Episode 387 - Tesla's Death Ray

Nikola Tesla was an acknowledged genius. He had countless patents for a huge variety of inventions – the first remote control, the Tesla Coil, alternating current, and best of all he had nothing to do with the Cybertruck. So if he said he had invented a death ray, you would have to believe him. Or would you?


Episode 387 - Teslas Death Ray
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Episode 383 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 1

Creepypastas - those spooky and terrifying stories that have the run of the internet - have become an art form. Here we share the best of the best, the most iconic and creepiest of creepypastas. In Part 1, we hear about a battle-scarred killer, a terrifyingly slender man, a killer proud of his masterpiece, and an eeriely calm woman with a kitten in her mouth.


Episode 383 - The Creepypasta Hall of Fame - Part 1
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Episode 381 - Haunted Highways Part 1 - The Stocksbridge Bypass: The One Night Haunted Highway

For one night in 1987, the Stocksbridge Bypass in Yorkshire was alive with spectral activity. Ghost children dancing, a ghost monk terrorizing constables, a police car battered by something unseen. What was the cause of this horror and will it return?


Episode 381 - Haunted Highways Part 1
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Episode 379 - Spooky Stories From the Deep Dark Woods

Forests are spooky. That is just a straight up fact. Here are three stories from those spooky places: North Carolina's Devil's Tramping Ground where nothing grows but fear; the Scottish highlands where you stop into a haunted bothy at your own risk; and the infamous tale of a frighteningly tenacious forest stalker who just wanted to know how to get to Bells Canyon.


Episode 379 - Spooky Stories From the Deep Dark Woods
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Episode 377 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings Part 3

CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, murder, including of children

The young survivors of the massacre began to remember bits and pieces, but memories are tricky things and the hints and flashes lead no where solid. With the case still unsolved, we dissect the likeliest scenarios for what happened on that horrific day.


Episode 377 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings Part 3
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Episode 376 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings Part 2

CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, including harm to children

While the French focus on Saad al-Hilli's brother fighting as the murder, the English believe the acutal target was the cyclist Molliere. The investigation cycles through one suspect after another - a serial killer, a gun nut, a former French Foreign Leggionairre - but one of the seem to fit. Then they find the mystery motorcyclist dressed in black...


Episode 376 - Horror at the Swiss Border - The Annecy Killins Part 2
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Episode 375 - Horror at the Swiss Border: The Lake Annecy Killings - Part 1

CONTENT WARNING: for violence and murder, including children victims

The al-Hillis were a respectable English family yon a caravan vacation to France’s Lake Annecy near the border with Switzerland. They stop at a turnout for a nice family stroll in the forest. But when a cyclist stops at the same clearing moments later, he realizes he has stumbled onto an atrocity.

Episode 375 - Horror at the Swiss Border - The Lake Annecy Killings - Part 1
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Episode 374 - Beware Cave-Dwelling Creatures in Arkansas

Arkansas has given us Walmart, free diamonds, the Clintons and the gowrow. You might not know about that last one, but it was said to be a bloodthirsty giant lizard-like, dinosauric beast that left its cave at night to terrorize the countryside. Then some brave Arkansans decided to chase the monster into its lair and rid the world of the gorow forever. Or did they?


Episode 374 - Beware Cave-Dwelling Creatures in Arkansas
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Episode 372 - The Epstein Files - Part 2

CONTENT WARNING: Talk of suicide, sexual abuse including of minors

After his sweetheart deal, Jeffrey Epstein enjoyed a decade of freedom before he found the FBI was waiting for his private plane.  Just over a month later, though, Epstein was found dead in his cell at a highly secure facility. On a night when Epstein was alone in his two-person cell, the guards fell asleep, and the security video had a mysterious gap. Hm.


Episode 372 - The Epstein Files - Part 2
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Weird Bit 68 - Inkanyamba - The Storm Serpent of South Africa

Howick Falls in South Africa is breathtaking - crashing 310 feet over a cliff along the Umgeni River. But don't get too close because the Inkanyamba lives there, and it is a testy beast. With the body of a snake, a head like a horse, and the ability to cause thunderous storms and kill with a look, the creature is best left alone.


Weird Bit 68 - Inkanyamba - The Storm Serpent of South Africa
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