In 1828, a stranger showed up in Nuremberg, Germany. Centuries later, we’re still trying to figure out who he was—a madman, a conman, or… a lost royal? There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors! Better Help: Get 10% off by going to www.better...
Nov 04, 2022•44 min•Ep. 195
Back in 1518, a woman in a small European town started dancing. And then a few people joined her, and a few more, and a few more. In a bizarre event that would come to be known as the Dancing Plague of 1518, over 100 people danced until they died. What….what is this? There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www....
Oct 28, 2022•21 min•Ep. 194
Back in the 12th century, two very strange children appeared in Woolpit, and still, no one can agree on where the children came from, or whether they ever truly existed at all. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic...
Oct 25, 2022•20 min•Ep. 193
In 1912, Bobby Dunbar wandered away from his family at the lake, kicking off a mystery that would change lives and raise questions for years to come. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors! Better Help: Get 10% your first month off by goin...
Oct 21, 2022•43 min•Ep. 192
Samhain is almost here! In this episode we’re talking about the history of Samhain, it’s influence on Halloween, and ways you can celebrate. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshop...
Oct 18, 2022•27 min•Ep. 191
When Charles Bravo woke up during the night of April 18, 1876, he knew something was wrong. He died two days later, and doctors suspected poisoning. But who did it? His unhappy wife? Her lover? The maid? Or was this even a murder? There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMyste...
Oct 14, 2022•36 min•Ep. 190
During the revolutionary war, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington demonstrated bravery that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube C...
Oct 11, 2022•17 min•Ep. 189
(This episode was originally released as an extra Patreon episode, but it’s one that we want more people to know about, so here it is on the regular feed!) This story enrages us. Just be prepared. In the late 19th century, oil was found on land owned by the Osage people in Oklahoma. By the 1920s, this oil, as well as smart negotiating moves by the Osage, would make the Osage people “the richest nation, clan, or social group of any race on earth, including the whites, man for man.” Of course, thi...
Oct 07, 2022•35 min•Ep. 188
This is a rough one guys. TW: sex crimes, crimes against children. In 1999, Jessica Dishon disappeared from her home in Shepherdsville, KY. It would take several years for someone to be held accountable for her murder. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Su...
Sep 30, 2022•36 min•Ep. 187
Agatha Christie is known as the queen of mystery, thanks to her 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections, and her whodunit play that is the longest running play in theatre history—but in 1926, she was the center of a mystery that played out on the front pages of newspapers rather than her books. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free e...
Sep 27, 2022•25 min•Ep. 186
When Julius Fazekas arrived in the Hungarian village of Nagyrév in 1911, the women there turned to her for help with all sorts of issues…basic medical needs, pregnancy-related care, how to get rid of their husbands…..you know, the usual. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurd...
Sep 23, 2022•32 min•Ep. 185
The Basel Papyrus has been in the University of Basel’s possession since the 16th century, its contents indecipherable. Once researchers realized how to decode its writing, they were left with what appears to be the journal of a Roman physician, with notes about an interesting illness. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and othe...
Sep 20, 2022•17 min•Ep. 184
In the basement of the COS Clothing Store in New York City, you can still see the well where a body was found at the end of 1799, leading to the first recorded murder trial of our very young country. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors!...
Sep 16, 2022•36 min•Ep. 183
From the late 1850s until 1889, a man dressed entirely in leather repeatedly walked a 365-mile loop from the Connecticut River to the Hudson River, sleeping in a series of caves along the way. Who was this man? Where did he come from? And why did he walk this loop? Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreo...
Sep 13, 2022•20 min•Ep. 182
The Source Family has been called “the wildest cult you’ve never heard of.” Luckily, Kara is here to tell you all about it. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors! Better Help: Get 10% off by going to www.betterhelp.com/wmmm Anchor: Thinki...
Sep 09, 2022•36 min•Ep. 181
Every three years, the people who live on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi dig up their dead loved ones and dress them for the Ma’nene Festival, a celebration of life. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-...
Sep 06, 2022•15 min•Ep. 180
If you’ve ever wondered what started the Satanic Panic back in the 80s, Megan does a deep, deep (too deep?) dive into the topic. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors! Better Help: Get 10% off by going to www.betterhelp.com/wmmm Anchor: T...
Sep 02, 2022•45 min•Ep. 179
Elmer McCurdy was a pretty terrible bank robber, and his death during a shootout with police back in the early 1900s seemed like a fairly unsurprising end to his life. The thing is, Elmer’s story continues for another 60ish years after his death. You guys are not going to believe this one. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and ...
Aug 23, 2022•32 min•Ep. 178
Dennis Nilsen had a fascination with dead bodies, and confessed to murdering at least 15 men and boys in the 1970s. This is one of the more disturbing cases we’ve covered- so don’t eat while listening, and you know, feel free to skip it if a super dark story isn’t going to be good for you to hear. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.co...
Aug 19, 2022•33 min•Ep. 177
This week, Kara talks about some of her favorite haunted places in Charleston! Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagi...
Aug 16, 2022•18 min•Ep. 176
Lars Mittank has been called the most famous missing person on Youtube. Security footage of his last known whereabouts has been viewed by millions of people. Where. Is. He?! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our sponsors! Better Help: Get 10% off ...
Aug 12, 2022•32 min•Ep. 175
When a woman walked into Dr. Jules Cotard’s office complaining of feeling empty, the doctor looked back through history to find an answer, and ended up naming an incredibly rare collection of symptoms that’s sometimes called Walking Corpse Syndrome. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.p...
Aug 09, 2022•25 min•Ep. 174
Jerry Brudos was a serial killer in Oregon who had a thing for women’s shoes, which eventually turned into a thing for women’s feet, which eventually turned into….you can probably see where this is going. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodcast Support our spon...
Aug 05, 2022•22 min•Ep. 173
At first you’re gonna think, oh, this is a murder story. And it IS, but the murder ISN’T REALLY THE POINT OF THIS ONE. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channe...
Aug 02, 2022•19 min•Ep. 172
Here’s a topic that comes up a lot when people find out what kind of podcast we do—how come there used to be so many serial killers and now there aren’t? So Megan did a deep dive into the subject, and now we’re giving you all sorts of factors that may be responsible for the increased number of serial killers from the 1970s-90s, what led to the decline, and what might lead to another surge in the (uncomfortably near) future. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon!...
Jul 29, 2022•33 min•Ep. 171
On October 30, 1926, Marvin Clark left his home in Tigard, Oregon to make the ten-mile trip to visit his daughter in Portland. He never made it to his daughter, and he never came home. What happened to him? Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcas...
Jul 26, 2022•31 min•Ep. 170
Katarzyna Zowada was the victim of a horrific murder that took place in Poland. This case is still awaiting trial, so of course all of our opinions about the accused are opinions based on the publicly available information as of July 12, 2022. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon...
Jul 19, 2022•16 min•Ep. 169
It seems like nobody thought anything strange was going on after Blanche Taylor Moore’s first two husbands died, but when the third man she planned to marry got sick, people started asking more questions. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery There’s NEW MERCH in the podcast store! https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMyster...
Jul 15, 2022•34 min•Ep. 168
We’re talking about three creepy Puerto Rican legends today—La Garita del Diablo, La Llorona, and the legend of Violeta, which is very similar to Chicago’s Resurrection Mary (which we covered in episode 85). Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! Thanks for sending us these, Rebeca and Kim! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://ww...
Jul 12, 2022•20 min•Ep. 167
When a couple is found brutally murdered beneath a crabapple tree in New Jersey, it’s the beginning of a wild media sensation, the likes of which the country hadn’t seen before. From the victims to the murder to the trial, the Hall-Mills Murders spawned headline after headline, and once you hear it, you’ll understand why. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery There’s NEW MERCH in the podcast store! https://witch...
Jul 08, 2022•35 min•Ep. 166
