Investigative journalist and author of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O’Neill, joins us in the Crypt to unravel one of the darkest and most twisted chapters in American history–one that is still actively being covered up.

From uncovering secrets about Charles Manson’s connections to the Hollywood elite and exposing the top-secret human experiments of MKUltra, to dismantling the Helter Skelter narrative completely– Tom takes us deep into a web of lies, manipulation, and cover-ups that challenge everything we think we know about the Manson murders.

Join us as we reveal the hidden details and unanswered questions that continue to haunt one of America’s most infamous murder cases.

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00:00:00 – Intro

00:00:33 – Cold open, making a drink. Is Tom Into Horror? The First Omen, Salem's Lot Remake, and Rosemary's Baby Prequel. Miscategorizing Charles Manson, Shorty Shea Beheaded?

00:06:01 – Mind Control 101 - The CIA, MKUltra, and the Secret History of the 60's

00:22:33 – How and When Tom Got Into Helter Skelter, Meeting Vincent Bugliosi, Getting Into An Argument With Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford, and a Fight With Alec Baldwin

00:35:43 – Interviewing Vincent Bugliosi and Finding Holes in the Helter Skelter Narrative

00:46:22 – The First Bombshell Vincent Bugliosi Dropped In Tom's Reporting - Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's "Sex Tape", Vincent Bugliosi's Dark Past - Abuse, The Milkman, and Planting Narcotics

01:00:02 – Terry Melcher, Dennis Wilson, 'The Golden Penetrators', Charles Manson's Connection to the Hollywood Elite, and Rudi Altobelli's Guilt

01:17:35 – Going Down The Rabbit Hole, Going to Dinner and Driving to the Cielo House with Rudi Altobelli

01:29:19 – Chasing Case Files, Mike McGann's Files Clash with Bugliosi's Testimony, Terry Melcher Bribes Tom With Doris Day's Dark Past, and Stars of the 60s Trying to Stay Relevant Through the Manson Story

01:41:50 – Manson's Federal Parole File and the "Anamolies" in His Parole Supervision by His Parole Officer Roger Smith, Spahn Ranch Raid

01:52:38 – David Smith and the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, LSD Studies on Rats in 1967 Emulated Exactly What Happened to the Manson Family - Innocent or scripted? Abigail Folger's Mother Was A Donator.

02:02:10 – Where did the "illiterate" and "lifetime criminal" Charles Manson learn how to brainwash his followers? Mind control operation gone wrong, or right? Intro to Jolly West

02:11:54 – Jolly West's Connection to Sidney Gottlieb, the head of the MKUltra Program - The Murder of a 3 Year Old Girl (The Jimmy Shaver Case)

02:19:46 – The Many Tendrills of Tom's Theory, Satanic Ritual Abuse Might Have Been CIA Fronts, Working on the Second Book, and Manson's Charisma. Wouldn't Manson Have Wanted People to Know This? When Tom Spoke With Manson.

02:27:06 – Manson Acts As A Repository of American Fears, Charles Manson In Pop Culture Then and Today - CHAOS and COINTELPRO, Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. Tom Gets Lost In The Crypt Studio Wall.

02:31:53 – What Tom Wished Bugliosi Got to See if He Were Alive Today, and How Life Changed After CHAOS - A Secret of Vincent Bugliosi's - He Was Just As Dangerous As Manson

02:37:42 – Tom's Dedication and Social Media

02:39:05 – Outro

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Sean Clark joins us in the Crypt to talk about his journey through the horror industry, from Horror’s Hallowed Grounds and the Halloween franchise, to shaping the modern horror convention scene.

We explore the evolution of horror conventions, highlighting the thrill and struggle of getting celebrities on board, building “25 Years of Terror,” and Sean’s insider experience with the “horror elite.” We talk horror's golden ages of the 30s, 70s, and 80s, discussing the MPAA's role in shaping the genre, and the way conventions have evolved since the '90s, for better or worse. Sean opens up about his early days, his hesitations about joining YouTube, and the struggles and successes he faced on projects like Halloween 2 and Halloween 3.

We also dig into recent horror headlines, debating reboots and sequels, Halloween, Exorcist: Believer, Alien: Romulus, and The Crow, along with original titles like Thanksgiving, LongLegs, Maxxxine, and much more. We share thoughts on today’s horror “elite”, the tension between fans and executives, and horror’s thematic shift to psychological scares with films like Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid.

Beyond film, we discuss the rise of horror influencers and publications, “a*s-kissing" culture, and Sean's advice for up-and-coming creatives, stories from the convention circuit, and immortalizing yourself through creative work.

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00:00:00 – Introduction00:01:05 – Horror’s Hallowed GG

00:17:29 – Sean's Involvement in the Halloween Franchise - Finding a Real Shatner Mask, 25 Years of Terror, Early Legal Battles, Landing a Standalone Feature

00:30:37 – Convention All-Stars00:41:15 – The Horror Industry: A Labor of Love, Celebrities Who Revel In It or Hate It, Getting Them to Do Conventions

00:52:05 – Horror's Golden Age: 30's, 70's, and 80's & the MPAA's Involvement

00:56:14 – Conventions Now Are A Different World, The Good and The Bad

01:02:10 – Being Hesitant to Get on YouTube, Early Success and Struggles In Sean's Horror Career, Working on Halloween 2 and Halloween 3, Finding Filming Locations and Going to the Wrong Place

01:27:15 – Remakes and Reboots? When does a classic become a classic?

01:42:47 – Excorcist: Believer, The Crow, Casting Bill Skarsgard in Everything, Child's Play Remake, Movies We Love and Hate, Alien: Romulus, Believable Casts

01:55:04 – Horror Publications Ass-Kissing, Executives and Influencers vs. Fans and Artists, The "Horror Elite,” Thanksgiving, LongLegs, and Terrifier

02:05:22 – LongLegs Review, Maxxxine & Its Prequels, The First Omen

02:12:20 – Casting New Actors vs. Big Stars, the Scream Movies, In A Violent Nature

02:21:31 – Horror's Evolution: Social to Internal, Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid, The Strange Thing About The Johnsons, Alien: Romulus Review (Contains Spoilers

02:29:05 – Film Critic Buzzwords, Why Do The Biggest Directors Have The Coolest Sounding Names?!

02:33:22 – Advice to Upcoming Creatives

02:48:34 – Long Intros and Trolls

02:54:37 – Safety In Numbers, Unfinished Episodes, and Immortalizing Yourself Through Your Work

03:05:16 – Sean's Talks His Famous Haircut

03:10:33 – Cutting Your Teeth

03:13:45 – Outro

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Joe Coleman, the legendary artist whose work digs into the darkest corners of the human psyche, joins us in the Crypt to discuss everything from painting serial killers like Carl Panzram, Albert Fish, and Ed Gein, to sharing the secrets of his controversial art. Join us as we delve into the contradictory beauty of the grotesque and the divine.

Joe takes us inside his Odditorium, a personal collection as eerie as his paintings, where he houses macabre artifacts like a painting by John Wayne Gacy, the actual letter Albert Fish sent to Grace Budd's mother, a lock of Charles Manson's hair, and a Christmas card from Ed Gein. These relics serve as a tangible connection, DNA, to the energy that Joe channels into his art.  

We explore the paradoxes of life and death that permeate Joe's art, discuss his fascination with the redacted stories of the Bible, the corruption of the soul and flesh, and dive into his experiences selling art to icons like HR Giger, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Iggy Pop.

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00:00 – Intro

01:10 – Embracing the Dark Side of Humanity Through Paintings

10:31 – The Lighter Subjects of Joe's Paintings, Filming Rest in Pieces, Professor Momboozoo

16:51 – When Joe's Work Got Global Recognition, His First Art Gallery

29:10 – The Darker Subjects of Joe's Paintings: Carl Panzram, Mary Bell, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Charles Manson, Swift Runner, Conducting Research and Meeting Harold Schechter

37:14 – Identifying with Serial Killers, Giving a Voice to Them. Within every man is the Christ and Anti-Christ. Channelling trauma and rage into art.

45:23 – The Common Theme of Joe's Paintings: Carl Panzram

52:31 – Life is a Prison in Which We Are Sentenced for The Crime of Being Born

59:22 – The Redacted Stories of The Bible, The 'Virgin' Mary's Secret, Jesus Christ's Childhood 

01:15:06 – Selling Art to HR Giger, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Leonardo DiCaprio

01:20:42 – TV is a God, Losing Faith in Evil and Death, A Look at Mortality, Performing an Autopsy in Budapest

01:33:15 – Quick Break, Doing Podcasts

01:35:32 – Making Art for Yourself and No One Else

01:37:48 – Death & Searching for a Soul

01:41:03 – The Odditorium

01:46:44 – How Joe Got The Real Letter Albert Fish Wrote

01:52:43 – The Mirror Side of Saint's Relics, Objects Housing the Soul

01:56:27 – "Outsider" Art

01:59:00 – Joe's Belief in the Paranormal & The Commodification of the Word

2:00:51 – Is it better to paint from the scar or the wound?

2:03:52 – A Doorway to Joe

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Kane Hodder, legendary actor and stuntman behind Jason Voorhees and Victor Crowley, joins us in the Crypt for Episode 13!

From his love of the number 13 to almost playing Freddy Krueger, Kane shares never-before-heard stories that made him into a horror icon.Tune in as Kane reveals his early days of scaring people, his intense stunt training, the personal Easter eggs he includes in his films, and his opinions on the other actors who have portrayed Jason Voorhees.

We’ll dive into the infamous Freddy vs. Jason controversy, his ghost hunting adventures, favorite horror conventions, a peculiar connection to John Wayne Gacy, and more!

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00:00 - Introduction

00:48 - Taking a shot, drinking with fans at conventions, and getting sued for choking someone

05:18 - The Number 13, Watching Pt. 7 in 1988 at the Chinese Theater, Getting Famous, Doing 180 Films

09:10 - Collectibles, Playing Frankenstein, Adam Green Regenerating Kane's Horror Career with 'Hatchet', Jason Voorhees' Continuity Errors

15:43 - Doing Podcasts and Interviews

18:23 - Scaring People Since Age 9

21:17 - Getting into Stunt Acting, Going to Stunt School With Another Actor That Played Jason Voorhees, High-Falls, Fear of Heights, and Getting Older

26:26 - Stunt Coordinating vs. Stunt Acting, Do Certain Actors ACTUALLY do their own stunts? Getting injured on set, Paramount Made Ken Kurzinger Do Kane's stunt on F12 Pt8. Getting hit by cars and falling down stairs

33:57 - Which stunts ALWAYS suck? Getting more dialogue roles at an older age

39:07 - Revolutionizing the role of Jason Voorhees, Kane was a huge fan before being cast as Jason Voorhees

43:18 - Pt 7's Censorship, MPAA Censorship of Horror in the 80s, Jason Voorhees' Consistency Throughout Movies

46:15 - Kane Hodder Almost Played Freddy Krueger Before Robert Englund

50:36 - John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll, BTK, Ed Gein, Fascination with Serial Killers, Owning Murderabilia

58:14 - Putting his kids, friends, and hometown as Easter Eggs in his films

1:01:40 - Working with Adam Green, the balance of comedy and horror

1:03:10 - The way Kane gets into character to play a killer scares the cast, getting to kill more people on screen than anyone in history

1:06:07 - The only person Kane has ever injured

1:07:27 - F13 was so popular they changed the name of Jason Voorhees, why everyone loves Jason Voorhees, which Friday the 13th Kane loved acting in the most

1:12:17 - Jason Takes Manhattan

1:16:07 - Embracing horror stardom, breaking out of "the horror ghetto"

1:19:48 - The growing popularity of horror conventions

1:21:40 - Kane premiers a never-before-seen kill video

1:27:22 - Pulling someone's head apart in Hatchet, punching another person's head off in F13

1:30:32 - Seeing co-stars at conventions, fun photo-ops, and Favorite conventions around the U.S.

1:34:01 - Playing Leatherface and Jason Voorhees in video games, doing mocap

1:39:23 - The Freddy vs. Jason Controversy, Kane Was Snubbed for the Role, planning Freddy vs. Jason since Jason Goes to Hell

1:53:24 - Kane weighs in on the other actors that played Jason Voorhees, when studios made him step away on stunts for Friday th 13th Pt 8. Cameo in Jason Goes To Hell. Who wins a real-life Freddy vs. Jason?

2:04:15 - Kane's Ghost Hunting Group, Paranormal Experiences, Afterlife

2:16:11 - Doppelgängers and Working on The Devil's Rejects

2:20:02 - Favorite Directors, Directors Kane Would Love to Work With, Wanting to do Comedies, Kane's 'Candid Farts' Show

2:25:45 - Writing a Screenplay, Kane's Newest Venture After Anesthesia

2:33:19 - Kane Hodder's Burn Incident that Gave Him 3rd Degree Burns on 65% of His Body, Connecting With Others Through It. The Beauty of the Horror Community.

2:41:22 - In Hollywood, Heroes are Villains and Villains are Heroes

2:44:11 - Fears, The Power of the Mind, and Getting Older

2:53:38 - Looking Back on an Iconic Career

2:56:45 - Outro

Bill Moseley, best known for his iconic roles as Chop Top in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2" and Otis B. Driftwood in Rob Zombie's ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ trilogy, joins us in the Crypt to discuss behind-the-scenes details of his most notorious roles and the path that led him to horror stardom.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00-Introduction

01:03-The Start of Bill Moseley’s Acting Career

04:20-Halloween Traditions, Grave Rubbing Misadventures with Police at a Cemetery

07:46-Early Influences: Horror Hosts & Shock Theater

10:54-Pitching a Short Film to SNL & Tobe Hooper

24:03-Playing Dead in Movies is Harder Than it Looks

26:07-Tobe Hooper and Kit Carson offer the role of Chop Top

28:15-First Hollywood Heartbreak

34:12-Not Having A Goal to Act

37:38-Getting the role of Chop Top in ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2’, How He Felt About the Comedic Tones

43:59-Preparing to Play Chop Top As His First Role, Warehouse Caught On Fire?

50:12-TCM2 Censorship Battles & Drive-In Fame, Public Reception, and Moving to Hollywood

54:56-What Bill's Portrayal of Otis Was Like Before Rob Pried His Hands Off of Chop Top, ‘House of 1000 Corpses’

58:39-Filming ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ on the Universal Studios Backlot

1:00:28-How Columbine and 9/11 Impacted the Distribution for ‘House of 1000 Corpses’, Universal Studios Dropped the Movie

1:05:20-Behind 'The Devil's Rejects': Deleted Scenes & Character Evolution

1:08:02-Bill's Motel Scene with Priscilla Barnes, Almost Backing Out. "Art is not safe.”

1:15:55-Winning the Audience Over Despite Playing Despicable Characters, 'Tutti F**kin' Frutti'

1:17:28-Getting Pitched '3 From Hell'

1:23:00-Sid Haig's Health, What 3 From Hell Would Have Been Like With Captain Spaulding

1:25:12-‘3 From Hell’ Was Made in Only 20 Days, Richard Brake's Performance

1:29:15-Launching into Horror Stardom, Working With Various Directors, & Getting to Play Chop Top Again

1:35:55-How Bill Moseley Prepares to Play His Characters

1:40:05-What if Bill Had Never Entered Hollywood?

1:45:02-Traveling the World, the Middle East, and Fears

1:49:58-Acting in a Play that The Manson Family Came to Watch, Spirits of The Theatre

1:58:22-Venturing into Musicals with 'Repo: The Genetic Opera'

2:00:04-Still Working As An Actor, Getting Older In Horror, Young Directors, Favorite Horror Films, The Beauty of the Horror Genre, Living in the Moment

2:05:06-Outro

Museum of Death owners/curators, JD Healy and Cathee Shultz, join us in the Crypt for Episode 11 to guide us through the eerie corridors of their world-famous museum, located in Hollywood, CA and New Orleans, LA.

We'll uncover the origins of the museum, the fascinating stories behind the acquisition of their gruesome collection, and the chilling artifacts that starkly remind us of life's fragility. From serial killer memorabilia gifted to them by the killers themselves, to mortician's tools and autopsy rooms, we explore the museum's most haunting exhibits and the impact they have on visitors.

Learn about the history, mission, and controversies surrounding this unique museum that continues to captivate and horrify visitors from around the globe after nearly 3 decades. Thoughts on afterlife, the paranormal, personal relationships with serial killers, GG Allin & The Murder Junkies, Kenneth Anger, and more!

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00:00 – Warning

Grimmlife Collective joins us in the Crypt for Episode 10, unveiling their journey from early struggles to iconic moments at horror conventions, and their ventures into the grim side of culture across the globe. Join us as we explore their artistic process, the emotional toll of delving into true crime, and their encounters with the paranormal. We'll discuss the difficulties of covering cases like Ted Bundy, Michael's harrowing near-death encounter, and a haunting glimpse of a real apparition. Afterlife theories, ghostly experiences, the magic of movies / filming locations, eerie adventures, and more!

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00:00 – Intro

Explore the dark recesses of the criminal mind as true crime legend Harold Schechter joins us in the Crypt. Listen closely as we dissect the intriguing world of collecting murder memorabilia, hear never-before-released audio of Ed Gein’s voice, and unravel the psychology behind our fascination with monsters and serial killers.

In this expansive conversation, we peel back the layers on his captivating new book, 'Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects’, get details on Harold Schechter's real-time reaction of hearing Ed Gein’s voice, and find out if this alters the psychological profile of Gein.

We also tackle the defining 'signature crimes' of each era, the media's role in glamorizing them, the horrific tales of Albert Fish, BTK, Son of Sam, John Wayne Gacy, and Harold's selection process when it comes to choosing the deranged subjects of his novels.

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00:00 – Warning

Venture into the depths of the Black Hills Forest as both directors of “The Blair Witch Project”, Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez, join us on this episode of Talks From The Crypt to uncover the secrets behind one of the world’s most influential horror films of all time.

Hear exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that turned a low-budget indie film into a global phenomenon.From its inception to the legacy it left behind, learn about the creative process that brought worldwide attention to an entirely ‘new’ subgenre of horror: found footage. Explore the threads that link "The Blair Witch Project" to other iconic films, including "Cannibal Holocaust", “Faces of Death”, “Man Bites Dog” "Paranormal Activity", and "Cloverfield".

Go beyond Blair Witch as we touch upon their inspirations from classics like “The Omen”, “Jacob’s Ladder”, “The Shining”, and “Amityville Horror”. At the end of the episode, Dan and Ed respond to the world's most controversial myths and rumors that have entangled the film for 24 years.

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00:00 – Teaser

Delve into the extraordinary life and career of iconic actor and author Michael Berryman, as we get into the tales and fascinating experiences that shaped his journey on this episode of Talks from the Crypt.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Teaser