The Left Hand Path

The crew dials it back this week to tell the story of Sarah Brady: a young expectant mother who found herself in a fight for her life against a wannabe Womb Raider.

Katherine Knight has made a name for herself. Sexual and violent, paranoid and abusive. There is not a person in Aberdeen who doesn't know her name - or to stay away from her.Join the crew for this second and final part of the Katherine Knight case as they follow her spiralling of paranoia and aggression to its grisly conclusion ...

Foul-mouthed, violent, and bat-shit crazy - all three terms don't even *begin* to describe one of Australia's most infamous female murderers: Katherine Knight.Join the crew as they learn of Knight's childhood in an abusive home, her aspirations to work in a chop shop (the meat variety), and her headfirst plummet into abusive and assault.

The crew ventures into history to explore the stories of five famous Cursed Objects. 

The crew revisits a classic as they explore the myth of the Mothman and the high strangeness surrounding the events at Point Pleasant. Join them to learn more about this famous cryptid and the mysterious Men in Black.

As the year comes to a close, the crew gathers around for a heartwarming Christmas tale of intrigue, arson, and possibly abduction.Join them as they learn of the Sodder family - a family of italian immigrants in America whose children went missing under mysterious circumstances shortly following the second world war ...

The crew takes a step back from the usual madness to investigate the case of the TalHotBlonde: a meeting between two kindred souls on a 2005 chat forum that led to love, loss, and tragedy.Join them as they delve into the spiralling delusions of Tom (or "Tommy") as he becomes spellbound with the mysterious and alluring "TalHotBlonde" ...

The crew takes a break from serial killers this week to explore the broader landscape of the human consciousness. Their journey leads them to a psychiatric syndrome known as "Folie à Deux" in which symptoms of delusional belief are transmitted from one person to another.Join them as they explore various historical cases - some creepy, some bizarre - in order to better understand this strange phenomenon

The crew takes a break from serial killers and hauntings to do something a little different: tell stories ... about serial killers and hauntings ...Join them for this extra long episode in which they share campfire stories from the internet (links to the originals below!)Red Ribbon:   https://www.scaryforkids.com/red-ribbon/The Man in the Backseat:   https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/folklorearchive/2016/11/11/man-in-the-backseat/The Riverside: By MarkGhost of the Glen: https://forgottenillawarra.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/the-ghosts-of-the-glen/Something Walks Whistling Past My House Every Night at 3:03AM:  https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/dyqd5e/something_walks_whistling_past_my_house_every/The Value of the Human Soul: https://www.creepypastastories.com/the-value-of-the-human-soul/Mommy Told Me: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/q9y6q/mommy_told_me/Guardians:   https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/short-scary-stories-reddit/Hands:   https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/short-scary-stories-reddit/

In the aftermath of his most successful scam yet, Holmes has nearly ten thousand dollars in hand - enough to keep those debtors at bay. All he has to do now is get rid of loose ends: the remaining members of the Pitzel family. Unfortunately for Holmes, there is something he is forgetting ...Join the crew for this final installment in the H. H. Holmes saga as we witness the unravelling of his schemes and his final, gruesome end.

Pitzel's death arouses the suspicions of the insurance agency. As they send one of their agents to investigate, Holmes must move quickly to keep his scheme secret and secure the ten thousand dollars he needs to pay back his debtors ... Join the crew for the fourth installment of the H. H. Holmes saga.

H. H. Holmes's scamming ways have won him the things he loves the most: woman, money, and a place to call holmes. But not anymore. Debtors are on his trail, and Holmes is going to need to pull a special scam if he wants to stay ahead of them ...Join the crew for this next installment in the tale of H. H. Holmes.

The crew's delusions are put to the test as Holmes begins to prove why his first love was Murder. Join them as they follow this mad man on his quest to slaughter dozens of patrons at the newly built Murder Hotel.

The crew embarks on another trip into the past, this time to investigate a completely innocent upstanding citizen who has never done anything wrong and never will: H. H. Holmes.Join the group as they refuse the see the truth behind this man's increasingly immoral and unhinged actions as he takes his first steps on the path to becoming America's first serial killer.

The crew takes a break from sordid tales of depravity to bring you something lighter ... a good old fashioned story about crazy serial killers living in the woods. Join them for this short tale about the Appalachian Trail Killer.

Join the crew as they venture back in time to late 1800's America to learn about the roots of the modern vampire myth. Learn how galloping tuberculosis, mass hysteria, human food products and one unfortunate death child inspired a legend.

With his beloved Bonnie Nettles gone, Marshall Applewhite is without anchor, drifting deeper into the madness of his own mythos. Join the crew as they follow him through the final days of Heaven's Gate as the cult readies itself to leave this world once and for all ...

On March 26, 1997, thirty-nine bodies were found in a house in Rancho Santa Fe. Cause of death: mass suicide. The common thread? A mystic cult that would come to be known as Heaven's Gate.Join the crew in the first of this two-part episode as they learn how one young Texan soldier's dive into mysticism would eventually lead to the creation of one of the most well-known cults of the nineties and a reckoning that would release nearly four-dozen souls from their mortal shells ...Please also consider checking out The Push-Up Challenge, an annual fitness challenge which aims to raise money for life-saving mental health charities, such as Headspace and Lifeline. The challenge is currently ongoing and could use your support!https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/

You have never heard of The Watcher of 657 Boulevard? *tsk tsk* Oh, young blood, there is much to learn.Is 657 Boulevard cursed? Haunted? Stalked by a madman? Monitored by a forgotten bloodline? Gate kept by a town unwilling to let their neighbourhood be polluted by, *ugh*, new money?Join the crew and find out on this episode of the Left Hand Path!

The crew is rejoined by comedian Sean Conway for the second part of the story of Ed Gein.  Tag along with them as they learn how, haunted by his mother's twisted values, Gein descends into madness, murder, and - worst of all - amateur handicrafts.If you haven't had the chance to check out more of Sean's work, check out the Goat King Writer's Club at the links below!https://www.goatkingwc.com/https://www.facebook.com/goatkingwc/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68W9mXqToWo

The crew is joined by local Perth comedian Sean Conway as they delve into American history to learn about Ed Gein - an infamous murderer with a penchant for grave robbing and 'handicrafts'. Journey with them through Gein's childhood and discover the dark forces that twisted him into the Plainfield Ghoul ...If you haven't had the chance to check out more of Sean's work, check out the Goat King Writer's Club at the links below!https://www.goatkingwc.com/https://www.facebook.com/goatkingwc/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68W9mXqToWo

With Belle Gunness behind them, the crew moves onto a new mystery closer to home: the Somerton Man. Join them as they learn of the strange circumstances behind the unidentified man's final moments and draw closer to the truth of how and why he died ...Also enjoy the new opening and exit tracks, curtesy of the generous and talented Soz! You can listen to more of their great work here: https://soundcloud.com/user-344894675.

After a string of 'coincidental' deaths and insurance payouts, Belle Gunness opens her country estate to wealthy bachelors in search of a lifelong bond. Unfortunately for them, the emphasis is on 'life', not 'long' ...Join the crew for the final sordid chapter in the tale of the Indian Ogress, Belle Gunness.

The crew takes a break from cannibals and killers of women to learn the story of one of the first murderess's in American history, as they are introduced to the infamous Belle Gunness.Join them as they follow the calculating killer murder her way to wealth in 1800's America.

Join the crew as they learn about legendary poet: Edgar Allan Poe. From orphaned child to Sergeant Major to renowned literary critic, follow along as we explore the origins of the man who would become an icon of gothic literature.

Andrei Chikatilo continues his murderous rampage through the streets of Rostov. Join the crew as they learn how the police worked to hunt him down with the help of psychological profiling and finally bring the Rostov Ripper to justice.

The crew has learned about Andrei Chikatilo's tragic upbringing, but now it's time to come face-to-face with the monster he has become.Join them as they follow his descent into depravity as murder grips his soul ... 

Having delved  into the realm of myth and into the distant past, the crew returns to recent history to investigate the origins of Soviet Serial Killer Andrei Chikatilo. Join them as they learn about the torturous conditions experienced by Ukrainians during the Holodomor - the Terror-Famine - and how these experiences set the killer on his path to bloodshed. 

You may know Pythagoras from math class as the guy figured out how to calculate the length of the sides of a triangle. But that's not all there is to this famous historical figure. Join the crew as they learn about Pythagoras's past, his travels, his teachings, and the bizarre (and sometimes murderous) cult which sprouted in his wake.

In this episode, the crew faces a malevolent being of insatiable greed. No, it is not a megacorporation CEO - it is something far worse: the terrifying Wendigo. Join the crew as they learn of the origins of this horrific spirit and its survival into modern culture.

As the festive time comes around, so too do the Christmas creatures of yore who once prowled the night, preying on the unwary.Join the crew as they explore the monsters of Christmas, past and present,  in this one-time Christmas special!

The realm of spirits unfolds before the crew as they learn the history of the most popular tool used to contact the beyond: the Ouija Board. Stick around to hear the group's real-life encounters with ghosts and their thoughts on what it means . . .

The crew learns the conclusion of Albert Fish's bloody tale as - after six years - detective Ennis King's hunt leads him to an envelope that may hold the key to stopping the depraved serial killer once and for all . . .

The crew delves deeper into the twisted mind of the serial killer Albert Fish. In this episode, they learn the origin of his flesh-eating ways and hear about the killing which would prove his undoing: the murder of Grace Bud. 

The crew explores the origins and actions of one of the most vile serial killers in history: Albert Fish.