Joe provides some perspective on Covid-19 on this short, special episode. Stay safe, everyone!

This week we pull a dark, murder mystery episode out of the vault. In 1912 a family was murdered in a most gruesome fashion and causes chaos in the Iowa town called Villisca. Also check out where/when the TimeTwit is this week!

During our break we re-visit an episode from the vault that, until now, was previously unavailable.

Five separate expeditions into the Amazon end in tragedy as individuals mysteriously vanish. The only thing to link these parties was their guide. Did he have something to do with the disappearances or were there other circumstances at play.

After a short bit, we pull one of the old episodes out of the vault and talk about the Fouke Monster. This beast spawned the cult classic docudrama, The Legend of Boggy Creek in the early 1970s.

Austrian Jack Unterweger was, for a time, a poster child for prisoner reform. People were rooting for him upon his release as he became what many felt "a completely changed man" and no longer a danger to society. What could go wrong?

Lori Ruff was married with a child yet few really knew anything substantial about her. When her husband attempted to learn about her past she recoiled and even did her best to keep her mother and father-in-law away from their own grandchild despite them, according to others close to the family, being caring individuals. Who was she really and what was in her past?

In the late 1910s many in the city of New Orleans were terrified as an axe wielding madman roamed the streets. Who was the infamous Axeman of New Orleans?

Imagine this... You just woke from a good night's sleep but something suddenly feels strange. You rush to the bathroom mirror and you realize your worse fear is has transpired. One of your lovely, flowing locks of hair has been severed and stolen! This very thing happened to multiple victims in Louisiana in the 1940s! Who was the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula and what caused their reign of terror via cosmetological sabotage?

We talked to Cody Templeton. Cody is an avid weightlifter and strongman competition contender. He talks about his approach to working out, maintaining a healthy mindset, his meal -prepped diet, and life in general. We also talked A.I., simulation theory, and nerd culture.

Beloved university professor James Gordon Wolcott had a secret past that was one day uncovered. Next his community had to decide if the system got it right or if he was a cunning manipulator that fooled the professionals that assessed his sanity.