Pretty Wicked

Imagine, you’re paddling along a canal near Mexico City, and you are taken to a small island nestled in a lagoon. Verdant lawns, whimsical bridges made of twisted branches, Spanish moss falling in loose curls from crooked trees, from which hang the mangled bodies of endlessly eerie dolls. You heard right! This place, called “The Island of the Dolls”, or “La Isla de las Muñecas” in Spanish, is a small island located in the Xochimilco canal system, south of Mexico City. It is a popular dark tourism destination, and today, we’ll find out why!

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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Today's story is one that many of you may not be familiar with. It's the shocking story of America's real-life 'ghost girls', who - along with the public - were poisoned for profit at the hands of big corporations. But how did something marketed as being able to increase vitality ultimately lead scores of young women to their deaths? And, was justice ever served for these women? Let's find out together, as today, I'm telling you the story of...the Radium Girls."

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Unexplainable oddities on set, a plethora of injuries and malfunctions and the deaths of four members of the cast, today we explore the curse surrounding a movie franchise that marked a generation of horror-enthusiasts, the cult-classic, Poltergeist. 

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 week we are exploring an old haunted Inn that sits on top of a 5,000-year-old pagan burial ground and is infamous for devil worship and even human sacrifice! Where is this Inn you ask, and is it really haunted? Listen to this week's episode, to find out!

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 fall season of Haunted History is upon us!

This week we are heading to Bran Castle in Romania, one of the top destinations for ghost-hunting tourists. But what makes Bran Castle so haunted? And what’s the connection between Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler? You'll have to listen to this week's episode to find out!

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 week we are visiting the Hoia Baciu Forest in Transylvania, Romania. A lot of the time this haunted forest gets overlooked when tourists visit Romania, as most people flock to all of the Dracula tourism, however, very strange and unexplainable events have happened to people visiting the forest that even scientists haven’t been able to explain, so come with me, and we’ll take a look into how Hoia Baciu earned the title of the world’s most haunted forest.

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Like many asylums before the twentieth century, Beechworth has a dark history. So little was known about mental health then, that most of the treatments administered to patients would be considered torture by today's standards. Shackles, chains, electrocution, lobotomies, being submerged in cold water being purged and bled were just a few of the many things patients endured, and according to records, most of those admitted to Beechworth never made it out alive,  in fact, it’s reported over 9000 patients died while staying at the facility in the 128 years it was operational. Beechworth was ultimately decommissioned in 1995, but it remains, to this day in its original condition.  It’s now known as a hotspot for paranormal activity as the ghosts and spirits of the mistreated patients continue to roam the halls today,  still unable to escape, even in death.

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This week I am taking you to the Iroquois Theatre where a horrific fire broke out during a packed show just after Christmas. Six hundred souls, mostly women, and children, were tragically killed in the deadliest single-building fire in US history. The theatre has been rebuilt and rebranded a few times over the years, but one thing has always remained, and that's the ghosts and spirits that are said to still haunt the area today. 

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