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Welcome back, Campers! Here we are once again, diving into the unhinged wild west-esque tale of Ken Rex Mcelroy and Skidmore Missouri: The Town That Got Away With Murder. This is DEFINITELY going to be a three parter—and here’s why. When we first started researching this case, we thought Skidmore’s situation was going to be a case of tough lessons learned—where people took the law in their own han...

For this week’s episode…we’re going to do a deep dive into a supernatural phenomenon that seems to be much more common than we ever realized—and possibly far. more. sinister: Doppelgangers. The other, more psychology-y friendly term for it is the idea of “bilocation” , where a person somehow projects an image, or “body-double”, of themselves in a secondary location, and that double is actually abl...

For nearly 45 years, a secret has been buried in Skidmore Missouri….and people who see the world in black and white may try to tell you that its impossible for an entire town to be driven to the point where violence was the only option they had left….but after today, you might not be so sure. We’ll leave that up to you to decide. This is the true story of a small American town that got away with m...

There were gasps of terror AND gasping for air from laughing so hard during this all-new installment of Booty-Clenching Tales. Gen had never heard wtf a "crawler" was, but thanks to the terrifying story we dive into today from one unlucky midwest camper and his 120-lb German Shepherd, she'll never sleep soundly again. We also learn why Kaitlyn will never be able to a) safely own a firearm and b) w...

We're leanin' into Spooky Season HARD with this one. In the mid 1960’s…..at the height of acclaimed paranormal expert Han's Holzer's career, he was contacted by a young stay at home mom named Carole Trausch who had just moved with her husband and three young daughters into a new house in California. She thought Hanz might be the only person left who could help her, because a strange child wouldn't...

On a freezing winter afternoon in 1896 the small Appalachian foothills town of Greenbriar County...a young boy named Andy Jones came by to offer his neighbor (22 year old newlywed Zona Heaster Shue) help with gathering eggs. Instead, he found a harrowing trail of blood and Zona lying dead as a doornail on the floor of her dining room. All types of hell broke loose. This case has it all..."out-of-w...

PART 2 is here. SOURCES: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/us/03garrido.html#:~:text=Phillip%20Garrido%2C%2060%2C%20received%20a,Ms . https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/us/03garrido.html https://www.foxnews.com/us/jaycee-dugard-kidnapping-story book A Stolen LIfe: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard

Today, unfortunately, we have to talk about when a parent’s worst nightmare becomes real life. The grim reality is–most children who are taken–if they are ever found– are not found alive. But the survivor of our case today defied every statistical unlikelihood to stay alive and–finally, take back the years that were stolen from her. This is PART I of the story of the abduction, 18-year captivity,...

Welcome to PART 2 of the break from murder most horrible (while Gen is on vacation) and we scare the pants off ourselves with a few of THE most terrifying spooky stories we could find. Don't listen alone in the dark....or do;) Lights Out Campers. Sources: https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/11-of-the-scariest-ghost-stories-from-reddit https://www.today.com/life/holidays/ghost-...

we hope y'all enjoy the break from murder most horrible this week to savor a few of THE most terrifying spooky stories we could get our hands on. Lights Out Campers. Sources: https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/11-of-the-scariest-ghost-stories-from-reddit https://www.today.com/life/holidays/ghost-stories-rcna41307

On June 24th, 1996, a homeless man was picking his way through a dumpster on the streets of downtown Boston when he came across an unusually heavy garbage bag. When he tore it open, what he found inside sent him sprinting down the street, terrified & screaming for help. His discovery launched an investigation into the death of a brutally murdered 19-year-old woman that remains one of the most...

In 1901, two English scholars (who were also friends) named Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain loved visiting historical sights together, and on August 10th, they decided to go on holiday to Versailles. They expected to spend a pleasant but otherwise uneventful day wandering the halls and grounds of the spectacular palace. But–about a week after they returned home, they realized that they...

On the evening of May 23rd, 2024, three full-time missionaries: 23 year old Davy Lloyd and 21-year old Natalie Lloyd, and 45 year old Jude Montis were murdered after a weeknight church service in Haiti’s capital of Port-Au-Prince. Their deaths left behind an unimaginable wound of grief and loss for their community, and have forced us to take a good hard look at how and why this tragedy happened. W...

Gen & Kait go down a Reddit Rabbit Trail of harrowing and hilarious responses to the Reddit question: "Serious campers only....what's the craziest thing that's happened to you while out in the woods?" & things get....weird.

Jump to episodes 81 & 82 for Chapters 9-14 In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 dete...

In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 collections of short storie...

In the spring of 1926, a murder captured the public eye, and a book about it would go on to sell millions of copies worldwide. That book was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , the crime novel written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and eventually became (and remains) the best selling novelist of all time (whaaaat?!). She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 collections of short storie...

we have arrived at the final installment of this absolute brain-bender of a case. today we are going to finish breaking down everything else that we know about the investigation and the theories of what happened to Maura, (some more plausible than others) as to what the hell could have happened to Maura Murray on February 9th, 2004, and thanks to Julie Murray's work on the podcast Media Pressure:...

We're so far deep into this case that we might not ever come back. In today's episode, we break down everything we know about the day Maura went missing: February 9th, 2004. And we mean everything. But be forewarned: we’ve got a lot of bizarre details and twists and turns to cover, so it might feel like you're trying to sip water out of a fire hydrant. And like we’ve been saying for the last two e...

This is Part II of our three-part coverage of The Vanishing of Maura Murray, so make sure you listen to Part 1 first if you haven’t already, which we covered in Episode 42. This past February marked 20 years since 21-year old Maura vanished without a trace, and her car was found abandoned on a New Hampshire road in the middle of winter. Like we mentioned in Part 1, our main source for this case is...

Gen & Kait take turns terrifying the living daylights out of one another while going through the responses to a Reddit question from 6 years ago: "[Serious] Murder attempt Survivors of Reddit: Who has had an attempted murder upon them, how did you survive? Was there a point that you accepted you were going to die? (link directly below) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9heqcq/serious...

TW: this episode contains discussions of disordered eating. The bizarre disappearance of 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray from a New Hampshire highway in February 2004 has become one of the most infamous cold cases in the true crime world. It’s a story that's been told over and over, and with every re-telling, a little bit more of Maura's humanity felt stripped away in favor of wild specul...

In 1947, a huge collection of true crime stories from many of the extremely popular "murder pamphlets" floating around Victorian England were published in an Anthology called “The Fatal Caress…& Other Accounts of English Murders from 1551 to 1888”. We’ve decided today to bring you a few of these stories just as they appear in the Fatal Caress…and perhaps make you feel like you’ve picked up a m...

We’ve all heard the cautionary tales about how money and fame can go to people’s heads and bring out the true ugliness in them. And our story today is no exception—but as we will go on to see, the person that fame and greed made capable of murder turned out to be the last one most people expected (or was it...). If you’ve never heard the full shocking story of the cold-blooded murder of beloved NB...

With all the murder and mayhem of the last few episodes, we thought we’d have some fun this week and dive into the Internets to bring you some ghost & unexplained encounters that had us WTFing…..with a few of our own personal stories, of course! We hope you enjoy this light-hearted good time; because we’ll be sure to bring ya right back down next week😉 Lights Out Campers🏕️ sources: Mermaid en...