Grimly

When a quiet Arkansas community learned that a 67-year-old man had been arrested on dozens of charges related to the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl, many believed justice was already in motion. But months later, that same man was out on bond. Then, one night in October 2024, everything changed. After discovering his daughter missing from her bedroom, Arkansas father Aaron Spencer began searching for her. He soon found her in a truck with the very man accused of abusing her, Michael Fosler. What happened next would ignite a national debate about justice, parental instinct, and the limits of the law. Fosler was dead at the scene, and Spencer was soon charged with second-degree murder. Today, the case has become one of the most polarizing legal battles in recent memory. Some see Spencer as a father who did what the system failed to do. Others argue that no one has the right to take the law into their own hands. As the courts prepare to decide his fate, the story forces a difficult question: when the justice system falters or fails, where does justice really come from?

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In September 1952, a fireball streaked across the evening sky over the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. What began as a group of boys chasing what they thought was a fallen meteor quickly turned into one of the strangest encounters in American history. Waiting on the hillside was a towering figure… floating, silent, and unlike anything they had ever seen. The witnesses ran home terrified, reporting burning eyes, the smell of sulfur and ozone, and a creature that still defies explanation more than seventy years later.

Was it a trick of the light? Misidentified animal? Cryptid?… or something not meant to be found in those Appalachian woods? Tonight, we step into the fog and retell the legend of the Flatwoods Monster.

After a fire broke out in 1834 at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers forced their way into the attic, and uncovered a scene so disturbing it shocked even a city already accustomed to brutality. The discovery turned Madame LaLaurie from respected socialite into one of the most infamous figures in American history, and the house on Royal Street into a legend of cruelty, tragedy, and lingering unrest.

Nearly two centuries later, the LaLaurie Mansion remains one of the most haunted locations in America. But what truly happened inside those walls history, exaggeration, or something even darker?

Tonight, we separate myth from record and explore the woman, the crimes, and the haunting legacy that refuses to stay buried.

In the final episode of our coverage of DeOrr Kunz Jr. disappearance , the focus turns to what still doesn’t add up. As private investigators take a closer look at the case, growing suspicion centers on the people who were with DeOrr the day he vanished.

We examine the involvement of PIs, the mounting questions surrounding DeOrr's parents Vernal and Jessica, and the leading theories of what may have happened during the camping trip in Idaho. With no physical evidence and no definitive answers, the case remains painfully unresolved.

This episode doesn’t offer closure sadly as this case is still unsolved, but it lays out the facts, the doubts, and the theories that continue to haunt one of Idaho’s most disturbing missing child cases.

In July 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from a remote campground in Idaho’s Lemhi Range. He was last seen playing near his family’s campsite, surrounded by adults who believed he was never out of sight for more than a moment. Within minutes, he was gone. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, we lay out the foundation of the case: the family trip to the wilderness, the timeline of DeOrr’s disappearance, analyze some of the families behaviors after the immediate disappearance and the massive search effort that followed. All while asking, what happened to little DeOrr? 

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In 1975 in Snowflake Arizona one of the most infamous UFO abduction stories happened, or did it? The Travis Walton abduction still sits at that gray area between belief and doubt. Polygraphs, hypnosis sessions, skeptical analyses, and tabloid deals have all been analyzed and scrutinized, but none have overturned the basic testimony of the seven men who were there the night of the abduction. Despite the decades of pressure, criticism, and national exposure, their accounts have remained consistent, and none of them have publicly recanted. So what happened that November night? Listen to this week’s episode, where skepticism and eyewitness testimony collide in the space between belief and doubt.

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It is episode 90 and we are back and as unhinged and chatty as ever! Today Meg is doing her annual tradition of kicking off the new year with an episode with a perplexing and frankly frustrating missing persons case. Daniel Robinson was 24 when he disappeared from a geologist worksite in the Arizona desert. For his family, the search has lasted years through recovery efforts, lackluster police investigation, and a battle for media attention many missing families know all too well. In this episode, we look at Daniel’s final known movements, the investigation that followed, and the questions that still keep the case open.

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