It's time to dust off the Mulder to Scully Scale, because this week Adam and Christina are exploring El Chupacabra, the Goat Sucker. This is an immensely popular cryptid, known for doing exactly what its name promises: exsanguinating goats (and other livestock), presumably drinking their blood. But what are the origins of this creature? When did it make its presence known? And what are the theories out there for its existence? The answers might surprise you. It's time to grab a pen and paper, pl...
Aug 18, 2025•47 min•Season 5Ep. 188
In the heart of the city stands Clinton Court — a tucked-away enclave with a façade of old-world charm and a history steeped in shadows. From mysterious footsteps echoing in empty hallways to ghostly figures glimpsed in candlelight, its past is bound to séances, spiritualists, and one of New York’s most prolific ghost hunters, Hans Holzer. In this chilling episode, we unravel over a century of spectral sightings, dive into historical records and witness accounts, and explore the thin veil betwee...
Aug 11, 2025•41 min•Season 5Ep. 187
She should be ashamed to admit it, but Christina has never seen Good Fellas! As a result, everything about Scorsese's source material was a surprise to her - including that it really happened. Learn all about the airport insiders who teamed up with the mob to get a whole lot of cash in one of America's biggest heists. Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
Aug 04, 2025•41 min
Today we dive deep into the twisted mind of Charles Manson and the brutal crimes committed by his cult-like Family. From the eerie beginnings at Spahn Ranch to the Tate-LaBianca murders that shocked a nation, we unravel the full story — with chilling testimonies, verified news reports, and rare historical details. We explore the mysterious deaths linked to the Family, their bizarre ideology, the high-profile trial that captivated America, and the enduring legacy of Manson’s dark influence on mus...
Jul 28, 2025•47 min•Season 5Ep. 185
We're back! And we're kicking off our season with a look at a series of interconnected cases that space decades. Kathie Durst goes missing in 1982; Susan Berman and Morris Black are killed in the early 2000s. The only connective tissue between the three is real estate empire heir Robert Durst. Find out on this week's episode how investigators finally closed in on him. Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our P...
Jul 21, 2025•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 184
Surprise! We may be on hiatus for a few weeks but we are also in the midst of an intense mayoral campaign. So, we thought we should chime in a chat about some of the most controversial and scandal-filled mayors in NYC history! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: www.Patreon.com/NYMysteryMachine...
Jul 09, 2025•35 min
We did it! Four full seasons! Today we are investigating some new information on the Long Island Serial Killer. There's is new info and a brand new documentary all about Rex Heuermann that Adam is brreaking down. Plus, a Son of Sam update, a Harvey Burdell song, and the 2025 Tammany Awards! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 183
In the heart of Carroll Gardens during the infamous 1977 New York City blackout, 17-year-old Dominick Ciscone was shot dead on a Brooklyn street corner — the only confirmed murder of that chaotic night. Forty-eight years later, his case remains unsolved. We unravel the mystery behind Dominick’s death, exploring the culture of silence in tight-knit neighborhoods, the overwhelmed NYPD of the 1970s, the media’s shifting focus, and the lasting impact of that night on a city already on the edge. Feat...
Jun 16, 2025•50 min•Season 4Ep. 182
In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were on their way back from honeymooning in Montreal when a strange craft appeared over them and followed them in the dark New Hampshire night. They rushed down the highway, trying to escape it, arriving home with two hours of unaccounted for time. As strange memories surfaced, physical ailments emerged, and mechanical failures occurred, all signs pointed towards something unworldly having occurred. When they visited a psychotherapist for help, their hypnosis sessi...
Jun 09, 2025•57 min•Season 4Ep. 181
Richard Rogers Jr. was a dangerous man in the late 80s and 90s, having murdered and dismembered queer men in NYC. What started his desire to attack men in the LGBTQ community and was he ever stopped? Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: www.Patreon.com/NYMysteryMachine...
Jun 02, 2025•50 min•Season 4Ep. 180
You may think you know everything about spies. But, did you know that America's first covert espionage group worked out of New York City in 1778? The Culper Spy Ring was George Washington's personal network of spies and his secret advantage in winning the Revolutionary War. Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
May 26, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 179
The Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis was a radical psychoanalytic group that operated in New York City from the late 1950s until the early 1990s. The group was founded by Saul B. Newton and Dr. Jane Pearce, and began with unconventional ideas about therapy and society, promising liberation and emotional freedom. But over time, it evolved into a tightly controlled and manipulative organization—what many former members and experts now call a cult. Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, &...
May 19, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 178
This week we're in Syracuse, the Salt City, covering two confounding cold case homicides. Jill-Lyn Euto was brutally killed in her own home on Super Bowl Sunday 2001; Terry Cornell was killed at an unknown location before having her body left on the side of the road. What happened to these young women? And why has there been such a paucity of leads in these cases? Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patre...
May 12, 2025•49 min•Season 4Ep. 177
We are in Chicago, 1893. The city is buzzing with the excitement of the World’s Columbian Exposition. But, not too far from the Expo grounds was a hotel...but not an ordanry hotel. It was a Murder Castle owned by the monster known as H.H. Holmes. Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: www.Patreon.com/NYMyste...
May 05, 2025•48 min•Season 4Ep. 176
Well, the Titanic has been in the news lately. With that, Adam remembered the last time it was in the news, back in 2023. They fell into a wormhole of Titanic Conspiracy Theories in an episode only for Patrons. But, we figured it was time to share that episodes and these weird conspiracy theories that range from "meh" to "WTF???" Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
Apr 28, 2025•47 min•Season 4Ep. 175
X marks the spot! If you've ever dreamed of following a set of cryptic clues to dig up buried treasure, we've got not one but two treasure hunts for you! This week we're exploring the history of Otto Hillig's rumored fortune stolen from Nazi saboteurs. Then Adam and Christina tackle the weirdest treasure hunt of all - clues encoded in poetry and illustrations in the 1982 book "The Secret" that lead to a key buried somewhere in New York City -- a key that can be exchanged for an actual gemstone. ...
Apr 21, 2025•50 min•Season 4Ep. 174
We've all seen the ads on TV, subway stations, billboards... 5000 Years of Chinese History...a time before Communism. But, what exactly is Shen Yun? A dance company...or, something more insidious? We take a deep dive into Shen Yun, it's origins in China, and answer the very important question...is it a cult? (It is.) Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
Apr 14, 2025•58 min•Season 4Ep. 173
When Myra Kniffin is found dead in her bed, her cousin tells a story of burglars entering the house and chloroforming the two women. But as her story unravels, rumors begin to fly about the cousin and Myra's own husband. We ask the hard hitting questions on this episode like: who really killed Myra Kniffin? And to what end? If you're going to stage a robbery, why wouldn't you strew clippings of "America Oggi" around the crime scene? Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spo...
Mar 31, 2025•43 min•Season 4Ep. 172
Judith Ann Brown disappeared and wasn't investigated as a missing person for decades, despite disappearing with a known murderer who was an inmate at Creedmoor Hospital. Who was Judith? How did she go missing? And why did the cops not look for her? Episode References: Episodes 7 & 8: "Son of Sam Parts 1 & 2" Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Support the show by becoming a sponsor on our Patreon: ...
Mar 24, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 171
It's time for a seance! ou know how it goes. You buy an only pre-Revolutionary War home, renovate it to it's former glory, move in, and then be forced to build an additional home on your estate because the ghosts won't leave you alone. No? Well, that's what happens in our story today! Episode References: Hans Holzer Episodes Episode 10: "The House of Death Episode 25: "The Morris-Jumel Mansion" Episode 32: "Green Ghosts & Seances in NoMad" Episode 51: "The Amityville Horror" Episode 64: "The...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 170
We at the New York Mystery Machine love sandwiches, and today's episode is a ghost sandwich. We start with a ghost story, dive into the crime behind why the ghost is haunting Big Moose Lake, and end with more ghostly tales. Who was Grace Brown? And why would she want to spend eternity at Big Moose Lake? Find out more on this week's episode... Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a strange and/or paranormal story? ...
Mar 10, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 169
This is an addendum to the February 24, 2025 episode. Has science proven who Jack the Ripper was by way of a shawl left at the scene of the first murder? Adam and Christina dive into a recent report of the "revelation" of Jack's identity! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a strange and/or paranormal story? Share it here! Support the show by becoming a spons...
Mar 05, 2025•22 min
When you look up famous New York Crime Bosses, there is none more important that Arnold Rothstein. Rothstein set the tone for the modern crime boss of the time and, among many other things, is known for one very important piece of sports history. We know much about him but his murder, however, is still very much a mystery. Referenced Episodes: Episode 6: "X Marks the Spot: Hunting for Dutch Schultz's Treasure" Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 168
This week we're in jolly ol' London at one of its most horrific points. Women in the area of Whitechapel are being brutally murdered, and the theories of who is to blame range from the mundane to the positively wild. Who was Jack the Ripper? And will we ever solve the case? Available wherever you stream podcasts! Referenced Episodes: Episode 19: "The Catskills Ripper - Lizzie Brown Halliday" Episode 29: "Murder Most Foul: The Slaying of Old Shakespeare" Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review o...
Feb 24, 2025•54 min•Season 4Ep. 163
Today we are taking a trip to the village where two building sit across the street from one another...both...haunted. And, then we take a stroll to a site where the bodies are buried and the spirits run free at Washington Square Park! Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a strange and/or paranormal story? Share it here! Suppor...
Feb 17, 2025•58 min•Season 4Ep. 166
Audrey Munson is the face you've seen everywhere but whose name you never heard. Audrey was an artists' model, and her body can be seen the world over - until the murder of her landlord's wife drastically changed her fortunes. Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a strange and/or paranormal story? Share it here! Support the show...
Feb 10, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 165
In the late 1990s, Kristine Kupka was finishing college, saving money, thinking about grad school, and excited about her pregnancy. When she suddenly disappears after meeting up with her ex, the family becomes convinced they know what happened - but police are unable to solve the case. What happened to Kristine Kupka? Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a Hot Take? Call the NYMM Hot Take Hotline to leave i...
Jan 27, 2025•47 min•Season 4Ep. 164
Today we celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Almost fifty-seven years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. King was shot outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Just the night before he delivered the famous "Mountaintop Speech." History remembers James Earl Ray as the gunman but did he act alone? Was he involved at all? Join us as we journey down one of history's largest conspiracy theories and ask...who actually murdered Dr. King? Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Su...
Jan 20, 2025•53 min•Season 4Ep. 163
This week we are exploring two murders, several years and a couple of blocks apart. Adam has a very hot take about one of the culprits - be sure to let us know your hot takes too! Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a Hot Take? Call the NYMM Hot Take Hotline to leave it in a message: (917) 426-4262 Have a strange and/or paranormal story? Share it here!...
Jan 13, 2025•47 min•Season 4Ep. 162
A highly requested episode, we begin the New Year in the most famous cemetery in NYC. Green-Wood is the resting place to many celebrities but does it's ground also house the spirits of dead as well? Available wherever you stream podcasts! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate, & Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible! Have a Hot Take? Call the NYMM Hot Take Hotline to leave it in a message: (917) 426-4262 Have a strange and/or paranormal story? Share it here!...
Jan 06, 2025•56 min•Season 4Ep. 161
