Episode 693: Caryl Chessman: The Red Light Bandit
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early 1948, Los Angeles couples were terrorized by a series of robberies and car thefts committed...
Episode 692: The Murder of Stephanie Scott
24 Jul 2025
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One week before her wedding, on the Easter Morning in 2015 Stephanie Scott decided to stop by h...
Episode 691: The Bombing of United Air Flight 629
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 1, 1955, United Airlines flight 629 from Denver, Colorado to Seattle, Washington took of...
Episode 690: Paris catacombs, haunted accordions and more with Josh Homme
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a chat with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme! We talk paranormal experiences,...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The wo...
Episode 689: The Crescent Hotel
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready to check in with us to the Crescent Hotel! Ash brings us to Eureka Springs, Arkansas where...
Episode 688: The Last Call Killer (Part 2)
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Between 1991 and 1993, the dismembered bodies of five gay and bisexual men were discovered in garbag...
Episode 687: The Last Call Killer (Part 1)
Mon, 07 Jul
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Between 1991 and 1993, the dismembered bodies of five gay and bisexual men were discovered in garbag...
Episode 686: Glen Helzer and the Children of Thunder (Part 2)
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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When Ivan and Annette Stineman disappeared from their home in Concord, California in the summer of 2...
Episode 685: Glen Helzer and the Children of Thunder (Part 1)
Mon, 30 Jun
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When Ivan and Annette Stineman disappeared from their home in Concord, California in the summer of 2...
Episode 684: Listener Tales 99: Campfire Tale Edition!
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! It's summertime, and it's time for you to pack a backpack, grab your sleeping bag, and join...
Episode 683: The Murder of David Harris (Part 2)
Mon, 23 Jun
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Part 2 of 2: On the afternoon of July 24, 2002, Clara Harris learned that her husband, David Harris,...
Episode 682: The Murder of David Harris (Part 1)
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Part 1 of 2: On the afternoon of July 24, 2002, Clara Harris learned that her husband, David Harris,...
Episode 681: Elmer McCurdy: The Outlaw Mummy
Mon, 16 Jun
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In early December 1976, a film crew was shooting an episode of a popular television show at The Pike...
Episode 680: Frederic Bourdin and the Disappearance of Nicholas Barclay
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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On the afternoon of June 19, 1994, thirteen-year-old Nicholas Barclay left his home in San Antonio, ...
Episode 679: The Mad Bomber of New York (Part 2)
Mon, 09 Jun
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In the fall of 1940, an employ of the Consolidated Edison Company in Manhattan discovered a bomb in ...
Episode 678: The Mad Bomber of New York (Part 1)
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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In the fall of 1940, an employ of the Consolidated Edison Company in Manhattan discovered a bomb in ...
Episode 677: The Murder of Anthony LoConte
Mon, 02 Jun
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On the evening of May 10, 1988, a passing driver on Howard Street in Brockton, MA, stopped to invest...
Episode 676: Listener Tales 98: Witches!
Thu, 29 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! It's Listener Tales- brought TO you, BY you, FOR you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you!&...
Episode 675: The Life and Death of “Lobster Boy”, Grady Stiles Jr.
Mon, 26 May
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From the moment he was born, Grady Stiles entertained audiences around the United States as the side...
Episode 674: The Norco Shootout
Thu, 22 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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On the afternoon of May 9, 1980, four heavily armed men walked into the Security Pacific Bank in Nor...
Episode 673: Spooky Asylums and Cemeteries with Nicholas
Mon, 19 May
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As promised, we TRIED to get an episode on Creepy Butts, but the research proved TOO extensive! Inst...
Episode 672: The Death of Ken McElroy, The Town Bully
Thu, 15 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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On July 10,1981, forty-seven-year-old Ken McElroy was sitting in his truck in Skidmore, Missouri wit...
Episode 671: The Murder of Carol Stuart
Mon, 12 May
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On the night of October 23, 1989, Charles and Carol Stuart were returning home from a childbirth cla...
Episode 670: The Crimes of Robert Durst (Part 2)
Thu, 08 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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In October 2001, the dismembered remains of seventy-one-year-old Morris Black were found floating in...
Episode 669: The Crimes of Robert Durst (Part 1)
Mon, 05 May
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In October 2001, the dismembered remains of seventy-one-year-old Morris Black were found floating in...
Episode 668: The Zodiac Killer (Part 2)
Thu, 01 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Despite the passage of fifty years since his last activity, the case of the Zodiac Killer continues ...
Episode 667: The Zodiac Killer (Part 1)
Mon, 28 Apr
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Despite the passage of fifty years since his last activity, the case of the Zodiac Killer cont...
Episode 666: Episode 666 - Listener Tales of the Beast
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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This episode is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ members and will be released on all platfor...
Episode 665: Robert Chambers: The Preppy Killer
Mon, 21 Apr
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On the morning of August 26, 1986, a cyclist in New York’s Central Park discovered the body eighte...
Episode 664: David Carpenter: The Trailside Killer (Part 2)
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Throughout the 1960s and 70s, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Californians were terrorized by mul...
Episode 663: David Carpenter: The Trailside Killer (Part 1)
Mon, 14 Apr
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Throughout the 1960s and 70s, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Californians were terrorized by mul...
Episode 662: The Exorcism of Roland Doe
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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In the winter of 1973, director William Friedkin released his iconic horror classic The Exorcist, a ...
Episode 661: Herbert Mullin: The Killer Hippie (Part 2)
Mon, 07 Apr
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Throughout the early 1970s, California’s Bay Area was in the grip of terror as multiple serial kil...
Episode 660: Herbert Mullin: The Killer Hippie (Part 1)
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Throughout the early 1970s, California’s Bay Area was in the grip of terror as multiple serial kil...
Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI
Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless ...
Episode 659: The Unsolved Murder of Kristin O’Connell
Mon, 31 Mar
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On the night of August 14, 1985, twenty-year-old Kristin O’Connell left a party in Ovid, NY to go ...
Episode 658: Listener Tales 96: Buhtz
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! Today we just wanted to be ourselves- and enjoy some Listener tales that are brought TO you...
Episode 657: Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919
Mon, 24 Mar
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January 15, 1919 was an unusually warm day in Boston, a welcome change from the typically cold tempe...
Episode 656: The Attempted Murder of Alison Botha
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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On December 18, 1994, twenty-seven-year-old Alison Botha was abducted from the parking lot of her ap...
Episode 655: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Mon, 17 Mar
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A little past midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, a US Navy cruiser, had just delivered...
Episode 653: Spooky Lakes (Volume 2)
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:01:00 -0000
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Spooky Lakes time, everyone! Alaina brings us to Big Moose lake in New York State and shares the tra...
Episode 652: Jean Harris and the Murder of Herman Tarnower (Part 2)
Mon, 10 Mar
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When Jean Harris met Herman Tarnower in the winter of 1966, she quickly fell in love the charming do...
Episode 654: Diving into SKELETA with Tobias Forge of GHOST
Fri, 07 Mar
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Join us for a special bonus episode with Tobias Forge, the man behind the mythos that is The Band Gh...
Episode 651: Jean Harris and the Murder of Herman Tarnower (Part 1)
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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When Jean Harris met Herman Tarnower in the winter of 1966, she quickly fell in love the charming do...
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon
Mon, 03 Mar
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Weirdos! Today we've got a special guest -Andrew McMahon of 'Something Corporate', 'Jack's Mannequin...
Episode 649: Listener Tales 95: Sleepover Edition
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! Grab your sleepingbag, bags of snacks, and facemasks, and get ready for a slumber party! Th...
Listen Now: Scam Factory
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could b...
Episode 648: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 2)
Mon, 24 Feb
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On the morning of January 15, 1947, a woman walking with her young daughter spotted something pale a...
Episode 647: A Deeper Dive into the Murder of Elizabeth Short (Part 1)
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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On the morning of January 15, 1947, a woman walking with her young daughter spotted something pale a...
Episode 646: The Unsolved Murder of Jeannette DePalma
Mon, 17 Feb
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On the afternoon of August 7, 1972, sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma left her house in Springfield...
Episode 645: The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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Two decades before the Lindbergh baby became America’s most famous missing child, four-year-old Bo...
Episode 644: A Sit Down With Chapman & Maclain Way, Directors of "The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga"
Mon, 10 Feb
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Today we are joined by Emmy award winning film directors, Chapman & Maclain Way to discuss the w...
Episode 643: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer (Part 3)
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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After his arrest, investigators would learn that, by the time he appeared on the game show, he was a...
Episode 642: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer (Part 2)
Mon, 03 Feb
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At the time of his appearance on The Dating Game in 1978, Alcala was a convicted sexual predator who...
Episode 641: Listener Tales 94
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! We're giving you a fresh batch of listener tales brought TO you, BY you, FOR you, FROM you,...
Episode 640: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer (Part 1)
Mon, 27 Jan
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When Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on the popular game show The Dating Game in 1978, she was charmed by b...
Episode 639: The Unsolved Murder of Melissa Witt
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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On December 1, 1994, nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt planned to meet her mother at a Fort Smith, Arka...
Episode 638: The Crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Mon, 20 Jan
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On October 13, 1972, a chartered aircraft carrying forty-five passengers, including 19 members of th...
Episode 637: The Bobbed Haired Bandit
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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In the winter of 1924, the boroughs of New York City were plagued by a series of robberies ostensibl...
Episode 636: Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper (Part 2)
Mon, 13 Jan
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In February 1942, Gordon Cummins, a twenty-eight-year-old Royal Air Force Serviceman, murdered four ...
Episode 635: Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper (Part 1)
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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In response to the onset of German bombing raids during World War II, many of England’s most vulne...
Episode 634: Michael and Suzan Carson: San Francisco Witch Killers
Mon, 06 Jan
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On January 12, 1983, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department received a call from a frantic driver ...
Episode 633: Listener Tales 93
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:01:00 -0000
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Happy New Year, weirdos, and we're celebrating the holidays with Holiday tales brought TO you, BY yo...
Episode 632: The Suspected Crimes of Guy Muldavin
Mon, 30 Dec
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When a girl walking on a Provincetown, Massachusetts beach discovered the decomposing body of a youn...
Episode 631: Case Revisit: The Lady of the Dunes
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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This episode was that was originally published as Episode 240. We are revisiting it as a refresher ...
Episode 630: Fan Favorite: The Unbelievable Survival Tale of Juliane Koepcke
Mon, 23 Dec
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This episode is a fan favorite that was originally published as Episode 476. We hope that you have a...
Episode 628: The Murder of Nancy Evans Titterton
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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On the morning of April 10, 1936, Nancy Evans Titterton, novelist and wife of NBC Radio executive Le...
Episode 627: The Murder of Carol Thompson
Mon, 16 Dec
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When thirty-four-year-old St. Paul housewife Carol Thompson was murdered in the spring of 1963, her ...
Episode 629: “Weirdos’ Audiobook Club” presented by Audible – Blue Beard with Special Guest, Spencer Henry From Cult Liter
Fri, 13 Dec
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Weirdos!! It’s our third SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE brought to YOU by our friends at Audible!Today we’...
Episode 626: James P. Watson: The Bluebeard Killer
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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When Kathryn Wombacher suspected her husband, Walter Andrew, of having an affair in the spring of 19...
Episode 625: Albert Johnson: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
Mon, 09 Dec
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In late 1931, several Native trappers in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, reported to the Royal Canad...
Episode 624: The Murder of Cheryl Perveler
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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When police were called to the scene of shooting at the Castillion Apartments in Los Angeles on Apri...
Episode 623: Fan Favorite: The Violent Deaths of Bog Bodies
Mon, 02 Dec
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This episode is a Fan Favorite that was originally published as Episode 401. We hope that you contin...
Episode 622: Listener Tales 92
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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Happy Thanksgiving! Pull up a chair and get ready for a brand new batch of tales brought TO you, BY ...
Episode 621: Fan Favorite: Bobby Mackey's Music World
Mon, 25 Nov
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This episode is a fan favorite that was originally published as Episode 476. We hope that you have a...
Episode 620: The Suspicious Kidnapping of Sherri Papini
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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On November 2, 2016, thirty-four-year-old so-called “Supermom” Sherri Papini went out for a run ...
Episode 619: Peter Bryan
Mon, 18 Nov
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On April 25, 2004, Broadmoor Hospital inmate Peter Bryan attacked a killed fellow inmate Richard Lou...
Episode 618: Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer (Part 2)
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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At first glance, there wasn’t much to the mild and unassuming Jerry Brudos; however, when investig...
Episode 617: Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer (Part 1)
Mon, 11 Nov
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Over the course of 1968 and well into 1969, several young women in Salem, Oregon went missing and wo...
Episode 616: Spooky Games That Will Ruin Your Actual Life Vol.3 With Special Guest Bridget Marquardt from 'Ghost Bunny'
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:01:00 -0000
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Just because October is over doesn't mean that Spooky Season needs to end!! Today, our friend Bridge...
Episode 615: Vampire Talk with Doug Jones
Mon, 04 Nov
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Weirdos! Are you ready to talk about Vampires? Today we are joined by the ICONIC actor Doug Jones, t...
Episode 614: Listener Tales 91: HALLOWEEN Edition!
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! It's *ACTUALLY* Halloween!!! Join us for a fresh batch of tales brought TO you, BY you, For...
Episode 613: Latoya Ammons and the Demon house
Mon, 28 Oct
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In January 2014, a strange article appeared in the Indianapolis Star about Latoya Ammons, an Indiana...
Episode 612: The House of Flying Objects: The Popper Poltergeist
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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On the afternoon of February 9, 1958, a complaint was called into Long Island’s seventh police pre...
Episode 611: Preston Murr and the Boise Murder Mansion
Mon, 21 Oct
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In the early hours of June 30, 1987, Boise resident Clinton Sparks was awoken by someone pounding fr...
Episode 610: The Amityville Horror Conspiracy
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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On December 18, 1975, George and Kathy Lutz moved their family into their new house on Ocean Avenue ...
Episode 609: The DeFeo Family Murder
Mon, 14 Oct
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On the evening of November 13, 1974, twenty-three-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. burst through the door o...
Episode 608: The Snedeker Haunting: A Haunting in Connecticut
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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When Al and Carmen Snedeker found out that their son Phillip was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma...
Episode 607: Creepy Cemeteries: Volume 1
Mon, 07 Oct
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We continue to celebrate Spooky Season by touching on a few cemeteries that will make your spine tin...
Episode 606: The Oliver House Murders & Haunted Hotels
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! Rejoice! Spooky Season continues as we check into a few hotels where you will get more than...
Episode 605: The Stars Over Salem with Special Guest Aliza Kelly
Mon, 30 Sep
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We're getting into Spooky Season proper now, and to celebrate, we hung out with our friend Aliza fro...
Episode 604: Listener Tales 90
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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Weirdos! Today's episode is brought TO you, BY you, For you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you! It's ...
Episode 603: The Mysterious Death of Tiffany Valiante
Mon, 23 Sep
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When eighteen-year-old recent high school graduate Tiffany Valiante was struck and killed by a train...
Episode 602: The Strange Death of Cindy James (Part 2)
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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After opening an investigation into Cindy’s death, investigators learned that, for nearly a decade...
Episode 601: The Strange Death of Cindy James
Mon, 16 Sep
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On June 8, 1989, a municipal worker discovered the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James in the ba...
Episode 600: Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murderess
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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On October 20, 1931, baggage agents in Los Angeles received a tip that two trunks on the incoming So...
Episode 599: The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle (Part 2)
Mon, 09 Sep
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In the early morning hours of December 17, 1968, two gunmen burst into the Atlanta motel room of Bar...
Episode 597: The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:01:00 -0000
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In the early morning hours of December 17, 1968, two gunmen burst into the Atlanta motel room of Bar...
Episode 596: Spooky Lighthouses: Volume 4
Mon, 02 Sep
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Weirdos! Everyone Rejoice!! September is upon us! Let's welcome the 'BER' months with the FOURTH ins...