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The Child Behind Michael Myers
Episode 240
Haddonfield, 1963. Halloween is the loudest night of the year—bright masks, stitched costumes, candy lines at every porch. Inside the Myers house, it…
3 months ago
Did “Minecraft Steve” Come From a Mine?
Episode 239
2009. A mine collapses in Scandinavia. Seventeen days later, rescuers pull out a man who won’t speak. Nurses say he turns in perfect right angles and…
3 months ago
The Perfumer Who Bottled Husbands
Episode 238
Savannah, 1954. Perfume maker Clara Marrow sells scents locals call warm, heavy, almost alive. She marries seven times; each husband vanishes after t…
3 months ago
The Wave That Every Mascot Copied
Episode 237
In 1963, a regional burger chain hired a local circus performer to launch a grand opening in Washington, D.C. Families loved the colors, the laugh, t…
3 months ago
The Wedding After the Funeral (Ohio, 1978)
Episode 236
Weeks before their wedding, Linda Smith lost her fiancé, Lemmy Leaf, in a car crash in 1978 Ohio. The town expected flowers and silence. Instead, nei…
3 months ago
The Farm at Goobersville: Billy Wonka & Tony (1924)
Episode 235
In 1924, the Indiana town of Goobersville faced a wave of disappearances—more than 72 names in about three months, many last seen near a 200-acre far…
3 months ago
“All Events Are Fictional”: The Wheel of Beasts That Said Otherwise
Episode 234
A host named Dan D. Lyons. A wheel of wild animals. A rule: wherever it lands, you spend 24 hours locked in a box with that beast. Survive and win $1…
3 months ago
Why Is This Never Talked About?” — The Day Jay Found the Office
Episode 233
Greasy Grove, Ohio once sold pure wonder. In the mid-1960s, the park’s owner, Otto, signed programs and melted worries with a grin. By the early 1970…
3 months ago
From Neon to Nowhere: The 1976 Nebraska “Mannequin Party” Case
Episode 232
A flight delay leaves Ringo Barr stranded in Nebraska, 1976. He leaves the airport, meets a barfly who calls himself a local celebrity—Diddy Doudat—a…
3 months ago
The Great Zappy: The Night 1,500 Vanished (1899→1955)
Episode 231
A packed New York theatre. October 13, 1899. The illusionist known as The Great Zappy promises one final trick—his last performance ever. He asks the…
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