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In 897 AD, Pope Stephen VI ordered the exhumed corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, dressed in full papal vestments and placed on trial before the Roman public in the Basilica of St. John Lateran — an event historians now call the Cadaver Synod.  In this episode of Creepy Shit, we break down the fully documented, real history behind one of the most bizarre trials in Catholic Church history: t...

Mattoon, Illinois was gripped by panic when residents began reporting a sickly sweet odor followed by nausea, weakness, and temporary paralysis.  Over two dozen separate attacks were reported to police in under two weeks, sparking armed citizen patrols and nationwide media coverage of the mysterious "Mad Gasser."  In this episode of Creepy Shit, we dig into the real, documented history of the Mad...

Hidden in Italy’s beautiful Venetian Lagoon lies a small island that locals refuse to talk about. For over 700 years, Poveglia Island served as Venice’s dumping ground for plague victims, mental patients, and human suffering. An estimated 160,000 people died on this 17-acre patch of land, creating soil that’s literally 50% human ash. But the dead didn’t stay quiet. In this spine-chilling episode,...

Bihl Manor, one of America's most talked-about haunted houses in Fremont, Ohio, is about to get the HGTV treatment in the new series A Very Haunted Renovation, premiering September 15th.  In this episode, we cover the real, documented history of Bihl Manor — from its 1890s origins as a private family home to its decades as a children's group home — and take an honest, opinionated look at how the n...

In the 1980s, a sweet-looking grandmother ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California. Dorothea Puente took in the city’s most vulnerable residents—elderly folks on Social Security, mentally ill individuals, recovering addicts—and presented herself as a caring caretaker who gave them a safe place to live. But behind the floral dresses and homemade cookies, Dorothea was systematically murdering...

Belle Gunness — known as Lady Bluebeard, the Mistress of Murder Farm, and Hell's Belle — is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. In this episode of Creepy Shit, we dig into the true, documented story of how a LaPorte, Indiana farm woman used matrimonial ads, insurance fraud, and a remote farmhouse to lure and kill more than forty men in the early 1900s. From two...

Between 1907 and 1916, a charming caregiver named Amy Archer-Gilligan operated a quiet rest home in Windsor, Connecticut. But behind the respectable facade of the Archer Home for Elderly People, a nightmare was unfolding. At least 60 residents died under suspicious circumstances—many within weeks of paying substantial “lifetime care” fees. Their cause of death? Systematic poisoning with arsenic an...

Kelly Road, Pennsylvania. One mile. Decades of witnesses. Animals going feral, people erupting in rage — and a hard boundary where it all stops.  To wrap up the Summer Series this week I have Ashley from Ghost Gossip dig into Mystery Mile: the haunted road Pennsylvania forgot to talk about.  Indigenous displacement history, cult activity in the woods, infrasound science, and an unsolved death from...

On February 11th 1979 five friends from the small Hawaiian town of Hana borrowed a seventeen foot Boston Whaler, loaded it with beer and snacks, and headed out into a calm and beautiful Pacific morning for a day of fishing. By mid-afternoon a storm came out of nowhere.  The Coast Guard searched 73,000 square miles and found nothing. Not the boat. Not the men. Not a single piece of wreckage. Nine y...

On January 2nd 1935 a young man walked into the Hotel President in Kansas City Missouri, checked into Room 1046, and was found two days later beaten, stabbed, bound, and barely breathing in a blood soaked room. He died without ever naming his attacker. His name wasn’t even real. It took nearly two years to identify him. And then, after he was dead and buried, someone started sending his mother let...

Off the coast of Brittany, France sits a lighthouse that the French government officially exorcised. Tévennec Lighthouse has one of the most disturbing and well-documented haunted histories of any location in Europe — unexplained deaths, keepers driven to madness, ancient Breton mythology, and a paranormal history that stretches back centuries before the lighthouse was ever built. In this episode...

You think you know the Lake Lanier story. The haunted lake. The Lady of the Lake. The ghost town underwater. But I promise you — you do not know the half of it. Because underneath the ghost stories is a real, documented, devastating history that most people never talk about. A thriving Black community called Oscarville that was destroyed by racial terror in 1912. A county that maintained a White-o...

Just outside one of the most populated cities on earth sits a 6,000-acre forest that has been collecting bodies — and secrets — since before the Roman Empire. Epping Forest isn’t just haunted. It’s a thousand-year crime scene layered on top of an Iron Age battlefield, a highwayman’s lair, and a gangland dumping ground. And that’s before we even get to the pond that locals say is *evil beyond measu...

In 1915, a ship everyone knew was dangerous capsized in the Chicago River — killing 844 people on their way to a company picnic. More deaths than the Titanic’s passenger list. 22 entire families, gone.  No one was ever held accountable.  And to this day, people standing on Chicago’s Clark Street Bridge report seeing faces in the water below. This is the SS Eastland disaster. And it’s been buried l...

She danced with a man in 1939. He kissed her. She was ice cold. The next morning, he went to her house, and her mother told him she had been dead for years! This is Resurrection Mary. Chicago's most documented ghost. Shes been hitchhiking Archer Avenue for over 90 years.  This Episode: The ancient Native American trail that became America's most haunted road, the real women that might be, 30+ witn...

Maine's most haunted lighthouse has one legend that will mess with you long after you stop listening.  A keeper. His wife. A piano. One Song - played on repeat until something in him broke. What he did next is stuff of nightmares. And apprarently, she never stopped playing. Sailors still hear it drifting across the water on foggy nights. Caretakers report furniture moving on its own, one caretaker...

You heard the history and the happenings, Now hear what happened to my husband and I while we were at Shaker's Cigar Bar. In part 2 of our Shaker's Cigar Bar Bar, Podcast Birthday Celebration. Im taking you back inside, walking you through what I personally felt (& what my husband felt) from the moment I entered the building, what I captured on camera that I wasn't expecting and the moments th...

One year ago, Creepy Shit was just an idea. Today, we're on Location! To mark one full year of this podcast. Im sitting inside one of America's Most Haunted bars - Shaker's Cigar Bar in Milwaukee, WI - with a man who has owned and breathed this building since the 1980's, Bob Weiss And this place has layers, boo We're talking a building built on top of a cemetery. A prohibition-era speakeasy and br...

There is a 50-acre patch of woods in Mathews County, Virginia that has been terrifying people for over 300 years — and the paper trail to prove it goes all the way to a federally funded government archive at the University of Virginia.  Old House Woods is one of those locations that makes you question everything, because the witnesses aren’t anonymous internet strangers. They’re named. They’re dat...

Everyone thinks they know the story of H.H. Holmes — America’s first serial killer, the Murder Castle, two hundred victims, trap doors and gas chambers. But what if most of that was invented? In this episode of Creepy Shit, we go full deep dive on H.H. Holmes - pulling from historical records, newspaper archives, and court documents to separate verified fact from the yellow journalism myths that h...

We’re diving deep into America’s deadliest aviation disaster and the absolutely wild paranormal activity that started within HOURS of the crash. I’m talking about American Airlines Flight 191, the DC-10 that fell from the sky at Chicago O’Hare on May 25, 1979, killing 273 people in thirty-one seconds of pure hell. But here’s where it gets really messed up: the passengers never left. We’ve got phan...

She's been inside the most haunted places on Earth alongside Sam & Colby - and she didn't just survive them. She READ them.  Ashley Ryan is an officially ordained Hermetic Priestess, a practitioner of ancient esoteric tradition, and one of the most highly sought after, as well as fascinating figures in the paranormal world. in this episode, she sits down with us to talk about what it actually...

Okay, so imagine getting your wedding photos back and finding THREE GHOSTLY FIGURES standing behind a kid at your reception. Now imagine those figures are probably the gangsters who got murdered there in the 1930s. Welcome to the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul, Minnesota – where John Dillinger used to dance, Ma Barker planned heists, and apparently some mobsters never got the memo that the party...

In 1897, Adolph Luetgert — Chicago’s self-made “Sausage King” — became the center of one of the most disturbing and sensational murder cases in American history. When his wife Louisa vanished on the night of May 1st, police followed the evidence straight to the basement of his northwest side sausage factory. What they found there changed criminal justice forever — and allegedly left something behi...

The Appalachian Mountains are older than the dinosaurs — and something has been living in them ever since. This week, I’m joined by Danielle and Cassie of the National Park After Dark podcast as we pull back the curtain on the true paranormal history of Appalachia.  From Dogman encounters and Mothman sightings to cryptid folklore rooted in centuries of documented eyewitness accounts, we’re going d...