Happy Halloween from Dark & Devious! Patrick and Chris are starting a new tradition and doing something a little different for today's episode and that is reading some spooky original stories from Creepypasta.com. We think you'll have as much fun as we did with the stories The Bag and Poppy's Peril. It'll be a scream!

It's almost Halloween and one of our favorite traditions here at Dark & Devious is to watch horror movies. These films frighten us by bringing the scariest events imaginable to life, but what happens when real life is just as scary as the movies? On this episode, Patrick shares the real life exorcism that inspired the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) and Chris will share stories of "cursed films" The Omen (1976) and The Exorcist (1973).

Forests have been home to countless legends for ages - from folktales warning of evil spirits lurking behind the dark outlines of trees, to tales of innocent camping trips gone awry, the woods of the world can be a spooky place.  Join Chris and Patrick this week as they discuss two spooky woods: The Bennington Triangle in Vermont, USA and the "Suicide Forest" of Aokigahara in Japan.

New York has a little bit of everything, from the sky scrapers of the big apple, to the quiet farms of Upstate, but let's not forget; New York has been inhabited for centuries. And with centuries of inhabitants that's a lot of people who have left their mark. This episode talks about a haunted brownstone, the ghosts of 9/11, a haunted fort, and a good old fashioned spooky asylum.  

Happy Spooktober!!!!  Join us in episode 65 as Patrick and Chris kick off spooky season with a special episode taking Dark and Devious to where it all began; Watseka, Illinois.  Listen as Patrick tells the tale of The Watseka Wonder, also know as America’s first documented demonic possession.

In episode 56, Patrick covered the brutal murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee and the botched trial that put her ex boyfriend, Adnan Syed, behind bars. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.  As recently as September 2022 there has been a big update in the investigation and in Adnan's life.  Listen now as Patrick updates the story to reflect recent happenings, in a case that is near and dear to his heart.

Patrick is away on vacation this week so Chris has invited the marvelous superfan, Hannah Spaid (@nanaj_xo on Instagram) to be a guest on this week's episode. What started as a mini episode ended up being long enough for a full length one and once the two of us got talking about the assassination of one of the architects of the Russian Revolution we just couldn't stop ourselves. There are lots of fascinating facts and a few jokes (at Stalin's expense.) Enjoy!

A series of horrifying events in the late 1880s — better known as the Servant Girl Annihilator or Servant Girl Murders — that first left local citizens of Austin, Texas, paralyzed with fear.

The brutal killings in Austin occurred three years before Jack the Ripper terrorized London's East End (and there are some who believe the Servant Girl Annihilator and Jack the Ripper were the same person). Although these murders happened 75 years before the term serial killer was coined, it still sealed Austin's reputation as the first city in America to have a serial killer.

On March 24, 2004, 31-year-old Kevin Clewer is found dead in his Lakeview apartment, located in the historic gay district of Chicago known as Boystown. Kevin has been stabbed 42 times and left on the floor of his bedroom to die. He was last seen with a mysterious man named, “Fernando” and despite forensic evidence left behind the case has since gone cold.

Between February of 1976 and March of 1977 a terrifying wave of child abductions and murders plagued Oakland County, Michigan, one of the wealthiest counties per capita in the country. The resulting investigation was one of the largest in history, but even with hundreds of officers on the ground and thousands of hours of work there has still never been anyone formally charged with the crimes. But in today's episode you may get some ideas of who the perpetrator or perpetrators might have been. The main source for this episode is The Kill Jar by J. Reuben Appelman, which is available in paperback now.