Anxious and Afraid The Pod

In this week's episode, Abby tells Shawna about the 1990 murder of Donald Fish in the town of Roseburg, Oregon.Just before the Fourth of July, Donald Fish was brutally stoned to death and left near the Umpqua River. Listen in to learn the details of...

The crew is back this week with a mind bending mystery! Shawna tells the strange tale of the Georgia Guidestones, a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert county, Georgia with an origin story as strange as the stones themselves. Also known as the American Stonehenge, this monument has it's own commandments for "A New Age Of Reason" and a call for a "New World Order" which was designed by a shadowy secret society. Listen in as the gang attempts to understand this strange monument and it's implications for the future of our planet.

In this week's episode, the gang gets real weird with the case of the Oakville blobs! The state of Washington is no stranger to rainy weather but one evening on August, 1994 in the town of Oakville, something stranger than water came from the sky. Tune in to hear all about the mysterious gelatinous blobs that rained down on the unassuming residents of Oakville and the strange illness that would follow.

In this week's episode, Shawna tells the gang all about the space shuttle Columbia disaster. The events of February 1st, 2003 would go down as one of the United State's most tragic and fatal disasters in spaceflight history. The impact of the tragic event would deeply effect the US's human Spaceflight program after the lost lives of 7 brave men and women. Tune in as the crew discusses how terrifying space is and why flying foam can be a serious issue.

In this week's episode, Shawna and Abby hand over the hosting duties to Chad! He is of course the podcast's talented web designer and husband of Shawna! Chad, being a literary buff, regales the crew with the equally dark and tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe. A poet, writer, literary critic, and editor, Poe was a prolific writer whose macabre works still haunt readers today. Join us in this episode to learn of the unfortunate events that seemed to plague Poe throughout his life and the mysterious death that followed.

In today's episode, Abby will be telling the gang the story of the June and Jennifer Gibbons, AKA the silent twins, born in 1963. Join the crew as they discuss the strange and heartbreaking lives of the misunderstood sisters who spoke to almost no one but each other their entire lives. Only adding to the mystery were the secret lives they led which would ultimately end in tragedy.

In part two of our Andes Flight Disaster series, Shawna tells the gang all about the aftermath of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 plane crash in the Andes and the impossible decisions the survivors were faced with if they wanted to make it out alive. You won't want to miss out on this incredible tale of survival in the face of extreme temperatures, weather, starvation, and whatever else Mother Nature could throw at the ill fated Christian rugby team.

In part one of this two part series, Shawna tells the crew all about the 1972 Andes flight disaster.

In this week's baby bonus episode, Shawna details the Fresno Nightcrawler, also known as the Fresno alien. This cryptid has been spotted on video footage not once but twice in California and the content is eerie to say the least. Listen in as the crew attempts to dissect the video footage and decide for themselves if the Fresno Nightcrawler is the real deal or a crazy hoax.

In Episode 32, Abby takes a deep dive into the world of haunted objects and tells the crew all about the dibbuk box. Surfacing online in a long 2003 Ebay listing was an antique wine box which was allegedly inhabited by a dibbuk, referenced in Jewish folklore as a restless spirit looking to possess a living person. Kevin Mannis, the man who listed it on Ebay, described at length the ordeals he and his family had been through since acquiring the box and seemed to be desperate to get rid of it. Tune in to hear about all of the different owners of the dibbuk box and their haunting experiences while housing it.