Mysterious Circumstances

Dorothy Jane Scott was a single mother in 1980 who kept receiving mysterious phone calls at her job in Anaheim, California. Dorothy thought the voice sounded familiar, but she could never place it. The caller threatened to cut her into pieces and let her know he knew exactly where she was every minute of the day. Alarmed, Dorothy took up karate. It didn't help her. One night she attended a meeting...

According to legend, as a young man living on a plantation in rural Mississippi, Robert Johnson had a tremendous desire to become a great blues musician. He was instructed to take his guitar to a crossroad near Dockery Plantation at midnight. There he was met by a large black man (the devil) who took the guitar and tuned it. The devil played a few songs and then returned the guitar to Johnson, giv...

The Bennett family murders is a case that goes back more than three decades. It begins with a woman killed with a hammer in Lakewood and, a week later, a family killed the same way in Aurora. The killer was never brought to justice. But new technology is getting detectives closer and closer to solving the brutal mystery. The Bennett family had just moved into their Aurora home around Thanksgiving....

As a child Maurice "Frenchy" Theriault lived a hard New England life, suffering long hours working on his family farm and dealing with his father’s abusive attitude, becoming more and more violent towards his son as he became older. Frenchy began to ask for help, calling upon anyone who would help him, even unknowingly asking Satan to help him. It was also during this time that he witnessed someth...

***Huge thank you to Peter Joseph Lewis for lending me his creepy, bad ass voice for this episode!!!*** As a child Maurice "Frenchy" Theriault lived a hard New England life, suffering long hours working on his family farm and dealing with his father’s abusive attitude, becoming more and more violent towards his son as he became older. Frenchy began to ask for help, calling upon anyone who would he...

Being murdered is a legitimate nightmare for most people, but there are other people who look at it as the only way to leave this world. For a variety of reasons, the people listed here wanted to die and asked someone to do the deed for them. Amazingly, those asked agreed and went along with the plan, committing some brutal murders in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

In the nine days that James Dean owned “Little Bastard”, it’s reported that others warned him of uneasy feelings they had about the car. Among them were actor Nick Adams; actress and singer Eartha Kitt; Dean’s uncle Charlie Nolan; and actress and sometime girlfriend Ursula Andres, who was with Dean when he bought the car. If these warnings were the only eerie factor, the story would be unnerving e...

In this episode, I get to relax a little bit and talk with April Simmons of Mysterious Circumstances Magazine. We get into just about everything mysterious and paranormal. 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 .

***Originally recorded on July 31st, 2016***……In June 1978, Crane was living in the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona. On the afternoon of June 29, Crane’s co-star Victoria Ann Berry entered his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting and discovered his body. Crane had been bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never identified, though investigators believed it...

Edgar Cayce has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce? Learn more...

Edgar Cayce has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce? Learn more...

Edgar Cayce has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce? Learn more...

Edgar Cayce has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce? Learn more...

Most of us have heard the horrific tales of hired guns like Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski and Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. However, history has provided us with a slew of bloodthirsty evildoers who have slipped through the cracks. Here are 10 of the most prolific, unusual, and sometimes unassuming contract killers the last century has produced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

In December 2011, 20-year-old Morgan was found dead in her bedroom of a suspected drug overdose. Authorities later ruled Morgan’s death a suicide, but her parents, Toni and Steve, say that they believe something far more sinister was at play. This episode was cohosted with the one and only T.J. who did a great job on the research!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices B...

On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman (November 25, 1986 – January 17, 1996) was abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas. A neighbor who witnessed the abduction called the police, and Amber’s brother Ricky went home to tell his mother and grandparents what happened. It’s often believed that Hagerman’s murderer kept her alive for at least two days. Richard Hagerman and A...

The 1981 drowning of Natalie Wood, while Splendour, the yacht belonging to her and her husband, Robert Wagner, was anchored off Catalina Island, remains one of Hollywood’s darkest mysteries. The star of Splendor in the Grass and Rebel Without a Cause, whose tempestuous search for love had led her finally to remarry Wagner, was terrified of deep water. How had she ended up in the Pacific in the mid...

Les Edgerton was born in Odessa, Texas. He grew up in Freeport, Texas and in and around South Bend, Indiana. He served four years in the U.S. Navy. Later, he was sentenced to two to five years in Pendleton Reformatory for second-degree burglary. Four years after getting out of prison, he attended Indiana University at South Bend, where he was elected Student Body President, was sports editor for t...

The story of Don Decker, who became known to the world as the Rain Man, is arguably one of the most well-documented paranormal events in recent history. Its credibility is based on the accounts of many witnesses who were law enforcement professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mysterious-circu...

Police visited Williams's home during the afternoon of Monday 23 August 2010, as a "welfare check" after colleagues noted he had been out of contact for several days. His decomposing naked remains were found in a red The North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom. The police had gained entry into his top floor flat in Alderney Street, Pimlico at...

March 27th, 2003 Wiesbaden, Germany. A college student named Jeremiah Duggan supposedly commits suicide by throwing himself into oncoming traffic on a busy German Freeway. In the grips of what is considered a "political cult" questions start arising about the hours before his death and the evidence that is destroyed. Did he reach his breaking point and decide to end it all, or was he killed becaus...

When a celebrity dies under mysterious circumstances, or their followers believe there is more to the story than what is being told, conspiracy is thrown around. Did they really die, did they fake their deaths, were they murdered, etc.? One of those celebrities who's death has been shrouded in darkness for decades is that of, The Doors frontman, Jim Morrison.  Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

On February 10th, 2009 a 5 year old girl disappeared without a trace from her Satsuma Florida home. A case that seemed like a random abduction at first, later turned into a possible murder at the hands of her father's live-in girlfriend and her relatives. With drugs playing an everyday role in the parents lives and stories about what happened that night constantly changing, it's hard to say if we...

On November 12th, 1941, Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles fell to his death out of a 6th floor Coney Island hotel window. Set to testify that same day against high level mobsters, most think it was no accident. With failing health and his life in ruins could he have jumped? Was it a prank gone horribly wrong? I guess we'll have to look at the facts and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

In December of 2001, while backpacking in Thailand, Penny Cunningham is hit while trying to flag down a train. She had been robbed of everything except a boarding pass in someone else's name. 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 .