On Oct. 13, 2015 construction workers from Chillicothe, Ohio arrived to their job site to what they thought was a Halloween trick. Hanging on a nearby fence was what they could only describe as a Halloween decoration, but as they got closer they realized that this was an actual person. Police would be able to identify the victim within hours of the construction workers finding the crime scene as 31 year old Rebecca Cade.

November 12, 1966: It’s a quiet night near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and working in a cemetery nearby in Clendenin are some gravediggers, doing as gravediggers do: digging a grave. The men are silently working when a shadowy figure catches their eye. A man-like creature is said to have flown over top of the men flying into some trees beyond the way. The men found it strange, but couldn’t quite come up with an explanation themselves.

Only three days later, a similar sighting is reported. On Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples were riding along together in a car in the evening. As they’re driving near the TNT area in Point Pleasant, the site of a former WWII weapons plant when suddenly, they found themselves staring at a large grey creature with glowing red eyes as their headlights shone onto it. According to the couples, the creature was about six to seven feet tall and had wings that spanned 10 feet. Steve Mallette, one of the men in the car, went on to tell the Point Pleasant Register, “It was like a man with wings…it wasn’t like anything you’d see on TV or in a monster movie…”

This would be the first published sighting of what we now know… as Mothman.

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It’s late November in Muskegon, Michigan. And similar to so many around the U.S., families are gathering for the holiday season to give thanks and spend time together.

The Privacky family was no different, and on Sunday, Nov. 29, 1998, they gathered to celebrate a late Thanksgiving together. But what no one could have expected, was that while family members began to arrive or did miscellaneous tasks around the house, upstairs the youngest of the family, Seth Privacky, was preparing for the horrific mass murders of his entire family below.

As one of the worst mass murders in the Lake Michigan community, many continue to ask, why and what prompted such a horrendous massacre?

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You may have heard of a little known cryptid named Nessie the Lochness monster, but did you know that that one of the Great Lakes could be home to a different serpent lurking in the deep?

You might know her by her name. Bessie, the Lake Erie monster. Who apparently is Nessie's American cousin. Let's DIVE into the legend, the lore and the theories surrounding the Lake Erie monster.

Jonestown, the Manson family, Branch Davidians, Heavens Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, NXIVM. You’ve heard their names, you’ve heard their stories.

Cults have taken on a huge presence in pop culture which is largely due to a charismatic and an other-worldly leader…Jim Jones, Charles Manson, David Karesh and so on.

Bailey and Lilly are diving into a little known cult, The Kirtland Temple Cult and their leader, Jeffery Lundgren. The Kirtland Temple Cult started as a RLDS bible study group that would share a delusion regarding the end of the world. The cult would eventually turn violent when they needed a “blood sacrifice” to ascend to heaven.

Crybaby Bridge is a nickname for bridges all across the United States that contain a myriad of legends. 

Some legends have malicious origins leading back to malevolent mothers while others claim tragic accidental roots. Regardless of the supposed backstories, a bridge by the name of Crybaby Bridge resides in towns all across Ohio, and today, we’re going to explore a few.

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In Fox Lake, Illinois, Joe Glinieqicz, otherwise known as G.I. Joe around town, was known as a local hero. A lieutenant at the Fox Lake Police Department with a military history consisting of awards and honors.

But what lay behind his buzz cut, All-American exterior was a growing sense of shame and fear fueled by a history of alcohol, sex, and embezzlement. When cracks in his façade begin to form, Gliniewicz is forced to face his truth, but fear stands in the way. So, what happens when this fear results in a staged murder, and where do the consequences fall?

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In honor of Spooky Season, Bailey and Lilly are releasing four extra "mini-sodes" every Wednesday in October! Each extra episode this month will feature a midwestern cryptid, starting with the Loveland Frog Men. The Frog Men's first sighting was in 1955 and has since spiraled into an urban legend in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. 

For two years a serial killer roamed a neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio taking 11 women's lives and assaulting many more. Not many people in the area seemed to care or even notice that women were going missing. The mishandling of the multiple police reports and the murders caused the city of Cleveland to change the way they investigate sexual assaults, but this change came too late for the 11 victims of imperial avenue.