Holiday lights, a familiar tree, and gifts meant for family set the scene for one of the most haunting true crime images we’ve covered: a beloved aunt found under the presents she wrapped with love. We open with a spirited holiday riff, then pi...

A quiet Christmas evening. A silver anniversary. Then a shudder under the floorboards and a blast that echoed across the country. We revisit the lives and legacy of Harry and Harriet Moore, two Florida educators and civil rights organizers whos...

Holiday lights can hide dark plans. We walk through the Covina massacre with clear eyes, tracing how Bruce Pardo went from “civil” in court filings and friendly at the bakery to building a fuel-spraying device and hiding guns in a custom Santa ...

What if your holiday lights are more than decor, and closer to a spell whispered against the dark? We dive into the oldest layers of Yule, where winter was terrifying, food was scarce, and people lit massive fires not for charm but for survival...

A courtroom twist knocked the wind out of us: after bond was denied in the Shondra May case, the accused died in custody two days later. No trial, no cross-examination, and a community left with raw questions and a grief that doesn’t fit into h...

The winter sun barely lifts in Iceland, and that thin light is perfect for a story with real teeth. We head north to meet Gryla, the towering giantess who hunts misbehaving children, her thirteen chaotic Yule Lads who sneak into kitchens and ba...

The days around Christmas aren’t supposed to feel like this. We open the door on Arkansas, 1987, and walk through the controlled world of Ronald Gene Simmons—a decorated veteran, a father of seven, and the architect of a family compound where i...

Cold air sharpens the senses, and the bells you hear in the dark aren’t always for carols. We head into the Alpine mountains to meet Krampus, the horned shadow who stalks the edge of winter, and trace how a feared spirit became a living traditi...

What starts with mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole takes a sharp turn into one of Orange County’s most disturbing true crime cases. We open the holiday table, then unpack the whirlwind marriage of Omaima Nelson and William Nelson, the ...

Our latest deep dive unpacks one of the most chilling Thanksgiving crimes on record: the calculated murders of Joel and Lisa Guy by their son, Joel Guy Jr. We trace the path from a simple welfare check to a home transformed into a chemical crim...

A quiet Tuesday in Louisiana. A father’s unanswered calls. By Thursday morning, a young mother is found stabbed more than fifty times and her two daughters are missing. From that moment, every detail becomes a lifeline: the black Chrysler 200, ...

The story starts like a neighborhood postcard and ends with a number you can’t forget: 193. We head to Houston to unpack the Blue-Eyed Butcher case, where a young mother, a charismatic husband, and a tidy suburban home collide with bindings, a ...

A beloved former bartender walks back into a Bourbon Street institution during Southern Decadence and never comes home. We follow the final hours of Dan Bettencourt Jr.—from a late-night laundry run to Oz Nightclub, to a crowded room, a reporte...

A quiet Austin street. A beloved choir director asleep in her one-story home. And a neighbor testing a thermal camera that happened to catch a figure slipping into the night. From that eerie image, a web of clues began to surface: cell phone pi...

A warm, funny cold-weather check-in pivots into a gripping true-crime journey that spans courtrooms, forensics labs, and one family’s two-decade fight for answers. We start with October case turns, where evidentiary battles in the Morgan Bauer ...

A quiet weekday morning at a family fun center shouldn’t end in gunfire. Yet in 2006, 39-year-old mother and co-owner Doris Worrell was found shot inside John’s Sports Park in Douglas, Georgia—no forced entry, no theft, no witnesses. The scene ...

Flames once defined October 30 in Detroit, but the city refused to be a cautionary tale. We trace Devil’s Night from its Mischief Night roots to the 1980s arson crisis, then into the grassroots movement that rebranded chaos as Angel’s Night and...

A feud between village healers. A peddler who collapses after a muttered curse. A courtroom that believes a child above all. We travel to 1612 Lancashire to unravel how the Pendle witch trials turned folk remedies into felonies and neighbors in...

A lonely Mississippi road. A vanished church. A mother’s grief that won’t stay buried. We dive into the legend of the Three-Legged Lady of Nash Road in Columbus, where folklore, fear, and late-night dares collide. You’ll hear how one core story...

A quiet college town, boxes on the curb, roommates laughing over dishes—then the woods rustle. We dive into the true story of Danny Rolling, the drifter who turned Gainesville’s 1990 move-in week into a real-life slasher, and we unpack how an a...

A quiet Florida cemetery holds a red brick chair and a thousand borrowed stories. We follow the path from a mourning seat to a midnight dare, tracing how Casadaga’s spiritualist roots, teen pranks, and a very specific beer myth fused into a leg...

Smoke, steel, and a voice that won’t let go—this one starts in the heat of Birmingham’s iron age and refuses to cool. We walk the catwalks of Sloss Furnaces, where the Magic City was forged out of ore and ambition, and where long shifts, toxic ...

A woman on Tennessee’s death row just received an execution date—and we can’t ignore the hard questions it raises. We walk through the murder of Colleen Slemmer with clear eyes: the planning, the prolonged violence, the chilling boasts afterwar...

What happens when authority tells a child their voice is broken? We dive into the chilling story of the “Monster Study,” a 1939 experiment in Davenport, Iowa, where researchers labeled and shamed orphans to test a theory about learned stutterin...

A horn that appears mid-dance, bullets that bounce, phones ringing off the hook, and a mayor who ends a panic with a suit and three bucks—this is the wild, very human story of the Devil Man of Algiers. We kick off spooky season by following a t...