Grimly Podcast

A missing nurse. A desperate search to find her. And a woman who claimed she could see what no one else could. In 1980, the disappearance of Melanie Uribe spiraled into one of the most baffling true-crime stories in Los Angeles history when aerospace worker Etta Louise Smith came forward with a startling vision, one that led police directly to Melanie’s body. But instead of gratitude, Etta found h...

In January 2002, 20-year-old Christopher Carlton Thompkins vanished in broad daylight while working a surveying job in rural Harris County, Georgia. One moment he was walking along a fence line with his crew, seconds later, he was gone. His tools were left behind, a boot was hanging from a barbed wire fence, and twelve cents lay scattered on the ground. Two decades later, there are still no answer...

On Easter Sunday 2024, while Los Angeles celebrated the holiday, a team of thieves quietly pulled off one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. They cut through the roof of a high-security storage facility, bypassed alarms, and disappeared with more than $30 million dollars, without leaving a trace. In this episode, we break down how the heist happened, who might have been behind it, and...

The summit of Everest is called the top of the world, but in May 1996, it became a place of chaos and loss. As hurricane-force winds ripped across the mountain, climbers were stranded, oxygen was running out, and rescue was nearly impossible. This is the story of how ambition, heroism, and the unforgiving power of nature collided on the roof of the world. Listen as we dive into the 1996 Everest Di...

On 284 Green Street in a quiet neighborhood just North of London, a strange phenomena happened in 1977. It started with knocking and furniture moving, then small childhood items like marbles and legos flew through the air on their own. The press caught wind of the strange happenings, and soon the story spread across Britain. That’s when paranormal investigators Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair...

Wayne Nance had been hiding in plain sight for over a decade. Behind this average man was a trail of brutal, unsolved murders stretching across western Montana. Until a September night, Nance broke into the home of Doug and Kris Wells binding, stabbing, and terrorizing them in what he believed would be his next kill. But this time, his victims fought back. And their survival would finally expose o...

This week, we look beyond the campfire and into stories that have lived for thousands of years. We’re honoring Indigenous People’s Day by sharing four spirits that still walk between worlds The Wendigo, Deer Woman, The Stick Indians, and Coyote the Trickster. They’re not just myths. They’re lessons about greed, balance, and the price of forgetting who we are.

Political aspirations, royal dynasties, and even the wrestling ring . Some families seem destined for greatness, yet shadowed by an unshakable curse. This week, we explore three families whose legacies were built on power, ambition, and tragedy: the Shah Royal Family of Nepal, whose monarchy ended in blood; the Von Erichs, wrestling legends haunted by loss; and the Kennedys, America’s own dynasty...

After the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, whispers and sightings of a creature began to occur in the pacific northwest. It was described as over 7 feet tall, being a blueish color and having the face and wings of a bat. Is it a cryptid? Interdimensional being brought over after the eruption? Or something that we want to see? This week we are covering the creature known as batsquatch. Be sure...

In April 2016, fitness instructor Terri “Missy” Bevers arrived before dawn to set up for her Camp Gladiator class inside Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas. But before her students arrived, Missy was brutally attacked and murdered. Surveillance cameras showed a mysterious figure dressed in police-style tactical gear wandering the church halls before her death which has fueled speculat...

She was once the biggest and fastest ocean liner of her time, being two times the size of the Titanic. During WWII she was called the "gray ghost" and helped win the war the effort, but then she was docked for good in Long Beach California in 1967 and stories began to emerge. Apparitions, disembodied voices and even figures seeming to enjoy the pool that had long been emptied. One of the most haun...

On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing more than a hundred people in one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history. But the story didn’t end there. Soon after the crash, whispers began to spread among pilots, flight attendants, and passengers of sightings of the dead crew appearing on other Eastern flights. Most people believe the ghos...

Your home is supposed to be your safe space. It's where you kick your shoes off after a long day, pour a glass of wine and forget about the world. But what if you start feeling paranoid in your own home? Things are moving or just go missing all together, you hear footsteps or a door close but no one is there. You begin to become paranoid, is this something paranormal? Or are you just imagining thi...

In an area of Colorado by the great sand dunes. A horse named Lady hadn't come back to her ranch one evening after grazing all day. Lady was a creature of habit so the ranch owner, Harry King was worried. A few days later Lady aka Snippy was found dead and mutilated in a way that still cannot be explained. Some people say natural causes, others, explain what a happen citing more unearthly culprits...

In 1968 in the Canary Islands, a fishing vessel called the El Fausto left a port bound for Tazacorte on La Palma. The ship would never make it's destination but what happened before it was lost forever is just as bewildering and confusing as it was some 50+ years ago. This week we cover the ship that was lost at sea 3 times and wonder, what the hell happened. Be sure to rate and review and as alwa...

Before the superhero craze of the last few decades and even before Christopher Reeves would don the iconic "S" suit. There was George Reeves, a man who had a complicated relationship with his identity as the man of steel. His name would be synonymous with the superhero, but how is life ended would also be infamous. Was his death by his own hand, an accident, or something more sinister? Today we ar...

This podcast episode is brought to you by Pepsi (not really but wouldn’t that be cool!) In the 1960’s in an area outside of Rio. Two men ascended a hill, they wore matching raincoats, had notebook with cryptic instructions, eye protection made out of lead, and capsules filled with an unknown substance. A few days later they would be found dead on that very same hill. Why did Miguel and Manoel go u...

She was a beauty queen, model and was breaking into acting. Until she saw something that shouldn’t have seen and it caused everything to come crashing down. Soon after Tammy Lynn Leppert disappeared and she’s been missing since. This week we talk about the events leading to her disappearance and the theories that emerged from her disappearance. Be sure to rate and review, and as always, stay griml...

Do you love baseball? How about beer? Or maybe a hot dog, or do you just love to be naked in public? Boy do I have a story for you. This week Meg and Missy are talking about an infamous baseball game, but this isn’t a typical baseball game. This game is absurd because of one promotion that seemed genius at the time, beers for 10 cents a piece. Go listen wherever you get your podcasts and remember...

Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials in US History. And while he had tons of support from his constituents and community, there were others that believed he should stay out of politics and stay in the closet. But Harvey was loud, relentless and willing to put his life on the line for the good fight. His life was cut short by someone he knew and even at one time respected,...

In the early 90’s Craig Williamson went on a business trip to try to support his fish farm that he ran with his wife Christine, but he didn’t come home and seemingly vanished. Next there were confusing clues and sightings that had investigators believe Craig ran away to start a new life somewhere. Christine believed a different story and decided to go find him herself, until one day she received a...

During the holiday season in 1989, 5 year old Melissa Brannen went missing at a party. It was as if she vanished into thin air. The small Virginia community searched for weeks and a suspect was named and put on trial. But there is still so much mystery surrounding this case 3 decades later. Be sure to rate and review and as always, stay grimly curious.

Locked away behind glass in the Warrens' Occult Museum, Annabelle looks like an ordinary Raggedy Ann doll, but her story is anything but innocent. Listen as we dive into the real-life case that helped inspire the Conjuring universe, a terrifying tale of a doll said to be possessed by a malevolent force. We'll explore the origins of Annabelle, the claims of paranormal activity surrounding her, and...

In 2013 a college student by the name of Bryce Laspisa had been acting strangely for a few weeks. His friends and girlfriend were so worried about him they were contacting his parents telling them that something was wrong. Bryce then makes a fateful trip down to Laguna Niguel California to see his parents because he says they have a lot to talk about, but before that happened he disappeared and th...

For decades Georgia Rudolph had been having vivid memories and dreams. The dreams and memories were of a place and time she had never been to, but they also seemed so familiar to her. This was the start of an incredible journey that some believe to be a story of reincarnation. Listen and ask yourself, is this an elaborate hoax? Or was Georgia Rudolph actually Sandra Jean Jenkins in another life? B...