Chasing the Dark: Where True Crime Meets the Paranormal

The Villisca axe murders remain one of America’s most chilling unsolved crimes. On the night of June 9th, 1912, eight people — the Moore family and two young houseguests — were killed in their sleep in a quiet home in Villisca, Iowa. More than a hundred years later, the case is still unsolved, and the Villisca axe murder house is now considered one of the most haunted locations in the Midwest. Thi...

Do demons actually exist — or are we filling the dark with something we can't name? In this 70-minute episode of *Chasing the Dark*, two guests — Rikki Rockett and Tracy — sat down with me to share personal paranormal experiences so unsettling, neither one can explain them away. Their encounters happened at different times, on different days, with zero overlap. And yet the questions they're left w...

Step into the dark with this chilling bonus episode of Chasing the Dark. In this deeply personal interview, my dad shares his firsthand experiences living in a home where a man was brutally murdered… long before he ever moved in. What started as subtle unease quickly turned into something far more disturbing. He heard footsteps echoing through the hallway when no one else was home. He saw a figure...

Darkness doesn’t always look the way you expect… sometimes, it wears a smile. In this episode of Chasing the Dark, we step into the chilling case of Wade Wilson—a man whose outward charm masked something far more dangerous beneath the surface. What began as a night out in Fort Myers, Florida, quickly unraveled into a series of violent and devastating events that left multiple lives shattered. From...

Welcome to the very first installment of my new bonus interview series, Whispers After Dark… where the stories get a little more personal—and a lot more unsettling. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Cameron as he shares what it was like living in an apartment he believes was haunted. What started as small, unexplainable moments slowly turned into something much more intense… the kind of e...

What happened to Emily Pike—and why does this case still not make sense? Darkness doesn’t always arrive with warning. Sometimes it slips in quietly—into ordinary lives, familiar places, moments that should have been safe. And by the time it’s noticed… it’s already too late. In this episode of Chasing the Dark, we explore the haunting Emily Pike case—a chilling true crime story marked by unanswered...

The Mothman is one of the most famous cryptids in paranormal history. In 1966, a terrifying winged humanoid with glowing red eyes was spotted stalking the skies above Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Witnesses described a towering creature with massive wings, piercing red eyes, and an unnatural presence that seemed to follow them through the darkness. But the sightings didn’t stop there. Over the ne...

He confessed to murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism and then walked free. Discover the horrifying true story of Issei Sagawa and the Paris crime that shocked the world. In 1981, Paris became the backdrop for one of the most infamous true crime cases in history. Issei Sagawa, a Japanese graduate student at the Sorbonne, murdered and cannibalized his classmate, Renée Hartevelt, a 25-year-old Dutch...

What happens when darkness doesn’t just haunt a house… it claims a family? In November 2011, Latoya Ammons moved her three young children into a quiet rental on Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, they walked into what many call the most documented case of demonic possession in modern history: the infamous Demon House. Black flies swarmed the porch in freezing wint...

On Christmas Eve 2008, a quiet suburban home in Covina, California, filled with laughter, tamales, and generations of the Ortega family, became the scene of one of the most shocking mass murders in American history. A knock at the door. An eight-year-old girl runs to answer, excited to see Santa Claus. What followed was gunfire, terror, and a deliberately set inferno that claimed nine lives and sc...

March 10, 1963. An onion field on the edge of Bakersfield becomes the final stop for a young LAPD officer whose only crime was believing in mercy. In this episode of Chasing the Dark, we walk into the quiet rows where dawn arrived too late. We trace the hours after a routine traffic stop spiraled into terror, betrayal, and irreversible loss. Two men run. One officer falls. And the earth bears witn...

Eight nurses. One killer. A night carved into the darkest corners of true-crime history. On July 13th, 1966, serial killer Richard Speck stepped into a South Side Chicago townhouse and turned it into a slaughterhouse. What unfolded inside those walls was not just murder—it was domination, terror, and slow, methodical brutality. One by one, the women were corralled, tied, silenced, and forced to fa...

Step into the shadows of 1947 Los Angeles, where dreams were bright... and the darkness was merciless. In this haunting episode of Chasing the Dark, we unravel the life, death, and lasting mystery of Elizabeth Short - the woman the world would come to know as The Black Dahlia. From her final days to the gruesome discovery that stunned the nation, we follow the investigation, the suspects, the lies...