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Theodore Edward Coneys  (November 10, 1882 – May 16, 1967), known by the nickname  "Denver Spiderman" , an  American  drifter who committed a  murder  in 1941 and subsequently  occupied the attic of the victim's home  for nine months. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure...

Times Beach  is a  ghost town  in  St. Louis County ,  Missouri , United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of  St. Louis  and 2 miles (3 km) east of  Eureka . Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to  TCDD —also known as  dioxin —contamination. It was the largest civilian exposure to this compound in the history of the US.   Our theme song...

The  Battle of Hastings [a]  was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of  William, the Duke of Normandy , and an English army under the  Anglo-Saxon  King  Harold Godwinson , beginning the  Norman conquest of England . It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of  Hastings , close to the present-day town of  Battle, East Sussex , and was a decisive  Norman  ...

The  Battle of Stamford Bridge  ( Old English :  Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge ) took place at the village of  Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire , in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under  King Harold Godwinson  and an invading Norwegian force led by  King Harald Hardrada  and the English king's brother  Tostig Godwinson . After a bloody battle, both Hardrada and Tostig a...

The  Hawaiian  cowboy, the  paniolo , is also a direct descendant of the  vaquero  of California and Mexico. Experts in Hawaiian etymology believe "Paniolo" is a Hawaiianized pronunciation of  español.  (The  Hawaiian language  has no /s/ sound, and all  syllables  and words must end in a vowel.) Paniolo, like cowboys on the mainland of North America, learned their skills from Mexican  vaqueros ....

The year  1816  is known as the  Year Without a Summer  (also the  Poverty Year  and  Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death ) [1]  because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.72–1.3 °F). [2]  Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest on record between the years of 1766–2000. [3]  This resulted in major food shortages across the  N...

Uri Geller  ( / ˈ ʊ r i   ˈ ɡ ɛ l ər / ; [1]   Hebrew :  אורי גלר ‎; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British [2]  illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed  psychic . He is known for his trademark television performances of  spoon bending  and other illusions. Geller uses  conjuring tricks  to simulate the effects of  psychokinesis  and  telepathy . [3] [4]  Geller's...

Margaret Howe Lovatt  (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is a volunteer  naturalist  from  Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands . In the 1960s, she took part in a  NASA -funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech. As a child, she was inspired by a book called  Miss Kelly , a story about a cat that communicated with humans. This ins...

This episode contains is a list of cryptids, which are  animals  presumed by followers of the  cryptozoology   pseudoscientific   subculture  to exist on the basis of  anecdotal  or other evidence considered insufficient by  mainstream science . While  biologists  regularly identify new species following established  scientific methodology , cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the  fol...

The Amityville Horror  is a book by American author  Jay Anson , published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a  series of films  released from 1979 onward. The book is claimed to be based on the  paranormal experiences of the Lutz family, but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfulness. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support th...

Prison breaks are a thing where you're in prison and you don't want to be there anymore so you leave. But not when you're allowed to. Sorry... there was no Wikipedia article to copy and paste from and I panicked. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website...

The  Burr–Hamilton duel  was a  duel  fought at  Weehawken, New Jersey , between Vice President  Aaron Burr  and  Alexander Hamilton , the former Secretary of the Treasury. It occurred early in the morning of July 11, 1804 [1]  and was the culmination of a long and bitter rivalry between the two men. Burr shot Hamilton, while Hamilton's shot broke a tree branch above and behind Burr's head. Hamilt...

McCarthyism  is the practice of making accusations of  subversion  or  treason  without proper regard for evidence. [1]  The term refers to U.S. senator  Joseph McCarthy  (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s. [2]  It was characterized by heightened  political repression  and a  campaign spr...

The  Ku Klux Klan  ( / ˌ k uː   k l ʌ k s   ˈ k l æ n ,   ˌ k j uː -/ ), [a]  commonly called the  KKK  or the  Klan , is an American  white supremacist   hate group  whose primary targets are  African Americans , as well as  Jews ,  immigrants ,  leftists ,  homosexuals , and, until recently,  Catholics . [9]  The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the hist...

Fyre Festival  was a fraudulent luxury  music festival  founded by  Billy McFarland , CEO of Fyre Media Inc, and rapper  Ja Rule . It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the  Bahamian  island of  Great Exuma . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick....

The  Hitler Diaries  ( German :  Hitler-Tagebücher ) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by  Adolf Hitler , but forged by  Konrad Kujau  between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million  Deutsche Marks  (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine  Stern , which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of t...

Anton Szandor LaVey [3]  (born  Howard Stanton Levey ; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and  occultist . [4]  He was the founder of the  Church of Satan  and the religion of  LaVeyan Satanism . He authored several books, including  The Satanic Bible ,  The Satanic Rituals ,  The Satanic Witch ,  The Devil's Notebook , and  Satan Speaks!  In addition, he released...

Youree Dell Harris  (August 12, 1962 – July 26, 2016) was an American television personality best known as  Miss Cleo , a spokeswoman for a psychic  pay-per-call service  called Psychic Readers Network from 1997 to 2003. [1] [2]  Harris used various aliases, including Cleomili Harris and Youree Perris. [3]   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the sho...

The  French invasion of Russia , known in Russia as the  Patriotic War of 1812  ( Russian :  Отечественная война 1812 года ,  romanized :  Otechestvennaya voyna 1812 goda ) and in France as the  Russian campaign  ( French :  Campagne de Russie ), began on 24 June 1812 when  Napoleon 's  Grande Armée  crossed the  Neman River  in an attempt to engage and defeat the  Russian Army . [15]  Napoleon ho...

Hedy Lamarr  ( / ˈ h eɪ d i / ), born  Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler  (November 9, 1914 [a]  – January 19, 2000), was an  Austrian-American  actress, inventor, and film producer. She was part of 30 films in an acting career spanning 28 years, and co-invented an early version of  frequency-hopping spread spectrum . [1] [2]

Franz Anton Mesmer  ( / ˈ m ɛ z m ər / ; [1]   German:  [ˈmɛsmɐ] ; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German  doctor  with an interest in  astronomy . He theorised the existence of a natural  energy  transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects; this he called " animal magnetism ", sometimes later referred to as  mesmerism . (In modern times  New Age   spiritualists  have reviv...

Steven Frederic Seagal  ( / s ɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː l / ; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician who holds American, Serbian, and Russian citizenship. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin  ( / r æ ˈ s p j uː t ɪ n / ; [1]  Russian:  Григорий Ефимович Распутин   [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn] ; 21 January [ O.S.  9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S.  17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor  Nicholas II , the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late  imperial...

A  spite house  is a  building   constructed  or  substantially modified  to  irritate  neighbors or any party with  land stakes . Because  long-term occupation  is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently sport strange and impractical structures. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Pat...

A  lottery  is a form of  gambling  that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments; the most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors, and vendors must be licensed to sell lottery...