Mysterious Circumstances

Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel rose from the rough streets of New York City to the height of fame and fortune in sunny Southern California, but his violent death helped expose the dark side of Mob life. Although his life was cut short at age 41, he played a pivotal role in building modern Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel rose from the rough streets of New York City to the height of fame and fortune in sunny Southern California, but his violent death helped expose the dark side of Mob life. Although his life was cut short at age 41, he played a pivotal role in building modern Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the wideness and proliferation of its use in many sections of society, the word fuck remains (and has been for centuries) one of the most taboo words in English. Until relatively recently it rarely appeared in print; even today, there are a number of euphemistic ways of referring to it in speech and writing. In this episode we explore the origin of the word, some of the arguments of why pe...

I'm not really into conspiracy theories, but this case, is beyond weird!!! Tiffany Jenks was murdered on October 8th 2013, at the age of 35 – she was shot in the forehead, by someone she did not know and had apparently only met that night, shortly prior to her death. Or so the police say. What you need to know is that Tiffany Jenks’ case does indeed display all the stereotypical tell-tale signs of...

When 17 year old Alissa Turney went missing from Phoenix in 2001, most agreed she had run away. As more facts about her life started to surface over the years, it now appears likely that she never made it far from her home. With the help of Sarah Turney we will lay out the case and it's current status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most famous figures to emerge from the 19th-century history of the American West, Wyatt Earp was known first and foremost for his participation in a notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. Both before and after that date, Earp moved from town to town across the West, earning his living as a saloon-keeper, gunslinger, gambler, miner and frontier lawman, along...

One of the most famous figures to emerge from the 19th-century history of the American West, Wyatt Earp was known first and foremost for his participation in a notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. Both before and after that date, Earp moved from town to town across the West, earning his living as a saloon-keeper, gunslinger, gambler, miner and frontier lawman, along...

In this bonus interview I talk with Melba Larson Matson. She is the owner of the Wyatt Earp Birthplace Museum. We talk about Wyatt's younger days and some fun stories. I absolutely loved talking to her because of the knowledge she has on Wyatt Earp. I am also posting a link to the gofundme page. At the end of the interview you'll find out why I'm posting this link. I hope you enjoy!! https://www.g...

One of the most famous figures to emerge from the 19th-century history of the American West, Wyatt Earp was known first and foremost for his participation in a notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. Both before and after that date, Earp moved from town to town across the West, earning his living as a saloonkeeper, gunslinger, gambler, miner and frontier lawman, alongs...

I've been seeing a lot on social media today about a supposed witness and new information regarding this case. So me and Roseanne teamed up again for a coversation addressing that and a few other things about this case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The witchcraft confessions given by Isobel Gowdie (in Auldearn, Scotland in 1662) are widely celebrated as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power has attracted considerable interest on both academic and personal levels. Isobel Gowdie, the renowned “Queen of Scottish Witches”, was a young Scottish housewife who was tried for witchcraft in 1662. Her detailed confessions...

The witchcraft confessions given by Isobel Gowdie (in Auldearn, Scotland in 1662) are widely celebrated as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power has attracted considerable interest on both academic and personal levels. Isobel Gowdie, the renowned “Queen of Scottish Witches”, was a young Scottish housewife who was tried for witchcraft in 1662. Her detailed confessions...

On October 18, 2015, former BBC journalist, Jacky Sutton was found hanged in a bathroom stall in Ataturk airport located in Istanbul. Her untimely death was ruled as an apparent suicide. Despite the conclusion of her death, it's the circumstances leading to this event that have people scratching their heads. Her supposed suicide went against not only her character, but her current occupation at th...

For three decades, the abduction, rape and murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley in April 1988 had frustrated Indiana investigators. The mysterious killer's taunting messages admitting to the crime, scrawled on a barn door and on paper notes threatening to kill again, only added to the desire to solve the cold case. Still, no suspect could be found. But thanks to advances in genealogy and DNA technol...

Kelly Banaski is a true crime writer from Tennessee. Her history covering crime for newspapers, and experience with magazines and copywriting eventually led her to turn her crime writing experience into longer pieces. Kelly owns the popular blog The Woman Condemned (www.thewomancondemned.com) , showcasing women on death row and those serving life through their own artwork and words via her prison...

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an dentist by trade. He became an icon of the American West and was close friends with fellow gunslinger Wyatt Earp. They were the two most famous faces in what is regarded as the most legendary battle of the West: the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which cemented Holliday's status as a legend. Who was Doc Holliday? Lets's seperate fact from fiction and find out. Learn...

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an dentist by trade. He became an icon of the American West and was close friends with fellow gunslinger Wyatt Earp. They were the two most famous faces in what is regarded as the most legendary battle of the West: the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which cemented Holliday's status as a legend. Who was Doc Holliday? Lets's seperate fact from fiction and find out. Learn...

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an dentist by trade. He became an icon of the American West and was close friends with fellow gunslinger Wyatt Earp. They were the two most famous faces in what is regarded as the most legendary battle of the West: the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which cemented Holliday's status as a legend. Who was Doc Holliday? Lets's seperate fact from fiction and find out. Learn...

In 2011 there were two mysterious deaths in a matter of days at the Spreckels Mansion. One is a six year old child that we still can't determine whether or not was an accident or foul play. The other, an elaborate hanging that still stirs controversy. Let's try to find out what happened to Max and Rebecca. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In April of 1941 the little town of Odon, Indiana expierenced something unheard of. 28 sperate fires broke out spontaniously in one house, within a 24 hour period. After that one day, it never happened again.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1980 he confided that one night while he was lying in his do-it-yourself UFO, aliens made telepathic communication with him. No one knew what to think about this….as one of them later said, “He was such an unusual sort of guy.” On November 28, 1980 thirty-two year old Granger Taylor, along with his truck, disappeared. The question of what happened to him has never been satisfactorily resolved....

It seems like no one heard about the Bible Belt Strangler or his string of murders known as the Redhead Murders. 35 years ago across Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia, this serial killer strangled 6 women - 5 of whom remain Jane Doe’s to this day. A podcaster and a high school sociology class saw these women had no family fighting for them - so they stepped in to be their family. Fr...

The largest Medieval manuscript in the world, believed to have been the work of a single monk in Bohemia, it’s not its 620 pages at three-feet in size that makes it remarkable; it’s the Devil contained therein. Everything within the book was handwritten by a single anonymous monk, in one night, while possessed by the Devil. How much of this is true? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Were Jesse James and his gang members of the KGC? There is now good evidence that they were. Did they also bury some of their stolen loot to add to the KGC treasures that were being buried around the country to finance another Civil War? Again, there is good evidence that they did, especially since Jesse and his gang were devout Southerners. They were still angry over the outcome of the Civil War...

In this episode we will discuss the details surrounding the death of Jesse James along with the claims of a man named J. Frank Dalton. We will go deep into the DNA results of the 1995 exhumation of Jesse James’ body to find the facts of what really happened and if there is any chance of Jesse faking his own death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices