We Were Had! This week we talk about the Craziest Live TV Moments! From the most recent famous example of Will Smith and Chris Rock, to classic favorites like John Travolta mispronouncing a name, how many of these are real or fake? Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Spinelli, and Ben Kirschenbaum dive in each week to bring you the facts. #livetv #oscars #willsmith #johntravolta #wewerehad #ww...
Apr 07, 2022•41 min•Ep. 66
We Were Had! This week we talk about the Bermuda Triangle! This ocean region is notorious for countless ships and planes going missing, or turning up without any signs of a crew. Many times the rescue vessels also mysteriously disappeared. Is this a portal to another world? Is there something sinister in the mist? Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Spinelli, and Ben Kirschenbaum dive in each ...
Mar 31, 2022•34 min•Ep. 65
We Were Had! This week we talk about escaping Alcatraz! Brothers both serving time in the same prison, made dummy heads and after months of chipping away at walls with spoons, made their daring escape. Did they drown in the icy waters or does evidence point to them surviving all these years later? Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Spinelli, and Ben Kirschenbaum dive in each week to bring you...
Mar 24, 2022•34 min•Ep. 64
We Were Had! This week we talk The Simpsons and how accurately they have predicted pop culture, government, and fiascos years ahead of time with haunting accuracy. Many claim the writer Matt Groening is a time traveler how has special powers. Trump's election, 9/11, Game of Thrones and more! Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Spinelli, and Ben Kirschenbaum dive in each week to bring you the f...
Mar 17, 2022•54 min•Ep. 63
We Were Had! This week we had our friend comedian Chanel Omari on to talk about a case she is passionate about, Elisa Lam. We covered this in a past episode, where on February 19, 2013, the body of Chinese-Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was recovered from a large cistern atop the Stay on Main hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, where she had been a guest since January 26. She was last seen alive on January 31 and was reported missing by her parents on February 1. We decided to dig up the cold case files ...
Mar 14, 2022•26 min•Ep. 62
We Were Had! The World is going to end at some point, but how? Could a super volcano erupt? Maybe Disease or a Pandemic takes over? Or maybe even... Aliens? Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Spinelli, and Ben Kirschenbaum dive in each week to bring you the facts. #supervolcanoes #aliens #pandemic #disease #history #wewerehad #wwh #comedy #podcast #mystery #murder #psychics #crimes Please Sup...
Mar 10, 2022•41 min•Ep. 61
We Were Had! John McAfee most known for his anti-virus software, was a man of many faces. He started his own country within a country, surrounded himself with a harem of women and guns, and was on the run from enemies. Did the U.S. government kill him? Did he kill himself? We dive deep into the cocaine fueled action film that was John McAfee and his life. Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural! Your hosts, Comedians Mae Planert, Max Sp...
Mar 03, 2022•44 min•Ep. 60
We Were Had! Starting around 1976 the people of Circleville, Ohio began receiving letters that contained information exposing the secrets and taboo of the town. Cheating, workplace harassment, and more led to one man's bizarre death as he went to face the tormentor. An innocent man put in jail and the letters don't stop, two decades of terror faced a town yet did they ever find their anonymous author? Tune in and find out if We Were Had! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnat...
Feb 24, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 7
We Were Had! Am Fear Liath Mòr is the Scottish folklore story of a big grey giant seen lurking around Ben Macdui. Several have reported seeing, hearing, or feeling its presence and disturbing sounds of being followed. Is it the Yeti/Sasquatch cousin that's been overshadowed all these years by the Loch Ness monster? Could it be some illusion playing tricks on hikers? Max dives deep into his findings on the hidden mystery of Scotland! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, and the Unnatural!...
Feb 17, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In 1483, two princes mysteriously disappeared from the Tower of London. We take a look at the details surrounding the War of the Roses (Game of Thrones was based around a lot of these events), Lancaster vs York, the English throne, and treachery! Was it their Uncle? Were their bodies ever found? Why were they even in the tower? This is one of the most popular unsolved mysteries of Europe so dive deep with us as we sort through what we think happened! We Were Had is a podcast of Murder, Mystery, ...
Feb 10, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Last week, we investigated whether psychic abilities were legit and now we run through the real people who solve real crimes using...real powers? Dorothy Allison, Nancy Weber, and other purported psychics have famously helped crack high profile cases with no one able to explain how. Were they just really good guessers? Was the show Psych more of a documentary program? Or were these women really tapping into a deeper level of human potential? There's actually a good chance Baba Vanga predicted we...
Feb 03, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Psychics and psychic abilities have been around since the beginning of time. But do they even really exist? There have been some legitimate scientific studies giving credence to paranormal abilities. There have also been plenty more studies and tests DISPROVING psychics. The truth? You'd have to be psychic to know for sure...
Jan 20, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 3
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft of March, 1990 saw the loss of over half a billion dollars worth of art. It remains to this day one of Boston's most confounding unsolved mysteries. Was it an inside job? Did the mob have a hand in it? The fam goes full Oceans Eleven for one of history's greatest capers.
Jan 13, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Three young boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, AR in 1993. To somehow make matters even worse, the police led a campaign to wrongfully convict three teens using "evidence" like the fact that one of them owned a Metallica t-shirt. No one knows for certain who actually did it but thanks to Mae, we have some educated guesses. The We Were Had fam gets got with one of our darkest cases yet.
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 1
60 children in Zimbabwe witnessed aliens land behind their school in a spacecraft. Some even claimed to telepathically communicate with them. This 1994 otherworldly encounter garnered worldwide news coverage and remains one of the most cited examples of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Concrete proof or elaborate prank? The fam gleep glorps their way through another interstellar mystery.
Dec 30, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 52
A controversial topic among academics and anyone with a soul. The concept that a non-human animal could contemplate and carry out suicide is a chilling thought, and yet, it happens more than you'd think. At least it seems to be the case. The fam looks into one of the most mysterious corners of the animal kingdom.
Dec 23, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 51
We run through some of the most haunted objects of all time including a wedding dress, a mirror, and of course good ole Annabelle. Are they really so cursed you'll die if you interact with these every day items? This fam's not taking any chances.
Dec 09, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 50
The unsolved slaying of an ambitious Hollywood starlet with an undeniable charm and a diary ranking her lovers throughout entertainment and politics. Was she murdered for what she knew? Did she take it a step further and attempt blackmail? Did the powers that be keep this story from getting the attention it seemingly should've had? The fam explores the fascinating life and times of Christa Helm.
Dec 02, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 49
August 10th, 2019 witnessed one of the most high profile and controversial deaths in recent memory. Was it suicide or murder or somehow a combination of both? When so many of the world's elites have a motive, quite literally anything is possible. The fam separates fact from fiction in the infamous case of billionaire sex criminal, Jeffrey Epstein.
Nov 25, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 48
In one of our wildest stories yet, 1930s "Iron" Mike Malloy thwarts several attempts on his life despite a conspiratorial group of friends and alcoholism. Methods included rat poison, pneumonia, and a glass sandwich. How did he not die? The fam soaks up Prohibition-Era NYC.
Nov 18, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 47
The universe could be so big that there's actually more than one. Like an infinite amount. With billions of versions of you reading this right now just wearing different pants. But what if there was no way to prove it? The fam puts on their cosmologist hats for this one.
Nov 11, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 46
The 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan and the ensuing media frenzy put women's figure skating on the map. The mystery? Did rival skater Tonya Harding have hand in planning the infamous assault? We make a few reporting mistakes in this one but ultimately it's still a 10 out of 10 episode.
Nov 04, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 45
This one's a competition, folks! Mae presents a list of urban legends pulled off the internet and Max and Ben guess whether they're fake or still kind of not real but based on some truth. Cursed parks, secret experiments, widowed witches - there's a little bit of everything in here. The fam tells tall tales from around town.
Oct 28, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 44
He's been missing for over a month, the whole world's looking for him, and there are updates every hour on the hour. The search for him inside of a massive Florida nature reserve, however, is like looking for a needle in a haystack it might not even be in. Laundrie remains the only person of interest in the case of girlfriend Gabby Petito's murder.
Oct 21, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In 1982, someone put cyanide into Tylenol capsules throughout the Chicago area forever changing the way we consume over the counter medicine. Who did it? 40 years later and it's still unknown. The fam pops into this painful mystery.
Oct 14, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 42
In celebration of Mae picking a wedding venue, we're covering the mysterious and tragic death of a Canadian newlywed in 1947. What happens when a couple brings their "best friend" on the honeymoon? Arson, drownings, affairs and everything in between. The fam gets hitched to an infamous bridal mystery.
Oct 09, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Possibly the biggest existential question of all time and science is split down the middle. Is this the base reality or are we just next gen Sims? The fam goes deep into the matrix.
Sep 30, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 40
In this bonus episode, Mark Normand joins the pod to discuss an unsolved mystery from his past. His trailblazing drag queen superhero of a nanny was murdered without a trace. He and his parents help the team piece together what could have happened to him.
Sep 27, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In the first widely reported alien abduction, Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been snatched up by a UFO in September, 1961. Their story shaped just about every extraterrestrial cliche in the books - flying saucer, little grey men, and of course, probing. But did it actually happen? The fam beams up into the og E.T.
Sep 23, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In one of the most infamous mysterious deaths of all time, college student Elisa Lam disappeared in her hotel. Only that hotel was basically cursed. And then she was found somewhere she almost certainly couldn't have gotten into alone. The fam checks into the ill fated Cecil Hotel.
Sep 17, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 37
