The Woods Remember: The Unsolved Murder of Holly Piirainen
In August of 1993, ten-year-old Holly Kristen Piirainen vanished while visiting her grandparents’ cottage in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. She’d walked just a few hundred yards down a dirt road to see a ...
3 Marras 202535min
The Man Who Killed Halloween: The True Story of the Candyman Killer
It’s the urban legend every parent has whispered at least once: “Check your candy, you never know what could be inside.” But in 1974, that warning wasn’t just a myth. In Pasadena, Texas, eight-year-ol...
31 Loka 202531min
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[BONUS] Perplexing Halloween Stories ft. Perplexity A Mystery Podcast
To ring in 150 EPISODES, Kaydra invites some friends to the show to read some of their favorite spooky stories from the internet. Happy Halloween! This episode was produced and edited by Kaydra Brann...
29 Loka 20251h 5min
The Gainesville Ripper: A Serial Nightmare in a College Town
In the summer of 1990, Gainesville, Florida, was a humid little college town buzzing with new school year jitters...until one week changed everything. Within days, five University of Florida students...
24 Loka 202540min
Murder Under the Big Top: The Story of Lobster Boy
Tonight on Serial Napper, we’re stepping into the strange, tragic world of Grady Stiles Jr., better known as Lobster Boy, the carnival performer born with fused “claw-like” hands who turned his sidesh...
21 Loka 202528min
The Napa Halloween Murders: Evil in Wine Country
Napa Valley, famous for its wine, rolling hills, and peaceful small-town charm, wasn’t the kind of place where doors stayed locked or nightmares felt real. But on Halloween night, 2004, that illusion ...
17 Loka 202536min
The Youngest Woman On Death Row: Christa Pike's Execution Date
This week on Serial Napper, we’re revisiting one of the most disturbing cases I’ve ever covered, the story of Christa Pike, the youngest woman ever sentenced to death in the United States. When I fir...
14 Loka 202533min
Don’t Look Behind the Mirror: Ruthie Mae McCoy’s Warning
In April 1987, 52-year-old Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911 from her Chicago apartment, panicked and out of breath. She told the dispatcher that someone was trying to break in...through her bathroom mirror...
10 Loka 202536min
