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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, December 8th, 2023 Edition

In December of 1908, an eighty-three-year-old woman named Marion Gilchrist was beaten to death in her home in Glasgow, Scotland, the victim of an apparent robbery gone wrong. Shortly afterward, police collared a man named Oscar Slater for the crime, even though there was clear evidence that he was not the killer. Despite this, Slater … Continue reading Episode 381: Oscar Slater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Murder of Marion Gilchrist

Tom and Jenny talk about the 2002 made for TV pilot A Haunting in Georgia, as well as the fictionalized 2013 film The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia. Both are based on the Wyrick haunting from the 1980s and 1990s. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to … Continue reading A Haunting in Georgia (2002) vs. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

Tom and Jenny talk about the latest kaiju film from Toho, easily the best Godzilla movie since the 1954 original. 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 … Continue reading Movie Time: Godzilla Minus One (2023)

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)