Athens Lunatic Asylum

Athens Lunatic Asylum

Even though we have come a long way when it comes to mental health treatment and care, we still can't forget where we started. Athens Lunatic Asylum is testament to that. The sprawling building in Southeast Ohio looked more like a castle than an asylum. Thousands of people over 119 years came through the doors, committed for reasons such as childbirth, general bad health and illness that was still decades away from being diagnosed. Some may still linger in the halls. Each had a story to tell.

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The Disappearance of Joan Risch

The Disappearance of Joan Risch

On October 24, 1961, police in Lincoln, Massachusetts were called to the home of Joan Risch. Her neighbor had called, concerned for her friend when she entered her house and found a kitchen covered in...

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The Great Mull Air Mystery

The Great Mull Air Mystery

On Christmas Eve, 1975, skilled pilot Peter Gibbs started a plane for a flight. He was advised not to take off, as it was pitch black over the Scottish airstrip, there were no guiding lights, and a wi...

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The Hammersmith Ghost Murder Trial

The Hammersmith Ghost Murder Trial

That's right. We've found a way to combine two of our favorite things into one episode: Ghosts and true crime! In the early 1800s, the London borough Hammersmith was being terrorized by a ghost. Sever...

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The Kentucky Meat Shower and the Exploding Whale of Oregon

The Kentucky Meat Shower and the Exploding Whale of Oregon

It's raining meat! Hallelujah, it's raining meat .... No, really. In 1876 in Eastern Kentucky, on a clear, calm, sunny day, chunks of meat began to fall from the sky. A family's farm was covered in t...

10 Helmi 20211h

The Murders of Abby Williams and Libby German

The Murders of Abby Williams and Libby German

February 13, 2017, was a warm day in Delphi, Indiana, and friends Abby Williams and Libby German set out to enjoy a bonus day off of school. They headed to the trails at the Monon High Bridge, a popul...

27 Tammi 20212h 52min

Peter Stumpp - The Werewolf of Bedburg

Peter Stumpp - The Werewolf of Bedburg

In 1590, someone - or something - began a killing spree around the village of Bedburg, in Germany. Cattle and livestock began turning up dead and horribly mutilated, and soon after, some townspeople m...

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Zombies and the Case of Clairvius Narcisse

Zombies and the Case of Clairvius Narcisse

The family of Clairvius Narcisse had watched him die. His sister, Angelina, stood over his bed and cried. They watched his coffin be lowered into the ground in a cemetery in Haiti. They placed a heavy...

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The Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch

The Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch

In 1998, a 10-year-old Austrian girl was grabbed off the street by a strange man, thrown into a van and driven to a strange house only to be put down in a dark basement cell. The cell was tiny, dark, ...

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