Nym & Nylene's Nightmare Cottage

It's a pretty dark week in the cottage. Nylene covers the very intense early 19th century Purrinton Massacre. Nym sheepishly follows with her exploration of the evolution of slasher films over the decades. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym and Nylene welcome a visitor! Markie, aka author Maz Maddox, and bestie to the Cottage, travelled across the land to go to Pride with Nym, so the girls made her - erm....asked her - to join this week's nightmare! Nym kicks things off with a look into queer folklore and Nylene takes us back into the darkness with the mysterious Dudleytown. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, and transc...

Nym and Nylene share some of their spooky travels and the dark locations they have been. Nylene visited the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, WV and Nym shares the history of The Metarie cemetery of New Orleans, LA.  Enter the Nightmare for show notes, transcripts, sources, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Intrigued by Nym's story of the Bermuda Triangle, Nylene dipped her toes into the mysterious waters of the Lake Michigan Triangle. Nym went back in time to pioneer days to find a very messed up family of serial killers - The Bloody Benders. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nylene dances with Japanese water spirits and Nym travels through carnival attractions and filming sets with an unlucky outlaw. Ace joins for an update on a crime from a previous episode. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nylene covers the shocking 1930s massacre that took place in the village of Kamo-Machi Japan, and Nym keeps the macabre rolling by exploring the several many intricacies of Victorian death customs. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym takes the reigns this week to talk about one of her earliest nightmares - The Bermuda Triangle Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

In a change for the norm (can anything in the cottage be considered normal?) we are just covering one story for this episode. Nylene tells us about the horrific murders inflicted by Gary Hilton, the National Forest Serial Killer. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, transcripts, sources, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

In this episode, Nym dives into the nightmare of parasomnia and Nylene follows the terrifying run of John Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer.  Enter the Nightmare for show notes, sources, transcripts, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym recounts various tales of headless horsemen while Nylene dives into the fascinating world of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and her dark death. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, transcripts, sources, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nylene talks about some of the dark consequences of the London Blitz and the murder of Rachel Dobkin. Nym decides to start perusing various horror tropes, starting with zombies. Lots of Nightmare Fuel to be had! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym talks about the history and evolution of gargoyles. Nylene faces some very terrifying scenarios of real life Final Destination style deaths.  Enter the Nightmare for transcripts, show notes, and sources. Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym & Nylene plunge into the darkness for their stories this week. Nylene talks about ancient Roman poison rings that circulated the widow maker Aqua Tofana. Nym sneaks over to the true crime side of things with a look into the 1981 death of actress Natalie Wood. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, transcripts, sources, and more! Mature and disturbing content contained within. Music by Nine In...

The Nightmare Cottage welcomes a new Nightmare Kitty, Sushi. She fits right in with our spooky bunch. Nylene takes a glimpse at the disturbing truths about dangerous wellness. Nym dives deep into the life of Mary Shelley and takes a look at the many adaptations of Frankenstein. Enter the Nightmare for transcription, show notes, source, and more. Music by Nine Inch Nails

After a hectic holiday season, Nym and Nylene savor their time in the cottage to relax and talk about nightmares. Nym talks about the spooky urban legend of the arcade game Polybius. Nylene creeps us out with some unsettling natural phenomena, both explained and unexplained. Enter the Nightmare for transcripts, show notes, sources, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nym & Nylene talk about some of the many nightmarish winter monsters from folklore across Europe. Nym celebrates the goddess of the alpines and terrifying nightmare, Frau Perchta. Nylene covers several wicked and festive monsters including the Yule Lads, Gryla, and the Yule Cat. Enter the Nightmare for transcript, show notes, sources, and more! Music by Nine Inch Nails

Nylene is getting excited for winter holidays, so Nym sets the scene with wintery legend, the Windigo. Nylene takes Nym on an adventure with her first time hearing the story of the Somerton Man.  Enter the Nightmare for transcript, sources, and full show notes.  Music by Nine Inch Nails

Tuck in with Nylene and Nym for some grotesque and unsettling stories that fit the mood of the holiday with some dark roots and dark fruits, Thanksgiving. Nym explores many of the stories of origin of the holiday while Nylene serves a grim dish of retail murder. If you're checking this out on day one or revisiting in hypothetical future years for some turkey day nostalgia - take your chunk of meat...

Nylene takes us into the dark and gritty history of Icelandic Sorcery. Keeping with the dark magical vibes, Nym spins the tale of slavic witch, Baba Yaga. Enter the nightmare for show notes, sources, and transcripts.

Unable to choose just one, Nylene gives us a buffet of cryptids for our curious minds. Then Nym ruins everything by talking about clowns at length. Enter the nightmare for full show notes and transcript.

We can’t get enough of Halloween here, so we had a second helping. Nym combs through Halloween urban legends and reminds you to always check your candy. Nylene tells of a violent Halloween murder, where candy is again, star of the show. Happy Halloween one and all! Enter the nightmare for transcript, show notes, sources, and more!

It’s the Most wonderful tiiiiiiiiiiime of the year! Nym takes us through the origins of samhain and its journey to becoming halloween. Nylene then takes us on a journey across the globe to various halloween adjacent celebrations. Enter the Nightmare for show notes, transcripts, sources, and more!

We’re getting settled and talking about movies! Nylene uncovers a piece of lost media that perhaps motivated a manic man to murder. Then, Nym destroys everyone’s childhood by exposing the brutal experience of filming The Wizard of Oz. Toxic touch-ups, Poorly-planned pyrotechnics, and on-set violence - Oh my! Enter the nightmare for notes and sources!

Welcome to the Nightmare Cottage! In our inaugural episode, we dive in to the dark side of cinema. Nylene kicks everything off with the gruesome tale of a man who, inspired by horror movies, commited a series of violent murders. Nym’s nightmares also come from the silver screen. She explores the many unfortunate events surrounding the filming of the Poltergeist movie series. Forgive the dust! We’r...