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The Atlas Vampire was an unknown assailant who committed the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden. But the thing about vampires is that even though vampires are known as fictional, there has been a long history of humans in modern-day vampire cults who drink blood. Apparently it’s a clinical disorder though - it’s called Renfield’s syndrome, the obsession with drinking blood.
On May 4, 1932 31-year-old Lilly Lindeström was found in her flat in the Atlas area of Stockholm, and unfortunately her murder remains unsolved… the police initially thought it was a clear case of a prostitute murdered by a client, but they noticed a lot of saliva on Lilly’s neck and that she seemed to be exsanguinated even though there was very little blood at the scene and no noticeable puncture wounds to the body…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Vampire
https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/unsolved-mysteries-the-vampire-killing-of-lilly-lindeström-f0651d1b9e52
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_vampirism#:~:text=Clinical%20vampirism%2C%20more%20commonly%20known,Vanden%20Bergh%20and%20John.
The UK’s most prolific hitman was known as John Childs. He was from East London where his crimes spanned the four years between 1974 and 1978. And he was convicted in 1979 for a series of apparent contract killings, though none of the bodies have been found. Join us this week for a peek into his mind…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Childs_(murderer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bailey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_(castle)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_England_and_Wales#Whole_life_order
https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/childs-john.htm
I think we have all heard the stories of unclaimed treasure and have all hoped that maybe we’ll be the ones to find it. But according to this legend, if you fancy searching the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, there might be piles and piles of gold just waiting for you to discover it…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/deadmans-cave-treasure/
https://mapcarta.com/23183882
https://tomrizzo.com/cavern-skulls/
https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/the-mysterious-treasure-of-deadman-cave.564934/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasure-worth-millions-may-still-045900978.html
https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/dead-mans-camp-article-from-the-archives-of-the-fairplay-flume-10-28-1880.353012/
Mary Ann Britland was known as the first woman to be executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison in Manchester. Over the course of a year, she poisoned her daughter, her husband, and her neighbor. And even though she maintained that she was not guilty, she was sentenced to death on August 9th 1886.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Britland
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/britland-mary-ann.htm
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-to-know-middle-child-syndrome
https://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/manchesters-vilest-mary-ann-britland/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine
Today we’re talking about the Palazzo Mastelli del Cammello, a Gothic palace in Venice, Italy. More importantly, we’re talking about the three statues of men with terrified expressions, and how they might have come to be…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
https://www.leboat.co.uk/blog/haunted-holidays-5-european-destinations-spooky-folklore-stories
https://rossiwrites.com/italy/venice/haunted-venice-legends-mysteries-stories/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Mastelli_del_Cammello
https://www.venetoinside.com/en/news-and-curiosities/the-camels-house-in-the-cannaregio-district
What Is Stucco Siding?: Basics, Application, Pros And ConsForbeshttps://www.forbes.com › home-improvement › stucco-si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_nobile
https://byfoodandtravel.com/secret-stories-of-venice/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eriktorner/51395910665
http://dipoco.altervista.org/venice-house-camel/?doing_wp_cron=1682340873.6274709701538085937500
https://freakinparanormal.com/2020/09/24/haunted-northern-italy/
Believe it or not, Wyoming had a serial killer before it even became a state. Polly Bartlett, who became known as The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch, is said to have been a 19th-century murderer/serial killer from the Wyoming Territory. Her MO: poison. Specifically arsenic. Join us this week to learn all about Polly Bartlett.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Bartlett
https://y95country.com/150-years-ago-wyomings-first-serial-killer-claimed-22-victims-2/
Wyoming HistoryState of Wyoming (.gov)https://www.wyo.gov › about-wyoming › wyoming-hist…
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241860#symptoms
https://buckrail.com/wyomings-worst-serial-killer-murderess-slaughterhouse-gulch/
https://www.livescience.com/how-does-arsenic-kill
https://mycountry955.com/is-polly-bartlett-wyomings-most-deadly-serial-killer/
https://medium.com/friday-night-crimes/like-pigs-to-a-slaughter-wyoming-524546ab495a
https://buckrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PollyBartlettWyomingsAmazingPoisoner.pdf
“At last Tom shrieked out, 'What -- old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!' and rushed up the chimney and was nevermore seen.”
Passed down through many variations, the one thing in common about this fold tale is that maybe cats aren’t all they appear to be. Who knows, maybe that black and white one you’ve got curled up on the couch is actually the King of the Cats...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_the_Cats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_the_Cat
https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/meft/meft32.htm
https://www.bedtimeshortstories.com/the-king-o-the-cats
http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/038.html
https://www.libraryireland.com/AncientLegendsSuperstitions/King-Cats.php
https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/the-king-of-the-cats/
https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/the-king-o-the-cats/
Rudy Bladel was born on December 8th, 1932 in Chicago to a railroad family. After he spent time studying at the Vocational High School in the South Side, he graduated in 1951, went to work at Rock Island as a fireman, and then enlisted in the army as a military engineer to serve in the Korean War. When he got back, he ended up back at the railroad company, but when they shifted its operations away from Michigan to a new yard in Indiana, and he was demoted, he decided to take revenge…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Bladel
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bladel-rudy.htm
https://dbpedia.org/page/Rudy_Bladel
https://skdb.fandom.com/wiki/BLADEL_Rudy
https://skdb.fandom.com/wiki/BLADEL_Rudy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montejo_v._Louisiana
Join us this week for the story of David William Duck - or Dead Duck as he was known - for he was the man with two lives…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/gh-twolives/
Salvatore “Silvio” Mangion was born in 1964, and he is the only known serial killer from Malta. He committed his crimes over 14 years, from 1984 to 1998. He was known by his alias of Kalang, and at the time of the murders, he was unemployed and recently diagnosed as schizophrenic with depressive episodes. Join us this week for the full story…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Mangion
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mangion-silvio.htm
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/2028/serial-killer-silvio-mangion-gets-life-for-1984-murder#.ZBisdy-l1pQ
https://lovinmalta.com/lifestyle/history/a-maltese-true-crime-story-a-look-back-at-the-islands-only-convicted-serial-killer/
https://www.cosettezammit.com/2022/11/true-crime-tales-with-cosette-maltese.html?utm_content=cmp-true
This is one of the most believable paranormal stories, in my opinion, and it all starts in the early 2000s when Julielle Kahn and her family moved into one of the renovated Victorian homes in Newton Massachusetts. Julielle, who was around 5 years old started telling stories of meeting a new friend. She said “She was an older woman with gray hair. She always kept it in a tight bun on the top of her head. She wore a long dress and always wore stockings. There would be either blue or a white sort of orb-light thing floating around, and a face would appear in it, and then eventually the whole body would appear, but her feet were never on the floor. She was always floating.” Spooky…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.necn.com/news/local/_necn__the_spirit_of_mrs__woodman_necn/58282/
https://www.newenglandinnsandresorts.com/inspiration/the-blog/6-chilling-new-england-ghost-stories
https://patch.com/massachusetts/newton/a-newton-ghost-story
This story takes place at the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. This museum was founded in 1723 by Agustus the Strong of Poland. In 2019, the museum had around 4000 items of jewelry and other gold/silver/ivory/pearl/precious metals and stones based items. Near the end of the year, on November 25th, there was a small fire on Augustus bridge (which was near the museum) at around 4am. This was the start of one of the largest museum heist in history…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Green_Vault_burglary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Vault
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/17/german-police-recover-31-items-stolen-in-2019-dresden-jewel-heist
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64013430
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dresden-green-vault-heist-trial-intl-cmd/index.html
Sloss furnaces is a National Historic Landmark located in Birmingham, Alabama that was open in the late 1800s to 1971. While it was operational it was a pig iron-producing blast furnace. In the early 1900s, James “Slag” Wormwood, was foreman of the “Graveyard Shift” and they had a skeleton crew of nearly 150 workers to keep the furnace going. Wormwood wanted to impress the bosses though, so he would make his workers take dangerous risks, forcing them to speed up production… In October of 1906, he was at the top of Big Alice, which was the highest blast furnace. He lost his footing and fell into a pool of melted iron ore. It is said that his body instantly melted. People say that he must have gotten dizzy from the methane gas but he had apparently never been to the top of the furnace in all his years working there. Ever since then there have been hundreds of reported paranormal experiences in the area…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.countryliving.com/life/g3793/scary-ghost-stories/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloss_Furnaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_iron
https://frightfurnace.com/hauntings/haunted-history-of-sloss-furnace/
https://frightfurnace.com/hauntings/personal-experiences/
I think one of the most well known museums in Boston is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The museum itself was built with the guidance of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the art collector, because she wanted a place for her personal art collection. The museum opened to the public in 1903, and Gardner continued to expand the collection and arrange it until she died in 1924. She left the museum with a $3.6 million endowment when she passed away and her will basically said that the arrangement of the artwork should not be altered and no items were to be sold or bought into the collection. If you go to the museum today, you’ll see the empty frames of where the stolen paintings used to hang. Join us today for the story behind one of the most notorious heists in Boston history…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft
https://www.edwardskirby.com/blog/top-true-crime-stories/
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/theft-story
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-clue-emerges-in-the-gardner-museum-art-heist-saga-180979651/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-about-isabella-stewart-gardner-art-heist-180977448/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jimmy-marks-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-heist-lead-1234620458/
https://artincontext.org/gardner-museum-heist/
The Black Dog of Newgate is a legend concerning the haunting of Newgate Prison of London. This account of a haunting based at the prison is an example of the English Black Dog category of supernatural manifestation, featuring a spectral hound of ill-omen or malicious intent, which is a notable archetype in British folklore and superstition…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.londonxlondon.com/ghost-stories-london/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Dog_of_Newgate
https://factschology.com/mmm-podcast-articles/black-dog-newgate-england
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore)
Love Has Won was started by Amy Carlson in the 2000s as a new religious movement. Love Has Won combines New Age spirituality with conspiracy theories (like QAnon) and other elements from the Abrahamic religion. She, and her followers, said she was a divine, 19 billion year-old being who had birthed all creation - who had been reincarnated 534 times, including as Jesus, Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, and would lead 144,000 people into a mystical "5th dimension.” She was also meant to be the queen of the lost continent of Lemuria, which was a place that was inside Mount Shasta in California. Also apparently Donald Trump was her father in a past life and she and Robin Williams spirit would chat sometimes as the Archangel Zadkiel. There are also mentions of Atlantis, the Anunnaki which were deities of the Sumerians and Assyrians and I think a couple other groups, and also reptilians which are reptilian humanoids or shapeshifting reptilian aliens who control the Earth by taking on human form and then using political power to manipulate society. They also believed that the world was run by a group of people determined to keep us in a low vibration state and that it is this groups responsibility to bring us into a higher vibration… If you want to learn more about this cult and its following, be sure to join us this week!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Has_Won
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10463849/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-death-history-details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/12/colorado-mummified-body-cult-leader-seven-charged
https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/colorado-cult-leaders-cause-of-death-revealed-after-corpse-found-mummified/
https://www.5dfulldisclosure.org/aboutmom
This week we’re stretching the definition of paranormal to include this story that I would like to tell simply because it is a little bit insane. This is the story of “half-hangit Maggie,” who somehow came back to life. If you visit Edinburgh, you might hear her name floating around places like Grassmarket as well… spooky!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.neweuropetours.eu/blog/general/7-scary-stories-from-all-over-europe-to-get-you-excited-about-halloween/
https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dickson-margaret.htm
https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/half-hangit-maggie-the-woman-who-survived-a-hanging/
https://www.spookyisles.com/margaret-dickson/
https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/half-hangit-maggie-scots-woman-who-survived-hanging-622567
Joachim Georg Kroll was born on April 17th, 1933 and he has a long, long list of terrible and terrifying crimes. He was not a good person, that much is certain. He was a German serial killer, child molester, necrophile, and cannibal. We’ll get into the story in this episode, but there is a list of victims and what exactly he did to each one of them but honestly it's quite disturbing - so I’ll link that below if you would like to read more.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/worst-serial-killers-of-all-time/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad
https://allthatsinteresting.com/joachim-kroll
https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kroll-joachim.htm
The pony express was open for 18 months, from April of 1860 through October 1861. And it covered approximately 2000 miles from St Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California. The riders on the Pony Express were said to have carried 35,000 pieces of mail over more than 650,000 miles back and forth during the 18 months. But this was an incredibly dangerous job, so much that the advert for the pony express said:
“Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.”
When the pony express ended, some people say there are a bunch of riders that have chosen to remain at the station even though it was closed in the 1860s. Join us today to learn more about the ghosts of the pony express!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-hollenberg/
http://www.kansastravel.org/hollenbergstation.htm
https://www.kansashauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/hollenberg-pony-express-station.html
https://www.facebook.com/Ghosts-Hauntings-and-the-Paranormal-163420400374984/photos/438391696211185
https://www.dreadcentral.com/cold-spots/5083/the-hollenberg-station/
This is the very short story of Ane Cathrine Andersdatter, who was a Danish serial killer who committed maternal filicide. She killed three of her children, while leaving one with his grandmother. She ended up being caught and beheaded for her crimes, but she was the last woman who was executed in the country.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ane_Cathrine_Andersdatter
http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2014/12/ane-cathrine-andersdatter-danish-serial.html
https://www.facebook.com/CrimeologyGlobal/photos/a.116708600183002/376743904179469/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/CrimeologyGlobal/posts/ane-cathrine-andersdatter-was-born-on-this-day-in-1829-she-was-a-danish-serial-k/376743934179466/
Tales of the cowboy Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum have floated around New Mexico since he started robbing trains with his brother in the late 1800s, but who would have thought that a cowboy scorned would turn into a ghost that can be seen even now reliving his capture… Join us this week for the start of an exciting new year filled with cowboys and ghosts!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/blackjack-ghost/
https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-mexico-ghosts-black-jack-ketchum.html
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-blackjackketchum/
https://dustyoldthing.com/strange-tale-black-jack-ketchum/
This week we let ChatGPT write us 10 spooky stories… from the lady in white to spooky sounds from the attic to lonely vampires, we’ve got an assortment of stories to end this year on!
The Baba Yaga is one of the most well known evil-witch type entities. Coming from Slavic folklore, she is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman - an ogress who would steal and eat children while flying on a mortar and pestle and creating storms. But there is more to her than meets the eye - in fact, she is a reminder that freedom lies beyond the barrier of social norms, and if we cross those lines we might just find happiness.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ogre
https://www.worldhistory.org/Baba_Yaga/
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221118-baba-yaga-the-greatest-wicked-witch-of-all
In Irish folklore, the banshee is known as the bearer of bad news. Her name comes from “tumuli” - mounds that traditionally covered a grave or a number of graves that were said to be home to spirits of the dead. The banshee is surrounded by death on all sides, so join us today for the story behind the banshee and even some first hand accounts of meeting her.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://gengo.com/language-and-culture/creepiest-mythical-creatures-from-around-the-world/
https://www.celtic-weddingrings.com/celtic-mythology/legend-of-the-banshee
https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/exploring-irish-mythology-banshee-170287
https://irishmyths.com/2022/07/25/banshee/
Witches actually represent the antithesis of basically all Navajo cultural values. While medicine men are typically the community healers and cultural workers who are seen in a positive light, witches are seen as evil since they perform twisted ceremonies and manipulate magic in a “perversion of the good works medicine people traditionally perform.”
What happens when medicine men get corrupted? And what does this have to do with Aliens?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
https://www.history.co.uk/shows/curse-of-skinwalker-ranch/from-skinwalkers-to-wendigos-4-native-american-myths-and-legends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch
https://allthatsinteresting.com/skinwalker
https://www.history.com/news/skinwalker-ranch-paranormal-ufos-mutilation
The Wendigo is known by several names — Windigo, Witigo, Witiko, and Wee-Tee-Go — but each roughly translates to “the evil spirit that devours mankind.”
“The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody ... Unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption” - Basil H. Johnston
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-wendigo/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo
Around 200 years ago, the Judgement of Death Act 1823 saw the number of crimes punishable by death in Britain drop dramatically. Good news in theory, but since medical and anatomical schools were only legally allowed to dissect the bodies, or cadavers, of those who had been condemned to death, this led to an extreme shortage of dead bodies available. Financial compensation offered by medical schools meant that some unscrupulous types soon found a way around this shortage of bodies, leading to a rash of grave-robbing by those known as resurrectionists. This led to why Burke and Hare may have murdered the 16 people in the West Port murders in 1827…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-970Unboo
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Burke-Hare-infamous-murderers-graverobbers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
The story of the ghost of Bellamy Bridge is probably one of Florida's most famous ghost stories. The legend talks about the restless ghost of a young woman named Elizabeth Jane Bellamy. And how she roams the swamps around the bridge on dark and foggy nights. But surprisingly Elizabeth Jane Bellamy was a real person who was the wife of one of Florida's key economic and political leaders before the civil war. Stay tuned to see how these stories combine to form the legend we know today…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/bellamybridge.html
https://violetskyadventures.com/ghost-of-bellamy-bridge/
https://visitjacksoncountyfla.com/play/culture-heritage/bellamy-bridge-heritage-trail/
https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/bellamybridge2.html
We’re going back to one of the first true crime cases we covered on this channel, and talking about the World’s End Murders again. Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, who were 17 years old at the time, decided to go on a night out with some friends on October 15th, 1977. So they went to a couple of bars on the royal mile before ending up at the World’s End Pub. But that was the last time either of them were seen. 40 years later, the case was finally solved… so what happened that night? And what happened in the years following?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
http://www.scotlandspubsandbars.co.uk/location/the-worlds-end/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5981466/angus-sinclair-worlds-end-murders-edinburgh-killer/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/aug/29/ukcrime.uknews4
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/worlds-end-murders-night-haunts-scotlands-capital-day-82456
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End_Murders
Zombie Road is a short road in the City of Wildwood, and is one of Missouri’s most haunted locations. It started being referred to as the Zombie Road in the early 1950s when the road eventually fell into disrepair and was all but abandoned. Because it’s such a secluded area it was a very popular local hangout for teenagers to party - but over the years it ended up with a different reputation…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4359-zombie-road.html
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/zombie-road-mo/
https://www.roadstotravel.net/usa-zombie-road-missouri/
https://www.stlmag.com/history/st-louis-sage/is-zombie-road-really-haunted/
Sherril Elizabeth Levitt, her daughter Suzanne Elizabeth Streeter, and her friend Stacy Kathleen McCall were last seen on June 7th, 1992. When Streeter and McCall changed their plans and went home instead of spending the night at their friends house, the town woke up the next morning to find them gone. The case is still listed on the Springfield Police Department website under “cold cases.” If you have any information on what happened that night, please do give them a call.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three
https://www.ky3.com/2021/06/07/springfield-three-what-we-know-about-cold-case-29-years-later/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Springfield_Three
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/30-years-later-family-still-seeking-answers-disappearance-three-springfield-n1296285
We recorded this episode exactly 3 years ago, on October 19th, 2019. In honor of our third anniversary of Grim Podcast, we thought it’d be nice to re-do some of our favorite episodes, starting with our favorite haunted space in Edinburgh! Mackenzie Poltergeist at Greyfriars Cemetery is one of the most haunted locations in Edinburgh, with over 450 documented attacks throughout the years and many many stories of breaking and entering with some dire consequences... Happy Halloween everyone, and we’ll see you soon for this new season of Grim!
Skylar Annette Neese was born on February 10th, 1996 to Mary and David Neese. On July 5th, 2012, she returned to her family’s apartment in Star City, West Virginia after her shift at Wendys. Her complex had surveillance cameras that show that she left her apartment by climbing out her bedroom window and getting into a sedan at 12:30 am. Despite not taking her charger with her and leaving her window open, signs she intended to come home, she never returned. What happened that night? And what did they do to ensure it never happens again?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Skylar_Neese
https://allthatsinteresting.com/skylar-neese-murder
https://www.ranker.com/list/skylar-neese-facts/amandasedlakhevener
https://abcnews.go.com/US/best-friends-killers-teens-murder-friend-didnt/story?id=24573749
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/07/shocking-tweets-from-skylar-neeses-killer-after-she-stabbed-her-to-death/
Mortemer Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in the Forest of Lyons between the present Lyons-la-Forêt and Lisors. By the 15th century, the abbey was home to hundreds of monks and was the most powerful abbey in Normandy, but by 1453, the abbey was under the French crown, rather than the English. Over the centuries after this, the abbey fell into decline and disrepair. And it is no stranger to ghost stories. From a Dame Blanche to a procession of monks to goblin cats, join us for this spooky story…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortemer_Abbey
https://www.parisunlocked.com/around-france/famous-french-ghosts-reputed-hauntings/
http://www.abbaye-de-mortemer.fr/en/histoire-abbaye-mortemer.html
Alexander “Gog” Sloley was born on August 4th, 1991 in England. Two days before his 17th birthday, on August 2nd, he disappeared. What happened to Alex Sloley? What were the circumstances around his disappearance? And was there a difference in what they told the news outlets and what really happened?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Alex_Sloley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-FIT
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49687045
https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/alexander-sloley-08-019767#
https://www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/a-decade-on-mums-plea-to-find-missing-alex
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/coldcasedetective/the-north-london-mystery-the--C9vX7dKMuS/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndrewGosden/comments/s84pih/for_those_with_a_theory_do_you_believe_the_same/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndrewGosden/comments/omp3f6/would_it_be_fair_to_say_the_police_believe_andrew/
Sightings of these mysterious primate-like creatures have been reported all across America ever since the 1920s. They are typically described as being similar to baboons, but larger, faster and meaner. They have also been reported to walk on all fours as well as upright… but cryptozoologists have confirmed that they are, in fact, different from other mythical human-like creatures like Bigfoot or Chupacabra. One of the most notable instances of the Devil Monkeys was in a tiny town called Danville in New Hampshire in September of 2001. What happened that night? Join us this week to find out…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-myths-and-legends-from-new-england/
https://www.chowdaheadz.com/blogs/news/new-england-myths-legends-the-devil-monkey-of-danville-new-hampshire
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Devil_Monkeys
https://sentinelhillpress.com/2020/10/06/cryptober-day-5-the-devil-monkey-of-danville-nh/
http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-devil-monkey-of-danville-new.html
http://www.strange-new-england.com/2015/10/22/devil-monkey/
Ben Needham was born on October 29th, 1989 in England. He was almost 2 years old on July 24th, 1991 when he was on the Greek Island of Kos with his family. In the morning, he was exploring the farmhouse when Eddie and Kristine Needham noticed they hadn’t seen him. Ben had disappeared without a trace. Days and months of searching later, we still may never know what happened to Ben. We hope that one day his family might get some closure.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ben_Needham
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/who-is-ben-needham-and-what-happened-to-him-a7311021.html
https://news.sky.com/story/ben-needham-mother-vows-to-continue-search-for-son-30-years-after-his-disappearance-12361905
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/missing-ben-needham-possible-sighting-24651972
The Colorado Street Bridge, one of the most haunted bridges in Southern California, has been around since the early 1900s. The bridge has had over 150 suicides over the last 100 years, with around 50 of these suicides happened during the Great Depression, and the rest happening in the years after, with 28 occurring between 2006 and 2016. Legend has it that the ghost of a contractor who died during construction calls out to lost or distressed souls and lures them off the bridge to their deaths. Would you ever dare visit such a bridge…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-suicidebridge/
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/southern-california/colorado-st-bridge-haunted-ca/
https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-colorado-street-bridge-is-a-historic-and-beautiful-work-of-art-that-draws-dejected-people-to-f8897fd6290f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Street_Bridge_(Pasadena,_California)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-26-gl-1128-story.html
https://conspiracytheories.in/suicide-bridge-california-4-suspicious-death/
A big big thank you to @sugarfruit33 on Reddit for letting us share this story!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/phg3bd/im_housesitting_and_the_noises_behind_this_locked/
https://www.reddit.com/user/sugarfruit33/
On the morning of December 23, 1974, a little before noon, Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson, and Julie Ann Moseley decided to go Christmas shopping. The girls first headed to a surplus store in Fort Worth and then from there, they headed to the Seminary South Shopping Center. But despite being seen by dozens of witnesses at the mall, none of the girls made it home that night. So what really happened that night? We might never know…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Missing_Trio
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/fort-worths-missing-trio-christmas-disappearance-remains-unsolved-241c55fff51d
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-trio-case-remains-unsolved-44-years-after-young-girls-n950306
https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2021/07/06/fort-worth-missing-trio/
https://www.trace-evidence.com/fort-worth-three
This story starts with James White, who bought a property called the Overtoun Farm in 1859. He built the Overtoun House three years later in 1862. When White died in 1884, his son, John Campbell White, inherited the house and its estate and started planning to extend the driveway of the house across a deep ravine in order to provide easier access. The bridge was completed in June of 1895. During the 1950s, locals started referring to the bridge as the "Bridge of Death" or the "Dog Suicide Bridge", as it was reported that dogs were leaping from the bridge into the ravine below. The mystery of why dogs become possessed to jump has never been solved, but many theories persist, ranging from the scientific to the supernatural…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun_Bridge
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/scotland-overtoun-bridge-dog-suicide.html
https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/human-interest/overtoun-bridge-dog-suicide-553059.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/dog-suicide-bridge.htm
https://www.paintsquare.com/news/view/?22269
https://factschology.com/mmm-podcast-articles/overtoun-bridge-dumbarton-scotland
https://people.com/pets/dumbarton-scotland-dog-suicide-bridge-overtoun/
The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders took place on the morning of June 13, 1977, at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. By 10 am, they evacuated the entirety of Camp Scott without telling the other campers why they were heading back home after only one night of being there. This was the last day that Camp Scott was open after almost 50 years of hosting the Girl Scouts of Oklahoma. This story is horrifying, and we can only hope that one day the families of the victims will have some closure as to what happened and why.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
http://www.girlscoutmurders.com/TIMELINE4.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Girl_Scout_murders
https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-girl-scout-murders-solved-gene-leroy-hart-hulu-1709663
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/on-tv0/in-pursuit-with-john-walsh/articles/tomas-magallon-gonzelez-rapist-murderer-abuser-on-the-run
The Edinburgh Playhouse theater in Edinburgh is the second largest theater in the UK with 3,059 seats, but the reason that we’re talking about it today is that it has its very own ghost. According to legend, a ghost called Albert tends to haunt the sixth floor. And Albert is known for everything from mysterious touches to disrupting tape recorders to even scaring dogs! But Albert doesn’t seem to be malicious at all, so what’s the story behind this haunting? Join us this week to find out…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Playhouse
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburghs-most-haunted-phantom-playhouse-1522161
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/chilling-encounters-with-albert-the-ghost-of-the-edinburgh-playhouse-2903710
https://www.higgypop.com/hauntings/edinburgh-playhouse/
https://edinburghtourist.co.uk/questions/edinburgh-haunted/
Ruth Wilson was 16 years old when she disappeared in Box Hill on November 27th, 1995. From discovering the truth about her mother to an elaborate flower delivery to goodbye letters, paracetamol, and Vermouth, it is not known whether her disappearaance was a result of “a tragic accident, abduction, suicide, murder, or that she had absented herself to start a new life." To this day her whereabouts are unknown. If you have any information about Ruth Wilson or her whereabouts, please do contact the police about Operation Scholar.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ruth_Wilson
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/ruth-wilson
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/new-ruth-wilson-documentary-claims-14586554
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/29/ruth-wilson-surrey-schoolgirl-vanished-documentary
https://martinbright.com/blog/f/ruth-wilson-vanished-25-years-ago-today
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/gv6p6e/disappearance_of_ruth_wilson_the_surrey/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/could-dark-family-secret-hold-12510762
Many people say that Pocomoonshine lake is a beautiful lake in Princeton, a northeastern town in Maine. But it became really notorious in the 1800s when witnesses claimed that a large creature lived in the lake. A giant snake, 30-60 feet long and 4 feet wide. And though a snake that large seems quite unbelievable, the story actually stems from Native American Folklore, specifically in a battle between giant snakes. So, could there really be a giant snake in Maine? Or maybe there's another explanation? But either way, join us for this short and sweet paranormal story!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-myths-and-legends-from-new-england/
https://www.mainething.com/alexander/memories/POCOMOONSHINE%20LAKE%20MONSTER.htm
https://www.nps.gov/petr/learn/historyculture/what.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Hardy_Eckstorm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_John_Neptune
https://www.chowdaheadz.com/blogs/news/new-england-myths-legends-the-monster-of-pocomoonshine-lake
https://www.etravelmaine.com/attractions/strange-maine/maine-sea-monsters/
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Poke-O-Moonshine-lake-monster-in-Maine
https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/6242/monster-pocomoonshine-lake
On September 21st, 2001, (just 10 days after the 9/11 attacks in America) a man called Aidan Minter found the torso of a young boy in the River Thames as he was walking across Tower Bridge in central London for a business meeting.
“The tide was quite high at the time, I thought it was a tailor's mannequin. Then it came under the bridge, and that's when I saw the detail - the wounds and the body itself.I do think about him. I'll never forget it for as long as I live.”
The police, unable to find who the identity of the boy, called him Adam. Today we talk about this unsolved murder, and we can only hope that Adam’s family may someday get the closure they deserve.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_(murder_victim)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58415046
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21365961
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10012275/Fresh-appeal-torso-Thames-killer.html
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/adam-the-boy-whose-torso-was-found-in-the-thames
https://unresolved.me/adam
https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2022/4/14/adam-torso-in-the-thames
The Logan Inn, located in New Hope Pennsylvania, and it is very famously known to be haunted by no fewer than 8 ghosts at a time. The most famous of them all is actually the haunting of room 6, which is actually likely to be a few different ghosts. But despite how haunted the Inn is, all of these ghosts seem to be quite friendly, and is probably a good place for what we’d call a “beginner” haunting experience. This haunted Inn is definitely on our list of places we’d like to visit some day. And not just the Inn though, the town also has a few other resident ghosts who like to make themselves known sometimes…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/pennsylvania/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/the-logan-inn-new-hope
http://hauntedhouses.com/pennsylvania/logan-inn/
https://www.visitbuckscounty.com/restaurants/planning-ideas/haunted-dining/
https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/believe-or-not-cant-doubt-spirit-new-hope
Arthur John Shawcross, Genesee River Killer, was born on June 6th, 1945 and died on November 10th, 2008. And his life consisted of multiple jail sentences and years on parole, and far too many lives lost. Today we talk about a truly horrible man…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/arthur-shawcross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Shawcross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad
From the German words “polter” ("to make sound" and "to rumble") and Geist ("ghost" and "spirit"), a poltergeist is fundamentally a “noisy” or “rumble” ghost. And that is exactly what appeared to happen on the night of February 10, 1935 in the basement of building number 43 on Francisco Giner de Gràcia street. This is when the Montroig and Mendoza family heard a faint banging sound throughout the walls, which was slowly getting louder and louder. What followed was a series of events which were witnessed by the family, neighbors, and even the media. But what really happened that night? We may never really know…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.neweuropetours.eu/blog/general/7-scary-stories-from-all-over-europe-to-get-you-excited-about-halloween/
https://www.spain-holiday.com/Barcelona-city/articles/legends-secrets-and-occult
https://coffeeandcaminos.com/travel/europe/barcelonas-most-haunted-places/
https://barcelonanavigator.com/haunted-places/
https://www.catalunyamagrada.cat/es/lugares/el-primer-caso-documentado-de-un-poltergeist-en-cataluna_38693102.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist
On February 24th, 1978, a group of 5 young men went to watch a basketball game at California State University, Chico.
These men were:
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29 year old Bill Sterling
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24 year old Jack Huett
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32 year old Ted Weihler
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30 year old Jack Madruga
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And 25 year old Gary Mathias
That night, instead of coming back home in preparation for their own basketball game the next day, their car ended up on a dirt road, stuck in a show drift about 4,400 miles in elevation and in the wrong direction from home. Months later, the remains of four out of the five men were found. Why did this happen? What happened to the men? What happened to the fifth man? We might never know…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five
https://www.reddit.com/r/coldcases/comments/q7rkkv/yuba_county_five/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_line
https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/yuba-county-5/
https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/the-yuba-county-5-revisited/
https://thefordhamram.com/81593/culture/when-a-true-crime-case-keeps-you-up-at-night/
"Though Solitary they would like to stay
They may help those who lose their way
But don't misjudge these dark-haired fae
Or you'll be the one that they betray!
Hiding their green skin and hazel eyes
Moss and leaves are their disguise
Entering their forest would be unwise
Offend them and get a big surprise"
- Morrigan Aoife
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_Dhu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairloch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Ghillie_Dhu
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Ghillie-Dhu-part-of-Scottish-folklore
Marvin Alvin Clark was born in (maybe) 1852. After a mysterious day of travel, he went missing on October 30th, 1926. Since then, it was believed that his body was found by loggers in 1986, but when it was determined that the remains were not his, two mysteries remain: who was found in 1986, and what happened to Marvin Alvin Clark?
Marvin Clark has been missing for just about 95 years now, so he would be over 160 years old today. Which means that we aren’t expecting to find him alive, but it would be nice to have some closure for the family. If you have any information about his disappearance though, the contact I found is for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office at 503.988.4300
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Marvin_Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook,_Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Eagles
https://medium.com/crimebeat/who-is-behind-americas-oldest-active-missing-person-case-73e36062744b
https://www.maryhallbergmedia.com/post/the-disappearance-of-marvin-clark-america-s-oldest-active-missing-persons-case
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mystery-oregon-corpse-could-be-oldest-missing-man-marvin-clark-n93241
https://www.koin.com/news/marvin-clark-of-tigard-missing-for-92-years/
New England is famous for horror stories and ghosts and hauntings - the most famous being the Salem Witch Trials of the late 1600s. Just about 200 years since that Satanic panic that caused the witch trials, there was another type of paranormal panic, a supernatural delusion if you will, fueled by an outbreak of tuberculosis, known at the time as consumption. When one member of a family would contract TB, it was likely that others would as well in due time. So people started thinking that the deceased were returning to earth and draining the life from their loved ones. And this caused what they called the “Vampiric Panic.” And thus began years of vampires and burning hearts…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-myths-and-legends-from-new-england/
https://www.chowdaheadz.com/blogs/news/new-england-myths-legends-the-vampires-of-woodstock-vermont
https://www.vpr.org/programs/2013-10-25/gilbert-vampires-in-vermont#stream/0
https://www.woodstockvt.com/the-town/blog/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales
https://www.vnews.com/Woodstock-vampire-lore-18668228
https://vermonter.com/vampires-woodstock-vermont/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic
The Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible column-stabilized drilling rig that was operated by Dolphin Drilling. When it was built in 1974, it was one of the more advanced drilling rigs at the time… but what happened on Saturday, November 5th, 1983 at 4am made it clear that it had not stayed the most advanced drilling rigs. In what is generally known as the most gruesome deaths in history, the Byford Dolphin Accident really shows how dangerous being a worker on an oil rig is and why it’s one of the highest paying jobs.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aker_Solutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Bermuda
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/4x1a2c/byford_dolphin_decompression_accident/
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2021/08/the-most-gruesome-death-the-byford-dolphin-accident/
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/byford-dolphin-accident-how-living-under-intense-pressure-led-to-one-of-the-most-gruesome-accidents-in-history/
Rehmeyer’s Hollow is known for its foundation in witchcraft, spells, and murder, and the story centers around two men: Nelson Rehmeyer and John Blymire. Filled with magic and hexes, murder and intregue, this story is more or less ingrained in the history of the town is still talked about to this day. What really happened at Rehmeyer’s Hollow though? Be sure to listen to this week’s episode to learn a bit more about it…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wgal.com/article/tales-of-witchcraft-spells-murder-surround-rehmeyer-s-hollow/6239526#
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rehmeyers-hollow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehmeyer%27s_Hollow
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/hex-hollow-pa/
June and Jennifer Gibbons were born on April 11th 1963, and were identical twins who lived in Wales and were known as the Silent Twins because they only ever communicated with each other. They started speaking in a more quirky version of the language and it was soon that literally nobody else could understand. One of the articles I read said “their language, or idioglossia, qualified as an example of cryptophasia, exemplified by the twins' simultaneous actions, which often mirrored each other. The twins became increasingly reserved and eventually spoke to no one except each other and their younger sister Rose.” But what really happened to the twins? Were they really as close as everyone thought they were?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_and_Jennifer_Gibbons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people#The_.22Windrush_generation.22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioglossia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia
https://allthatsinteresting.com/silent-twins
Hey everyone! I can’t believe the overwhelming response to my last post. When I started this thread, I didn’t expect anyone to read it – I just thought it would be one of those cool things for if I disappeared. You know, one of those documentaries where the only leads are the victim’s strange blog? But then it’s so strange, most people think it’s a hoax? Sources: Story: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-infinity-game/ Authors Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/PageTurner_Official Authors Website: https://dubbedemotions.wordpress.com/
This story is known as a few different things depending on what article you read, but what I’m calling it is the legend of Annie’s Doll. And the reason I was so excited to share was because it is based right here in Edinburgh, and those are my favorite stories to tell. So join us this week as we take a look at Mary King’s Close and one of the most famous hauntings in the area…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closes_on_the_Royal_Mile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_King%27s_Close
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_City_Chambers
https://www.realmarykingsclose.com/the-story-of-annies-doll/
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburghs-most-haunted-abandoned-annie-1522264
https://kddandco.com/2008/03/28/annies-room/
https://www.weewalkingtours.com/post/2019/06/29/the-real-mary-kings-close-and-the-search-for-annies-doll
"Has anyone ever played the Infinity Game? The one with the mirrors? Most people don’t know it’s a game, they just think it’s a cool visual effect. Maybe it’s different for me, being raised by witches. Not Halloween witches, but the ones who practice Wicca. You can Google it if you really want to learn about them, but I’m here to talk about the game." - Page Turner
Sources:
Story: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-infinity-game/
Authors Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/PageTurner_Official
Authors Website: https://dubbedemotions.wordpress.com/
The House of Binns, or the house of two hills, is located in West Lothian, Scotland. And while not the spookiest of spooky stories we have told on this channel, it may have connections to the devil… So join us me this week for a cursed card game, a lost marble, ghostly footsteps, and even some recently discovered skeletons.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Binns
https://ebooks.visitscotland.com/ghosts-myths-legends/house-binns/
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/skulls-scarred-teeth-found-sticking-19169309
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/whats-on-news/galloping-ghosts-devils-mark-creepy-16985450
https://www.facebook.com/HauntedScotlandInvestigates/posts/bluidy-tam-and-the-house-of-binnssitting-around-16-miles-from-edinburgh-close-to/4841889215929055/
"There are few careers with the same considerations as police work. Not only are we in a position to make life-changing choices, but we also have to live with the consequences of those choices forever. Many people struggle to handle that. Time and time again, we see what happens when people who are clearly unprepared are forced to navigate intense situations. It ends in tragedy."
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanIsTheKing
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/bryany97/
The Bell Witch Cave in Adams, Tennessee is the site of many, many hauntings. It is thought that Ol Kate Batts, the Bell Witch, fled to the sanctuary of the cave in the years she said she would leave the Bell family alone… and in that time she has been seen and heard and felt so many times over the years that it is almost impossible to believe that she isn’t really haunting that cave. So join us for part two of this wild ride…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch_Cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst
https://www.bellwitchcave.com
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/tennessee/articles/story-behind-tennessees-bell-witch-cave/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bell-witch-cave-adams-tennessee
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/haunted-live-examines-the-legend-of-the-bell-witch/
https://eu.tennessean.com/story/life/2021/10/28/bell-witch-cave-haunted-sent-brave-tennessean-staffers-fleeing-1986/8544483002/
https://eu.tennessean.com/story/life/2021/10/28/bell-witch-cave-haunted-sent-brave-tennessean-staffers-fleeing-1986/8544483002/
The Bell Witch is one of the most well known urban legends from the South, regarding a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the physical environment, and shapeshift and/or may have been clairvoyant and able to be in two places at once. And just to sum up how scary this spirit is, Andrew Jackson once spent the night at the Bell’s farm and was then quoted as saying "I had rather face the entire British Army than to spend another night with the Bell Witch." I guess only visit the Bell Witch if you dare…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch
https://www.bellwitchcave.com
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/tennessee/articles/story-behind-tennessees-bell-witch-cave/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bell-witch-cave-adams-tennessee
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/haunted-live-examines-the-legend-of-the-bell-witch/
https://eu.tennessean.com/story/life/2021/10/28/bell-witch-cave-haunted-sent-brave-tennessean-staffers-fleeing-1986/8544483002/
Andrew Gosden, known by friends and family as “Roo,” lived in South Yorkshire. By all accounts, he was a normal kid - he had a few close friends, was very academically driven but involved in the Church and in other activities like Cub Scouts. He was the kind of kid who was expected to go to Cambridge one day. That all changed in 2007, when he didn’t go to school and instead boarded a train to London. Andrew Gosden was never seen again. But over the years, people have thought they made contact… this story is still unfolding and we will update you when we know more, but for now we hope you enjoy this episode and if you have any information please do share it with the relevant authorities.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/andrew-gosden-07-019198
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Andrew_Gosden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-59952786
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-59964588
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/11/two-men-arrested-over-andrew-gosden-disappearance-in-2007
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10393739/Father-missing-Andrew-Gosden-14-says-hes-plagued-nasty-scenarios.html
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/andrew-gosden-dad-reveals-agony-after-police-announce-arrests-over-sons-disappearance-3529665
“She comes by night, in fearsome flight,
In garments black as pitch,
the queen of doom upon her broom,
the wild and wicked witch,
a crackling crone with brittle bones
and dessicated limbs,
two evil eyes with warts and sties
and bags about the rims,
a dangling nose, ten twisted toes
and fold of shriveled skin,
cracked and chipped and crackled lips
that frame a toothless grin.
She hurtles by, she sweeps the sky
and hurls a piercing screech.
As she swoops past, a spell is cast
on all her curses reach.
Take care to hide when the wild witch rides
to shriek her evil spell.
What she may do with a word or two
is much too grim to tell.”
- The Witch by Jack Prelutsky
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ms-witchdance/
https://www.natcheztracetravel.com/natchez-trace-mississippi/houston-mantee-ms/151-witch-dance.html
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mississippi/recarea/?recid=82485
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/mississippi/witch-dance-haunted-campground-in-ms/
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/mississippi/unexplained-natural-phenomena-in-ms/?utm_source=pinterest&utm_medium=social
In 1934, Alcatraz was remade/rebranded as the world’s most secure prison… and was made even more cold and secure than its previous island-surrounded-by-cold-and-foreboding-waters made it out to be. The redesign included tougher iron bars, a series of strategically positioned guard towers, and strict rules, including a dozen checks a day of the prisoners. Despite this, from 1934 to when the prison closed in 1963, 36 men tried 14 separate escapes. Nearly all were caught or didn’t survive the attempt. But three men may have made it out…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt
https://www.history.com/news/alcatraz-escape-new-evidence-anglin-brothers
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Frank_Morris_and_the_Anglin_Brothers
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/alcatraz-escape-mystery-may-just-solved-facial-recognition-tech/1671220
“London Times, July 20, 1836:
That, early in July, 1836, some boys were searching for rabbits’ burrows in the rocky formation, near Edinburgh, known as Arthur’s Seat. In the side of a cliff, they came upon some thin sheets of slate, which they pulled out.
Little cave.
Seventeen tiny coffins.
Three or four inches long.
In the coffins were miniature wooden figures. They were dressed differently in both style and material. There were two tiers of eight coffins each, and a third one begun, with one coffin.
The extraordinary datum, which has especially made mystery here:
That the coffins had been deposited singly, in the little cave, and at intervals of many years. In the first tier, the coffins were quite decayed, and the wrappings had moldered away. In the second tier, the effects of age had not advanced so far. And the top coffin was quite recent looking.”
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/10-scottish-urban-legends-need-know/
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/mystery-of-the-miniature-coffins/
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/weirdest-theories-creepy-mini-coffins-16326331
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/
https://thirdeyetraveller.com/burke-and-hare-dolls-edinburgh/
The true crime cases we’ve covered on this podcast have all been horrifying; to even think people would be capable of such monstrosities is a terrible thought. This case is one of the worst I have encountered. We only hope that the victims and their families were able to find some peace.
On April 22, 1974, six men in total, drove in two vans to the Hi-Fi Shop at 2323 Washington Boulevard, Ogden. They came with the intention of robbing the store and killing everyone who got in their way. There were two employees working that night, one teenage boy and his mother, and the father of one of the employees. Only two of them left alive, and suffered horrible traumatic injuries as a result.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders
https://www.ranker.com/list/ogden-hi-fi-facts/jessika-gilbert
https://www.grunge.com/221896/the-untold-truth-about-the-mysterious-murders-of-gilgo-beach/
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1348104
The A75 is a road that stretches a total of 95.4 miles through Dumfries and Galloway. It is just on the Scottish side of the border, the route is notorious for being extremely badly lit. Apparently reports of hauntings date back to 1957… but the most known report is from 1962 when these two brothers were returning home after the week they spent driving around Scotland in their father’s car… so join us this week for a spooky story with just a bit of a true crime tangent :)
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.spookyisles.com/scotlands-a75-the-haunted-road/
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/uks-most-haunted-roads-scottish-25316203
https://diggingup1800.com/body-snatching-around-the-a75-scotlands-haunted-road/
https://ebooks.visitscotland.com/ghosts-myths-legends/ghost-road/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A75_road
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-24655488
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/10-scottish-urban-legends-need-know/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/8-scotlands-creepiest-haunted-roads-and-bridges-546263
Claudia Lawrence was born in Malton, North Yorkshire in 1974. While her parents were both in the law field, after her early education she went to a local catering college where she qualified as a chef. After working at hotels and restaurants in York, she eventually settled at Goodricke College in the University of York in 2006. While she never had any serious relationships, she did have a very vibrant social life and was quite close with her parents too. Everything was looking great for her, up until Thursday March 19th when she didn’t show up to her 6am shift.. or drinks with her friend after… or anything after that either. To this date, we don’t know what happened to Claudia Lawrence, but we can only hope that her family will one day find closure about what happened to her.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/britains-chilling-missing-persons-cases-23612060
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Claudia_Lawrence
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/05/claudia-lawrence-police-find-no-new-clues-in-lake-search
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/claudia-lawrence-case-disappearance-know-17946108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58460158
https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/news/north-yorkshire/news/news/2021/september/claudia-lawrence-investigation-searches-at-sand-hutton-gravel-pits-conclude/
There is a road, an “old path” if you will, in southeast Nebraska. And according to the local lore, in the 1900s there were seven women who were murdered on this road. So this legend has been kind of circulating for more than a century so there are a ton of variations and add ons and honestly even more sightings and spooky occurrences. Lots of sevens in today’s story: from seven sisters to seven hills.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/seven-sisters-road/
https://www.ranker.com/list/legend-of-nebraska-haunted-hills/erin-wisti
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/nebraska/haunted-road-ne/
https://www.podiumrunner.com/culture/tales-from-the-trail-seven-hills-road/
https://www.antiquearchaeology.com/blog/tag/seven-sister-road/
Rebecca Coriam, a Disney Crew member on the Disney Wonder, sent her last message to her parents on March 21st 2011 saying she would call the next day. However, when she didn't call or show up for work the next morning, the crew understandably got worried. From there began a series of investigations that frankly left more to be desired. Nobody knows what exactly happened from when she was last seen on CCTV at 5:45am. Was it a 100 foot rogue wave that mysteriously appeared in calm waters like Disney suggests? Did she decide to take her own life even though she had made future plans? Honestly, I don't think we'll ever know. But all we can say for sure is we hope Rebecca Coriam's family and friends may one day find peace.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Rebecca_Coriam
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/shows/when-missing-turns-to-murder/articles/vanished-britains-five-most-famous-missing-persons-cases
https://www.grunge.com/614962/inside-the-mysterious-disappearance-of-rebecca-coriam/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4285188/girlfriend-of-missing-disney-cruise-ship-worker-rebecca-coriam-breaks-six-year-silence-to-claim-lover-took-drugs-and-considered-suicide/
https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/channel-4-probes-case-missing-17859163
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/11/rebecca-coriam-lost-at-sea?fbclid=IwAR1XQGpR0RU7QPTMT3PWMe_EUTlzDJefx4OQRoAkaC1wmEeHhARt6N-fk-A
"Harry Maine — you have heard the tale;
He lived there in Ipswich Town;
He blasphemed God, so they put him down,
With an iron shovel, at Ipswich Bar;
They chained him there for a thousand years,
As the sea rolls up to shovel it back ;
So when the sea cries, the goodwives say
“Harry Maine growls at his work today.”"
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/harry-maine/
https://historicipswich.org/2021/03/08/the-ghost-of-harry-maine/
http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2015/10/harry-main-and-black-cats-from-hell.html
https://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-myths-and-legends-from-new-england/
An article in the Smithsonian Magazine by Colin Dickey (December 15th 2017), called A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories reminded us that especially in this day and age, we really only let the spooky things happen at Halloween. But if you know anything about whack Christmas traditions, you’ll know the very famous story by Charles Dickens titled A Christmas Carol. The story is about a man tormented by a series of ghosts the night before Christmas, and it belongs to the now mostly forgotten tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve. And you can still see this now in songs like ““It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” with the lyric “there’ll be scary ghost stories.” For much of the 19th century, the holiday was very much associated with ghosts and the specters. But telling these stories was something the Puritans didn’t really love so the tradition died down in America. In honor of the early tradition, we will be reading you a story called Dark Christmas by Jeanette Winterson… hope you enjoy :)
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plea-resurrect-christmas-tradition-telling-ghost-stories-180967553/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/24/christmas-ghost-stories-dark-jeanette-winterson
With some people saying things like ““We took pictures of our kids swinging. Later we looked at pictures and saw several figures that looked like children watching In several pictures” and “I was there the other day taking pictures and actually caught a pic with 3 shadow people who appeared to be adults, not children,” It is no surprise that the Maple Hill Cemetery and the Dead Children’s Playground is one of the most haunted places in Alabama… So stay tuned for this spooky ghost story :)
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.alabamahauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/dead-childrens-playground-at-maple-hill-cemetery.html
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alabama/maple-hill-cemetery-al/
https://wearehuntsville.com/5-huntsville-ghost-stories/
https://wearehuntsville.com/maple-hill-cemetery-most-haunted-places/
https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/maple-hill-cemetery/
So today we’re talking about the Black Widow of Valencia and the Poisoner of Melilla. And this is because she killed her entire family over a period of 14 years. We’ve talked a bit about women who kill over the years, and tragically most end up killing their own families. We will be talking a bit about filial infanticide in this episode, which we know could be a trigger for some people out there, so please make sure to take care of your own welfare xx
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Souces:
https://www.grunge.com/190380/the-most-notorious-female-serial-killers/
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/ballesteros-francisca.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca_Ballesteros
https://hellhorror.com/serial-killers/francisca-ballesteros-serial-killer-105.html
Dozens of ghosts haunt the Historic Anchorage Hotel. In 1916 when the hotel was first opened, it was owned by Frank Reed. He had a young son that would go down to the Alaska Railroad terminal during the day to pick up luggage for the guests arriving at the hotel. One of the ghosts is a little boy. The second ghost is said to be the first chief of police of Anchorage looking for his killer, and the third is a bride hanged herself... So if you'd like to know more about why this hotel is such a hot spot for paranormal activity or just more about the ghosts who reside here, make sure to tune in to this weeks episode!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.adn.com/features/article/ghost-sightings-downtown-anchorage-hotel-draw-paranormal-investigators/2012/10/31/
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/haunted-anchorage-hotel-ak/
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/alaska/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/historic-anchorage-hotel
https://www.historicanchoragehotel.com/our-history.htm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/galleries/The-worlds-most-haunted-hotels/anchorage-hotel-40/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/25/travel-these-hotels-are-said-to-be-haunted-by-guests-who-checked-out-violently/
https://www.travelmyth.com/Anchorage/Hotels/haunted
Maddie is back at it again this week with part 2 of Hammerhead, from the series called I Investigate Disturbing Cases: Here Are My Stories by Brian Young... so stay tuned if you'd like to hear the end of this spooky story because what a wild ride that was!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanIsTheKing
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/bryany97/
Hello friends and welcome back to grim! This week Maddie takes us back to the series called I Investigate Disturbing Cases: Here Are My Stories by Brian Young... and leaves us on just a bit of a cliffhanger... so stay tuned if you'd like to hear the end of this spooky story!
Stay safe out there,
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanIsTheKing
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/bryany97/
Joseph Roy Metheny was born on March 2nd 1955, and he was the type of murderer and rapist to declare himself a serial killer who killed 13 people, there was only sufficient evidence that he murdered 2 people in the Baltimore area. He said “My murder rampage started out as revenge but ended up as a passion for the taste of blood and the overwhelming sense of power one gets for taking the life of another.” And that’s not even the beginning. If you want to learn more, stay tuned for this episode… where let’s just say I’m glad to be vegetarian.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Metheny
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/metheny-joe.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-metheny-dead-serial-killer-human-flesh-sandwiches-bbq-women-victims-maryland-dies-62-a7882141.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/joe-metheny
https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-cannibal-joe/amandasedlakhevener
https://random-times.com/2020/04/15/joe-metheny-the-serial-killer-who-made-his-victims-into-hamburgers/
The Château de Fougeret is a château in Vienne, France; it was built some time between the 15th and 16th centuries. So basically, in ancient times, there were Druidic sources in Fougeret that were places of worship. It was the type of place where the villagers would go to cure skin diseases or to have children, and I guess they claimed that there was a magic link that existed from the beginning on the site, like even before there was a castle. François-Joseph Geffroy and Véronique Geffroy bought the chateau in 2009. Upon buying it, they said “when we arrived in Fougeret in March 2009, we totally ignored his history. We fell in love with this unusual castle but we did not know why or how it was going to change our lives. Fougeret came into resonance with our own existence because its story and ours was strangely similar.”
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Fougeret
https://www.fougeret.com/en
https://ofrench.com/culture/fougeret-haunted-castle-france/
John Joseph Joubert IV (not to be confused with John Joubert, the famous South African composer) was an American serial killer who murdered three boys in Maine and Nebraska. His parents divorced when he was 6 years old, and he went to live with his mother in Lawrence, MA. He was not allowed to visit his father at all and started to resent his mother, who he described as “controlling.” In 1971, Joubert's mother moved them out of their former house into a rundown apartment, and at this point in time, he was considered an outcast at school; so, in order to cope with these feelings of isolation, he decided to join the Cub Scouts. It was around this time that his sadistic and homicidal fantasies progressed to the point where he contemplated murdering strangers on the streets, tying and gagging those who resisted him. And from there, it only got worse...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joubert_(serial_killer)
https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j1/joubert-john.htm
Honestly Wikipedia said it best here: "Logan Drew Schiendelman is an American man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Thurston County, Washington in May 2016. The son of a mixed-race mother and a Saudi Arabian father, Schiendelman was raised primarily by his grandmother in Tumwater, Washington, where he was a star athlete at Tumwater High School. After attending Washington State University for one year, he decided to drop out of college and return to Tumwater, where he worked several jobs and moved in with his grandmother and half-sister. Schiendelman was last seen by his grandmother on the morning of May 19, 2016, when the two talked in their kitchen before leaving for their respective jobs. As of 2021, Schiendelman's whereabouts remain unknown."
Join us this week for Maddie's first case back! I won't lie, its not a fun time, but this is grim so we have to call it a good story...
Valdo Taneski was born in 1952 in Yugoslavia. A middle child (the second of three children), his parents were both conservative disciplinarians and he had a particularly tense relationship with his mother. He ended up studying journalism in Croatia, and had a 20 year long career as a very well respected and well liked journalist. But all that changed in 2005, when the body of Mitra Simjanoska was found. Since then, two more bodies were found and one woman is still missing… and the only real reason why they suspected Taneski was because is his very detailed journal reports, even more detailed than was released to the public. Did Taneski want to be caught? Or did he simply slip up? We may never know…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlado_Taneski
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/taneski-vlado.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlado-taneski
The Seaside is a historic medical facility at 36 Shore Road in Waterford, Connecticut. It is nationally significant as the first institution designed for heliotropic treatment of children suffering from tuberculosis. It has also been a home for the elderly, a medical hospital and a facility to treat the mentally handicapped. Rumors state that the death toll of Seaside Sanatorium summed up to the low hundreds. This is mostly due to the high mortality rate of tuberculosis and of course the elderly. This has left an imprint on the building which is said to still exist to today. Users who worked in the building claim they would feel cold spots, hear footsteps and strange sounds even while alone
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.damnedct.com/seaside-sanatorium-waterford/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_(Waterford,_Connecticut)
https://www.trytoscare.me/legend/seaside-sanatorium-waterford-ct-2/
https://www.thefisherman.com/hot-spot/seaside-park-waterford-ct/
Adrie "Aalt" Mondria was born on May 9th 1956, and he was nicknamed Aalt M. by the media. And he started is criminal legacy early on in his life. In 1976, he was around 20 years old, and was addicted to drugs and described as very paranoid - either the result of a mental disorder or because of the drugs (or both). And he then threatened someone else and received 4 months sentence in a treatment clinic - he was a super unmanageable patient here, and ended up destroying a lot of property before he escaped the clinic. From there the story only gets more wild, so join us for this crazy adventure...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalt_Mondria
https://peoplepill.com/people/aalt-mondria/lists
https://dutchreview.com/culture/how-do-the-dutch-deal-with-mentally-ill-criminals-heres-all-you-need-to-know/
Clementine Barnabet is believed to have been born around 1894 in St. Martinville, Louisiana and moved to Lafayette in 1909. In Proceedings of the 2012 Homicide Research Working Group Annual Symposium, Professor Vance McLaughlin wrote: "Between 1911 and 1912, in towns along the Southern Pacific railroad line running through Louisiana and Texas, a minimum of twelve African-American families were murdered in their homes. All the murders occurred at night and an ax was used to fracture the skulls of the victims. Only one person, Clementine Barnabet, was ever punished for any of these homicides." So while this story seems to be wrapped up in a neat little bow, all may not be what it seems… join us this week for Voodoo, murders, and a church twisted by the media…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_Barnabet
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502014/voodoo-murders-clementine-barnabet-who-claimed-have-killed-35-people
Join us again friends for part 2 of the ghosts of St. Andrews! This week we talked about three very specific ghosts who have been haunting the university and its grounds for a long long time... and even one who was only just seen in 2018. Who is she? Is she even real? How did people learn about her? Make sure to give this episode a listen and let us know your thoughts!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wanderingcrystal.com/ghosts-of-st-andrews/
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/st-andrews-haunted-town
https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/scotland/haunted-sites/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/five-notorious-ghosts-st-andrews-2471966
https://thestand-online.com/2017/10/31/guide-ghosts-st-andrews/
https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-sites/4309-st-andrews-cathedral-scotland
https://aboutaberdeen.com/White-Lady-Ghost-St-Andrews
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/1685332/halloween-new-ghost-of-eight-year-old-child-investigated-in-historic-heart-of-st-andrews/
You may know St. Andrews as a university town, golf courses and beach and all that... but this is Scotland, so you know that the city has a darker side and what many articles call a macabre history. St Andrews actually has over 200 locations that are rumored to be possessed and has over 400 ghosts that are said to inhabit these areas. In part 1, we're talking about the ghosts in St. Andrews Castle and the Cathedral grounds where we talk about the White Lady and the Nun of Nuns walk as well as a few short stories about the White Angel Statue and St Rule's Tower - but make sure to tune in next week too where we talk about a few other ghosts in St Andrews, including maybe a new one...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wanderingcrystal.com/ghosts-of-st-andrews/
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/st-andrews-haunted-town
https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/scotland/haunted-sites/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/five-notorious-ghosts-st-andrews-2471966
https://thestand-online.com/2017/10/31/guide-ghosts-st-andrews/
https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-sites/4309-st-andrews-cathedral-scotland
https://aboutaberdeen.com/White-Lady-Ghost-St-Andrews
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/1685332/halloween-new-ghost-of-eight-year-old-child-investigated-in-historic-heart-of-st-andrews/
So we’ve talked about this type of killer before, kind of like an “angel of mercy” or “angel of death” - basically a person employed as a caregiver, usually like a hospital or nursing home or something, who intentionally harms or kills people who depend on them for care
Donald Harvey was born in Butler County in Ohio in 1952 but ended up moving to Kentucky. He started working as an orderly at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, and he worked there from May 1970 to March 1971
He later confessed that during the ten-month period he worked at the hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Harvey
https://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/inmate-charged-in-cincinnati-angel-of-death-donald-harveys-fatal-prison-beating
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/harvey-donald.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/donald-harvey
Ybor City is chock full of historical buildings and culture… and even some ghosts...
The Cuban Club is probably one of the most haunted places in the city, and it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972. Joe Howden from Ybor City Ghost tours basically explained that spirits may become attached to a place rather than an event, and so they tend to stick around.
"What you really are, is energy sewn together by consciousness, you come from somewhere. We’ll say another dimension for ease. You come here, you pick up a body like a Hertz rent-a-car, you use it for a period of time and then you return, discarding the automobile that you were in. There are some who can't transition and if you think about it in your life, you’ve probably known someone who’s in a toxic relationship and from the outside you say, 'well, why doesn’t he leave her?' or 'why doesn’t she leave him?' Attachment. The Cuban Club is such a great place because I think there’s a lot of attachment here that might be out of love."
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://nightlyspirits.com/the-cuban-club-in-ybor-city/
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/florida/tampa/haunted-places/cuban-club
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/culture/2014-10-30/a-tour-of-the-haunted-cuban-club
https://www.fox13news.com/news/the-haunts-of-the-cuban-club-in-ybor-city
https://www.ihorror.com/haunting-tales-from-the-historic-cuban-club-in-ybor-city-tampa-florida/
Milena Quaglini was born on March 25th, 1957 in Mezzanino, Italy, and the reason we are talking about her today is that she murdered 3 men in the late 1990s. She had a tumultuous family life and left shortly after she graduated school. But she went on to meet the love of her life shortly after. For a while her life was as good as it can get, but when her husband died suddenly, things started spiraling out of control. His death hit her hard, and the series of men she met afterwards weren’t the best. So finally, she decided enough was enough and she killed 3 of the men who had hurt or tried to hurt her in the past. When she was arrested, her depression retired and unfortunately she passed away on October 16, 2001.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena_Quaglini
http://www.serialkillers.it/quaglini.htm
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-true-crime-timeline-60533105/episode/070-serial-killer-milena-quaglini-85958361/
https://hyperleap.com/topic/Milena_Quaglini
https://newsrnd.com/news/2020-02-29--milena-quaglini--the-serial-killer-of-pedophiles-and-rapists.BkeKkWRPN8.html
The Kehoe House is at 123 Habersham Street on Columbia Square in Savannah, Georgia. It was completed in May of 1892, built for William Kehoe and his family. Kehoe was an Irish man who immigrated to the US in 1842 when he was only 10 years old. And he made a fortune in iron and became one of Savannah's most prominent businessmen. Kehoe spent $950 ($25,000 today) on the construction of this house, including making the home a “true showcase of his iron trade.” And it comes as no surprise when we say that the house is haunted. By the ghosts of the Kehoe children, their mother, and even William Kehoe himself…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://ghostcitytours.com/savannah/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/kehoe-house/
https://www.kehoehouse.com/haunted.htm
https://www.trolleytours.com/savannah/kehoe-house
https://savannahterrors.com/kehoe-house/
In the summer of 1976 two serial killers stalked the roads of Ireland in a Ford Cortina looking for young women to abduct, rape and murder in order to “fulfil” their “shared fantasy” of raping and killing one woman every week while in Ireland. When they arrived in Ireland, they didn’t immediately start with the killing. They actually went on a crime spree in Wicklow where they committed a series of burglaries before being sent to Mountjoy Prison. When they were released from prison, they decided that they would do what they wanted, namely the aforementioned fantasy. Later, after they were arrested for the final time, they ended up telling the gardaí that they had decided to “embark on an unprecedented and macabre programme of abduction, rape and murder.”
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Evans
https://extra.ie/2020/02/05/news/irish-news/serial-killer-john-shaw-release
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/english-duo-were-state-s-first-serial-killers-1.1167586
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/evil-killer-john-shaw-recycling-21263644
https://justcriminals.info/2016/11/12/john-shaw-geoffrey-evans-1976/
https://www.thejournal.ie/irelands-longest-serving-prisoners-2542447-Jan2016/
"There's a famous quote by Robert Evans, "There are three sides to a story. Yours, mine, and the truth." In my line of work, you come to realize that the truth is rarely an objective perspective. For example, a bloody fight is the result of an argument. One side claims self-defense. The other claims a brutal attack. A camera shows a man striking another in the heat of the moment. Case closed, right? The truth is stored in that digital medium. No. When you look further, what do you find? A lifelong friendship. Betrayal. Months of tension. Threats. A boilover. Maybe the attacker truly believed his life was in danger and mistook the slightest movement as the beginning of a punch. Perhaps he just let his anger at the situation get the best of him. Maybe a mix of both. What's the objective truth here? And for whom is that truth valid?
When you're a cop, understanding these nuances in "truth" is critical. And, understanding the power those nuances can have is even more important. Not only when we have to discern whether or not someone's recollection of events is accurate, but when we lie to achieve a specific response. It's all something you become very familiar with. For me and my investigations, in particular, this was especially true."
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://twitter.com/messages/842969142-1279273000412610560
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/m6mdz1/i_investigate_disturbing_cases_here_are_my/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QD1RXFY
So this case is another one of those cases that makes me irrationally angry, and I’m just going to tell you why - because along with the fact that this man was a terrible terrible person, he still hasn’t been caught yet. This week we’re talking about the Honolulu Strangler, also known as the Honolulu Rapist. He was Hawaii’s first known serial killer, and he killed 5 women between 1985 and 1986. We hope the families of these victims have been able to find some peace even though nobody has ever been convicted of these horrendous crimes.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Strangler
https://sites.psu.edu/gillianpassionblog/2021/04/01/hawaii-the-honolulu-strangler/
https://listverse.com/2018/08/25/10-terrifying-facts-of-the-honolulu-strangler/
https://serialdispatches.com/list-of-serial-killers-h/the-honolulu-strangler/
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/honolulu-strangler-mystery-hi/
Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. And while the club may seem like the dark academia fantasy society of your dreams, the club was actually pretty scary - dabbling in the dark arts (of course), devil worship, animal sacrifice, and drinking questionable alcoholic drinks. At the top of Montpelier Hill sits a hunting lodge constructed in the early 1700s that was one of the many locations that the Hellfire club in Ireland used - but this one is particularly haunted. From tales of the Devil stopping by to demonic cat possession to poltergeist activity, the house has had its share of paranormal events. So join us this week for a look into the Devil and his followers…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
https://dublin.ie/live/stories/the-hell-fire-club/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dower_house
https://evoke.ie/2020/10/09/life-style/travelnews/the-chilling-true-story-behind-the-infamous-irish-hellfire-club
https://www.worldabandoned.com/hell-fire-club
Christine Laverne Slaughter (that’s her actual birth name, we were shocked too) was an American serial killer who was active in a couple different towns in Florida. She had a really rough childhood, and as a young child she began to take that anger out on cats, killing several of them by throwing them from great heights. When she was a teenager, she graduated to killing the children she babysat. This story is especially heartbreaking due to this fact - many of her victims were young children. Definitely don’t listen to us this week if you find these topics triggering in any way, because your welfare always comes first. We hope you all stay safe and have a great week ahead.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Falling
https://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/falling-christine.htm
https://deadlywomen.fandom.com/wiki/Christine_Falling
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/killed-babies-article-1.1203822%3foutputType=amp
"They say that everyone has a case that haunts them. Personally, if it's just one case, then clearly, whoever "they" are isn't doing very good police work. Being a detective is gritty and bleak. You aren't dealing with happy endings, you're dealing with the cold hard truth. Sure, every now and again, you'll get an easy case—the missing kid who just so happens to be at a friend's house. Or the argument turned bad where the bullet just so happens to miss every vital organ. Open and shut, everyone goes home with a smile on their face or at least the life they were given."
Join us this week for another Creepypasta. This week we’re listening to The Tall Woman written by @brianistge king; a really great author of a really horrifying story that’ll definitely keep you up at night...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://twitter.com/BryanIsTheKing
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/kr93k3/i_investigate_disturbing_cases_here_are_my/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QD1RXFY
France has had some prolific serial killers but if the 150 supposed kills by Yvan Keller, the Pillow Killer, are all true then he might be the most prolific serial killer of the 20th century. Active between 1989 and 2003, Yvan was a landscape gardener who gained access to the houses of elderly women who lived alone in France, Switzerland, and Germany. He would then smother them with a pillow before robbing them. While he confessed to many many murders, he was only indicted for five deaths. So did he actually kill that many women? Or is this a case of megalomania?
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvan_Keller
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215254755/yvan-keller
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/world/world-briefing-europe-france-suspected-serial-killer-hangs-himself-in.html
https://fmsppl.com/person/Yvan_Keller
https://thekillerblogofkillers.tumblr.com/post/625280974675181568/yvan-keller-1960-2006
https://www.expatica.com/fr/uncategorized/suspected-french-serial-killer-hangs-himself-in-jail-114446/
https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2006/09/27/67827-mulhouse-il-s-accusait-d-une-trentaine-de-crimes.html https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/sur-les-traces-du-tueur-de-vieilles-dames-27-09-2006-2007366936.php
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-gendarmes-ne-nous-ont-pas-pris-au-serieux-27-09-2006-2007366937.php
https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20061004.OBS4606/mulhouse-keller-tueur-du-siecle.html
You might know Salem for the witch trials in 1692, but Salem has a major haunted history as well - that all kind of centers around the House of the Seven Gables. Built in 1668 for a man called John Turner, the house has seen centuries of history: some good, some bad, and some in between. The name we use today for the house was popularized due to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel (The House of the Seven Gables). But that’s not all that the Hawthorne family was involved in; their ties to the Salem Witch Trials run deep. So, as you can imagine, with its past and its connection to the witch trials, the house is pretty prominent in ghost stories and paranormal activity. Join us today as we talk about the history of the House of the Seven Gables and the ghosts that currently call the place home.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://salemghosts.com/house-of-the-seven-gables/
https://ghostcitytours.com/salem/haunted-places/house-seven-gables/
https://7gables.org/history/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Seven_Gables
https://amyscrypt.com/ghosts-of-house-of-the-seven-gables-haunted-salem/
If you haven’t heard of the Affair of Poisons, look no further than this episode. This was this major murder scandal in France between 1677 and 1682, when King Louis XIV was in power. During this time there were many members of the aristocracy who were accused and charged with poisoning and witchcraft. The Affair of Poisons ended with 442 implicated suspects, 367 issued orders of arrests were issued, where 218 of which were carried out. Of those 218 condemned, 36 were executed; 5 were sentenced to the galleys, and 23 to exile. What do all of these people have in common? Well, if not for Marie-Madeleine d’Aubray, the Marquise de Brinvillers, they wouldn’t be dead, for her death was the catalyst of the Affair of Poisons. But what exactly did she do and how did she do it? This episode has most of the answers and maybe a few questions…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Brinvilliers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Poisons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_de_cachet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Brinvilliers
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite-dAubray-marquise-de-Brinvilliers
https://bonjourparis.com/history/mystery-and-murder-in-paris-the-infamous-madame-de-brinvilliers/
https://historycollection.com/the-life-and-crimes-of-the-marquise-de-brinvilliers/3/
So this week Maddie and I are going back to our roots I guess - because we’re talking about a notoriously haunted house in our home state of Massachusetts. If you know the popular jump rope song:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
She gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Lizzie Borden got away
For her crime she did not pay.”
You probably can guess that we’re talking about the Lizzie Borden House. There are a lot of details in the actual case of the murder and the trial and everything so if you want to hear more about that let us know and maybe we can do an episode just on the case sometime in the future. But for now, let’s talk about the ghosts in this apparently very haunted bed and breakfast...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden_House
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/16/us/lizzie-borden-house-for-sale/index.html
https://www.reference.com/world-view/lizzie-borden-nursery-rhyme-8a0d85f4d638a051
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lizzie-borden-took-an-axe#:~:text=Her%20story%20is%20still%20remembered,gave%20her%20father%20forty%2Done.
https://thegenealogycorner.com/2012/01/30/the-legend-and-family-of-lizzie-borden/
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g41564-d115165-Reviews-Lizzie_Borden_Bed_and_Breakfast-Fall_River_Massachusetts.html#REVIEWS
https://www.novelsuspects.com/excerpts/the-lizzie-borden-house/
https://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/a45140/what-its-like-to-stay-lizzie-borden-house/
https://bostonghosts.com/the-lizzie-borden-house/
http://hauntedhouses.com/massachusetts/lizzie-borden-house/
https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/midcoast-painter-has-unnerving-encounter-lizzie-borden-house/66037
"DISCLAIMER: None of this information has been released to the public. What I’m about to share with you is highly confidential. My superiors at the bureau are trying their best to keep these killings a secret to avoid panic, but I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer. You all deserve to know the danger that lurks out there. You deserve to know that no one is safe from this family. They are deranged, twisted, psychopathic killers. The following is my recounting of an interview with one of the Noir family sons and the events that transpired thereafter."
So this episode was a lot... but we hope you enjoy my reactions to this story as Maddie and I blind react to a creepypasta that honestly could have just been the wattpad fanfic that was open in another tab on Maddie's computer. With characters such as Lucas Noir and Marcus Haze there's honestly no difference between this creepypasta and a fanfic we could find on wattpad. So sit back and enjoy the many questions we had through this story, and we'll see you next week for a fun lil paranormal story!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.creepypasta.com/the-noir-family/
https://www.facebook.com/rlrogersauthor
In 1913, the Franciscan order built the Waldniel Hoster School - this was a Christian religious order within the catholic church that was founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi. It was this huge space that consisted of a church, a school and several administrative buildings. However, with Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s and the Euthanasia decree coming into effect in 1939, the school became more or less a place of death and pain. It is estimated that 97 children lost their lives in the building, and their cries can still be heard to this day. The 97 children who had death certificates at the facility had causes of death such as emaciation, pneumonia, and cardiovascular weakness, but it is more than likely that the actual cause of death was due to the sleeping medication that was continuously administered. We hope that these souls eventually find peace, and hope you enjoy this eerie story…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://paranormalteams.com/directory/haunted-locations/international/germany/157-waldniel-hoster-school
https://aminoapps.com/c/paranormal/page/blog/the-waldniel-hoster-school/j05g_lKWIKug2dwBlJZ21dQRjMeonYEmngj
https://www.allaboutparanormal.co/2015/01/the-waldniel-hoster-school.html?m=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_School,_Hostert
https://steemit.com/story/@extreemer162/waldniel-hoster
https://www.facebook.com/historyhaunted/posts/history-haunting-of-waldniel-hoster-kent-school-schwalmtal-germany-said-to-be-ha/846541968705218/
In September of 2020, 38 year old Holly Courtier and her daughter Kailey Chambers went to Zion National Park to go hiking. She was apparently looking to go on a brief spiritual pilgrimage, and was looking to disconnect from everything for a while. On October 6th, she left her phone, didn’t tell anyone where exactly she was going to hike, parked her car in Springdale, and then took a 1:30 pm private shuttle to the Grotto area. This was the last time she was seen for almost 2 weeks. 12 days later, she was rescued from a site near the Virgin River - but this is where the story gets weird and we’re left asking questions like “how did she even survive this?”
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/28/holly-courtier-rescue-zion-national-park-led-online-rumors-theories/6055999002/
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/10/30/police-investigating/#:~:text=Holly%20Courtier%2C%2038%2C%20disappeared%20Oct,alerted%20by%20a%20park%20visitor
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/10/18/holly-courtier-found/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/us/missing-zion-hiker-holly-courtier/index.html
https://www.insider.com/zion-hiker-holly-courtier-official-questions-story-discrepancies-2020-10
https://www.yourtango.com/2020338110/holly-suzanne-courtier-conspiracy-theories
The Spandau Citadel is a fortress in Berlin, and it is one of the best preserved Renaissance military structures in Europe. It was built in 1559 on this medieval fort located on an island, and it was designed to protect the town of Spandau - the town is now a part of Berlin. And also the inner courtyard is used as a concert venue in summer and has been once since 2005!
But this is a story of love and loss; of children who do the wrong thing; and of women who come back with a vengeance. While the ghost of the Spandau Citadel hasn’t been reported to be violent, she has appeared to the descendants of the Hohenzollern family. And lastly, we should mention here that there is still a bit of mystery surrounding her death - and if the skeleton they found in the citadel during renovations actually belongs to her…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Citadel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Berlin_(1806)
https://berlinguidesassociation.com/possibly-the-most-haunted-place-in-berlin
https://www.thelocal.de/galleries/travel/germanys-10-most-haunted-spots
https://www.thelocal.de/20191023/what-are-germanys-most-haunted-castles
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/serie-die-schoene-und-das-biest/7311768.html
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-ghost-stories/
Scott Lee Kimball was born on September 21st, 1966 in Boulder County, Colorado, and he was convicted of check fraud after he stole $50,000 from this optometrist. In light of this criminal act, he was sentenced to prison for fraud. When he was in prison, he apparently bragged to his fellow inmates that he was a hit man, and adopted this a tough-guy persona, probably to increase his relevance in the inmate hierarchy. For some reason, he also liked to call himself "Hannibal.” But he was released in 2003. And he murdered four people between January of 2003 and August of 2004. This story is a lot, but we hope you enjoy the ride…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lee_Kimball
https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kimball-scott-lee.htm
https://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Scott%20Lee%20KIMBALL.php
https://www.truecrimeauctionhouse.com/artwork/scott-kimball-signed-handmade-card-letter-envelope
https://www.westword.com/news/denver-pro-trump-rally-and-washington-dc-riot-comparisons-11877646
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Scott_Lee_Kimball
The White Horse Tavern is located in Newport, Rhode Island. And it is the oldest tavern still in operation in America. And not only is it the oldest tavern still operating in America, it is also listed on the National Historic Register of Historic Places. And I mean as you can probably tell from the content of our podcast, it is said to be home to a couple of resident ghosts… so join us for this lil history lesson - this one is kinda fun, we promise :)
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/white-horse-tavern-rhode-island/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Tavern_(Newport,_Rhode_Island)
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/rhode-island/white-horse-tavern-haunted-ri/
http://hauntedhouses.com/rhode-island/white-horse-tavern/
https://www.werewoofs.com/underrated-ghost-stories-and-mythical-creatures-all-over-the-world/underrated-ghost-stories-and-mythical-creatures-all-over-the-world-one-hundred-and-twenty-first-stop-rhode-island/
https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-eateries/4361-the-white-horse-tavern
https://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=39
So today I thought we could talk about two different cases cause I found one I wanted to talk about but then it ended up being a story from Egypt and I wanted to keep with the Europe and America theme so I thought we could talk about Kaisa Vornanen-Karaduman and then do a little bonus story. Unfortunately neither of these stories are fun but we don’t think any murders are fun…
The first case is better known as the Oulu child murders, and it is a Finnish murder case referring to June 3rd, 2014, when the bodies of five infants were found in the basement of an apartment in Oulu after the police received a complaint from neighbors about really bad-smelling packages and parcels in the basement of an apartment complex.
The second case we’re covering is the case of Raya and Sakina. And they're household names (like mothers would tell their daughters to behave to Raya and Sakina would come for them ). These two women were known as Egypt’s most infamous serial killers. They were sisters, and they teamed up with their husbands and two other men to kill women in a neighborhood called Labban in Alexandria, Egypt. They killed 17 women between December 20th, 1919 and November 12th 1920.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulu_child_murders
https://rhod4nthe.tumblr.com/post/161514156655/the-baby-murders-in-oulu-finland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raya_and_Sakina
https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-sisters-without-mercy-1.5352259
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/sex-drugs-and-murder-the-chilling-story-of-egypts-most-famous-female-killers
The Chase house is located at 698 Middle Rd in Portsmouth New Hampshire. It is located on the corner of Court and Washington street if you ever wanted to go visit, and it is one of the grandest houses in Georgian architecture at Strawberry Banke in New Hampshire. When I first heard about this haunted orphanage, I thought it was because the kids were murdered or died of illness or something because I guess my mind just goes to the fact that all the mental institutions we talk about were set up to help but the doctors killed the people; but the story here is different but equally as tragic: It has been said that one of the young girls who lived at the home hanged herself in her bedroom. To hear all about this small bite of horror, make sure to give this week’s short story a listen :)
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.nhmagazine.com/where-to-find-ghosts-ghouls-and-scares-in-the-granite-state/
https://www.strawberybanke.org/houses/chase.cfm
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/new-hampshire/haunted-places
https://newenglandwithlove.com/haunted-places-in-new-england/
https://www.haunts.com/blog/haunted-places-new-hampshire
https://chasehome.wordpress.com/
http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/08/chase-house.html
In today’s very short episode, Saaniya covers the case of Dagmar Overby - a Danish serial killer who murdered 9, and possibly even more children, between 1913 and 1920. This case is particularly upsetting because I think the women involved really thought they were doing what was best for their children in giving them up so they could find better homes. This case actually inspired the government to change the legislation on childcare - “unwanted children” were considered the government's responsibility, and the Danish Government passed a law in 1923 that required public houses be built to foster children.
We also know that this episode wasn’t as fun without Maddie, but if you missed her as much as I did be sure to come back next week for a very short but pretty fun paranormal story!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Overbye
https://taramrose.medium.com/women-who-kill-dagmar-overbye-e38986868975
https://davidmalocco.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/serial-killers-dagmar-johanne-overbye-1887-1929/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dagmar-overbye
https://murderpedia.org/female.O/o/overbye-dagmar.htm
In the 50s, the Ministry of Health in Terrassa, Spain opened up a hospital in the La Pineda forest that was active between 1952 and 1997. The hospital was called Hopital Thorax, and when it was active it was primarily a recovery center because the area they built it in was known for having no fog, being protected from northwest wind, and even had a mild climate in summer which would be perfect for tuberculosis recovery. And it had the lowest TB rate so would be perfect. If you don’t know much about TB, it’s a respiratory illness with a really high mortality rate and the treatment that cured the disease took 18 months. During these months, the patients would be completely isolated from their friends and family. And the detrimental toll this isolation took on their mental health led many of them to suicide. Many people report hearing voices and seeing apparitions roaming the hallways and the garden where many lost their lives…
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hospital-torax-de-tarrassa
https://aminoapps.com/c/horror/page/blog/the-terrifying-hospital-torax-spain/z6gF_xuD7mVNrP1NEBZ32BZ16jRWz73
http://www.viajesblog.es/en/los-10-lugares-mas-encantados-de-espana/
https://www.facebook.com/historyhaunted/posts/history-haunting-ofthe-chest-hospital-of-terrassasant-miquel-de-gonteres-spainre/1154160791276666/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_del_T%C3%B3rax_(Tarrasa)
In 1946, an unidentified serial killer committed a series of violent crimes around Texarkana. And these murders, understandably, caused a whole lot of panic in Texarkana during the time he was active. People would arm themselves and lock themselves inside and the police patrolled the neighborhoods every night. On Friday February 22nd, 1946, the killer assaulted 25 year old Jimmy Hollis and 19 year old Mary Jeanne Larey. In the coming months, he murdered 29 year old Richard Griffin, 17 year old Polly Ann Moore, 15 year old Betty Jo Booker, 17 year old Paul Martin, and 37 year old Virgil Starks. And he shot at Virgil’s 36 year old wife, Katie. Even though there were many suspects in this case, nobody was officially charged for their murders. We go over these suspectes, the circumstantial evidence, and why they weren’t charged in the episode, but if you would like to read more about this case, all the links are in our bio!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana_Moonlight_Murders
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texarkana-murder-mystery/
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texarkana/story/2020/feb/07/fbi-releases-phantom-killer-archive-more-1100-pages-available-internet/815514/
https://the-line-up.com/texarkana-murders
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/The_Phantom_Killer
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-murder-spree-hands-phantom-killer-solved-article-1.2554028
So if you couldn’t tell from the name, the house with seven chimneys, casa de las siete chimeneas, is a house that has seven chimneys. It is said that the seven chimneys represent the seven sins. So the house is sometimes called the House of the Seven Sins. So I don’t think this is fact, but according to the legends, the house was built by order of King Philip II, possibly because he wanted a secret spot for having love affairs that he didn’t want people knowing about. But because this is a paranormal story, it is safe to assume some spooky things happened in the house…
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.mysteriumtours.com/the-house-with-seven-chimneys
https://historiasdemadrid.com/en/blog/2019/10/29/the-house-with-the-seven-chimneys/
https://www.gomadrid.com/sights/siete-chimineas.html
https://themakingofmadrid.com/2017/06/04/the-house-of-the-seven-chimneys/
https://www.esmadrid.com/en/tourist-information/casa-de-las-siete-chimeneas?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhttp://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/08/29/madrids-house-of-seven-chimneys-or-seven-deadly-sins-boasts-a-ghostly-past-and-present/
http://www.radioenciclopedia.cu/cultural-news/legends/elena-in-the-house-of-the-seven-chimneys-20190806/
Mark Goudeau was born in 1964 and was the second youngest child of 13. On November 7th, 1982, he and his brother raped a young woman, and while they were arrested, he was not charged. After committing a couple other petty crimes, in August of 1989, he was charged with abducting a woman, and brutally torturing, bludgeoning, and raping her. He was sentenced to fifteen years for this and 21 years for a robbery he committed in 1990, but he was a model inmate and released on parole in 2004. Then in 2005, a series of brutal rapes and killings in the Phoenix metro area began. In total, it is believed that he committed 9 counts of first degree murder, 15 sexual assaults, 11 kidnappings, and an unknown number of armed robberies.
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goudeau
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Goudeau
http://www.murderpedia.org/male.G/g/goudeau-mark.htm
https://www.wave3.com/story/5784902/police-in-phoenix-say-theyve-caught-baseline-killer/
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/take-a-chilling-look-inside-the-baseline-killer-case-6451168
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/az-supreme-court/1738785.html
The Cortijo Jurada or Casa Encantada is an abandoned mansion in Spain that was built in the late 19th/early 20th century by the Heredia family, one of the wealthiest and most influential families, who came to Malagda from La Rioja. As soon as it was built there were rumors that began to circulate about the sadistic things that happened inside the house. There were conspiracy theories and stories of disappearances, rape and murder that spread throughout the region and gave the strange home this eerie and almost evil reputation. Rumor has it that the bodies of their young victims were buried within the property, and their spirits still move around at night. People have reported hearing their sobs and moans echoing throughout the remains of the mansion. So join us for a little bit of history of one of Spain's most haunted houses!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cortijo-jurado
https://www.malagaweb.com/blog/news/cortijo-jurado-malaga/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortijo_Jurado
https://viraldazed.com/most-haunted-house-spain/
Marc Dutroux was born in Belgium on November 6th, 1956, and he’s quite possibly the worst man we’ve talked about on this podcast. He kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed so so so many girls over the years, and most people believed that he was part of a pedophile network that operated with members of the government high ranking officials. Among the girls he abducted, 12 year old Sabine Dardenne was taken while cycling to school. She survived everything he did to her, and wrote a book about what it was like in captivity. It was titled: J'avais 12 ans, j'ai pris mon vélo et je suis partie à l'école. In the UK it was called I choose to live. This case was another one that was really hard to get through, so if you need to take breaks, please do. Take care of your own mental health first, and we’ll see you soon!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marc-Dutroux
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/world/europe/marc-dutroux-release-parole.html
https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/27/explainer-paedophile-marc-dutroux-and-the-horror-case-that-united-a-divided-belgium
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dutroux-marc.htm
The Athens Lunatic Asylum was operational from 1874 to 1993, and was a mental hospital that provided services to everyone from Civil War veterans and children to those declared “mentally unwell.” Today it is a part of Ohio University, but when it was the Athens Lunatic Asylum, it was best known for performing lobotomies… and I think you may know where this is headed. The Asylum has made headlines several times over the years: once in 1977 when it housed multiple personality rapist Billy Milligan, and again just one year later when a patient named Margaret Schilling disappeared on December 1, 1978. This disappearance was really interesting because some of the details of the case didn’t really make any sense, but the story has also led to one of the hospital’s most famous ghost stories. Maddie and I always find stories about asylums from the past really chilling and this one doesn’t disappoint; we hope you stick around and join us for this spooky story!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Lunatic_Asylum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkbride_Plan
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/oh-athensasylum/
https://woub.org/2019/10/29/the-legends-behind-the-ghosts-of-athens/
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/the-athens-asylum-was-the-forefront-treatment-in-the-19th-century
https://hauntedathensohio.com/the-ridges-mental-health-institution/
https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-sites/4357-the-ridges-athens-lunatic-asylum
Jack Unterweger was born in 1950 in Graz, which is the capital city of Styria, a state in southeast Austria (and fun fact it is the second largest city in Austria after Vienna). His early life was somewhat turbulent, and it is thought that a combination of events from his early childhood caused a sever hatred of sex workers. As you can imagine from a true crime podcast, he was a murderer. And this is where the story gets crazy... In fact, I think that this is the absolute craziest story we have talked about on this podcast to date. Just a warning, this story is difficult to listen to and mentions sexual assault and murder. And it's another one of those cases that's absolutely infuriating because so many deaths could have been avoided. We hope you join us for this absolutely crazy story of an episode!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Unterweger
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-unterweger
https://www.suecoletta.com/crime-writer-turned-serial-killer/
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/jack-unterweger-poet-of-death/crimes
https://www.nydailynews.com/true-crime-justice-story/ny-vienna-woods-killer-20200816-h4wwajrgevh6zltwo4xfv3lfiq-story.html
The Queen Mary has actually been voted one of the top 10 most haunted places in America. So basically trade increased dramatically after World War 1 between the European nations, and companies wanted replacements for old ships since Germany and France had new fast ships. And the company Cunard was right on the frontlines. So this is a British Cruise Line based in England and operated by Carnival UK, and John Brown & Company Shipbuilders were commissioned to build these new ships. They started building on December 1st, 1930. So in the Book Ghosts of the Queen Mary, which is in the Haunted America series, one of the authors, Christopher Fleming talks about meeting with a man called Peter James. According to James, there are over 600 spirits on the Queen Mary. Join us on this episode of grim where we talk about the history of the ship and some of these ghosts that haunt it!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.queenmary.com/tours/tours-exhibits/haunted-encounters/
https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/queen-mary-historical-landmark-haunted-or-it-hoax
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22542080-ghosts-of-the-queen-mary?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=IDMWpqQXjh&rank=1
https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/How-Disney-tried-to-turn-the-Queen-Mary-into-a-15689671.php
https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-history/is-the-queen-mary-ship-really-haunted/
https://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/most-haunted-hotel-america-queen-mary
Book: Ghosts of the Queen Mary (Haunted America) by Brian Clune, Bob Davis, and Christopher Fleming - the paperback was around $6 last time I checked
Robert Hansen was born in 1939 to a Danish immigrant who came to Iowa as a baker. When he was younger he was described as a skinny, painfully shy boy, who had a stutter and severe acne that actually ended up permanently scarring his face. And he also had a really difficult relationship with his father, who was described as domineering. Because of this he didn’t get a ton of attention from the girls at school or anything, And he began to resent them, even having fantasies of getting revenge on them. This all manifested in the 1970s after he moved to Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen was seriously messed up - like I feel like when you talk about serial killers for long enough you kind of distance yourself from the stories in a way but this was a lot for me I had to take breaks when researching, so definitely take care of your own mental health when listening to this case and take breaks or stop when necessary.
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hansen-robert.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-hansen
Apparently this is a paranormal phenomenon - various liquids such as blood or water or oil just start appearing on the walls of houses. So join us today as we take a look at a couple of different bleeding houses. The most famous of them, I think, is the bleeding house in a small city in the Aisne region of France called Saint Quentin. And on top of that there is the story of a bleeding house in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of these stories have conclusions... others don't... but regardless, these houses definitely seem haunted, so we hope you enjoy this weeks episode!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://steemit.com/story/@extreemer162/la-maison-sanglante-the-bleeding-house
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/4y01un/home_bleeding/
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-bleeding-walls-in-atlanta-c92a0bc53833
http://labyrinth13.com/eBook-Labyrinth13.pdf
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bleeding-walls-led-discovery-dead-5821868
Thomas Warren Whisenhant was a 63 year old man from Alabama when he was executed via lethal injection for the 1976 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Cheryl Lynn Payton. He died on Tuesday, May 27th, 2010, and before he was executed, he was in jail for 32 years, 8 months, and 20 days before his execution (longer than any other prisoner had spent on Death Row in the state of Alabama). He really wasn't a good person, so join us as we talk about this crime, his life, and all the evidence against him...
Stay safe out there
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/whisenhant1212.htm
https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-criminal/1979/370-so-2d-1080-0.html
https://www.al.com/live/2010/05/thomas_whisenhant_alabamas_lon.html
https://www.al.com/topic/Cheryl%20Payton/index.html
https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2010/05/alabama-executes-thomas-warren.html
The Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris. Founded in 1802, it is the most visited necropolis in the world (literally over 3.5 million people visit annually). There are over 300,000 people buried here, and amongst them, there are many prominent historical figures such as Edith Pilaf, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Pissaro and Chopin. Due to health concerns regarding corpses contaminating the central water supply, many bodies were relocated to the cemetery from where they were already buried, which is probably the cause of many spooky happenings at the Père Lachaise...
We hope you join us this week for a spooky cemetery story 👻
Stay safe out there
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
https://amyscrypt.com/haunted-cemetery-paris-pere-lachaise/
https://www.aesu.com/blog/halloween-haunts-pere-lachaise-cemetery-paris/
https://myprivateparis.com/the-mysterious-women-of-pere-lachaise-cemetery/
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/30/a-haunting-compendium-of-paris-ghost-stories/
https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/pere-lachaise-cemetery/
https://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=8537
This week, we're talking about the story of a man who was apparently, according to the New York Times, a "dashing British aristocrat and army officer, known for his prowess at backgammon and bridge and his fondness for vodka martinis, powerboats, and Aston Martin cars." Richard John Bingham was born on December 18th 1934 in London, and has earned an episode on this podcast because he just disappeared after a really weird set of circumstances that ended in the murder of Sandra Rivett and the hospitalization of Veronica Lucan. This was definitely a chaotic story to end a chaotic year, and we hope you enjoy listening!
We're so thankful you joined us this year, be it one episode or fifty two episodes, and we hope to see you all next year!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan
https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-lucan-bingham-murder-mystery-sightings-sandra-rivett#three-days-later-on-november-10-the-car-he-borrowed-was-found-in-newhaven-east-sussex-on-the-southern-english-coast-inside-the-car-there-were-bloodstains-and-a-piece-of-lead-pipe-in-the-trunk-15
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a30699584/lord-lucan-found-australia/
https://www.lordlucan.com/lucan_story.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lord-lucan-latest-lady-lucan-will-death-estate-lady-homeless-charity-shelter-sandra-rivett-murder-belgravia-a8158476.html
https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/lord-lucan-mystery-is-the-alleged-nanny-killer-hiding-out-in-australia-c-674211
Hi friends, we're back again with a Christmas edition of a Creepypasta! This one is really good... like the writing? Impeccable. The story line? Amazing. The plot twist? Iconic. It really made us both think about the story when it was done. Like it was a lot... but in a good way. So join us for this very very chaotic Christmas Creepypasta!
A big thank you to Michael Whitehouse for letting us use his story! Here are some links to check his work out:
Website: http://www.michael-whitehouse.com/
Creepypasta: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-advent-calendar/
Check out his Podcast, Talking Till Dawn: http://talkingtilldawn.com/
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.creepypasta.com/the-advent-calendar/
TW RAPE Hi friends and welcome to another Creepypasta episode of grim., but this time: Christmas edition. In this episode we explore a story about the more sinister side of Santa's village. There's definitely a lot to unpack here, and we hope you join us for this story!
This is a pretty dark story, and does insinuate trauma and rape as well as murder.
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
Story: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-was-a-christmas-elf/
Website: https://meltingalphabet.com/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeltingAlphabet
Lake Lanier is the largest lake in Georgia with over 600 miles of shore that borders 5 counties. It was built in 1957 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, and since the lake’s opening, an estimated 675 people have died in the lake and not all of the bodies have been found. It took around 5 years to fill the lake, and during that time the U.S. government bought more than 50,000 acres of farmland, displacing more than 250 families, 15 businesses, and relocated 20 cemeteries along with their corpses in the process. The lake is literally full of dead bodies. So to the 7 million people who visit it every year... why? Join us for a little look into the Lake Lanier ghosts, as well as a couple of other ghost stories from Georgia in this episode of grim.!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://travelnoire.com/black-owned-bbq-restaurants-south
https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-lake-lanier-100-percent-184014326.html
https://www.newsweek.com/lake-lanier-really-haunted-missing-boaters-spark-conversation-lakes-eerie-1422352
https://www.cbs46.com/news/is-lake-lanier-haunted-cbs46-takes-a-look/article_a02240a0-4360-5115-9e8f-be833f7f3867.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/3wejvj/mysteries_and_death_at_georgias_cursed_lake_lanier/
http://horsingaroundathome.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-lady-of-lake.html
https://window.brenau.edu/articles/the-ghostess-with-the-mostest/
Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan was born on October 31st, 1873 (spooky Halloween birthday vibes), and she ran a nursing home in Connecticut... before she was arrested for murder. The thing was that her residents kept on mysteriously dying after they had paid her for their stay. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home. And here's the thing: she may have murdered up to 60 people. She was an Angel of Death-type killer, who didn't have a preference for victims of a specific gender or with certain physical characteristics. I think she was just in it for the money. She's a local legend in Connecticut to this day, so stick around to find out just how crazy her story is.
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Archer-Gilligan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease
https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/archer-gilligan.htm
https://www.thoughtco.com/amy-archer-gilligan-her-murder-factory-972714
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Amy_Archer-Gilligan
https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/amy-archer-gilligan-entrepreneurism-gone-wrong-in-windsor/
https://connecticuthistory.org/windsors-murder-factory/
Pluckley is in the Guinness Book of records as it is reputed to be the most haunted village in Britain. It is reputed to have twelve (possibly thirteen or fourteen) ghosts. So I actually found a ghost tour that is offered here and if it's ok with you I’d like to take you guys on a lil tour of Pluckley but from over a podcast (because of corona)! We’re really excited for this very haunted episode so we hope you enjoy it!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.pluckley.net/village-life/history/ghosts/
https://www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/free-tours/haunted-pluckley.htm
https://www.kentlive.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/pluckley-15-horrifying-ghosts-chilling-4119761
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ireland/britains-most-haunted-village-15-21994676
https://ghosts.fandom.com/wiki/Pluckley
Nannie Doss was born Nancy Hazel on November 4, 1905... and she was an American serial killer who was responsible for the deaths of 11 people between some time in the 1920s and 1954. Doss finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, after her fifth husband had died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, her sister, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law. Basically Nannie was just a really wild gal... so join us for this crazy story!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannie_Doss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_whiskey
https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm
https://www.thoughtco.com/serial-killer-nannie-doss-973101
https://filmdaily.co/news/nannie-doss/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/nannie-doss-giggling-granny
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Nannie_Doss
https://tulsaworld.com/archive/nannie-doss-gets-life-in-prison-for-poisoning-husband/article_b3d6d0cf-0ad4-50fc-9701-12374d883174.html
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, off the west coast of mainland Scotland... and while it is a beautiful little island, it is best known for the mysterious disappearance of its keepers in 1900. The first record that something was wrong on Flannan Isles was when the steamer Archtor was on a trip from Philadelphia to Leith on December 15th, 1900 . The ship noted in the log that the light was "not operational in poor weather conditions." On December 26th, a relief team was sent to the lighthouse, and that's when they noticed some really weird things. Did the keepers just get caught in a freak storm or was there something more at play...
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70180/115-year-old-mystery-flannan-lighthouses-missing-keepers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oilskin
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/flannan-isle-mystery
https://www.nlb.org.uk/history/flannan-isles/
Joshua Maddux was born on March 9th, 1990, and he went missing in 2008 and seven years later, was found in the chimney of a cabin just two blocks from his home. The question is, how did he get there? When Joshua's body was found 7 years later, there were some very odd things about it... namely that Joshua was found in the fetal position but with his legs over his head. Eventually, on the 28th September 2015, after failing to find any rational cause, Al Born made a ruling of “Accidental Death”. And he suggested that Josh had climbed down the chimney and become lodged in the brickwork. He concluded the most likely cause of death was Hypothermia, as the temperature around the time of his disappearance had dropped to -6 Celsius at it’s coldest. So this story definitely leaves you thinking... who did it? or was it really just an accident. I don't think we'll ever know...
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.darkhistories.com/josh-maddux-the-boy-in-the-chimney/
https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/teens-body-found-in-chimney-93104ecc932
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5x4k3q/18_year_old_joshua_maddux_missing_since_2008_is/
https://www.denverpost.com/2015/10/19/chimney-discovery-ends-mystery-over-young-mans-disappearance-but-questions-remain/
https://conspiracytheories.in/mysterious-disappearance-of-joshua-maddux/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165550970/joshua-vernon-maddux
http://charleyproject.org/case/joshua-vernon-maddux
For this very special spooky season episode you guys get a lil treat! A quick ghost story about the Green Lady of of Caerphilly Castle. The castle, which resides as the largest in Wales, is home to a restless spirit... and be sure to stick around for the story of the "Burlington Center Cemetery" which is actually known to locals as Green Lady Cemetery, due to a ghost that is purported to haunt the grounds.
And TW this creepy pasta is really creepy... but if you want to hear about a forest at night, a strange man, a strange drink, and God, look no further.
We hope you guys have a lovely Halloween 🎃
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Day_Baptist_Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams
https://connecticutroundup.com/2019/10/14/green-lady-continues-to-haunt/
http://www.damnedct.com/seventh-day-baptist-cemetery-burlington/
https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Disturbing-the-ghost-of-Burlington-s-Green-Lady-12101199.php
http://ghostsofnewengland.blogspot.com/2010/11/green-lady-of-burlington-connecticut.html
https://great-castles.com/caerphillyghost.html
https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2018/3/18/the-green-lady-of-caerphilly-castle
https://www.creepypasta.com/newenglandresidentsbeware/
https://www.facebook.com/DHFeuling/
There actually aren’t that many stories about the Brown Lady. The most commonly known story is about the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, who is one of the most famous ghosts in Great Britain. According to legend, she is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole who lived from 1686 to 1726, and the controversy around her arises when you look at her death: was it murder or was it just due to the medicine available at the time? We also looked at the mystery of the Brown Lady of Chowan University, and how Halloween marks a very important night for this particular ghost... so sit back and get ready for a couple of spooky ghost stories!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wattpad.com/20786206-urban-legends-white-lady-black-lady-red-lady-and/page/4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Townshend,_2nd_Viscount_Townshend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton,_1st_Marquess_of_Wharton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu
http://www.whistlingshade.com/1302/The_Brown_Lady.htm
https://the-line-up.com/raynham-hall-brown-lady
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weird-norfolk-brown-lady-raynham-hall-norfolk-1-5634982
https://www.cantonrep.com/article/20120713/BLOGS/307139917
https://www.chowan.edu/news/brown-lady-19th-century-ghost-taffeta-still-haunts-chowan
https://northcarolinaghosts.com/coast/brown-lady-chowan-university/
Welcome back to the first episode in our second year of podcasting - we made it to week 53! This week we're talking about a very interesting type of ghost... the Gray Lady is a ghost of a woman who died violently for the sake of love or through the actions of their family. And they usually haunt houses and castles in the hopes that they will reunite with their loved ones. Out of all of the types of ladies, these ghosts are considered tragic figures (linked to tragedy) and often portray loneliness or loss. They are called gray ladies because they often wear gray clothing, but also because they have what I can only describe as a gray aura. This means that a Gray Lady can be wearing clothes of a different color, but can still be considered a Gray Lady simply because she has the gray vibes that correspond to loss, loneliness, and the desire to be reunited with a loved one. So bundle up and grab some spooky snacks as you join us through this collection of ghost stories!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wattpad.com/20786206-urban-legends-white-lady-black-lady-red-lady-and/page/4
https://occult-world.com/gray-ladies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Hedges
https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/the-dark-hedges/
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/grey-lady-ghost-dark-hedges-northern-ireland
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/grey-lady-ghost-dark-hedges-northern-ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sims,_North_Dakota
https://leescott58.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/a-bit-from-the-book-spooky-north-dakota/
https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/speke-hall-liverpool-merseyside
First of all, we just wanted to say happy 1 year anniversary! We can't believe it has already been a whole year of telling stories on this podcast and we just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has listened and followed along with us! 🥳🥳
Today's episode is another in our series on ghosts... this week we're talking about the Red Lady. A Lady in Red or Red Lady is a type of female ghost that is very similar to the White Lady. According to legend though, she is more specifically defined as having a jilted lover, being a prostitute killed in a fit of passion, or woman of vanity. She is usually a victim of objectification. And in all cases, she is wearing a scarlet or blood red dress. There have been reports of the Red Lady across numerous college campuses in the US, Canada, UK, and Asia, and we hope you like this collection of short stories!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_Red_(ghost)
https://www.wattpad.com/20786206-urban-legends-white-lady-black-lady-red-lady-and/page/4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Alabama_Ghosts_and_Jeffrey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Huntingdon_College
https://travelnevada.com/adventures/31179/evening-lady-red
https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/lady_in_red.html
http://www.fairmontmoments.com/guest-stories/the-lady-in-red
This story originates in appalachian folklore, but she does appear in various regions in Southern and Western America. And there have also been reported sightings of her in Europe and the Philippians. What we see here is that the only real difference between the two types of ladies, the black lady and the white lady, is the way they dress. Also fun fact, they are sometimes they are associated with devils because they wear black. Some people think that there is also a difference in that the Black Lady is more dangerous than a white lady in that she will actually harm or scare the human she is haunting. According to legend, a Woman in Black typically appeared to men who had misbehaved, cheated on their wives, or committed some moral offense or transgression. It was even said that her alleged appearances in Roanoke kept married men home with their wives and families rather than going out each night. We hope you like this episode of our Halloween Series and we hope to see you next week! Happy spooky season 🎃
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_Black_(supernatural) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia https://www.wattpad.com/20786206-urban-legends-white-lady-black-lady-red-lady-and/page/3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lady_of_Bradley_Woods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses https://web.archive.org/web/20141105105838/http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/ghostly-Black-Lady-Bradley-Woods/story-20912321-detail/story.html http://www.theboxerboston.com/blog/local-legends-tale-fort-warren-ghost/ https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-stories
So, there are a bunch of different urban legends about female ghosts. And this series is gonna talk about the types of ghosts that have been spotted as well as a couple of legends from all over the globe! Welcome to the first episode of our Halloween Ghost Special! Today we're talking about the white lady - she is a type of female ghost usually seen in rural areas and often associated with some sort of local legend or tragedy. White lady legends are actually told all over the world, regardless of culture or religion. They tend to be associated with the theme of loss or betrayal and they are similar to a Banshee in that they are said to be an omen of death. In fact, she may even appear in photos taken just before or just after someone dies and is commonly thought to be the spirit of deceased ancestors... We really hope you like this short series and we just wanted to wish you all a happy Spooky Season!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.wattpad.com/20786206-urban-legends-white-lady-black-lady-red-lady-and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lady
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Bohemian_Legends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Low_German
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeress_(Germanic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen
Belle Gunness born on November 11, 1859. Known as Hell’s Belle or Lady Bluebeard, she was one of the first Black Widows and became a prolific serial killer. Belle moved to America in 1881 to make her fortune and to find the "American Dream" and while technically she did make a lot of money, she did so through insurance fraud and murder. Looking at her life, it seemed as though disaster and tragedy continuously struck her and her family: her properties burned down and her family members all died. But an even closer look shows silver lining in the form of collecting her insurance payout. Be sure to join us for this kinda crazy story!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness
https://books.google.com/books?id=DwNVbOcTncwC&pg=PA106&dq=esther+carlson+had+photograph+of+belle+gunness%27+three+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4oL-xiZTaAhXwUN8KHXljAjkQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=esther%20carlson%20had%20photograph%20of%20belle%20gunness'%20three%20children&f=false
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/unsolved-case-belle-gunness-lady-bluebeard/
The Loudun Possessions were a notorious witchcraft trial in Loudun, France in 1634. In Loudun, a convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been “visited” and possessed by demons. The Catholic Church investigated this alleged possession and concluded that a priest called Father Urbain Grandier was eventually convicted of the crime of sorcery and was burned at the stake. Join us as we give you a brief history of France in the late 1500s as well as a little insight into the psychology of possession!
Stay safe out there.
With love, Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursulines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_religious_orders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_(torture)
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/edition-2/looking-back-possessions-loudun
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5922.12336
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257/stephwhit/final/3possessions.html
On September 20th, 2014, Tammy Kingery went missing. She had called her husband to come pick her up from work, as she was not feeling well. Her husband dropped her off at home and then went out to run some errands. But when he returned, he found the dog outside, the door locked, and Tammy's keys, phone, and wallet inside. All that was left of Tammy was a note saying she was going for a walk and would be back soon. But it has been almost exactly six years since that day, and Tammy hasn't been found. If you have any information that could help with the case please contact the Edgefield County Sheriff's Office at 803-278-1625, or South Carolina State Law enforcement at 803-737-9000
The case is still open as a missing persons case and the family is still struggling with her disappearance. Her sister said “You can’t fully grieve, because you don't know what has happened. What if she's out there somewhere and someone is holding her from everyone and we gave up?”
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Tammy_Kingery
Investigation Discovery’s Disappeared: Walk into Darkness (Season7 Episode 4) (https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/disappeared/full-episodes/walk-into-darkness?)
https://podfanatic.com/podcast/curious-times/episode/curious-times-forensic-astrologist-linda-crystal-where-is-tamera-sue-kingery Curious Times Podcast
Petr Zelenka was born on February 27th, 1976 and he was a Czech serial killer who murdered 7 people and attempted to kill 10 more ini the ICU of a hospital in Havlíčkův Brod between May and December of 2006. He killed his victims by administering a fatal dose of Heparin, which caused major internal bleeding and resulted in the death of 7 of his patients. He has claimed that he didn't mean to kill anyone and was only dosing ICU patients to test the doctors who worked at the hospital. Tune in to this weeks episode to learn all the details!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://listverse.com/2018/12/17/10-frightening-serial-killers-from-central-europe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Zelenka
https://murderpedia.org/male.Z/z/zelenka-petr.htm
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1068671/cyntoia-brown-granted-clemency-what-does-clemency-mean-release-from-prison
https://english.radio.cz/nurse-committed-murders-test-doctors-8613133
https://english.radio.cz/heparin-killer-gets-life-prison-8598847
https://news.expats.cz/community/10-notorious-czech-serial-killers/
https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/heparin-killer-blames-madness-retracts-confession/r~i:article:519143/
If y’all don’t know, Portland is sometimes referred to as the Forbidden City of the West → and if you’ve ever wondered why I think this story should help clear some things up. Underneath downtown Portland is a series of 150-year-old tunnels that connect the basements of the city’s oldest buildings to the Willamette River, as well as Portland’s Chinatown. Portland was a small town, at the time, but it had a large port that could support many ships. Many cargo ships sailed for many months across the Pacific before unloading their cargo in Portland. The tunnels were built by Chinese workers during the time when Chinatown was the center for trade business. The tunnel’s original design was for transporting goods from cargo ships to the inner city. However, as you can imagine, the tunnels started being used for more nefarious purposes such as illegal alcohol transportation during prohibition, Shanghaiing, and even used to kidnap and sell women. And as you can see where I'm going with this, it is reportedly haunted by the ghosts who were killed here. So join us as we explore the miles and miles of tunnels underneath Portland...
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/the-most-haunted-places-in-the-united-states/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_tunnels
https://portlandghosts.com/the-shanghai-tunnels/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/or-shanghai/
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/fodors/top/features/travel/destinations/unitedstates/oregon/portland/fdrs_feat_121_5.html?n=Top%252FFeatures%252FTravel%252FDestinations%252FUnited+States%252FOregon%252FPortland-work=The
https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/shanghai-tunnels-portland-underground/
https://www.higgypop.com/news/portals-to-hell-the-shanghai-tunnels/
https://mysterioustrip.com/shanghai-tunnels-underground-tour-portland/#Shady_Facts_Of_Shanghai_Tunnels
On February 12th, 1993, two ten year old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, lured James Bulger away from his mother in an arcade in the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Liverpool. They then led James about 2 and a half miles across the city to Walton, where they brought him to this stretch of train tracks that was rarely used. They then used bricks and sticks that they found nearby to beat him up and basically torture him until they finally killed him. James was not even three years old when he died. This story is incredibly heartbreaking, and really makes you realize that there are some things that you never expect to happen. We hope you all can learn from what happened to James and hopefully we can stop something like this from ever happening again.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/10-crimes-that-shook-britain-817163
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_England_and_Wales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole#United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_infancy
https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-bulger-killers-robert-thompson-jon-venables
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/james-bulger-killers-jon-venables-robert-thompson-murder-now-221759
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cxwkxyvg4pet/murder-of-james-bulger
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-46209074
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4981089/robert-thompson-james-bulger-killer-jon-venables/
This story takes place near the end of the American Revolution. So nearing the end here in the early 1780s when the Continental Army had basically won their freedom, the British still had several ships in the Boston Harbor. And this is why Evacuation Day is “celebrated” on March 17th: when the British military fled from Boston. On board the British ships were 11,000 soldiers and 1,019 citizens who remained loyal to King George and wanted to return to England. William and Mary Burton were on one of these ships that were in the harbor. They were newlyweds who were in Boston at the time, and I think it was due to all the chaos surrounding the war that caused them to want to flee. As the ship was attempting to sail out of the Boston Harbor when a cannonball from the Long Island Battery that was aimed at the ship ended up hitting Mary in the back of her head. As you can imagine, that was definitely a traumatizing way to die. The ghost of Mary Burton, the Lady in Scarlet, is said to haunt this area, stumbling around for her husband. Be sure to give this episode a listen for more details about her life as well as some bonus spooky stories about Boston's lighthouses and Devil Island.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_Red_(ghost)
https://patch.com/massachusetts/westroxbury/bp--remembering-the-lady-in-red-on-evacuation-day
https://books.google.com/books?id=ifV3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=mary+burton+boston+ghost&source=bl&ots=YK2BaiYi9R&sig=ACfU3U2g8nxx9-iRVosXYj10hT4NHR3Kcg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim5tjdpPXqAhUTgnIEHbetAvo4ChDoATABegQICxAB#v=onepage&q=mary%20burton%20boston%20ghost&f=false
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history
https://www.colonialsociety.org/publications/3648/register-burials-and-funerals-1714-1776
http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=863
This week Maddie takes us on a ride through the galaxy with a creepypasta story written by Christopher Maxim. Join us as we go through all five stages of grief this week with this spooky story in a very chaotic episode! If you guys like this kind of story, let us know and we can add them in to our repertoire!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7cqm0y/a_diner_open_25_hours_a_day/
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Shortly after the Rape that was committed on July 5th, 1979, the East Area Rapist moved to southern California and started attacking Santa Barbara County in October of 1979. These attacks lasted until 1981 with a single attack happening in 1986. It was during this period that Joseph James DeAngelo then began killing his victims. However, The East Area Rapist wasn’t linked to these crimes so at the time, the killer was called the Night Stalker. He was then renamed the Original Night Stalker after a serial killer called Richard Ramierez was called the Night Stalker. This is part 3 to our Golden State Killer Trilogy, so if you haven't heard parts 1 & 2, be sure to check those out if you want to learn about his earlier crimes. Since this case really recent, we will also keep you guys updated if any new details arise, and you can follow us @grimpodcast on instagram and @PodcastGrim on twitter where we'll be posting any updates!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer
http://www.goldenstatekiller.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_circumstances_(criminal_law)
http://goldenstatekillertrial.com/
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/golden-state-killer-court-june-2020/index.html
https://www.kcra.com/article/homes-threatened-as-crews-battle-4-alarm-fire-stockton/33209092
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-02/skelton-golden-state-killer-capital-punishment-death-penalty
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/us/golden-state-killer-plea-expected/index.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Joseph-James-DeAngelo-admits-to-being-sadistic-15374048.php
Part 2: It Gets Worse. So in 1976, like mid 1976, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was believed to have moved to Sacramento. And he ended up progressing from burglary to rape. The crimes were mostly in Carmichael, Citrus Heights, and Rancho Cordova which is east of Sacramento, and on June 18th, 1976, the first attack as the East Area Rapist occurred at 4:00 am. This man did terrible, terrible things to women and their families over the months he lived in Sacramento, and we break them down for you here. But long story short, we're glad he's behind bars and paying for his crimes. Our episode last week covered his time as the Visalia Ransacker, so be sure to check that out if you're curious, and next week we're covering the ending to this horror trilogy with his time as the Original Night Stalker so stay tuned!
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer
http://www.goldenstatekiller.com/
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/06/12/east-area-rapist-joseph-deangelo/
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article209917839.html
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a33169675/ill-be-gone-in-the-dark-joseph-deangelo/
Between 1974 and 1986 in the California area, Joseph DeAngelo murdered more than 13 people, raped over 50, and robbed over 120. He also had 3 different nicknames over the course of this time but eventually all the crimes were linked and he became known as the Golden State Killer. He started out as a burglar known as the Visalia Ransacker, as he committed these crimes in Visalia, California; most of which occurred near the College of the Sequoias. The Ransacker was a serial prowler, voyeur, burglar, and murderer. The first recorded burglary was on Tuesday, March 19, 1974 when $50 of coins was stolen from a piggy-bank. However, over the course of 18 months, his crimes escalated from peeping to petty theft of personal items, and he even ended up murdering a man on September 11th, 1975. While this episode focuses on Joseph DeAngelo when he was known as the Visalia Ransacker, our next two episodes focus on the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker crimes, so be sure to give those a listen as well.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visalia_Ransacker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_area
http://www.visaliaransacker.com/
http://www.goldenstatekiller.com/
https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/04/25/breaking-visalia-ransacker-aka-golden-state-killer-may-behind-bars/550310002/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/65375l/the_visalia_ransacker_part_1/
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it." This week, we talked about the Laser Man, a man who, from August 1991 to January 1992, shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, killing one and seriously injuring the others. And I know I probably didn’t pronounce them correctly so I’m going to list them here: David Gebremariam, Shahram Khosravi, Dimitrios Karamalegos, Heberson Vieira Da Costa, Jimmy Ranjbar, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Charles Dhlakama, Isa Aybar, Hasan Zatara, and lastly, Blanka Zmigrod. While he is very similar to a couple of other killers, his MO of killing immigrants is interesting because due to the poor quality of his weapons and amateur modifications, the bullet's trajectory was usually wrong, causing him to miss his victims or mostly shoot them in non-fatal areas. Take a listen to this episode to learn more…
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/L.D.S.K.
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/John_Ausonius
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/yuppie.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Franklin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ausonius
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/germany-extradites-laser-man-killer-john-ausonius-to-sweden
http://www.nordinagency.se/portfolio-item/lasermannen-en-berattelse-om-sverige-the-laser-man-a-story-about-sweden/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-racist-laser-man-gets-life-for-murdering-holocaust-survivor/
With its antebellum splendor, this circa 1796 National Historic Register plantation home is famous for its mystic and riveting history. It was built in 1796 by General David Bradford (on a Native American burial ground... you can see where I'm going with this...) and over the course of hundreds of years, dozens of owners, and multiple renovations, the Myrtles Plantation is one of the most haunted houses in America. Guests report seeing the ghost of Chloe, William Drew Winter, a young Native American woman, and even the spirits of Sara Woodruff and two of her children to name a few of the 12 reported ghosts. Make sure to give this episode a listen to learn about the history and ghosts that haunt this famous plantation.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.escapehere.com/destination/9-real-american-ghost-stories/
https://www.myrtlesplantation.com/
https://www.myrtlesplantation.com/history-and-hauntings/the-legend-of-chloe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtles_Plantation
https://www.louisianatravel.com/articles/haunted-myrtles
https://www.myrtlesplantation.com/history-and-hauntings/history-of-myrtles-plantation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Myrtles_Plantation
This week, we're talking about the murders of Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman. Both girls were 10 years old when they were murdered on August 4th, 2002 in Soham, England. The bodies of both the girls were discovered in an irrigation ditch that was close to a Royal Airforce station in Lakenheath almost 2 weeks later on August 17th, 2002. Due to the state of the bodies, the exact cause of death is unknown, but is likely that they were strangled and died due to asphyxiation. This case is the definition of saying you really don't actually know anyone: your neighbor could be a killer.
This case does have a lot of moving parts to it, so if you guys want a part 2 with more detail, let us know! We didn't cover Ian Huntley’s past accusations/crimes, but if you guys are interested we can definitely tell you guys more about this case. If you're just interested to read more, all the sources used are linked below.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_murders
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a11435528/soham-murders-jessica-chapman-holly-wells-ian-huntley/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/soham-murders-ian-huntley/
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/ian-huntley
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-ian-huntley-and-the-soham-murders-before-the-documentary-airs-9669105/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3413540/ian-huntley-soham-murders-jessica-chapman-holly-wells/
The Fitzgerald Theater is located in the historic downtown section of Saint Paul, Minnesota at 10 Exchange St E. While no formal paranormal investigations have occurred here, the theater is reportedly haunted by two ghosts: Ben, who was probably a stage hand at the theater, and Victoria, who just loves to perform. So join us this week as we talk about the history of this haunted theater and also some of the spooky things people have experienced here!
And as always, stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://ghost.hauntedhouses.com/minnesota_saint_paul_fitzgerald_theater#
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=0dcb8627e9e14a36b9f03d1c46282b52
https://www.minnesotahauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/fitzgerald-theater.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzgerald_Theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpTGrqGK5nM
https://www.twincities.com/2015/10/25/10-haunted-st-paul-sites-halloween/
https://lakeminnetonkamag.com/ghost-search-fitzgerald
This is the case of Eva Blanco, a 16 year old girl who was found murdered on April 20th, 1997. She was only 16 years old. This story takes place over decades, but after many years, many continents, and many more suspects, her family finally had closure when her killer was arrested. Stay tuned to learn about what happened to Eva Blanco and how her family and the police worked tirelessly to bring her killer in. While I these cases are usually about how the police or the family didn't do a good job, I think this case is definitely different. Her family called the police just an hour after she went missing and after they already searched the town, and her father even set up campaigns to get DNA samples to match DNA from the crime scene.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eva_Blanco
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/27734/what-is-the-difference-between-the-guardia-civil-and-the-policia-nacional-in-spa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navaja
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/06/inenglish/1444129595_998032.html
https://www.thelocal.es/20151002/man-arrested-for-murder-of-madrid-teenager-18-years-ago
https://fletchermarple.com/post/132158028119/fletchermarple-the-murder-of-eva-blanco-has/amp
https://fletchermarple.com/post/130285094589/eva-blanco-was-17-years-old-and-lived-with-her
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news-spain/national/The_assassin_who_killed_Eva_Blanco_18_years_ago_has_been_arrested_in_France.shtml
This is the story of Lauren McCluskey, who was a student at the University of Utah in 2018; and this story makes us so so angry for so many reasons. The main reasons, though, are that Lauren did everything right. Lauren saw that she was in danger, and alerted the authorities who were supposed to protect her. But even though she asked for help, her pleas were basically all but ignored. This story is incredibly sad, and if you're listening to this as a woman, I know this will hit close to home. However, I also think that we can learn from the mistakes that happened here and make this world a little bit safer.
Stay safe out there.
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Sources:
https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/timeline-of-lauren-mccluskeys-murder-and-events-following-her-death/
https://www.deseret.com/2019/5/31/20675000/what-really-happened-to-lauren-mccluskey-the-inside-story-of-her-tragic-death
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8328859/Cop-saved-explicit-photos-murdered-Utah-student-21-bragged-days-killed.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/university-of-utah-lauren-mccluskey-murder-investigation
If you ever end up studying abroad in the UK, you should definitely visit The Ancient Ram Inn, a former pub in Wotton-under-Edge, England. It is said to be one of the United Kingdom’s most haunted hotels, “a legendary destination for paranormal investigators.” Situated on a Pagan burial ground and on top of two Ley lines that trace back to Stonehenge, this is already a recipe for the paranormal. Stay tuned if you want to know about the satanic rituals, strange happenings (like a face on a clock?), and many many many ghosts who haunt this house. If you've ever wanted to stay at a place where an incubus and succubus reside with a poltergeist and the ghosts of witches and bishops, look no further!
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Helen Jewett was an American prostitute in the 1800s who was brutally murdered and subsequently burned one night in April of 1836. While this murder wasn't new or original or unique, it did interest the media because it involved sex, scandal, and murder. This highly publicized case changed journalism... but was it for the worse or for the better? Give this story a listen and tell us what you think!
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
This island in Italy is actually illegal to enter without the proper authorization... and is probably the most haunted place on earth. With a death toll over 100,000, it's no surprise that this place has ghosts. Everyone from victims of the bubonic plague to the mentally ill were killed or had died on this island with a surface that is more than 50% human ash. There are definitely ghosts here. And with a history that spans several hundred years, there are definitely quite a few stories here. So stay tuned for wrongful deaths, vampires, and illegal ghost hunters...
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
This hotel was built in 1909 and serves as the setting for Stephen King's novel, the Shining! But is it really haunted? Well, most people would say yes. Even though there haven't been that many people who have died here (it's just a regular hotel), it is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in America. Definitely stay tuned to listen to all the spirits who reside in this Colorado hotel (including a couple of friendly puppers!)
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
This case is actually fairly recent: 10 years ago, on May 4th 2010, Suzanne Pilley went missing. She was last seen on CCTV footage, where she was about 20 meters from the entrance to her office. This case was incredibly controversial because the man they charged with her murder was charged without there being a body. Is it possible that Suzanne is still alive? Let us know what you guys think...
Stay safe everyone, and we'll see you guys next week!
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
This asylum is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, and is supposedly the second largest in the world after the Kremlin in Moscow. And, even though it was built to house 250 patients, at its peak it held over 2,000 people in the same amount of space.
As you can imagine, this caused pretty terrible, cramped conditions, and likely caused a deterioration of mental health in many of the patients. Inhumane and barbaric treatments were used to lower the number of people staying at the asylum, including electroshock therapy and icepick lobotomies. Basically, the place was designed to improve mental health but the conditions here caused so so many people to die. Make sure to give this episode a listen to hear about some of the ghosts who still walk these halls...
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Found dead in his cell on March 28th, 2020, at 19:43, the Grim Sleeper was known for the alleged 14 year break from killing between 1988 and 2002. But, did he really stop killing? Or did he just get good at hiding the evidence?
This episode, Saaniya tells you guys about the American serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, a killer who was charged for 10 victims, but it is definitely possible that he has killed more... Take a listen to this story, and let us know your theories, thoughts, or even if you just found it interesting!
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
This case is one of the most famous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history - it was meant to be a “sweethearts getaway” at beautiful lakeside, but on the morning of June 5th, 3 of the 4 campers were found dead. Who did it and why? The world may never know...
This episode, Saaniya covers the Lake Bodom murders, an unsolved murder case that happened over half a century ago. Take a listen to this story, and let us know your theories, thoughts, or even if you just found it interesting!
With love,
Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. So both of us are in #quarantine right now and slowly losing our minds so this episode is a bit of a wild card. Today we're talking about Twitter User @gr3gory88 and his story. This is a creepypasta, so what do you think? Real or not real? Personally, I think it could have been real right up until the end...
This is obviously a very scary time for everyone with the whole COVID-19 pandemic, but we hope that this can be a break from thinking about that. So enjoy us talking about this really really weird story and how neither of us would like to be in that situation at all ever. Also, fair warning, this episode has a bit of an audio problem but since it was so long we didn't want to re record, and hopefully it won't be too noticeable. And we're both looking forward to actually recording in person again, won't it be great to have some A+ audio quality!
And back to a bit of a lighter note, thank you so so much for following us on Instagram and listening to the podcast! Let us know if you like these kinds of paranormal stories! Do you want us to continue doing them? As a regular segment or like a monthly special kind of thing? If you want, you can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (literally every time we see a new review it makes us so happy!), and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all (please stay safe! Remember to self isolate and wash your hands regularly!), and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This is obviously a very scary time for everyone with the whole COVID-19 spreading across the world, but we hope that this can be a break from thinking about that. This case, the murder of Jaden and Christopher, is probably one of the most wild. And it keeps getting wilder. So, if headlines like "Darknet teen who ‘butchered boy, 9, shared murder plans on WhatsApp hours earlier" and "Psychopathic 'monster' who butchered a nine-year-old boy and wrote online that 'killing the neighbour's child didn't feel too bad to be honest' is jailed for life in Germany" sound interesting, be sure to give us a listen.
And back to a bit of a lighter note, thank you so so much for following us on Instagram and listening to the podcast! As you probably know, we're both college students during this COVID-19 pandemic, so it's been a bit hard to manage college work, researching for grim on the side, and packing up to move home. And just knowing that you guys listen and support means the world to us!! If you want, you can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (literally every time we see a new review it makes us so happy!), and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all (please stay safe! Remember to self isolate and wash your hands regularly!), and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. Happy Leap Year and welcome back! We hope you guys missed us as much as we missed you <3 This week, Maddie shares the story of the (Old) Jersey Devil, it's paranormal but with an urban legend twist! What do you guys think about the Jersey Devil? Do you believe in it? Or do you think there's another explanation? Let us know what you think!
You can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast, DM us if you have any thoughts! Share us with your friends & family, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (literally every time we see a new review it makes us so happy!), and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. So, Saaniya's home (back to Edinburgh, where the water pressure is terrible but the hauntings are nice) which means another history lesson from Scotland! Don't worry though this was literally the most interesting scientific experiment that any psych professor could do, 10/10 I do recommend. So, friends, we hope you enjoy this episode of the most haunted castles in all of Europe (cue spooky noises here)...
And back to a bit of a lighter note, thank you so so much for following us on Instagram and listening to the podcast! As you probably know, we're both college students, so it's been a bit hard to manage college work and researching for grim on the side and just knowing that you guys listen and support means the world to us!! If you want, you can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (literally every time we see a new review it makes us so happy!), and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. Happy Valentine's Day from us here at grim! Y'all are a real catch >O< (that's supposed to be the snitch from Harry Potter, honestly they really need to make some fandom themed emojis - anyone else agree?) This week, Maddie shares the story of the Valentines Day Murder (we're here for themed podcast episodes). On a more serious note, we know that this story can be a bit hard, especially if you find yourself in a relationship you feel scared in, so as promised, here are a few numbers you can call if you need to talk or if you need help with anything:
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1.800.799.7233 or chat with them at www.vhotline.org/help
National Dating Abuse Hotline: 1.866.331.9474 or www.loveisrespect.org
National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1.800.656.4673 or www.rainn.org
And back to a bit of a lighter note, thank you so so much for following us on Instagram and listening to the podcast! As you probably know, we're both college students, so it's been a bit hard to manage college work and researching for grim on the side and just knowing that you guys listen and support means the world to us!! If you want, you can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (literally every time we see a new review it makes us so happy!), and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week we decided to go for a more chill story - we know, a welcome change from our recent stuff! Amsterdam has a ton of haunted locations from 800 years of history, so if you're down for a lighter morning-commute type story, this is definitely the episode for you!
And thank you so so much for liking our pictures and following us on Instagram! You have all been so so supportive and we appreciate that so much! If you want, you can email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, we're back to Maddie as she tells us one of the worst cases out there. It's been covered before and will no doubt be covered again by podcasters in the future, but let me just say that it doesn't matter if you listen to it for the first or hundredth time, listening to what this man did never gets easier. This is Israel Keyes, and he was probably one of the worst people. This case is chilling because of how many murders he got away with.
But, on a lighter note, thank you guys so much for listening and following us/sending us DMs on instagram!! We love hearing from you guys; so please email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends & family, and if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Saaniya takes you over to Nottingham with this strange, twisted, and terrible tale. Can you imagine going to your doctor, someone you trust with essentially your life, and have them kill you where you stand? The victims of Harold Frederick Shipman could, all 250 of them. This story really makes you think about who you really know...
Also, side note, the audio here might not be the best (again, sorry) - Saaniya's headphones are breaking but don't worry new ones are on the way so hopefully that'll be fixed for next time (recording a podcast when you're 3,000 miles apart is harder than it looks haha).
And again, thank you guys so much for listening and following us on instagram, we really appreciate it!! We love hearing from you guys, so please email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast! Share us with your friends, family, neighbors, local politicians, enemies - whoever you want to share us with! And if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week Maddie takes you guys all the way to Canada (we know, Saaniya was shook that we were leaving America too) to the haunted Craigdarroch Castle! Don't worry guys, we vibe checked these ghosts and they all passed... And if you guys wanna get us this castle, we're definitely not opposed to it. So, grab some popcorn and get comfy as you listen to this pretty chill episode of Grim.
And be sure to email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast; we would absolutely LOVE to hear from you (we promise, we'll respond it makes us feel loved)!! And if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Saaniya takes you over to Manchester with this great start to the new year. This story is absolutely horrific. This is the story of the Beast of Manchester and the awful things he did in the 1970s. About 3 conflicting views later, the only thing we're certain of is that this man is a killer. But how many people did he kill? Take a listen and let us know what you guys think.
Also, side note, the audio here might not be the best - we were trying out a new set up but we will try to get that fixed in the next episode!
We wanted to say thank you to everyone who followed us on instagram - we just hit 100 followers and 100 total plays! Thank you guys so much, we really appreciate. And a special thanks to @_dark.xix_ who sent us a lovely message on instagram!
So, what do you think about Trevor Hardy? How many people do you think he killed? Do you think his time in prison was justified? If you have any theories or stories of your own, be sure to email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast; we would absolutely LOVE to hear from you!! And if you have any suggestions for cases you want to hear about, please let us know!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Oh also, before I forget, here's that video I mentioned in case you wanted to know more about the Beast of Manchester:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwrh31wqAQ
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Maddie takes you BACK to Amityville, NY for another one of the most wild supernatural stories we’ve covered so far. If you thought the murder at Amityville was wild, get ready for something even more extra. Bonus, if you count the number of times Saaniya says "I really hate that" during this episode, let us know on instagram or over email, and we'll give you guys a mention in the next episode (we're totally not just saying that because we'd really like to know how many times she says it haha).
And again, thank you to everyone who followed us on instagram or gave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or has taken the time to listen to us, we love y'all so much! We also wanna wish you all a very happy new year 🎉 🎉
What do you think? Is the house really haunted? If you have any theories or stories of your own, be sure to email us at thegrimpodcast@gmail.com, or follow us on Instagram @grimpodcast; we would absolutely LOVE to hear from you!!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. A huge thank you to instagram user @kirstys600 who commented a guess on our mystery spot post on instagram! We ended up learning something new about Dalhousie which I think was pretty cool (who knew there were so many manors in Scotland that house a falconry)! In this weeks episode, Saaniya covers the history and ghosts of Skaill House. Happy last supernatural story of 2019! So, make yourself a snack and get ready to uncover the skeletons under the floorboards...
And again, we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to our podcast and liked and commented on our mystery picture this week!
If you want to try and figure out what our next podcast is going to be about, our instagram is @grimpodcast. We'll be posting another clue mid week so definitely check that out! And if you'd like to connect with us, drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)! Goodnight pals, we love you all, and happy New Year! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. So if you didn't see our instagram mystery post about this weeks episode, Maddie covers the unsolved murder of JonBenét Patricia Ramsey. This case is absolutely one of the saddest cases we've covered on this podcast, and as the 23rd anniversary of her murder is coming up, we'd like to ask you all to keep her in your thoughts. And if you have any information that could help the police find whoever did this to JonBenét, please alert the authorities. So, make yourself a bowl of popcorn and get ready for the emotional rollercoaster that is this case.
And again, we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to our podcast and liked our mystery picture this week, we really appreciate it!!! And a special thank you to everyone who gave us a 5 star rating on Apple podcasts, that means so much to us!
If you want to try and figure out what our next podcast is going to be about, our instagram is @grimpodcast. We'll be posting another clue mid week so definitely check that out! And if you'd like to connect with us, drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)! Goodnight pals, we love you all, and happy holidays! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. So, we've decided to do this thing where we post a lil clue or something on our instagram (@grimpodcast) around the middle of the week hinting at what the week's episode is gonna be about. This week, our clue was a picture of one of Scotland's most elaborate Z-plan castle (Saaniya promises she didn't pick this haunted castle just because it's called Castle Fraser and she' a little bit obsessed with Outlander don't worry). So even though this story is a little bit more fact than fiction, it's still a pretty cool haunting. Grab some coffee and maybe a scone with fresh cream if you're feelin fancy and join us on this little break from studying for finals!
And again, we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to our podcast and liked our recent post on the Amityville Murders, we really appreciate it!!! And a special thank you to everyone who gave us a 5 star rating on Apple podcasts, that means so much to us!
If you want to try and figure out what our next podcast is going to be about, our instagram is @grimpodcast. We'll be posting a clue mid week so definitelt check that out! And if you'd like to connect with us, drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)! Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Maddie takes you to Amityville, NY for probably one of the most wild stories we’ve covered so far. Filled with twists and turns, cover ups and accomplices, this story is one for the books. So anyway, make yourself some tea and get ready for a story that’ll make you question everything…
And we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to our podcast (we’re sorry for butchering literally all the names we’ve ever pronounced but we really do appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to us!)
Wanna make our day? Our instagram is @grimpodcast, so definitely check us out there or drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week Saaniya takes you to Edinburgh, to the World's End Pub on the Royal Mile. This night of these murders really was one that haunted this city then and honestly still does now. It's definitely one of the scariest stories because it sounds like such a normal night...
So maybe rethink that night out and instead get ready for this sequence of events that'll leave you very thankful for CCTV footage.
And hey, if you'd like to, you can follow us on Instagram (@grimpodcast) or drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)! We'd love to hear from you!
Also, we just wanted to say that we're so thankful for you guys! Taking the time out of your day to listen to our last two brain cells try to make functional sentences must be exhausting, but we're super thankful for it. Stay safe out there, friends, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Maddie takes you all the way to Flagstaff, AZ for the surprisingly whimsical story of the Haunted Monte Vista Hotel (I mean, we usually don't associate "haunted" with "fun," but trust us, it's actually a fun haunted story. Like this one isn't bad. Honestly, if you're new to supernatural podcasts this is where you should start it's quite low key. Ah you know I see where the whole tangent thing comes in...). So anyway, make yourself some coconut milk hot chocolate and get ready for a short but really interesting series of hauntings that'll be sure to come in handy if you're ever on a game show and they ask you about the haunted rooms at the Monte Vista.
(Also, excuse the technical difficulties at the beginning, Stick around, we promise it gets better!!)
So here's the thing, we're both at uni right now so we're kind of living on our last two brain cells during finals season (as you can probably tell aha). Wanna make our day? Our instagram is @grimpodcast, so definitely check us out there or drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride! Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie x
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week Saaniya takes you to Aberdeen 40 years ago, when the murder of Dr Brenda Page shocked the community. Turns out being a geneticist can be a dangerous career choice. So snuggle up with some blankets and hot cocoa (and a couple cats, if you have them), and get ready for the twists and turns that this story'll take you on...
You know Maddie's not feeling well right now (😢) but you know what's better remedy than a bowl of noodle soup? A follow! Our instagram is @grimpodcast or drop us an email (thegrimpodcast@gmail.com)!
Goodnight pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This is Maddie's first time doing a supernatural story! Big round of applause it's a fun one (just the right amount of spooky, if I do say so myself). So this week we take you to the Dark Corner with the story of Poinsett Bridge in South Carolina (by the way, it's the oldest bridge in South Carolina and perhaps in the entire southeastern United States). Guys. Grab yourself a drink of choice (personally, I'd recommend hot chocolate; this feels like a hot chocolate kind of episode) and get ready for a trip through the 1800s!
And since this was Maddie's first paranormal story on the podcast, why don't you drop a follow, our instagram is @grimpodcast!
Happy first-paranormal-episode-of-Novemver pals, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week (the official start to our second month of podcasting by the way!! we did it. we're real podcasters now!!), Saaniya takes you to Edinburgh in the Early 19th century, when Burke and Hare became two of the most prolific killers out there. With fun little historical facts that we hope will win you your next pub quiz scattered throughout this gruesome tale, join us with a cup of tea as we both use our last two brain cells to bring you this episode (in case you didn't know, a lamb is a baby sheep).
This episode is definitely one hell of a party (🎉🎉)!
And since it has been a whole month since we started, why don't you drop a follow, our instagram is @grimpodcast!
Happy November pals, we love you all, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. On this very special spooky day episode, Saaniya tells you all about the history of Halloween. We know, it sounds boring (history lesson ugh), BUT you don't have to write a paper on it and I promise you won't be tested on any of this information so feel free to sit around the bonfire with the spirits and listen to this spooky tale...
(also look emojis happy spooky season pals 🎃 🕸️ 🦇 👻)
And like always, remember to follow us on instagram @grimpodcast because we're gonna post pictures of our ponies and puppers (and diggy but the alliteration just doesn't work there so) and you definitely don't want to miss out on that!
Happy Halloween pals, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week,
Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Maddie tells you about the worst possible situation you can be in! Happy Saturday and we're so glad you decided to listen in with us as we go on this journey together. So we're at uni right now which means that we're really bad at preparing for the week ahead. But it is spooky season so I feel like we gotta do something special so stay tuned we might do a super special spooky szn episode on Thursday!
And like always, we Gen-Z children need all the support and validation we can get so remember to follow us on instagram @grimpodcast!
Happy (maybe last episode of) Halloween month pals, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week, Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome back to grim. This week, Saaniya tells you about the Mackenzie Poltergeist at Greyfriars Cemetery - one of the most haunted locations in Edinburgh, with over 450 documented attacks throughout the years. Also guys, not sponsored, but if you're still keen to visit the cemetery after listening to the episode, you can book a visit with The City of the Dead Tour company (and please let us know if you experience any haunting experiences!). So buckle up for a quick trip through time to the days of 17th century Scotland.
And now for the most spooky part of spooky season: the self-promotion that we have to do as an up-and-coming business! Remember to follow us on instagram @grimpodcast!
Happy Halloween month pals, and get ready for yet another wild ride!
Until next week,
Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends and welcome to the first official episode of grim. This week, Maddie takes you though the story of Edmund Emil Kemper III aka the Co-Ed Killer (this guy is seriously messed up), and Saaniya apologizes in advance because she's quite ill at the moment (so if you're using headphones, we're sorry). She promises to be better next week though (let's see if she'll actually keep her word). Happy spooky season and get ready for a wild ride today pals cause this one is the perfect way to start off this podcast. We hope you enjoy!
Until next week,
Saaniya and Maddie
Hey there friends, and welcome to grim. (and also happy spooky season). This is just a little teaser we put together for you all so you can get to know us a little bit and maybe figure out if you like our vibe. We (Maddie and Saaniya) are just two college students who just share an interest in this stuff. From watching Criminal Minds and Supernatural together to going to see ATWWD live (great podcast, 10/10 would listen again), we just find this stuff interesting... for some reason...
So basically, we're both in college. Which doesn't leave a lot of time for research-intense activities like running a podcast. So each week, we're going to switch off telling a story. This month, you get True Crime from Maddie and Supernatural from me! We really hope you enjoy this fun little project of ours, and we hope to see you guys soon!
And I guess that's a wrap,
Saaniya