The House of Syx

On December 5, 1945, five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers left Fort Lauderdale for a routine overwater navigation exercise. They had maps. Radios. Military training. An experienced instructor. And every reason to expect they would be home before dinner. Instead, Flight 19 became lost over the Atlantic. The radio record captures a disaster coming apart in real time: failed compasses, broken islands be...

Mata Hari is remembered as the ultimate femme fatale spy: a glamorous dancer, courtesan, and alleged double agent executed by France during World War I. But behind the legend is Margaretha Zelle, a Dutch woman who survived a disastrous marriage, devastating loss, financial instability, and the narrow choices available to women before reinventing herself in Paris as Mata Hari. In this episode, Jenn...

There are some dangers you can see coming. A dark alley. A loaded gun. A locked room. And then there are the dangers that arrive warm from the kitchen. This week on The House of Syx , Jenn and Jared dig into the story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant cook whose name became shorthand for contagion, denial, public health panic, and one very uncomfortable question: Wha...

On March 25, 1911, a small fire broke out inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan. Less than 30 minutes later, 146 workers were dead. Most were young immigrant women and teenage girls. Some burned. Some suffocated. Some jumped from the windows while crowds watched from the streets below. And the worst part? Almost every part of this disaster was preventable. This week, Jenn drags Jared...

What looks like a perfect suburban life… isn’t always what it seems. In 1971, a quiet New Jersey neighborhood went undisturbed while something unthinkable sat inside a beautiful home. No movement. No noise. No answers. Inside were five people… and for nearly a month, no one checked. This episode tells the story of John List — a man who appeared completely ordinary: a husband a father a churchgoing...

38 people heard her screams… and did nothing. That’s the story most of us have heard. For decades, the murder of Kitty Genovese has been used as the defining example of the bystander effect —a case that supposedly proved people will stand by and do nothing in the face of violence. But the truth is more complicated than that. In this episode, we take a closer look at what really happened on that ni...

What happens when a 24-year-old inherits absolute power over the most powerful empire in the ancient world? In this episode of The House of Syx , Jenn and Jared dive into the chaotic, bizarre, and often unbelievable reign of Caligula—a ruler remembered for excess, cruelty, and behavior so strange that historians are still debating whether he was truly insane… or just dangerously powerful. From dec...

In 1932, America was deep in the Great Depression and looking for heroes. Charles Lindbergh was one of them. After becoming an international sensation for completing the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, Lindbergh and his family lived under constant public attention. But their fame would soon collide with one of the most shocking crimes in American history. When Lindbergh's infant son disap...

On February 24, 1978, five men drove from Yuba City to Chico, California to watch a college basketball game. It was supposed to be a simple night out. They never came home. Days later, their car was found abandoned on a remote mountain road in Plumas National Forest — undamaged, fueled, and locked. Four sets of footprints led uphill into the snow. What followed was a months-long search, a remote f...

In September 1922, the bodies of a prominent minister and a church choir singer were discovered in a secluded lover’s lane in New Jersey. Torn love letters were arranged around them, transforming a violent crime into a public morality play almost instantly. The Hall–Mills case became less about evidence and more about reputation, class, and scandal. The crime scene was never secured. Witnesses wan...

In 1918, New Orleans was already breaking. The war had ended, the Spanish flu was tearing through the city, and trust in institutions was thin. Then people began dying in their beds. Homes were entered without force. Weapons were taken from inside the house. Little or nothing was stolen. And no one could agree on whether these attacks were connected, or if the city was simply unraveling. Then came...

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognized artists in history — and one of the most misunderstood. In this episode, we examine the life of Vincent van Gogh without mythology or romantic shorthand. From a childhood shaped by loss, through repeated professional failure and intense emotional dependence on his brother Theo, to a final, explosive period of artistic output, we follow the reality of...

🎙️ Bullets, Bears, and Bull Moose Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Power Theodore Roosevelt was not a quiet man, a cautious president, or an uncomplicated figure. In this episode of The House of Syx , Jenn and Jared dig into the life and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt —from sickly child with asthma to Rough Rider, from trust-buster to conservationist, from football reformer to Bull Moose candida...

In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from a remote Scottish island. No bodies. No distress signal. No final explanation. What remained was an extinguished light, an abandoned meal, and just enough physical evidence to suggest something went terribly wrong. In this episode, Jenn walks Jared through the real history of the Flannan Isles disappearance, separating documented fact from l...

A man is found sitting against a seawall on Somerton Beach in 1948. No identification. No labels in his clothes. An undetectable poison. A suitcase that leads nowhere. A book with a torn page. A single phrase tucked into a hidden pocket that reads: Tamam Shud . In this episode, we walk through the evidence, the theories, and the modern DNA breakthrough that finally revealed his name. This is the r...

A boy king. A forgotten tomb. And a discovery that changed the world — or at least made a few British archaeologists very rich and very cursed. This week, Jenn drags Jared deep into the sands of Egypt for a journey through King Tut’s short, strange life and his spectacularly lucky afterlife. From Akhenaten’s sun cult and family drama to Howard Carter’s flickering candlelight moment in 1922, Dynast...

🕯️ The House of Syx: Episode 13 — Midnight, Murders, and the Man at Number Ten They say thirteen’s an unlucky number. But for John Christie, the quiet man behind the door at Number 10 Rillington Place, luck was never really part of the story. In this episode, Jenn and Jared unravel how a seemingly ordinary man built a double life of control, deception, and murder—while postwar London tried to rebu...

When a caravan of hopeful pioneers set out for California in 1846, they expected hardship — not horror. The Donner Party’s story has become American folklore for all the wrong reasons: false shortcuts, frozen passes, and the unthinkable choices that follow when hope and humanity start to starve. In this episode, Jenn unpacks the real events behind the sensational headlines, separating fact from fe...

Hollywood in the 1920s looked glamorous on the silver screen — but off camera, it was full of scandals, secrets, and cover-ups. When famed director William Desmond Taylor was found dead in his Los Angeles bungalow, the whispers started and never really stopped. From Mabel Normand’s troubled friendship , to Mary Miles Minter’s love letters , to Charlotte Shelby’s infamous .38 revolver , Taylor’s st...

Amelia Earhart was the most famous woman in the world — and then she vanished. In this episode of The House of Syx , we unravel the forces that shaped her fame, the pressure of her final flight, and the haunting last calls that still echo across the Pacific. From the stunts of early aviation to the Lockheed Electra’s doomed journey, Amelia and Fred Noonan’s story is both iconic and tragic. 🎧 Join...

In March 1922, six members of the Gruber family were found murdered on a remote Bavarian farm called Hinterkaifeck. When neighbors broke into the barn, they uncovered one of the most chilling mysteries in German history: stacked bodies hidden under hay, eerie signs that someone had lived in the house after the murders, and footprints in the snow that led in—but never out. This episode explores: Th...

E8: Tracks, Tents, and Terror In 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers set out into the snowy wilderness of the Ural Mountains—and never came back. What began as a routine expedition quickly spiraled into one of the most chilling and debated unsolved mysteries in modern history: the Dyatlov Pass Incident . Found scattered across the snow, some barely clothed, others with strange injuries, their fin...

He lit up the world—or so he claimed. But what if Edison wasn’t the genius we were taught to worship? In this episode of The House of Syx , we take a hard look at Thomas Edison, America’s so-called wizard. We’re not here to deny his impact—we’re here to question the methods. From patent theft to public smear campaigns, electrocuted animals to studio raids, Edison’s legacy was carefully constructed...

Who was H. H. Holmes, really? Forget what you’ve heard about trapdoors, gas chambers, and maze-like hotels. In this episode, we peel back the myths surrounding H. H. Holmes—the so-called “Devil in the White City”—and reveal a man who was far less criminal mastermind and far more sleazy conman with a good mustache and a lot of lies. We’ll follow his path from medical student to fraudster, from real...

E5: Mary Celeste – Sails, Silence, and the Sea A ship found adrift. No crew. No lifeboat. No signs of struggle. Just canvas, timber, and silence. In this episode, Jenn tells Jared the haunting story of the Mary Celeste — one of the most enduring maritime mysteries in history. What was supposed to be a routine voyage to Italy ended with a ghost ship drifting through the Atlantic. Theories abound, b...