Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie

Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie


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Ep. 185: The Tylenol Murders
September 06, 2024

In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take investigators long to realize all seven victims had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol just prior to their deaths. Al

Ep. 184: Mothman, Pt. 3 - Unifying Theory of Mothman
August 29, 2024

#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, a tragedy in which 46 people lost their lives. Was the Mothman tryin

A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals
August 22, 2024

Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer just ahead of Labor Day!In the interest of our sanity, we kept it fairly loose this week with a late catch-

Ep. 183: Mothman, Pt. 2 - Pinkeye in Point Pleasant
August 15, 2024

This week, we return to Point Pleasant for even more high strangeness as the Men in Black, a fleet of UFOs, and author John Keel descend on the town and get mixed up in a series of bizarre encounters including a little man with a ballpoint pen obsession,

Ep. 182: Mothman, Pt. 1 - Daddy Magneto
August 08, 2024

This week, #HotMothSummer continues as we finally reach the story we've been building up to: the strange tale of the Mothman, a maybe-cryptid maybe-alien that descended upon the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966 to freak out the locals a

Ep. 181: Men in Black, Pt. 2 - Good Cop, Bathroom Cop
July 18, 2024

#HotMothSummer presses on this week with part 2 of our primer on the Men in Black!Sean takes us back to 1953 Bridgeport, Connecticut, as we hear in Albert Bender's own words what he says he experienced that fateful summer. What sounded from the outside l

Ep. 180: Men in Black, Pt. 1 - Middle-Aged White Guy Activities
July 11, 2024

Best known today for diminishing cinematic returns, the Men In Black have been one of the creepiest boogymen of the UFO community for nearly 80 years. This week, Sean takes us all the way back to 1947 and the first reported incident of someone being appro

Ep. 179: The Culper Spy Ring
June 27, 2024

As an Independence Day treat, we hop into the time machine for a little "Ain't it Sneaky" here on the show with the twisting tale of the Culper Spy Ring, America's first foray into espionage during the Revolutionary War. Formed after the tragic execution

Ep. 178: Sam the Sandown Clown
June 20, 2024

This week it's a summertime holiday story for the summertime holiday season as Sean introduces us to the creature fondly remembered as the Sandown Clown.This C-team cryptid (maybe) is reported to have chatted with two vacationing children on the Isle of

Ep. 177: Haunted Lighthouses of the Northeastern U.S.
June 13, 2024

Lighthouses have stood on the Northeastern coast of America for centuries, beacons of hope in dark night or a desperate storm...and, sometimes, silent witnesses to the many tragedies that can befall seafarers and their loved ones in the course of their so