Shared Madness

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is probably the most famous victim of Munchausen by proxy syndrome at the hands of her mother, Dee Dee. In June of 2015, Gypsy Rose, along with her boyfriend Nicholas, did what they felt they had to do in order to save Gypsy from the abuse. Does Gypsy deserve the punishment she was handed? Or, has she been punished enough?

Welcome back! I have my special guest Nick back with me again this week in our "Distractable" podcast-inspired episode. Rather than prepping for the episode I thought it would be fun to do what Mark, Bob, and Wade do: pick a topic and research as you go. Nick and I dive into some weird cryptids this week...tigers, weasels, and stickmen, oh my! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

IM BACK! And I'm not alone…this week my best friend Nick has joined us! This week we are talking about Ed Gein, AKA the “Butcher of Plainfield.” Was he a grave robber or a serial killer? Was his graveyard friend real? Why is CCTV footage so bad? All this and more on this episode of Shared Madness! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today's episode is a bit different than my usual content... today we are talking about weird/odd motives that resulted in the horrible deaths of two women in two separate stories that take place in Chicago, Illinois and Macon, Georgia. This episode is titled "Weird Motive Stories," but regardless of the motive, two women did unfortunately lose their lives. Sources for this episode: oxygen.com viralnova.com unbelievable-facts.com macon.com/news wgxa.tv/news dailymail.co.uk Chicago Tribune --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I wanted to try something new...I asked you guys on Instagram if you’d be interested in a “real life story of..” series, and y’all said yes, so Midsommar is first! Midsommar is based around a couple, Dani and Christian, who are kinda falling apart. When Dani’s family dies, the two stay together and end up traveling to a “community” in Sweden with people called The Härga. Little do they know, things will never go back to the way they were before. Midsommar is one of my favorites, so I really wanted to deep-dive into the real life horror that inspired the film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I don't known about y'all, but I need a good laugh. This week's episode is more lighthearted and kinda silly. The Mongolian Death Worm is a creature that is said to inhabit the Gobi Desert. It is said to look like a giant worm that's about 3 to seven foot long and red with spike-like projections on both ends. The worm is extremely dangerous: touching any part of the worm will cause instant death and a lot of pain. The Mongolian Death worm survives by preying on camels and will lay eggs in the intestines while also eating the goyo plant. The Worm enjoys staying below the surface unless it rains or senses vibrations from the upper layers of the sand. Numerous investigations have taken place and he unique part about the Mongolian Death Worm is the fact that it has been proven to actually exist?! What?? Sources for this episode: Wikipedia.org On the Trail of Ancient Man The New Conquest of Central Asia Livescience Cryptidwiki.com Handwiki.org kingsnake.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Leonarda Cianciulli was born in Montella, Avellino on November 14th, 1893.In 1917, Cianciulli married a registry office clerk, Raffaele Pansardi. Her parents did not approve of the marriage, as they had planned to marry her to someone else. Cianciulli claimed that when this happened, the couple moved away. Because of this, her mother cursed them. Cianciulli had seventeen pregnancies during her marriage, but lost three of the children to miscarriage; ten more died in their youth. She was heavily protective of the four surviving children. Her fears were fueled by a warning she had received some time earlier from a fortune teller, who said that she would marry and have children, but that all of the children would die. Of course, she immediately thought it had been the curse her mother put on her and her husband. In 1939, Cianciulli’s eldest son, Giuseppe, was to join the Italian army in preparation for World War II. Giuseppe was her favorite child, and she was determined to protect him at all costs. She came to the conclusion that in order to keep him safe, she needed human sacrifices. She said this was told to her by another psychic. She found her victims in three middle-aged women, all neighbors. You may be wondering where the title for this infamous (and first) Italian female serial killer came from... Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia Murderpedia sites.psu.edu Thefamouspeople.com Medium.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

British Columbia, Canada is known for many things: gorgeous landscapes, skiing, the 2010 Olympics, and the running shoes with feet in them that have been washing on shore for the past 9 years? Since 2007, at least 14 human feet have been found in running shoes that washed up on the shore in British Columbia. Is the cause natural disasters? Drug or human trafficking? A serial killer? ALIENS? The world may never know... Sources for this Episode: Theguardian.com Wikipedia.com The Washington Post Vox.com Vice.com The NY Times Science daily The Red Cross History.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo did as he does every year. He signed up to be a deacon at this church’s Christmas Eve service at midnight. However, he never arrived at church. At about 11:30 pm Christmas Eve in 2008, Pardo dressed in a Santa suit and went to his former in-laws home in Covina, California. His former in-laws were having a Christmas party that night with their 5 children and their families. There were about 25 people in the house when he arrived. Pardo came in with what seemed to be a gift because it was wrapped in wrapping paper. It was not a gift though. The package has a home made flame thrower on a trolley with a 9 mm semi-automatic handguns. He also had 2 more 9 mm semi automatic guns in his possession. Sources for this episode: Wikipedia Oxygen.com The New York Times The LA TIMES CNN murderpedia.org telegraph.co.uk The Daily Mail --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Roch Theriault was born on May 16th, 1947 in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in Thetford Mines. In the early 1970’s, Theriault used his charisma to start convincing a group of people to leave their jobs and homes behind to join him in a religious movement. His goal was to form a group where people could listen to his speeches, live in equality, sell baked goods, and be free of sin. On paper, this seems like a good idea, but we all know what happens in cults when people get too much power. Shortly after the cult’s formation, Theriault began to move away from a motivational leader and started to be an outright totalitarian leader. The Ant Hill Kids ended up becoming a place on a mountainside where people had legs broken with sledgehammers, amateur and unnecessary surgeries were performed, and children were nailed to trees and had rocks thrown at them. Oh, they also sold baked goods. Sources for this episode: https://io9.gizmodo.com/6-lesser-known-cults-that-will-give-you-more-nightmares-1800917042 Wikipedia Murderpedia.org Cvltnation.com Morbidology.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Annabelle movie, a prequel to The Conjuring, was released in October of 2014. In the movie, the doll is porcelain and made in a child’s image, with long hair. However, in real life, she is a raggedy Anne doll and has red yarn for hair. The writers and producers couldn’t use the raggedy Anne for royalty purposes, but they also wanted to make the doll seem scarier for the viewers. According to the Warrens, the doll is possessed by an inhuman spirit. Because of this, she is locked away at The Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut with a warning label on the glass as well as the Lord’s Prayer and a cross. Most people have seen the movie or at least the doll, but not everyone knows the truly horrifyingly true story behind it. Sources for this episode: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/amp/Real-Annabelle-story-shared-by-Lorraine-11382545.php Wikipedia Allthatsinteresting.com History vs Hollywood The Hollywood reporter Filmdaily.co - Altpress.com The Monroe Sun --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Omaima Aree Nelson was born and raised in Egypt, and immigrated to the United States in 1986. Her main source of support and income seemed to have come from her many boyfriends. She would get involved with a man and move in with him right away, spend his money freely, and then, when he caught her or she just got tired of him, she would rob him and disappear. Until she met one man, Bill Nelson at a bar in California. The two got married very quickly. On Thanksgiving day, Bill spoke with his daughter Margaret on the phone. He told her how everything was going great and invited her to join him and his new wife for dinner. Margaret refused. Little did she know this would be the last time she would be able to speak to her father... Sources for this episode: https://delanirbartlette.medium.com Wikipedia Murderpedia.org All thatsinteresting.com History channel --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of my memories from my childhood trick-or treating days is my mom making my brothers and I put all of our Halloween candy on the kitchen counter so she could go through it. She would always throw away the suckers, tootsie rolls, and other candies that were in like unwrappable and rewrap-able containers. I feel like this is a thing a TON of parents do because the news is always like “there is razor blades in candy” or “there is drugs in the candy” but it never REALLY seems to actually happen to anybody in recent years. However, today’s story is the REASON this stuff happens every year. On Halloween night in 1974, O’Bryan along with his neighbor, Jim Bates, took all 4 of their kids trick or treating in Pasadena, Texas. Later that night, young Timothy O'Bryan unfortunately died from poison in his Pixy Stix. Who could have done such a thing? Sources:  Wikipedia  Murderpedia  Insider.org Statesman.com Ctpost.com Vice.com Findagrave.com Medium.com cdc.gov --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of my favorite activities to do during the Halloween season is to go to Halloween Haunt at Kings Island (that's where the hint came from on the Instagram). If you don't know what Halloween Haunt is, it is basically a bunch of haunted houses and other spooky things at King's Island (which is a theme park in Mason, Ohio). In honor of the spooky season and the fact that Halloween Haunt was cancelled this year, I decided to do today's episode over extreme haunts. Extreme haunts are like haunted houses, but they are designed to be far more intense. People who visit extreme haunts are willingly signing themselves up to be tortured by people who could possibly be called psychopaths. This week I focused on Blackout, Scare house, Castle of Chaos, and the infamous McKamey Manor. These places are HORRIFYING. Would you sign yourself up to be beaten, gagged, drugged, and kidnapped by strangers? **Petition to shut down McKamey Manor** https://www.change.org/p/tennessee-state-senate-shut-down-mckamey-manor Sources for this episode: https://blog.cheapism.com/extreme-haunted-houses/#slide=12 Wikipedia http://www.theblackoutexperience.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKamey_Manor https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/30/extreme-haunted-house-masochists-mckamey-manor https://worldofbuzz.com/this-haunted-house-in-america-is-so-extreme-people-who-have-gone-in-call-it-a-torture-chamber/ https://www.ranker.com/list/what-is-blackout-extreme-haunted-house/jacob-shelton https://castleofchaos.com/about-the-castle/ https://www.uvureview.com/front-page/recent/artsculture/get-thrown-around-this-october-at-castle-of-chaos/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ScareHouse https://www.haunting.net/experiences/scarehouse-basement/  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hey spooky babes, so this Minisode is really really short and is just information about the Patreon, the merch, as well as my Instagram giveaway I am having for when I reach 100 Instagram followers. All the links for those are below: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sharedmadness Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/sharedmadnesspod/ Redbubble for merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Madisonmcvey/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It is 10:48 p.m. on May 19, 1983. A red Nissan sports car pulled into the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital ER in Springfield, Oregon. A young woman jumped out of the car and began shouting: “Someone killed my kids!" Inside were three children, two girls and a boy, covered in blood. The children had been shot multiple times at close range (about 0-6 inches). 7-year-old Cheryl was already dead, 8-year-old Christie had suffered a stroke from immense blood loss, and 3-year-old Danny was paralyzed from a bullet wound to his spine. Their mother, 27-year-old postal worker Diane Downs, had a minor gunshot wound to her left arm. All this happened while Duran-Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" played in the background. Who was the culprit? A shaggy-haired man? Two men in ski masks? A drug dealer? A corrupt police officer? Or somebody closer than we think... Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia  Oregonlive.com www.thoughco.com Murderpedia  Heavy.com ABC’s 20/20 Reddit: User trochanter_the_great Link to mother’s letter: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march112014/diane-downs-wf.php Link to her mother’s website saying her daughter is innocent: http://www.dianedowns.com/  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I’ve been wanting to do this case FOREVER but I could not think of his name! I heard another podcast talk about it about a year ago (I believe it was Crime Junkie) but I just remember being like WTF? I was searching EVERYTHING like man, alligator, insurance, death, etc. and I kept getting weird stories about like a nail salon worked being attacked by an alligator while with a client. Anywayssss I finally found it and not a lot of people are really talking about it and it happened fairly recently in 2000 and did not end until about 2017 (but not really). Trust me y’all are going to be SHOOK by this week's topic and it is a doozy. This week we are going to be talking about Jerry Michael Williams. This story involves insurance, alligators, and a mother that everyone thought was crazy. Sources: Wikipedia  Crime Junkie Podcast The Cinemaholic Law and Crime The Washington Post  The Cut Tallahassee Democrat  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So, while researching for this episode I came across an actor named Matthew Hoffman who is in no way shape or form the same as the Matthew Hoffman I am talking about today. Matthew Hoffman is a man from Ohio who was found guilty of holding a 13-year-old girl hostage after murdering her family and stuffing their dismembered bodies into a hollowed-out tree. Initially, Hoffman just wanted to find a home to rob, however, this is clearly not how this case ended. Hoffman killed Tina Hermann, her 11-year-old son Kody Maynard, and her friend and neighbor Stephanie Sprang. He had also kidnapped Herrmann’s 13-year-old daughter, sexually assaulted her, and held her hostage until the police came to his home at 8 am the following Sunday. When police walked into his home, they were surprised by what they saw... Sources for this episode: Murderpedia.org Dispatch.com  Abcnews.go.com www.toledoblade.com Tiktok where I got the idea from: @livvontheedge --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So... I made a Tik Tok that had over 1,100 likes (and I am very proud of that hehe). Anyways, the video  I made is about this little girl’s imaginary friend who her mother caught in a photograph who does not look very imaginary at all. I noticed that her “imaginary” friend (who, by the way, has a name but I will not be saying because nope) looks a LOT like a man that I have seen in Youtube videos as well as all over the internet, but some people have seen in their dreams. From January 2006 to today, more than 2000 people from other major cities across the world such as Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Rome, Stockholm, amongst many others claimed to have seen this man in their dreams. Today’s episode is about this man.  Sources:  Wikipedia www.thisman.org Reddit Ever Dream This Man? -- Twitter account www.vice.com Ever Dream This Man? -- Facebook account --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sorry I missed last week...it was not intentional! I started a new job and it threw off my recording schedule. But I'm here now and I am trying to get my life back together haha! Anyways...today's episode is about the death of Princess Diana. Princess Diana was born on July 1st, 1961 in Sandringham, United Kingdom. She was the first wife of Prince Charles, who was supposed to be heir to the throne, and she was the mother of Prince Harry and Prince William. Princess Diana died on August 31st, 1997 due to a car crash in Paris. This is the only piece of that night that people have a consensus on. Although a car crash seems to be a pretty straightforward thing, not everybody thinks that her death was an accident. In fact, Anonymous has recently come out saying that this conspiracy is true. If you do not know what Anonymous is, they are a group who are responsible for cyber hacking against several government organizations, institutions, and even the Church of Scientology (more on what they said later). There are SO MANY conspiracy theories surrounding her death, but the ones I focused on in this episode involve a government plan to kill her for many reasons. However, the truth was recently revealed by anonymous... do you trust them? Sources for this episode:  • Book; Conspiracy Theories; The World’s Biggest Mysteries Uncovered • Wikipedia • News18 • Anonymous Twitter Account • Pinterest • Youtube --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So I bought a serial killer coloring book off of Amazon. I turned to a random page and decided to do an episode on the man I turned to, which happened to be Jerry Brudos. Jerry Brudos is known as the Shoe Fetish Slayer or the Lust Killer (these names will make sense as you listen to the episode). As a child, Brudos was subjected to physical and emotional abuse by his mother because she wanted her third child to be a girl. As a teenager, Brudos began to stalk and harass women as well as go out at night to steal underwear and high heels. Brudos was said to have attacked his first victim in 1867, however, his notorious killing spree lasted from 1968 to 1969. Brudos bludgeoned, strangled, and murder four women during this time period and attempted to attack two others.  Sources: The idea came from: Serial Killers: Big Kid's Coloring Book Illustrated by K. Schroeder  Wikipedia Biography.com Allthatsinteresting.com The Criminal Minds Wiki page  Medium.com Thoughtco.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There was a movie that came out in 2005 called The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Very few people know that this movie was actually based on the real life of a German girl named Anneliese Michel. Ann Elisabeth, AKA Anneliese, Michel was born September 21st, 1952 in Leiblfing, Bavaria, West Germany to parents Josef and Anna. Anneliese had some psychiatric issues that included seizures as well as events in which she would black out and walk around in a trance-like state. After years of medical assistance in a psychiatric hospital, Anneliese's family and friends came to the conclusion that she was under demonic possession and sought help from the Catholic Church. After 67 exorcism sessions, Anneliese was finally released of the demons that were inside of her. Unfortunately, however, Anneliese died in her home on July 1st, 1976. Her death caused a lot of backlash against her family as well as the priest that performed the exorcisms, causing this case to be one of the few exorcisms to go to court. Was she under demonic possession, or was it just her Geschwind syndrome epilepsy? Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia Time magazine Chasingthefrog.com Allthatsinteresting.com Buzzfeed Unsolved video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KgSp94nCZw&feature=emb_rel_pause --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So I asked on Instagram if anybody would like the idea of minisodes, and y'all said yes! I decided to do these minisodes so that I could talk about cases, theories, and topics that I did not feel were large enough to be a full episode on their own. I would also like to include Q and A's at the end of some of these so y'all can get to know me more! Also, if you want to DM me some creepy experiences you have and I can share them on these minisodes if you would like (anonymously of course)! This minisode is a little longer than future ones will be because of the time I took at the beginning to talk about my plan for the minisodes. Anyways...this minisode is about: mattress stores! It sounds very boring, but believe me, you will fall into the same rabbit hole that I did when researching for this! Sources: Shane Dawson Video Investopedia Mental Floss Moneylaundering.ca Restonic.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Most of us have heard the story about one of America's most notorious serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer murdered a total of 17 men between 1978 and 1991. His MO was to find men on the "outskirts" of society. Dahmer was not like other serial killers, he did not take pride or become happy when killing his victims. He was a lonely person and wanted to have somebody who would not leave. In his own words, "[t]he only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them." Sources: Biography.com Wikipedia My Friend Dahmer Confessions of a Serial Killer The History Channel --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

FEMA is an organization that has been around for 38 years. They are responsible for assisting with natural and major disasters in our country and have the ability to use Martial Law if need be. There are lots of government buildings around the US that could be used in order to turn into concentration-camp type places in order to kill off a lot of the current population and start anew with the New World Order (NWO). Could they turn a place that is familiar to most people into these camps? Will the coronavirus be the breaking point? Sources for this episode: Wikipedia Doee.dc.gov FEMA.gov Shane Dawson's video --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This creature has terrorized the people of New Jersey since the 18th century. Is the Jersey Devil really a cursed child out for revenge? Or is it just a hammerhead bat? Or are people just seeing things? We may never know, but regardless the first hand stories and encounters are very shocking and continue to this day. Sources: Weirdnj.com History.com Nj.com Americanfolklore.net Weekinweird.com Business insider  Livescience.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A "family" is responsible for the disappearance of people in Labette County, Kansas. They were actually a non-related group of serial killers who acted as a family in order to lure people into their inn to kill and rob them. Who are they really? How did they getaway? Sources for this episode: Mental Floss Wikipedia Legends of America The guy's Tiktok that I got the idea from: sincerelywill --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is the very first conspiracy theory I had ever heard about and one that still hurts my brain. Why do people share false memories? Why do we remember certain things that are completely wrong? "Mirror, mirror on the wall" is all a lie? Jiffy is actually Jiff? Berenstein Bears do not exist? All of these questions can be answered by one theory: The Mandela Effect.  Sources for this episode:  Shane Dawson videos  Good House Keeping  Dictionary.com Discovery Magazine  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The boy in the box. This is the tragic story of a young child who was badly beaten, murdered and put in a box in the woods. Who is he?  Sources for this episode:  The Line-Up All that's interesting American Haunting Ranker --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode is about the tragic death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel. Was it murder? An assassination attempt? The elevator game? Suicide? We may never know... Sources for this episode: Wikipedia All That's Interesting smashinglike.co.uk clinicaltrials.gov --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sarah Winchester was a widow to one of the men who helped create the Winchester Rifle Company. Her husband left her a large fortune and she listened to a medium to speak to her husband for her so he could tell her how to spend the money and what to do with her life. She built the Winchester Mystery House so that spirits who lost their lives due to the Winchester Rifles could have a place to "stay." Was she crazy? Why is the house built so weird? Why are there stairs and doors to nowhere? Sources for this episode Wikipedia Atlasobsura.com All that's interesting Mental Floss --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hi everybody!!! This is the first episode of the Shared Madness Podcast!! WOOP WOOP! I am so beyond excited to say that! This first episode might be a bit rough because I was nervous, but I hope you like it! Thank you for listening! Anyways, today's story is about the Eriksson twins. These two sisters are very unique and I had never heard of them until I listened to the Cult Liter Podcast. This story actually inspired the name of this podcast! Sources for this episode: Cult Liter Podcast Vice.com Wikipedia Viral Nova Mamamia.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app