We return to the autumn of 1885 this week where, in Austin, Texas, six victims - most of them Black domestic servants - have already been claimed by a killer who has successfully eluded police for nearly a year. On Christmas Eve, the midnight murderer's f

Beginning in late 1884 and throughout 1885, Austin, the boomtown capitol of Texas, was terrorized and sensationalized by a series of horrific murders. One man, six women and a young girl would be claimed by the spree before the year was out. Most of the v

To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never reallyends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Vermont, where the skiing is top-notch, the leaf-peeping is absolutely beautiful, and the ghosts...well, th

A topicalstorm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online takes a turn for the unhinged in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, we take a quick look at the rea

In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before discussing the flicks we've been watching this Halloween, and the best and worst possible Ain't It Scary pa

Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no different - and now, along with our past explorations into

The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's Pinelands and all the creepies and cryptids that supposed

On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titansubmersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his s

Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders!Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before covering Berkowitz's tumultuous transition to incarceration an

Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year.From July 1976 to July 1977, David Berkowitz embarked on a string of cold-blooded mur