In 1933 fifteen year old Mattie Turley shoots and kills her father. Her reason? She was ordered to by a Ouija board...

When Carl Logies bought a secluded Farm in Paines Hollow Ohio in 1922, he thought he would be able to change his luck. But when he hears the land is cursed, he begins to experience almost nightly visits from a ghost. What he discovers after following the ghost, changed everything.

On January 11th 1902, 15 year old Nora Fuller left her home to meet a potential employer. When she isn’t seen for almost a week, her mother finally notified authorities. What they unraveled were a series of calculated plans and secret that still leave some baffled to this day.

Grace Brown was a farm girl who moved to the big city, she meets and falls in love with Chester Gillette. Grace becomes pregnant and wants Chester to marry her. When Grace’s body is discovered in a Lake, they looked to Gillette. But, could he have murdered her?

To learn about how someone can become a serial killer. We must go back to the beginning. We need to follow their life to see, at what moment things in their mind began to turn dark.

“When I awoke the next morning, it felt like a dream. I was embarrassed, so I didn't bring it up to the staff. It was so odd. It couldn't have actually happened. It wasn't until 14 years later, when I saw it in the papers that it wasn't a dream, it had actually happened in that moment. I realized. I was almost a victim of Jane Toppin”

A special thanks to those who lent their voice to this episode

Rachel Lacina - Host of the Followers of Force, and Yours in Murder Podcast
Lanie Hobbs- Host of the True
Joel Lounds- Host of the Florida Man News Podcast
Pete Lutz- Host of the Narada Radio Company
Nina Innsted- Host of the Already Gone Podcast
Heather Wright- Host of Nature Vs Narcissism, Ohio 88, and the Status Pending Podcast

Coming back May 22th 2022, take a journey back in time with the Hidden Staircase Podcast. From Murder, to the paranormal and mysterious. All true stories from a Catalogue of Terror. Each episode will bring a story that was lost to time, back into the light. So lock your doors, turn down the lights and get lost in a story from The Hidden Staircase.