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AHS season 13 finale...We made it to the end of American Horror Story: 13, and we have feelings. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan break down the finale, “Devil of a Good Time”: a deadly batch of cookies, a satanic midlife crisis, a very fast pregnancy, Mallory's trip to Salem, and a new face in the Last Supper. Then we get into what went wrong: the dug-up dictators who never mattered, the storylin...

American Horror Story 13: the penultimate episode. One episode left, and American Horror Story just went off the rails. Kristin takes us through episodes 11 and 12 of Season 13, “Madison’s Happy Ending” and “Sisters in Arms.” Ben switches sides and pulls Myrtle Snow out of her JCPenney hell. Madison narrates her own rom-com with the devil’s son. Fiona meets a sister she never knew she had, Queenie...

American Horror Story 13 continues. The two storylines finally collide. Kelli takes us through episodes 9 and 10 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Devil Is in the Details” and “The Prodigal Son.” Constance makes her demands of Satan, and he answers by unrolling a very long scroll of her sins. Ben finally learns what his 616 tattoo means. Papa Legba reveals the bet between God and the devil,...

We're back with American Horror Story 13 (AHS). Devil’s Night comes to Miss Robichaux’s. Kristin takes us through episodes 7 and 8 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Baddest Witch of Them All” and “Hell No.” With Cordelia down and James March playing piano through the chaos, Madison, Queenie, Mallory, and Coco take on Jeffrey Dahmer, the Zodiac Killer, and Richard Ramirez. Then Fiona makes t...

Vampire Folklore, Rabies, and the Milwaukee Protocol... In 1725, the Austrian government sent an official to watch a village dig up a corpse. He wrote down what he saw: no decomposition. Hair and beard grown. New skin. New nails. Fresh blood in the mouth. They staked it. They burned it. His report ran in a Vienna newspaper, and Europe got a new word for it. Vampire. This bonus episode is the real...

American Horror Story: 13 is cramming its final season into October, and this week Kelli, Leah, and Alisan cover episodes 4–6. The Jezebel Ball goes down beneath the Apollyon: Elsa Mars MCs, Tate does the pushing, and thirteen of Mr. Nas's “favorite bad girls” head into a lava pit. It does not go to plan. Constance comes clean about her deal with the devil. Ben has a date night with fellow crash s...

Part 2 of a 2-part episode... It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what it bills as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. Na...

Part 1 of a 2-part episode... It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what's billed as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story: 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. N...

The Mothman didn't stay in Point Pleasant. In Part 2 of our deep dive, Kristin follows the winged humanoid known as The Mothman out of West Virginia and into the modern world. A 1948 sighting in Chehalis, Washington, that predates Point Pleasant by nearly two decades; a disputed 1957 case in Braidwood, Illinois, and then Chicago, where paranormal investigator Lon Strickler mapped over 160 reports...

A spooky-season strange-phenomena episode of Fear & Wine. The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Before the movie, there was Point Pleasant, West Virginia: a small Appalachian town built on an abandoned WWII TNT plant, ancient burial mounds, and Cold War nerves. In Part 1 of our two-part Mothman deep dive, Kristin traces the seven-foot, red-eyed figure back through 48,000-year-old cave paintings, Meso...

Part Two of our investigation into the disappearance of Ingrid Lane. On October 15th, 2023, Ingrid Lane, a violinist, scholar, and quantum computing researcher affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories, left her home outside Albuquerque and was never seen again. In this episode, Kristin walks through the last documented day, hour by hour, built entirely from original body-cam and witness record...

Season 4 Episode 3 of Black Mirror: Crocodile . We're back with another Black Mirror deep dive; this time it's Season 4's “Crocodile.” One reckless night in the Icelandic mountains, one hit-and-run, and one very bad decision to cover it up together set off a spiral that follows two people for years. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through Mia and Rob's unraveling. From panicked twenty-someth...

Havana Syndrome and the Physics of Silence: How Microwave Weapons Damage the Brain. The Physics, The Biology, and The Cover-Up This is a Fear & Wine Uncorked Coven Patreon episode we felt was important for more people to know. Fear & Wine dives deep into Havana Syndrome, the mysterious illness that has affected hundreds of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers since 2016. What the gover...

The Witch Recap Part 2. This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steal...

This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steals the entire movie. Plus...

Kristin covers one of Florida's coldest cases and the story of serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. In late June 2026, federal agents and cadaver dogs turned up on a ranch road in Hernando County, Florida —and a case most people have never heard of resurfaced. This episode traces the full story of Billy Mansfield Jr., convicted of murdering six women and girls across Florida and California in the lat...

The Tate & LaBianca Murders. Part Two of our Strangers companion series turns from fiction to fact. Over two nights in August 1969, eight people were murdered in Los Angeles — a case that decades later helped inspire the horror film The Strangers. This solo episode spends most of its time with the people who died: Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, and...

The Strangers (2008) the home-invasion horror that turned a simple knock at the door into pure dread. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan break down Bryan Bertino's slow-burn nightmare: The Strangers. Masked strangers, a couple's night gone terribly wrong, and the question we can't stop asking each other — what would you actually do if someone knocked after midnight? Part 1 is a recap of the movie Th...

Three stories. One museum. A twist ending we did not see coming. This is a remastered audio version of the first Black Mirror episode that we ever covered. Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”. (Season 4, ep. 6) The one with the pain-addicted doctor, the wife uploaded into her husband’s brain, the man whose digital self becomes a museum exhibit, and the young woman who shows up with a plan and a surprise...

Black Mirror: "Be Right Back." What if you could keep talking to someone after they were gone? Not through memory or ritual, but through an AI trained on everything they ever posted, texted, and said online? This week we cover an emotional and complex Black Mirror episode, and the conversation it sparks is one of the most personal the show has had. Martha and Ash are a young couple who have just m...

Unveiling The Human Mind. This week, Fear & Wine steps outside the usual horror recap to ask a bigger question: why are we drawn to fear in the first place? Kelli and Kristin sit down with Binyamin Klempner, founder of InsightBridge, an AI-guided behavioral reflection platform, for a conversation that's as personal as it is fascinating. Binyamin opens up about his own complicated relationship...

The Mandela Effect & the CERN Connection: Are We Living in a Glitched Reality? Kristin takes the reins for a deep dive into the Mandela Effect, that eerie phenomenon where large groups of people share the exact same "wrong" memory of something that never actually happened. We kick things off by trading our own personal favorite Mandela Effect examples; (the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia and the...

Fear & Wine covers a listener-requested Black Mirror deep dive into one of the most voted-for episodes in their Reddit poll and, by Kelli’s own ranking, her second favorite Black Mirror episode of all time. This week: Season 2, Episode 3, “White Bear.” We analyze the complex and disturbing episode 'White Bear' from Black Mirror, exploring themes of punishment, memory, and justice. Join us as w...

In the summer of 1916, twelve days of terror along the New Jersey shore changed America forever. In this deep-dive, Fear & Wine traces every shark attack from the death of Charles Vansant in Beach Haven on July 1st to the catastrophic events at Matawan Creek on July 12th, and unpacks the history, science, panic, and enduring mystery that made these twelve days the inspiration for one of cinema...

FROM Season 4 Finale. Kelli and Kristin reunite for a just-the-two-of-them finale recap, fresh off their FROM Season 4 watch party the day before, complete with FROM-themed food, a costume contest, a FROM trivia game, and a TikTok live stream that was accidentally sideways. With the party vibes still in the air, we dive into a finale packed with chaos, sacrifice, and a twist ending that leaves the...