Episode one features Amanda telling the true crime story of the Short family from Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. Three weeks before Megan Short and her young children were murdered she called 911 to say she was scared of the man who would end up murdering her entire family - her husband. Leaving no real reason as to why he committed this crime we have to wonder what it was that drove him over the edge.
Cayla tells the haunted history of Reading, Pennsylvania's most famous ghost family, The Bissinger's. Pregnant Louisa and her three young children took a stroll down the beautiful Union Canal. Moments later witnesses saw a horrifying sight, forever embedded in their minds and nightmares. This is no cut and dry murder-suicide; was Louisa's mental illness to blame? Or could the sinister Mr. Bissinger been the driving force behind this horror? The ghosts of Louisa and her children STILL haunt Gring's Mill and the Union Canal to this day...over 150 years later.