Season 1 Episode 42: Jonestown

Jonestown

November 18, 1978

In the jungles of Guyana, Jim Jones, the leader of the “Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”, created the site of one of the most infamous events in modern history. “Jonestown” as the site was known, was promised to be an oasis for disenfranchised members of society looking to start a new life.

Unfortunately, like many promises of grandeur used before it, Jonestown was destined for a horrific fate…

The Largest mass suicide in history

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Season 1 Episode 41: The Sawney Bean Clan

The Sawney Bean Clan

16th Century

Dozens of modern horror films utilize the trope of the cannibalistic, inbred, homicidal maniac. Movies like, The Hill Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wrong Turn, etc. So where do we get these demented and horrific ideas from? Why is there a thread in all of these stories of a whole family of monsters? Well the truth lies in 16th century Scotland with the man who would give birth to these nightmarish cannibals…

Alexander “Sawney” Bean

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Season 1 Episode 40: Cropsey

Cropsey

July 9th, 1987

For generations, the children of Staten Island, NY, heard haunting tales of a local boogeyman: A deranged psychopath who escaped the nearby mental hospital who would murder innocent children with his decrepit hook hand. These stories were meant to act as warnings for local children to avoid being out alone after dark.

But ghost stories and boogeymen aren’t real right? Well that’s what locals believed, however that belief changed when children began dissapearing in the 1980’s leading to the question…

Is Cropsey Real?

All Thats Intersting Article: LINK

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Season 1 Episode 39: The Disappearance of Pauline Picard

The Disappearance of Pauline Picard

April, 1922

Pauline Picard was two years old when she went missing from her home in Goas Al Ludu, France. While the initial situation appeared to be heading towards a tragic end, the Picard’s were overjoyed when they got word that a child matching Paulines description was found 300 miles away in the distant town of Cherbourg.

The child matching Paulines description was sent back to the Picard family and the harrowing weeks of grief and terror were over, or were they? After a few weeks, a local farmer made a greusome discovery…

The body of a small child

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Season 1 Episode 38: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering

The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering

January 31, 1921

C. P. Brady, a member of the coast guard, was on lookout duty on the morning of January 31st, 1921. Brady noticed that a boat had run ashore in the Diamond Shoals, a common sight for shipwrecks and known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”. The boat in question was the Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted commercial schooner destined for Rio De Janeiro.

Once bad weather subsided days later, rescue boats managed to reach the Deering but found no sign of any occupants. In fact, the last known communication from anyone onboard the Deering was on January 28th by the Cape Lookout Lightship off North Carolina. The lightship keeper, Captain Jacobson, reported the crew milling about the deck oddly just days before the wreck.

Even more interesting is the fact that the path of the Deering took them to a place known all too well by seafaring folk…

The Bermuda Triangle

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Season 1 Episode 37: The Flatwoods Monster and Project Blue Book

The Flatwoods Monster and Project Blue Book

September 12, 1952

At 7:15 PM in Flatwoods West Virginia, Edward May, his brother Fred, and their friend Tommy Hyer saw a bright object flash across the sky and crash at a nearby farm. The boys quickly ran to the home of Kathleen May to get help. After frantically describing their encounter, Kathleen and the boys along with three local children made their way to the site of the crash.

It was then that the group encountered something that they would never forget: Described as being ten feet tall with a glowing red spade shaped face and green glowing body, a monstrous presence floated towards the group. Horrified, the group ran from the scene and reported the incident.

This was just one of many unexplained encounters covered by the U.S. Air Forces “Project Blue Book”. A top-secret group dedicated to understanding the unexplained, in other words…

The real Men in Black

Flatwoods Monster: LINK

Project Blue Book: LINK

FBI Vault: LINK

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Season 1 Episode 36: The Murders of Eric and Pam Ellender

The Murders of Eric and Pam Ellender

February 11, 1991

On the Monday before Mardi Gras in 1991, a group of men were seen driving a Toyota Forerunner which belonged to that of Eric and Pam Ellender. The night of the sighting, the Ellenders were found murdered in their home from gunshot wounds to the head. The group of men in the Forerunner were promptly taken into custody and Chris Prudhomme, 18, was determined to be the prime suspect.

While this appears to be an open and shut case, a macabre set of twists and turns soon begin, including Chris’ odd confession, the discovery of his body hanging in his cell, and…

A murderous cult

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Season 1 Episode 35: Elisa Lam and The Cecil Hotel

Elisa Lam and The Cecil Hotel

February 19, 2013

The Cecil Hotel is an epicenter of macabre happenings since its initial construction in 1924. Decades of suicide, murder, and crime haunt the 700 room hotel, which is known today as the “Stay On Main Hotel and Hostel”, including the death of college student Elisa Lam.

On January 31st, 2013, Lam failed to contact her parents as she was traveling abroad and staying at the Cecil. Her parents, concerned for their daughter safety, called the Los Angeles Police Department and reported Elisa missing. Soon after her disappearance, hotel guests began to complain of strange and foul tasting water in their sinks and showers and low water pressure. This eventually lead investigators to a place that only the hotel staff had access to and unfortunately the grim discovery of Elisa’s body…

the rooftop water tanks

All That’s Interesting Article: LINK

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