Fresh Hell Podcast

Nicholas Markowitz was a bright, sensitive and fun kid who loved reading, and the theater program at his school in West Hills, California. The 15 year old also loved his family, including his older half brother, Ben. Today we discuss some of the background leading up to the kidnapping and senseless murder after getting involved with the seedy side of the local drug scene. This tragic murder is the...

We discuss a brazen murder in Indianapolis, that was overshadowed by the capture of Charles Starkweather on the same day. Annie discusses the chilling and still unsolved case of Malvina Krutz. This tragic and unsettling unsolved murder of loving mother, in her own home, in broad daylight in 1958 has both of us wondering who could have done this, and why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Today we are telling you more stories from the infamous Hollywood hideout. This time we will talk about Billy Wilder, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, John Belushi, Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift, Natalie Wood, and James Dean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In part one of two, we discuss the history of this iconic Los Angeles ‘home away from home’ for Hollywood’s elite, and talk about the hotel's connection to the original blonde bombshell, Jean Harlow, and the infamous eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Annie takes us to Maine, where the founding of Bucksport, and the cursed tomb of Col. Jonathan Buck are discussed, as is the case of the 1898 murder of Sarah Ware, whose tragic unsolved murder may explain the ghost haunting Silver Lake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As children many of us believed quicksand was a common peril, but how common is quicksand, really? How does it work? How often does it kill, and how do you actually die? Most importantly, what do you do if YOU find yourself in quicksand? Those questions will be answered in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Johanna tells Annie about Wilhelm Voigt, who in 1906 posed as a Prussian officer and looted a town treasury in Prussia. He will forever be remembered as the "Bogus Captain of Koepenick"!   Outro: Preußens Gloria by Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815–1884) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we finish our discussion on the Fox Sisters, their lives, loves and deaths, as well as how the new religion of spiritualism was shaped in New York's Western frontier. Were the sisters truly able to contact spirits on the side, or was it one of the greatest hoaxes of the Victorian era? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we discuss the Fox Sisters, two young mediums whose abilities to commune with the dead sparked the modern spiritualist movement in Western New York in the mid 1800s. Today we discuss their early history. Also discussed is the tragic death of Benjamin Pierce, and the shadow it cast upon his father, 14th President of the United States,  Franklin Pierce, and the Pierce presidency. Learn more ab...

Johanna tells Annie about a lesser known, but shockingly tragic Austrian case-the brutal murder of Anna Augustin by Josefine Luner. A young woman learns that sometimes the darkest, most deprived minds are hiding behind mansion walls… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a hot night in the summer of 1955, a family on a farm in rural Kentucky was terrorized by small, glowing, pointy eared creatures. Sometimes referred to as the Hopkinsville Goblins or the Kelly Green Men, Annie discusses the events of this harrowing close encounter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For many, Christmas is a special time to spend with loved ones. Making new memories preparing food, wrapping gifts, and festively decorating the home for the holidays. But for some, the pressure to host a perfect family Christmas celebration can push one to the breaking point. Frank Shirley was the unfortunate victim of such a man. Today we discuss his shocking kidnapping, the motives behind it, a...

In the second and final part about Marguerite de Carrouges Annie and Johanna are telling you all about the infamous trial by combat that took place on 29. December 1386. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the midst of the 100 years war a woman is determined to fight the men who wronged her, even if it could cost her her life. Annie is back and this week the both are telling you all about Marguerite and Jean de Carrouges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young man spends a fun night at a discotheque, but he will never return home alive again. What happens in this cold January night is a senseless crime and a more senseless death. Johanna tells you about the murder of Ulrich Nacken, that teaches us all a lesson in civil courage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One early March day in 1876 raw meat started to fall from the sky in rural Kentucky. What caused this incident? Was it a bad omen? And most importantly: Would you try to eat mystery meat that rained down on you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are talking about the probable fate of Walter Collins, as well as the kidnapping of Lewis and Nelson Winslow and several other children, who are unfortunately unknown to this day. Responsible for their brutal murders is a man named Gordon Stewart Northcott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In part one we discuss the incredible story of a missing boy, Walter Collins, and what his mother, Christine suffered in her desperate attempts to find her son in 1920s Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In the penultimate episode of the most macabre month of the year, we’re talking monsters. Two of our favorite Cryptids, the Dover Demon of Massachusetts and the Jersey Devil of New Jersey are discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spooky season continues, and today we discuss some of the most famous curses in history.  We talk about the history of India’s Koh-i-Noor diamond, the sacred site of Uluru, the car that ended James Dean’s life, and a deadly chair.   This episode is sponsored by Best Fiends: www.bestfiends.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re talking about Urban Legends…the lies we tell for the thrill of a scare. Annie & Johanna share the creepiest, most hair raising tales of terror from around the world for the first episode in the spookiest month. So sit back, relax…and don’t forget to check the backseat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 1928 workers find the burning body of a woman in a Viennese park. Who is the victim and who murdered her? And is this really an unsolved case? This week Johanna tells you the story of Katharina Fellner who was murdered at the Lainzer Tiergarten Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In early 1917, the people of Wilkes-Barre, PA were terrified by a attacker who was stalking young women and cutting off locks of their hair. Fear turned to hysteria as young women and girls received terrifying letters warning them they would be next, their hair often cut at the scalp. Would police catch the person responsible for these bizarre and well planned attacks? Join us and we’ll tell you e...

Mary Catherine Edwards was a beautiful, beloved second grade teacher. Her brutal murder in 1995 was devastating for her friends and family, and shocked her hometown Beaumont, Texas. The case was cold for 26 years until just recently, when a DNA match through an ancestry site gave detectives their first lead.    This episode is sponsored by Best Fiends: www.bestfiends.com Learn more about your ad c...