Tex Arcana

Vindication, comeuppance, and the devils yet to come: the conclusion to our series on the Satanic Panic in Texas (and beyond).

A true crime that never happened: The Daycare Scare comes to Austin.

A conspiracy of devils (and Geraldo Rivera)

True Crime in a Small Town: The Satanic Panic comes to Childress, TX.

Dungeons & Dragons and how the Devil went down to Texas

In the final chapter of our quarantine miniseries: The Curse

In part 4 of our quarantine miniseries: Passin' the biscuits & Crazy Crystals in Radioland.

In part 3 of our made-for-quarantine miniseries: Rubbin’ Doctors & the Home of Crazy.

In part 2 of our special quarantine miniseries: the long, dark history of American healthcare and ghost magnet stuff.

We kick off our 5-part miniseries under quarantine with a mysterious healer, a century of pandemics, and some evil nighttime smells.

An ominous premonition goes unheeded and a chance encounter in the prairie devolves into a violent standoff.

Halloween 1974: An urban legend became a terrifying reality.

The Devil in Panther City: America's "first serial killer" H.H. Holmes comes to Fort Worth

Part Two of a dark journey down the road of faith, fear, and fanaticism that led us from the Manson Family to the Branch Davidians to today's Cult of Conspiracism.

Part One of a dark journey down the road of faith, fear, and fanaticism that led us from the Manson Family to the Branch Davidians to today's Cult of Conspiracism.

Another bizarre tale of Texan utopia: Breakfast cereal tycoon C.W. Post builds his dream town.

From the communist roots of Dallas to the assassination of a president, we delve deep into utopian dreams and their lonesome death on the prairie.

A Halloween short: James "Britt" Bailey was one mean, drunk SOB in life... and even worse in death.

A rash of mysterious midnight thefts sparks a 15-year manhunt in the Navidad River Bottoms for someone (or something) lurking among the trees.