We're not ready for Halloween season to be over yet, so we thought we'd continue on with one more Creepypasta to keep the spooky spirit in our hearts a little longer. This time, Patrick looks into the origins of a famous Creepypasta character that has haunted the internet for many years: Jeff the Killer and we get to hear one take on the killer's origin story.
Happy Halloween from Dark & Devious! Patrick and Chris are starting a new tradition and doing something a little different for today's episode and that is reading some spooky original stories from Creepypasta.com. We think you'll have as much fun as we did with the stories The Bag and Poppy's Peril . It'll be a scream!
It's almost Halloween and one of our favorite traditions here at Dark & Devious is to watch horror movies. These films frighten us by bringing the scariest events imaginable to life, but what happens when real life is just as scary as the movies? On this episode, Patrick shares the real life exorcism that inspired the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) and Chris will share stories of "cursed films" The Omen (1976) and The Exorcist (1973).
Forests have been home to countless legends for ages - from folktales warning of evil spirits lurking behind the dark outlines of trees, to tales of innocent camping trips gone awry, the woods of the world can be a spooky place. Join Chris and Patrick this week as they discuss two spooky woods: The Bennington Triangle in Vermont, USA and the "Suicide Forest" of Aokigahara in Japan.
New York has a little bit of everything, from the sky scrapers of the big apple, to the quiet farms of Upstate, but let's not forget; New York has been inhabited for centuries. And with centuries of inhabitants that's a lot of people who have left their mark. This episode talks about a haunted brownstone, the ghosts of 9/11, a haunted fort, and a good old fashioned spooky asylum.
Happy Spooktober!!!! Join us in episode 65 as Patrick and Chris kick off spooky season with a special episode taking Dark and Devious to where it all began; Watseka, Illinois. Listen as Patrick tells the tale of The Watseka Wonder, also know as America’s first documented demonic possession.
In episode 56, Patrick covered the brutal murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee and the botched trial that put her ex boyfriend, Adnan Syed, behind bars. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. As recently as September 2022 there has been a big update in the investigation and in Adnan's life. Listen now as Patrick updates the story to reflect recent happenings, in a case that is near and dear to his heart.
Patrick is away on vacation this week so Chris has invited the marvelous superfan, Hannah Spaid (@nanaj_xo on Instagram) to be a guest on this week's episode. What started as a mini episode ended up being long enough for a full length one and once the two of us got talking about the assassination of one of the architects of the Russian Revolution we just couldn't stop ourselves. There are lots of fascinating facts and a few jokes (at Stalin's expense.) Enjoy!
A series of horrifying events in the late 1880s — better known as the Servant Girl Annihilator or Servant Girl Murders — that first left local citizens of Austin, Texas, paralyzed with fear. The brutal killings in Austin occurred three years before Jack the Ripper terrorized London's East End (and there are some who believe the Servant Girl Annihilator and Jack the Ripper were the same person). Although these murders happened 75 years before the term serial killer was coined, it still sealed Aus...
On March 24, 2004, 31-year-old Kevin Clewer is found dead in his Lakeview apartment, located in the historic gay district of Chicago known as Boystown. Kevin has been stabbed 42 times and left on the floor of his bedroom to die. He was last seen with a mysterious man named, “Fernando” and despite forensic evidence left behind the case has since gone cold.
Between February of 1976 and March of 1977 a terrifying wave of child abductions and murders plagued Oakland County, Michigan, one of the wealthiest counties per capita in the country. The resulting investigation was one of the largest in history, but even with hundreds of officers on the ground and thousands of hours of work there has still never been anyone formally charged with the crimes. But in today's episode you may get some ideas of who the perpetrator or perpetrators might have been. Th...
Recently, record setting droughts have been shrinking the size of Nevada's Lake Meade and as waters recede, secrets emerge. A discovery of a body in a metal barrel has caused local investigators to revisit the Mafia-linked past of nearby Las Vegas. Get a little dose of mobster history with this fascinating story of current events.
The idea behind trash streaming simple: invite a few friends over, get drunk, start a live broadcast and ask viewers to donate in exchange for carrying out the dares they suggest. What really drives trash streams into a subject of concern is the type of dares suggested and carried out. For Valentina Grigoyeva, the dares and requests would unfortunately cost her her life, and at the hands of her lover and boyfriend.
Sylvia Likens was a happy, beautiful 16-year-old when her parents left her and her sister in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while they went on the road for work. Within a few short months in Gertrude's care, Sylvia's treatment turned horrifyingly awful. She was beaten, humiliated, and ultimately left to die from neglect and abuse. When all was said and done, Gertrude was not the only one guilty of tormenting the teen; other neighborhood children would ultimately be indicted as well.
In today's minisode we wanted to shed light on hate crimes. We'll discuss two examples of bad dudes who are getting prosecuted for their racist actions. In one, a man in New York is arrested after a road rage incident directed at an off duty police officer (never a good idea). In the other a Wisconsin man faces sentencing after throwing acid in the face of a man at a bus stop. You'll be shaking your head in disbelief when you hear the details from these two articles.
(TW: Violence toward children is mentioned) Father's Day is coming up this week and today's episode looks at two dads that are definitely on the worst end of the spectrum of parents. Ryan Lawrence of Syracuse, NY brutally took the life of his little girl, Maddox after praying for a sign from God not to kill her. And Josh Powell of Puyallup, Washington blew up his house with his two sons, Charlie and Braden, inside after their mother, Susan, disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Hailey Christiansen was a single mother of one, a loving family member, and all around kind person. Sadly her life was cut sort in July, 2020 in a horrific way. Requested by one of our devoted followers, we will discuss the recent murder of Hailey Christiansen and the truly senseless motives behind the crime.
When a 20-year-old soldier goes missing from one of the largest military bases in the country, her tight-knit family is determined to find her and bring her home. But the investigation into her disappearance uncovers more than anyone bargained for – secrets, lies, and a system that failed to protect the people within it. And it has left everyone asking: what is going on at Fort Hood, Texas?
The websites you visit every day represent just a small fraction of the whole internet. Beyond this “surface web” is the Deep Web, and within the Deep Web is the Dark Web. In this mysterious corner of the internet all sorts of criminal enterprises occur and we will discuss the urban legend of "Red Rooms." Red Rooms supposedly allow viewers to watch real people be harmed in real time and even allow requests, but do these macabre portals really exist? Check out this latest episode as we discuss th...
In 1873, the people of Labette County, Kansas were confronted with a horrible crime. A family from the area, the Benders, had spent the last couple of years robbing and murdering travelers in the area and disposed of many of them in the orchard on their small farm. The discovery of the horrible crime set off a cross-country manhunt and set the people of Kansas on edge. Listen to today's case sourced from the fascinating book: Hell's Half-Acre by Susan Jonusas.
Join us this week for a special 'Show n' Tell' Minisode! Listen as Chris tells us about a chain of mysterious Russian "deaths by suicide" involving prominent businessmen and Patrick gives us a brief history of the hate and discrimination towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the USA.
Sometimes we need to be reminded that the bad guys usually get caught and this week we're talking about some quick true crime cases about some recent dumb criminals. We have a wife who wrote a how-to essay on killing a husband, some battery thieves going after police property, and one guy who just couldn't hold out for the bathroom. These stories will definitely have you shaking your head and wondering what were they thinking!
It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappeared sometime after school and before work one day. Six weeks after she disappeared, detectives arrested her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. Syed claimed his innocence, but damning testimony from a close friend quickly put him at the top of the suspects list. A classmate at Woodlawn High School claims she knows that Adnan's whereabouts prove he couldn't have committed the crime, but others still claim...
On August 5, 2017, Emily Claire Hari (known at the time as Michael Hari), Michael McWhorter, and Joe Morris of Clarence, Illinois, detonated an improvised explosive inside the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center and Mosque in an effort to scare Muslims into leaving the United States. McWhorter and Morris pled guilty to crimes relating to the attack and Hari was convicted of several crimes in a 2020 federal trial. But despite their charges and sentences, what does that say about future religious hate cr...
How far would you go to prevent a damaging truth from getting out? That is the question that centers around this case that includes lost treasures, forged documents, and the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS). Documents from the founders of the Mormon faith are extremely valuable to collectors and the church leadership, so when Mark Hofmann began digging up unbelievably rare pieces, high ranking officials took notice. With increasingly valuable material turning up all around Hofmann the higher th...
Join us for our third minisode where Patrick tells the tale of a coroner's office oopsie poopsie and BIG NO NO!
Spring break. It’s time to cut loose. It’s time to party. And like many teenagers, 17 year Brittanee Drexel just wanted to get away and blow off some steam. She told her parents she was going to stay at a friend's house, but in reality she snuck away to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to party with people she thought were her friends. She was hundreds of miles away from home with people who did not have her best interests at heart. More importantly, she vanished, never to be seen again. While offi...
A 67-year-old, Idaho man named Duke E. Wilson, who was on the front lines of the insurrection of January 6, 2021, recently plead guilty to attacking United States Capitol Police. Wilson received a 51 month prison sentence, the second longest handed out so far to a rioter from that day. The sentence shows how serious the threat to democracy was and may indicate how future trials may go for other serious offenders.
Shanda Sharer was a bubbly 12-year-old attending Hazelwood Middle School in New Albany, Ind. She was, by all accounts, a normal girl who made friends easily and had fun at school dances. But it was one such dance that set in motion a chain of events that would soon bring Shanda Sharer’s life to a gruesome, torturous end at the hands of four teenage girls. *Listeners Advised: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault and the torture and murder of a child.
Join us for our very first minisode! This will be a quick rundown of a story in the headlines right now to keep things interesting between our bi-weekly longer episodes. Today, Patrick finally has some good news for us, with details on the discovery of 6-year-old Paislee Shultis who was found alive after being missing for 2.5 years.
