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Can a song push a person to the edge enough to take their own life? or is it all just a coincidence? Tomcat and Billy talk about the infamous Hungarian suicide song for this week's strange topic!  Rezső Seress and László Jávor’s song “Gloomy Sunday” may be one of the most depressing songs ever recorded, and is commonly called “The Hungarian Suicide Song” because of its connection to a rash of 20th...

It's often said that war is hell, and it turns out that it provides the perfect cover for doing something just as awful — committing serial murders. For a handful of serial killers, the chaos and distractions of war provided perfect cover for killing not in the name of cause or country but for thrill of it.  Imagine living in the middle of World War II, wondering when you and your loved ones will...

Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased—21 women and 18 men of varying ages—were all found lying peaceably in matching dark clothes and Nike sneakers and had no noticeable signs of blood or trauma. It was later revealed that the men and women were members of the "Hea...

Clifford Robert Olson Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and young adults between the ages of 9 and 18 years in the early 1980s. Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist. The bodies of the three boys and eight girls, aged between 9 and 18, had been found in secluded areas within a 90-kilometre radius of Vancouver. Some of the victims had been r...

We are back on this infamous ship headed on a voyage to the darkness of the ocean to talk about ghost stories of the Titanic. The RMS Titanic set out on its maiden voyage with more than 2,200 people aboard in April 1912. Tragically, only 706 of those passengers would survive. The ship was moving too fast one freezing night and struck an iceberg and went down. Those who perished in the event suffer...

On part 2 of the Jack the Ripper series, Tomcat and Billy dive into the investigation of this infamous historical serial killer! Butchers, slaughterers, surgeons, and physicians were suspected because of the manner of the mutilations. "who done it?" we may never know but the list of suspects is long.    Follow all the madness on social media! Support us on Patreon!  www.patreon.com/strangebrewpodc...

Strange brew is officially doing our first two parter episodes on one of the most infamous unknown serial killers to exist in history! Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murder...

Many abducting Cases involving Reptilians go way beyond bizarre and are often too STRANGE to even properly classify as one thing or another. All such reports are surreal and outlandish, but some of them... maybe some could be a real life account of being face to face with a Reptilian Overlord. We’re be getting into some bizarre and just straight up f**ked up abduction cases involving Retile alien...

Mary Bell killed two young boys in 1968. When she was released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence, she was only 23 years old. In other words, Mary Bell was only 10 when she started committing her murders. But her experiences of violence didn’t begin there — pain and death were her companions almost from the moment of her birth...    Follow all the madness on social media! Support us on P...

Tomcat and Billy are travelling back to the Victorian era to talk about one of the most "handsy" cryptids in folklore. Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings were reported all over Great Britain and were especially prevalent in suburban London, the Midlands and Scotland.  There are many...

Wishing farewell to the old year with the hope that it will be replaced by a newer and better one has been a tradition for more than 4,000 years.  Keep your eyes, ears, and sixth sense open, for you may experience an eerie encounter in a haunted place around you! For many entities, use the energy of this international powerhouse event to make a splash into the new year!   Follow all the madness on...

When people hear the words “ghosts” and “Christmas” in the same sentence, one is likely to immediately think of those of Charles Dickens’ beloved classic story A Christmas Carol, with Scrooge and his harrowing night of being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.  Other than this, it does not seem that this season of joy and peace should have anything at all to do with ghost...

More than a century after it sank, the story of the RMS Titanic still fascinates people around the world, and as with any large-scale tragedy, not everyone believes mainstream explanations for the incident. There may not be many Titanic conspiracy theories out there but there are some prevailing ones. Tomcat and Anton catch the last life boat off this sinking ship before they drowned in the depths...

Fresno, California, might not always be the most exciting place in the world, but it has one claim to fame that's out of this world. The Fresno Nightcrawler sightings began back in the 1990s and have only occurred a few times since then. These strange beings are cryptids that look like pants, but are only a few feet high and are seen just wandering around. There are only a few eyewitnesses in Fres...

Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bones has become a cultural institution known for its powerful alumni and various conspiracy theories. It is one of the "Big Three" societies at Yale, the other tw...

One aspect of the UFO phenomenon that has been going on for quite some time is that of alien abductions. These are the times when people are taken willingly or not, and whisked off to the unknown, often coming back with some very strange stories to tell.  but one of the weirdest is that of a South African woman who claims to not only have been abducted to an alien planet, but also to have had an a...

Tomcat and Anton are talking about Mr 14 inches himself, Legendary porn star John Holmes and his involvement in the infamous wonderland murders! When Alice fell down the rabbit hole and landed in Wonderland, she found a smoking caterpillar, a bitch of a queen and a ton of mind and body alternating drugs. But......that’s only a children’s tale, but the real-life Wonderland wasn’t far off: a drug ho...

Tomcat and Juan dive back into their favourite subject... CRYPTIDS! Bigfoot sightings in northeast Ohio are nothing new – inexplicable bipedal cryptids been sighted in the area for at least 75 years – but the Minerva Monster incident, which triggered a massive coordinated search for an elusive “huge, hairy creature” that stalked the woods and terrified a local family near the town of Minerva, has...

It's about to get spooky and STRANGE this Halloween as Tomcat, Billy and Alex celebrate the scary season by drinking the witches brew. They're talking about some terrifying tales from poisonous candy, killer attractions and spine-chilling games you can play around the ancient holiday of Sam Hain! Many urban legends suggest that children are in danger of receiving apples full of razor blades; a vil...

Oh Hot Damn! It's getting steamy and wet with blood on this week's episode! Tomcat is back with Billy and Alex as they discuss people who get down and oh so dirty with the dead. Necrophilia is a pathological fascination with dead bodies, which often takes the form of a desire to engage with them in sexual activities, such as intercourse. Though prohibited by the laws of many countries, there have...

The Malleus Maleficarum Witch Hunters’ Handbook- In 1487 during the Inquisition, two Dominican friars, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger published the witch-hunters’ book, Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). The misogynistic manual promoted the idea that women are inherently evil and form pacts with the devil. As a justification for Kramer’s unfair trials and horrific acts of torture, the bo...

During the mid-1940s, there was panic all over in Mattoon, Illinois. Many residents stayed inside their homes for the fear of an intruder that could not be seen, but carried a terrible weapon. They became helpless, paralyzed and unable to request for assistance. The person or people believed to be responsible for the attacks are notoriously known as the “Mad Gasser of Mattoon,” or the “Phantom Ane...

Billy's Back! Him and Tomcat will be diving into "America's youngest serial killer" On this week's episode! Jesse Harding Pomeroy known as "the boston boy fiend" was only 14 years old when he killed two children, but he had been brutally beating and disfiguring others for years before In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy became the youngest person ever convicted of first-degree murder in Massachusetts. He was o...

The gruesome saga of the Black Donnellys has been heavily mythologized. A thick layer of rumour, legend, and hearsay has built up around the facts of the case. But one thing is clear. No one will ever forget the murderous events that occurred near the town of Lucan, Ontario in the 1870s!    Follow all the madness on social media!  Support us on Patreon!   www.patreon.com/strangebrewpodcast www.str...

Some of the most evil places can appear to have a quant and nice. Sitting within a peaceful, quiet area of Hartford City, in the state of Indiana, in the United States, is a large, old-fashioned white-sided Victorian house that lies at 218 North Monroe Street and might not typically attract any particular attention. The Monroe House is ground zero for a string of malevolent and breathtakingly inte...