The Grimm Mystics

In this week's episode, The Mystics chase down the legend of the Headless Horseman 🏇🏼 From the eerie origins of Sleepy Hollow and Washington Irving's inspiration to tales of headless riders, The Gruesome Twosome are exploring the history behind one of America's most infamous supernatural legends 🎃 Was the Headless Horseman a restless spirit seeking his missing head, a clever prankster with a pumpkin, or something much more mysterious? Either way, you'd better keep your head on a swivel!

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History.com Article

Wikipedia Headless Horseman

In this week’s episode, The Mystic gets into the unsettling world of The Shallow House, a creepy Reddit horror story where Halloween comes with a very specific set of rules. What starts as a seemingly ordinary night of trick-or-treating takes a sinister turn, and breaking the rules might cost you more than just your candy. 🎃🏚️

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The Shallow House

The Mystics are kicking off spooky season with a solo story straight from Reddit! We move into a new neighborhood where Halloween comes with some VERY strange rules… and breaking them might be the worst treat of all. 🎃

Consider this your warning: some neighborhoods are better left unexplored. 👀

In this week's episode, The Mystics snooze their way into the mysterious and creepy world of the infamous Hat Man 🎩 Why does taking a light allergy pill give you a death sentence to be watched while you sleep? Where did he even come from? WHAT EVEN IS HE? 😨😨 Amber finds all the dirty dish on our pal, maybe named Jerry? 👴🏼 Grab all the Benadryl you can find, get cozy and get ready to find out what your sleep paralysis demon says about you 💅🏼

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📸 Cover Art by Rainbowfishdesign

🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

In this week's episode The Mystics fly into October and Halloween szn with an infamous haunting, the Bell Witch 🔔 Was the Bell family haunted by their not so friendly neighbor? Did this neighbor really live in the cave? Who is pulling everyone's hair and making sure Betsy Bell gets to school on time?? 🫨 Was Kate responsible for Mr. Bell's death? Or was it like the 1800's and everyone was dying and doing weird stuff? 😵😵 Grab your favorite fall drink and get ready to hear about the most documented haunting in the United States.

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Tennessee Legends

The Official Bell Witch Cave website

Who killed Cock Robin? 🐦

In this episode, 1/2 of the Gruesome Twosome investigates one of the strangest nursery rhymes around: a little bird is murdered with a bow and arrow, and somehow the entire animal kingdom immediately gets involved in his funeral. But who (or what) does Cock Robin actually represent?

We'll dig into the rhyme’s history, the theories connecting it to William Rufus and the Norse god Balder, and the possibility that this innocent little nursery rhyme has some seriously dark roots.

Spoiler: childhood was weird.

In this week’s episode, one of the Mystics unravels the twisted history behind the seemingly innocent nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice.” 🐭 From its first known appearance in the 1600s to the gruesome legend connecting the mice to three Protestant bishops executed during the reign of Queen Mary I 🩸 this little rhyme gets a whole lot darker than the nursery might suggest. Grab your favorite cheese and sunglasses and get ready for the Mouse Trap!

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🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

The Three Blind Mice

The Morgan Library

The Tudor Society

In this week's episode, The Mystics fly into spooky szn with a suspicious family who may or not be cursed by Vampires 🧛🏼‍♀️ When the Ray Family in Connecticut started becoming mysteriously (not so mysteriously) ill in the 1800's. Despite a common illness running rampant in the area, the townspeople suddenly become convinced that they all are victims of a sneaky vampire. Will the family be convinced? Or use logic and scientific thought process to determine if this is the case? Or will they take matters into their own firey hands?? 🔥 Grab your cloaks, favorite red drink and get ready for Fangs fr th Mmrs.

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🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

The Jewett City Vampires on Tales of New England

Locations of Lore Article

In this week's episode, The Mystics jump over the bridge into Michigan to talk about the illusive Goat Man 🐐 Is he a magical being who decided Lake Michigan was the place for him? Or is there a more sinister story involving some spooky evil scientific experiment??? 🫣 Hide your kids, hide your wife and especially all your dogs named Ginger and get ready for a silly but spooky episode all about the Michigan Goat Man.

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📸 Cover Art by Rainbowfishdesign

🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

In this week’s episode, The Mystics investigate everyone’s favorite government agency: the FDA 💼 After noticing what feels like an absolutely unreasonable number of food and drug recalls lately, a simple question emerges: why did we decide we needed an FDA in the first place? The answer begins in 1906, when consumer protection was apparently more of a fun suggestion than a requirement 🥴 From the origins of the Pure Food and Drugs Act to the scandals, snake oils, questionable ingredients, and political battles that helped shape modern food and drug regulation, the Mystics dig into how America eventually decided that maybe people should know what they’re actually putting into their bodies. Because apparently, after centuries of human experimentation, someone finally thought, “Hey…maybe we should check this stuff?” 🫨

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🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

Sulfanilamide Disaster

FDA History

History.com on 'The Jungle'