Arcanum Obscura

The Hinterkaifeck Farm Murders took place on the evening of March 31, 1922. All six members of the Gruber family were killed with a pickaxe. Though over 100 people were questioned and there were a handful of suspects, to this day the case has never been solved.

Today we discuss H.H. Holmes, who is considered to be America's first serial killer. We discuss a bit of his early life and how he arrived in Chicago in time for the World Fair. Then we get into the World Fair Hotel, better known as the H.H. Holmes hotel or the Murder Mansion. If you don't know about H.H. Holmes then sit back and listen and if it intrigues you please take some time to dig deeper a...

In 1959 between February 1st and 2nd, 9 Russian hikers went missing and were subsequently found dead over a period of a couple of months. The circumstances surrounding what happened are still essentially unknown though the Russian Government states it was an avalanche, but there are many theories, and none of them really clearly explain the events that went down. Most likely we will never be known...

In today's episode, we discuss the Heavens Gate Cult. We talk about the leaders and where they came from and move into the beliefs, rules, some strange things, and the eventual outcome. We hope you join us and enjoy the listen.  

The story of Netta Fornario, and occultist in search of the fairy realm. Given the outcome perhaps it would have been wiser to leave well enough alone. 

So today I kind of surprised Nate with this little bonus episode to see what he would say, I don't want to explain what it is in the description and give too much away so please enjoy :)

Hello and welcome back! To you and to us, we're glad to be back and recording for everyone and we greatly appreciate all of you who listen and as always hope you enjoy the story. Today Nate tells us the legend of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse and the missing keepers, I've heard this story before and I think its a good and crazy unsolved mystery and hope you enjoy it as well.

Hello, today we are doing a Christmas themed episode with two stories. The first is the tradition of Mari Lwyd (Mary Lloyd), it's a strange but fun Christmastime tradition practiced in South Wales, and I suggest we practice this all over the world. The second story is a bit darker, think Krampus with a darker side, this is the legend of Perchta (perkh-tah), shes a Christmastime diety and likes to...

Hello, we're back! All is well with me and my daughter so Nate was able to come over and record. In today's episode, Nate tells us a bit about skinwalker ranch, I know little bits and pieces so it was nice to hear some new things, and how the ranch came about as well as the changing of hands. As always we hope you enjoy the episode and feel free to contact us. We look forward to bring you a new ep...

Hello, as the title says, me and my daughter are on quarantine due to coming into contact with someone who tested positive so we are on lockdown. Thankfully my daughter's test results came back negative last night and mine came back negative just a few mins ago. But due to being unsure we were unable to record today and we will most likely be back up and running next week. Thank you to everyone wh...

Hello and welcome back to Arcanum Obscura. In today's episode, we talk about some folklore from around America. First up is The Dogboy of Arkansas, followed by The Montauk Project from my home state of New York. There some mild derailment that happens as always, and Nate trying to interrupt and bring up topics that I will be getting to beforehand. you know, the usual. We hope you enjoy this episod...

We have come to the conclusion of the Smurl family's traumatic haunting. As we mention in the cast we do hope they found peace and could live the rest of their lives untormented. If you liked this multi-part story you can find the whole story in the book The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare, we both highly recommend it. So this concludes this story, and we are honestly a bit happy lol, we didn't ex...

Hello, and welcome back, we are almost done with this multi-part series, next week is the last of the Smurl family haunting. You'll hear us talk about this but wow, this has been a big multi-parter and we think we burned ourselves out a bit on this subject even though it's a crazy story, so next week is the last episode and finishes off the story. Hopefully you've been able to stick it out with us...

Hello hello hello, today we are on part 4 of the Haunting of the Smurl family, just a little more to go. Today we talk about the second exorcism and the outcome of it, as well as some more attacks on the family. We know this has been a pretty long story thus far but we do hope you are staying with us and find the story interesting because we both found it to be a very good incident of how a haunti...

Hello hello hello and welcome back. This is our 2020 Halloween special, today we go over some Urban Legends and their origins. Nate also brings some trivia to the cast today. Halloween is our favorite holiday and we hope you enjoy this episode, and please enjoy your Halloween and be safe.

Welcome back, we are still on the journey through the haunting of the Smurl family. We were aiming for 5 episodes but it seems there may be more, possibly just six. In this episode we come to the exorcism and what whether or not it helped at all. as well as some new tricks the entity conjures up for the family. So far after everything that has happened to them they have not given up or given in to...

Hello, and welcome back. This is part 2 into the case of the Smurl family and the nightmare they lived through, we're guessing this will be around 5 parts in total. Also sorry for the delay, we didn't finish recording both podcasts until after midnight.

In this multi-part episode we discuss the true story of the Smurl family and the horrors they had to endure when they moved into a new house only to eventually find out it was haunted. This is going to be several parts, we are unsure as to how many, we'll just keep going to get the whole story out. We hope you stay with us until the end, and we are both telling this story as our new episode images...

Today Nate tells of the story of Morris Osborn who lived his life wanting to create magic and make people happy only to pass just as his dream was realized, but perhaps he kept on living that dream afterward

In the early morning of May 26th, 1968 the body of a little girl, Peggy Reber, who was 14, was discovered by her mother and a neighbor in a shady rundown apt in Lebanon Pennsylvania. The case is still unsolved as of today, with little to no chance of ever solving it without a confession. This podcast is listed as explicit due to the nature of it but I'd like to add that this case involves a child...

Today we take a little trip into the paranormal, Nate brings us the story of The Seven Sisters In, in Ocala Florida, and tells us a bit of the history as well as the resident spirits, thank you for listening and as always we hope you enjoy.

Edit: the audio came out a little off so it's been fixed and reuploaded In today's episode we talk about the crazy story of Carl Tanzler and Elena de Hoyos. This story starts out weird and then gets extremely crazy and bizarre. Please fasten your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle for the duration of the ride. There's also a little tidbit after the story of a goofy Florida cr...

Hello friends, on this episode Nate tells us the story of the Barker-Karpis gang. Some of their crimes that led to the notoriety and eventual downfall. The bit of controversy surrounding Ma Barker, and of course how an alligator named Joe helped in the process.

Hello and welcome to our first official episode. This episode is about the murder of Hazel Drew, it took place less than a half an hour from where I grew up and I never heard of it until a few years ago. It's an interesting case and helped to inspire one of the best TV shows of all time. Also we said the wrong twitter lol, sorry about that, we'll have it correct in the next cast. I forgot Twitter...

Welcome to our podcast, Arcanum Obscura: a podcast of exploration, this is our intro episode just giving some info on ourselves and going into what got us into looking into the weird. The following episodes will be actual stories we want to discuss. We hope you enjoy the cast!