Fed-up parents across the world have spread the horrifying legend of El Coco, the Boogeyman from the Iberian Peninsula. This beastly creature lurks in disobedient children's bedrooms, waiting to strike. And at every wit's end, this threat of brutal annihilation might be the only way for parents to finally...
1hr 11m Mar 21, 2025
1hr 11m
237: Over 10,000 Human Remains Found On This Serial Killer's Farm...
One of the most prominent serial killers no one has ever heard of — Herb Baumeister and the horrors at Fox Hollow Farm. In 1996, at least 25 human remains were uncovered at Herb's property in Indiana, with only a few being successfully identified. Since many of the victims were gay men, the local police, who historically harassed the local gay community, set a low priority for the case. Many fa...
1hr 54m Mar 07, 2025
1hr 54m
236: Real Medical Paranormal Stories That Will Give You Chills
Why do so many patients on their deathbeds across the world experience similar paranormal visions that can't be fully explained? Skeptics claim these experiences are only hallucinations, but others insist they’re lucid experiences that can't be explained by the living. Deathbed observers have also noticed the common mist and light phenomenon moments before someone dies. A silver cord disconnect...
1hr 37m Feb 28, 2025
1hr 37m
235: The Most Shocking Sleepwalking Murders
Sleepwalking has been misunderstood for thousands of years— and still is. Things like sleep talking, eating, driving, and cooking have taken many by surprise, but some sleepwalking instances are so bizarre that they end in murder. So what exactly does it take for a non-violent sleepwalker to uncharacteristically murder their loved ones? And how does a legal defense even begin to convince a jury...
1hr 56m Feb 21, 2025
1hr 56m
234: The Murders That Canceled Valentine’s Day
Nursing student Patricia Mann and athlete Jesse McBane were high school sweethearts last seen alive at a Valentine's Day dance in 1971. A surveyor later found their bodies tied to a tree, where they were brutally suffocated for hours. Their murders have never been solved. In recent years, their case was reopened, and a wealth of new information focused the spotlight on 3 suspects with disturbin...
1hr 35m Feb 14, 2025
1hr 35m
233: The Terrifying Mr. Cruel That Abducted Young Girls From Their Homes & Got Away With It
Mr. Cruel— a mysterious monster only seen wearing a dark balaclava and wielding a knife. The most notorious Australian serial child rapist and murderer snuck into homes and attacked 4 girls across the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His crimes escalated in 1991 after the abduction and murder of a fourth girl, Karmein (KAR-meen) Chan, who lived in a "suburban ...
1hr 39m Feb 07, 2025
1hr 39m
232: Wild Celebrity Sexual Encounters with Ghosts: The Bizarre World of Spectrophilia
Is it a sleep paralysis demon, a hallucination, an Incubus, a quirk in human anatomy, or a supernatural entity from the past trying to pleasure the living? In this episode, we dive into an odd, intimate corner of the paranormal— Spectrophilia— and those who claim they’ve experienced sex with beings beyond our world. We might even try it ourselves…
1hr 36m Jan 31, 2025
1hr 36m
231: A Deadly Cult Led By A 1,000 Yr Old “Angel” In Kansas Needed To Be Stopped
Beginning in the 1990s, Daniel Perez (aka Lou Castro) built up a nomadic cult with limitless wealth, eventually settling just outside Wichita, Kansas in the 2000s. He captivated the most vulnerable of his followers through a bogus ideology of securing life after death and a broad claim that he had an immaculate link with divine angels who gave him the ability to foresee his followers’ deaths. O...
1hr 38m Jan 24, 2025
1hr 38m
230: From Celebrity TV Host To Britain's Most Prolific Serial Predator... The Horrors of Jimmy Savile
Jimmy Savile's famous eccentricities, radiant television personality, and generous charitable work pulled the wool over Britain's eyes for decades. While he was beloved by millions, he was sexually abusing children by the hundreds— possibly thousands— from the 1950s until his death in 2011. And while he would die as a legend in the eyes of many, his legacy has since been rewritten. Now he's kno...
2hr 1m Jan 17, 2025
2hr 1m
229: Dozens of Women Have Been Murdered Along This Infamous Highway & Their Cases Are Not Being Solved
Beginning in the 1970s, women who were disproportionately Indigenous women have gone missing along a stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. This stretch became known as the Highway of Tears. As the years passed, and many cases remained unsolved, rampant RCMP negligence came to light. A discussion on violence against Indigenous women and generational trauma redirected the public's at...
1hr 20m Jan 10, 2025
1hr 20m
228: Bodies Under the Terrace... The Shocking Crimes of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès
A French aristocratic family of 6 is found dead beneath the back porch, except for one-- the patriarch. All evidence points to the father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, as the one and only suspect, but his sister claims his innocence. She buys the theory that the bodies were not those of the de Ligonnes family and that Xavier was a puzzle piece in a high-profile DEA investigation. When the investi...
2hr 15m Dec 20, 2024
2hr 15m
227: Police Claimed She Was Sacrificed In A Witch Rite... Who Really Murdered Jeanette DePalma?
In the 1970s, Jeannette DePalma's body was found atop a 40-foot bluff called the Devil's Teeth in the wooded outskirts of Springfield Township, New Jersey. One officer who discovered her remains claimed that inverted crosses surrounded her, and tree branches formed the shape of a coffin around her body. Amid the Satanic Panic, local news outlets proposed that a ritualistic, sacrificial murder h...
1hr 43m Dec 13, 2024
1hr 43m
226: Real Life Horror Stories That Will Make You Face Your Fears
In this episode, we cover some of the scariest ways to die under incredibly dangerous circumstances as well as the most unsuspecting encounters: An adventurous hike ruined by a spontaneous stormcloud. Another typical day on the job in a bakery. From panicking while underwater cave diving to retrieving a vegetable from a root cellar— you never truly know what’s out to kill you.
1hr 30m Dec 06, 2024
1hr 30m
225: Condemned to Die... Last Meals Under Sentence of Death
Heavy on the dairy, a weird fascination with KFC, smuggled booze, troll requests, and a cold Coca-Cola with every meal-- these last meal requests come in all different shapes and sizes. Some might even offer a glimpse into the dead man walking.
1hr 16m Nov 29, 2024
1hr 16m
224: The Texas Killing Fields... A History of Horror & Unsolved Cases
Along a peculiar stretch of Interstate-45, between Houston and Galveston, more than 30 bodies have been discovered since the 1970s. Countless others, most of them young girls and young women, have vanished— never to be seen again. Considering the harsh climate conditions and police departments' disregard for the seriousness of these murders, many of these cases have gone unsolved. And many are ...
2hr 20m Nov 22, 2024
2hr 20m
223: The Funniest Alien Abduction Story You've Ever Heard: Who the Hell Is Stan Romanek Feat. Dan Cummins
Comedian and fellow podcaster Dan Cummins joins us on a special episode where we dive into the bizarre and outlandish claims of an alien abductee, Colorado local, and convicted sex offender: Stan Romanek. Beginning in 2000, Stan witnessed his first UFO near the famous Red Rocks Amphitheater. Over the next 12 years, he would experience a grand total of 195 alien/UFO encounters and claim he has b...
2hr 34m Nov 15, 2024
2hr 34m
222: These Two Murder Obsessed Teens Made Their Friend A Part of Their Sick Horror Movie
Inspired by the movie Scream, two 16-year-old Pocatello High School students began a documentary about killing their classmates. Brian and Torey were obsessed with horror movies, serial killers, and death. By their Junior year, they were ready to make their fantasy a reality by targeting their friend Cassie, a straight-A student, artist, and athlete. Moments before murdering her, they dressed i...
1hr 40m Nov 08, 2024
1hr 40m
221: The Terrifying True Stories Behind Zak Bagan's Haunted Museum Collection
The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, is known for having the most heinous collection of cursed objects and Murderabilia in the US. From serial killers' cremated ashes and bones to the cursed objects that once contained their victims' remains, Zak Bagans's curated list of disturbing items has terrorized the museum's visitors for years. Many claim the building's foul energy has attracted haun...
1hr 17m Oct 31, 2024
1hr 17m
220: Warren Files: The Ouija Board Hospitalized A Demonically Possessed Teenager?!
The Collins Family household was once your typical, suburban New Hampshire household. That is until 17-year-old Stacy Collins brought home an old Ouija board from a small antique store. At first, the board was harmless, but soon the house was plagued by hellish claws carving through the drywall, obscene carnal noises echoing from Stacy's room, and a supernatural entity replacing Stacy's body en...
1hr 34m Oct 25, 2024
1hr 34m
219: A Paranormal Haunting So Violent It Nearly Killed Someone
Over three dreaded years, a pair of violent ghosts stalked Jackie Hernandez amid a failing marriage and her second pregnancy. Inside her home, several eyewitnesses corroborated some of the scariest paranormal events ever witnessed— along with a shocking photograph of an attack on a paranormal researcher that has gone down in paranormal history. Ever since, the San Pedro Haunting has become a qu...
1hr 40m Oct 18, 2024
1hr 40m
218: The Double-Murder That Canceled Halloween
If the occult parricide of the Brooks family didn't instill enough fear in the Bellaire community to cancel Halloween in 1995, then the fallout of the Satanic Panic made the final push. As the rise of teen occultism and violent satanism terrorized the hivemind of every suburban family across the country, Nathan Brooks embodied that terror and made a plan to not only shoot, stab, brain, decapita...
1hr 30m Oct 11, 2024
1hr 30m
217: Behind the Screams: The Making of Colorado's Scariest Haunted House
We sit down with two local legends to discuss what makes one of Colorado's oldest haunted attractions terrifying to the masses, and how to keep things fresh in an ever-changing horror market.
1hr 49m Oct 04, 2024
1hr 49m
216: Spill Your Blood To Enter Satan's Craziest YouTube Cult
One of the most obscure internet cults in existence deals with blood rituals and Satan incarnate, who turned out to be a Florida plumber named Mark Braun. The rabbit hole of the Blood Over Intent ritual is bottomless with connections to the strangest corners of internet communities, including flat-earther conspiracies, a secret passage to paradise, the elevating rituals of drinking menstrual bl...
1hr 29m Sep 27, 2024
1hr 29m
215: No One Knows Why This "Gentle Giant" Killed His Family
Known as the "gentle giant," a humble and hard-working man, and one of the greatest icons in wrestling history, Chris Benoit would later shake the pro wrestling industry to its core. After murdering his wife and child and then taking his own life, his legacy became the face of "roid rage," substance abuse, and CTE, leaving many to question what exactly was happening off-screen.
2hr 28m Sep 20, 2024
2hr 28m
214: True Bone-Chilling Prison Paranormal Stories That Defy Explanation
Built with intentions of reformation, confession, and a reconnection with the Almighty, US Prisons built in the 1800s promoted themselves as places of change and hope. Quickly, these prisons transformed into overcrowded nightmares where state-sanctioned torture was all too common. They formed dark histories much closer to Hell than Heaven, against what their origins promoted, and now these pris...
1hr 22m Sep 13, 2024
1hr 22m
213: Beloved Nun Murdered By Priest in Ritual Killing But Did He Do It?
The Catholic Church was quick to intervene in the murder of one of their own— Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. The suspect, also one of their own, Father Gerald Robinson, was a beloved man of the cloth. When his personal letter opener matched the wounds of Sister Margaret, the local Monsignor discreetly shut the investigation down. Two decades later, an anonymous letter detailing years of horrific abu...
2hr 6m Sep 06, 2024
2hr 6m
212: Psychic Medium Reads Us & Deep Dives All Things Paranormal
In this episode we speak with Psychic Lauryn, a medium who believes that everyone can tap into their psychic abilities. We talk about where that energy comes from, who we're contacting, and the bigger picture of the great beyond.
2hr 16m Aug 30, 2024
2hr 16m
211: The Real Life Boogeyman That Made the Terrifying 'Cropsey' Legend Reality
What began as a cautionary tale for fire safety at summer camp evolved into a horror story of children being abducted and brutally murdered in an act of psychotic revenge. As children across the Staten Island area began vanishing without a trace in the 70s and 80s, many New Yorkers worried that the old folktale of murderous Cropsey wasn't just a story; their cautionary boogeyman might've been a...
1hr 22m Aug 23, 2024
1hr 22m