Grimly Podcast

Dead Air: A Creators Collective Audio Anthology - Part 2  Welcome back,  When we last left off, our hosts were in a perilous position, coming to you from an abandoned radio station with a Halloween broadcast that had gone awry. Forced to continue the show (and continue enduring some seriously unsettling tales recorded by their friends in the Collective), the entity on the phone has not only starte...

In Part One of our final spooky season series, we're heading to Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas, where a mysterious figure known as the Phantom Killer began a series of brutal attacks that would leave a community living in fear. We'll explore the lives of the victims, the chilling circumstances of the first attacks, and how an ordinary town became the setting for one of America's most infamous unsol...

This week, Missy steps into something a little different as Grimly joins a group of fellow podcasters for a special scripted Halloween anthology. Part One of this two-part event brings together original spooky stories, urban legends, haunted places and things that go bump in the dark, all wrapped inside one increasingly sinister broadcast. We hope you enjoy this series just in time for spooky seas...

This spooky season, we’re heading inside the Old Idaho State Penitentiary. A place marked by executions, riots, solitary confinement, violent deaths, and more than a century of incarceration. We’ll dig into the prison’s history, some of its most infamous inmates, and the ghost stories, unexplained voices, footsteps, and strange encounters that still cling to its sandstone walls.

Some places come with warnings, and some warnings are better left untested. In this episode, we’re traveling around the world to four places with reputations for something darker than being haunted. From a Thai island where visitors mail stolen stones back after their luck turns bad, to an Italian island surrounded by tragedy, a Czech castle allegedly built over a gateway to Hell, and a remote Can...

In Part 2 of the disappearance of Aaron Hedges, the search shifts into an investigation as authorities begin taking a closer look at the accounts given by Joe Depew and Greg Leitner. Inconsistencies in their story, the delay in reporting Aaron missing, and questions about where they had really been hunting all come under scrutiny. Then, months later, Aaron’s belongings begin turning up miles from...

In September 2014, Aaron Hedges and two friends set out into Montana’s rugged Crazy Mountains for a five-day elk hunting trip. But after a series of frustrating setbacks, Aaron ventures off alone to retrieve his camping equipment and never returns. As the days pass and a brutal snowstorm sweeps through the mountains, a massive search and rescue operation uncovers a trail of abandoned belongings bu...

In moments of extreme danger, some people report something they can’t explain: the unmistakable feeling that someone is there with them. From frozen mountains and underwater caves to the chaos of September 11th, survivors have described unseen presences that comforted them, guided them, and sometimes seemed to help keep them alive. This week, we’re diving into the strange phenomenon known as Third...

In April of 1989, Patricia Meehan was involved in a car accident on a rural Montana highway nearly 400 miles from her home. After silently staring at the other driver, she climbed over a fence, walked into a dark field, and vanished. What followed were thousands of reported sightings across multiple states, theories involving amnesia, dissociative fugue, and foul play, and one haunting question th...

In March of 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished while sailing through the Atlantic with over 300 people on board. There was no distress call, no confirmed wreckage, and no definitive explanation for what happened. More than a century later, the disappearance remains one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. naval history. This week, we’re diving into the final voyage of the USS Cyclops, the strange circums...

In 2019, actress Zoe McLellan vanished from public view with her six-year-old son, Sebastian, in the middle of a bitter custody battle filled with abuse allegations, court orders, and conflicting claims. Years later, Sebastian is still missing and Zoe is wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant. But this case isn’t as simple as it sounds. Was Zoe a mother willing to risk everything to protect her chi...

On August 21, 1955, a quiet night in rural Kentucky turned into one of the strangest alleged alien encounters in American history. After seeing a mysterious object streak across the sky, a group gathered at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky claimed small, metallic-looking creatures began emerging from the woods and approaching the house. What followed was hours of gunfire, terrified witnesses, and...

In July 2006, Mary Cooper and her daughter Susanna Stodden set out for a hike along Washington’s Pinnacle Lake Trail. Hours later, both women were found murdered in the wilderness they loved. Nearly two decades later, no one has been charged, no clear motive has been established, and the person responsible has never been identified. This week, we’re looking at the unsolved murders of Mary Cooper a...

In Part 2 of Project Pegasus, Andrew Basiago’s story moves beyond the early teleportation experiments and into even stranger territory. He claims he was sent through time to witness significant moments from history, trained alongside other child “chrononauts,” and was eventually recruited into a separate program involving missions to Mars. But as the story grows, so do the contradictions. This wee...

In Part 1 of Project Pegasus, we trace the alleged origins of one of the strangest government conspiracy stories ever told. After Nikola Tesla’s death, his research was seized and examined by the U.S. government but according to the legend, some of his most important work never resurfaced. Decades later, a Washington State attorney named Andrew Basiago claims that Tesla's research was used to crea...

On May 31, 2013, a massive tornado descended near El Reno, Oklahoma, growing into the widest tornado ever recorded. What began as another dangerous day on the Plains quickly became a chaotic and deadly event, claiming the lives of residents, motorists, and three highly respected storm researchers from the TWISTEX team. In this episode, we look at the storm’s rapid evolution, the people caught in i...

When six year old Brooke Sutton survived the attack that killed her grandmother, Judy Johnson, she told police the man looked like her Uncle Clarence. But “looked like” became “it was him,” and Clarence Elkins was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. This episode covers the wrongful conviction of Clarence Elkins, the years-long fight by his wife Melinda to prove his innocence, and the DNA...

In 1992, Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier were involved in a car crash on a rural South Dakota road. One passenger survived, but Arnold and Ruby vanished from the scene before help arrived. Months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the crash site a place investigators, the family of Arnold and Ruby, volunteers had already searched. Their deaths were eventually ruled accidental, but...

Vicki Morgan’s life was tangled in wealth, politics, secrets, and scandal long before her brutal murder in 1983. Known publicly as the longtime mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, a wealthy businessman and close friend of President Ronald Reagan, Vicki became the center of a story filled with lawsuits, rumors, and powerful men. But when she was found dead inside her Los Angeles home, her murder raise...

This week, we’re taking a haunted road trip through California’s eerie eastern edge. From the brutal silence and strange legends of Death Valley, to the cursed ghost town of Bodie, through the Sierra Nevada home of Penelope the cryptid, and finally to Lake Tahoe, where folklore gives way to a much darker real history. Buckle up for strange caves, curses, cryptids, ghost towns, and the stories stil...

When Gary McCullough disappeared in 1999, the truth about what happened to him seemed to vanish with him. Years later, Lena Chapin came forward with a shocking story about his death, only to disappear herself before she could testify. This week, we’re covering the tangled and haunting disappearances of Gary McCullough and Lena Chapin, a case filled with family secrets, buried truth, and unanswered...

In part two of the Betty Broderick case, we see events and the consequences of the divorce war as it reaches its breaking point. After years of bitter court battles, custody fights, restraining orders, obscene voicemails, and escalating rage, Betty Broderick walks into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. By morning, both Dan and Linda are...

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behi...

On a quiet summer morning in July 2007, Barbara Bolick set out on a familiar trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana with a friend. It was a place she knew well, a short, easy hike with nothing unusual about it. But in the span of just a few moments, Barbara disappeared no sound, no struggle, no trace left behind. Despite extensive searches, helicopters, and tracking dogs, there has never bee...

In this weeks special episode, we’re stepping inside Overbrook Asylum with Brandon O. from Terrorific. Overbrook was a place that once held thousands and left behind countless unanswered questions about the care that was supposed to happen but instead was met with tragedies that we will never hear. From its overcrowded past to the chilling events of 1917 and the ghost stories that followed, this i...