The Amityville Horror House on Long Island has become infamous through a book byJay Anson, but the actual murders that took place there are more than just a story or a movie. This week I cover the DeFeo family murders that laid the groundwork for the stories of the Amityville Horror House.

Ed Gein was an American grave robber and murderer who was caught in 1957. Inside his farmhouse in rural Wisconsin, investigators uncovered a trove of items made out of human skin, bones, and skulls. Learn about the man who inspired countless horror movie characters and the fate of his property on this week's episode.

On the night of September 22nd, 2006, two teenage boys were inspired by the horror movie Scream to carry out the brutal murder of their friend, sixteen year old Cassie Jo Stoddart, while she was housesitting for her aunt and uncle in Pocatello, Idaho.

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were found dead inside their home. Each of them had been been struck in the head with an axe more than 10 times. Lizzie Borden became a household name after the attack and her subsequent trial, and the home remains a tourist attraction more than 125 years after the infamous murders.

In October of 2018, Denise and James Closs were murdered inside their home in Barron, Wisconsin and their 13 year old daughter, Jayme, was missing. A nationwide search ensued for Jayme, but what no one expected was for her to rescue herself after months of being held inside a dirty cabin over 75 miles from her home. Listen to the incredible survival story of Jayme Closs on this week's episode.

In August of 2018, pregnant mother Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella and CeCe Watts, went missing from their suburban Colorado home. Shanann's husband, Chris Watts, went on TV that same night to plea for their safe return. But while the TV cameras were rolling, police were reviewing other footage that would prove damning to Chris Watts. Learn about the Watts family murders in this week's Morbid Tourism episode.

On November 11, 1987, investigators visited a boarding located at 1426 F St. in downtown Sacramento, California run by a matronly woman named Dorothea Puente. They were searching for a missing person who had been a tenant there, but in the garden investigators made a grisly discovery that no one expected.

At midnight onDecember 6, 1991, a police patrolman noticed smoke coming from the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in the Hillside Strip mall in a suburb north of Austin, Texas. When firemen entered the building, they discovered the bodies of 4 teenage girls who had all been shot execution style in the back of the head. Listen to this week's episode to learn more about the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders.

The mansion located at 2475 Glendower in Los Feliz, California sat frozen in time for decades. Mid-century furniture and a Christmas tree with wrapped presents underneath sat inside the home untouched for decades, but why? Legend goes that the furniture belonged to a family who's father went crazy and attacked them with a hammer before killing himself. Listen to this week's episode to learn how much of this legend is fact.

On March 17, 1991, the body of teenage girl Jessica Lyn Keen was found near the back fence of Foster Chapel Cemetary in Plain City, Ohio. Listen to this week's episode to learn about Jessica and the hunt for her killer.