Anxious and Afraid The Pod

In this week's episode, Abby tells the story of the Bélmez Faces or The Faces of Bélmez. In the tiny town of Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain during the early 1970s, María Gómez Cámara began to see the haunting depiction of human faces in her concrete floor. The phenomena would come to be known as some of the most compelling evidence of paranormal phenomena in the 20th century and allegedly continues...

In this week's episode, Shawna tells the gang the perplexing story of the disappearance of Lawrence Joseph Bader. Bader was a husband and father working as a salesman in the 1950s who would mysteriously vanish after fishing on Lake Erie in March of 1957. Years later, a man named John "Fritz" Johnson would be recognized as the missing Bader but the problem was, Johnson allegedly had no memories of...

In this week's episode, Abby gives the crew a good scare as she tells the story of the Williams family. Dora and Ted Williams, along with their three young children, would have their lives turned upside down after moving into an old Victorian-style house in the 1990s. Shortly after arriving, the Canadian family would be plagued with countless paranormal events and ghostly sightings, upending their...

In this week's episode, Shawna regales the crew with another compelling reincarnation case! In 1957 two young sisters from the Pollock family were tragically struck and killed by a car. One year later their mother would give birth to two identical twin girls who would grow up with an eerie resemblance and knowledge of their deceased sisters. Credits: PSI Encyclopedia Hystoricmysteries.com Medium.c...

In this week's episode, Abby details the harrowing and incredible survival story of Annette Herfkens, the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines flight 474 plane crash in 1992. Listen in to learn about the terrifying plane crash in the Vietnam jungle and the extraordinary woman who lived to tell the tale. Credits: Turbulence: A True Story Of Survival by Annette Herfkens Independent.co.uk News.com.au Av...

In this week's episode, Shawna brings the gang a perplexing unsolved missing persons case. In 2014, 28-year-old German man Lars Joachim Mittank was vacationing in Bulgaria with his friends when he was involved in a physical altercation that left him too injured to fly back home as scheduled. Mittank was reportedly acting strangely before disappearing from the Varna Airport and running into the nea...

Join the crew this week as they read real-life true crime and paranormal stories submitted by amazing listeners and share some of their own stories as well!

In this week's episode, Abby gets a little spooky and tells the tale of the haunted Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon. Listen in as the crew discusses the history of the home as well as its influential owners, Henry and Georgianna Pittock. Stick around for some creepy paranormal accounts from employees and visitors of the historic mansion (now a museum). And remember, don't forget to submit your...

In this week's episode, Shawna takes the gang into a mysterious Oregon cave owned by the Masonic Lodge of Burns. Listen in as the crew attempts to understand the Masons and theorize what they have been meeting about annually since 1938. Credits: Wikipedia.com YouTube.com burnslodge.org onlyinyourstate.com eugenelodgell.org Podcast- Curly Conspiracies ep 48 https://youtu.be/wWv_q9fTLe4 Music By: Br...

In this week's anxiety-inducing episode, Abby regales the crew with the gripping and horrific tale of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 during WWII. After delivering the integral components for "Little Boy", the world's first atomic bomb that would later be dropped on Hiroshima, the USS Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine. Almost 900 men would go into the shark-inf...

In this week's episode, Shawna shares with the crew a terrifying and compelling alien abduction story. Tune in to hear the tale of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, two men who were fishing near Pascagoula Mississippi, 1973 when they were suddenly accosted and abducted by strange-looking aliens. Credits: Travel Channel's UFO's: The Lost Evidence S2 E3 LightsOut Podcast: Episode 40 But It Was Alie...

In this week's episode, Abby takes us back to the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri where she covers another daunting true crime case. Tune in to hear the gut-wrenching story of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old pregnant woman who was brutally murdered with her baby stolen from her womb in 2004. The resulting search and arrest would conclude with the first Federal execution of a female prisoner in n...

In this week's episode, Abby and Shawna hand over the hosting duties to a good friend of the show and return guest, Matt! Tune in as Matt details the 1969 tragic disappearance of six-year-old Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The boy's absence during a family vacation would result in the most extensive search in the park's history leading to many theories and few clues as t...

In this week's episode, Shawna takes the gang for a wild and nauseating ride as she tells the unbelievable story of Tarrare (AKA Tarare), a Frenchman living in the 1700s who could and would eat absolutely anything and everything you placed in front of him including his own weight in meat, inanimate objects and even live animals. Credits: Wikipedia.com Allthatsinteresting.com Youtube.com -Sam O'nel...

In this week's episode, Abby takes the gang to the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri to detail the unsolved 1981 vigilante killing of Kenneth Rex McElroy. Listen in to find out just how far an entire town of people can be pushed by a tyrannical bully before they snap and take the law into their own hands. Credits: Documentary: No One Saw a Thing Podcast: Parcast Unsolved Murders Wikipedia Trutv.com...

In this week's episode, Shawna tells the crew about a 1987 mass murderer, David Augustus Burke. Burke was a disgruntled former airline employee who exacted his revenge on his former boss while on Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 1771. Listen in to hear the harrowing tale of violence and destruction ending in a devastating plane crash in the California Santa Lucia Mountains. Credits: Wikipedia.com...

In this week's episode, Abby terrifies the crew with the story of the Busby Stoop Chair, a reportedly cursed object which resides in Yorkshire, England. Tune in to learn of the chair's sordid past and how it came to be cursed in the first place by the owner, Thomas Busby in the early 1700s. With a supposed victim count in the 60s, this is a chair even skeptics refuse to sit in! Credits: Unsolved M...

In this week's episode, Shawna details the chilling crimes of 19-year-old spree killer Charles Starkweather who committed 11 murders in the 1950s and was accompanied by 14-year old Caril Fugate across the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. Was Caril a victim or an accomplice in these brutal murders? Listen in to hear the gang discuss possible theories and explanations for this perplexing case. Credit...

In this week's episode, Abby kicks off the new year with a more light-hearted tale involving the incredible Unsinkable Sam, a war-time cat who survived the sinking of three ships during WWII. Credits: Wikipedia The Legend Of Unsinkable Sam, The Cat That Survived 3 Shipwrecks (allthatsinteresting.com) Unsinkable Sam - Legendary Cat Survived 3 Sinking Ships (warhistoryonline.com) Cats in 20th Centur...

In this week's episode, Shawna takes a deep diver into the extremely weird and unexplained phenomena of ball lightning! You may remember, not so long ago in episode 52: spontaneous human combustion, ball lightning was listed as a theory and Shawna promised us an episode all about the strange occurrence. Listen in as Shawna describes the eye witness accounts of those who have seen or experienced ba...

In this week's episode, Abby regales the crew with the anxiety-inducing tale of Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on JAT flight 367 in 1972 perpetrated by the Ustasha, a group of Croatian Ultranationalists. Stick around for some personal hygiene questions and to find out what a Q-Tip wet Willy is! Credits: Article by Green Light Wikipedia.com...

In this week's episode, Shawna schools the gang on the very strange and horrific occurrences of spontaneous human combustion. Listen in as the crew focuses on some of the examples of this fiery rare event and the theories behind how it could possibly happen. Credits: Wikipedia.com History.com Livescience.com Music By: Brokeforfree.com Edited By: Michael Network: www.theoracl3network.com Website: h...

This week, the crew is joined by a long-time friend and fan of the show, Jerami! We convinced her to take a break from officiating weddings and teaching 8th graders to come and tell us a true-crime story. Listen in as Jerami details the story of the Bat Man of Los Angeles which takes place in the 1920s and 30s. You won't want to miss out on this lurid tale of secret lives and bad love affairs endi...

We know it's been a bit of a roller coaster lately with episode releases so we wanted to give you guys a little bonus! In this Baby Bonus episode, Shawna details the story of Sherrie Lea Laird, the lead singer of a Canadian rock band who believes she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. Credits: LATimes.com Pastlives.com YouTube.com Music By: Brokeforfree.com Edited By: Michael Network: www.the...

In this week's episode, Abby regales the crew with yet another mysterious precipitous event, but this time it's not gelatinous globs in Washington. This time its bits of raw meat raining down from a clear blue sky in beautiful Olympia Springs, Kentucky. Listen in for all the particular facts surrounding this case and the theories behind how it could have possibly happened. Credits: https://mysteri...