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Haunted Los Angeles: Ghosts, Cults, and the City of the Occult
Los Angeles hides an almost overwhelming number of ghosts behind its glamour, from the piano-playing spirit at Hollywood's Magic Castle and the body …
1 week ago
The Parasite: A Skeptic, a Hypnotist, and a Soul She Refused to Free | #RetroRadio
A skeptical London professor sets out to expose a plain, lame hypnotist as a fraud, never suspecting that the woman he dismisses has already decided …
1 week ago
Homicide House: Someone Is Living in the Dead Van Cleek Mansion | #RetroRadio
An unknown gunman murders the last of the wealthy Van Cleek line, and when two reporters break into the family's boarded-up mansion to photograph it …
1 week ago
The Ghost In The Well | #RetroRadio
A Soho painter can't stop painting the same 19th-century woman — until she starts talking back, insisting she was murdered and thrown down a Manhatta…
1 week ago
The Siders Case: 16 Children Found in a Hamden, OH | What We Know, What The Internet Got Wrong
Sixteen children were found in a single room on Ohmer Street, and their mother had been delivering them in hospitals for seventeen years.
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The Villisca Ax Murders: The Reverend and the Rival
In 1912, an axe killed all eight people sleeping in a Villisca, Iowa farmhouse, and the two men suspected of it — a traveling preacher and a business…
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Real Werewolf Trials: The Executed Lycanthropes of Early Modern Europe
Across four centuries of European court records, dozens of men, women, and children confessed to shedding their skins for wolf-hides and hunting unde…
1 week, 2 days ago
Rocket Fuel, Sex Magic, and the Birth of Scientology
The man who invented solid rocket fuel and helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory spent his nights performing sex rituals in a Pasadena mansion w…
1 week, 3 days ago
A Tyrant Robot, a Sludge Lord, and a Galaxy Full of Pleasure Rods | #RetroRadio
The Master Constipator discovers another galaxy ripe for conquest and sets out to bring it under his rule, placing him on a collision course with Lor…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Dumbbell Murder: Two Lovers Committed a Murder So Stupid The Papers Named It Twice
A discontented Long Island housewife and the forgettable corset salesman she seduced hatch a clumsy plot to murder her sleeping husband — a scheme so…
1 week, 4 days ago