Witches, Magic, Murder, & Mystery

(This episode was originally released as an extra Patreon episode, but it’s one that we want more people to know about, so here it is on the regular feed!) This story enrages us. Just be prepared. In the late 19th century, oil was found on land owned by the Osage people in Oklahoma. By the 1920s, this oil, as well as smart negotiating moves by the Osage, would make the Osage people “the richest na...

This is a rough one guys. TW: sex crimes, crimes against children. In 1999, Jessica Dishon disappeared from her home in Shepherdsville, KY. It would take several years for someone to be held accountable for her murder. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcas...

Agatha Christie is known as the queen of mystery, thanks to her 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections, and her whodunit play that is the longest running play in theatre history—but in 1926, she was the center of a mystery that played out on the front pages of newspapers rather than her books. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t...

When Julius Fazekas arrived in the Hungarian village of Nagyrév in 1911, the women there turned to her for help with all sorts of issues…basic medical needs, pregnancy-related care, how to get rid of their husbands…..you know, the usual. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-mu...

The Basel Papyrus has been in the University of Basel’s possession since the 16th century, its contents indecipherable. Once researchers realized how to decode its writing, they were left with what appears to be the journal of a Roman physician, with notes about an interesting illness. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do...

In the basement of the COS Clothing Store in New York City, you can still see the well where a body was found at the end of 1799, leading to the first recorded murder trial of our very young country. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.c...

From the late 1850s until 1889, a man dressed entirely in leather repeatedly walked a 365-mile loop from the Connecticut River to the Hudson River, sleeping in a series of caves along the way. Who was this man? Where did he come from? And why did he walk this loop? Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, a...

The Source Family has been called “the wildest cult you’ve never heard of.” Luckily, Kara is here to tell you all about it. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMysteryPodca...

Every three years, the people who live on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi dig up their dead loved ones and dress them for the Ma’nene Festival, a celebration of life. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Pat...

If you’ve ever wondered what started the Satanic Panic back in the 80s, Megan does a deep, deep (too deep?) dive into the topic. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WitchesMagicMurderMystery...

Elmer McCurdy was a pretty terrible bank robber, and his death during a shootout with police back in the early 1900s seemed like a fairly unsurprising end to his life. The thing is, Elmer’s story continues for another 60ish years after his death. You guys are not going to believe this one. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we coul...

Dennis Nilsen had a fascination with dead bodies, and confessed to murdering at least 15 men and boys in the 1970s. This is one of the more disturbing cases we’ve covered- so don’t eat while listening, and you know, feel free to skip it if a super dark story isn’t going to be good for you to hear. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witc...

This week, Kara talks about some of her favorite haunted places in Charleston!  Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys!  There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery  Podcast store: https://witches-...

Lars Mittank has been called the most famous missing person on Youtube. Security footage of his last known whereabouts has been viewed by millions of people. Where. Is. He?! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com Youtube Channel: https:...

When a woman walked into Dr. Jules Cotard’s office complaining of feeling empty, the doctor looked back through history to find an answer, and ended up naming an incredibly rare collection of symptoms that’s sometimes called Walking Corpse Syndrome. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in...

Jerry Brudos was a serial killer in Oregon who had a thing for women’s shoes, which eventually turned into a thing for women’s feet, which eventually turned into….you can probably see where this is going. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery Podcast Store: https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshop...

At first you’re gonna think, oh, this is a murder story. And it IS, but the murder ISN’T REALLY THE POINT OF THIS ONE. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermy...

Here’s a topic that comes up a lot when people find out what kind of podcast we do—how come there used to be so many serial killers and now there aren’t? So Megan did a deep dive into the subject, and now we’re giving you all sorts of factors that may be responsible for the increased number of serial killers from the 1970s-90s, what led to the decline, and what might lead to another surge in the (...

On October 30, 1926, Marvin Clark left his home in Tigard, Oregon to make the ten-mile trip to visit his daughter in Portland. He never made it to his daughter, and he never came home. What happened to him? Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! There’s bonus content, ad-fre...

Katarzyna Zowada was the victim of a horrific murder that took place in Poland. This case is still awaiting trial, so of course all of our opinions about the accused are opinions based on the publicly available information as of July 12, 2022.  Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by y...

It seems like nobody thought anything strange was going on after Blanche Taylor Moore’s first two husbands died, but when the third man she planned to marry got sick, people started asking more questions. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/witchesmagicmurdermystery There’s NEW MERCH in the podcast store! https://witches-magic-murder-mys...

We’re talking about three creepy Puerto Rican legends today—La Garita del Diablo, La Llorona, and the legend of Violeta, which is very similar to Chicago’s Resurrection Mary (which we covered in episode 85). Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! Thanks for sending us these,...

When a couple is found brutally murdered beneath a crabapple tree in New Jersey, it’s the beginning of a wild media sensation, the likes of which the country hadn’t seen before. From the victims to the murder to the trial, the Hall-Mills Murders spawned headline after headline, and once you hear it, you’ll understand why. There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! htt...

Megan’s bringing you a couple of witch stories today—first, the legend of the Witch of Yazoo City, and second, the story of Hellish Nell, a working medium in the 1940s. Our Tuesday episodes are usually shorter than our Friday episodes, focusing on topics we didn’t think we could do a full episode on, and often sent in by you guys! Thanks for sending us these, Amy and Pamela! Podcast store: https:/...

Bobbie Sue Dudley’s nursing license had already been suspended in Illinois when she was hired as a night supervisor at a nursing home in Florida. Twelve patients died under her watch before she was finally stopped. There’s NEW MERCH in the podcast store! https://witches-magic-murder-mystery-podcast-store.myshopify.com There’s bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks on our Patreon! https:/...