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AIN'T IT SCARY RETURNS! Catching Up, Talking 2025, and Checking In With the Asaparamancer
Guess who's back, back again? Sean & Carrie, of course...now in a new Exhausted Parents ™ Edition! But good news for you - we've made the most of our extended hiatus, and we're dipping our toe…
Ep. 195: Bad Santas
We're swinging into December with a cavalcade of criminal Clauses this week, as Sean ticks off some notable examples of men who made the Naughty List while dress as Kris Kringle.Discussion of…
Ep. 194: The Austin Servant Girl Annihilator, Pt. 2 - BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
We return to the autumn of 1885 this week where, in Austin, Texas, six victims - most of them Black domestic servants - have already been claimed by a killer who has successfully eluded police for…
Ep. 193: The Austin Servant Girl Annihilator, Pt. 1 - "We Are All Dead"
Beginning in late 1884 and throughout 1885, Austin, the boomtown capitol of Texas, was terrorized and sensationalized by a series of horrific murders. One man, six women and a young girl would be…
Ep. 192: Vermont Hauntings, Legends and Strangeness
To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never really ends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Vermont, where the skiing is top-notch, the…
Ep. 191: Weather Control
A topical storm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online takes a turn for the unhinged in the wake of…
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Spooky Flicks and Halloween Party Invites
In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before discussing the flicks we've been watching this…
Ep. 190: Halloween Urban Legends - Teens in Trouble
Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no…
Ep. 189: Legends of the New Jersey Pine Barrens - Ghosts, the Jersey Devil and Pirate Treasure
The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's…
Ep. 188: The OceanGate Disaster
On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer…
Ep. 187: Son of Sam, Pt. 2 - Son of Hope
Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders!Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before…
Ep. 186: Son of Sam, Pt. 1 - The Chubby Behemoth
Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year.From July 1976 to July 1977,…
Ep. 185: The Tylenol Murders
In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take investigators long to realize all seven victims had…
Ep. 184: Mothman, Pt. 3 - Unifying Theory of Mothman
#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, a tragedy in…
A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals
Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer just ahead of Labor Day!In the interest of our…
Ep. 183: Mothman, Pt. 2 - Pinkeye in Point Pleasant
This week, we return to Point Pleasant for even more high strangeness as the Men in Black, a fleet of UFOs, and author John Keel descend on the town and get mixed up in a series of bizarre encounters…
Ep. 182: Mothman, Pt. 1 - Daddy Magneto
This week, #HotMothSummer continues as we finally reach the story we've been building up to: the strange tale of the Mothman, a maybe-cryptid maybe-alien that descended upon the small town of Point…
Ep. 181: Men in Black, Pt. 2 - Good Cop, Bathroom Cop
#HotMothSummer presses on this week with part 2 of our primer on the Men in Black!Sean takes us back to 1953 Bridgeport, Connecticut, as we hear in Albert Bender's own words what he says he…
Ep. 180: Men in Black, Pt. 1 - Middle-Aged White Guy Activities
Best known today for diminishing cinematic returns, the Men In Black have been one of the creepiest boogymen of the UFO community for nearly 80 years. This week, Sean takes us all the way back to…
Ep. 179: The Culper Spy Ring
As an Independence Day treat, we hop into the time machine for a little "Ain't it Sneaky" here on the show with the twisting tale of the Culper Spy Ring, America's first foray into espionage during…
