The Darker Side of Life Podcast

"Dearest neighbor...allow me to welcome you to the neighborhood." Imagine receiving a letter that starts out with that sentence as you get ready to move your family into your new home. You'd probably ...

20 Touko 20201h 12min

It is a piece of property once known as "America's Village of the Damned." Since the 1700s, almost everyone who has been plagued with tragedy - houses burned, children went missing, people would fall ...

6 Touko 20201h 3min

Brian Shaffer went out the night of March 31, 2006, like many other college students that night. It was the beginning of spring break for Ohio State University and it had been a tough few weeks for Br...

22 Huhti 20201h 6min

Stuck inside over coronavirus? Be glad you're not this man. We tell a tale of famed Kentucky caver Floyd Collins - one of the bravest, most determined and skilled cavers in the country during the 1920...

8 Huhti 20201h 25min

Between 1852 and 1946, the penal colony of French Guiana was sent thousands of men to serve out their sentences in brutal conditions. Sentences ranged from murder to minor offenses such as theft. But ...

25 Maalis 20201h 5min

Moving to a new home can be stressful enough, but for the Ammons family, moving to a new home caused strife unknown to most of us. What began at first as a simple pest problem quickly escalated into s...

11 Maalis 20201h 18min

Pearl Bryan's murder and the execution of her killers has left a mark on the Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati area for over a century. But her story hasn't ended and continues to live on in an unlikel...

4 Maalis 202022min

The nation was shocked when the body of a woman was found on a farm in the small town of Fort Thomas, Kentucky on February 1, 1896. The woman was a young socialite from Greencastle, Indiana named Pear...

26 Helmi 20201h 48min