Web Crawlers

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  On 19 February 2008, nine-year-old Shannon Louise Matthews was reported missing in West Yorkshire, England. She would ultimately be found alive, but the details surrounding her kidnapping would point to a member of Shannon's own family. Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter...

The new Chippendales show is out on Hulu so here's a rerelease of our episode from 2021. Chippendales is known for being the first all-male exotic dance troupe, but behind the buff bods and mustaches lies a dark story of corruption, lies, greed, and murder. Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  There are hundreds of anonymous cut linoleum mosaic tiles in cities across the globe, often in very well-trodden crosswalks, certainly within reach of the most high-traffic pedestrian areas. These tiles started appearing between 1983-87 in Philadelphia, and have been continuing as recently a...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  The very bizarre murder of Cari Farver. Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melissa is still on maternity leave so here's a re-release of one of our favorite episodes: Red Lobster once lost over three million dollars during an “Endless Crab” promotion because they underestimated how much people could eat. The demand for crab was so high, Red Lobster had to pay exorbitant prices in order to keep supplying it to customers. How did Red Lobster get into this mess? ALSO: How l...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  How does the art of conceptual artist Marina Abramović inspire an entire conspiracy on Spirit Cooking?? Listen to find out! This episode has excerpts read from: The Propaganda Pipeline: Hacking the Core from the Periphery by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts When Marina Abramovic...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  The Reptilian Conspiracy is based on an idea that there are a race of reptiles that live here on earth, disguised as human beings, using either science, magic or shapeshifting to do so. Today we’re going to take a look at just some of the roots of The Reptilian Conspiracy and some influentia...

With the new series The Watcher out, we're rereleasing our episode from 2020 of the TRUE story of 657 Boulevard: In 2014, a family bought their dream home, but was tormented by anonymous threatening letters from a so-called "Watcher." It was a nightmare that kept getting stranger and stranger. Was it a neighbor? An inside job? Producer Maria? Source: https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  In 1971, the writer William Peter Blatty published The Exorcist, a novel based on a true story of a child's demonic possession. This story would go on to terrify millions of people when it was adapted into the seminal 1973 film of the same name. But just what was the true story? How did it d...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  Lauren Deborah of the My Dad Stole My Limelight Podcast joins Ali to discuss The Flora Valley Station Mystery. In 1986, two Australian teenagers vanished from an outback cattle station and their bodies were found months later under mysterious circumstances. Did they die from heat and exhaust...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  Michelle & Ashley of TSFU Podcast join Ali to discuss cult leader Terri Hoffman who created the Conscious Development. She claimed to have supernatural abilities to communicate with the dead, and believed it was her duty to wage war against entities called the Black Lords. Ten cult membe...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  Comic book historian Jacque Nodell joins Ali to discuss three stories: Nicolas Cage’s stolen comic book collection, the murder of Homer Marciniak, and lawyer Anthony Chiofalo who embezzled millions of dollars to buy comic books.  Listen to Jacque’s Podcast: Sequential Crush   Webcr...

While Melissa is on maternity leave Ali is having guest hosts from our Patreon do their own episodes!  Emily Shacklette joins Ali to talk about Cosmo DiNardo and the lost boys of Bucks County. In July 2017, four young men went missing in the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County within days of each other. All roads led to the DiNardo family farm and their 20-year-old son Cosmo.  Listen to...

Catfish mom update. A surprise wedding and proposal at Bertucci’s. A DMT trip gone wrong. An unhinged 4-part Denver airport synchronicity. A listener’s mom getting involved in money laundering. Not syncing “let’s get into it.” Military contract explanation.    Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporter.acast.co...

We give you a play by play of all the drama surrounding Olivia Wilde’s movie Don’t Worry Darling. It’s A LOT.   Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EMAIL: AWOL explanation.  VOICEMAILS: Pretending there’s a ghost in your house for fun. Getting creepy voicemails from a prison inmate. Maria is the Mona Lisa of the podcast. Catfish mom update. Why MEN shouldn’t be doctors. Why go to San Antonio for Christmas? A nice haunting. We pronounced Katarzyna wrong. X-Files explanation. Hearing a scary scratching noise at your door.     Web...

Armie Hammer's leaked texts and DMs reveal disturbing behavior, but his extremely wealthy family has an even darker history of abuse, power struggles, sexual assault, and getting away with literal murder.    Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

VOICEMAILS: Using horseshoe crab blood to make vaccines. George Washington/Mona Lisa face. Bay Area weirdness. Almost getting kidnapped at USC. Stock photo photographer insights. International phone call hack. Another listener got their drivers license! Six part update on the mom’s catfish.    Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support t...

Steven Kubacki went missing during a ski trip in Michigan and reappeared over a year later claiming to have no recollection of where he’s been. Is he telling the truth? We also get into the odd reappearances of Amanda Eller who went missing in Hawaii for 17 days, Lisa Theris who went missing in the Alabama woods after a meth-fueled burglary, and William Hughes who went AWOL from the Air Force for...

A late night thank you. Insight into the Sodder family mystery. Rumpology. Dogs growling at our podcast. The Langoliers. A song for Maria. Flat earthers at a farmers market. Another song for Maria. Bizarro Walter. Elizabeth Holmes impression. Quick hello from Joren. Seeing a hedgehog for the first time. Oh no!   Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / M...

23 year old Katarzyna Zowada was a student in Poland who went missing in 1998. A suit made from her skin was found months later when it became stuck in the propeller of a tugboat. This was one of the biggest unsolved cases in Poland’s history until a suspect was arrested in 2017. (We realized after the fact we pronounced Katarzyna's name incorrectly and we're sorry! #Bimbos) Webcrawlerspod@gm...

VOICEMAILS: Creepy harassment on a Danube riverboat cruise. 2022 has been no one’s year. Muscle cream backfire. A listener is in love with James from Vegas. Hamburger University. Sleeping through a proposal. Getting revenge for a menopause joke. We should still be watching the Simpsons. Saving an internet friend in another country. We should do a live show in Portland, Maine.    Webcrawl...

In February 1978 five men headed from their home in Yuba County, California to watch a college basketball game. They left after it finished and then somehow drove up a mountain into the wilderness and were never seen alive again. This mystery is sometimes referred to as the “American Dyatlov Pass.”    Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Me...

VOICEMAILS: A stone at a music festival. Swimming in a lake with a dead body. A very mean bus driver. Being diagnosed with ADHD in your thirties. @MyStockPhotoLife instagram account. Weewoo wee woo. Simpsons Movie NSA spying. Non-player characters. Hearing a ghost singing in the bathroom. Roe v. Wade theory.    Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon...

In the 1980s, Dorothy Scott was a single mom living in California. She worked at a head shop and lived a pretty quiet life, until a mysterious man started stalking and calling her. During a trip to the ER to help her coworker with a black widow spider bite, she disappeared.  Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com 626-604-6262 Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / Merch Support this show http://supporte...