Fathomless

This Monday, Amanda and Jen continue discussing the tragic case of Brenda Sue Schaefer. On September 23rd 1988, Brenda Sue Schaefer went to return some jewelry to her ex-boyfriend Melvin Ignatow. She never returned home to her family, a massive search ensued and the entire Schaefer family was concerned that Brenda’s ex Melvin, who had a dark and history had something to do with her disappearance....

This Monday, Amanda is bringing us an intense case that will leave your jaw on the floor. On September 23rd 1988, Brenda Sue Schaefer went to return some jewelry to her ex-boyfriend Melvin Ignatow. She never returned home to her family, a massive search ensued and the entire Schaefer family was concerned that Brenda’s ex Melvin, who had a dark and history had something to do with her disappearance...

On the afternoon of October 9, 2013, in North Conway, New Hampshire, 14-year-old Abby Hernandez accepted a ride from a stranger while walking home from school. She was kidnapped and held captive in a storage shed for 9 months, just 30 miles from her home.

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, most of the city of Boston was stumbling out of bar celebrating St. Patty’s Day. But on that night, two men dressed as Boston Police officers demanded entry into the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum. Within 15 minutes they subdued the two guards and then took over an hour to steal 13 works of art. To this day none of the pieces have been recovered and...

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY GHOULS AND GALS! It’s our first official History With Amanda episode! Today we are discussing the United States of America’s first female soldier and ultimate boss ass bitch Deborah Sampson! Join us on the trip back in time to the 1770s and some good old Revolutionary War drama in this special bonus episode of Fathomless!

Join Jen and Amanda as they discuss the happenings of the Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery that took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1962.

In the early morning hours of October 7th, 1998, Matthew Shepard was offered a ride home from the Fireside Lounge from two local men in Laramie Wyoming. Instead of taking Matthew home these men robbed him, violently attacked him, then left him tied him to a fence in a remote rural area outside of Laramie. Mathew Shepard passed away in a hospital days later due to his injuries. The men who violentl...

Charlie Howard was a 23 year old, openly gay man from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. About six months before he was murdered, he moved to Bangor, Maine where he became involved in gay rights support groups. One night while walking home from an event with a friend, Charlie was stopped and chased by three teenage boys, where they threw them over a bridge to his death.

In 1993 Brandon Teena moved to Falls City Nebraska in an attempt to get a fresh start at life. As a transgender male who recently escaped his oppressive home life he was hopeful that he could escape the demons of his past and find a little slice of happiness. Unfortunately Brandon’s happiness was ripped away from him and so was his life. Join us as Amanda & Jen discuss the tremendously frustrating...

If you’re from New England, you know it is full of creepy graveyards with all sorts of haunted history attached to them. Join Jen as she tells us about a couple of spooky cemeteries in New England!

In the late spring of 2008, 18 year old Joshua Maddux decided to take a walk in the Pike National Forest near his Colorado home and disappeared. For years his family searched for answers and in 2015 they finally received a grisly answer. Although the coroner and police officially ruled this case closed when you look at all of the evidence it leaves you with just one haunting question. What really...

Did you know there is a ghost that supposedly haunts an island in Boston Harbor? The Lady In Black is a story about a woman executed and buried on George’s Iand in the 1860’s. Though there is no written evidence of the circumstances of the story, many have reported seeing and hearing the Lady In Black.

Today we have a strange urban legend that, sure you have probably heard of the phenomenon of a ghostly “Woman in White” But did you know that there might be one right here n Rhode Island?! Join us as Amanda tells us all about the legend of the Foster Witch!

Lynn Burdick was 18 years old when she vanished from her job at the Barefoot Peddler’s Country Store in Florida, Massachusetts on April 17th, 1982. It is believe she was kidnapped, and her whereabouts and events surrounding her disappearance are still unknown.

On August 9, 1970, 13-year-old Mary Catherine Olenchuk was vacationing with her family in Ogunquit, Maine. She left the beach that afternoon ahead of her family ride a bike to the corner store. Mary was last in front of the Lookout Hotel speaking to man & getting into his car. About two weeks later, her body was found, but no killer has ever been identified.

On November 14, 2004 college student Christopher Porco left the University of Rochester campus and made the roughly 250 mile drive to his parents home in Bethlehem NY, in the middle of the night, and viciously attacked them with an axe. Join us as Amanda take us through the horrific and unfathomable events leading up to night and the tragedy and investigation that followed after.

In 1915 the Purity Distilling Company built a massive 50ft tall holding tank for molasses in the North End of Boston. However, they cut several corners during construction which ultimately caused a major catastrophe known as the Great Molasses Flood. Join us as Amanda takes us down another dark history rabbit hole!

In this episode, Jen brings us to Allenstown, New Hampshire, where the bodies of four people were found in two separate 55-gallon steel drums, 15 years apart; one drum found in 1985, the other in 200. The person responsible for these killings wouldn't be known until 2017, years after he was already dead. And the identities of the victims would not be discovered until 2019. One victim remains u...

On this episode Jen & Amanda dive into two very different but equally haunting Urban Legends. Black Eyed Children and the Black Flash of Provincetown! Join us as we discuss some first hand accounts of some seriously spooky scary stuff!

In today’s epsiode, Jen is going to be telling us about the tragic murder of Mary Anderson from Harvard, Massachusetts. Just days before her 24th birthday, in July of 2022, Mary was killed by her ex-boyfriend and her body was found in Brattleboro, Vermont.

On December 26th 2000 Michael McDermott started his work day like any other day. Until around 11:10 in the morning he took an AK47 and began open firing in the office killing seven coworkers and injuring others. When the SWAT team arrived and approached McDermott he simply stated “I do not speak German” Join Amanda & Jen as they take a deep dive into the largest mass shooting in the history of Mas...

Urban Legends: The Bennington Triangle. Join Amanda & Jen this Monday for some spooky scary legends, mysterious missing persons, murders and possibly and man eating stone. And so much more! It’s Vermont’s own strange lot time county known as the Bennington Triangle!

In 2004, Brianna Maitland was 17 years old when she went missing after leaving her shift at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. Her car was found the next morning backed into an abandoned barn. She has never been seen or heard from since.

A discussion of some updates on cases from our previous True Crime News & Updates episode and some recent tragic news from New England.

WELCOME BACK! We got a little Valentine’s Day Special for you all this week! Also we are taking a little trip out of New a England and heading over to Chicago. It’s the middle of Prohibition, we got mobster’s, we got some bootleg whiskey, a little Al Capone and a whole lot of fedoras. Oh yeah and a massacre too! And a whole lot of Jen and Amanda saying “badda-bing badda-boom”