Guide to the Unknown

Fan Death? Floating Coffins?! It must be URBAN LEGEND time! This week we’re digging into several strange stories. Like Fair Charlotte, The Felixstowe Fire Demon, and the Fouke Monster (best known from “The Legend of Boggy Creek”) Not too shabby! HUGE thanks to Melissa for sending in a SICK Ghostface skateboard by artist Gabriel Wolff ! @GabeWolff on TikTok [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ]...

WELCOME TO OUR NIGHTMARE: "FREDDY SEPTEMBY"  It's a new yearly tradition! A HOLIDAY! Every year, we're going to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street. Until we run out. Freddy Krueger? Our new best bud. SO, let's start with the "best:" DREAM WARRIORS! Ugh… [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on...

ALERT: GHOSTS HAUNT CELEBRITIES, TOO! Burt Ward - Batman's sidekick. Bret Michaels - Frontman of "Rock of Love" (Nee Poison) Cheri Oteri - SNL Favorite Morgan Fairchild - Soap Star Each has been visited by spirits. 2 of them friendly, 2 of them...VICIOUS! [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Liste...

Yoho, yoho, a pirate’s life for US! This week we’re talking about Pirates of the Caribbean. The lore behind the ride and the many horrifying curses of the first movie! And no, we’re not talking about Johnny Depp’s sunken reputation! [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , S...

You ready to hear some DIRT!? We have all the hottest gossip! Tenacious D, The Grey Man, and some SCANDALOUS news surrounding the owners of the house from THE CONJURING! Ooooh, such hot gossip! [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podca...

In 1994, three filmmakers disappeared. THEY’RE BACK! Lionsgate and Blumhouse are teaming up for a new BLAIR WITCH movie, but Heather, Mike, and Josh have some unfinished business. Literal business. It’s complicated, but we’ll make it real simple, and then do one FINAL* dive into some lesser-known franchise releases: Shadow of the Blair Witch, Blair Witch Files, Graveyard Sift…and some weird toys!...

Welcome to our road trip! On a totally spur-of-the-moment podcast, we’re revving the engine and cruising around while talking about whatever we want to talk about. Which is mostly trying to make sense of that whole O.J. Simpson situation… To the best of our recollection, anyway! [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Net...

WHOOOO DUNNIT? WHO WHO? WHO WHO? WE REALLY WANNA KNOW! This week we're hopping in a time machine and revisiting a 2006 string of episodes of CSI! The Miniature Killer was one of the freakiest, and most alarming serial killers on the show. Can we crack this nutshell wide open? [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Nether...

DO NOT let these blood-suckers in! Dracula is more than just a movie monster. There have been genuine Vampire panics stretching back HUNDREDS of years. We’re going to talk about where Vampires come from and one of the strangest recent cases: The Highgate Vampire! AND if you enjoy GTTU, go watch LIMINAL today! [ YouTube Version ] [ Sources and links ] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along wit...

We heard these from a friend of friend of a friend of a f... URBAN LEGENDS can only be improved by a visit from Zak Bagans. And he's here alright. You've been warned. [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on YouTube . Follo...

Freaky facts to impress your friends! …Or not! Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has a number of horror spin-off's. How scary could they possibly be? [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on YouTube . Follow us on Instagram , Fa...

A heat wave AND a ghost infestation? Welcome to a classic east coast/west coast beef sesh. Kristen and Will have all the seaside hauntings that will ruin your break. HAKAS? More like HAGAS! (Have a ghost-ass summer!) [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherev...

A funny slasher whodunnit? Yes yes yes. THE BLACKENING started as a short sketch, and in making the leap to feature-length it only got smarter. But are we smart enough to fully understand? Head to the website for all our podcast recommendations, by the way! [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Liste...

Whose grass may be greener on the other side, but whose house is MORE HAUNTED?! We're pitting two ghost stories against each other to see which one is scarier! The Allen House vs. The Congelier House! At least one of them is like totally made up…OR IS IT!? …probly. [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatc...

Chug some coffee, you don't want to have NIGHTMARES! Happy PRIDE everyone! We're looking at A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and trying to make it make sense. We're also looking at the documentary Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street which actually DOES make Nightmare 2 make sense! Actor Mark Patton rules, gay subtext is maybe just text, and Freddy Krueger grosses out Krissy! [ Y...

In the 28th* season premiere of GHOST ADVENTURES… *Or wait, some sources say it’s the 29th… And some say its episode 2… Well, whatever, in this MESSY streaming nightmare, Zak Bagans and the GA crew experience “Terror on 25th Street,” which… …Aaron has sex with a ghost. There, I said it. Happy now? [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusiv...

Is North Dakota haunted?! I mean why WOULDN'T it be? But even ghosts aside, they've got their own cryptid (the Miniwatu), and UFO encounters. NoDa, you're freaky. [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on YouTube . Follow us...

Pretty Little Liars. The drama. The thrills. The WEIRD STUFF!  Kristen has painstakingly documented some of the strangest, scariest, and FUNNIEST moments from the original show's history.  Did you miss us? [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get...

What's the scariest thing a celebrity can hear? BOO! Wayne Newton. Ana Gasteyer. Enrico Colantoni. Ace Frehley.  What do these people have in common. They're the elite of the elite and they've all seen GHOSTS! [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you...

Get ready to hear dirty language and break the fourth f*#@ing wall! Deadpool is a hyper-violent, ultra-profane superhero, with weird dashes of body horror here and there. We notoriously hate him. Can we possibly find the silver lining? [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts ,...

BREAKING NEWS: The Hat Man may not be working alone!  This week we’re digging back into Urban Legends! The Dead Children’s Playground! James Dean’s cursed car! The Death Ship of the Platte River! The Dark Watchers!  You got all that? [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts , Sp...

Everything okay? You haven't touched your meat pie! Sweeney Todd may have been popularized by Stephen Sondheim, Tim Burton, and Johnny Depp, but he goes WAY back. This story of a murderer and his girlfriend's cannibal cuisine has DELIGHTED families for centuries! Now eat up! [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherwor...

They can’t ALL be the “MOST HAUNTED!” We’re finally going to decide who deserves the title of the “most haunted house in America!” To start, we’re pitting California’s WHALEY HOUSE against New Jersey’s SPY HOUSE!  Turns out this one’s easy to decide! [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Ap...

Are you ready to get completely lost with us? It's the year 2000. The Blair Witch Project has just grossed 250 million dollars. So here come DOZENS of books, comics, TV specials, and games. But they can't all be good...right? This week we're watching "The Massacre of the Burkittsville 7: The Blair Witch Legacy," reading "The Secret Confession of Rustin Parr," and wrapping up with the entire "Blair...

Cryptids walk among us. And sometimes they "get violent" for fun!? NO GOOD The Pukwudgies are walking pin cushions. The Dover Demon is a wiggly...alien? Sick animal? Monkey? The fact that we STILL don't know after this episode is concerning... [ YouTube Version ] Sources and links . Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon , along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Pod...