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PARANORMAL   With sightings dating back to the 1800s, the legend of the Fouke Monster of Boggy Creek is an important part of Arkansas's folklore. Lurking in the bogs of Arkansas, the Fouke Monster frightens motorists, homeowners, and hikers. The story of Boggy Creek and the monster who may inhabit it was the subject of the 1972 cult classic The Legend of Boggy Creek. The central story was based on testimonies from Arkansas natives recounting their terrifying stories from Arkansas. Where We Got Our Music https://is.gd/sMWnNh https://bit.ly/2lGBI2W freesound.org   Where We Got Our Information https://t.ly/y8rOG https://t.ly/pK1PO https://t.ly/eO8lk https://t.ly/RXAx5 https://t.ly/RXAx5 https://t.ly/6glbz https://t.ly/9g3Yn

PARANORMAL   There is something to be said about living in a quaint safe town where everybody knows your name. But what if one day your town took a turn for the worse, and it wasn’t so quaint or safe? What if the devil made your neighbor kill someone? Would you believe your neighbor? What would happen? Today we’re talking about the small town of Brookfield, Connecticut. This community went 193 years without a single homicide...until the devil came to town.   Where We Got Our Music https://is.gd/sMWnNh https://bit.ly/2lGBI2W freesound.org   Where We Got Our Information https://t.ly/Nyr3Z https://t.ly/njOdx https://t.ly/O2jNJ https://t.ly/pK1wk https://t.ly/LdV1Y https://t.ly/eO83e https://t.ly/RXA9V li.li1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #dca10d} span.s1 {font: 10.0px Menlo; color: #000000} span.s2 {font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'} ul.ul1 {list-style-type: disc}

TRUE-CRIME   Texarkana, a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, is also known as The Town That Dreaded Sundown, thanks to the 1976 horror flick of the same name. Set in Texarkana and based loosely on a string of local slayings, the proto-slasher film came out just two years after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Black Christmas, and two years before Halloween. Yet the true story behind the “Texarkana Moonlight Murders” is as chilling as anything seen on the silver screen—and made all the more unsettling because the case remains unsolved nearly 70 years later. Where We Got Our Music https://is.gd/sMWnNh freesound.org   Where We Got Our Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana_Moonlight_Murders https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texarkana-murder-mystery/ https://the-line-up.com/texarkana-murders https://www.ranker.com/list/texarkana-moonlight-murders/rachel-souerbry https://t.ly/mqdLB https://t.ly/AgL5m https://t.ly/PblYw https://t.ly/0vLmg https://t.ly/AgLy

TRUE-CRIME Agatha Christie - best known for creating mysteries that weave together characters and storylines with haunting twists. She may be famous, but did you know she was part of her very own real-life mystery? A mystery that was never solved...not even by her. Today we’re talking about the disappearance of Agatha Christie Where We Got Our Music https://is.gd/sMWnNh freesound.org Where We Got Our Information https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/agatha-christie-disappearance-mystery-facts-poirot-miss-marple-detective/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/08/mystery-agatha-christies-disappearance-solved-author-suggests/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/books/agatha-christie-vanished-11-days-1926.html https://www.historicmysteries.com/disappearance-of-agatha-christie/

CONSPIRACY JonBenét Ramsey, one of the US’s most notorious unsolved murder cases. We all know it. Six-year-old beauty pageant winner taking the world by storm found dead in her family’s basement. But what if the story didn’t end there? What if JonBenét didn’t actually die? Are you ready to put your tin-hats on and follow us down this rabbit hole?   Where We Got Our Music https://is.gd/sMWnNh freesound.org   Where We Got Our Information https://t.ly/YdGmE https://t.ly/D5Z3r https://t.ly/kM7bq

Welcome back Far Siders! Today we’re talking about a man known for being a shoe fetishist, a rapist, a torturer, a necrophiliac, and most notably, a serial killer. Methodically, he stalked and brutally murdered four women, before taking trophies and dumping their bodies in a nearby river. It is speculated he kidnapped and murdered many more before his capture in 1969. This is the story of Jerry Brudos.     Resources   Music from https://is.gd/sMWnNh and freesound.org   https://t.ly/D5ZZD https://t.ly/lD77R https://t.ly/ePWvk https://t.ly/1nZO7 https://t.ly/Rp3v5

The address 1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana may sound quite average to most people. Unfortunately, this address has seen far more than its fair share of horror. Standing tall and proud, this home fits right in on the cultured New Orleans square. You probably wouldn’t even give it a second glance if you walked by - other than to maybe admire its historic facade. You would be surprised to find that this typical looking abode has a sordid past. Even Hollywood has looked to its tragic track record for inspiration because this location was the site of murder, torture, and has been speculated about since 1834. Music from https://is.gd/sMWnNh and freesound.org   Resources: https://bit.ly/2KTBVd3 https://bit.ly/31YUMJ7 https://bit.ly/2PbybYi https://bit.ly/2KQqz9C https://bit.ly/2PbybYi

Phantom Time Hypothesis claims that the years 614-911 never happened and that we’re actually living in the 1700s right now. Do you agree with this theory? Need some evidence before you decide? Listen to today's episode where we make the case for the Phantom Time Hypothesis. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1 and freesound.org  

Anneliese Michel was born in Germany on September 21, 1952. She grew up in a devoutly, somewhat extreme, Catholic family. Pictures taken of her during childhood show a vibrant, pretty girl on her way to becoming a gorgeous woman. She had shining black hair, an open, honest face and a stunning smile. By the time she was 23-years-old, she was emaciated, heavily bruised, scarred and deranged. She was supposedly taken over by demons and fought for nearly eight years before finally losing her battle with evil. Later, her death was labeled negligent homicide, but was there anything anyone could have done for Anneliese Michel? Were those who were with Anneliese really fighting Satan? Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1 and freesound.org Clip from youtu.be/p9qQiDqHDRg      

During World War II, Nazi officials were constantly hunting down resistance fighters and the allied spies who aided them. But there was one foreign operative the Third Reich held a special contempt for—a woman responsible for more jailbreaks, sabotage missions and leaks of Nazi troop movements than any spy in France. Her name was Virginia Hall, but the Nazis knew her only as “the limping lady.” Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1 and freesound.org  

There’s a reason whodunits are so popular... Why mystery novels fly off bookshelves or download with lightning speed into our eReaders. We love finding the clues and connecting the dots. Investigators and armchair detectives alike want to revel in the experience of naming the culprit. The human race craves resolve. We itch to find out the who, what, when, where, and why. I think that’s why I’m truly a little obsessed with today’s story - there is no resolve...and it’s been over 200 years. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1 and freesound.org  

Today we’re talking about Ed Gein, in full Edward Theodore Gein, American serial killer whose gruesome crimes gained worldwide notoriety and inspired numerous characters in books and horror films - most notably Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Very few abandoned buildings can evoke anxiety, fear, and outright horror that accompanies the simple mention of their name. An insane asylum is one of those places. From campfire stories, TV shows, horror movies, and spine-chilling novels, asylums hold an especially terrifying place in our psyches and tend to invoke our most primal fears.  Justifiably so–the stories told about these historic halls of horror weren’t just pulled out of thin air or dreamt up by the twisted minds of storytellers. The true history of our world’s insane asylums may be just as terrifying as the darkest recesses of our imaginations would have us believe. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Keith Raniere, self-help guru, founded NXIVM (pronounced "Nixium") in the 1990s and sold courses to an estimated 17,000 students. In 2017, the bizarre, cultish group that made headlines for recruiting women to be “slaves” and “masters” closed after its leader, Keith Raniere, was denied bail after appearing in court.  On June 19th of this year, Raniere was convicted of all charges.Disclaimer: This episode deals with heavy topics involving sexual assault and violence. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

For more than a century, a peculiar physical condition known as ectrodactyly has afflicted the Stiles family. The rare congenital deformity makes hands look like lobster claws as the middle fingers are either missing or seemingly fused to the thumb and pinky.While many may have viewed this condition as a handicap, for the Stiles family it spelled opportunity. As far back as the 1800s, as the family grew and produced more children with unusual hands and feet, they developed a circus: The Lobster Family, which became a carnival staple throughout the early 20th century.But one son, Grady Stiles Jr., would give the Stiles’ family a different, morbid reputation when he became a murderer. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Today we’re talking about a cold case regarding a murder that’s been unsolved for 20 years. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1    

From 1959 to 1965, a killer named by the press as Jack The Stripper, murdered between six and eight women. To this day, over fifty years later, the crimes that became known as the Hammersmith Nude Murders remain unsolved. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Is it chasing us? That thought coursed through Betty and Barney Hill’s minds as they drove down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It was a September night in 1961, they hadn’t seen a car for miles, and a strange light in the sky seemed to follow them. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Welcome back Far Siders! We’re covering part 2 of Project Pegasus. If you haven’t already listened to Part 1, you should go back and do so now, or this episode won’t make any sense. In part one of this series, it was claimed that CIA “White Hats” had begun in 1980 to groom Barack Obama as a future U.S. President, while simultaneously grooming Andrew Basiago to follow him later into the White House. Let’s jump right in. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1  

Get your tin-foil hats ready for today's case, because we're talking about time-travelling presidents and secret government technology. There's so much to cover that we're breaking this one into two parts. Music from goo.gl/9eQ5r1