Veil of Echoes

Send us Fan Mail The Hat Man. Doppelgängers. Encounters that stay with you long after they’re over. In our first episode of Echoes from the Veil, we welcome listener Mac to share his experiences involving the Hat Man and doppelgängers. Join us as we listen to his stories and discuss the unsettling questions these encounters leave behind. Echoes from the Veil is our listener-story series - a space...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 begins where Veil of Echoes began. In our very first episode, we told the story of Albert Fish, the man history would remember by names like The Gray Man , The Boogeyman , and The Werewolf of Wysteria. Now, we’re reopening the case. In Part 1 of Albert Fish: Revisited , Bria, Lyndsay, and Zach go back through the life and crimes of one of the most disturbing figures in Am...

Send us Fan Mail Anthony Allegrini Jr. was just 18 years old when he was shot and killed by a Pennsylvania State Police trooper on June 4, 2023, on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. But Anthony’s story is about more than the night his life was taken. In this special episode of Veil of Echoes, we sit down with his parents, Jennifer and Anthony Allegrini Sr., to remember the son they love and share the...

Send us Fan Mail Episode description You wake in your own bedroom, but you can’t move. In the doorway stands a tall, faceless figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Is he a shadow person—or a terrifying image formed as the brain wakes before the body? In this episode of Veil of Echoes , Bria, Lyndsay, and Zach explore the Hat Man legend, the science of sleep paralysis, and the nighttime visitors descr...

Send us Fan Mail On March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas as the ship approached Curaçao. Amy had been traveling through the Caribbean with her parents and younger brother. During the early morning hours, her father reported seeing her asleep on the balcony of the family’s cabin. Less than an hour later, Amy was gone. No confirmed trace o...

Send us Fan Mail The day before his murder, John Price gave his coworkers a chilling warning: if he failed to arrive the following morning, Katherine Knight had killed him. The next day, John never came to work. When police entered his home in Aberdeen, New South Wales, they discovered a crime scene so disturbing that Katherine would become the first woman in Australian history sentenced to life i...

Send us Fan Mail For more than 500 years , visitors to Château de Brissac in France have reported seeing the same terrifying figure. A woman dressed in green... Standing silently in the shadows. Watching. Known as La Dame Verte , or The Green Lady , she is believed to be the restless spirit of Charlotte de Brézé , a noblewoman whose life ended in betrayal, heartbreak, and murder inside the castle&...

Send us Fan Mail In February 1999, 19-year-old Cayci Higgins was murdered inside her own home in Cleveland, Tennessee. More than two decades later...  her family is still searching for answers. In this special episode, we're honored to sit down with Kim , Cayci's sister, to remember who Cayci truly was beyond the headlines. Together, we discuss Cayci's life, the devastating impact h...

Send us Fan Mail On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard accepted what he believed was a simple ride home after leaving the Fireside Lounge in Laramie, Wyoming. He never made it home. What followed became one of the most heartbreaking crimes in modern American history, a case that forever changed the national conversation surrounding hate crimes, LGBTQ+ rights, compass...

Send us Fan Mail On the morning of January 24, 2006 , twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Kesse left her Orlando condominium for work. She never arrived. Two days later, her black Chevrolet Malibu was discovered abandoned less than two miles from her home. Security cameras captured the only known person connected to her disappearance but in one of the most haunting twists in true crime history, every im...

Send us Fan Mail Deep within the forests of Prince George's County, Maryland, a chilling legend has refused to die. For decades, locals have whispered about a creature lurking near Fletchertown Road—a towering figure with the body of a man, the head of a goat, glowing red eyes, and an eerie scream echoing through the darkness. Was the Goatman the result of a horrifying scientific experiment g...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of Veil of Echoes, we sit down with New York Times and international bestselling author J.D. Barker to discuss his latest novel, Something I Keep Upstairs. From psychological suspense and atmospheric horror to real-world inspiration, we explore the power of place, memory, and the kinds of stories that linger long after the final page. We also discuss the in...

Send us Fan Mail Wood Island looks like something from a postcard. Just off the coast of southern Maine, near the New Hampshire border, sits a historic Life Saving Station surrounded by blue Atlantic waters and centuries of maritime history. But beneath that beauty lies a much darker story. In this episode of Veil of Echoes, we explore the haunting history of Wood Island and the station that has s...

Send us Fan Mail On the morning of June 4, 2010, seven-year-old Kyron Horman proudly arrived at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, to participate in his school's science fair. He posed for photographs. He showed off his project. And then he vanished. What should have been an ordinary school day became one of the most baffling missing child cases in American history. Despite one of...

Send us Fan Mail In the final chapter of our Columbine series, we explore what happened after the gunfire stopped. As first responders cautiously entered the school, survivors remained trapped inside classrooms, parents desperately searched for answers, and the nation watched in horror as events unfolded live on television. We examine the rescue of Patrick Ireland, remembered by many as "The...

Send us Fan Mail For more than a decade, the Smurl family claimed they shared their Pennsylvania home with something terrifying. What began as unexplained noises, foul odors, and strange disturbances would eventually escalate into one of the most controversial haunting cases in American history. The family reported shadowy figures, violent attacks, unexplained scratches, and encounters with an uns...

Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of our Columbine series, we step inside the library at Columbine High School, the deadliest location during the April 20, 1999 attack. As students hid beneath tables and computer desks, librarian Patti Nielson remained on the phone with 911 while chaos unfolded around her. We examine the events inside the library, the stories of the victims and survivors, the heroism o...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part I of our two-part deep dive into one of the most haunting and explosive cases in modern true crime: the Murdaugh Murders. Tonight, we walk the long shadow of the Lowcountry…  through privilege, generational power, unanswered tragedies, and the storm that had been brewing long before June 7th, 2021. In this episode we cover: • The Murdaugh legacy and influence over the...

Send us Fan Mail On December 18, 1994, Alison Botha parked in her driveway like she had done so many times before. She had no idea what was waiting behind her. Kidnapped. Brutally attacked. Left for dead on a deserted road outside Port Elizabeth, South Africa — her throat cut, her body nearly destroyed — Alison did the unthinkable. She survived. In this episode, we examine one of the most extraord...

Send us Fan Mail The truth doesn’t stay buried forever.  In Part 2 of our Murdaugh Murders series, we follow the unraveling of Alex Murdaugh’s alibi, the explosive kennel video, the shifting timelines, and the trial moments that sealed his fate. From the lies he confessed to on the stand, to the theories that still haunt the Lowcountry, this episode dives deeper into the chaos, the contradictions,...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when psychology, perception, intuition… and the unexplained begin to blur together? In this special bonus episode of Veil of Echoes, we sit down with world record-holding mentalist and performer Joe Diamond — also known as The Midwest Mystic — for one of the most fascinating conversations we’ve had yet. What started as a discussion about mentalism, observation, and hu...

Send us Fan Mail Step into the unknown with Veil of Echoes — a cinematic true crime and paranormal podcast where chilling cases, haunted histories, disappearances, and the unexplained collide. Hosted by Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay, each episode blends immersive storytelling, atmospheric sound design, and haunting narration to explore the stories that refuse to stay buried. From infamous crimes and mis...

Send us Fan Mail In 1897, a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead inside her West Virginia home. Her death was quickly ruled natural… and her body was buried before anyone questioned what really happened. But her mother refused to believe the official story. Days after the funeral, Mary Jane Heaster claimed Zona’s spirit began appearing beside her bed at night — revealing horrifying d...

Send us Fan Mail On the morning of September 14th, 2007, fourteen-year-old Andrew Gosden left his home in Doncaster, England, dressed for school like any other day. But instead of attending class, Andrew withdrew nearly all the money from his bank account, returned home to change clothes, and purchased a one-way train ticket to London. Hours later, CCTV captured him walking calmly out of King’s Cr...

Send us Fan Mail On April 20th, 1999, what began as a normal Tuesday morning at Columbine High School became one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. But before the first shots were fired… there were warning signs. In Part One of this multi-part series, we explore the months leading up to the Columbine massacre including the journals, threats, homemade explosives, Basement Tapes,...