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Before the neon, before the mob, before the Elvis impersonators and bad decisions Vegas was nothing but dust, dynamite, and desperation.

When the Hoover Dam brought twenty-thousand men to the desert in the 1930s, Boulder City stayed “dry”… so they crossed the sand to Vegas, where nothing was illegal if you didn’t get caught.

Brothels, bootleggers, and backroom bribes built the foundation of America’s most shameless city  and the mob simply added management.

From “Block 16” to Bugsy Siegel, this is the real story of how a handful of dam workers, hustlers, and working girls turned a mirage into an empire.

I’m Rab Greeson, your dam host and moral compass gone rogue.

Where the dam shame becomes the dam legend.

Short, true, filthy, it’s “Annals Origins: Vegas Baby.”

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Before the circus. Before the birthday parties.
 Laughter was survival and death wore a painted smile.

In this mini Halloween edition of One Up the Annals, we drag the truth through the greasepaint to uncover where clown fear was really born. From Rome’s enslaved mimus who danced for their lives, to England’s broken legend Joseph Grimaldi, to America’s nightmare smile that never fades, the clown has always carried the souls of the performers who died behind the mask.

And tonight, they want to make you laugh… or get their revenge.

Written and narrated by Rab Greeson — The Original Un-fluencer.

Theme: Historical Horror / The Origin of Clown Fear
Length: 11 min
Best for: fans of true-crime lore, dark history, and beautifully cursed bedtime stories.

“Consider this your warning. The tent is open. The music plays. The paint is on.” Let's Gooooooooooooo

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I’m your host Rab Greeson and tonight we continue the October month long Annals Of Darkness. He murdered, ate, and photographed a woman in 1981  then became a celebrity. In this episode of One Up the Annals: Annals of Darkness, host Rab Greeson unravels the chilling true story of Issei Sagawa the Japanese literature student who turned cannibalism into content and fame into absolution.

Inside this episode:

 Sagawa’s lifelong fantasies of flesh

The calculated murder of Renée Hartevelt in Paris

The two day cannibalistic ritual that followed

His shocking release and rise to celebrity status

The disturbing psychology behind his obsession and the media that enabled it

This isn’t a horror movie, it’s documented history.

A man consumed beauty, walked free, and the world applauded.

Where shame becomes legend… and horror learns how to sell itself.

#IsseiSagawa #TrueCrimePodcast #CannibalKiller #DarkHistory #JapaneseTrueCrime #AnnalsOfDarkness #OneUpTheAnnals #TrueCrime #Psychology #Murder #Japan

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“Every masquerade ends with a corpse.”

In Part II of our Edgar Allan Poe series, the chandeliers blaze, the clock tolls midnight — and the man behind The Raven unravels for good.

This chapter dives into the masquerade of Poe’s final years:
 the scandals, the drinking, the feuds that earned him the name “The Tomahawk Man,”
and the mysterious death that turned his legend into a ghost story.

🎭 Inside this episode:

• The real plague behind The Masque of the Red Death
• Poe’s self-destruction, obsession, and “Imp of the Perverse”
• His chilling final days and the mystery of the cooping gangs
• The funeral eulogy he never received — until now

He called it fiction.
 But it was his diary.
 And when the clock struck twelve, death didn’t knock… it danced.

🕯️ Listen now — before the music stops.

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💀 Exclusive After Dark episodes and early access on Patreon.com/OneUpTheAnnals

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Fantasy Fest Mini Scroll #1: a Key West true crime of love, death, and obsession. 

In tonight’s midnight scroll, we drift into the humid, haunted romance of Key West, 1931. Radiologist Carl Tanzler fell for Elena de Hoyos, even after death. He snatched her from her tomb, reassembled her body in his home, and lived out a twisted fairy-tale with a corpse bride in the Keys.

This is true crime, dark romance, and Florida’s weirdest love story all rolled into one.

Expect: macabre details, a twist you won’t see coming, and a reminder: love sometimes crosses lines your skin doesn’t approve of.

Tune in if you love:
• True crime with theatrical flair
• Obsessive love / dark romance stories
• Haunted Florida lore & local legends

Sources: Key West Citizen archives, trial records, history of the Tanzler case

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Welcome, sinners and scholars… to the Annals of Darkness.”

This Halloween, Rab Greeson exhumes the man who made death desirable. Edgar Allan Poe- the poet who turned grief into beauty, lust into legend, and madness into melody.

From the mother who coughed herself to death before his eyes, to the cousin-bride who wasted away over time on a deathbed, Poe’s life wasn’t gothic fiction… it was prophecy.

Tonight, the Annals open the coffin on the man behind The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The lust, the loss, the shame and the final mystery that left him face-down in a Baltimore gutter wearing another man’s clothes.

This is One Up the Annals, where shame becomes legend

Because when October calls… the Raven always answers.

— Rab Greeson

The Original Un-fluencer, keeper of Nevermore

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Episode 9  Vlad the Impaler: The Real Dracula (Part II)

Vlad’s head was cut off, but his legend refused to die.
 In this After Dark descent, the Annals exhume the man who became the monster: how a blood-soaked warlord from 15th-century Wallachia rose from the grave to become Dracula, the immortal symbol of fear, lust, and power.

From betrayal and beheading to Bram Stoker and beyond, this episode traces Vlad’s transformation into the world’s most seductive nightmare. You’ll hear how folklore birthed the vampire, how Stoker turned repression into erotic horror, and how Hollywood gave the Impaler an Oscar-worthy afterlife.

Featuring:

• The real death and legend of Vlad the Impaler
• Strigoi, superstition, and the birth of the vampire myth
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its lust-soaked symbolism
• Hollywood’s obsession- from Bela Lugosi to Dracula Untold
• The eternal appetite: why vampires never die

It’s history dripping in horror, told with wit, darkness, and more bite than garlic night at the tavern.

One Up the Annals, the comedy history podcast where shame becomes legend… and lust never dies. Please visit us on Youtube for bonus content on the video for Part 2. Click, like and subscribe everywhere, One Up The Annals. Find us on Patreon for more of the story and bonus content. Hurry I'm almost out of garlic and could use the money!

#Dracula #VladTheImpaler #ComedyHistory #DarkHistory #HorrorPodcast #AfterDark #BramStoker #VampireLore #Halloween #OneUpTheAnnals #FilthyHistory

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This October, the scrolls drip with shadows… and tonight we exhume one of history’s darkest names.

Before Dracula wore velvet and whispered seduction, there was Vlad the Impaler prince of Wallachia, child hostage turned tyrant, a man who turned execution into performance art and forests into graveyards. Part One of this two-part legend takes you inside his rise to power, his obsession with revenge, and the blood-soaked theater that made his name echo in terror for centuries.

From banquets among the dying to valleys of impaled corpses, Vlad’s cruelty blurred the line between ruler and monster. But this is only half the story. Next time, the myth rises from the grave, transformed into the immortal Count Dracula.

Where shame becomes legend… and lust never dies.

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Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t just the “Master of Suspense”  he was the original Hollywood voyeur, a director obsessed with control, fear, and yes… sex. Behind the camera, Hitchcock turned cinema into a peepshow of obsession and scandal. From Rear Window to Psycho, his films reflected not only terror, but his own twisted fascinations.

In this episode of One Up the Annals, host Rab Greeson (aka The Original Un-fluencer) pulls back the shower curtain on Hitchcock’s hidden obsessions, his scandalous on-set behavior, and the darker truths that shaped his genius.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your fix of scandalous history.

Because in history… even Hollywood legends can’t escape. Where shame becomes legend and now, it's in the Annals

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