Autumn's Oddities

A well-known local news anchor vanished from her apartment parking lot, leaving behind a trail of belongings and her car. With little evidence and few eyewitness details, the search for Jodi Huisentruit went cold. Neither she nor her body has ever been found. SOURCES https://findjodi.com/ https://www.kimt.com/content/news/new-developments-regarding--508713111.html https://uncovered.com/cases/jodi-...

Gerard John Schaefer was convicted for murders he committed while he was working as a police officer. While he was convicted of murdering "only" two victims, he was suspected of many others. Schaefer exhausted his appeals while simultaneously boasting — in writing and in conversation — of having murdered over eighty women and girls, although the true number of victims is unknown. SOURCES https://w...

When Stacy Feldman died after allegedly falling in the shower, her friends and family knew something was off. The scene didn’t make sense and the autopsy couldn’t determine her cause of death. That, coupled with a visit from a mystery woman, led a group of women on a seven-year journey to find out what really happened. SOURCES https://gazette.com/denver-gazette/murder-suspect-on-house-arrest-has-b...

Their experience would kick off an Air Force inquiry, part of the secretive initiative Project Blue Book. The incident would also become the first-ever widely publicized alien abduction account and shape how stories like it were told from then on. Debate continues on whether the Hills were delusional, mentally unstable, fueled by sleep deprivation, or just plain liars SOURCES See Pt. 1 Analysis of...

Betty and Barney Hill were catapulted into the international spotlight when in September of 1961 they claimed to have been abducted by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. While driving home to Portsmouth after a trip to Montreal, Canada in the middle of the night, they saw lights approaching from the sky. What followed is said to be the first well-documented and possibly the most legit...

What was left of the two men found scattered across Alabama backroads was known simply as “Mr. X” and “Mr. Y. It took nearly three weeks to identify them. They both looked the same, though, their arms and legs had been removed at the shoulders and hips. Their heads were still attached, but shotgun blasts to their faces rendered them unrecognizable. Police suspected this to be the work of a maniaca...

Portals act as a gateway to another plane of existence. Sometimes referred to as an energy vortex, or just a vortex, they allow spirits and other supernatural to pass through into our world. One family bought a house not realizing that they very well may have moved into a portal, in the Black Forest of Colorado, reportedly one of the most haunted places in the United States. SOURCES https://www.th...

Before construction even began in September 1989, conspiracy theories have plagued Denver International Airport (DIA). The bustling airport has run the gamut of conspiracy classics, from hidden underground bunkers to secret societies, to aliens, to apocalyptic artwork. This conspiracy theory has something for everyone, including a demonic horse sculpture. SOURCES https://www.flydenver.com/sites/de...

At 2:40 a.m. on July 17, 1994, a gunman peered through the scope of a high-powered rifle and took aim. Some 100 yards away, the target was sitting in a brown leather chair on the front porch of the blue house at 570 Woodland Avenue, just off the University of Kentucky’s campus in Lexington. Suddenly the quiet was shattered by the rifle's crack. The bullet hit its target, Trent DiGiuro, in the left...

On Nov 11th, 1983, the housekeeping staff at the Comfort Inn in Santa Fe, New Mexico was making their round afters check-out time. When the housekeeper got to room 205, she knocked on the door, and after getting no response, let herself in using her pass key. The housekeeper entered the room and within seconds, she realized she’d walked into a nightmare. SOURCES https://www.daily-journal.com/news/...

Ferdinand Waldo Demara held a lot of careers in his lifetime: he was a surgeon who successfully amputated a man's leg on a Canadian Naval ship, a Trappist monk, a prison warden, a pastor, and a professor of philosophy. How, you ask, could one man have mastered so many different skills? Well, he didn’t. Demara was possibly the greatest conman the world has ever seen and was only found out when his...

What makes for a good modern myth? Is it something that seems to permeate pop culture and the minds of conspiracy theorists alike, but can’t be proven or disproven? Something that defies explanation yet so many attempt to explain it anyway? The red-eyed, winged, bipedal, humanoid, bird creature known as the Mothman has intrigued the public for decades and his legend only continues to grow. SOURCES...

Chaplain Bob Smith moved his family to a small town to escape big-city life. When his teenage daughter disappeared just steps away from their front door, he realized that evil could lurk anywhere. SOURCES https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/1990/23163-2.html https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/john-douglas-shari-smith https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/34-years-ago-police-used-an-al...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 am, the world’s first atomic bomb detonated in the New Mexico desert releasing a level of destructive power previously unknown to humanity. The first successful test of an atomic bomb, known as the Trinity Test, emitted as much energy as 21,000 tons of TNT and created a fireball that measured roughly 2,000 feet in diameter. That day, the world changed forever. SOURCES Ame...

On July 8, 2014, 28-year-old German national Lars Mittank was waiting in Bulgaria's Varna Airport for his flight back to Germany. Abruptly, Lars stood up from his chair and shouted, "I don't want to die here. I have to get out of here." He then dropped all of his belongings on the floor, including his cell phone and wallet, and began to run. His whereabouts are unknown. SOURCES https://www.grunge....

Get out your cursed objects bingo cards and see how you fare in the second installment! There are some very well-known items on the list and some you've probably never heard of. Either way, you'll at least know what to avoid should you come across one of these objects! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support .

Karen Pannell was murdered in her home and it appeared that she’d written her killer’s name on the wall in her own blood. But was it a dying attempt to bring her murderer to justice, or was it a red herring? SOURCES https://casetext.com/case/permenter-v-state- 5 https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20130522a25 https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/10/21/accused-tells-jury-his-side-in-stabbing-dea...

It was dark outside when the house at 1114 Fountain Drive began to bleed. The night had been like any other until a deep red liquid come up from the bathroom floor tiles. It seeped through the hardwood floors, splattered across the living room carpet, and seeped from nearly every crack and crevice in the house. SOURCES https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19870911&id=VeZVAAAAIBA...

Five days before her wedding, graduate student Annie Le disappeared from the secure research lab she worked in. Even with hours of surveillance footage and key card records, investigators couldn’t find her. Days later they would make a gruesome discovery that would confound them and shock the community. SOURCES https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32810822 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/09/why...

It has been called America’s greatest ghost story and for good reason. In the decades since the “Witch” first manifested on the Bell family farm in the early 19th Century, the Bell Witch has attracted the attention of paranormal enthusiasts from around the world. SOURCES An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch: The Wonder of the 19th Century, and Unexplained, Joshua Gardner, 1894 An Auth...

In the low country fishing village of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, the locals are relaxed and friendly. Research librarian Laura Ling called Murrell’s Inlet home for a decade and everyone in town knew her by her warm smile. But a new man in town would everything upside down. SOURCES https://web.archive.org/web/20161221210508/http://www.doc.sc.gov/news/deathrowlist_0209.pdf https://web.archive.o...

Newell Sessions thought he was being a good neighbor when he agreed to move “Gabby’s” shed. “Gabby” was moving from his Wyoming home and he made a deal with his neighbor that he would later regret. There was a lot more in that shed than Sessions bargained for, though, and a decades-long mystery was brought to light. SOURCES https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/03/20/gabbys-bones-ident...

Stephanie Bennett was lovely inside and out. At just 22 years old, she had her whole life ahead of her. She got a great job out of college and moved to Raleigh, NC to start her adult life, but she didn't know someone was watching her and waiting for their moment to strike. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support .

Death Valley is a land of extremes. It is one of the hottest, driest, and lowest altitude places on Earth. Summer temperatures average well over 100 degrees and life in the desert can be incredibly difficult. So the name Death Valley seems like an accurate name for the region, but that wasn’t always the case. Legend has it that the actions of a demanding and greedy queen created the Death Valley o...

Randy Leach got ready for a pre-graduation party on April 15, 1988, and left the house in his mother’s car. He picked up some friends and made a few stops before heading out to the secluded location. Randy was seen at the party by plenty of people, and although there are conflicting reports on whether he was drinking or taking drugs, he appeared very inebriated. Somehow, in the midst of a party, R...