The Bell Witch of Tennessee — The Sinister Past
Adams, Tennessee, 1817–1821. A frontier family is terrorized for four years by an invisible entity that speaks, sings, quotes scripture, and ultimately claims credit for a man's death — the only case ...
18 Sep 13min
The Cecil Hotel — Room 428 — The Sinister Past
Los Angeles, 1927–present. A downtown hotel that has hosted at least two serial killers, an unconfirmed brush with the Black Dahlia murder, decades of suicides, and one disappearance — Elisa Lam, 2013...
16 Sep 13min
Unit 731 — The Horrors Japan Tried to Erase — The Sinister Past
Manchuria, 1936–1945. A covert Japanese military unit built a secret research complex disguised as a water purification bureau — and used it to conduct years of human experimentation on thousands of p...
11 Sep 15min
The Dyatlov Pass — Nine Hikers, No Survivors, No Answers — The Sinister Past
Ural Mountains, February 1959. Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent from the inside and flee barefoot into a blizzard at thirty degrees below zero. They never come back.In this ...
9 Sep 15min
The Axeman of New Orleans — Play Jazz or Die — The Sinister Past
New Orleans, March 1919. Newspapers publish a letter from an unidentified killer: he will strike again on a specific night, at a specific hour — but he'll spare any home playing jazz. That night, the ...
4 Sep 13min
Waverly Hills — The Tunnel of Death — The Sinister Past
Louisville, Kentucky. A 525-foot tunnel drops from a hospital's basement straight into a hillside, built for one grim purpose: moving the dead out of sight so the living wouldn't lose hope.In this epi...
2 Sep 14min
The Bloody Benders — America's First Serial Kill Family — The Sinister Past
Kansas, 1873. A search party finds a trapdoor nailed shut beneath a bed, and underneath it, a pit soaked black with blood. The family who lived there — and ran an inn for two years — is already gone.I...
28 Aug 14min
The Dancing Plague of 1518 — The Sinister Past
July 1518. A woman steps into a Strasbourg street and begins to dance. She does not stop — not that day, not the next. Within a month, four hundred people have joined her, and the city's own physician...
26 Aug 15min
