Happy Halloween! Tonight is mischief night, so for our final Freak Week episode we are diving into the history of the Ouija Board. How did it rise to such popularity before the realization of its demonic nature? Join us for a spooky time!

It's day four of Freak Week, and today we are talking about the cursed Annabelle doll. You know her as the demonic porcelain doll from the movies, but the real inspiration behind her was actually a much different, yet familiar face. How did she become possessed, end up in the hands of Ed and Lorraine Warren, get blamed for the death of a young college student, make her one and only cameo on a popular tv show, and where is she now?

Freak Week day 3 is here, and todays episode is all about the Michigan Dogman. He’s a 7 foot tall, yellow eyed canine creature, with the body of a human and a screaming howl. He first appeared in Michigan folklore in the late 1800s. Since then, more claims from around the country and the globe have popped up, but are they all related or is the Dogman exclusively a Michigan resident?

Day 2 of Freak Week is here and we are getting into the lore of the Skinwalkers. You might have heard of the extraterrestrial hotspot of Skinwalker Ranch, but do you know the background of these sinister shape-shifting tricksters? Hint: It has nothing to do with aliens.

Bonus blooper reel at the end!

Sources: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/navajo-skinwalkers/

Welcome to Freak Week! This week we are giving you 5 spooky episodes back to back in celebration of Halloween! Up first: Campfire Chronicles. We asked you to send us your creepy, weird, and all around abnormal stories, and wow did ya'll deliver! We share some of them on this episode, and wish we could share them all! We will make this a periodic thing as long as the stories keep coming, so send us your strange and unusual campfire tales! 

On Christmas Eve of 1945, Jennie and George Sodder were asleep along with 9 of their children when a fire startled them awake. Their home was burned to the ground within 45 minutes, allowing only Jennie, George, and 4 of their children to escape. The remaining 5 children, between the ages of 5-14, did not make it out, nor were any of their remains found in the rubble. The children were dismissed to have been burned to cremation in the fire, although the Sodders almost immediately began to question the odd occurrences that surrounded the days and hours leading up to the fire. The children are still unaccounted for to date, but what led to the fire and lack of answers? Was it George's mysterious childhood in Italy prior to immigrating to the US, his public outspoken political reputation, a bad deal with a local banker, mafia troubles, or were they simply targeted by some unknown dark individuals? This is one of the most mind racking mysteries we have ever heard, and we dig up all of the details.

References:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

Bob Lazar came out as a whistleblower in the late 1980's with claims that he was hired to reverse engineer an alien spacecraft at a secret testing site called S-4, located just south of Area 51.  He says that the specific craft he studied was fueled by non-Earthly antigravity matter called Element 115. A series of events led him to go public with his story, which he was equally applauded and criticized for at the time. Now, 30 years later, none of his claims have been disproved. On the contrary, there has been small moments of vindication for him with certain details of his story. Is he just a conspiracy theorist or a true whistleblower with information that the public deserves to know? 

Brittany Murphy was one of Hollywood's brightest and most promising young stars. Things in her career and her life took a turn for the worst when she met the man she would marry. When Brittany died suddenly at the age of 32, everyone was in shock and wanted answers. How could this happen and what, or who, was resposible?

Great article written by Brittany's long time family friend Alex Ben Block: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/final-difficult-days-brittany-murphy-70059

Just when you start to think this story was crazy, there's more. In episode 2 we pick up where we left off with Charles Vallow shot dead by Lori's brother Alex, conflicting stories coming from Lori and Alex, and Lori notifies Charles' sons via text message that their father has passed while withholding the details they continually ask her for. Now we head into a series of even more bizarre and suspicious occurrences before it all starts to unravel. Attempted shootings, more marriages, more mysterious deaths, missing children, and a heart wrenching conclusion... all in the name of this doomsday fuckery. There really is no other way to describe it.

In December 2019, Lori Vallow made headlines when it was announced that her 2 children, 7 year old JJ Vallow and 17 year old Tylee Ryan, had been missing since that September. What has unraveled from there is so unbelievably wild, from doomsday cults, to multiple suspicious deaths close to Lori, cover ups, plus countless lies and contradicting stories that followed her for years. Details are still coming to light even today that just continue to make our heads spin trying to understand what exactly happened to JJ and Tylee. In Part 1 we cover a bit of Lori's background, including her religious upbringing as well as multiple marriages, how she came into a doomsday cult, and a suspicious death that catapults a series of events.