Send us a text BLAM EPISODE - The Matthew Hoffman case is one of those rare true crime rabbit holes where things feel off from the very beginning—but not in a way you can easily put your finger on. And just when you think it’s heading toward a typical small-town mystery, it veers into something so bizarre, so dark, and so downright disturbing, it’ll leave you questioning how much you really know about the people living next door. THIS IS A SUBSCRIBER ONLY EPISODE Support the show Thank you for l...
Jul 08, 2025•2 min•Season 3Ep. 132
Send us a text Anatoly Moskvin was a Russian historian and linguist with a disturbing secret—he was found to have exhumed the bodies of at least 26 young girls, mummified them in his apartment, and dressed them up like dolls. Claiming he wanted to preserve their spirits and believed he could bring them back to life, Moskvin kept the corpses for years, speaking to them and even celebrating their birthdays. The case shocked the world not only for its macabre nature, but also for the eerie calmness...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 131
Send us a text In this episode of Perplexed , we’re diving headfirst (sometimes literally) into the utterly bizarre and baffling final resting places of some very unfortunate souls. We're talking about people who met their ends in places so strange, you’ll be left wondering, “HOW?!” We’ve got the tragic tale of a young man who got stuck in a chimney, a poor soul who slipped behind a supermarket fridge and was only discovered 10 years later, and yes— brace yourself —someone who ended up inside a ...
Jun 17, 2025•50 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Send us a text In 2023, a man was convicted of plotting to kidnap and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby, after assembling a "kidnap kit" and discussing the plan online, prompting a major police operation and her temporary withdrawal from public life. Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to like and follow as it really helps us keep doing this! Subscribe to the ...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 129
Send us a text Robert Wone was a highly respected young attorney and devoted husband living in Washington, D.C., known for his intelligence, quiet charm, and strong sense of duty. A second-generation Chinese American, he graduated from the College of William & Mary and went on to earn his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was deeply involved in public service, including work with the Asian American community and legal nonprofits. On August 2, 2006, Robert made what seemed li...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 128
Send us a text Robert Wone was a highly respected young attorney and devoted husband living in Washington, D.C., known for his intelligence, quiet charm, and strong sense of duty. A second-generation Chinese American, he graduated from the College of William & Mary and went on to earn his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was deeply involved in public service, including work with the Asian American community and legal nonprofits. On August 2, 2006, Robert made what seemed li...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 127
Send us a text The Lead Mask Deaths refers to a mysterious and unsolved case from 1966 in Niterói, Brazil, where the bodies of two Brazilian electronics technicians, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, were found on a hillside wearing formal suits, waterproof coats, and peculiar lead eye masks. Near the bodies were a notebook with cryptic instructions and empty water bottles. No signs of violence or struggle were found, and toxicology reports were inconclusive due to decomposition. The...
May 20, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 126
Send us a text Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to like and follow as it really helps us keep doing this! Subscribe to the show and get access to the BLAM episodes @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2115848/subscribe Please follow us @ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089047737544&sk=about https://www.instagram.com/perplexedpodcasts/ https://www.tiktok...
May 13, 2025•47 min•Season 3Ep. 125
Send us a text Ohhh Carl Tänzler — now that’s one of the creepiest love stories you’ll ever hear, and not in a romantic way. Buckle up. Carl Tanzler (also spelled Tänzler), a German-born radiology technician in Florida in the 1930s, became obsessed with a young Cuban-American woman named Elena Hoyos, who was a patient at the hospital where he worked. She had tuberculosis, which was a death sentence back then, and despite his best (and very bizarre) efforts to "cure" her, she died in 1931. Now, h...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 124
Send us a text Timothy Dexter (1747–1806) was basically a self-made millionaire, professional oddball, and accidental genius from Massachusetts. Imagine if Mr. Bean decided to become a tycoon — but instead of constantly failing, he somehow kept getting rich by doing things that should have crashed and burned spectacularly. Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to l...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 123
Send us a text Christa Pike is the only woman currently on death row in Tennessee and holds the distinction of being the youngest woman ever sentenced to death in the United States since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1972. Born on March 10, 1976, in West Virginia, Pike was 18 years old when she was convicted of the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps. Pike and two co-defendants—Tadaryl Shipp, who was 17, and Shadolla Peterson, who was 19—were involv...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 122
Send us a text Bedtime stories for you this week. Kate tells us four folklore tales from around the world.... The Goblin Rat, Rauhnächte, Botan Dōrō & The Wendigo. Sleep well..... Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to like and follow as it really helps us keep doing this! Subscribe to the show and get access to the BLAM episodes @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/...
Apr 15, 2025•41 min•Season 3Ep. 121
Send us a text Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to like and follow as it really helps us keep doing this! Subscribe to the show and get access to the BLAM episodes @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2115848/subscribe Please follow us @ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089047737544&sk=about https://www.instagram.com/perplexedpodcasts/ https://www.tiktok...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 120
Send us a text The Stanford Prison Experiment—one of psychology’s most infamous “what-were-they-thinking” moments. Conducted in 1971 by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, it was supposed to last two weeks but was shut down in just six days because things went horribly wrong (or incredibly right, depending on how you measure “insight into human nature”). Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear pl...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Send us a text Recent reports have emerged about a potential discovery of a vast underground city beneath Egypt's Pyramids of Giza. Researchers from Italy and Scotland, utilizing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, claim to have identified a network of structures extending over a mile below the surface. These structures reportedly include five interconnected rooms, eight vertical shafts surrounded by spiral staircases, and corridors that may lead to significant chambers, such as a "chambe...
Mar 25, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Send us a text The history of medical treatments is a wild ride through human creativity, superstition, and scientific progress. In this episode we discuss some of the most bizarre historical treatments ranging from mice paste to cocaine laced wine. These historic treatments will have you blessing the 20th century and the perks of modern medicine Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you ...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 117
Send us a text Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer with a life story straight out of a dark, twisted movie. Born in 1956, she had a hellish childhood—abandoned, abused, and forced to fend for herself from an early age. She ended up working as a prostitute along Florida’s highways and, between 1989 and 1990, killed at least six middle-aged men. While she initially claimed the killings were in self-defense, she later admitted that money and survival were the real driving forces. Her notor...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Send us a text PART TWO - Gary Michael Heidnik (1943–1999) was an American serial rapist, kidnapper, and murderer who became notorious for his brutal crimes in Philadelphia. Between 1986 and 1987, he abducted six women—torturing and sexually abusing them while keeping them captive in a pit he dug in his basement. Two of the women died as a result of his horrific acts, which included electrocution, dismemberment, and other extreme forms of violence. His crimes were so shocking that they partly in...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Send us a text PART ONE - Gary Michael Heidnik (1943–1999) was an American serial rapist, kidnapper, and murderer who became notorious for his brutal crimes in Philadelphia. Between 1986 and 1987, he abducted six women—torturing and sexually abusing them while keeping them captive in a pit he dug in his basement. Two of the women died as a result of his horrific acts, which included electrocution, dismemberment, and other extreme forms of violence. His crimes were so shocking that they partly in...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 114
Send us a text This is a special episode to all of our listeners from the wonderful podcast Mysterious PNW. We hope you love it as much as we do. Kathleen Peterson's mysterious death in 2001, found at the bottom of a staircase with severe head injuries, led to the arrest and conviction of her husband, Michael Peterson, for first-degree murder. Despite the prosecution's claims of a violent attack, Michael's defense argued it was an accidental fall, and questions about the reliability of forensic ...
Feb 18, 2025•59 min
Send us a text In this gripping episode of Perplexed Podcasts, Kate delves into the fascinating yet unsettling stories behind famous horror films that draw from actual events. She begins by introducing the concept of real-life horrors inspiring cinematic tales, setting the stage for a deep dive into specific stories. Kate explores the legend of the Dybbuk Box, a supposedly haunted Jewish wine cabinet that inspired the film "The Possession." She discusses the box's mysterious history, tales of pa...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Send us a text Gareth Williams was a British mathematician and intelligence officer who worked for MI6, the UK's Secret Intelligence Service. He became widely known in 2010 after his mysterious death in London, which led to extensive media coverage and speculation. His body was discovered inside a locked duffel bag in the bathroom of his flat in Pimlico. Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like w...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 112
Send us a text On this episode of Perplexed Podcasts , Kate dives into the shocking and terrifying world of chimpanzee attacks—true stories that will leave you questioning just how much we really know about our closest animal relatives. Support the show Thank you for listening. If you would like to see any of our videos and photos please check out the links below. If you like what you hear please be sure to like and follow as it really helps us keep doing this! Subscribe to the show and get acce...
Feb 04, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 111
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts around 13:00 The idea of animals being put on trial may sound absurd today, but it was a surprisingly common practice in medieval and early modern Europe. These trials, documented as far back as the 13th century, involved animals being formally prosecuted in court for crimes such as theft, assault, or even murder. Both domestic and wild animals—including pigs, rats, dogs, and insects—were held accountable under human laws. The process often mirrored huma...
Jan 28, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 110
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Story starts at 16:30 The story of Mary Toft is one of the most bizarre hoaxes in medical history. In 1726, Mary Toft, a peasant woman from Surrey, England, claimed to have given birth to rabbits. She convinced local doctors by presenting them with various animal parts, claiming they emerged during her labor. News of this strange phenomenon spread, and prominent physicians, including the king's surgeon Nathaniel St. André, came to investigate. Initially, many medical p...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 109
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts at 18:40 Granger Taylor was a Canadian eccentric and self-taught engineer known for his mysterious disappearance in 1980. Born on October 7, 1948, in Duncan, British Columbia, Taylor displayed an exceptional aptitude for mechanics from a young age. He built a reputation in his community for restoring vintage vehicles and machinery, including cars, airplanes, and even a locomotive. Taylor was fascinated by the idea of extraterrestrial life and space trave...
Jan 14, 2025•54 min
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts at 11:15 The interrogation of 14-year-old Michael Crowe in 1998, following the murder of his sister Stephanie, involved intense and prolonged questioning by police, who used psychological pressure and suggested he might have killed her without remembering it. Despite a lack of physical evidence, Michael eventually confessed, though his confession was inconsistent and later deemed coerced. Subsequent investigations revealed the confession's flaws, and ano...
Jan 07, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 107
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts at 17:30 Get ready to unwrap the magic of the holidays with Perplexed Podcasts! In this special Christmas episode, we’ll dive into festive mysteries, explore the strangest holiday traditions from around the world, and solve some yuletide riddles that will leave you saying, “What the elf?” Whether you're trimming the tree, sipping hot cocoa, or hiding from family debates about fruitcake, this episode promises to bring the perfect mix of cheer, curiosity, ...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 106
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts at 15:20 Robert Hansen, often referred to as the "Butcher Baker," was a notorious serial killer in Alaska who committed a series of gruesome crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. His chilling story revolves around his double life as a respected family man and a monstrous predator. Hansen was a quiet man who owned a bakery in Anchorage, Alaska. Despite his mild-mannered exterior, he struggled with deep-seated insecurities stemming from childhood bullying due to ...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 105
Send us a text TIMESTAMP - Episode starts at 10:30 The disappearance of Bryce Laspisa is a haunting mystery that remains unsolved. Bryce, a 19-year-old college student from Illinois, vanished in August 2013 while driving from Northern California to his parents' home in Southern California. In the weeks prior, Bryce exhibited unusual behavior, including heavy drinking, giving away belongings, and ending a relationship, which concerned those close to him. On August 27, he began the drive home but ...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 104
