We've got stories about two free-spirited women this week! First up, Felicia covers the romantic story of Angela McPherson and Derek McGillivray. Angela never expected to meet her true love when she walked into Derek's therapy office. He guided her through a past life regression session and she had visions of the two of them being together in a previous life. Next, Lauren discusses Isobel Gowdie, a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft in 1662. What really set her apart was that the confess...
Feb 06, 2023•33 min
This week, it’s two tales of creepy creatures! Grotesque Ghost Heads and Goblins galore! First up, Lauren covers the Penanggalan - a nocturnal vampiric creature originating in Malaysian folklore that’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard of! This hideous entity appears as a floating, disembodied female head with its trailing organs and tail-like intestines still attached. It’s like if Medusa and a slimy snake made a Black Magic baby that bursts into a ball of flames! But are they ghosts? O...
Jan 23, 2023•40 min
On this week's episode, we're back to our simplest sinister stories - haunted buildings and haunted bodies! For Felicia, it's a hometown haunt and for Lauren, it's an embalmed corpse (yes, yet another). First, Felicia explores the historic Landon House - right down the street from where she grew up in Maryland! Growing up, it hosted a spooktacular Haunted House every year for Halloween...but is the actual building haunted itself?! Then, Lauren uncovers “The Legend of La Pascualita - The Corpse B...
Jan 16, 2023•38 min
It’s Part 2 of our first episode of 2023! Last week, it was reincarnation of the dead, and this week it’s speaking to the dead from beyond the Spirit Board as Felicia takes us through the history of Ouija! The “origins of evil” of this séance-based board game are much more recent than we thought…and possibly less sinister?! And as a bonus, we also share some of our own Boo Year’s stories with some recent paranormal experiences over the holidays! If you have requests for future episodes or just w...
Jan 09, 2023•23 min
New year, new spooky stories! Welcome back, sinister listeners and happy 2023! We are back from the dead (aka a much needed holiday break) with a two-part episode, setting sail with a spooky reincarnation story from Lauren. Jamey was a seemingly normal child, except for his fear of water and abnormal obsession with the Titanic at his age. But is it possible he lived a past life…as Thomas Andrews - the architect of the The Ship of Dreams?! Find out more about this icy, chilling tale featured on "...
Jan 02, 2023•37 min
Happy Halloween, boys & ghouls! This week we have a treat (and maybe even a few tricks) - it's a special All Hallows' Eve Q&A spooktacular episode answering all your burning jack-o'-lantern questions submitted via Instagram! 🎃 Thank you to everyone who sent them in...and we hope you all have a safe & sinister Halloween night! If you have requests for future episodes or just want to hang out, follow us on Instagram @sinistersisterspodcast
Oct 31, 2022•39 min
Happy Halloween boos & ghouls! 👻 We are thrilled to throw on our costumes and rip the shiny wrapper off on our spooktacular October series, featuring deep dives on specific spooky topics related to the history of All Hallows’ Eve! 🎃 In Part 4 of this month-long series, Felicia explores the history of séances and the Fox sisters - three sisters from Rochester, New York who conducted séances during the 19th century. They were only teenagers when they began "communicating with spirits," but t...
Oct 24, 2022•24 min
Happy Halloween boos & ghouls! 👻 We are thrilled to throw on our costumes and rip the shiny wrapper off on our spooktacular October series, featuring deep dives on specific spooky topics related to the history of All Hallows’ Eve! 🎃 In Part 3 of this month-long series, Lauren uncovers the history of the most classic icons of Halloween: the bedsheet ghost! Dating back to the 19th century, this simple yet scary imagery began with the very real and very macabre process of wrapping dead bodies...
Oct 17, 2022•35 min
Happy Halloween boos & ghouls! 👻 We are thrilled to throw on our costumes and rip the shiny wrapper off on our spooktacular October series, featuring deep dives on specific spooky topics related to the history of All Hallows’ Eve! 🎃 In Part 2 of this month-long series, Felicia dives deep to depths of hell to uncover the history of Baphomet! This goat-headed Pagan deity may be seen as a demon by some - associated with the devil, satanists, and every Metal band ever - but it is actually a sy...
Oct 10, 2022•35 min
Happy Halloween boos & ghouls! 👻 We are thrilled to throw on our costumes and rip the shiny wrapper off on our spooktacular October series, featuring deep dives on specific spooky topics related to the history of All Hallows’ Eve! 🎃 In Part 1 of this month-long series, Lauren explores the grim history of the Grim Reaper, dating all the way back to the 14th century and even in Greek mythology! For being such a sinister icon of death as well as a classic Halloween figure, we were shocked at ...
Oct 03, 2022•31 min
On this week’s episode, Felicia’s urban legend might be the Greatest Of All Time while Lauren’s cultural tale might be the weirdest of all time! First, Felicia explores the urban legend of the Goatman of Maryland - a half goat / half human hybrid cryptid who is rumored to reside in the woods of Prince George's County and reportedly responsible for countless unexplained dog disappearances & deaths over the decades since the 1970s. There are several theories on this Greek mythology-inspired ur...
Sep 26, 2022•30 min
This week we’re going Gothic with 2 classic monsters universally known and the true tales behind their masks! First, Lauren uncovers a case centering around recent discovery of alleged remains of a female "vampire" in the Polish village of Pień. In September 2022, archaeologists unearthed a skeleton dating to the 17th-century that featured some strange burial rituals, including a sickle across its neck and a padlock on its toe. The skull also has a large protruding fang-like tooth! Lauren also e...
Sep 19, 2022•33 min
This week, we’re both covering stories from The Lone Star State with a couple of con people! Where’s that Southern hospitality?! 🤠 First, Felicia covers the case of Frédéric Bourdin - a notorious serial imposter from France who earned the nickname "The Chameleon.” Since childhood, Bourdin is believed to have assumed at least 500 false identities throughout his life. But none more infamous than the case of the Barclay family in San Antonio who, at age 23, Bourdin convinced was their long lost 13...
Sep 12, 2022•51 min
This week, we’re going from fires underground to “fires in the sky”! 🔥🛸 First up, Lauren explores the abandoned ghost town of Centralia, Pennsylvania - an old mining town that steadily declined in population over the decades since 1962 due to a coal mine fire which has continued to mysteriously burn under the ground for 60 years straight. This creepy location even served as the spooky inspiration for the Silent Hill film adaptation! Next, Felicia opens up the X-Files on a few more recent UFO c...
Aug 29, 2022•53 min
On this week’s episode it’s possessed bodies and bodies without identities! First up: we’ve of course covered specific exorcism cases on the show, but on this episode, Felicia exercises the demons and explores the broad history of exorcisms, dating all the way back to written text to modern day, with roots in religion and the Catholic church. Then Lauren covers the mysterious case of The Somerton Man - this well-dressed mystery man was found on the shores of a beach in an Australian suburb with ...
Aug 22, 2022•47 min
We’re back with Part 2 of our paranormal 2-parter from last week! This week, Lauren is up as she explores the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri - said to be one of the top ten most haunted places in America! Built in the 1860s, this mansion just off the Mississippi River has been everything from a millionaire's home to a boarding house and even a dead, er, bed-and-breakfast as it is today. But is it also home to specters, spirits, and spooks?! Find out the history of this historic and haunted ...
Aug 15, 2022•21 min
This week, there was so much to pack in that it’s a spooky 2-parter, featuring Felicia’s story this week and Lauren’s story next week! First up this week, Felicia explores the phenomena of NDE’s, or Near-Death Experiences, as she focuses on the story of Pam Reynolds - a singer/songwriter who was knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door during a brain operation. Her story has been purported as proof for out-body-experiences and life after death, with near-death studies proponents considering her o...
Aug 08, 2022•33 min
In this week's episode, it’s haunted towns in Connecticut all the way to haunted hospitals in Costa Rica! Lauren explores the abandoned settlement and real life “ghost town” of Dudleytown in northwestern Connecticut. Settled in the early 1740s, this town (which was never an actual town) has been closed to the public since the mid-1900s. Was it a curse placed on the Dudley family that caused the demise of Dudleytown? And do ghosts still haunt this ghost town? Then from North America to South Amer...
Aug 01, 2022•40 min
In this week's episode, Felicia dives into the true story behind the horror movie classic, The Changeling. In the late 1960s, composer Russell Hunter experienced strange paranormal activity in an old home in Denver. This story has hidden staircases, ghost little boys, and of course, a red rubber ball. Lauren covers a freaky cryptid with more first hand sightings than most. The Enfield Monster was first seen in April 1973 in Enfield, Illinois. These early sightings blew up in the media and led to...
Jul 25, 2022•43 min
This week, it’s spooky staircases in the woods and spookier castles in the Scottish countryside! First, Lauren explores the unexplained phenomena of “staircases in the woods” - like something out of an MC Escher piece, these mysterious isolated wooden or stone staircases have been found deep in numerous national parks & forests (and now across the world) with no signs of structures attached to them, seemingly leading nowhere…or do they?! Are they gateways to hell or other dimensions?! Are th...
Jul 18, 2022•39 min
In this week's episode, it's knightly castles and Nightcrawlers! Felicia uncovers brick-by-brick the spooky happenings at the historic Glamis Castle in Scotland in part one of a two part story! The site is known as "Scotland's Most Beautiful Castle"...but is it also Scotland's most boo'tiful?! This first story revolves around the chilling tale of Thomas Lyon-Bowes who, as legend has it, was born deformed and locked away in the castle, cursed to live out his years as "The Monster of Glamis Castle...
Jul 11, 2022•37 min
It's a True Crime week, murderinos! In this week's episode, we're on the case of not one but two infamous True Crime stories that have been famously featured in recent streaming series. Lauren starts us off with the case of Candy Montgomery - a woman who murdered her friend, Betty Gore, with an axe in Wylie, TX on Friday the 13th, 1980. You can see the dramatized version of this story in Hulu's "Candy" starring Jessica Biel as Candy AND yet another upcoming series based on the same story - HBO M...
Jul 05, 2022•55 min
We're back boys & ghouls! In this new episode, it's a good old classic haunted house ghost story as Felicia investigates the Ammons haunting case aka the "200 Demons House." Infamous ghost hunter Zak Bagans even purchased the notorious Gary, Indiana house and filmed a documentary about the paranormal activity that occurred there. Meanwhile, Lauren combines her fear of creepy dolls with a cursed painting as she covers Bill Stoneham's "The Hands Resist Him." This '70s-era painting, depicting a...
Jun 27, 2022•40 min
In this week's episode, Lauren discusses the Black Paintings created by Francisco Goya in the 1800s. They depict some of the most grotesque images with haunting themes, scaring even the bravest art critic. Felicia explores the history of the Hope Diamond and the people and empires it left in its wake. Is this famous diamond really cursed? You'll have to hear the evidence and decide for yourself. Do you have a podcast, short film, event or any creative project to promote? We would love to plug yo...
May 09, 2022•48 min
In this week's episode, it’s condemnation & amputation: Felicia dives deeper into the work of Eileen J. Garrett with the Ash Manor Ghost. (Make sure to check out last week's episode to hear more about Eileen and the Parapsychology Foundation!) Meanwhile, Lauren is a real gumshoe on the case of a missing limb and the rivalry born between two men fighting over a foot. As seen in the 2015 documentary FINDERS KEEPERS. These may seem like very different topics, but they both have big surprises in...
Apr 25, 2022•48 min
In this week's episode, Lauren continues to face her fear of dolls with the Nagoro "Scarecrow" Village. This very rural community can be found on Japan’s smallest island of Shikoku, where dolls outnumber residents ten to one! To some people, these dolls are a charming tourist attraction…while to others, they are a disturbing reminder of the town's dwindling population. Meanwhile, science meets the supernatural as Felicia covers the Parapsychology Foundation - a non-profit organization founded by...
Apr 18, 2022•39 min
In this week's episode, Felicia opens the case file on the out-of-this-world Kecksburg UFO Incident of 1965 aka “Pennsylvania’s Roswell,” in which hundreds of people reportedly spotted an unidentified flying object or “fireball” as it traveled across 6 US states & Canada before supposedly crashing near Pittsburgh! NASA says Russian satellite, we say government cover-up! She explores all the conspiracy theories and rumors of what the object could have been. Cue the X-Files theme! Arrr you rea...
Apr 11, 2022•39 min
In this week's episode, Lauren discusses a real life Gone Girl story ripped from the pages of a True Crime novel! In 2016, Sherri Papini's family and community believed her to have been missing and in danger...turns out she staged her own kidnapping and spent over 3 weeks with an ex-boyfriend in southern California. Now, in 2022, she's facing trial for fraud in federal court! Later in the episode, we turn the page to a more uplifitng chapter as Felicia covers the larger-than-life Guinness World ...
Apr 04, 2022•31 min
In this week's episode, Felicia discusses the Montauk Project which is a famous conspiracy theory about a series of government experiments that took place at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station. These experiments were done without the willing participation of the subjects and explored everything from time travel, teleportation, mind control, contact with extraterrestrial life, and more. These rumored events even somewhat inspired Stranger Things. Later in the episode, Lauren covers what are k...
Mar 28, 2022•43 min
In this week's episode, Lauren covers the story of Gilles Garnier aka "The Werewolf of Dole” - a French serial killer & cannibal who was actually convicted by a court of being a werewolf in 1574 during a period in France considered the Salem Witch Trials of werewolves. Meanwhile, Felicia explores the cultural phenomena of “Walking Sam” aka “The Stovepipe Hat Bigfoot” - an urban legend & superstitious spirit that has been considered the “Native American Slender Man” as it has terrorized t...
Mar 14, 2022•36 min
