Arcanum Obscura

This week we dive back into true crime. First we head to Australia for the horrific murder of two young girls, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock. This sadly unsolved case took place in 1965 when two girls who went to the beach with family never returned home. There was a few suspects but to this date it remains unsolved. The second case branches off of the first case, as Christopher Wilder w...

Back to true crime this week. This is another unsolved case where everyone gets accused, arrested, and released, except the killer. For a short time in New Orleans and surrounding areas the people were gripped by fear as a man was sneaking into homes and murdering a total of six people. One day he breaks his silence with a message to the media which is, simply put, bizarre. Just remember to get yo...

We wrap up the first ARC of the Ben Drowned story this week. Well, technically Nate wraps it up. This has been an easy few weeks for me since he chose a story he enjoys and its been multi episodes, and for me its just been pretty cool to hear the full story since I had only previously known of it by name and not much about it.

Another week of cursed games. This week we took a break from Ben Drowned but that will be back next week with the final part. This week we have Pokemon Black and also the Lavender Town Syndrome. Neither are in depth or as long as Ben Drowned but I had never heard the Pokemon Black story and thought it was rather interesting. It's a bit different then most of the cursed game stories since it do...

We continue with the Ben Drowned cursed Zelda game this week. Making it through pats 2-4. It's pretty interesting, I had heard of it before but never read it so nice to be able to hear it now. Next week we will finish the last part and have the game I found as well, Pokemon Black. I also scheduled the previous weeks episode for thr wrong date so it went up friday instead of wednesday.

We covered a cursed game a while back, the whole Herobrine story in Minecraft. But we decided to go a little deeper now and cover a couple more. First up, and a multi part series since it's a long story is Ben Drowned. A strange Zelda game, sold by a strange man, with a pervious save already on it from someone named Ben.

We get to do the rest of the people we had for last weeks episode this week, we may do a third part to this soon. Not to give any details because these peoples stories are pretty short, so we have Tsutomu Yamaguchi, followed by Aimo Koivunen. Then we take a slight detour to the horse, Staff Sergeant Reckless, and finally we finish with the "unluckiest man in the world", Walter Summerford...

So we've been going for two weeks, I was in the ER on new years eve into new years day, I don't really want to get into it but it involved fireworks and a "hold my beer" moment..... not really, but I was in the ER. The following week Nate wasn't feeling well but, I also presented Nate with his Christmas present which he didn't appreciate, but now we're back. This week...

This week we went back to reddit for some more creepy stories. We found two christmas ones that are good as well as three other, so a total of 5 short horror stories this week. Also, we most likely will not be recording this week so no new episode next week, I spent news years eve into new years day in the ER and still recovering so most likely won't be able to record.

In 1827 in Polstead, Suffolk, England, a woman, Maria Marten, was murdered at a local landmark known as the Red Barn. The story has some weird turns, such as Maria loving a man and having his child to later loving his brother and being with him. Letters written to the family after she had been murdered to keep up the lie of what happened. Down to supernatural intervention which led to the discover...

I heard a bit of this story a while back, I believe I saw it in a little short video, like a youtube short or something and what I heard of her has stuck with me and I've wanted to cover it for some time now and finally decided to do it this week. I also believe, even though I talk about it in the episode, that the saying "hell hath no fury liked a woman scorned" should 100% be about...

Staying in the realm of sleep issues Nate talks about sleep deprivation today. We go over causes and effects as well as some stories from people who have experienced weird things when sleep deprived. And spiders, there's spiders in this one! And sorry, no arachnophobia toggle to make them silly or cute!

I was researching a story for this week an it moved into sleep paralysis so I thought it may be interesting to talk a little about Sleep Paralysis, then branch into some legends from around the world that came from this condition that wasn't understood at the time.

We continue on with missing children this week with Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first english born child in America in 1587, then she went missing. Not only did she go missing but the whole colony of Roanoke went missing and it all still remains a mystery to this day. When we were looking for stories we both found this one odd since articles singled her out while the whole colony was miss...

This is a strange true crime episode about missing children. The Sodder family was a large family with a total of 10 children. The father came to America and did well for himself, he bought a house and married and his family began to grow. He was very outspoken about his beliefs and this may have been what led to a strange series of events leading up to a fateful Christmas Eve that would change th...

This episode is literally about nothing. We used to do two podcasts a week, this one of course as well as "Listen or the Kitten Gets it!" which was just playing games and rambling. And since we ramble quite a bit throughout each episode we had the idea of doing a "nothing" episode once a month where we just ramble on about whatever, once a month seemed a bit much so now we may...

We're back with our fourth Halloween Special! And posting a day early to release on Halloween! This year we of course stuck with the creepy, it is for Halloween, the best holiday ever after all! And I'm using lots of exclamations! For this years episode we dove into reddit, and coincidentally we both went to the same subreddit, r/ShortScaryStories, this week we have four stories for you, w...

We changed things up a little this week from the past couple weeks. We still wanted to stay around the cryptid type lore, but a slight step off of the path and into strange creatures from Greek myths. So we start with the Empousa (Empusa), a creature said to be a flesh eating beautiful shape shifter who can take on many forms and many combinations of forms. Next up, the Hecatoncheires, these guys...

More cryptids this week! First up is a creature from West Virginia, Veggieman! Veggieman may not be as well known as other West Virginian cryptids, yeah, I'm talking to you Mothman! stop stealing all the limelight! Although lesser known he is a pretty unique character all on his own, with very alluring jaundice eyes! We follow the legend of veggieman with the Native American legend of Walking...

We are heading back into cryptids this week and next week definitely. For this weeks episode we went looking for some lesser known cryptids, at least ones we haven't heard of and we found a few. First up is the Stikini, the Stikini is a Seminole legend of a powerful witch who could change into an owl creature by night. Following that we move on to Penelope, a pale walker type creature who roam...

After our last two episode we decided we needed a palette cleanser. So, to break from the darker episodes we are still staying with true crime but taking a trip back to an older episode of ours where we covered some criminals who aren't so good at being criminals. Coincidentally this episode, about criminals who are bad at what they do and generally doing stupid things, happens to be releasing...

This week we're sticking with true crime. First I bring you the horrible and sad story of Junko Furuta, also known as "concrete-encased high school girl murder case". This was a rough one to cover especially near the end and the aftermath, at the end there's a letter written by a friend and I had a hard time holding it together when reading and writing this. After that case we co...

Two more true rime cases this week. First is the case of Sada Abe, this story comes from Japan and its pretty odd but also in a way a bit sad just like the second story. Sada was prostitute and a Geisha and was never able to find what she wanted. In the end things get pretty dark. The second case is the Hello Kitty Murder, named after a plush toy that was used during the horrible crime. Another st...

This week is some more legends and folklore, we decided to aim for India this week. First up we have a story called Betal Pachisi, there's other names for this story but its from a collection of short stories that compile one large story. It deals with betrayal, a weird backwards riddle game and a different take on vampires. After that we talk about the Bhuta (Bhut, Bhoota), meaning ghost in s...

This week we head overseas for some more folklore, specifically Chinese folklore and some of the oldest known folklore. I heard the object of my story from the anime Darling in the Franxx and was interested so dug more into it and bring you the story this week of Biyiniao also known as the Jian Bird, its a bit different then my usual stories since it's not all horrible and dark but a little of...