Sinisterhood

A man brought a gun to a pizza restaurant hoping to save kids and found… nothing. Instead, the conspiracy theory that drove him there morphed into something larger, more outrageous, and somehow, even more difficult to debunk. Then came another batch of emails. This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 4. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreo...

Oh Brother…; I Had a Premonition of my Husband's Funeral; That One Patient; My Two-Year-Old Communes with the Dead; Bright Lights in the Middle of Nowhere; and A Ghost Told Us Bigfoot was Created in Charlotte NC. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you thi...

Travel back with us to a simpler time. Pull up a seat and grab a sack. This week, we're rifling through some of our classic bits. It's Best of Mixed Bag Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. CRIMEWAVE AT SEA 2027 is happening Feb. 8-12, 2027! Tickets on Sale: Feb. 13, 2026 Ge...

My Dad Was a Monster; I Didn’t Know I Was a Victim; In Response to The Jesse Test; A Two-fer!; The Ghost Got Me in Trouble & Then Had Its Revenge; and Visits at the End. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. CRIMEWAVE AT SEA 2027 i...

A mess of emails. A community hungry for a new fight. And one round food item that suddenly gained a sinister reputation. It all came together online and changed the course of history forever. This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 3. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here...

Temu Jeffrey Epstein; Not Just Anime; Bookstore Bastard; The Black Cat Serial Killer or Deathly Omen?; I Hate My Racist School; and Freaky Friday #208 - US History Teacher Chiming In. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. CRIMEWAVE AT...

Today we're talking with Jen Miller, journalist, author of five books, and the reporter and co-producer behind Blood Will Tell , a new limited series podcast from Wondery and Campside Media. Jen's work has appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , and many other esteemed publications. She holds both an MFA in fiction and a master's in journalism from Columbia. She's also spent the las...

Follow Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes to hear the full episode and our in-depth conversation with Vanessa Richardson about Raëlism and our takeaways from the cult.  In the 1970s, a French journalist claimed he was contacted by extraterrestrial beings who revealed that humanity was scientifically created by an advanced alien race. From that encounter, the Raëlian Movement was born, blending...

A frog with his pants pulled down. A suspiciously powerful Reddit account. And one of the craziest news days in American history. Who knew the internet could be so powerful in the real world? This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 2. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here t...

Jim's Girls; It Could Be Happening to You or Your Child and You Wouldn’t Even Fuckin Know It; The Most Horrifying Thing My Child Has Ever Said; Childhood Friend’s Mean Dad Ended Up Killing Someone; I Think I Stopped a Murder by Being a Crime Nerd; and DV Encounter National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 800-799-7233 or Text "BEGIN" to 88788 Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click he...

It all started with radical opacity: a website was born where people could gather and post anonymously, free from consequence or identity. Elsewhere, another site's radical transparency hosted damning documents meant to dismantle authoritarian regimes. But what happens when those two forces converge, and anonymity and exposure become weapons aimed at the same target? This week's episode is 4chan,...

I am an Accidental Killer; My 4th Grade Teacher Tried Recruiting Me into her Cult; The Paper Shredder Pervert; My Survivor Story; “Just Creepin?”; and The Scarecrow in My Closet Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. CRIMEWAVE AT SEA 20...

From the waters of Newfoundland to the dusty desert of Nevada, to the bridges of Virginia and the green of Ireland, We can find laughs anywhere. This week's episode is Best of Funny Moments! Segments from: Episode 276: The Clown Motel Episode 305: The Monster of Dildo Pond Episode 178: Leprechauns Episode 117: The Bunny Man Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patre...

The Time I was Interviewed by Homeland Security; But What Kind of True Crimes?; In This World Full of Anger; Learn from my Mistakes; When the Missiles Fell pt.2; Aliens? Jesus? Lucas CPR Machine?; Follow Up From a "Way Back" Freaky Friday (FF 18) Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave...

Just after his death was announce, online rumors circulated that perhaps the disgraced financier and sex trafficker wasn't dead. Then with the drop of millions of new files, a picture emerged of a man who may not be dead, but may instead be in hiding. This week's episode is: Is Jeffrey Epstein Still Alive? Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hun...

Epstein and Why I Wish What We're Hearing Would Shock Me; Another Fucking Day in Paradise; Pizzagate Stole My Co-workers Picture; Cult Recruitment at Walmart?; Missing in Marquette; The Goddamn Dash Cam Scam; And The Blink Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us wh...

He had been busted once before, so when the well-connected financier was arrested again a decade later, survivors’ hopes for justice weren’t high. Then, just weeks after he was behind bars, we all heard the news: he was dead from an apparent suicide. But now with the release of millions of new files, what was once a viral joke is looking more likely to be true. This week’s episode is Did Jeffrey E...

The Time I Escaped the Crossbow Killer; The Day I Accidentally Stopped My Kidnapping?; An Unexpected Shower Guest at The Brown Palace Hotel; That One Time I Was Punched in The Face by a Murderer; I Accidently Cleaned a Crime Scene…; New Cryptid Sighting at Mckinney Falls State Park. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours...

He appeared out of nowhere: a college dropout suddenly managing money for the world's wealthiest people, with friends in the highest corridors of power. How does that happen? And what does it cost? This week's episode is Jeffrey Epstein: Foreign Intelligence Asset. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please cl...

Did my Coworker Plan his Death?; Reply to "I Just Wanted to Help and Be Helped"; To Mads from Freaky Friday 201; Parenting in this Hellscape of a Timeline; ICE in in LFK; I Almost Got Snatched at the Bus Stop. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think...

He was the 45th and now serves as the 47th President of the United States. He’s also in the unreacted Epstein files over one million times. With credible allegations of heinous assault being removed and covered up, will the former reality TV star ever be brought to justice? This week’s episode is The Trumpstein Files. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and...

I had an Anonymous Stalker. Then I Discovered Who He Was...; Three UFO’s in 4 months; I saw Epstein's Island Get Raided on Family Vacation; True crime? Or POO CRIME?!??; My Parents Met in a Cult; Nick from the Sea. Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you t...

In an isolated desert 30 miles outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a sprawling ranch sits alone atop a mesa. It has its own town, underground facilities, and one notorious former owner. What horrific things happened there? Why was it never searched? And why did a politician from Texas buy the place knowing what happened there? This week’s episode is The Horrors of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Click...

The Epidemic of Russian Sex Trafficking; What I Heard While Pretending to Be a Tourist; High School Ice Walk Outs; I Just Wanted to Help and Be Helped; I Was Possessed by a Lizard Monster; And What the F Was This Thing!? Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what...

New files. Everyone implicated. A global disaster that touches seemingly every aspect of our lives. This is Epstein Files Update Part 1. Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. CRIMEWAVE AT SEA 2027 is happening Feb. 8-12, 2027! Tickets on...