Halloween is creeping around the corner and on the Monday edition of WITF's Smart talk we'll dissect a pair of terrifying stories from the region that border on urban legend.

In late November of 1928, three men walked onto a remote farm in southeast York County and murdered the reclusive Nelson Rehmeyer. The ring leader, a down-on-his-luck transient named John Blymer, had convinced his accomplices that Rehmeyer was using witchcraft to cast spells. Lawyer and author J. Ross McGinnis has studied the case for decades, collating his research in the 2000 book Trials of Hex. McGinnis will join Smart Talk to tell a tale of destitution, mysticism and murder. Also, in 1879, six men in Lebanon County conspired to murder a neighbor. A hefty insurance policy was purchased on the victim right before his murder. The six defendants all had blue eyes, garnering the collective moniker the "Blue Eyed Six." Their trial was precedent-setting and the outcome favorable for the hangman. Gary Ludwig, author of The Blue Eyed Six, will join Smart Talk to break through the urban legends that have fascinated Lebanon residents for more than a century and share the true story of the first insurance murder in American history.