One of the most prominent serial killers no one has ever heard of — Herb Baumeister and the horrors at Fox Hollow Farm. In 1996, at least 25 human remains were uncovered at Herb's property in Indiana, with only a few being successfully identified. Since many of the victims were gay men, the local police, who historically harassed the local gay community, set a low priority for the case. Many families were left without answers. But in recent years, a resurging interest has helped identify the victims and explore new answers to the puzzles left behind at Fox Hollow Farm.

Why do so many patients on their deathbeds across the world experience similar paranormal visions that can't be fully explained? Skeptics claim these experiences are only hallucinations, but others insist they’re lucid experiences that can't be explained by the living. Deathbed observers have also noticed the common mist and light phenomenon moments before someone dies. A silver cord disconnects, and the patient passes into the Great Beyond. Paranormal experiences are even stronger in old abandoned sanitoriums, where countless patients have died in droves. Their ethereal shadows remain. So what exactly makes death a unifying paranormal experience, and why are so many of them the same?

Sleepwalking has been misunderstood for thousands of years— and still is. Things like sleep talking, eating, driving, and cooking have taken many by surprise, but some sleepwalking instances are so bizarre that they end in murder. So what exactly does it take for a non-violent sleepwalker to uncharacteristically murder their loved ones? And how does a legal defense even begin to convince a jury of non-insane automatism due to sleepwalking?

Nursing student Patricia Mann and athlete Jesse McBane were high school sweethearts last seen alive at a Valentine's Day dance in 1971. A surveyor later found their bodies tied to a tree, where they were brutally suffocated for hours. Their murders have never been solved. In recent years, their case was reopened, and a wealth of new information focused the spotlight on 3 suspects with disturbing pasts. Investigators believe one suspect is responsible, but will they ever gather the physical evidence required to convince a jury?

Mr. Cruel— a mysterious monster only seen wearing a dark balaclava and wielding a knife. The most notorious Australian serial child rapist and murderer snuck into homes and attacked 4 girls across the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His crimes escalated in 1991 after the abduction and murder of a fourth girl, Karmein (KAR-meen) Chan, who lived in a "suburban fortress." Despite the high-profile investigations, all of the attacks remain unsolved cold cases to this day, and no theory has ever definitively answered the question: who is Melbourne's Boogeyman, Mr. Cruel?

Is it a sleep paralysis demon, a hallucination, an Incubus, a quirk in human anatomy, or a supernatural entity from the past trying to pleasure the living? In this episode, we dive into an odd, intimate corner of the paranormal— Spectrophilia— and those who claim they’ve experienced sex with beings beyond our world. We might even try it ourselves…

Beginning in the 1990s, Daniel Perez (aka Lou Castro) built up a nomadic cult with limitless wealth, eventually settling just outside Wichita, Kansas in the 2000s. He captivated the most vulnerable of his followers through a bogus ideology of securing life after death and a broad claim that he had an immaculate link with divine angels who gave him the ability to foresee his followers’ deaths. Once his followers died, he lived off their life insurance policies. This funded his criminal lifestyle for years, which included pedophilia, insurance fraud, and encouraging his followers to commit suicide.

Jimmy Savile's famous eccentricities, radiant television personality, and generous charitable work pulled the wool over Britain's eyes for decades. While he was beloved by millions, he was sexually abusing children by the hundreds— possibly thousands— from the 1950s until his death in 2011. And while he would die as a legend in the eyes of many, his legacy has since been rewritten. Now he's known as Britain's worst predatory sex offender in modern history. He exploited his celebrity status to abuse hundreds of adults and children across the country, assaulting or raping them in television dressing rooms, hospitals, schools, children's homes, and his notorious traveling caravan.

Beginning in the 1970s, women who were disproportionately Indigenous women have gone missing along a stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. This stretch became known as the Highway of Tears. As the years passed, and many cases remained unsolved, rampant RCMP negligence came to light. A discussion on violence against Indigenous women and generational trauma redirected the public's attention to the systemic issues facing Indigenous people to this very day and the horrific aftermath of colonialism in North America.

A French aristocratic family of 6 is found dead beneath the back porch, except for one-- the patriarch. All evidence points to the father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, as the one and only suspect, but his sister claims his innocence. She buys the theory that the bodies were not those of the de Ligonnes family and that Xavier was a puzzle piece in a high-profile DEA investigation. When the investigation went awry, his entire family was put into witness protection somewhere in the US. So what truly happened at the house of horrors in Nantes?

In the 1970s, Jeannette DePalma's body was found atop a 40-foot bluff called the Devil's Teeth in the wooded outskirts of Springfield Township, New Jersey. One officer who discovered her remains claimed that inverted crosses surrounded her, and tree branches formed the shape of a coffin around her body. Amid the Satanic Panic, local news outlets proposed that a ritualistic, sacrificial murder had taken place. Popular opinion believed the narrative, but did the Satanic Panic cause irreparable damage to Jeannette DePalma's case? To add insult to injury, journalists also discovered police lied about Jeannette's case file being destroyed during Hurricane Floyd. Key crime scene evidence had gone missing, but how? Allegations of a police cover-up unfolded. And it soon became no surprise that Jeannette's case had gone cold. The big question remained: was it incompetence, or was it intentional?

In this episode, we cover some of the scariest ways to die under incredibly dangerous circumstances as well as the most unsuspecting encounters: An adventurous hike ruined by a spontaneous stormcloud. Another typical day on the job in a bakery. From panicking while underwater cave diving to retrieving a vegetable from a root cellar— you never truly know what’s out to kill you.

Heavy on the dairy, a weird fascination with KFC, smuggled booze, troll requests, and a cold Coca-Cola with every meal-- these last meal requests come in all different shapes and sizes. Some might even offer a glimpse into the dead man walking.

Along a peculiar stretch of Interstate-45, between Houston and Galveston, more than 30 bodies have been discovered since the 1970s. Countless others, most of them young girls and young women, have vanished— never to be seen again. Considering the harsh climate conditions and police departments' disregard for the seriousness of these murders, many of these cases have gone unsolved. And many are left wondering: was this the act of a serial killer? or did multiple killers take advantage of the area since nothing was being done?

Comedian and fellow podcaster Dan Cummins joins us on a special episode where we dive into the bizarre and outlandish claims of an alien abductee, Colorado local, and convicted sex offender: Stan Romanek. Beginning in 2000, Stan witnessed his first UFO near the famous Red Rocks Amphitheater. Over the next 12 years, he would experience a grand total of 195 alien/UFO encounters and claim he has been abducted more than any other American in history. His wife believes every word he said, but others have debunked his claims. Is there some hidden truth behind Stan Romanek, or is he completely full of it?

Inspired by the movie Scream, two 16-year-old Pocatello High School students began a documentary about killing their classmates. Brian and Torey were obsessed with horror movies, serial killers, and death. By their Junior year, they were ready to make their fantasy a reality by targeting their friend Cassie, a straight-A student, artist, and athlete. Moments before murdering her, they dressed in masks, knocked things around the basement, and cut the power in true, theatrical horror. What followed would get them tried as adults for murder and land them life sentences in prison. Nearly 20 years later, many argue over whether they truly regret their actions.

The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, is known for having the most heinous collection of cursed objects and Murderabilia in the US. From serial killers' cremated ashes and bones to the cursed objects that once contained their victims' remains, Zak Bagans's curated list of disturbing items has terrorized the museum's visitors for years. Many claim the building's foul energy has attracted haunting entities to its secret rooms and dark hallways.

The Collins Family household was once your typical, suburban New Hampshire household. That is until 17-year-old Stacy Collins brought home an old Ouija board from a small antique store. At first, the board was harmless, but soon the house was plagued by hellish claws carving through the drywall, obscene carnal noises echoing from Stacy's room, and a supernatural entity replacing Stacy's body entirely. Her mother contacted the Warrens out of desperation, while doctors wondered: was Stacy’s affliction entirely medical? Or was she possessed by a demon?

Over three dreaded years, a pair of violent ghosts stalked Jackie Hernandez amid a failing marriage and her second pregnancy. Inside her home, several eyewitnesses corroborated some of the scariest paranormal events ever witnessed— along with a shocking photograph of an attack on a paranormal researcher that has gone down in paranormal history. Ever since, the San Pedro Haunting has become a quintessential horror story for every paranormal enthusiast.

If the occult parricide of the Brooks family didn't instill enough fear in the Bellaire community to cancel Halloween in 1995, then the fallout of the Satanic Panic made the final push. As the rise of teen occultism and violent satanism terrorized the hivemind of every suburban family across the country, Nathan Brooks embodied that terror and made a plan to not only shoot, stab, brain, decapitate, and crucify his own parents, but to go on a murder spree against all of those who loved and trusted him.