Episode 183 - The Mystery of Room 1046

He was from out of town. He called himself Roland T. Owen. He was tortured and left to die in his hotel room in Kansas City. But who killed him, why and who was he? Because he was definitely not named Roland T. Owen.

Sources:

https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/anonymous-man-is-tortured-in-hotel-room-later-dies-from-injuries-59c9975dee68

https://the-line-up.com/roland-t-owen

https://allthatsinteresting.com/room-1046-murder-roland-t-owen

http://www.truecrimeneversleeps.com/the-mysterious-murder-of-roland-t-owen-in-room-1046/

Episode 180 - Birds Aren't Real

“The Man” wants you to believe those are birds flying through the air, watching you from the telephone line, and pooping on your car window. They’re not. They are something far more insidious than even pigeons.

Sources:

https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making

https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/who-are-we

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg8p4n/birds-arent-real-they-are-government-spy-drones

Episode 175 - Slender Man

He is tall, he is slender, he is dark, and, for two teenage girls in Wisconsin, he was an inspiration for evil. He is Slender Man.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/milwaukee-suburb-tries-to-cope-with-slender-man-stabbing.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/movies/slender-man-timeline.html

A documentary film on the incident called Beware the Slenderman, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky, HBO Films 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

Weird Bit 25 - Cry Baby Bridges

They dot the landscape of America - lonely bridges where unspeakable things happened and the only reminder of them is the cry of a ghostly child.

Sources:

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/crybaby bridge

www.theoccultmuseum.com

www.ranker.com/list/crybabybridgebackstory/christopherschultz

www.blairwitch.fandom.com/crybaby bridge

Episode 171 - Lost in Knoxville: The Blair Adams Murder Mystery

Blair Adams fled Canada with a ticket to Germany, rerouted to Washington, D.C. and drove to Knoxville, Tennessee, a city he had never seen. He said someone was chasing him. His friends and family thought he was having a breakdown. Then they found Blair in a parking lot, murdered.

Sources:

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/11/unsolved-canadian-blair-adams-raced-knox-county-slain-half-nude-his-gold-untouched/610262001/

https://medium.com/true-crime-addiction/the-strange-and-unexplained-murder-of-blair-adams-true-crime-48452d9d83e7

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7rhh7u/unresolved_murder_blair_adams_a_question_of_keys/

 

Episode 170 - Satanic Panic - When the Devil Made You Do It and You Didn't Even Know It

The Devil made Paul Ingram do it and he didn’t even know it. Terrible things, wicked things, and he took the rap and went to prison on his own confession. But did Paul Ingram really do any of those terrible things?

DISCLAIMER for descriptions of sexual and satanic ritual abuse. This episode is not for young listeners.

Sources:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ra_ingra.htm
https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/2015/05/24/an-historic-exaggeration-in-the-new-yorker/
https://www.newsweek.com/speaking-devil-186852
http://justicedenied.org/paul.htm
https://peoplepill.com/people/paul-ingram-1/
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-debate-over-recovered-memories-2330516
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/mcnally.cfm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/23/inside-case-of-repressed-memory-nicole-kluemper