Mysterious Circumstances

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 Become a supporter of this po...

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 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mysterious-circumstances--5479817/support .

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 Become a supporter of...

A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. Unable to accept the defeat of the secessionist cause, Jesse trained his fury on banks, trains and stagecoaches. He fancied himself a modern Robin Hood, robbing from Radical Republicans and giving to the poor. But the myth hid the darker reality of a repeat murderer whose ne...

A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. Unable to accept the defeat of the secessionist cause, Jesse trained his fury on banks, trains and stagecoaches. He fancied himself a modern Robin Hood, robbing from Radical Republicans and giving to the poor. But the myth hid the darker reality of a repeat murderer whose ne...

On January 11, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's body was discovered inside a rolled up wrestling mat in the gymnasium of his high school. A preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that the death was accidental. Johnson's family had a private pathologist conduct a second autopsy which concluded that Johnson died from blunt force trauma. So what really happened to Kendrick Johnson?? Learn more about...

For the unexpected finale of discussing the death of Billy the Kid, we are going to go over more details to try to answer some more questions about Brushy Bill Roberts. Not only that, but for those of you who were paying attention at the end of Part 1, when I said there was another guy who might have been Billy….. You just might wanna listen to this episode. I’m pretty sure I will make you rethink...

The story of Billy the Kid’s short and violent life isn’t just incredible, it is indeterminate, with many parts still shrouded in mystery. For decades, the primary text on Billy the Kid’s killing was written by none other than Pat Garrett, the sheriff who said he shot the cattle rustler turned killer. So much has been fabricated about Billy the Kid’s life but the fact is that little can actually b...

No other historical figure from the Old West has stirred up more controversy and eluded historians and biographers more than Billy the Kid alias William H. Bonney. This young man in his short life has established his place in history and legend, but there is more to the myth there’s the man. Who was Billy the Kid? How did he become a legend? Was he more of a victim of circumstance? In Part 1, that...

It happened in November 1978 at the Speedway Burger Chef. A Friday night. Four employees on duty disappear; 16-year-old Daniel Davis, 16-year-old Mark Flemmonds, 20-year-old Jayne Friedt and 17-year-old Ruth Shelton. Initially, police in Speedway didn’t have much to go on. Since there was $500 taken from the cash register some investigators thought the employees may have taken the money and went o...

On August 30, 2013, 19-year-old Bryce David Laspisa from Castiac California, went missing near Castiac Lake. After Bryce spent the summer with his parents, he appeared to be eager to start his sophmore year at Sierra College. Bryce’s friends however reported that he was drinking heavily and using prescription drugs during his first two weeks back on campus. He had also abruptly ended the relations...

Buford Pusser was the “Walking Tall” sheriff, famous for his frequent violent run-ins with local lowlifes and gangsters. But by August 21, 1974, he was retired and a Hollywood celebrity, driving away from his hometown county fair in a new Corvette he’d bought with money from his first Walking Tall movie. His daughter, who followed a few minutes behind, did indeed come upon the burning wreck of his...

Buford Pusser was elected sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, on a platform of cleaning up the county, which was regarded as the most corrupt, crime-ridden county in the state, if not the U.S. by some local citizens. According to locals, several organized-crime rings, based mainly in Nashville, ran the criminal enterprises in McNairy County, including gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, narcoti...

DEBATE still rages around the circumstances of Kurt Cobain’s death after the rocker was legally ruled to have killed himself. The legendary Nirvana frontman left behind his wife, child and adoring fans at the age of 27. But how did it happen and why do fans still discuss his death over twenty years on? There is a common theory among fans that Courtney Love orchestrated Kurt’s death and made it loo...

On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington. Forensic analysis at the time determined he had killed himself on April 5. The Seattle Police Department incident report states: "Kurt Cobain was found with a shotgun across his body, had a visible head wound and there was a suicide note discovered nearby." The King County ...

Ridgway’s slayings began in 1982, when young runaways and prostitutes began disappearing from state Route 99 in south King County, Washington. He brought many of them to his home and strangled them, then left them in woodsy, remote sites. The first few bodies turned up along the now-notorious Green River. Dubbed the Green River Killer, Ridgway eluded the law until 2001, when King County sheriff Da...

Kevin Eads was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated with degrees in History and Political Science from Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne, where he served as Student Body President and was active in Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. He then received his Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University where he focused on International Law. A lifelong fan of the horror genre, he began to tell his own storie...

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model and singer. Famous for playing comic “dumb blonde” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her une...

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model and singer. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her une...

The Doris Bither case, also known as the Entity hauntings, was an alleged haunting which occurred in 1974 at Culver City, California. Doris Bither, a mother of 4 children, had contacted paranormal investigators Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor who came to investigate on August 22, 1974. Bither alleged that she was attacked and raped by an invisible entity which she believed were the spirits of three me...

Neiko Lisi was last seen in Addison, New York on September 30, 2011. He and a 20-year-old friend, Robert Knight, stopped at Lisi's uncle's home at 2:00 p.m. and said they were going to Buffalo, New York to possibly go camping. Lisi had phone contact with his family the next day. He has never been seen or heard from again. On the morning of October 1, Knight arrived at his parents' home in Romulus,...