Author: We Would Be Dead

It’s that festive time of year again, fiends!  To kick off your holiday season, we though we’d share one of our favorite Christmas episodes   Validate Us: Become an official Fiend WWBD Merch Shop Buy us a cup of validation WWBD Official Soundtrack, Vol. 1 WWBD Official Soundtrack, Vol. 2 Shadows of Christmas (WWBD Christmas…

A whirlwind romance, a handsome stranger, a mysterious death, and a ghost that solves her own murder? It’s no wonder the legend of the Greenbrier Ghost is one of America’s most beloved ghost stories. This week we explore the many things in this time honored tale that have been lost in translation for over a…

Leslie’s Back! Just under the wire we bring you a game of true or false crime! See if you can guess if these two compelling and widely told stories are truly true crime or false felonies. Happy Halloween! Click to learn more   Validate Us: WWBD Merch Shop Buy us a cup of validation WWBD…

Leslie is still on Maternity Leave so this week we bring you an episode on Holly’s favorite topic, poison, with one of her favorite people, frequent campfire guest and all around friend of WWBD; John Rattacasa! John has his very own poison garden with all of the rarest and deadliest plants in the world.  Holly…

Hey there fiends, Leslie is taking a little time off to be the cutest and spookiest new mom in all the land, which means…(imagine a drum roll) guest hosts! Happy Friday the 13th! This week in honor of this the luckiest unlucky of all days we brought our editor and composer John Katity on to…

Hey there fiends, Leslie is taking a little time off to be the cutest and spookiest new mom in all the land, which means…(imagine a drum roll) guest hosts! This week we bring you several tales of homegrown horror from our friend and previous guest, author Jesse Pollack. Jesse is a contributing columnist for Weird…

As lovers of information Holly and Leslie frequently fall down “rabbit holes” while researching cases for you. Sometimes they’re newsworthy, sometimes they’re silly, sometimes they’re suggestions from you and sometimes they’re just plain weird. No matter which rabbit hole they fall down, they all have one thing in common, they’re interesting enough to pull you…

    In the very pre daylight hours of February 23rd 2022 Tara Pakanich heard the storm door to her basement close. Tara’s 24 year old son, Shad Thyrion was staying with her at the time in that very basment, and had been entertaining an old friend, a woman named Taylor Schabusiness. Tara upon hearing…

This week WWBD took a little break – Holly needed some much needed rest, and Leslie and Jon were moving their son into college! So the team needed a moment and we thought, why not go into the vault and pull out an originally patron only episode of 30 minute horror movies for you all…

This week we are talking about a case that has been touted as Utah’s most famous unsolved murder. Trigger warning: this one is about a child and there is mention of sexual assault.   At 5 am on August 13th 1995, Lewine Tapia woke from a sound sleep with a start. The house appeared to…