Eerily Beloved
Eerily Beloved, we are gathered here to explore the backdrop that gave us the iconic imagery of Twilight and the X-Files that some twisted few exploit for darker narratives. Each week, join host Madeline, and a rotating door of guests, as they dive into creepy cryptids, sasquatch sightings, paranormal places, and true crime cases that make the pacific northwest region, and its beautifully vast landscape, infamous.
Episodes
37 episodes
The Happy Face Killer pt.1
Content note: This episode discusses murder and sexual violence.When a woman's body was found in the Columbia River Gorge, followed by an anonymous phone call leading to a suspect, and then finally a confession, police assumed th...
Scary Reddit Stories vol. 7: Spooky Lakes
For our final episode for Spooky Lake Month, we're diving back into reddit to see where you think the spookiest lake is. Safe to say camping is not in our near future after reading these.Have an eerie PNW encounter of your own or a case ...
Spooky Lakes: The Lady of the Lake (revisited)
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them. This episode was too good not to include in our spooky lake segment, so this week we're revisiting episod...
Spooky Lakes: Little Lava Lake Murders
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them. In the winter of 1923, three trappers settled into an isolated cabin at Little Lava Lake, Oregon, but by ...
Spooky Lakes: Crater Lake
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them. Formed nearly 8,000 years ago when Mount Mazama collapsed, Crater Lake is America's deepest lake, and one...
The Klickitat Ape Cat
Deep in the Columbia River Gorge, hikers and locals are reporting encounters with a mysterious creature known as the Klickitat or Ebony Ape Cat. Since 2022, there's been a growing number of sightings all centered around Bingen, Washington where...
What Happened to Misty Copsey?
On September 17, 1992, 14 year old Misty Copsey disappeared after a trip to the Puyallup Fair and despite many big crime players operating in the area at the time (like the green river killer) police dismissed it as a runaway case for months. T...
Scary Reddit Stories vol. 6: Bigfoot Encounters
For our 30th episode we're bringing you true (?) Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters pulled straight from Reddit. Creepy? absolutely. Believable? TBD. Hope you're not planning on camping soon, because these stories even spooked the Sasquatch skept...
Is McMenamins Edgefield Oregon's Most Haunted Hotel?
Before it was one of Oregon's most haunted hotels, McMenamins Edgefield was a Poor Farm: a 330-acre campus in Troutdale where the sick, elderly, orphaned, and unhoused worked at or lived out their final years. Now ranked among the top 10 most h...
Mystery of the Eastern Oregon Cattle Mutilations
In 1967, a three-year-old horse named Snippy was found stripped to the bone with no blood, no tracks, and no explanation, kicking off decades of unexplained livestock mutilations across the American West. By the 1970s, ranchers in Eastern Orego...
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment pt.2
In part 2 we dig into the fallout after JZ Knight's explosive public divorce trial cracked the empire she built with Ramtha (the 35,000-year-old Atlantean warrior that channels ancient wisdom through her) wide open, revealing manipulation, fina...
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment pt.1
In 1977, a Tacoma housewife picked up a paper pyramid as a joke and somehow channeled a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit in her kitchen. That spirit, Ramtha, would go on to turn Knight into a multimillionaire guru and the founder of a controversi...
Oak Grove Jane Doe: Oregon's Oldest Unsolved Murder
2026 marks 80 years since the torso of a woman was discovered in the Willamette river on April 12, 1946. In this episode, we trace Oregons oldest unsolved murder case from that first grim discovery through the decades of dead ends that followed...
Urban Legend: Propman
Have you heard of PropMan? In 1944, a WWII B-24 bomber crashed into Mission Ridge near Wenatchee, Washington and one crew member was never found. Since then, hikers, ski patrollers, and Boy Scouts have reported terrifying encounters with a figu...
Scary Reddit Stories vol.5: Haunted Houses
Don't listen with the lights off because we're reading Reddit's creepiest haunted house stories. As you'll hear in todays episode, for us, there's no amount of vintage charm a house can have to make up for shadow figures, disembodied voices, kn...
Maury Island Incident
On June 21st, 1947, Harold Dahl claimed six donut-shaped objects appeared over Maury Island on the Puget Sound. The next morning, a man in a black suit showed up at his door, and recited the entire incident back to him word for word with a warn...
Heceta Head Revisited & After Death Communications
We can confirm that the Heceta Head Lighthouse from ep. 14 is just as spooky during the daytime. This week, we're revising Heceta Head to recap our experience at the lighthouse and then diving into ADCs (after death communications). Between 25%...
Witches of Rathdrum & the Murders of Rita & Ron Marcussen
In the early 1970's the small town of Rathdrum, Idaho was plagued with many rumors and tall tales...at least that's what everyone thought until a young couple vanishes without a trace. Newspaper headlines make it hard to believe what's fact and...
Cascade Stick Indians
Long before settlers arrived, the Salish, Lummi, Yakama, and Cayuse tribes knew to fear what lived in the woods: malevolent forest spirits so dangerous that many tribes refused to even speak their true name. They are known as Stick Indians. Sai...
Bellingham Steam Plant John Doe
On September 20, 1987, a worker at the Georgia-Pacific mill in Bellingham, Washington made a discovery that would haunt investigators for decades. The remains of a man in boiler no. 9. Burned beyond recognition, with no DNA, no identity, and no...
Dammasch State Hospital
In 1961, Dammasch State Hospital opened its doors in Wilsonville, Oregon, a psychiatric institution meant to ease the overcrowding crisis in the state's mental health system. For over three decades, hundreds of patients with mental illness and ...
Urban Legend: Mel's Hole
This week we're diving into Mel's Hole: the legendary bottomless pit near Ellensburg, Washington that first shocked listeners on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show in 1997. From supernatural claims and government cover-ups to geologists ca...
Scary Reddit Stories vol. 4
r/backwoodscreepy is exactly what it sounds like. And this week, we're reading the stories that creeped us out the most. Laughing in the woods, sudden silence, and tales from a former SAR. Prepare to never want to venture into the woods a...
Haunted Heceta Head Lighthouse
The Heceta Head Lighthouse has guided ships safely since 1893. Since then, it's landed itself a spot on the top 10 most haunted lighthouses in the US thanks to its resident ghost named Rue. This week, we're diving into the history of Oregon's l...
The Martin Family Disappearance
In 1958, a Portland family of five drove into the Columbia River Gorge for Christmas decorations and never returned. The Martin family disappearance is one of Oregon's most baffling unsolved cold cases, involving a bloody gun, a scratched-out n...