Creature Feature: Alien or Cryptid?

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…Giant Sky Clam? This creature feature buffet examines the Giant Sky Clam and the Flatwoods Monster – and more specifically, are they aliens, cryptids, or something else? Join us for a debunkin’ donuts feature with eye witness accounts and legends galore!

Edited by Maxwell Holechek

The White House Farm Murders, Part Two: Jeremy Bamber

In August of 1985, five members of the Bamber family were murdered. But what exactly happened that night remains hotly contested. 

The open and shut case becomes more complicated as Jeremy suddenly becomes the prime suspect. But mishandling of the crime scene, questionable witnesses and evidence gathered in a suspicious manner leaves more questions than answers. What happened that night? And has the wrong man been in jail all these years? 

Edited by Max Holechek

The White House Farm Murders, Part One: The Crime

In August of 1985, five members of the Bamber family were murdered. But what exactly happened that night remains hotly contested. 

Police were called to the family home where allegedly eldest daughter Sheila was on a rampage. When police entered the home they would find her parents, Nevill and June, her twin sons Daniel and Nicholas and finally Sheila’s body. What happened that night? Did Sheila experience a psychotic break and murder her family or was she set up by the lone surviving son, Jeremy Bamber. 

The first part of our two part episode looks at the family and the crime itself.

Edited by Maxwell Holechek

The Time Traveling Oxford Women of Versailles

On August 10, 1901, Oxford scholars, Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont, happened upon a potential time travel experience in France, in which they claim to have stumbled across Marie Antoinette herself, and experienced what they felt were inexplicable events and people. Their publication titled “An Adventure” detailed their bizarre incident first-hand, and was quite controversial for its time. 

But was it truly a time travel experience? What could have caused this mind-boggling event?

Edited by Max Holechek 

The Boston Strangler, Part Two: Albert DeSalvo

A string of murders in Boston from 1962-1964 ended when Albert DeSalvo, a man already incarcerated for a variety of crimes confessed to the murders. But was he really the murderer? 

In our second part of our two part series we look at Albert DeSalvo. Who was he? Was he really the Boston Strangler? And if he wasn’t, who was? 

Edited by Max Holechek 

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The Boston Strangler, Part One: The Murders

In June of 1962, the brutal murder and assault of Anna Slesers would kick off a string of similar murders. 


Dubbed “The Boston Strangler” by the press, it was quickly assumed that the murders were executed by one individual, a fact that is debated to this day. In part one of our two part series covering the case, we examine the murders. 

Edited by Max Holechek 

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Henri Landru: The Bluebeard of Gambais

Henri-Désiré Landru, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais, was a French serial killer who swindled lovelorn women, promising romance with his lonely hearts personal ads in the early 1900s, when these women would go inexplicably missing – truly a cautionary tale for the Tinder generation. He eventually murdered at least 10 women and a young man between December 1914 and January 1919, until he was uncovered by two women whose sisters had gone missing, and they would stop at nothing to unveil this male Black Widow. 

Edited by Maxwell Holechek 

The Von Erich’s: Wrestling’s Most Tragic Family

Trigger Warning: Talk of suicide.

In the early 80s, the Von Erich family was wrestling royalty. An unstoppable wrestling dynasty founded by Father Fritz and followed by sons David, Kevin and Kerry. But soon tragedy after tragedy would hit the family in an unimaginable way. The true story of what would be dramatized in The Iron Claw contains even more devastation than what would play out on the silver screen.

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The Enigma of Spontaneous Human Combustion

Bizarre cases of what have been identified as spontaneous human combustion have left investigators scratching their heads for centuries. Victims suddenly burst into flames, died grisly deaths within seconds, and left behind only a pile of ashes, and sometimes feet. There have been hundreds of cases of alleged spontaneous human combustion dating back to the 17th century, and before science could Scully what happened exactly, demonic and paranormal explanations ran rampant. Join us as we discuss a plethora of spontaneous human combustion cases that challenge both superstition and science.

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