Audio version: Video version (part 1): Video version (part 2): Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Please try out TubeBuddy! And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, December 1st, 2023 Edition

Human beings like to think they’re at the top of the food chain, but some of these critters would like to respectfully disagree. On this episode, Tom and Jenny discuss a handful of infamous man-eating animals, from a pride of lions that may have gobbled down up to 2,000 people, to an enormous Nile crocodile … Continue reading Episode 380: Man-Eating Animals

Tom and Jenny compare and contrast the 2002 made for TV pilot A Haunting in Connecticut to the 2009 fictionalized “Hollywood” version, The Haunting in Connecticut, starring Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan. Both are retellings of the supposedly true Snedeker haunting from the 1980s. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to … Continue reading Movie Time: A Haunting in Connecticut (2002) vs. The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Please try out TubeBuddy! And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, November 24th, 2023 Edition

Over the past decade or more, one of the most prevalent trends in creepy internet storytelling involves so-called analog horror, a subgenre similar to found footage that utilizes old analog media, particularly VHS and retro television broadcasts, to tell its stories. Sometimes featured in the analog subgenre is the concept of liminal space, generally described … Continue reading Episode 379: Analog Horror, The Backrooms, and Liminal Spaces

Tom and Jenny discuss the third(ish) film from horror legend Wes Craven, a made-for-TV thriller starring Linda Blair in which a mysterious cousin moves in with a family in California and proceeds to wreak all kinds of witchy havoc. It was adapted from a YA novel by Lois Duncan, who also wrote the book on … Continue reading Movie Time: Summer of Fear (aka Stranger in Our House) (1978)

Click here for a 30-day free trial of Audible! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Please try out TubeBuddy! And check out our cool merch at … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, November 17th, 2023 Edition

Between February of 1976 and March of 1977, at least four children (and possibly more) were abducted, held captive for a time, and then murdered in Oakland County, Michigan by a person or persons unknown. In the decades since the crimes occurred, several disturbing theories about the case have sprung up, including the notion that … Continue reading Episode 378: The Oakland County Child Killer

Tom and Jenny talk about the mildly smutty 1971 Hammer film, the second in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy, loosely based on the Sheridan Le Fanu vampire novella Carmilla. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror … Continue reading Movie Time: Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Please try out TubeBuddy! And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, November 10th, 2023 Edition