Category: Episode
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Antimatrimony (The Murder of Charles Bravo)
Tighten up your corsets and starch those high collars because this week we’re going old timey! The mystery of who killed Charlie Bravo has captured the minds of both armchair and career detectives, as well as numerous true crime authors for over a century. This case has it all, money, accents, love affairs, victorian pseudoscience…
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The Man, The Myth, The Monster (Count Dracula) [REBROADCAST OF EPISODE 133]
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode on Count Dracula! The Nosferatu craze has gotten ahold of us too. Enjoy! ———– There is much about the myth of the vampire that science will never understand. They crawl from their graves, blood running from their mouths trailing mist in search of innocent victims to join them…
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Lost in Flames (The disappearance of the Sodder children)
On Christmas Eve 1945 in the quiet little town of Fayetteville West Virginia, Jennie Sodder awoke just after one in the morning to find her little farm house filled with smoke, flames licking the walls of her husband’s office. She rushed to wake and alert her husband and 9 children. It was clear that they…
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Haunted (A Christmas Carol) [REBROADCAST]
We promised we aren’t becoming a rebroadcast podcast haha. We will be back soon with a brand new episode! Until then, enjoy our holiday spooky cheer with another best of Christmas WWBD episode!———–There is no phrase one can utter that draws a more visceral christmas response, than Bah, Humbug. And so it is with great…
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You Have to Want It (The Tragedy of JonBenét Ramsey) [REBROADCAST EPISODE 94]]
Hello Fiends! With the new Netflix documentary, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey”, we thought we should rebroadcast our coverage of the case! We will be back next week with an all new episode! ———-“People ask me all the time how I think of such dark stories every week. Well, I say, I just take any…
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Believe (The Origins of Santa) [REBROADCAST EPISODE 95 ]
To start off the holiday season we are sharing one of our favorite episodes from a few years ago, in which we ruin Santa for you. ENJOY!——–We’re back once again to ruin Christmas! This year we’ll explore the dark and fascinating origins of everyone favorite jolly gift giver, Santa Claus. We’ll explore where our modern…
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Silent Scream, Part 2 (The Murders of Danny Rolling)
Gainesville Florida is the biggest college town in the sunshine state, but in August of 1990 a dark cloud descended over it. Five people were brutally mutilated and murdered in four short days. All the crime scenes bore the same graphic hallmarks, and local police quickly realized they had a serial killer on their hands.…
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Silent Scream, Part 2 (The Murders of Danny Rolling)
Gainesville Florida is the biggest college town in the sunshine state, but in August of 1990 a dark cloud descended over it. Five people were brutally mutilated and murdered in four short days. All the crime scenes bore the same graphic hallmarks, and local police quickly realized they had a serial killer on their hands.…
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Silent Scream, Part 1 (The Gainesville Ripper Murders)
Gainesville Florida is the biggest college town in the sunshine state, but in August of 1990 a dark cloud descended over it. Five people were brutally mutilated and murdered in four short days. All the crime scenes bore the same graphic hallmarks, and local police quickly realized they had a serial killer on their hands.…
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Prima Belladonna (Part 2: Gironima Spana) [RE-BROADCAST EPISODE 150]
Poison artisans Giulia Tofana and Gironima Spana took all the power held hostage in their time by men and placed it in the hands of women. Join us as we go deep into the rise and fall of the world’s most infamous poison and sought after skin care line: Aqua Tofana. Last week we told…