Episode 40: God's Salvation Church

With an increasingly devoted following, this self-proclaimed double-good super genius floated herself and her followers to the San Francisco Bay on a sinking tugboat. But soon, extreme adherence to her espoused beliefs caused her followers to lose their freedom and some nearby to lose their lives. This week's episode is The Zizians - Part 2. Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Dogs deserve the best, and that means fresh, healthy food. Head to Ollie.com/CREEPY, tell them all about your dog, and use code CREEPY to get 60% off your Welcome Kit when you subscribe today!

6 Aug 1h 17min

Hotel Stories; The Basement Apartment; Feminine Rage, Male Fragility, and a Turd in the Punch Bowl; True crime? Or POO CRIME?!??; Were They Alien Visits??; and Crime Wave at Sea Bubble Room Story Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -IQBAR is offering our special podcast listeners twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. To get your twenty percent off, text CREEPY to sixty-four thousand. Text CREEPY to 6-4-0-0-0 -Try Remi risk-free at shopremi.com/SINISTER and use CODE SINISTER to get up to 50% off your nightguard at checkout.

1 Aug 1h 16min

A diehard group formed online, hoping to unite and defeat the coming AI apocalypse. But their Rationalist background gave way to irrational acts of violence, vengeance, and eventually, death. This week's episode is The Zizians - Part 1. Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code CREEPY. -Go to Quince.com/creepy for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five-day returns.

30 Juli 1h 28min

Update On I Fear My Ex May Hurt Me; CSI: Childhood — My Accidental Encounter with a Killer; My Cousin's Family Might've Started a Cult?; Creepers Gonna Creep; The Freakiest Friday and an Unlikely Pair; and My Childhood Experiences Growing Up with the Guadalupe Floods in Kerrville, Texas Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Visit Hungryroot.com/creepy, code creepy to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life. -Listeners of Sinisterhood can qualify to see a registered dietitian for as little as $0 by visiting FayNutrition.com/CREEPY. -Head to tryfum.com and use code "CREEPY" to get a free gift with your Journey Pack!

25 Juli 1h 27min

An enormous mansion in New York. Another in Miami. Jets, employees, charities. His own private island. This mysterious billionaire had it all and thought he was above the law. Until brave victims and a bombshell news story blew the lid off the whole thing. Even with an arrest and an indictment, will his victims ever truly find justice? This week's episode is Jeffrey Epstein, with updates. Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Head to Ollie.com/CREEPY, tell them all about your dog, and use code CREEPY to get 60% off your Welcome Kit when you subscribe today! -Our listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com/SINISTER. -Head to Graza.co and use CREEPY to get 10% off of TRIO which includes Sizzle, Frizzle and Drizzle, and get to cookin’ your next chef-quality meal!

23 Juli 3h

The Muhfugga in the Attic; When Your Timelines Glitch and Twist; How My Dad Almost Beat a Serial Killers Ass; True Love Never Dies; My Parents Met in a Cult; and The Strangest Car Tags. Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Try Remi risk-free at shopremi.com/SINISTER and use CODE SINISTER to get up to 50% off your nightguard at checkout. -Get this new customer offer and your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at MINTMOBILE.com/sinisterhood

18 Juli 1h 11min

The Rock. An island all to its own housing the country's most dangerous criminals. Isolated and dangerous, escape was impossible. Until one fateful night, when three men were willing to risk it all for freedom. Did they succumb to the dark waters of the Pacific Ocean or did their impossible scheme actually work? This week's episode is Escape from Alcatraz Revisited with Updates. Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here for this week's show notes. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Please click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Go to HelixSleep.com/Creepy for their July 4th Sale starting June 13, 2025 and get 27% Off Sitewide. -Shop our favorite bras and underwear at SKIMS.com.  After you place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.

16 Juli 1h 42min

The Man in my Window; I’m Friends with a Murderer on Social Media; My Unwanted “Celebrity” Look-a-like; I Work on a Haunted Steamboat; Did a Ghost Shush my Baby?; and Confronting Creeps & Dorm Room Sinks Get your tickets to join us for CrimeWave at Sea 2025 - https://crimewaveatsea.com/sinister Click here to submit your odd but true stories. Click here to sign up for our Patreon and receive hundreds of hours of bonus content. Click here to leave a review and tell us what you think of the show. Please consider supporting the companies that support us! -Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code CREEPY. -IQBAR is offering our special podcast listeners twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. To get your twenty percent off, text CREEPY to sixty-four thousand. Text CREEPY to 6-4-0-0-0

11 Juli 1h 12min