mystery
Vanishings, hauntings and one extremely clever mongoose.
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Episode 345: Mystery – Gef, the Extra, Extra Clever Mongoose (part II)
We are back on the Isle of Man for Part Two of Gef, the ridiculous little wall weasel. This week, people try to figure…
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Episode 344: Mystery – Gef, the Extra, Extra Clever Mongoose (part I)
Spooky Fuckery Month is officially here! And we’re kicking things off on the Isle of Man, where, in 1931, the Irving family began hearing…
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Episode 336: Mystery- Dorothy Eady
Is reincarnation real, and is it possible that people remember a life that ended more than 3,000 years ago? From the time she was…
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Episode 333: Starr Faithfull (part III)
n the final part of our series on Starr Faithfull, the investigation begins, and this is where the mystery begins! Why were parts of…
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Episode 332: Starr Faithfull (part II)
Starr Faithfull finally tells her family the secret she’s been carrying for nearly a decade: she has been sexually abused by a powerful and…
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Episode 331: Starr Faithfull (part I)
In 1931, the body of 25-year-old Starr Faithfull washed ashore on a Long Island beach. Newspapers and the public speculated whether her death was…
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Episode 311: Mystery – My Cousin Vanished
If you want to watch Henry’s wonderful documentary, you can find the English version here: https://www.henryhauck.de/en-us and the German version here: https://www.henryhauck.de/de In this…
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Episode 309: Mystery – Ruth Wilson
In November 1995, 16-year-old Ruth Wilson vanished after leaving her home in Surrey. She didn’t go to school as planned though. Instead she ordered…
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Episode 304: Fresh Hell Pet Wall of Fame – Pigeons
They’ve delivered love letters and war messages, carried microfilm across battlefields, worn tiny backpacks full of XTC, and been accused of international espionage! Yet…
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Episode 300: The Haunting of the RMS Queen Mary
For our 300th episode, we’re boarding one of the most famous ships in the world: the RMS Queen Mary. Once the epitome of 1930s…
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Episode 299: Hex Appeal – The Witches of Austria and Germany
This week on Fresh Hell, we’re taking you to the heart of spooky fuckery month with a deep dive into witch lore and trials…
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Episode 298: Crickey – It’s a Croc!
Crikey! This week we’re taking you to meet crocodiles. The largest living reptiles on Earth, creatures that inspire both awe and terror. We’ll talk…
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Episode 291: In a While Crocodile
This week’s episode covers everything from the grim legacy of racist alligator myths to actual gator attacks, pet alligators ordered through the mail, and…
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Episode 290: See You Later Alligator
This week, we’re trading murder for mayhem of the ancient reptilian variety. We take a deep dive into the world of crocodilians—those prehistoric apex…
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Episode 277: Mystery – The Missing Children of Pirmasens
Between 1960 and 1967, three children disappeared without a trace from the small city of Pirmasens, in southwest Germany. Walter Broschat. Klaus-Dieter Stark. Eveline…
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Episode 259: MISSING – Last Seen….
In this episode, we talk about the mysterious disappearances of three young men: Christopher Thompkins, Christopher Matthew Kerze, and Steven Clark. Each case is…
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Episode 256: The Ghosts of Jeopardy (part III): Pausanias & “Mad” Anthony Wayne
In this spine-tingling episode, we dive into the haunted legacies of two military legends: Pausanias, the ancient Spartan general with a cursed afterlife, and…
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Episode 255: MYSTERY – The Ghosts of Jeopardy (part II): The Hotel Chelsea
The iconic Hotel Chelsea is more than just a New York City landmark; it’s a haunting ground for some of the most legendary ghosts…
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Episode 254: MYSTERY – The Ghosts of Jeopardy (part I): Abigail Adams, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
It’s this time of the year again: Spooky Fuckery Month is upon us! This week, we dive into a Jeopardy category that immediately caught…
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Episode 250: Fresh Hell Pet Hall of Fame – Unusual Friendships
In this heartwarming episode, we dive into the incredible world of interspecies friendships, where the laws of nature bend in the name of love,…
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Episode 220: Mystery – Slumlord Millionaire
This week we are taking a scathing look at how White Collar Crimes affect working class families, from putting presents under the Christmas Tree…
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E215: Mystery – The Disappearance of the Beaumont Children (part II)
This week we are talking about Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont, three siblings who disappeared without a trace from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, Australia,…
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Episode 214: Mystery – The Disappearance of the Beaumont Children (part I)
This wee we are talking about Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont, three siblings who disappeared without a trace from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, Australia,…
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Episode 212: Halloween Special 2023
It’s time for our annual Halloween episode, where we share our listener’s stories of the unexplained, the weird, the inspiring, and of course, the…
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Episode 210: Pet Wall of Fame Halloween Edition – Crows
Today we talk about why we love a murder-when it’s a murder of crows! We look at the Raven & Crow through history, and…
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Episode 209: Take Me Home, Haunted Roads
Today we discuss the history of the infamous A3 motorway in Croatia, where talented young Macedonian singer Todor ‘Toše’ Proeski among others were tragically…
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Episode 203: Fresh Hell Pet Wall of Fame – Cats
In today’s, we look back at two of the most infamous cats in history. Simon the Shipcat, who was the only cat in history…
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Episode 202: The Amityville Horror (part III) – The Aftermath
In our final episode on the Amityville Horror we discuss the investigation by the Warrens and do our best to answer the most common…
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Episode 201: The Amityville Horror (part II): The Haunting
A year after the horrible murders of the DeFeo family, George Lutz and his family purchased the beautiful home on Ocean Avenue in Amityville,…
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Episode 200: The Amityville Horror (part I) – The DeFeo Family Murders
In 1974 a terrible crime rocked the town of Amityville, NY, when Ronnie DeFeo Jr murdered 6 members of his own family. In our…
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Episode 188: Fresh Hell Pet Wall of Fame (Dog Edition)
In today’s more lighthearted episode, we look back at two of the most infamous dogs in history. Greyfriar’s Bobby, Edinburgh Scotland’s most loyal dog,…
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Episode 184: The Beelitz Heilstätten (part II)
Today we return to the Beelitz Heilstätten, once a state of the art hospital dedicated to the care of those with tuberculosis, today it…
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Episode 183: The Beelitz Heilstätten (part I)
How did the Beelitz Heilstätten go from a state of the art, self sufficient paragon of modern Tiberculosis treatment to one of the most…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Episode 135: Mystery – The Kentucky Meat Shower
One early March day in 1876 raw meat started to fall from the sky in rural Kentucky. What caused this incident? Was it a…
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Episode 121: Listeners’ Stories
Today we read some of our favorite listener stories. These Hellions made us laugh and cry, and today we are sharing their stories with…
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Episode 116: Reincarnation
Today we discuss two cases of Reincarnation that we find particularly compelling.A child in America with memories of his death as a navy pilot…
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Episode 111: Things That Make You Go HMMM
This week we take a look at some of the lighter spookier coincidences we know of. Did Mark Twin predict his own death? What are the…
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Episode 110: Mystery – The Beast of Gévaudan
This week Johanna tells Annie the story of the Beast of Gévaudan, who is thought to be responsible for over 100 deaths. But what,…
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Episode 108: Mystery – The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
This is considered to be the first high profile missing person case of the US. What happened to New York socialite Dorothy Arnold, who…
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Episode 104: Mystery – The Lighthouse Keepers of Eilean Mòr
Johanna and Annie discuss the events surrounding the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on a desolate island off the windswept coast of Scotland. Was…
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Episode 92: Mystery – The Sodder Family
It was Christmas Eve 1945, when a fire destroyed the home of George and Jennie Sodder, where they lived with their 10 children. The…
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Episode 89: Madeleine McCann (part II)
Today Annie & Johanna conclude their discussion of the Madeleine McCann case. We travel from the UK to Portugal and finally to Germany, where…

