A Spooky Hangout Podcast

We are back and better than ever with a new producer, Bodhi! While we were gone, we had a son, traveled to the first settlement in Ohio and encountered some ghosts! This week we discuss the haunting history at the Anchorage Mansion in Marietta, Ohio and recap our experience. The Anchorage or Putnam Mansion was constructed in 1859 and spent time as a nursing home in the 1960s-1980s before closing d...

Jayme was just a normal teenage girl when her home was invaded and her parents shot in front of her. As if this wasn't enough, Jayme was then abducted and held captive for 88 days before her triumphant escape from captivity. Listen to the full story of Jayme Closs and hear her story of survival! Follow us on TikTok @a.spooky.hangout

Near Thanksgiving of 2009 the unthinkable happens when a fun group trip turns into a nightmare when 26 year old John Jones was trapped upside down in a cave, more than 100 feet underground. A team of 137 rescue workers and volunteers pulled their efforts together to get John out alive but unfortunately his body succumbed to his being upside down for 27-28 hours and he was pronounced dead. What was...

This weeks episode is a little different, we discuss the hauntings of Hocking Hills and the Athens Lunatic Asylum following our weekend trip there. Did we experience any spooky happenings? Listen and find out!

In this weeks episode we again discuss the dangers of hitchhiking. In the 1970's a terrible duo who's quest was to kill a teenage girl for each year ages 13 through 19 and unfortunately they got all to close to reaching their goal.

Everyone knows about it, but do you really know what happened during the Salem Witch Trials? We discuss the accused and the conditions they were kept in before being unjustly hanged for Witch craft. We also throw in a bonus story about a haunted Ohio college with ghostly tales.

What was supposed to be an institution before its time turned into a hell on earth. With over crowding and understaffing, Pennhurst became a prison of neglect and filth. After 79 years of operation, it closed on December 9, 1987 leaving behind decaying buildings and a history of torture.

Many documentaries came out about this case involving girl who was abducted in plain sight. She and her family were groomed by their next door neighbor who would eventually abduct 12 year old Jan where he would take her to Mexico to get married. All the while, Jan was being brainwashed by her abuser to believe she is part alien and must complete a secret mission to have a baby before the age of 16...

July 12 of 2015, teenager Tiffany Valiante went missing one night following a grad party. Her parents were immediately out looking for her. Her uncle had the misfortune of stumbling upon a police investigation on the train tracks, close to where Tiffany was last seen. He was told by investigators that a young woman had been hit by a train. He was asked to identify the body and he was shocked when...

It's a 5 bedroom house located at 112 Ocean Street, Long Island, New York that was the inspiration of countless books and movies. In 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family in the house that the Lutz's would purchase 13 months later for $80,000. The family only lived in the house for 28 days despite it being their dream home. What happened to cause the Lutz's to leave behind their be...

Junko was 17 years old when she was kidnapped by her classmates who were also members of the feared Yakuza gang. Junko was held captive and tortured for 44 days in one of the kids homes while his parents plead ignorance. Junko was eventually murdered when the group of teens became enraged when she beat them at a game. To avoid murder charges, the teens disposed of Junko's body in a 55 gallon b...

Maurice "Frenchie" Theriault was born in Canada in 1935 and experienced a troubled upbringing on the family farm. Following a traumatic experience involving his father and abuse of farm animals, Maurice began experiencing strange things that plagued him throughout his adult life. Things finally came to a head when his third wife Nancy reached out to the church for assistance and that led...

In May of 1999, a 14 year old girl made her way to a Hong Kong police station, telling them for the past several weeks she had been plagued by the ghost of a woman bound with electrical wire. They didn't pay her much mind until she divulged the information that she had a hand in this woman murder. She leads them to a rundown apartment where they find the decapitated head of a woman sewed into...

On August 7th of 1994 in Oakville, Washington, clear blobs smaller than a grain of rice began to rain down, covering a 20 square mile area. Soon after their fall, residents started to fall ill, many being hospitalized for their ailments. No one knows that these blobs are but there are some theories that range from military conspiracies to jellyfish. Yeah, jellyfish. Connect with us on Twitter @han...

Robert Ben Rhoades was a sexual sadist and rapist that was active for 15 years, with a body count that could possibly be as many as 100. Robert worked as a long haul truck driver which made it easy for him to prey on young women who were hitchhiking. He would hold these women captive for months while he tortured them in the converted dungeon sleeper cab. Connect with us on Twitter @hangoutspooky a...

This week we discuss the mystifying oracle known as they Ouija board from the tiny room! We dive DEEP into the history of the talking board and ramble a LOT. The Ouija board has been used since before World War 1 to contact those on the "other side". It was a hit during the spiritualist movement and was practiced in Europe long before its assent into America. But is it really running on...

It’s the late 1800s and love is in the air for Elva Zona Heaster and blacksmith Erasmus Stribbling Tout Shue. After dating for a few months, they got married and started their lives together. Things did not remain all sunshine and rainbows when Zona was found dead in their home and cause of death was said to be heart failure.  Right away Zona’s mother thought there was more to her daughter’s death...

William George Bonin was born in 1947 and unleashed a reign of terror in Southern California during the late 70s and 80s. He had multiple accomplices, between Patrick Kearney, Randy Craft, Vernon Butts and William Pugh, at least 113 lives were taken too soon. The media was making the connection that a serial killer was on the loose before the police did and they gave this murderer(s) the name of “...

In April 16, 146 nine covered wagons left Springfield, Illinois on the 2,500 mile journey to California. The train would later grow and gain the name of the Donner Party. The party was faced with constant hardships and food shortages. Things only got worse when they failed to make it over the summit of the mountains in time before they were trapped by 25 feet of snow with limited supplies. Needles...

!!!! Jacob very clearly asked for me to clarify that he said "I've seen it" and not "I seen it"!!!!!!! Following the wrath of hurricane Katerina in August of 2005, another horror was unfolding in the dilapidated city. From the ashes of the storm rose Addie Hall and Zack Bowen, a couple who decided to wait out the storm and take the city back from the disaster.  The couple m...

This week Jacob is the host! He presents the shocking story of Jonathan Sinclair the self proclaimed Shadow man who was causing havoc to a small town in South Dakota for a period of time before being caught. What inspired this Shadowman? How was he caught? Let Jacob tell you all about it!

Everyone but Gianna knows of Moby Dick by Herman Melville but not everyone knows why it was written or the disaster it was inspired by. On November 20, 1820, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the American whaling ship known as the Essex was rammed by a sperm whale which led to the sinking of the ship. All 20 crewmen initially survived the sinking but months later, only 8 men were rescued. On Feb...

Coming to you this week from the Tiny Room! In this episode Haley will give you nightmares with the case that has always stuck in her brain, the Toy Box Killer.  David Parker Ray was responsible for kidnapping and holding women captive in his trailer that he converted into his $100,000 sound proofed sex slave dungeon. These women were tortured in various horrible ways until their death  David Park...

WE ARE BACK!!!! After 3 long years and a pandemic later, we bring you the new and improved Spooky Hangout Pod with this episode about douchebag Gary M. Heidnik, a partial inspiration for Silence of the Lambs "Buffalo Bill". Gary Heidnik captured and held several women captive in a pit in his basement where he tortured them in Pennsylvania during the 1980s. These women were starved, elect...

In this weeks episode Haley brings to you a case to make your blood boil.  If you have never heard of the mysterious death of Mitrice Richardson, you need to. More people need to be talking about this.  Mitrice went on an impromptu road trip to Malibu from her home she shared with her grandmother in LA. When Mitrice stopped at a high end restaurant near the beach staff reported that Mitr...