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We’re blind-reading Corey Mead’s article, "The Poet," set in late 1970s Wichita, Kansas. The city is already on edge due to the active BTK Strangler when Ruth Finley, a quiet telephone company employee, begins receiving menacing phone calls from a stranger who knows a traumatic secret from her past: she was branded by a "sex maniac" as a teenager in 1946. As the harassment escalates from letters t...

We’re trading historical gratitude for the absolute dumpster fire of modern family gatherings. In Episode 108, we serve up a chaotic platter of listener-submitted nightmares that prove blood isn't always thicker than gravy. We’re exploring everything from a violent brawl between aunts nicknamed "Jailbird" and "Moonpie" involving a carving fork to a sentimental wedding video that abruptly cuts to N...

Buckle up, because today we’re wading into one of the internet’s strangest rabbit holes: feral people . What does that term really mean? We explore everything from Appalachian legends — backwoods creatures, cave-dwelling clans, and “wrong turn” horror stories — to folklore and psychology. In this episode, we’ll balance spooky Reddit tales with sobering real-life cases: children raised in isolation...

Bless Kait for showing up on antibiotics and a prayer. After two weeks of chaos (and a possible case of strep), we are diving back into the most cursed address in American true crime: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York. Last time, we left off with the DeFeo family found murdered in their beds. With Butch DeFeo’s confession echoing through Suffolk County, a new family moves into the now-infamou...

You’ve heard the phrase “the devil made me do it.” But what happens when someone uses it to explain one of the most infamous family murders in American history? We dig into the real events behind The Amityville Horror — the gruesome 1974 murders that inspired a best-selling book, a Hollywood franchise, and decades of ghost stories. But before the hauntings and horror-movie jump scares, there was a...

Welcome back, campers! (And happy spooky season.) This week, we’re tossing the script out the window and diving into real-life horror stories that sound straight out of a movie. From near-death escapes to paranormal close calls, these are the true tales that make you turn the radio down, lock the doors, and whisper, “Did that really just happen?” In this chaotic, wing-it episode, our counselors re...

Spooky season is here, campers. This week, we’re heading straight into local legend territory. Nestled in the backroads of Collinsville, Illinois, just past the world’s largest ketchup bottle, lies a string of graffiti-covered railroad underpasses known as the Seven Gates of Hell. For decades, bored teens, paranormal investigators, and the morbidly curious have driven these roads at night, hoping...

In Part II of our coverage of SC's Rose Petal Murder.....the investigation into the fatal stabbing of 41 year old Vet Tech Christina Parcell gets far more complicated than anyone expected. In Part I, we unpacked the tangled relationships, custody battles, and harassment campaign that painted a disturbing picture of Christina's ex-bf and the father of her daughter in the months leading up to her mu...

We're sure y'all already know what horrible things have been happening these last couple of weeks... including but not limited to: yet another school shooting & the cold-blooded murder of a peaceful political activist. But there's always Jake Gyllenhaal being Jake Gyllenhaal; so there's still some love and light in the world. We talk about it all today. In this episode, we cover: Multiple scho...

100 episodes , campers. We can hardly believe it. To mark the milestone, we’re taking you deep into one of the most shocking and twisted cases we’ve ever covered: The “Rose Petal” Murder of Christina Parcell in Greenville, South Carolina….which actually had VERY little to do with roses. On October 13th, 2021, 41-year-old veterinary tech and mother to a 9 year old daughter Christina Parcell was fou...

The Villisca Axe Murders didn’t just end with the brutal crime of 1912; the house itself has lived on with a legacy of hauntings, morbid tourism, and unanswered questions. In this final part of our deep dive, we trace how the infamous little white farmhouse became a historic landmark, a paranormal hotspot, and a site of both fascination and fear. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode covers graphic vio...

June 10th, 1912. A quiet Iowa town woke to the discovery of one of the most gruesome crimes in American history. Eight people — including six children — were found brutally murdered in their beds. Over a century later, the case remains unsolved, clouded in speculation, small-town gossip, and a legacy of hauntings that still terrifies visitors today. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode covers graphic...

Have you ever locked eyes with someone who looked exactly like you? Or heard the old superstition that seeing your double means death is near? This week, we’re pulling back the veil on one of folklore’s creepiest figures: the doppelgänger . ⚠️ Content Warning : This episode includes themes of death, folklore, paranormal encounters, and unsettling psychological experiences. Listener discretion advi...

We’ve made it, campers—the conclusion of the BTK saga. In this final chapter, we watch the seemingly ordinary father and church leader Dennis Rader unravel, thanks in part to someone far closer to him than police could have imagined. From his last known murder in 1991 to his arrest in 2005, we trace Rader’s brazen communications with police, the meticulous cat-and-mouse strategy of Lt. Kenneth Lan...

There’s just that much horrible shit happening in the world. First up: a Southwest Airlines passenger found guilty of groping the woman next to him mid-flight has the audacity to call it “flirting.” Sir, no. Spoiler: the jury took only 30 minutes to convict him. We would’ve taken three. Next, we unpack the devastating case of Carol Maltesi, a model and sex worker in Italy who was brutally murdered...

Welcome back, campers. It’s another chaotic, creepy week in the woods, and we’ve got a full Camp Bulletin to prove it. From lead-laced school lunches to harrowing survival stories and a possible serial killer flying under the radar, this one’s got it all. Buckle up. ⚠️ Content Warning : This episode contains discussions of poisoning, animal attacks, overdose, homicide, and suspected serial crimes....

Welcome to the Camp Bulletin: where cute baby giggles meet existential terror. This week, we cracked open a bottle of Reddit’s darkest forest lore, with spine-snapping tales from real-life search and rescue teams. But first, we extend our love and support to everyone impacted by the Texas floods. Donate to Texas Flood Relief by clicking this link . We head to the woods (because, of course, we do)....

Welcome back, campers. This week, we’re diving into part five of our BTK deep dive, and this time, it’s personal, because the episode isn’t just about Dickwad Dennis (as we call him). It’s also about someone who stood on the other side of the story: Lieutenant Kenneth Landwehr , the Wichita homicide detective who would spend decades quietly hunting a ghost. ⚠️ Content Warning : This episode includ...

The world is truly unwell. In this special episode (usually reserved for our Patreon subscribers ), we spiral through a skull found in a college storage closet, a 14-year-old who walked off a cliff while hallucinating Kermit the Frog, and a take on Gypsy Rose’s PR redemption arc that you probably won’t hear anywhere else. This week: Pee Wee Gaskins’ victim found in a supply closet. Yes, really. Ha...

This week’s episode is a campfire story special , filled with the kind of tales you were absolutely too young to hear at summer camp. You know the ones: the eerie, blood-chilling, “definitely real” stories passed around by flashlights in the dark. 🔦 Here's what we covered: A beautifully told (and deeply cursed) legend of ghostly lanterns on a cliff, passed down through generations of campers. One...

This one’s for everyone who’s ever had a roommate horror story… or survived one. This week, we scroll straight into Reddit’s darkest roommate tales: from petty revenge to straight-up terrifying encounters. We spiraled while listening to shocking, often dangerous confessions from Redditors whose roommates were anything but chill. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode includes stories involving violence,...

This week’s episode takes us straight into the realm of chills, childhood, and...reincarnation? From creepy Reddit confessions to real-world research, we dive into stories that blur the lines between imagination, memory, and mystery. Starting with a real-life family story, we quickly spiral into terrifyingly believable tales from Reddit where children recall details of lives they’ve supposedly liv...

You knew we weren’t done yet. In Part 4 of the BTK series, we return to Wichita to cover the final set of Dennis Rader’s horrifying crimes—and the unraveling cracks in his double life. This episode picks up after the murder of Nancy Fox and carries us through the devastating story of Maureen Hedge, the rise of public awareness about BTK, and how close law enforcement almost came to stopping him in...

Dennis Rader is back (ugh), and Part III picks up right where we left off in 1977: with a monster hiding in plain sight. In this episode, we dive into Dennis's bizarre mix of obsessive murder-planning (then abrupt & outrageous spontaneousness), the murders of Shirley Vian and Nancy Fox & cops finally starting to realize their is a serial killer amongst them, and Dennis getting a WHOLE lot...

Campers… we made it. Today, we wrap up our dramatic reading of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , and WOW—what an ending. If you’ve been listening from the beginning (Episode 47), thank you for hanging in through every clue, red herring, and questionable accent. In these final chapters, the truth is finally revealed: Poirot lays out his theory in full, the killer is confronted, and we...