Evil Everywhere: A True Crime and Horror Podcast

For this episode, join us as we go over two locations in Bulgaria where history, folklore, and unexplained mysteries have become a source of conversation. First, the almost abandoned village of Shishentsi, once home to more than 2,000 people but now only has a few dozen residents. This tiny village has become known throughout Bulgaria for claims of strange encounters, unexplained sounds, and legen...

In October of 2020, in a quiet part of northeast Texas, a young woman named Reagan Simmons-Hancock was getting ready for one of the most important moments of her life. She was a wife, a mother. And she was weeks away from meeting her second child. She lived in New Boston, Texas, a small community where people tend to know each other, or at least recognize familiar faces. It’s the kind of place whe...

On March 3rd, 2008, John and Elizabeth Calvert walked into a meeting with their accountant and were never seen again. Had they left town? Maybe something had simply been missed. But within days, their silver Mercedes was found abandoned in a parking lot, covered in debris, with no sign of the couple inside. investigators began looking everywhere. The Calverts’ credit cards had not been used. Their...

On a warm summer night in July of 1995 15-year-old Elyse answered two phone calls. Nothing about those conversations appeared unusual. A short time later, she told her family she was tired and headed to bed. By morning, she was gone. What followed was an eight-month search filled with sightings, rumors, and desperate hope. Her parents refused to believe she had simply run away. But as the weeks tu...

High above the Victorian town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the Crescent Hotel & Spa has stood watch in the Ozark Mountains since 1886. Originally built as a luxury resort for travelers intrigued by the area’s healing springs, the hotel would become much more. It once served as a women's college when tourism slowed, survived a devastating fire, and became the site of a particularly dark chapter...

What happens when all the warning signs are there but nobody can stop what's coming? Back in 2011, in Tampa, Florida, one family appeared to have everything together. A decorated military officer. A beautiful home. Two bright, talented teenagers with their entire futures ahead of them. From the outside, the Scheneckers looked like the kind of family people admired. But behind closed doors, somethi...

In Elkridge, Maryland, a quiet suburb between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., people move there for the peaceful neighborhoods, hiking trails, and family life.  But in November of 1998, that illusion shattered. Thirty-five-year-old Sara Raras was a brilliant and kind woman who worked as a statistician for the NSA. She was also a deeply devoted mother to her one-year-old son, the type of person who...

There are some killers whose crimes are so disturbing, they almost feel unreal. And then there’s Jaime Osuna. Covered head to toe in tattoos including a horrifying smile across his face. Osuna became infamous long before the world learned what happened inside a California prison cell in 2019. By then, he was already serving life without parole for a brutal murder that had occurred in 2011. But wha...

News headlines were going nuts this past January 2026 with disturbing headlines: Corpses discovered in someone’s home. For months, police in Pennsylvania were receiving reports  of graves and mausoleums being desecrated and robbed around the Philadelphia, Yeadon area. Not only were treasured items taken, like jewelry or clothing but the remains themselves had also been taken. A tip pointed them in...

Cheyenne is a city on the high plains of Wyoming, where Old West history still shapes its daily life. The city is full of quiet streets, experiences endless wind and according to many who live there, something else lingers beneath the surface. Downtown Cheyenne is said to be full of locations tied to unexplained stories. And at the center of it all stands the historic Plains Hotel. Built in 1911,...

There are some crimes that don’t just make headlines, they stop people in their tracks. Crimes so strange, so elaborate, that even seasoned investigators struggle to explain them. And the case I’m covering this week is one of those stories. It begins on an ordinary afternoon in Erie, Pennsylvania but nothing about what happened next was ordinary. A pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with some...

There are some crimes that don’t just make headlines, they stop people in their tracks. Crimes so strange, so elaborate, that even seasoned investigators struggle to explain them. And the case I’m covering this week is one of those stories. It begins on an ordinary afternoon in Erie, Pennsylvania but nothing about what happened next was ordinary. A pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with some...

Bergen, Norway 1970. A woman is found dead in an isolated Norwegian valley. No name. Every clothing label removed. A few days after, two suitcases are discovered at a nearby railway station, filled with wigs, multiple currencies, and a notebook filled with coded messages. When the codes were cracked, it proved she had checked into hotels under at least 8 different aliases. Reports from witnesses a...

Hong Kong is known as one of the world’s leading financial hubs, home to immense wealth, towering skylines, and global influence. But beneath that image of prosperity lies a different reality. For many, survival is a daily struggle, shaped by deep income inequality and limited opportunity. Fahn Man-yee was one of those people. Abandoned as an infant and raised in an orphanage, she was forced to na...

In Oslo, Norway. 1995. A woman checked into the city’s most prestigious hotel, the Oslo Plaza Hotel, under the name Jennifer Fairgate. No ID. No credit card. Three days later, a gunshot was heard from behind a locked hotel room door on the 28th floor. Inside, police find her body. Alone. No signs of struggle. No identification. No personal belongings. Even the labels on her clothes were removed. S...

Imagine your life is completely normal.  You and your spouse are raising three kids in the quiet suburbs of Horicon, Wisconsin. A ranch-style home, an attached garage, nothing out of the ordinary. Safe. Comfortable. Then one day, you bring home a secondhand bunk bed for your daughters. They love it. You got a great deal. It feels like a win. But not long after it enters your home something changes...

What if the floor you were standing on began to stare back at you? Deep in Southern Spain lies a small town that is seemingly unremarkable. But it is home to the most enduring unexplained cases in Spain’s history. Back in 1971, a woman named Maria was casually doing house chores in her home in Belmez when she noticed a strange pattern forming in the concrete floor. The stain over time began to for...

They called him the “Truck Stop Killer” but for years, no one even knew his name. In the late 1970s and 80s, young men and women began disappearing along America’s highways, hitchhikers, runaways, women just trying to get from one place to another. Their last known locations? Truck stops. Rest areas. The in-between places most people pass through without a second thought. Behind the wheel of an or...

In March of 2006, 55-year-old musician Raymond James Merrill traveled to Brazil for the third time in five months. He told friends he was in love and was going to propose to the love of his life but he was never seen again. Ray’s online romance with a Brazilian woman named Regina Filomena Rachid quickly escalated into something deeper. Within weeks, Ray was sending her money. Within months, he had...

Sources: Wikipedia – Murder of Peter Porco - Murder of Peter Porco - Wikipedia Democrat and Chronicle – UR student, after attack on parents, hires lawyer – Greg Livadas – November 21, 2004 CBS – Christopher Porco’s bid to overturn conviction in the hands of Schenectady Prosecutor – Alex Weidner – February 28, 2025 - Christopher Porco's bid to overturn conviction in the hands of Schenectady prosecu...

What would you do in the face of murder charges? Most people would be frantic, pleading their innocence, and very anxious of what is to come. But that was not the case for Jessie Costello in 1933. That February, she found her husband, Captain William J. Costello, dead on the floor of their home in Peabody, MA. At the request of close friends, an autopsy was performed which found poison, despite th...

Ever get that feeling like someone’s watching you but when you look, there’s nothing there? Or worse someone is there. Picture this: it’s late at night. Maybe you’re home alone, maybe you’re just starting to wind down and then there’s a knock at your door. You’re not expecting anyone. You hesitate but you check anyway. Standing outside are two children. They look… off. Pale. Quiet. Almost too calm...

In one of the sunniest counties in Ireland stands a mansion, known for being haunted but it all began with a simple game of cards. On the southeastern coast of Ireland, in County Wexford, Loftus Hall stands on the Hook Head peninsula overlooking the sea. It is often described as one of the most haunted houses in the world. The land itself has 800 years of history and stories, beginning with the No...

In October of 2024, 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem set up a tent at a remote campsite near Big Sky, Montana. He was planning a quiet weekend in the mountains and was supposed to pick up his girlfriend the next day so they could spend a few days camping together. But that pickup never happened, and no one could reach him. At first, the silence didn’t seem completely unusual. The campsite he had chosen...

In 1997, 44-year-old realtor Michael “Irish” McMorrow was known for his easy laugh and love of Central Park. He was always the life of the party so it came as a shock to all when he was at the center of one of the most shocking crimes New York City has seen. It started when a 15-year-old girl, Daphne Abdela, had been reported missing only to be found moments later washing blood off with her boyfri...