Episode 34: "Grave Robbers and The Doctor Riots of 1788"
This episode is an odd and awful look at the world of medicine in the 18th Century. Because there were no ways to secure deceased bodies for scientific study and research, med students at Columbia Col...
7 Mar 202248min
Episode 33: "Cult Following: The Odyssey Study Group"
We'd all like to think we'd never fall into the hands of a cult, that we'd see through a cult's facade, but the truth is cults are insidious, clever, and lure intelligent, savvy people all the time. O...
28 Feb 202252min
Episode 32: "Green Ghosts & Seances in NoMad"
On July 3 1953 a man named Captain Hassoldt Davis placed an ad in the classifieds. It read: "Fifth Avenue Studio for Sublet. Includes, among the attractions, ‘attic dark room with ghost.” Not only did...
21 Feb 202252min
Episode 31: "Heartbreak Hotel: The Murder of Walter Brooks"
Roses are red, violets are blue, if you don't marry her, Flo will kill you. In 1902, a Valentine's Day murder made headlines as the aloof, indifferent Florence Burns was prosecuted for the murder of h...
14 Feb 202251min
Episode 30: "The Missingest Man in America"
There are millions of people who go missing each year. However, only one man has claimed the title of "The Missingest Man in America." That title goes to Justice Joseph Force Crater. After being appoi...
7 Feb 202249min
Episode 29: "Murder Most Foul: The Slaying of Old Shakespeare"
In the 1890s, New York City was the site of a murder so gruesome and grotesque that it was rumored to be the work of Jack the Ripper himself. Who killed the sex worker Carrie Brown, known commonly as ...
31 Jan 202252min
Episode 28: "Horrors at Roosevelt Island"
Every now and then the topic of "True Crime" is never more accurate. This is one of those occasions as we chat about all of the horrors that took place on Roosevelt Island. Before being named after th...
24 Jan 202249min
Episode 27: "The Abduction of Whitley Streiber" with Ain't It Scary with Sean and Carrie
The owls are not what they seem! When Whitley Streiber remembers seeing an owl peer at him through the window of his Hudson Valley cabin the night after Christmas, he knows it's more than that. This w...
17 Jan 20221h 3min
