Charles Bravo was (probably) murdered on April 18, 1876, but it just took him 3 agonizing days to die. Since he refused to tell anyone what had really happened to him, the rumors took over. Had Charles been murdered? Or, more likely, who had murdered him?

Florence Bravo weathered scandal and ruin in Victorian England by marrying a chinless but respectable lawyer named Charles Bravo. Then she murdered him. Or not. If he knew who poisoned him, Charles would take that  knowledge to the grave. Let's begin the remarkable story of the possible murder of Charles Bravo.

Cane toads that had overrun parts of Australia get big and nasty. But at least they can't swallow you whole. Is there a toad in Hubei province of China with a mouth six feet wide?

Octopuses are strange. They have too many arms and each has its own brain. They can instantly change color, pattern, and texture to match their surroundings. They are shockingly smart. They are so different from other life on earth that some people think they weren't origianlly from here. Did an ocotopus ancestor crash-land here on the tail of a comet?

A lot of people are asking if Garth Brooks might be a prolfiic serial killer. If people in the cities he tours should feel safe. Should we, like most media, treat this with a weird sense of seriousness? Maybe, but don't get us started on if Ted Cruz is a serial killer...

Why do we trick and/or treat? Why are black cats so big this time of year? Why do we even have halloween in the first place? We answer all the questions you were too afraid to ask about Halloween because, frankly, you're kind of a baby.

Dracula may have been an immigrant but England had a home grown vampire of its own up in the little town of Croglin. He picked his way in through a window with long, clawed fingers, he sucked blood, and he fled back to his coffin in his secret tomb. That sounds like a vampire to us.

It wasn't just Mercy Brown when tragedy turned to paranoia turned to gore as the dead were exhumed to stop their vampiric depradations. Here are some other stories of digging up the dead to stop them from feasting on the blood of the living.

Please go watch this short film even though it has nothing to do with the podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stFX_0CzivA