Sitting Crooked Podcast

Get your neck brace ready, we’ve got a bunch of raunchy injuries to explore.

Robert the haunted doll terrorized the Otto family in the early 1900s. Through the better part of a century, Robert's lore managed to captivate and terrify those who came into contact with him. We're talking possessed dolls and all the episode plugs you can handle!

Another super fun and super appropriate game of would you rather. Body parts are replaced, partners are questioned, Sims get locked in the cellar...

A whale, an elephant and a monkey walk into a bar and ... No one walks out. Timeto talk about animal attacks!

Over 100 early American settlers disappeared from the Roanoke colony without a trace. What caused them to vanish? Cannibals?Zombies? Aliens? Listen to our crackpot theories with our special guest.

Hitch up your dog sled and trek into the weird wilderness of the Alaskan triangle; a place so mysterious we can't even figure out where the hell it is.

Women accused of witchcraft have been blamed for society's problems for centuries. From the plague to sour milk, the girls explore what conditions had to be met to be considered a witch throughout history.

As if the holidays weren't stressful enough. The girls explore Christmas folklore and punishment. Get ready to fill your stocking the with a cast of terrifying characters; the belly slitter, krampus and many more.

Happy Halloween! Mow down on some candy and listen to the girls go off about the 'Candyman', Ronald Clark O'Bryan.

We're back (again) and full of cramps and attitude. It's like grade school all over again -  we're talking all about periods!

As if we weren't strange enough for you. Here's another installment of stranger danger - stranger strangers, stranger collections, stranger pizza.

It's our Valentine's Day anniversary episode! Nothing says Happy Anniversary like a cannibal dinner party! Today we talk about Katherine Knight and her not-so-elegant dinner party.

We're back and we're watching You! No not you, YOU! 

We're back! In honour of our newest addition to the Sitting Crooked family, the girls discuss the gruesome details of pregnancy and childbirth.

The girls engage in a delightful game of would you rather. Penises for fingers or knives? Poop or dead bodies? Listen, laugh, shudder.

What's worse than knowing you're going to be executed? How about having said execution last for an excruciating length of time and you still end up dying anyway? The girls discuss the disturbing rate of botched executions and the experiences of those punished. 

She's a bad girl with a thing for scrambling brains. Marie Delphine Macarty terrorized her slaves and might have got away with it too if it weren't for those pesky house fires. The girls discuss her methods, a weird connection to Nicolas Cage and something about penis cupcakes...

Take a good hard look at family photos from the 19th century. The might be absent smiles for good reason. The girls discuss Post-Mortem photography in old timey portraits and how the practice has evolved today.

Let's take a trip back to the dungeon. The girls revisit a new set of torture devices used during the Spanish Inquisition and a few bonuses just for fun.

Some of them want to abuse you. The girls cover cruel and unusual initiation ceremonies involved in hazing rituals.

Throughout history men and women have tortured themselves trying to live up to societal beauty standards. From rat infested wigs to poisonous makeup, the girls look at a few of the worst the web has to offer. 

Whether you believe in their power to contact spirits or not, there's something creepy about Ouija boards and almost everyone has a story. The girls discuss Ouija board history, rules and share listener experiences.

It's been described as the perfect place to die. For those ready to take their own lives, what is it about Aokigahara that is so alluring? The girls discuss this heavy subject and explore the creepy geography of what's been dubbed the 'suicide forest.'   Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention - Need Helphttps://suicideprevention.ca › need-help The Lifeline Canada FoundationSuicide prevention help; call lines, text lines, crisis centershttps://thelifelinecanada.ca › help International Crisis Hotlineshttps://thelifelinecanada.ca/help/crisis-centres/international-crisis-centres/

It's review time! The girls talk about Black Mirror's "White Bear" episode which sparks some serious questions about crime and punishment. Spoilers ahead.

What's worse than surgery? Waking up in the middle of it. The girls explore some fun facts and stories about those of us unfortunate enough to be awake during surgery and why redheads have more fun.

Everyone's parents had rules we questioned as kids. Some more than others. The girls discuss weird parenting from the depths on the web.   Will the Circle be Unbroken(jam) by error404 (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/presse/29830 Ft: Admiral Bob,MC Jack in the Box

It's described as the uncanny valley; that creepy, uncomfortable feeling of "wrongness" when something is just a little too close to human. We're affected by this the more technology advances with robots and CGI, but how far is too far? The girls venture into the valley and all it's dark corners.

What do you do when your true love declines your affections? Preserve her corpse of course! 

This week we dive beneath the surface of the Internet and explore all the nasty-not-niceness in the depths of the dark web.

Kids say the darndest things, especially when they can recall graphic details about their past lives... or deaths. The girls ride into the danger zone, exploring creepy reincarnated kids.

Where will you go when the dead rise? Who's on your survival team? What will do you for food? The girls discuss their plans in painful detail.

Travel back in time a few hundred years to New England where an outbreak of Tuberculosis was thought to be caused by vampires. The girls discuss old medicine and how misconceptions escalated the vampire myth.

The girls discuss some of the most elaborate escapes from prison and discover Hollywood might not be too far off from reality.

In this week's crooked conversation, the girls discuss their first encounters with death and how kids interpret the dead.

This week the girls discuss Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (or that feeling when you can't feel feelings).

Exposing yourself to radiation isn't all superheroes and upside-down kissing. The girls discuss the painful, gorey mess that becomes your body when radiation sickness takes hold and retell the story of the Goiânia accident in Brazil. 

He terrorized communities in California for years and evaded the law for decades. The girls discuss his capture and poke fun at old people. Discussions are had. Holes are filled.

Some describe it as a waking nightmare bereft with demons and monsters while others claim to see guardian angels of sorts. We ask the Internet for sleep paralysis experiences and try to unravel the mystery with lewd comments and a lot of sass.

Welcome you to the wicked world of curses, some that have spanned hundreds of years. On the docket: The Dead Man's Chair, the Crying Boy paintings and James Dean's Little Bastard.

Ever wonder how they get those shrunken heads so small? We'll tell you everything you need to know from the step by step process to avoiding a sea of counterfeits.

Get ready for some serious toe-curling pain as the girls explore the not-so-ancient practice of Chinese foot binding.  

A collection of strange encounters with even stranger people from the bowels of the Internet. Angie and Jenna compare their own stranger danger stories. Laughs are had. New fears are born.  

The girls discuss the practice of self-mummifying (Sokushinbutsu) of 11th century Japan.

The girls discuss Beth Thomas and the not-so-rad behaviours of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder. 

Angie and Jenna discuss some of history's worst torture chambers; the Iron Maiden, Scaphism and the Brazen Bull.

Part 2 of Jenna and Angie's take on Rosemary and Fred West; their capture and where they are now. A huge shoutout to the Blackball Bandits for our kickass theme song. Check them out here: https://blackballbandits.bandcamp.com/

Jenna and Angie dive into the twisted origins and terrible parenting of serial killer couple, Fred and Rosemary West. A huge shoutout to the Blackball Bandits for our kickass theme song. Check them out here: https://blackballbandits.bandcamp.com/

Angie and Jenna discuss a few famous cannibals and the side-effects of a cannibalistic diet, including a list of what you should and shouldn't eat. A huge shoutout to the Blackball Bandits for our kickass theme song. Check them out here: https://blackballbandits.bandcamp.com/