Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is an epidemic in the US and Canada that leaves families looking for their loved ones in the dark, without justice, enough recognition, or support from law enforcement in investigating or solving cases in the same way that other non-indigenous cases receive attention.

In 1980, two women were found brutally murdered in Southern California, neither of which could be identified. They were named Jane Doe Kern County and Jane Doe Ventura County. Their cases have gone cold and frigid for 40 years, until attention to DNA and investigative genetic genealogy, and a niece, Violet Soosay, looking for her Aunt Shirley, brought attention to the cases, and eventually identified Jane Doe Kern County as Shirley Ann Soosay.

TW: Sexual assault, murder.

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Is the horror classic about the son of Satan cursed? Can a movie be cursed? There’s no denying that a few of the key figures linked to the film have gone through tragedy. 

From divorces, to health problems to legal issues and most notorious, the murder of Sharon Tate and friends by the Manson family, we look at what really happened during filming and beyond. 

Born Catherine Elise Müller, and later identifying as Helene Smith, this 19th century spiritualist medium didn't just communicate with the dead and speak of her past lives. She spoke to martians on Mars, and even had an alphabet, a spirit translator, and painted images that were out of this world (literally).

But where did this martian language really come from? Swiss psychologist Theodore Flournoy was intrigued, and joined her in many seances to study Smith, her abilities, her languages, and determine the root cause of it all. Join us as we discuss the original Mulder, and the Scully who used science to dissect these strange happenings. 

In Part 2 of our two part episode on the Hammersmith Nude Murders we look at the suspects…

From law enforcement to a convicted child killer, many suspects were looked at, but no arrests made. Who was Jack the Stripper? And with a case this cold, will ever know for sure? 

In 1964 the nude body of Hannah Tailford was found on the Thames, strangled. And she was only the first…

As months went on, more bodies would be found. Who was this serial killer that the press tastelessly called Jack the Stripper? In the first part of our two part look at the case we take a close look at the murders that baffled the police. 

TW: Violence, sexual assault, descriptions of crime scenes.

In 1970, a case of vampire hysteria hit London with the alleged sighting of a blood thirsty entity in Highgate Cemetery. Join us for a wild ride full of superstition, occultism, death, media, hysteria, paranormal investigations, and the classic case of 2 men who tried to one up each other with who could stake the claim (pun intended) on this bizarre entity sighting in an old London cemetery. 

The legend of this entity has been kept alive by those who so strongly believe its existence, even after one of the investigators' deaths. But with the invention of the internet, and inquisitive investigators like ourselves, there are questions - and people want answers. Was it really a vampire? Or a ghost? And where is the *evidence*?

According to legend, Lavinia Fisher was the first female serial killer in the United States, luring as many as 30 men to their death with the help of her husband. But the true story is very different. 

The legend of Lavinia Fisher bears little resemblance to the truth. Lavinia and her husband John stood accused lot of murder, but robbery, and as you look at history, even that can be called into question. 

The movie "The Conjuring" brought to light an allegedly true story about a family burdened by a haunted home and a potentially demonic presence, and spotlit famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. But what actually happened at the Harrisville Farm House that the film was based on?

Join Gabi and Kim as they dissect the history of Rhode Island's Harrisville Farmhouse that housed the Perron family in the 1970s, the hauntings associated with it, and the deaths that could have contributed to said hauntings. Was Bathsheba a real witch? Is there a demonic presence in the home today? How much of the movie was based in reality, and how much of what has been presented to the world is accurate?

In part two of our two part episode, we see Belle Guness’ home burnt to the ground, her headless body being discovered in the ruins…or was it…

As the grounds of her farm are dug up, and the bodies pile up, questions arise if Belle Gunness really died in her home. Was it a trick? Did she escape and live out her years in comfort? And what is said to still haunt the farmhouse even today…

Called the Female Bluebeard, Belle Guness lured men to work her farm only to rob and murder them. 

In part one of our two part episode, we look at Belle’s early life, her turn to murder of her husbands and even children, until one night a scorned lover set her house on fire…