Castles & Cryptids

Happy Pride Month Cryptic Cuties!! It's halfway through our hiatus and we didn't want to leave you hanging without a nod to the summer gay days!! AKA the happiest month of the year :) So here's a taste of the perfect Pride month show for true crime lovers- Beyond the Rainbow! Host CJ is cute, quirky and full of frightful facts for you! So sit back and listen to some stories of the LGBTQ+, she tell...

We can hardly believe this is episode 150 of our little baby pod! We want to thank you to all our listeners past and present (and hopefully future lol)! So to celebrate we did something different and served up some Patreon-style segments that we think you will love! First up is a faceoff of 2 Truths/1 Lie: C&C style, aka scary stories!! And then we and our special guest have fun guessing some...

So how many celebrities have REALLY died and been cloned/portrayed by a body double/faked their death? We wanna know what's the kookiest celeb conspiracy, ccording to the internet. Or pre-internet, even! Climb aboard this crazy train, and would the real slim shady please stand the hell up already?! Kelsey wants to hold our hand through two of probably the weirdest and most prevalent Beatles conspi...

Ahoy cryptic cuties! This week we come bearing tales of two voyages that suddenly went very wrong. Kelsey covers the disappearance of Annette Mizener, a passenger aboard a carnival cruise in 2004 who mysteriously went overboard. Alanna wraps things up with the Hawks, a lovely retired couple who just wanted to sell their yacht so they could spend more time with their grandchildren, a decision that...

Abandoned, lonely, often forlorn, how can places seem so sad and neglected? What makes a ghost town a ghost town? We explore some lost settlements and what happened to them, really. Sometimes it's a loss of income and prosperity, othertimes, something more destructive and very final. Whether the town died out, pardon the pun, or came to a catastrophic end, it's an tale worth telling and we say, pu...

Hey cryptic cuties, you know we had to take advantage of the month of May to cover some airplane crimes. Kelsey tells the story of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, when a typical trip turns into a fight to keep an uncontrollable plane in the air and save the lives of hundreds aboard. Alanna closes out the ep with Canadian Airlines Flight 108, and how investigations into its demise lead to a cowardly hu...

This week, we had fun finding some other amazing animals, they may not all be psychic wonder horses, but damn are they wonderful!! Kelsey keeps us up with the Koko shenanigans, you know like the Kardashians? Ok it's a stretch, but Koko reaches new heights in communication and very human traits, like ...being horny?? She's an enigma, like all of us! To cap it off, Alanna tells some war stories of a...

Hey cryptic cuties, we thought it was about time we took it back to our roots, our Canadian roots that is. This time we bring to you 2 very interesting unsolved cases that couldn't be more different from each other. Kicking things off, Kelsey dives into a robbery that takes a surprising turn when the thieves return some of the items to prove they were the real robbers. Alanna shares the tragic tal...

Ok, we could have called this episode a pseudoscience and a psychic horse, but I liked the alliteration so there we are. We love any fringe science, powerwe don't quite understand and stories about wild history with a dash of animal hijinks. This one has it all! So grab your furry friends and a nice apple for two wild rides! Kelsey covered the history of lie detector tests and their rise and fall...

Qué pasa cryptic cuties, are you ready to dive into some true crime and Spanish history? Kelsey kicks things off with a frustrating and cryptic case involving a disco, a vacant lot, and an unbreakable code. Alanna takes things back in time with a lesson on conquistadors and some of the crimes of the Spanish Inquisition. If you haven't already, check out our interview with Creepy Confidential,...

Hey Cryptic Cuties, Happy Tuesday!! A very happy one indeed, with extra content! We hope you enjoy our guest episode on the incredible Creepy Confidential's After Dark series, where host Noelle, resident Weirdo Wisconsinite talks to cool indie pods with a dark side! Her show tickles all the same spots of conspiracy, cults, true crime and cryptids so be sure to check it out for your cryptic fix!! h...

It's Cursed Gems: Bigger, Longer and uncut! This topic had been requested before and we just couldn't resist the magic anymore! Perhaps we're enthralled to the jewels pull already.... First we take you to the Stone of Awakening, aka the Purple Sapphire, which carries the weight of many deaths, other wild afflictions, etc., hence the curse. Then we tell you the tale of two "Black" Gems, aka once yo...

Howdy cryptic cuties, are you ready for an ep featuring two very different cases that both end with the ultimate betrayal. Kelsey takes us back in time to the wild, wild west, where outlaws ruled the land and bounties pitted friend against friend. Alanna covers the tragic case of Shanquella Robinson, where what should be an amazing trip to Mexico with friends has unexpected consequences for all th...

(Hey Cryptic Cuties, so sorry this is out a little late, it was my birthday yesterday and I did not get my editing done. I know I'm a bad girl, ironically we talk about late episodes at the end of the recording, how odd!! Hope you forgive me my sins lol) Happy Freaky Friday, let's see how well you know your fairies! But be warned, most are not teacup-sized or full of pure goodness and pixie dust!...

Hey everyone, did you miss us? We hope you enjoyed our unexpected Darkcast feature last week. We are back and ready to dive right into two cases where what a person knew may have put a target on their back. Kelsey details how multiple witnesses disappeared just before they could testify against one very dangerous man, it's crazy just how many crimes he got away with. Alanna covers the life of a wo...

Hey cryptic cuties, we had to postpone this weeks ep due to scheduling issues. We hope you enjoy this Darkcast takeover from Hands off my podcast, hosted by Jasmine Castillo, were she details the continued disappearance of Matthew Jay Broncho. We will catch up with you next week! https://open.spotify.com/show/0mezp46XyIwEF5JKgiQqdK?si=fd7c2600b89641e3 Welcome to Hands Off My Podcast, your go-to so...

Hell yeah it's time for another Haunted AF series episode! It's a tour of haunted abodes from the Hotel Coronado, to the village of Beauty and the Beast (Maurice, Jacques, all so very Francais there!), to a castle crawl of dark pasts and ghostly encounters! So you can check out, but can you ever really leave?? Not if you stay in a historic hotel or ancient castle! there is a possibility you will e...

Hi everybody, we hope you had a good Valentine's Day! To help celebrate the day of luv, we decided to some times when love went wrong, sometimes very, very wrong.... Kelsey covers a love triangle involving some unexpected members of the community, listen to find out what happens when a woman splits up 2 long time friends. Alanna closes out the ep with a love confession that takes a super dark turn...

This week we bring you a very special hand-picked, Fan-picked theme of Satanic Panic! It's catchy, it rhymes, but what's really behind the moral panic of the evolving eighties and into the nineties? Well that's what our Patreon member Patrick E. wanted to know, and boy are we glad, cause it's a wild ride! From the musical messages from the devil to the massive allegations of child abuse and wrongf...

What's up cryptic cuties? Welcome to what was planned as Kelsey's birthday ep, (but she went to Los Angeles instead) so here it is. Kelsey cover's a famous Serial Killer who has been compared to Jack the Ripper. Don't worry she doesn't get into all the grisly details this time, there were sadly too many victims to cover. Alanna lightens the mood with a very wild and entertaining tale of a prank th...

After a brief bit of book talk, the gals put on their scrubs for some insane stories of mysterious medical mishaps. Which may be putting it too mildly... Kelsey kicks us off as usual, with a wild case of a Minnesota woman who defied doctors and all logic by surviving a sub-zero night spent outside. Having just barely survived our own polar vortex, ya darn tootin' this one shook us! Then Alanna lea...

You guys, this episode is right out of this world(and may sound vageuly liek a 90's talk show, we're aware!)! Originally planned as part of our ET episode 106: A close Encounter of The Canadian Kind, it was cut due to length. And by that I mean, damn can we (I mean me, who are we kidding) talk our asses off sometimes! So it has been in the Illuminaughty/ Patreon vaults until now, when alas we didn...

Happy 2024 cryptic cuties! We hope you missed us as much as we missed you. This week we have two interesting cases for you, starting with the disappearances of two young friends who went missing after attending a huge New Year's party. Did police catch the right person in the end, or is there an innocent man behind bars? Alanna wraps things up with the tragic and brutal deaths of the Petit family,...

Well it's a wrap on 2023, can you believe it? We can't fathom how we just did Krampus last year only! LOL. Time for some urban legends, some of our favorite tales to revisit, our bread and butter baby!! We've all seen the movie versions from Western culture, like the hook man and the check-your-backseat-cause-it-looks-like-you-have-a-killer-in-there gas station story. We wanted to see if other cou...

Welcome to our 2nd last ep of 2023, and the last true crime ep of the year! (insert confetti cannons and air horns here) For this weeks ep we each chose cases where a person decided to kill the rest of their family members, depressing we know...  Kelsey tells the story of the Fisher family, a seemingly normal family with a few problems from the outside, and even more on the inside. Friends an...