This week, Sean takes us through the twisted tale of depressive serial killer nurse Charles Cullen. Cullen confessed to killing "around" 40 patients over 16 years at 7 different hospitals before he was arrested in 2003. Some say he may even have killed as many as 300. What drove this mild-mannered healthcare worker to kill? And how did the healthcare system let him keep doing it for 16 years?! Answers lie within. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook:...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 15 min
The Renaissance was a time of enlightenment, opulence, and all-around cultural rebirth. However, that’s not all it was. It was also a time of poisonous murders, toxic cosmetics, and hygienic horrors bad enough to make your hair stand on end…or maybe that was just all the grease. You might not want to time travel to this era no matter how big of a Renaissance royalty fan you were…because you would be faced with possible death from poisoning, lead and mercury based makeup, or just the general disg...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This week it's back to the world of the grim and unsolved, as Sean takes us through the facts of one of the most chilling unsolved crimes in German history - the Hinterkaifeck murders. On the night of March 31, 1922, on a remote farm outside of Munich, a family of five and their maid were murdered in cold blood with a pickaxe. Most strangely, their killer appears to have lived on the farm, with the bodies of his victims, for three days after the crime. Was this the gruesome act of a wandering ma...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min
The King isn't dead. At least, that's what some people think. Elvis Presley died on August 16th, 1977, after a myriad of health problems culminating in cardiac arrest. Or...did he? Some fans posit that the King of Rock 'n Roll actually faked his own death with funeral and all to get away from the fame, his debts, and maybe even Mafia threats. But did Elvis Presley really hoax his death? If so, how? Why? And how did this legend get started in the first place? Did Elvis really leave the building? ...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 11 min
What if we weren’t living in 2021? What if we were really living in…1724? That’s the premise behind the “Phantom Dark Age” theory, which claims that Holy Roman Emperor Otto III inserted 300 years into history that never even happened. Why would Otto have done that? How did he pull it off? Is this a revolutionary re-ordering of all of human history, or… just a bit dumb? We explore the apparent blank spaces in early middle ages history - and the minds of the guys who thought this stuff up. _______...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Is it possible for a whole family to be cursed? Some people think so. In fact, there's one particular family in United States history many have asserted IS the victim of a curse - the Kennedys. From political assassinations to plane crashes to tragic accidents and even murder investigations, the Kennedys have lived under a dark cloud since the mid-20th century. Though blessed with wealth, power, privilege, good looks, and charm, death and calamity has never been far behind this American politica...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Let's go back to 1961 for the first major UFO abduction story in American history - the Betty & Barney Hill Incident! During a dark night in rural New Hampshire, Betty & Barney Hill (and their pet dachshund, Delsey) were coming back home from a weekend trip in Canada when they spotted a strange unidentified aircraft moving bizarrely in the sky. Then it began to follow their car. Once they finally got home, they realized they had lost 2-3 hours of time that they couldn't remember, with th...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 47 min
April 12, 1981. Keddie, California. Sue Sharp, her teenage son John, and his friend Dana Wingate are found brutally murdered in the Sharp family's cabin at Keddie Resort in the Sierra Nevada. 12-year-old Tina Sharp is missing. And, shockingly, the youngest children - Rick Sharp, Greg Sharp, and Justin Smartt - are found alive, sleeping peacefully in the room next door. Who killed Sue, John, and Dana? Why was there so much violence on the scene? Where was Tina? And why were the young boys left al...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Remember the comfort a childhood stuffed toy brought? Carrying it around everywhere, taking care of it, cuddling it like your own baby? Something about dolls has brought parental instincts out of children since ancient times. But what happens when that relationship goes wrong? What happens when that DOLL goes wrong? In this episode we're exploring 3 stories of haunted dolls: Annabelle, the famous possessed Raggedy Ann doll with her own Warrens-adjacent horror movie franchise; Robert, the creepy ...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Magic acts are all about doing extraordinary things with a wink and a nod to the audience, letting them know that the unbelievable is, indeed, possible. The audience is held spellbound by the illusion, yet always with the knowledge that death will be defied, they will be captivated, and the magician in question will live to trick another day. But what if they...don't? What if the illusion goes wrong? In this episode Sean takes us through stories where death was NOT defied, and illusion performan...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 11 min
We've hit 20 episodes! This week, Carrie is taking us through a mid-2000s internet mystery - that of LakeCityQuietPills.com. When the moderator of a sketchy sub-Reddit passes away in July 2009, a mystery is ignited. This moderator owned an image hosting site, "That Old Guy's Image Host", that supposedly served as a source for tawdry and pretty illegal photos of underage girls...but when internet sleuths start poking around in the image host's source code, a whole hidden world is discovered that ...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr
In this episode we’re taking a trip to pre-WWII Key West, Florida - a place beyond laws, full of unbelievable characters. One of these characters is Count Carl von Cosel (born Karl Tanzler), an eccentric x-ray technician that falls head-over-heels in love with a young Latina beauty named Elena Hoyos. Problem is, she has tuberculosis, and in the 1930s this was pretty much a death wish. However, von Cosel’s obsessive love knows no bounds…even those of death. And the grim discovery Elena’s family a...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 20 min
On part 1 of this 2-part series we met the Goodins, a small family that was beginning to experience terrifying poltergeist activity in their home on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This episode the famous ghost-hunting couple Ed & Lorraine Warren (they of the "Conjuring" movies) come on the scene and try to figure out what's really going on in the Goodin house. Is there a demon preying on the family? A telekinesis-driven poltergeist? Or did little Marcia Goodin just...make the who...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 18 min
New year, new boo’s! We’re bringing it back home for a local ghost story centered in Bridgeport, Connecticut - right in our own backyard. The Goodins moved into their home on Lindley Street hoping for a quiet, family-centered life of peace and normalcy. What they got instead was a chaotic, frightening, and shockingly well-documented situation involving a possible poltergeist, or supernatural being creating intense physical disturbances. In the first part of this story we’ll be discussing the bac...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Let’s take it back, wayyyy back…back to Ancient Egypt! On Episode 16 Carrie’s telling us the story of King Tutankhamun, aka Tut, the boy king of Ancient Egypt. But even more interesting than the story of his life is that of the discovery of his tomb and mummified remains in 1922—and the alleged curse that descended upon the excavation team after they cracked open his crypt. Was there really an Ancient Egyptian curse on Tut’s tomb, one that promised “death on swift wings” to anyone disturbing the...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 22 min
Bigfoot. The Mothman. The Jersey Devil. These are the big bad boys of American Cryptid Folklore. But what about the B Squad? Or even…the C Squad? In our pre-holiday episode, Sean takes us from the American South to the Northeast and beyond to introduce us to the Cryptid C Squad: the Fouke Monster of Arkansas, the Lizard Man of Lee County, South Carolina, various Southeastern Goat Men (including the Pope Lick Monster) and Lake Monsters great and small, including Champy in Vermont and even one tha...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min
In Part 2 of this series, Carrie goes into the major conspiracy theories surrounding Diana, Princess of Wales’ tragic and sudden death. Was her death really an orchestrated assassination by one or more governments? If so, was it because of her land mine activism…or good old-fashioned racism? Or, even crazier, did it have something to do with…Jesus Christ??? ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Insta...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Diana, Princess of Wales, was known as the “People’s Princess”, and her tragic death in a car accident in 1997 caused shockwaves to ripple throughout the world. In the first of this 2-part series, Carrie explores the sad life and death of Princess Di, and why there are those who think her death may not have been an accident after all…but, as many have claimed, murder. In Episode 13 we’ll piece together the night of the accident and what facts about the crash seem fishiest to theorists, including...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’…into the past! On episode 12 Sean brings us several stories of regular people who, on a seemingly normal day, found themselves suddenly transported to the past—including the tale of two Edwardian English ladies who may have run into Marie Antoinette herself at Versailles! Were these folks delusional, or simply lying? Or did they really experience time in all its "wibbly-wobbly" glory, as The Doctor would say? And Carrie brings up a good point…why is it ...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 31 min
We’re here at episode 11 for part 2 of our HOLLYWOOD HORRORS series - Haunted Hollywood! Ahh, Hollywood. The home of incredible highs of stardom…and unspeakable lows of tragedy. One minute you’re the talk of the town, and the next you can’t even get a call back from your agent. So many have come to awful ends in Hollywood, California, and many of them never left…even after death. Carrie takes us on a macabre tour of the town, from the Roosevelt Hotel to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, to the Hollywo...
Nov 26, 2020•56 min
We’ve hit double digits, baby! In celebration of episode #10, Carrie begins another double: a two parter on HOLLYWOOD HORRORS! Part 1 is all about films that were supposedly cursed - likely because of their content - during and even after their production. These films, coincidentally, are all in the horror genre: Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, Poltergeist, and The Exorcist. From on-set injuries and tragic coincidences to bizarre beheadings, convicted murderers, and even Charles Manson, what happened...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Episode 9 brings us the mysterious case of the Somerton Man - an Australian “John Doe” found deceased from unknown causes on a beach, without much in his pockets but a scrap of paper emblazoned with the words “Tamam Shud” and, well, a lot of questions. Was the Somerton Man a mysterious foreign spy? A lovesick soldier? Or…someone else entirely? Sean tries to lay out all the clues and theories, while Carrie is convinced she’s somehow solved the case. But will we ever know the real identity of the ...
Nov 12, 2020•59 min
Ahh, the post-Halloween malaise, full of nauseating amounts of discount candy and grey November days. It’s the perfect time to uncover the truth behind the “Real Candy Man”, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, and the urban legend he inspired - that of the boogieman trick-or-treat candy poisoner. Carrie walks us through this sad, bizarre case, and discovers that no child has ever been hurt or killed by tainted Halloween candy given out by a stranger…but sometimes the biggest monsters are the ones closest to h...
Nov 03, 2020•50 min
In episode 7 Sean guides us through the lesser known (but still incredibly strange) story of George Adamski, the first reported extraterrestrial contactee in U.S. history. Did Adamski really pal around with a being calling themselves “Orthon of Venus”? Or was he just a giant con artist? Carrie keeps finding shades of L. Ron Hubbard in the would-be sci fi novelist, while Sean marvels at the crazy luck Adamski had in all of his sightings and communications…or was it luck at all? No matter what, th...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 38 min
For episode 6, Carrie took a journey back through American history to investigate the enigma of the lost colony of Roanoke: the first substantial colony sent from England to populate what would become America, and one of the first great unexplained mysteries of the New World. Why did the colony at Roanoke disappear, and where did they go? Were they wiped out by nearby tribes or illness? Or, did they assimilate into a Native American community, with descendants still present in our country today?...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 16 min
On episode 5, Carrie takes Sean through centuries of history to dissect one of the weirdest phenomena of all time—spontaneous human combustion, a.k.a when people burst into random flame, seemingly for no apparent reason. Through a few selected tales, Carrie tries to figure out what could cause a person to burst into such white-hot flame that they’re completely incinerated aside from the odd foot, hand, or in one particularly bizarre case…a shrunken skull. Is it ball lightning? A mysterious medic...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 22 min
In episode 4, Sean takes us on a deep dive into a sky dive—1971’s so-called “D.B. Cooper” plane hijacking. On November 24th, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper committed the only unsolved case of air piracy in history. We take a look at all the suspects - good, bad and downright stupid - and try to find the man who had the flight attendants swooning. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagra...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 49 min
For episode 3 Carrie dove deep into a strange tale out of New Jersey: The Watcher, who wrote one family creepy and vaguely threatening letters until they left town. Who was the Watcher? What was their motive? Why were the residents of the neighborhood such dicks to this tormented family? Sean & Carrie try to find some answers in this convoluted story. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagr...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min
On part 2 of our series, we chat about 4 more legendary locations and people in the CT area worth discussing—the spooky Dudleytown, the unsettling Fairfield Hills State Hospital, the tragic Leatherman, and the just plain weird Headless Horseman of Canton. Carrie doesn’t understand why half of the Fairfield Hills buildings are still up, while Sean thinks the Horseman is just a ripoff of Sleepy Hollow’s phantom rider. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebo...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 25 min
On our very first episode and part 1 of our series, we dive into two of the most intriguing legends from the state of Connecticut—the legendary “mutants” The Melonheads, and the notoriously haunted Remington Arms Factory in Bridgeport. Carrie finds surprising historical backstory for the Melonheads legend, while Sean finds the Ghost Adventures lockdown in the factory laughable. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitte...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min
