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Episode 180: The Cross Hauntings
This week we discuss one of the most terrifying and well-documented hauntings in US history. This week’s sponsor: www.artofcrimepodcast.com End credits: 🎵 Deck the Halls | Rafael Krux Provided…
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Episode 179: Murder – The Ashland Tragedy (part II)
This week Annie & Johanna conclude the Ashland Tragedy and tell you all you need to know about the trials agains George Ellis, William Neal and Ellis Craft,…
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Episode 178: Murder – The Ashland Tragedy (part I)
In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, 1881, a terrible fire devastated the community of Ashland, Kentucky. But their sorrow turned to outrage when they realized three…
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Episode 177: Mystery: The Hotel del Coronado (part II)
In Part 2 Annie discusses the theories of who the woman found dead at the Hotel Del Coronado might be, based on what little evidence we have. Lottie…
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Episode 176: Mystery – The Hotel del Coronado (part I)
The Hotel Del Coronado, is the largest wooden Victorian resort hotel in the world. On Thanksgiving Day, 1892 a beautiful young woman checked in, using the unaccompanied ladies…
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Episode 175: Murder – Lowell Lee Andrews
Today we discuss Lowell Lee Andrews- a bright university student, and beloved son of a happy family living in Kansas. On Thanksgiving day, 1958, he murdered his father William,…
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Episode 174: Murder – Luise Weiss
December 1910 in Vienna: a janitor makes a gruesome discovery. Who murdered the 40 year old women and dismembered her, and why? Johanna tells you about the murder…
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Episode 173: Halloween Special 2022
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Episode 172: Have You Checked the Candy?
Today we discuss how the idea of tainted Halloween candy became such a popular urban legend, and how a few specific terrible incidents have fueled this myth over…
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Episode 171: A Fresh Hell Guide to Vampires
Today we take a look at the history of vampires, the various categories of vampire, and how to survive an attack, should you happen to catch the eye…
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Episode 170: The Poltergeist Curse
To begin spooky season, we discuss the alleged curse of the hit horror film Poltergeist. With ghastly rumors and more than one tragic death, there is plenty of…
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Episode 169: Macabre- Relax…It’s Not Brain Surgery!
This week we are talking about a couple of surgeries in history that will make you go “Oh, boy!”. We talk about King Louis XIV and his dental…
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Episode 168: Murder – Another New England Serial Killer (part II)
In the conclusion of this tragic story, we discuss the murders of Isabella and John Joyce in woods that are now part of Boston’s Arnold Arboretum, and the…
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Episode 167: Murder – Another New England Serial Killer (part I)
1850, a 5 year old child is taken from her home in Derry, New Hampshire. 1862, 9 year old Lura Vellie Libby does not arrive at her Sunday…
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Episode 166: Macabre – Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos
Today we discuss the bizarre and disturbing fate of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, at the hands of Carl Tanzler, her would be suitor and probably fraudulent doctor, who…
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Episode 165: Murder – Nell Cropsey (part II)
Today we discuss the trial, the contents of a very mysterious letter, various theories and rumors surrounding the case. We’ll also touch on the ghost of Nell, who…
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Episode 164: Murder – Nell Cropsey (part I)
Annie and Johanna talk about the tragic murder of a young woman that took place in Elizabeth City, NC in 1901. Was it a case of intimate partner…
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Episode 163: Macabre – Rollercoaster Accidents (part II)
In part two we discuss post-war coaster accidents. The catastrophic Battersea Big Dipper Rollercoaster crash in 1972 London that took the lives of five children. In 1986 West…
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Episode 162: Macabre – Rollercoaster Accidents (part I)
After ruining Water Parks, bridges and swimming in the ocean, Annie and Johanna are setting out to ruin rollercoasters for you. Learn everything you need to know about…
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Episode 161: Mystery – The Disappearance of Owen Parfitt
Owen Parfitt seemed to live a fairly simple life, with his sister, who kept house in the market town of Shepton Millet, not far from Bath and Glastonbury,…
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Episode 160: Mystery – The Enfield Monster
It was in April of 1973 in rural Illinois, when someone, or….something tried to get into the house of Henry McDaniel. What was the hairy, three-legged creature he…
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Episode 159: The Göhrde Murders (part II) – Birgit Meier
It was the late 1980s and someone was murdering couples in Germany, with bodies being found on what should be lovely forest paths. Today Johanna concludes the baffling…
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Episode 158: The Göhrde Murders (part I)
Johanna tells Annie about the very creepy and disturbing Göhrde murders which took place in Germany in the late 1980s. Who was murdering couples, and was there a…
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Episode 157: Murder – The Phantom of Heilbronn
In 2007 two police officers are shot in their car, only one survives. The police search for a mysterious woman, who’s DNA is not only found at this…
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Episode 156: Murder – The Hamburg Rubble Murderer
The winter of 1947 was particularly brutal for war-torn Hamburg, Germany. Struggling to rebuild from the bombings that left the city desperate for food and fuel, residents are…
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Episode 155: Mystery – The 27 Club (part II) Jimi Hendrix
The life and untimely death of Jimi Hendrix is discussed, as are the many, many conspiracy theories and legends surrounding this pioneering artist.
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Episode 154: Mystery – The 27 Club (part I)
Today we discuss the lives and deaths of Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues, and Brian Jones, founding member of The Rolling Stones. Did Robert Johnson make…
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Episode 153: What a Time to be Alive
Today we discuss some of the worst times in history to be alive. From massive volcanic eruptions, and the “Year Without a Summer”, to smallpox toppling empires-join us…
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Episode 152: Macabre – The Highgate Vampire
Highgate Cemetery in London, once the resting place for wealthy Victorian families, was the scene for the biggest Vampire hunt in Great Britain in the 20th century. This…
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Episode 151: Murder – Nicholas Markowitz (part II)
Today we conclude our episode about the tragic, senseless and horrific murder of 15 year old Nicholas Markowitz, after being kidnapped by Jesse James Hollywood, over a debt.
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Episode 150: Murder – Nicholas Markowitz (part I)
Nicholas Markowitz was a bright, sensitive and fun kid who loved reading, and the theater program at his school in West Hills, California. The 15 year old also…
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Episode 149: Murder – Malvina Krutz
We discuss a brazen murder in Indianapolis, that was overshadowed by the capture of Charles Starkweather on the same day. Annie discusses the chilling and still unsolved case…
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Episode 148: The Chateau Marmont (part II)
Today we are telling you more stories from the infamous Hollywood hideout. This time we will talk about Billy Wilder, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, John Belushi, Elizabeth Taylor…
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Episode 147: The Chateau Marmont (part I)
In part one of two, we discuss the history of this iconic Los Angeles ‘home away from home’ for Hollywood’s elite, and talk about the hotel’s connection to…
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Episode 146: Murder – Sarah Ware
Today Annie takes us to Maine, where the founding of Bucksport, and the cursed tomb of Col. Jonathan Buck are discussed, as is the case of the 1898…
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Episode 145: Macabre – Quicksand
As children many of us believed quicksand was a common peril, but how common is quicksand, really? How does it work? How often does it kill, and how…
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Episode 144: Wilhelm Voigt – Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
In this episode Johanna tells Annie about Wilhelm Voigt, who in 1906 posed as a Prussian officer and looted a town treasury in Prussia. He will forever be…
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Episode 143: The Fox Sisters (part II)
Today we finish our discussion on the Fox Sisters, their lives, loves and deaths, as well as how the new religion of spiritualism was shaped in New York’s…
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Episode 142: The Fox Sisters (part I)
Today we discuss the Fox Sisters, two young mediums whose abilities to commune with the dead sparked the modern spiritualist movement in Western New York in the mid…
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Episode 141: Murder – Anna Augustin
Johanna tells Annie about a lesser known, but shockingly tragic Austrian case-the brutal murder of Anna Augustin by Josefine Luner. A young woman learns that sometimes the darkest,…
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Episode 140: The Kelly Hopkinsville Encounter
On a hot night in the summer of 1955, a family on a farm in rural Kentucky was terrorized by small, glowing, pointy eared creatures. Sometimes referred to…