The Cold Spot Confessions Podcast

Grab your favourite mug and turn up the volume, because this week me and  Vikki are taking on the granddaddy of all ancient mysteries: Stonehenge.

We dive headfirst into the legendary lore surrounding Salisbury Plain, from the popular medieval belief that Merlin the Wizard airlifted massive megaliths from Ireland using magic to the mind-boggling engineering required to build it in 3000 BC.

However, we wouldn't be us if we kept things entirely academic. We quickly derail into analyzing the very obvious, questionable geometry of standing monoliths, spending an unreasonable amount of time making phallic jokes about 25-ton sarsen stones. Grab a drink, brace yourselves for some questionable historical takes, and hit play to join the chaos!

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Pack your bags and double-check your local folklore, because this week our podcast is taking a deep trip back to the southwest coast for a wild mix of ancient Cornwall lore and dark local history.

First, we explore the famous Merry Maidens stone circle near St Buryan. Legend says a group of local girls were turned to granite for dancing on the Sabbath, but we lose our absolute minds over the absurd story of the nearby "Fiddler Stone".

Then, we shift gears to unpack a forgotten piece of Victorian Cornwall true crime: a shocking 1800s triple murder-suicide that rocked the quiet town of Penzance. Grab a drink, brace yourselves for some questionable stone-circle commentary, and hit play to join the chaos!

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Turn on every light in the house and double-check your locks, because this week our paranormal and comedy true crime podcast is diving straight into the dark, unhinged corners of the internet. We are covering some of the most iconic, bone-chilling scary Reddit stories to ever break the web.

We tackle the infamous nightmare fuel of The Smiling Man, exploring the sheer terror of an late-night urban stalker with an unsettling grin. Then, we venture deep into the wilderness to discuss the bizarre, unexplained phenomena of the random stairs in the woods, alongside the eerie isolation of the cabin on Pine Creek Road.

But because we can't handle pure terror without a little chaos, we balance out the nightmarish encounters with a surprisingly wholesome palette cleanser: the story of Fred, a ridiculously friendly ghost who is basically just a spectral roommate. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and hit play to survive the internet's spookiest lore!

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Put down your mugs and double-check your deadbolts, because this week our comedy true crime podcast is tackling the absolute big leagues: 5 of the FBI's Most Wanted.

We are cracking open federal files and diving deep into five of the most notorious fugitives to ever grace the bureau's most iconic list. But fair warning: we recorded this on a terrifying amount of high-dose mushroom coffee. What was supposed to be a serious, high-stakes true crime deep dive quickly devolved into a hyper-caffeinated circus featuring random unprovoked accents, uncontrollable laugh attacks, and zero ability to maintain a professional broadcast voice.

Grab a drink, prepare your ears for some questionable impersonations, and hit play to see if we can cover federal fugitives without losing our minds completely!

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Hide your necks and check your locks, because this week our comedy true crime podcast is headed to the mountains of West Virginia to unpack one of the most legendary, bizarre cases in American history: The Greenbrier Ghost.

While most historical murderers manage to escape justice because their victims can't talk, Erasmus Stribbling "Trout" Shue didn't account for one major detail—his late wife, Zona Heaster Shue, simply did not have the patience for his nonsense. This week, we dive into the chilling 1897 case where a woman's spirit allegedly returned from the afterlife for four straight nights with a very specific, anatomical message for her mother.

We are keeping the spoilers locked away, but let's just say this stands as the only known case in US history where a ghost's testimony was actively used to help secure a murder conviction. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and hit play to find out how a spooky snitch from beyond the grave completely ruined her husband's life!

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Grab your eye patches, hide your contraband, and try your absolute best to ignore the eyeballs watching you from the woodwork, because this week our paranormal and true crime podcast is heading straight to the southwest coast of England. We are doing a massive historic deep dive into one of the most famous haunted pubs in Cornwall: the legendary Admiral Benbow Penzance on Chapel Street.

While literature nerds know this exact tavern as the iconic opening inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, we are looking at the building through a much more judgmental lens. We unpack the actual history of the "Benbow Brandy Men"—the local 18th-century criminal gang that utilized an extensive labyrinth of secret smuggler tunnels snaking entirely underneath Chapel Street straight to the Penzance harbour to dodge the tax collectors. We also break down the verified hauntings, the spectral activity, and the ghost of the lady in white roaming the property.

But the absolute star of the episode is our official safety and privacy critique of the pub's interior architecture. We look inside the bar to investigate the historic, deeply unsettling lookout points—literal peepholes built directly into the walls so pirates could keep an eye out for the local authorities. We discuss the sheer psychological horror of trying to enjoy a quiet pint of cider while a sweaty, 17th-century criminal is hiding inside the actual drywall insulation, staring directly at the back of your head. Grab a drink, check the corners of the room, and join us for a wildly funny slice of haunted UK history!

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Grab your life jackets and a dictionary, because this week our UK true crime podcast is bypassing the mainstream media distractions to jump straight into the deep end of London's most baffling river mysteries: The Thames Torso Murders.

We are unlocking a massive, comparative serial killer deep dive spanning two completely different centuries of unsolved British crime. First, we head back to the late 1880s to break down a series of highly calculated, anonymous cold cases where dismembered remains kept washing up along the muddy banks of the River Thames, completely humiliating Scotland Yard. Then, we fast-forward all the way to 2001 to look at a chillingly similar modern London serial killer mystery, breaking down how forensic science tried to piece together a case that perfectly echoed the city's dark, historic past.

But let's be entirely honest—the most chaotic crime scene this week is right inside the studio (vikkis front room). It is a certified, weapons-grade high-dyslexia day for your hosts. The words on the script are actively running a marathon, the alphabet is playing musical chairs, and attempting to pronounce basic British street names has devolved into absolute comedic ruins. Grab a drink, brace your ears for some premium comedy true crime linguistic disasters, and let's try to survive some true crime podcast history!

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Hide your kids, lock up your insurance policies, and guard your skeletons, because this week our true crime podcast is doing a welfare check on the absolute worst businessman of the 19th century. We are unleashing a massive H.H. Holmes serial killer deep dive to look inside the absolute architectural fever dream that was the Chicago Murder Castle.

Most comedy true crime podcasts will tell you he was a criminal genius, but we are exposing him as a wildly chaotic serial fraudster who desperately needed a hobby. We break down the construction of his hotel, his custom gas chamber vaults, and his horrific business plan of hiring builders to construct a secret maze and firing them before payday just so he wouldn't have to fork over any cash. Talk about a toxic boss.

It gets even more unhinged as we dive into his multi-state life insurance scams. We unpack how his entire empire of lies collapsed alongside his side hustle as a weird entrepreneur—specifically his macro-economy strategy of bleaching bodies in acid baths to sell clean bones directly to local medical schools. To top it all off, we officially crown him the ultimate Bad Santa because he apparently decided December was the prime month for a festive holiday homicide spree. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and join us for a wildly chaotic roast of America's first con-artist monster!

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The traps are set, the cameras are rolling, and the mouse is about to snap. Welcome back to Part 2 of our massive deep-dive into the wild world of Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet.

Last week, we set the stage with the origins of FLDS splinter cult leader Samuel Bateman and the accidental undercover sting operation cooked up by Christine Marie and Tolga Katas. This week, it’s time for the grand finale. We are breaking down exactly how Bateman’s massive ego completely blinded him to the fact that his "Hollywood documentary crew" was actually building an airtight federal case right under his nose. We go over the chaotic raids, the dramatic FBI takedown, and the incredible bravery of the survivors who broke free from Short Creek.

But stick around after the cult collapse, because we are pulling up a chair and brewing a fresh pot for a highly classified Pol-tea-geist session. We have been sitting on a massive, secret for weeks, and it is finally time to spill the tea with the class. Grab a drink, brace yourselves, and let's close the book on a false prophet!

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Put on your oversized sunglasses and blend into the background, because this week we are kicking off a massive two-part deep-dive into one of the most wild true crime docuseries on television: Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet.

In Part 1, we are looking at the origins of self-proclaimed FLDS cult leader Samuel Bateman. We unpack his childhood, his history within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the massive leadership vacuum left behind when the notorious Warren Jeffs went to prison. 

But the real stars of this episode are cult psychology expert Christine Marie and her filmmaker husband Tolga Katas. We break down how this dynamic duo originally moved to Short Creek just to help out with a local flood, but ended up pulling off the ultimate undercover operation—using Bateman's own massive ego against him by filming a "documentary" that was secretly building a federal case. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and get ready for part one of a masterclass in how to accidentally spy on a cult.

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