What would you do if you saw a Lady in Black? What would you do if you were hiking in the woods, and saw a giant… standing over the hills in the distance? What would you do if you locked eyes with an unidentified creature in the ocean? Today’s episode is all about legends, haunts, and creatures from Monterey County, CA!
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SOURCES:
https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2019/10/30/salinas-valley-ghost-stories-haunted-locations-monterey-county-california/2386320001/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/los-coches-adobe
https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover_collections/what-history-tells-us-about-some-of-the-county-s-spookiest-spots/article_e991d58c-fb68-11e9-a36f-8ba32b86047f.html https://soulofca.org/californias-central-coast/explore/cities-of-the-central-coast/soledad/ https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-cities/most-haunted-places-in-monterey/ https://www.seemonterey.com/plan-your-visit/itineraries/history-heritage/ https://www.seemonterey.com/blog/must-see-haunts-in-monterey-county-ca-this-halloween/ https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/831_tales/the-tale-of-bobo-monterey-bay-s-sea-creature-resurfaces/article_5f07cfa2-957b-5549-a7e9-3c336e110a82.amp.html https://hauntedhouses.com/california/stokes-adobe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Watchers 

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July 4th weekend, Central Texas was flooded and many have lost their lives. Nearly 200 are still missing. If you are able to, please donate to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund.

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In March of this year, I dove deep into the Satanic Panic, or so I thought. I left that week thinking the Satanic Panic was nothing more than a baseless moral panic, one that ended up ruining the lives of many innocent adults, and brainwashing children into having false memories, thinking they had suffered horrific abuse. But what if I told you that yes, while all of that is still true, there were others during that time hiding in the shadows, doing the very things people during the panic feared?

And… what if I told you they may have had help from some of the most powerful people in the world?
Today, we will be exploring one of the most unsettling mysteries of the 80s, and chilling ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. This is the story of The Finders. 


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SOURCES:  
https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSZ9fsqsu8
https://web.archive.org/web/20220707184916/https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x53vg/the-finders-cult-from-the-80s-was-patient-zero-for-epstein
https://apnews.com/article/4c5cd8141e930159ea3e4f0492a41ade
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1987/02/09/cult-weaned-children-from-their-parents/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/08/ex-finders-tell-of-games-complex-beliefs/dcb48101-8d06-4777-a8e3-fcf46fd7ed0f/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_6SnINIy4
Wikipedia

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We’re all familiar with clowns. Known for their colorful oversized costumes and facial features, distinctive makeup, and general buffoonery, their purpose is to induce hearty laughter. This career goes back thousands and thousands of years and still persists today. While many enjoy clowns, there are just as many if not more, young and old, who find clowns to be absolutely terrifying. So where did clowns come from? Why are we so scared of them? Should we be scared of them? Let’s get into it.Today’s episode is all about clowns. We will get into the history and lore, then hear about some creepy encounters and even murders!

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SOURCES:
https://www.britannica.com/art/clown
https://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-facts/circus-clowns-history-and-facts/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-weird-reason-were-afraid-of-clowns/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/31/the-great-clown-panic-of-2016-a-volatile-mix-of-fear-and-contagion
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37628664
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37567132
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/us/florida-killer-clown-sheila-keen-warren-release
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2025/05/27/florida-killer-clown-murder-wellington-woman-killed-1990/83670882007/
Reddit
https://www.snopes.com/articles/392386/sprinkles-the-clown/
https://www.snopes.com/articles/381361/clown-trail-cam-pictures/
Wikipedia

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In the 1960s, a married couple from New Hampshire would share their unbelievable close encounter with the third kind. Their story would make headlines from coast to coast. They would go on to be studied by thousands of experts. And today, this encounter is still considered one of the most compelling accounts that proves there’s more out there.

This is the story of the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill.

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SOURCES:

“Close Encounters” Volume 1 by Duncan Murphy
“The Interrupted Journey” by John G Fuller

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Kaydra dives into another volume of perplexing listener stories! Enjoy 5 stories from listeners like you. Have a story you'd like to submit? Email Kaydra at [email protected] 

Story 1: Brianna's paranormal encounters
Story 2: An aswang encounter
Story 3: Nick's sleep paralysis and poltergeist experience
Story 4: Danica's haunted doll
Story 5: Crime to Burn's April shares her encounter with a seriously creepy and dangerous man

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Kaydra takes a break from story tellng this week and brings you a special feed drop: a crossover episode she recorded several months ago with Like Mother Like Murder! On November 25, 1996, Naomi Ruth Queen and Richard Wendorf were found murdered in their Eustis, Florida home. The perpetrators? A teen vampire cult. 

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SOURCES:

https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/local/eustis/2020/04/11/vampire-killer-keeps-his-life-sentence/1367922007/
https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/local/eustis/2019/12/01/mother-of-vampire-cult-killer-ive-changed/2178130007/
https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/crime-news/vampire-rod-ferrell-heather-wendorf-murder-what-to-know
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/05/15/mother-of-vampire-killer-is-unwelcome/
https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/local/eustis/2019/11/17/vampire-cult-leader-looking-for-reduced-sentence/2275368007/
https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/crime-news/vampire-rod-ferrell-heather-wendorf-murder-what-to-know
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94130515/naoma-ruth-wendorf
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94130409/richard-james-wendorf
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Naoma_and_Richard_Wendorf
https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/eustis-florida
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-vampire-cult-killer-sentence-40-years_n_5c0ae460e4b0ab8cf6933c17
https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/man-sired-rod-ferrell-vampire-clan-exclusive-1996-bludgeoning-murder
https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/93127/93127ini.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWclRSulGFQ

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Today we will be discussing the most feared monster in all of Filipino folklore. These shapeshifting creatures appear as humans during the day, and transform into horrifying predators at night. They have been described as having backward feet, reversed toenails and bloodshot eyes. These creatures are so deeply ingrained into Filipino beliefs, that some rural areas of the Philippines continue to hold the belief in this creature today.

This is the story of the Aswang.

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SOURCES:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/aswang
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Aswang-Filipino-Folk-Monster
Wikipedia
https://vocal.media/education/philippine-myth-and-folklores
https://history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/cia-vampires-communist-rebels-philippines.htm
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/manananggal-0017938
Reddit

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Vladimir Pokhilko was the president of AnimaTek, a software company based out of San Francisco, CA. The conclusion of his legacy for the last 2 decades has been as follows: not seeing a way out of his financial troubles, in 1998, Pokhilko brutally murdered his 39 year old wife, Yelena Fedotova, and their 12 year old son, Peter, before he completed suicide. But recently, a 2022 documentary has attempted to re-write this narrative, coming forward with multiple experts and witnesses, alleging Vladimir Pokhilko was not a murderer at all: he was targeted by a Russian mob. He and his family were actually murdered. But could this be true? Or is it just a baseless conspiracy theory?

This is the story of the Tetris Murders.

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SOURCES:
2022 Docuseries "The Tetris Murders"
https://www.mobygames.com/person/930/vladimir-pokhilko/
https://www.cbr.com/tetris-movie-omits-vladimir-pokhilko-murder/
Wikipedia
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/was-the-tetris-co-creator-the-victim-of-a-russian-mob-hit/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2022/12/05/the-tetris-murders-docuseries-explores-mysterious-death-of-tetris-co-developer-and-his-family/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tetris-co-developers-death-ruled-murder-suicide-still-haunts-investigator
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1344622324000786
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10208326/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

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On Thanksgiving evening, November 28, 1985, there would be a deadly explosion at Hilltop Mobile Home Park at 7800 Jacksboro Highway between Lake Worth and Azle, Texas, just outside Fort Worth. The explosion would kill three members of the Blount family: Joe Blount, his daughter Angela, and Angela’s cousin, Michael Columbus. And to this day, what happened remains a mystery. This is the story of the Blount Family bombing.

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SOURCES:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100830181454/
http://www.michaeltoney.com/case.htm
https://www.deseret.com/1997/12/6/19349732/12-year-probe-into-briefcase-blast-at-texas-home-finally-yields-an-arrest/
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/toney-michael-roy.htm
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/man-convicted-in-lake-worth-bombing-dies-in-crash/287-411350872
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/jyly61/a_thanksgiving_mystery_the_blount_family_bombing/
The Fort Worth Star Telegram

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