Pretty Wicked

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🗄️ This episode originally aired on Haunted History / Macabrium, a co-hosted dark history podcast. The show has since been rebranded as Pretty Wicked, a solo true crime and mystery podcast hosted by Megan.

On a winter evening in 1933, a retired lawyer in Le Mans, France, came home to find his front door locked and bolted from the inside. When police finally got in, they found his wife and daughter dead, and the family's two live-in maids, who were sisters, locked together in their bedroom upstairs. Today we're looking at what happened inside that house, why the case shocked all of France, and why people are still trying to understand it almost a century later.

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This episode was written by Chloe Kibbe and hosted by Megan Alda.

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Wikipedia - Christine and Léa Papin

The Line Up - The Papin Sisters: The Shocking 1933 Murder Case That Horrified France

The Vintage News - The Brutal Case of the Papin Sisters: The Senseless Crime that Shocked a Nation

A Little Bit Human - The Gruesome Case of the Murderous Maids: The Story of the Papin Sisters

Emory University - Written in Blood: The Murder Narrative and the Crime of the Papin Sisters by Julia E. House (2010)

Wikipedia - The Maids (Jean Genet's 1947 play)

📚 BOOKS

AbeBooks - The Papin Sisters by Rachel Edwards and Keith Reader (Oxford University Press, 2001)

🎬 DOCS

TCM - In Search of the Papin Sisters (En quête des sœurs Papin, 2000

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A group of friends making a documentary on the legend of the wendigo ventures deep into the snow-covered wilderness. As they uncover eerie carvings, unease settles over them like the creeping cold. Hunger drains their strength, tensions rise, and the once-clear line between paranoia and reality begins to blur. When one of them goes missing, the others realize too late that something is terribly wrong—something that has been waiting in the shadows, watching, hungering.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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Big news, listeners! Haunted History is getting a new name. As our podcast has grown, so has our passion for uncovering not just haunted tales but also true crime, folklore, and forgotten legends. This new change will reflect the full scope of the eerie, mysterious, and macabre stories we tell.

Listen to our update from Megan for the official reveal—same haunting atmosphere, same in-depth storytelling, just with a name that truly captures the dark archive of tales we bring to life. 

When you see the new name, don’t worry—it’s still us!

See you in the next episode!

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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The ad promised love.

The reply sealed a fate. Martha watched as Raymond penned another letter, his words a perfect trap—soft, seductive, laced with lies. She had read enough of them to know how this would end. A train ride, a candlelit promise, a kiss that tasted like forever.

Then the screams. The blood. The body they’d have to bury.

Another lonely heart, hopelessly in love. Hopelessly doomed.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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In the throes of a relentless winter, a hunter’s desperate act sets something terrible into motion, shaking a remote village to its core. As the cold tightens its grip, a new horror stalks the people, toying with them and seeming to relish in their fear. With each passing night, the fear grows, and the villagers must face the terrifying truth—something unnatural has awakened, and it will not stop until it is fed.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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The waters of Lake Bodom shimmered beneath the pale light of dawn, a picturesque Finnish landscape seemingly untouched by time. But on the morning of June 5, 1960, the serenity of this idyllic lake was shattered, forever tainted by a crime so brutal it would haunt the nation for decades.

Four teenagers ventured to the lake for a carefree camping trip, their laughter carried by the breeze, mingling with the rustle of pine trees. By sunrise, three would lie dead, their lives savagely stolen in the dark of night. The lone survivor, battered and dazed, would become both a victim and a suspect in a mystery that has never been fully unraveled.

What happened at Lake Bodom? Who wielded the blade that ended three young lives? And why does the shadow of suspicion still loom over the case, more than sixty years later?

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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🗄️ This episode originally aired on Haunted History / Macabrium, a co-hosted dark history podcast. The show has since been rebranded as Pretty Wicked, a solo true crime and mystery podcast hosted by Megan.

In June 1960, four teenagers set up a tent on the shore of Lake Bodom, a quiet lake in Espoo, Finland, not far from Helsinki. By the next morning, three of them were dead, the fourth was badly hurt, and whoever attacked them was gone. Today we're looking at one of Finland's most famous unsolved crimes, the suspects who came up over the years, and the twist that came more than 40 years later.

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This episode was written by Chloe Kibbe and hosted by Megan Alda.

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Wikipedia - Lake Bodom murders

Yle News - Old Murder Mystery Awaits DNA Results

Yle News - Bodom Murder Charge After 45 Years

Yle News - Prosecutors Seek Life for 1960 Triple Murders

Yle News - Surprise Witness: Gustafsson Argued With Victim

Yle News - Not Guilty Verdict in Bodom Murder Trial

Yle News - Man Acquitted of Triple-Murder Awarded Damages

Yle News - Archaeology students plan dig at Lake Bodom murder site

Yle Elävä arkisto - Bodominjärven surmat - kansakunta etsii murhaajaa

Helsingin Sanomat (archived) - Man remanded on suspicion of infamous unsolved triple murder from 1960

Helsingin Sanomat (archived) - Court finds Gustafsson not guilty of 1960 Bodom Lake triple murder

All That's Interesting - The Lake Bodom Murders: Finland's Most Famous Unsolved Triple Homicide

Mental Floss - Campsite Killer: The Unsolved Mystery of the Lake Bodom Murders

Historic Mysteries - Finland's Unsolved Lake Bodom Murders

📚 BOOKS

National Library of Finland - Bodomin arvoitus by Jorma Palo (WSOY, 2003)

National Library of Finland - Nils Gustafsson ja Bodomin varjo by Jorma Palo (WSOY, 2006)

🎬 DOCS

IMDb - Murhan DNA - Bodominjärven murhat (Yle, 2020)

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The bar reeked of stale beer and desperation, but for Aileen Wuornos, it was just another night—until the law caught up with her. Arrested in a haze of flashing lights and betrayal, she was about to face the reckoning she had outrun for so long.

This chapter of her story unfolds like a courtroom drama where justice and vengeance clash, and every word spoken carries the weight of life or death. Tyria Moore, the lover who once held Aileen’s trust, now becomes her undoing. Testimonies, confessions, and her fiery outbursts paint a picture of a woman teetering between victimhood and villainy.

As the trial drags on and the world watches, Aileen’s fate is sealed—not just by the jury but by her own haunting words. Her execution in 2002 is not just the end of her life but the final, unsettling note in a tale of pain, anger, and infamy.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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La Llorona, The Wailing Woman of the Rio Bravo, is the tragic legend of Mariana, a beautiful young woman in a small Mexican village who falls in love with a wealthy Spaniard, Don Rafael. Promised love and a better life, she bears his children, only to be abandoned when he marries another. Consumed by grief and betrayal, she descends into madness, ultimately drowning her own children in the Rio Bravo, believing it will reunite them forever. Realizing the horror of her actions, she wails in despair before drowning herself. But death offers no escape.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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