Nessie's Dead

This week on Nessie’s Dead we are taking the plunge into some dark history and hauntings! Specifically with sanitariums and a detention center for boys. While these places were intended to help or heal, much death and tragedy occurred, making them centers of suffering. And you of course know those places become a hot spot of ghostly activity.

Since the late 1700s, gothic horror has terrified and intrigued people, while of course leaving its mark on Halloween season. So for Halloween this year we are taking the plunge into classic gothic horror stories and real life cases of these horrors through history. From mad science experiments to homicidal monsters, this Halloween we will resurrect the real life classics!

In June of 1836, a group of boys set out to Arthurs’s Seat in Scotland to do some rabbit hunting. While there, they came across a collection of tiny wooden coffins..and by tiny we mean 3-4 inch tall coffins. Word of this spread and studies revealed that inside were tiny wooden figures. Who made these unique coffins and why did they place them where they did?

Former police officer, David Paulides, coined the term “missing 411” to describe the clusters of missing people in North American national parks. The theories of course run wild but in this week’s episode we will plunge mostly into the paranormal theories…Mostly discussing a close friend of our show, Sasquatch!

This week on Nessie’s Dead, we take the plunge into some morbid Romance! From a terrifying cannibal couple and ghost sex to a man with a strange infatuation… this week we learn love and romance really is …eternal.

What happens when two boys discover some old stones heads buried in their backyard? A crazy haunting of course! Collin and Leslie Robson dug up some small stone heads in the town of Hexham in 1971. At first it seemed like nothing more than a cool find, that is until strange things begin happening. Everyone that ends up getting involved experienced some kind of haunting that leads to a strange and terrifying creature appearing in their homes.

February 24th, 1978, a group of five men, known as “the boys”, went missing after watching a basketball game in Chico, California. Each of the five men had either a mild intellectual disability or mental illness, and had found a community with eachother along with a local basketball team. However, after attending the game in Chico, they drove 50 miles the opposite direction from their homes, never to be seen alive again. Eventually, four of their bodies ended up being discovered in the woods of Yuba county. But one man’s remains have still yet to be discovered. This is one of those cases that leaves you really questioning how and why…let us know what you think really happened

The Chundawat family ran a grocery store in the Burari neighborhood of Delhi, India for about twenty years. They were known for their hard work and ideal family structure so people took notice when the store didn’t open promptly on July 1, 2018. Investigations commence and police are horrified to find all eleven family members dead inside the house with their mouths gagged and hands bound. The cause of each of their deaths’ was hanging. Nine were hanging from the ceiling, one hanging from a door frame, and another having been found in a room on the floor. Police were able to confirm this wasn’t caused by an intruder and that it seemed self inflicted even though there was no reason for a family of eleven to commit a mass suicide. At least not that they knew of right away.

The Irving family moved to the Isle of Man with the intention of starting a new life in 1917. However, it turns out their new home would end up being haunted. Like most haunting cases, it begins with knocking and other strange sounds and things escalate from there. But this was no normal haunting. The Irving family was being haunted by a talking mongoose named Gef.

Between 2007 and 2008, 61 year old, Gary Michael Hilton, brutally murdered a confirmed four people in national parks across the states. This lead to him being known as the national forest serial killer. This week we take the plunge into Gary’s early life and the circumstances that lead to creating a monster, his crimes, and the victims’ stories.