In this episode, we dive into the darker roots of Christmas folklore from around the world. Where winter isn’t just cozy, it’s crawling with creatures, warnings, and ancient traditions meant to keep people in line through the longest nights of the year. From Iceland’s terrifying Gryla and the towering Yule Cat to Wales’ eerie Mari Lwyd and the restless household spirits like the Tomte, we explore the legends that shaped midwinter celebrations long before modern Christmas.
Before Christmas was all lights and cheer, Victorians gathered by firelight to tell ghost stories. This episode dives into the legend of the Mistletoe Bride and the haunting of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, two of the most famous Victorian Christmas tales still whispered about today.
On Christmas Day 1929, the quiet tobacco fields of Germanton, North Carolina, became the backdrop for one of the most haunting family tragedies in American history. What began as a day of celebration ended in unthinkable violence when Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his children before taking his own life. Nearly a century later, the question of why still lingers like a cold winter fog over Stokes County. In this episode, we unravel the events leading up to that horrific morning, explore the rumors and theories that have surrounded the case for decades, and trace the echoes of a family portrait taken just days before the killings. This is the story of the Lawson Family Murders, a Christmas tragedy that refuses to be forgotten.
A missing nurse. A desperate search to find her. And a woman who claimed she could see what no one else could. In 1980, the disappearance of Melanie Uribe spiraled into one of the most baffling true-crime stories in Los Angeles history when aerospace worker Etta Louise Smith came forward with a startling vision, one that led police directly to Melanie’s body. But instead of gratitude, Etta found herself arrested and accused of murder. This episode dives into the mystery, the intuition, and the injustice behind the case that still leaves more questions than answers.
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In January 2002, 20-year-old Christopher Carlton Thompkins vanished in broad daylight while working a surveying job in rural Harris County, Georgia. One moment he was walking along a fence line with his crew, seconds later, he was gone. His tools were left behind, a boot was hanging from a barbed wire fence, and twelve cents lay scattered on the ground. Two decades later, there are still no answers. What happened to Christopher Thompkins?
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On Easter Sunday 2024, while Los Angeles celebrated the holiday, a team of thieves quietly pulled off one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. They cut through the roof of a high-security storage facility, bypassed alarms, and disappeared with more than $30 million dollars, without leaving a trace.
In this episode, we break down how the heist happened, who might have been behind it, and why, months later, investigators still have no solid suspects and no money recovered.
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The summit of Everest is called the top of the world, but in May 1996, it became a place of chaos and loss. As hurricane-force winds ripped across the mountain, climbers were stranded, oxygen was running out, and rescue was nearly impossible. This is the story of how ambition, heroism, and the unforgiving power of nature collided on the roof of the world. Listen as we dive into the 1996 Everest Disaster.
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On 284 Green Street in a quiet neighborhood just North of London, a strange phenomena happened in 1977. It started with knocking and furniture moving, then small childhood items like marbles and legos flew through the air on their own. The press caught wind of the strange happenings, and soon the story spread across Britain. That’s when paranormal investigators Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair arrived and over the next two years, they would capture some of the most famous evidence of a poltergeist ever recorded.
Listen as we break down the infamous Enfield Poltergeist.
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Wayne Nance had been hiding in plain sight for over a decade. Behind this average man was a trail of brutal, unsolved murders stretching across western Montana.
Until a September night, Nance broke into the home of Doug and Kris Wells binding, stabbing, and terrorizing them in what he believed would be his next kill. But this time, his victims fought back. And their survival would finally expose one of Montana’s most chilling serial killers.
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This week, we look beyond the campfire and into stories that have lived for thousands of years. We’re honoring Indigenous People’s Day by sharing four spirits that still walk between worlds The Wendigo, Deer Woman, The Stick Indians, and Coyote the Trickster. They’re not just myths. They’re lessons about greed, balance, and the price of forgetting who we are.
Political aspirations, royal dynasties, and even the wrestling ring. Some families seem destined for greatness, yet shadowed by an unshakable curse. This week, we explore three families whose legacies were built on power, ambition, and tragedy: the Shah Royal Family of Nepal, whose monarchy ended in blood; the Von Erichs, wrestling legends haunted by loss; and the Kennedys, America’s own dynasty plagued by untimely deaths and scandal. Were these simply coincidences, or something far darker woven into their names?
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After the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, whispers and sightings of a creature began to occur in the pacific northwest. It was described as over 7 feet tall, being a blueish color and having the face and wings of a bat. Is it a cryptid? Interdimensional being brought over after the eruption? Or something that we want to see? This week we are covering the creature known as batsquatch.
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In April 2016, fitness instructor Terri “Missy” Bevers arrived before dawn to set up for her Camp Gladiator class inside Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas. But before her students arrived, Missy was brutally attacked and murdered. Surveillance cameras showed a mysterious figure dressed in police-style tactical gear wandering the church halls before her death which has fueled speculation ever since. Despite thousands of tips and years of investigation, her killer has never been identified. Was it someone she knew? A random act of violence? Or a carefully planned attack caught on camera but never solved?
Join us as we dive into this tragic case.
She was once the biggest and fastest ocean liner of her time, being two times the size of the Titanic. During WWII she was called the "gray ghost" and helped win the war the effort, but then she was docked for good in Long Beach California in 1967 and stories began to emerge. Apparitions, disembodied voices and even figures seeming to enjoy the pool that had long been emptied. One of the most haunted locations in the world you can't help but wonder while walking the decks of The Queen Mary, is there something else also on board?
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On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing more than a hundred people in one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history. But the story didn’t end there. Soon after the crash, whispers began to spread among pilots, flight attendants, and passengers of sightings of the dead crew appearing on other Eastern flights. Most people believe the ghostly presences were tied to salvage parts from Flight 401’s wreckage.
Join Missy and Meg as they dive into the tragedy, the chilling folklore that followed, and the question that lingers half a century later: did Flight 401’s crew ever really leave the skies?
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Your home is supposed to be your safe space. It's where you kick your shoes off after a long day, pour a glass of wine and forget about the world. But what if you start feeling paranoid in your own home? Things are moving or just go missing all together, you hear footsteps or a door close but no one is there. You begin to become paranoid, is this something paranormal? Or are you just imagining things? For Campbell family it wasn't either of these things, it was a phenomena called phrogging, where a person lives in your home without you knowing it. And the man living in the Campbell house had very dark intentions. Listen as we dive into this unsettling story.
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In an area of Colorado by the great sand dunes. A horse named Lady hadn't come back to her ranch one evening after grazing all day. Lady was a creature of habit so the ranch owner, Harry King was worried. A few days later Lady aka Snippy was found dead and mutilated in a way that still cannot be explained. Some people say natural causes, others, explain what a happen citing more unearthly culprits. Join us as we ask, what happened to this poor animal.
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In 1968 in the Canary Islands, a fishing vessel called the El Fausto left a port bound for Tazacorte on La Palma. The ship would never make it's destination but what happened before it was lost forever is just as bewildering and confusing as it was some 50+ years ago. This week we cover the ship that was lost at sea 3 times and wonder, what the hell happened.
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Before the superhero craze of the last few decades and even before Christopher Reeves would don the iconic "S" suit. There was George Reeves, a man who had a complicated relationship with his identity as the man of steel. His name would be synonymous with the superhero, but how is life ended would also be infamous. Was his death by his own hand, an accident, or something more sinister? Today we are covering the OG Superman and his tragic and mysterious death.
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This podcast episode is brought to you by Pepsi (not really but wouldn’t that be cool!) In the 1960’s in an area outside of Rio. Two men ascended a hill, they wore matching raincoats, had notebook with cryptic instructions, eye protection made out of lead, and capsules filled with an unknown substance. A few days later they would be found dead on that very same hill. Why did Miguel and Manoel go up that hill? This week we dive into this story to investigate.
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