Deep Lore

When we think of Serial Killers in the United States we often think of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, BTK, the Green River Killer...but we never think about Samuel Little. Mostly because it was only recently when we learned of his 93 murders. These are murders that mostly took place over the 1970's and 1980's, but all in all Samuel Little targeted vulnerable women in downtrodden areas...

Takahiro Shiraishi, effectively known as Japan's Twitter Killer, was only active for a few months in 2017, but he was finally brought to justice after killing 9 people in his apartment outside of Tokyo.

In the late 1930's the elders on the island of Tanna in the Republic of Vanuatu were visited by a vision of a white man named John Frum, who told them to live more kastom and rebuke the Scottish Presbyterian Missionaries who have shut down their more bohemian life. But it only got more popular when World War 2 came to the South Pacific. After the war, the islanders decided to keep worshipping John...

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man only identified as Dan Cooper boarded a flight to Seattle from Portland International Airport. Waiting for the flight to ascend over the Pacific Northwest, he hijacked Northwest Oriental's Boeing-727 and was able to ransom $200,000 from the airline. Soon after takeoff from Seattle, DB Cooper leapt from the plane...never to be seen again.

On this episode of Stranger Days I talk about the ill-fated MARVILLE Comic Run from 2002 and how it took down former Marvel Comics Vice President Bill Jemas. Marville is a 2002 comic book limited series published by American company Marvel Comics. The series was written by Bill Jemas, and the stories involve satirical comments on comic book industry conventions and trends

A Bavarian Treasure Hunter hired a local diver to pull an unknown golden artifact out of Lake Chiemsee in 2001. Unbeknownst to them, but the Chiemsee Cauldron was not a Celtic Artifact, but a Nazi one. One that was probably owned and celebrated by Henrich Himmler himself. And somewhere in the closing days of World War 2, the Cauldron found its way to the bottom of the lake where it sat for over 50...

In 1911, in an event called "Hayırsızada Dog Massacre", the Governor of Istanbul ordered the stray dogs in the streets to be rounded up and exiled to Sivriada. About 80,000 dogs were killed during the ordeal, mostly due to hunger and thirst on the barren land of the island, and some due to drowning as they tried to escape the horrible conditions of the island. A severe earthquake which immediately...

The Giant of Kandahar was an enormous humanoid creature allegedly encountered and killed by a group of American soldiers on a mountainside in Afghanistan. The story was first told on George Norry's COAST TO COAST AM, back on December 3rd 2008 by Giantologist Steve Quayle and an unnamed pilot guest. Steve Quayle took the story and wrote a fictionalized version of the book called LONGWALKERS: THE RE...

Somen "Steve" Banerjee created the All-Male Erotic Dancing Company Chippendales, After operating a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club, Banerjee bought a failed Los Angeles club named "Destiny II" in 1975. When Chippendales blew up, so did Banerjee's ego and thirst for power. In the mid-1980's he ordered the assassination of his business partner, and Chippendale's choreographer Nick De...

Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, a mother who vowed to spend her days hunting down the men and women from the Los Zetas Cartel who kidnapped and killed her daughter Karen Rodriguez in 2012. Over the span of a few years, she utilized social media, disguises, fake id's, and gaining the trust of the family members of her targets in order to bring justice to San Fernando. This is her story. Her story will b...

On July 23rd, 2007 in Santa Catarina Brazil, one of the most atrocious crimes imaginable was committed by 16 year old Daniel Petry when he tortured and murdered his friend, 12 year old Gabriel Kuhn after being ripped off in the online MMO Tibia.

In 2016 parts of the United States, Canada, and the UK were under siege from "Creepy Clown Sightings". This Clown Hysteria actually pushed McDonald's to do the unthinkable. They "retired" Ronald McDonald from the Company. Ever since then he's been pushed to the sidelines and largely forgotten about. Let's talk about Ronald McDonald's creator Willard Scott, Coco The Clown, and how the Pop Culture A...

In May 2021, the remains of 215 children were found buried on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. The remains were located with the assistance of a ground-penetrating radar specialist and Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir indicated that the deaths were believed to be undocumented and that work was underway to determine if related records are...

The Yuba County Five were all young men from Yuba City, California, United States, all with mild intellectual disabilities. On February 24th, 1978 the five traveled to California State University in Chico to attend a basketball game. 4 of the men were later found dead miles away from where they should have been, and one has still never been discovered.

The story of last Judicial Fight to the death in 1386 France might be the last Hollywood Blockbuster from Ridley Scott, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver, but the original story itself is one that is truly for the ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges squared off in a duel against squire Jacques Le Gris. Carrouges had accused Le Gris of raping his wife Marguerite de Carrouges. It is a...