Grab a red balloon but avoid storm drains, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of clowns. The early history, the clown sightings of 2016, Pennywise and Stephen King’s IT, why clowns scare us, and how the monster that was John Wayne Gacy paraded around as Pogo. What happens when adults don’t believe kids? What happens when we don’t keep track of the missing and most vulnerable among us? Was it really all just hysteria? Maybe we have good reason to be fearful of clowns but if we’re playing by Stephen King’s rules good will always beat evil in the end. 

Sources:

Pennywise: The Story of IT

https://youtu.be/_kE108SMEWU?s...

1994 John Wayne Gacy Execution

https://youtu.be/B1ter-x2VGY?s...

2016 Clown Sightings

https://youtu.be/0-MJORDa5TQ?s...

https://youtu.be/gWT5h2Nj_is?s...

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Grab your sage bundles and your real estate disclosures, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of celebrity haunted houses- starting with the one Britney Spears sold to Brittany Murphy, and the tragic legacy that followed.

Sources:

Brittany Murphy’s Death, inside the Eerie House (Entertainment Tonight)
https://youtu.be/l2wglu_PrLQ?s...

The Haunting of Brittany Murphy House (Not My Stories)

https://youtu.be/SC3IQOJ3nn8? si=Hr-1ojF4Fo5Jp_jX

The Dark History Behind Brittany Murphy's Home — Plus, What Happened to It After She Died There (People Magazine)

https://people.com/home/the-da...

Los Feliz Murder Mansion (Atlas Obscura)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/p...

15 Haunted Celebrity Mansions (Legacy News)
https://youtu.be/kgwjYqpnPOo?s...

https://thehollywoodhome.com/b...

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Grab your holy water & learn some Latin, because today we"re gaining a broader understanding of exorcism and demonic possession in pop culture.

In this (release) episode we hear the true story behind the movie The Exorcist and how it shaped the way we see possession and exorcism on film.
We’ll also hear about the 67 exorcisms of Annalise Michel that led to her death and the prosecution of her parents and the priests who performed the exorcism.

Then we have Ed and Lorraine Warren and their involvement in both The Amityville Horror and The Devil Made Me Do It Case where Arne Cheyenne Johnson’s legal team tried to use demonic possession as a defense. 

Plus, the 2011 Ammons family haunting and demon house that was bought and destroyed by ghost hunter Zak Bagans.

And finally we’ll explore some scientific and medical reasons that could be behind some of the most well documented cases of demonic possession and exorcism.

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Grab your black cat and your VCR as we gain a broader understanding of 90’s movie witches from The Witches,The Craft, Teen Witch, Double Double Toil and Trouble, Hocus Pocus, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, The Crucible, Eve’s Bayou, Halloweentown, to The Blair Witch Project
why were witches so popular in the 90’s and why do they still hold a special place in our hearts and in our covens? 

(Originally released October 2023)

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Grab your grainy VHS tapes, your camcorder with no battery life, and the ghost stories your family told, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of haunted houses, spooky experiences, found footage films, childhood memories and crimes that changed everything. (With some help from a very special guest, Daniela’s mom)

Sources:

Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
SyFy Channel

Sylvia Brown and Amanda Berry’s Mom
The Montel Williams Show

The Kidnapping of Polly Klaas
Polly Klaas Foundation

The Murder of Adam Walsh
America’s Most Wanted

The Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
ABC News Cleveland

Paranormal Activity (Trailer)

The Ghosts of St.Augustine
St.Augustine Historical Foundation

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Grab your bolt cutters, your EMF detector, and your childhood trauma because today we’re getting a broader understanding of haunted hospitals, abandoned state schools, the horrors of Willowbrook and the one urban legend that turned out to be terrifyingly real: Cropsey.

CW: language, violence

Sources:

Committed - Danvers State Hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cropsey (2009)
https://youtu.be/FqUD6Uv-uXo?s...

Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (1972) Geraldo Rivera, ABC News
https://youtu.be/5F7CrMAwCw4?s...

Willowbrook 51 Years Later: A look at history and modern advocacy
https://www.disabilityrightstn...
willowbrook-51-years-later-a-look-at-history-and-modern-advocacy/

Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium
https://youtu.be/a43YhaLM7SM?s...

Cropsey: The Terrifying Urban Legend Brought to Life
https://the-line-up.com/cropse...

An Apparatus for Lunacy
https://youtu.be/JuU4xejPlO0?s...

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Grab your fertility amulets and your haunted cradle, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of Rosemary’s Baby, the film that birthed an entire genre of occult paranoia… and maybe even a few curses along the way. From the comas, to the cults, to fhe infamous crimes.

Is the devil really in the details or just in us?

CW: graphic violence

Sources:

Cursed Movies: Rosemary’s Baby
Shudder

Helter Skelter
Book by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi

Roman Polanski Opens Up About Sharon Tate's Murder | The Dick Cavett Show

Tate-LaBianca Press Conference

Tate-LaBianca: 50 Years Later
ABC News

The Most Cursed Hit Movie Ever Made

https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

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Cue The Twilight Zone Theme as we get a broader understanding of why this September felt so bizarre. From the rapture that wasn’t, political assassinations, Tylenol, my trip to Kansas City & troops in Portland

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Today we're getting a broader understanding of the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders and how the case was finally solved nearlly 34 years later. 

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Get ready to pick your favorite made for tv adaptation of a horrendous crime & inescapable infamous last name as we get a broader understanding of the disgusting and often heartbreaking story behind Amy Fisher & Joey Buttafuoco

Sources available in show notes

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