Macabre Mondays

In December of 1900, three experienced lighthouse keepers were stationed on a remote island off the coast of Scotland known as the Flannan Isles. They followed strict routines. They recorded the weather. They prepared the light. Then one night, the light didn’t come on. When a relief ship arrived days later, the lighthouse was intact. The work had been completed. Nothing inside suggested panic or...

We’re back with Listener Confessions Pt. 3 ! Sharing real stories sent in by listeners that have stuck with them. And let's just say these are… unsettling. They'll definitely stick with you after hearing them lol. Huge thank you to our listener submissions for this episode: Taylor, Ebony, Pamela, and John. If you have a story you’ve never told anyone or something strange you still can’t explain, s...

This episode marks our first listener submission of 2026 , and it comes from listener Barbara! Who suggested one of the most infamous and unsettling cases in small town history. We are heading to Skidmore, Missouri, to tell the story of Ken Rex McElroy, a man many locals described as the town bully. For years, McElroy was accused of violent crimes, intimidation, and terrorizing his neighbors, yet...

In July 2023, a 911 call out of Hoover, Alabama stopped the country cold. A young woman reported seeing a toddler wandering alone on the side of a highway, and then she vanished. For two days, the nation searched. Families prayed. Warnings spread. Fear took hold. Then she came back. In this episode of Macabre Mondays, we announce the giveaway winners and walk through the case of Carlee Russell. We...

This episode of Macabre Mondays marks one full year of strange stories, sinister cases, and spooky moments shared with you. In this anniversary episode, we look back on how Macabre Mondays began, how it’s grown over the past year, and some of the moments that stuck with us most, the cases, the listener reactions, and the unexpected turns along the way. We also share what we’ve learned, what surpri...

We're back! For Chapter 2 of Macabre Mondays. In this episode of Macabre Mondays, we walk through the history of the Winchester Mystery House, tracing how tragedy, spiritual belief, and public fascination turned a private woman into a permanent ghost story. The Winchester Mystery House is famous for what it doesn’t make sense of, staircases that end at the ceiling, doors that open into walls, wind...

Mount Everest is the highest place on Earth, and one of the most unforgiving. Every year, hundreds of climbers spend tens of thousands of dollars attempting to reach the summit. But above 26,000 feet, in a place known as the Death Zone, the human body can no longer survive. Oxygen disappears. Judgment fades. And for many, the mountain becomes their final resting place. In this episode of Macabre M...

📍 Location:  Louisiana, United States At just two years old, James Leininger began having violent nightmares of a plane crash, screaming about fire, explosions, and a “little man who couldn’t get out.” His parents were terrified… until James started giving specific details about World War II airplanes, Navy aircraft carriers, and a real fighter pilot who died decades before James was born. This i...

This week on Macabre Mondays, we dive into the unbelievable true story of Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester. A soft spoken, polite, fast food robber who locked employees in freezers while telling them to stay warm. A man who escaped a medium security prison by strapping himself under a delivery truck. And a fugitive who went on to live for nearly six months inside the ceiling of a Toys R Us, watching e...

On a snowy January afternoon in 2011, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Rae Greenberg was found inside her locked Philadelphia apartment with twenty stab wounds. Police quickly ruled her death a suicide, a decision that would spark more than a decade of controversy, forensic disputes, legal battles, and unanswered questions. In this episode, we break down the real timeline of Ellen’s final day...

Between 1998 and 2006, Mexico City was haunted by a terrifying mystery, dozens of elderly women found strangled in their own homes. When police finally uncovered the truth, it shocked the world: the killer wasn’t a man, but Juana Barraza, a former lucha libre wrestler known as La Mataviejitas , or The Little Old Lady Killer . In this episode, we unravel her story, from her tragic childhood and wre...

In Chapter 13: Threshold , morning comes to the Marrow house. The air warms. The lavender remembers itself. And the final rule, Let go when asked by name, has been honored. With the ledger in hand, she writes her own line, returning what the house borrowed and restoring its quiet balance. When the red door opens at last, the hall beyond is no longer blue. It’s her own. This episode marks the end o...

In Chapter 12: Owed , she finally asks by name. When the house writes its final rule — Let go when asked by name — everything begins to unravel. The red door unlocks from the inside, the mirror breathes, and the little girl on the other side takes one fateful step. But calling her own name changes the balance. The house listens. The thirteenth crib stills, the door closes, and for the first time,...

In Chapter 11: The Kept Hour , midnight takes hold. Upstairs, a realtor and his daughter walk the same hallway, unaware of the house’s patience below. In the nursery, the cataloger faces her reflection — two versions of herself split by a single crack in the glass. The thirteenth rule remains unwritten, glowing with quiet promise. When the mirror fogs with her mother’s voice and the words Ask by y...

In Chapter 10: The Ledger Below , she follows the stairs into the house’s hidden nursery, a place that remembers every name ever borrowed. Rows of cribs and a box lined with antique keys wait in the dark. Each key bears a name, each name marked returned … except one. When she touches the key labeled Sunshine, kept, the cribs begin to rock, and the house upstairs welcomes new guests. Midnight has a...

Before it became a campfire story, it was a real nightmare. In 1950, thirteen-year-old Janett Christman accepted a last-minute babysitting job on a stormy night in Columbia, Missouri. Hours later, a frantic phone call came into the police station, a young girl’s voice begging for help, followed by silence. When officers arrived, they found the phone off the hook… and Janett brutally murdered. Her...

In Chapter 9: Returns , the house begins to pull her deeper. A clear marble rolls from beneath the red door, reflecting both halls overlapped — as if time itself has started to fold. Through the crack, a staircase appears, curving down into the dark. The voices whisper that he keeps the keys and that they’re safer when he does. But when she starts to descend, she realizes returning what’s borrowed...

In Chapter 8: The Other Hall , the house draws its boundary. Through the widening seam, the cataloger sees the mirrored corridor come alive — its air colder, its laughter smaller, its promises softer. When a child’s hand reaches from the blue hall to touch hers, she hesitates, remembering the rule that’s kept her alive so far: Keep to your side. But when a deeper voice arrives — one that doesn’t b...

In Chapter 7: Angle of View , the hall begins to move. No matter where she stands, the red door shifts back to the center of her vision, the house adjusting her like a subject in a frame. As she places the three marbles across the threshold, they roll toward the mirrored hall, aligning themselves as if called home. Through the blue reflection, her own voice warns her not to let the house “line her...

In Chapter 6: Static , the count begins. Children’s voices whisper numbers through the baby monitor, stopping at thirteen as the house shifts its focus. A new marble appears — dark as ink, threaded with silver — showing what moves beneath the floorboards. Through the keyhole, a mirrored version of the hallway comes to life, and her own reflection starts moving before she does. Every frame fogs wit...

In Chapter 5: Borrowed Names , the house speaks through lullabies and photographs. The cataloger discovers a baby monitor whispering the tenth rule — Return what you borrow. When she lifts the hallway runner, the past returns a photo that shouldn’t exist: her own childhood kitchen, her own mother’s hand. A text from an unknown number invites her deeper into the house, and through the red door’s re...

In Chapter 4: House Rules , the ledger is opened. Every rule in the Marrow house has been written by careful hands, and every name belongs to someone who may never have left. The cataloger finds her own name signed among the others and begins to realize this house doesn’t simply keep guests — it keeps score. The twelfth rule warns her to never open the red door after midnight. And the thirteenth r...

In Chapter 3: The Knock , the red door answers. The voice behind it is too familiar to be a stranger — and too wrong to be real. As new rules appear on the frames, a marble rolls from the crack beneath the door, carrying an image of the hallway inside itself. When a voicemail from the future warns her not to turn around, the house finally reveals how it listens. The next rule is written. Rule 3: K...

⚠️ TW: This episode contains descriptions of severe child abuse, torture, and violence that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is strongly advised. In October 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was found lifeless in the basement of a modest Indianapolis home, her body bearing the marks of unimaginable cruelty. But behind the door of 3850 East New York Street wasn’t a stranger or...

In Chapter 2: Frames , the Marrow house begins to take notice. The cataloger hears her childhood nickname whispered through the hall, and the photographs start to shift, capturing scenes that haven’t happened yet. When the reflection in the glass moves on its own, she realizes the house isn’t just watching her… it’s learning. The second rule is revealed. Stay still when you’re seen.