In 2018, 11 people in the Chundawat family were found dead from what looked like a ritual sacrifice. It left the public with questions: was the family corrupted by a evil guru? Was this a robbery gone wrong? Or was there something even darker at play?

TW: Suicide, child death

Let's look at three of the scariest legends from Brazilian Folklore: Corpo Secos that rise from their graves, Pisadeiras that creep into your room at night, and the mighty Mapinguari that stalks the rainforest

For 20 years in Tennessee, Georgia Tann ran American's biggest black market for children, trafficking over 5,000 kids. We cover how she built her business, and how some children eventually found their families.

TW: Kidnapping, child death, reference to sexual assault, reference to pedophilia

For 20 years in Tennessee, a mysterious woman appeared on the doorsteps of single mothers, claiming to be a social worker. She would then disappear with their children.

TW: child death, kidnapping, reference to sexual assault

In 1957, a man approached a young girl in Illinois and asked if she wanted a piggyback. That was the last time she was seen alive

And in 1971, a man known as "DB Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, and disappeared without a trace.

Both of these cases involved shocking confessions that were made with dying breaths.

TW: child death, kidnapping, reference to sexual assault

A man sees someone who might not exist on the Appalachian Trail. Someone is lead into the

forrest by strange lights, and one woman smells something decomposing coming from a closet

on her campus…

The North Sea has the internet talking about how scary it is, but did you know people have been terrified of the sea for Centuries? Let's take a morbid tour through the history of the North Sea and talk about creatures from legends, the lost city that supposedly sits at the bottom of it, and the disaster known as the Byford Dolphin Incident.

On December 22nd, 2010, a man named Michael Faherty was found in his home nearly burned to ash. Nothing else around him had been touched by the fire, however. The official coroners report read: Spontaneous Human Combustion

But what is SHC, and why does it happen? Let’s take a morbid little tour through history

Has the Martin Family's car been found in the Columbia River? What happened to the Brazilian poisoner who tried to kill her husbands family? What is Hantavirus, the incredibly rare illness that killed Gene Hackman's wife? I'm opening my mailbag today to ask some of your burning darkly curious questions

TW: References but not descriptions of the following- Suicide, child abuse, sexual abuse, animal death

A man disappears in the middle of a race. A woman walks into the woods and is never seen again. And a small town called Portlock swears there is something evil stalking them in the Woods. 

Some say there’s something supernatural happening in the ‘Alaskan Triangle’

Dentist by day, con man and serial killer by night. Glennon Englelman manipulated the woman around him to kill their loved ones in a get rich quick scheme, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.

TW: References to sexual abuse

Does the devil stalk the Isle of the Dead near the Port Arthur Prison? And what supernatural force keeps people out of cell 17 at Old Melbourne Gaol?

TW: References to child death

In 2024, over 600 bodies were found buried in shallow graves on a compound in the Shakahola forest. Paul Mackenzie had told his followers if they reduced their food intake, they would meet Jesus. This left many with the question- how did things get this bad?

Trigger warning: Child abuse

In 2019, a photo of a liminal office space spawned a whole genre of horror called The Backrooms. But what are they, and what entities lurk inside? And are they a real place where some people actually get trapped?

In March of 2023, an office manager at a dentist office in Colorado received a package that would make her blood run cold. It was cyanide, and it was addressed to her boss, whose wife had been in the hospital with a strange illness...

A street in Turkey that swallows people whole. A lake full of mysterious bones in India. And a changeling in America. These are times that the legends were true.

In 1978, Steven Kubacki went skiing near Lake Michigan and vanished without a trace.

Danny Filippidis was heading to his car to grab his phone when everything went dark.

What happened to these men, and do the strange areas where they were last seen have anything to do with their disappearances, and their even stranger reappearances?

In August of 2013, Brandon Lawson made a concerning 911 call, and then was never heard from again. However, just a few weeks ago, there was a huge update in the case. Get the full story in this episode.

In 2016, Jonathan Cruz went on a four day killing spree inspired by the movie "The Purge". In 1985, Mark Branch wanted to live out his fantasy of being Jason from Friday the 13th. What causes some people to be inspired by horror movies to commit horrible acts of violence?

7 people hiked up a mountain in August of 1993, but only one made it down alive. What she saw up on the mountain had rendered her completely speechless and has mystified the world for over 3 decades.