Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmerican Nightmares 26: "The Devil & the Movie that (Maybe) Killed Sharon Tate
This is an episode of the podcast that could have gone in a lot of directions – it’s an episode about the Devil, cults, true crime, satanic films, wi…
10 hours ago
Bring Me the Head of Al Capone
In the fall of 1926, the best friend of Chicago gangsters returned to politics and got his name added to the Republican mayoral primary ballot. Willi…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Blood in the Streets
If there was any one thing that motivated Hymie Weiss it was revenge.
Since the murder of his friend Dean O’Banion, he’d been the de facto boss of th…
1 week, 6 days ago
American Dread: The Silence in Room Five: The Death of John Ushman
In 1997, 13-year-old John Ushman was found dead inside Room Five of the Southern View Motel in Springfield, Illinois. Authorities ruled that he died …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
American Dread: The Finch Drive Murder: Who Killed Sherry Lewis?
On August 5, 1994, Decatur Realtor Sherry Lewis left to show a home. She never came home. More than three decades later, her murder remains unsolved.…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Death of the Hanging Prosecutor
Season 10 Episode 13
On the same day that the corpses of the last of the men who tried to revive the “Terrible Genna’s” operation was found, the Vice President of the Uni…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
American Nightmares 25: "The Devil's Music - Part 5"
When it comes to music curses – and the Devil’s Music itself – there is no musician more closely linked to the supernatural than Robert Johnson, the …
1 month ago
American Dread: Five Little Birds
On April 27, 1968, five children from the Cox family were murdered near their rural home outside Mattoon, Illinois. The killer was someone they knew …
1 month ago
The End of the "Terrible Gennas"
Season 10 Episode 12
In May 1925, Angelo and Lucille found a home they liked in suburban Oak Park and began planning to move. On the morning of May 25, Angelo set out in …
1 month, 1 week ago
American Dread: Four Hours Before Dawn: The Ray Timmons Story
In July of 1977, G. Ray Timmons left his Bloomington, Illinois home for a walk and never returned. Hours later, he was found murdered in a downtown a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago