Satisfaction: The Execution of John Ridout
Forget the polished monuments and the polite plaques—early Toronto was a swampy frontier town where a bruised ego was often a death sentence. This episode dives into the mud of 1817 to unearth the Jar...
11 Feb 19min
Boston's Belfry Murderer & The Boy Fiend
This episode of Southern Ghost Stories peels back the "honest" facade of Thomas Piper, a church sexton who used a house of God as a personal hunting ground. We’ll also confront the chilling legacy of ...
6 Feb 20min
Kansas City After Dark: Serial Killers & Civil War Spirits
This podcast dives into some twisted true crime and lingering spirits that haunt the streets of Kansas City. It kicks off with the heavy-hitting story of Robert Berdella, a local "pillar of the commun...
3 Feb 20min
Bangor, Maine: Queen City Shadows
From the rhythmic hum of a Welsh hymn that accidentally named a city to the oxblood leather "Death Couch" where a Vice President still lingers, Bangor, Maine, is a place where history refuses to stay ...
30 Jan 20min
The Confederate Butcher of the Mountains
In this episode, we’re heading into the backwoods of the Upper Cumberland to talk about an infamous Confederate guerilla fighter, Champ Ferguson. While high-profile rebel calvarymen like Nathan Bedfor...
27 Jan 17min
The Lower Manhattan Slasher & the Legend of Cropsey
Today we are diving into the darkness of New York City to prove that real-life monsters are far scarier than anything you’ll see on a movie screen. We’re revisiting the summer of 1981, when New Yorker...
23 Jan 19min
The Governor's Shoes: The Bloody Legacy of the Wyoming Frontier
From the gruesome shoes of "Big Nose" George Parrott to the arsenic-laced hospitality of Polly Bartlett and the tragic, rising tides of the submerged town of Kane, Wyoming’s history is written in bloo...
20 Jan 21min
The Governor, the Gravedigger, and the Grudge
In this episode, we explore some of the darkest corners of Salt Lake City’s history, beginning with the spectacular downfall of Territorial Governor John W. Dawson, whose flight from a scandalous assa...
16 Jan 21min
