Pretty Wicked

Today I'm revisiting one of the most infamous cases in American true crime; a woman the press called the Damsel of Death. Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found dead along the highways of central Florida, and the person behind it was the last kind of suspect anyone expected. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywic...

A married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who she says she is either. And when a real young man comes into the picture, the whole thing turns into obsession, threats, and eventually murder. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so...

A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with brown eyes, dark hair, and an accent you could spot from across a room. And somehow, for nearly five months...

Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscrib...

A birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the other two were walking toward something they swore was real. That was 2014. Eleven years later, one of them cut off her ankle monitor and ran. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss...

Some stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm December night and was gone before the Coast Guard could get there. This week we're going into the lore. The famous cases. The ghost ships. And what science actually thinks is happening out there, because the real answers mig...

In a quiet Italian town, there was a woman everyone trusted. She baked. She welcomed people in. She was the kind of person no one questioned. And then people started disappearing. When she finally confessed, it wasn’t just what she had done… it was why. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved...

What if the boogeyman you grew up hearing about wasn't just a story? On Staten Island, there was a figure parents whispered about to keep their kids close to home. Bedtime warnings, campfire dares, everyone thought it was just make-believe. But then children started to vanish. And suddenly, it wasn't just scary anymore. It was real. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday....

Today Megan is revisiting a medieval building in a quiet Cotswolds village. A 900-year legend that doesn't quite hold up under the tree rings. A pagan burial ground nobody can find in the archaeological record. And the man who spent fifty years inside it, telling stories nobody could verify and experiencing things he couldn't explain. The Ancient Ram Inn calls itself the most haunted building in E...

In August 2009, two men in tailored suits walked into the most exclusive jewelry store on London's most exclusive street, and two minutes later they walked out with forty million pounds in diamonds. No masks. The makeup artist who'd spent four hours disguising them thought they were working on a music video. The man who planned it all was out on police bail for cocaine, still living at his mother'...

In February 2001, Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher drove to a woman's house to pick her up for a date. She didn't answer the door. He looked through the window, saw what he thought was a red wine stain on the carpet, assumed she had gone out without him, and left. The next morning her roommate came home and found her body. She had been stabbed 47 times. The man who killed her had been living a block...

In 1984, something really unsettling started happening across Japan. Boxes of children’s candy were showing up on store shelves laced with cyanide, and it didn’t feel random or hidden. It felt intentional, like someone wanted people to notice. The group behind it called themselves The Monster with 21 Faces, and for 17 months they turned the whole thing into a kind of performance with kidnappings,...

For thirty years, a man called himself Clark Rockefeller, claimed to be an heir to one of the most powerful families in American history, and the world believed him. He moved through the most elite circles in the country, he married a Harvard educated millionaire, and charmed everyone he ever met. The only problem? He didn't exist. And somewhere in a California backyard, there were bones that told...