The fact that a Chinese spy balloon was able to basically travel all the way across the nation rattled a lot of Americans. Why did we not shoot it down earlier? What if it was transmitting important and valuable defense information the entire time it was in the air? How did it even get in...

Ghost ships have been reported throughout the ages, even as recent as the mid-2000’s. Most of these stories involve vessels located by other boats in the water with no crew on board and no records or evidence of any wrongdoing or catastrophic events. The story we will hear today is about a real ghost ship....

This podcast we’re going to talk about our town’s purple fire snowstorm about 170 years ago and other weird things that happened in 1853, showcased in just one newspaper on one day. It was February 170 years ago that a lightning storm hit Mount Desert Island, striking dozens of people and creating a weather mystery...

This episode we talk facts about homicide. And Iceland. Carrie talks Iceland. Come hang out with us for a bit while we talk about homicide stats from the U.S. and the globe. And Iceland. Always Iceland. So many sources!

Sometimes life doesn’t make a lot of sense and that’s the case in this podcast about the deaths of two young woman brutally sexually assaulted and murdered in the UK. Trigger warnings for murder, sexual assault RESOURCES https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/05/two-eerily-similar-murders-157-years-apart/76829428/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-eerie-coincidences-of_b_8682392?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/chilling-links-between-two-brutal-10504871

You guessed it, we’re talking all about one state, one tiny state, on the Eastern seaboard and how it’s been a hotspot for UFO sightings. It’s so fun. Come hang out with us. THE AMAZING BOOK WE REFERENCE It’s Taryn Plumb’s New England UFOs. You can buy it! We weren’t paid to say that, but...

This episode we talk not just about the infamous tale of five werewolves in Palmyra, Maine, but delve a bit more deeply into Maine’s current outbreak of cryptoids of the canine type. Join us! SOURCES https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/82/werewolf-sighting-maine https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2022/05/bipedal-wolf-pack-stalked-family-in.html https://www.unsettlingthings.com/dogman-sightings-in-maine-4-true-stories/

Sometimes you have circumstantial evidence. Sometimes you have physical evidence. And sometime you have paranormal evidence? Join us as we delve into the murder of Teresita Basa. LINKS WE REFERENCE https://history4610.rssing.com/chan-52547626/all_p2.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/436984238/?terms=%22Teresita%20Basa%22&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/858475406/?terms=%22Alan%20Showery%22&match=1 https://history4610.rssing.com/chan-52547626/all_p2.html

Last week my opening dialogue spoke of the need for both physical and circumstantial evidence for a successful prosecution of crime. This week, we’ll be discussing multiple murders that are very much related but may not have been carried out by the same entities. You be the judge as we delve into the murders of...

Last week my opening dialogue spoke of the need for both physical and circumstantial evidence for a successful prosecution of crime. This week, we’ll be discussing multiple murders that are very much related but may not have been carried out by the same entities. You be the judge as we delve into the murders of...

Today we are once again talking about murder: the taking of a human life by another person without a provable and justifiable self-defense argument.  Today, most people probably get their knowledge of crime fighting and police work from television and movies: A world where either time, technology and storyline is more advanced than in reality...

When I was in ninth grade, my mom had a man she’d been flirting with move into our house while he “got back on his feet.” He travelled all the way from Oregon to our house, carrying a couple gifts. A Oregon mascot that was green and vaguely cute. Stiff furred. A jersey again with...

The world of stamp collecting doesn’t seem like a world of intrigue and crime, a place where people end up dead in a car in Maine. But some people think that’s exactly what happened to Massachusetts man James Arlington Cassidy Stamp collecting has been a hobby since 1840, which is when the first pre-paid stamp,...

I’m just going to put it out there: crime is stupid and murder? That’s beyond stupid. And if you’re murdering kids or women or people who are marginalized or oppressed? I am just not good with you. I have not achieved the enlightened state that allows me to still love people who terrorize other people....

Giant, furry cryptids tromping around our world? Uncaptured? Not discovered by scientists? Maybe? Maybe not? But how about the story of Portlock, Alaska, a whole town that allegedly up and moved after a serial killing Bigfoot’s terrorizing murder spree? So creepy. Today we explore Portlock and Bigfoot. SOURCES Dolezal, R. “Portlock: Home of a Sasquatch?” Anchorage...

Last week we talked about Danny Paquette, a NH man who obviously had his share of troubles and how he was murdered by a single shot fired at great range one Saturday when he was working in his birthday. There are a lot of Paquettes in New Hampshire, but this one poor family had more...

Last week, we talked about a murder that hit a little close to home for my family. It was the murder of Pamela Mason, a kid who was killed by Edward Coolidge. This week, we go into a New Hampshire family that was truly haunted by deaths and murders. The Paquettes. And we talk about...

It’s 1963, winter, and snowing lightly, and my mom is in a parking lot in her car. It’s an industrial parking lot where her husband’s uncle’s trucking company is located. It was once the largest trucking company in New England and my dad worked there as a mechanic and eventually a truck driver. My mom’s...

Last week we started our two-part series about Leslie Spellman, a young woman on a hiking adventure whose body was found in a garden on the island where we live in Maine back in the 1970s and this week we continue that story with a little more detail. This is the story of Leslie E....

There’s something so alluring about national parks, alluring and sometimes dangerous. The big vistas of nature tend to lend themselves to both mishaps and murder. Join us as we talk about the death of 27-year-old yoga instructor, Leslie Spellman. We’re going to have a part two next week where we clean up some of the...