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The Devil's Wood Journal continues with Entry 5, as the anonymous author describes his dinner at a mysterious retreat, with his equally mysterious companions. He'd assumed they were all strangers, but are they? And if they're not, what do they all know - or hide - that he does not?

 Download Welcome to LOTC episode 492. This week the crew is minus Bill the Butcher, he will be back for next episode, but we have special guest Nathan Bartlebaugh. Nathan was originally from his former podcast The Phantom Galaxy, which may be making a return of some sorts soon, listen to the end of the episode for the details. The theme for this week's episode is fearsome families. Nathan chose two films he felt would fit this theme. The films he chose are 1987 Stepfather and 2004 Skinned Deep. We hope that you will enjoy the reviews and we put out the challenge, is skinned deep one of your favorite films? If it is, please comment or call 1-804-569-5682 to let us know.  We want to Thank Nathan for being on this week's show and look forward to hearing back from him in the near future. Grab those favorite snacks and beverages as you journey with us through the Land Of The Creeps!!HELP KEEP HORROR ALIVE!!MOVIE REVIEWS2004 SKINNED DEEPDAVE : 5NATHAN : 4.5PEARL : 5GREG : 41987 STEPFATHERDAVE : 9NATHAN : 8.5PEARL : 9.5GREG : 9NATHAN FACEBOOKLOTC Links :Land Of The Creeps InstagramGregaMortisFacebookTwitterLand Of The Creeps Group PageLand Of The Creeps Fan PageJay Of  The Dead's New Horror Movie PodcastYoutubeInstagramEmailLetterboxdDr. ShockDVD Infatuation TwitterDVD Infatuation WebsiteFacebookJay Of The Dead's New Horror Movies PodcastYouTube ChannelLetterboxdDVD Infatuation PodcastThe Illustrated Fan PodcastBill Van Veghel LinkFacebookLetterboxdMusic,Movies,Sports & Stuff PodcastFacebook Music Movies Sports & StuffTwisted Temptress LinkLetterboxdLOTC Hotline Number1-804-569-56821-804-569-LOTCLOTC Intro is provided by Andy Ussery, Below are links to his social mediaEmail:FacebookTwitterOutro music provided by Greg Whitaker Below is Greg's Twitter accountTwitterFacebook

Listen to Entry 4 in the Devil's Wood Journal as the anonymous author takes us on his own journey into the heart of darkness. A mysterious retreat, 7 strangers, and a story so terrifying it must be true. Where is the Devil's Wood, and once you've entered, can you ever leave? Find out for yourself at TheDevilsWood.com.

Download Welcome to LOTC episode 492. This week the crew is minus Bill the Butcher, he will be back for next episode, but we have special guest Nathan Bartlebaugh. Nathan was originally from his former podcast The Phantom Galaxy, which may be making a return of some sorts soon, listen to the end of the episode for the details. The theme for this week's episode is fearsome families. Nathan chose two films he felt would fit this theme. The films he chose are 1987 Stepfather and 2004 Skinned Deep. We hope that you will enjoy the reviews and we put out the challenge, is skinned deep one of your favorite films? If it is, please comment or call 1-804-569-5682 to let us know.  We want to Thank Nathan for being on this week's show and look forward to hearing back from him in the near future. Grab those favorite snacks and beverages as you journey with us through the Land Of The Creeps!!HELP KEEP HORROR ALIVE!!MOVIE REVIEWS2004 SKINNED DEEPDAVE : 5NATHAN : 4.5PEARL : 5GREG : 41987 STEPFATHERDAVE : 9NATHAN : 8.5PEARL : 9.5GREG : 9NATHAN FACEBOOKLOTC Links :Land Of The Creeps InstagramGregaMortisFacebookTwitterLand Of The Creeps Group PageLand Of The Creeps Fan PageJay Of  The Dead's New Horror Movie PodcastYoutubeInstagramEmailLetterboxdDr. ShockDVD Infatuation TwitterDVD Infatuation WebsiteFacebookJay Of The Dead's New Horror Movies PodcastYouTube ChannelLetterboxdDVD Infatuation PodcastThe Illustrated Fan PodcastBill Van Veghel LinkFacebookLetterboxdMusic,Movies,Sports & Stuff PodcastFacebook Music Movies Sports & StuffTwisted Temptress LinkLetterboxdLOTC Hotline Number1-804-569-56821-804-569-LOTCLOTC Intro is provided by Andy Ussery, Below are links to his social mediaEmail:FacebookTwitterOutro music provided by Greg Whitaker Below is Greg's Twitter accountTwitterFacebook

We have a most challenging selection of chapters today; the most challenging are the words the LORD to Jeremiah.  Suddenly, the LORD's revelations to him about the future – extends far beyond the impending judgment on Jerusalem because of his people's utter godlessness.    The LORD now looks further afield beginning with the nations nearby, Egypt, the Philistines, Edom, Moab …Tyre …”[25 v.19-21], these are the Arab nations adjoining Israel today, and then, “all the; kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world …” [v.26]This message about “all the kingdoms of the earth” is repeated twice.  Solomon in his wisdom said, “a threefold cord is not quickly broken” [Eccl. 4 v.12]  We must not avoid meditating on the climax to which Jeremiah's message develops, “The LORD will roar from on high …. against all the inhabitants of the earth… for the LORD has an indictment against the nations, he is entering into judgement with all flesh.” [v.31]Fearsome!  God's judgment to be upon all, whether they believe in him – or not!     And those who believe in him?  Paul's words today that we read in the 14th chapter of Romans should dominate their minds – surely that includes you and I!   More that our human anxiety about what we might face as our world suffers God's judgements, is the way Paul quotes Isaiah 45 v.23, words that are totally challenging to each one of us.  Paul writes, “For we will all stand before the judgement seat of God; for it is written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue confess to God.'  So then each of us will give an account of him(her)self to God.” [v.10-12]

Long before the term "serial killer" existed, Herman Webster Mudgett—better known as H.H. Holmes—was quietly perfecting the art of murder in plain sight. This week's True Crime Tuesday episode takes listeners inside the infamous "Murder Castle," the Chicago building Holmes constructed and outfitted with hidden rooms, trap doors, and a body chute, all disguised behind the bustle of the 1893 World's Fair. We trace Holmes's path from small-time swindler to one of the most prolific killers in American history, examining how his charm and cunning allowed him to hide in plain sight for years. It's a story of ambition, deception, and horror that laid the groundwork for how we think about serial killers today. Tune in to this episode of the Fearsome Fiction Podcast to hear the full story.

In the lonely grasslands of southeast Kansas, a small roadside inn offered weary travelers a hot meal, a warm bed, and a canvas curtain separating the dining room from the family's living quarters. What guests couldn't see was the trapdoor beneath their feet, or the hammer waiting behind that canvas. Between 1871 and 1873, the Bender family ran one of the most chillingly efficient killing operations in American frontier history. At least a dozen travelers vanished after stopping at their door, seated at the table of honor directly over a hidden pit, never to leave again. When suspicion finally caught up with them, the Benders disappeared into the night, leaving behind an inn full of buried secrets and a manhunt that has never definitively ended. This week on True Crime Tuesdays, we step into the Bender Inn, where hospitality meets murder.

In this third entry, the author of the Devil's Wood Journal arrives last to the retreat deep in the Pennsylvania woods. He's sharing a cabin with three other men, and all of them prepare for a dinner provided by their mysterious and unseen host.

This week's case comes with an element of dark humor, although nothing's funny about a stranger breaking into people's homes. Nobody died in this story. Nobody was even hurt, not at first. What we've got instead is something stranger—a criminal whose weapon of choice was a pair of scissors, whose target wasn't a wallet or a life, but his victim's hair. And for one summer in 1942, an entire Mississippi town lived in terror of a man who broke into bedrooms in the dead of night for no reason anyone could explain. And there's more: even after an arrest and a conviction, people still aren't sure the right man ever paid for it.

Jorge Marttin. Ai Ogura. Marc Marquez. Marco Bezzecchi. Fabio Di Giannantonio. Five names, and only a total of 24 points seperating them. Never before in the history of MotoGP has a championship seen this many contenders for the top spot at the halfway point, let alone have them be so incredibly close.No, seriously: we made Mat check the history books, so you can quote us on that! It's a fearsome line-up of killers, each of a different ilk and shouldering different struggles. It is also the perfect moment for Mat and Peter to take a break and look at the roads these 'Fast Five' have ridden to get here. What have been there strengths and weaknesses, how do they relate to their bikes and what would a victory mean for them? There's only one way to find out, so let's just get it started. Cheers! ---Want more? Visit our website or support us on Patreon. With big thanks as always to Brad Baloo from The Next Men and Gentleman's Dub Club for writing our theme song. Check out The Nextmen for more great music! And additional thanks to flowerhead, who's music you can find here. Oh, and a quick word in regards to sponsors: If you're interested in connecting with a really unique MotoGP audience — we're working with Smash Brand Group out of Sydney to manage partnerships. Curious? Just head to smashbrandgroup.com.au and get in touch!

The Devi's Wood Journal continues. A retreat for seekers. Seven strangers, sorted into two cabins by an unseen host known only as "Your Guide." A note on every pillow promising freedom—from stress, from obligation, from the illusions we build for ourselves. Our narrator arrives last, uncertain why they were chosen, uncertain what "occult" even means beyond the word's true root: hidden, concealed, not readily seen. What begins as a fireside ghost story from a stranger named Phillip becomes something else entirely by the time the night is over—and it's only the first of three days that some at the retreat believe may be their last.

A walking stick. A skull. A bullet. A curse. Buried in the Pennsylvania woods, something has been waiting. When a young boy uncovers what's been hidden beneath the leaves, he sets loose a curse that's about to find its way back into the world — and into the hands of a man who has no idea what he's just brought home. Enter the Devil's Wood. Two new entries drop every week, exclusively on the Fearsome Fiction Podcast — subscribe so you don't miss the story as it unfolds. Discover more of the mythology, characters, and world of Devil's Wood at TheDevilsWood.com

It's another True Crime Tuesdays on Fearsome Fiction. This episode heads back to the turn of the last century, to a farmhouse at the end of a quiet road in La Porte, Indiana — where a Norwegian immigrant named Belle Gunness placed lonely-hearts ads in the newspaper, invited her suitors to bring their savings and "come prepared to stay forever," and made sure they never left. This is the story of the Black Widow of La Porte.

Introducing The Devil's Wood Journal. Devil's Wood isn't just a book — it's a state of mind, a place where the imagination takes frightening flight. Now you can learn about it directly from the journals of a man who couldn't believe the story either, until he lived it himself. We're bringing those journal entries to life in audio, one entry at a time. It started, he says, around a fireplace, with a story he was certain wasn't true until he lived it for himself. What you'll hear isn't a summary of what happened to him. It's his own account, in his own words, told the way he was had to tell it with words on paper, one entry at a time.  New entries post regularly — here on the site and as audio episodes you can listen to wherever you get your podcasts. Follow along, listen, and read it all at TheDevilsWood.com.

Step into the shadowed woods of early 20th-century Italy with My Dark Path as we uncover two extraordinary close encounters that echo the mysteries of the alleged 1933 Magenta RS/33 UFO crash and recovery.Host MF Thomas guides you through the humid Ferretto woods near Terontola, where battle-hardened veteran Astore Chiucini stumbles upon a glowing green circular craft and two hooded figures performing calm, deliberate repairs—before the silent machine rises with an earth-shaking roar and vanishes into the night. Then travel to the damp woodlands outside Abbiate Guazzone in Lombardy, where factory worker Bruno Facchini witnesses a metallic disc with bluish lights and small suited beings. When discovered, one fires a crackling fan of white-blue light that paralyzes and burns him—leaving physical scars, strange lightweight metal fragments, and a lifelong silence broken only years later.These two ordinary Italian men—years apart—described nearly identical scenes: landed circular craft, hooded or helmeted figures in tight suits working on repairs, silent departures defying known aviation, and physical evidence that lingered. Set against the backdrop of secret post-war aircraft testing near SIAI-Marchetti facilities in Vergiate and the rumored RS/33 program, these cases blur the line between coincidence and hidden context. Were they experimental human tech, or something truly not of this world?This episode blends immersive narration, historical context, skeptical analysis, and the enduring power of eyewitness testimony from men who offered to swear oaths or kept fragments hidden under their beds. Perfect for fans of classic UFO close encounters, Italian ufology, physical trace cases, and the unexplained.

Step into the shadowed woods of early 20th-century Italy with My Dark Path as we uncover two extraordinary close encounters that echo the mysteries of the alleged 1933 Magenta RS/33 UFO crash and recovery.Host MF Thomas guides you through the humid Ferretto woods near Terontola, where battle-hardened veteran Astore Chiucini stumbles upon a glowing green circular craft and two hooded figures performing calm, deliberate repairs—before the silent machine rises with an earth-shaking roar and vanishes into the night. Then travel to the damp woodlands outside Abbiate Guazzone in Lombardy, where factory worker Bruno Facchini witnesses a metallic disc with bluish lights and small suited beings. When discovered, one fires a crackling fan of white-blue light that paralyzes and burns him—leaving physical scars, strange lightweight metal fragments, and a lifelong silence broken only years later.These two ordinary Italian men—years apart—described nearly identical scenes: landed circular craft, hooded or helmeted figures in tight suits working on repairs, silent departures defying known aviation, and physical evidence that lingered. Set against the backdrop of secret post-war aircraft testing near SIAI-Marchetti facilities in Vergiate and the rumored RS/33 program, these cases blur the line between coincidence and hidden context. Were they experimental human tech, or something truly not of this world?This episode blends immersive narration, historical context, skeptical analysis, and the enduring power of eyewitness testimony from men who offered to swear oaths or kept fragments hidden under their beds. Perfect for fans of classic UFO close encounters, Italian ufology, physical trace cases, and the unexplained.

This week on Fearsome Fiction we're sharing a rare gem. "The Judge's House" buy Bram Stoker follows Malcolm Malcolmson, a student who rents a remote, cheap old house in the fictional town of Benchurch to study for exams in isolation. Locals warn him the house has a bad reputation, but he ignores them and moves in. The house once belonged to a notoriously cruel hanging judge. As Malcolmson settles in, he notices strange things: a persistent rat that keeps drawing his eye to an old alarm bell rope, and an oppressive sense of being watched. Eventually he realizes there's a chair in the room that seems to move on its own toward the fireplace whenever his attention lapses. The story builds toward a chilling climax involving the judge's portrait, the bell rope, and Malcolmson's fate. It's a classic "isolated scholar in a cursed house" setup that plays well for a horror reading, with Stoker's knack for slow dread. And now, The Judge's House.

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Welcome to True Crime Tuesdays on Fearsome Fiction. Today we're going to talk about "The Giggling Granny," a woman who baked prune cake, read romance magazines, giggled at her own arrest, and murdered at least eleven people—most of them her own family. Her name was Nannie Doss. The press called her the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Bluebeard. She was a small, cheerful, grandmotherly woman from Alabama who seemed like the last person in the world you'd suspect of anything. Which, of course, is exactly why she got away with it for so long. Her weapon of choice was arsenic—rat poison, mostly, the kind you could pick up at any hardware store in the American South in the 1920s through the 1950s. She put it in whiskey, in coffee, in stewed prunes, in prune cake. She put it in the food of husbands, grandchildren, her own mother, her sister, her mother-in-law. She did it over and over again for nearly thirty years, and nobody suspected a thing—until the very last one. Because Nannie Doss was always smiling. And you don't suspect the woman who's smiling. This is her story. Narration provided by Wondervox.

This week we present "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in Household Words, the celebrated literary magazine edited by Charles Dickens. A young Englishman in Paris visits a disreputable gambling house, breaks the bank at Rouge et Noir, and makes the mistake of accepting a bed for the night. What follows is one of the most gripping sequences in Victorian fiction—methodical, claustrophobic, and chilling in the way only the best suspense can be. Wilkie Collins is best remembered for The Woman in White and The Moonstone, but this early story reveals the master at work long before those landmarks. He thought enough of it to adapt it for live readings later in his career. Once you've heard it, you'll understand why. No ghosts. No monsters. Just a room, a bed, and the slow, silent certainty of something descending. Narrated in the Fearsome Fiction tradition—atmospheric, unhurried, faithful to the original text. Story: "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins (1852) — Public DomainSubscribe for new episodes every week. #FeasomeFiction #WilkieCollins #ClassicHorror #VictorianFiction #MysteryPodcast #PublicDomain #Audiobook #Suspense #Podcast

I recently interviewed Rick Gualtieri, the bestselling New Jersey author behind the Tome of Bill series, for Fearsome Fiction. Rick has built one of indie horror-comedy's most beloved franchises around Bill Ryder, a dateless gamer who gets turned into a vampire and becomes the undead world's most reluctant savior—more than a dozen novels deep and still going strong. We talked about his origin story, his writing process, the art of making horror funny without defanging it, and why comedy and horror belong together. It's a great conversation for fans of the genre and anyone curious about what it takes to build a long-running indie series from scratch. Listen wherever you get Fearsome Fiction.

Welcome back to True Crime Tuesdays on Fearsome Fiction. Today we're going deep into one of the most haunting and complicated criminal cases in recent American history—the Delphi murders. It started on a cold February afternoon in 2017 in the small town of Delphi, Indiana. Two best friends, thirteen-year-old Abby Williams and fourteen-year-old Libby German, went for a walk on a popular hiking trail near an old railroad trestle. They never came home. What followed was five years of anguish, dead ends, a viral piece of evidence the whole country watched, and then—finally—an arrest. But the story doesn't end there. Not by a long shot. This one has everything: a small-town mystery, a killer hiding in plain sight, jailhouse confessions, Norse paganism, and an appeal that's heading into court next year. Let's get into it.

Welcome to Fearsome Fiction. Today we're stepping into a New England boarding house where one room has a way of making its occupants very, very uncomfortable. "The Southwest Chamber" was written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published in 1903—and it is exactly the kind of quiet, creeping horror that gets under your skin before you realize what's happening. A dead woman's room. A succession of boarders who each try, and fail, to spend the night. And something in that room that won't stay buried. Stay with us.

You've been with Marshall James through all of it. The suspicion. The fear. The slow unraveling of everything he thought he knew about the people around him — and about himself. You followed him into the dark and waited with him there while the truth fought its way to the surface. Now we're here. The final chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town. Marshall gets his life back. The cloud that's followed him, the whispers and the doubt and the weight of being the man everyone suspected — it lifts. He is vindicated. And standing on the other side of all of it, he gets to ask the question we all ask when the worst is finally over: now what? The answer, it turns out, is New York City. A new beginning. A life rebuilt from the wreckage of the old one. And beside him through all of it — Boo. His husband. His anchor. The reason the new life is worth building at all. But New York, as it happens, is not the last chapter. It's just the one before the last chapter. Because Marshall and Boo are leaving the city now, trading its noise and its energy and its beautiful relentlessness for something quieter. Something on the water. A town called Lambertville, on the banks of the Delaware, where a different kind of life is waiting. Some of you may know that town. Some of you may even know that stretch of river. This is where Marshall James lands. This is where his story, for now, comes to rest. These are the final episodes of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.

He looked like your neighbor. He worked as a computer programmer. He threw dinner parties for friends. But from 1971 to 1983, Randy Steven Kraft prowled the freeways of Southern California — and beyond — leaving a trail of young men's bodies in his wake. When police finally caught him, they found something almost no one expected: a coded list. Sixty-one cryptic entries, each one believed to represent a life he had taken. Investigators called it the Scorecard. More than fifty years later, victims are still being identified — and the case is still growing. This week on True Crime Tuesdays, we go deep into one of America's most prolific and least-known serial killers: the man police called the Scorecard Killer, the Freeway Killer, and the Southern California Strangler. And we ask the question that haunts investigators to this day: how many names are still on that list?

Fasten your headphones for another three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller by Mark McNease. Narration provided by Wondervox. When we left Marshall James, he was in the middle of a very bad few days in New York City. His friend Trent is dead, the murder scene has been suspiciously cleaned up, and someone has apparently lifted Marshall's driver's license — which has now turned up in a dead senator's apartment. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Marshall and Colin pay a visit to Rhonda — Colin's neighbor two floors down — to use her computer and finally open the disk that Trent died for. What they find on it is a spreadsheet of cities, money, and names that make everything a great deal more dangerous. Chapter Thirty-Five takes us back to the present in Lambertville, New Jersey, where his husband Boo has been gently lobbying for a change of scenery. He wakes up in a bed and breakfast, comes downstairs to coffee and conversation, and meets Kyle Callahan and his husband Danny Durban — hosts, innkeepers, and, as we'll come to see, people who know something about starting over in a new town. Chapter Thirty-Six continues that morning, as Marshall begins to take the measure of this quieter life and wonder whether he might actually belong in it.

This episode of The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip pulls into Colorado, the highest state in the union, for a deep look at one of the strangest contrasts in American cryptid lore. We open with the Slide-Rock Bolter, an absurd creature from the lumber camp folklore of the early nineteen-hundreds, first documented by Minnesota state forester William T. Cox in his nineteen ten book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. We trace the Bolter back to its origins in the Fearsome Critters tradition, the body of tall tales that working men in American logging camps invented to entertain themselves, haze new arrivals, and put a face on the genuine dangers of life in the timber.From there, we walk through the broader folklore of the Colorado high country, including the Cornish Tommyknockers brought to the silver camps by immigrant miners in the late eighteen-hundreds, and the older Indigenous traditions of giant or hairy beings in the mountains that predate any of the European arrivals. The second half of the episode shifts from folklore into testimony, exploring the long record of wild man and Sasquatch encounter reports that have come out of the Colorado backcountry from the late eighteen-hundreds to the present day.We cover historical newspaper accounts from the central Rockies, the San Juans, Pikes Peak country, the Wet Mountains, and the Sangre de Cristos, and we move into the modern record with a series of encounter stories drawn from the broader Colorado field, including reports from the Weminuche Wilderness, the Flat Tops, the country around Mount Sopris, the Pagosa Springs area, the mining ghost towns of the San Juans, and the high passes above the San Luis Valley. The episode examines the recurring patterns that show up in the Colorado record, including elevation clusters, water corridors, the strange quality of silence that witnesses describe right before and after an encounter, the consistent pattern of avoidance behavior in the creatures themselves, and the credibility profile of the witnesses, who are overwhelmingly hunters, backpackers, rangers, ranchers, and other people with deep experience in the country they were standing in when the encounter occurred.Along the way we discuss the cultural function of folklore in dangerous places, the ways that men in mining and lumber camps used invented monsters to talk about real risks like rockslides and cave-ins, and the long, often unspoken thread of testimony from people who have walked off the Colorado high country carrying something they were never quite able to put down.Have you experienced a Bigfoot sighting, Sasquatch encounter, Dogman experience, UFO sighting, or any unexplained cryptid or paranormal event deep in the woods? We want to hear your story.Email your encounter to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com for a chance to be featured on a future episode of Backwoods Bigfoot Stories.Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss a chilling encounter from the forest. Listen with the lights off… if you dare.

On the evening of May 16, 2006, aspiring screenwriter Rey Rivera received a brief phone call, said "oh," and ran out of his Baltimore home. He was 32 years old, newly married, and by every account a happy man on the verge of the life he'd always wanted. Eight days later, his body was found inside a locked, abandoned conference room at the historic Belvedere Hotel — beneath a hole in the ceiling that should have been impossible to make from above. The physics didn't add up. The injuries didn't match. The detective assigned to the case said the scene looked staged and was pulled off it three weeks later. And taped to the back of Rey's computer at home was a note — typed in tiny font, folded into a strange shape, addressed to "brothers and sisters" — that opened with a Masonic phrase, referenced volcanoes and secret societies and Stanley Kubrick, and was never satisfactorily explained by anyone. This week on True Crime Tuesday, we go to Baltimore, to a fourteen-story hotel, and to one of the genuinely strangest unsolved deaths of the past twenty years. No resolution. No clean answers. Just a hole in a roof, a note that reads like a riddle, and a case the medical examiner still considers open.

Marshall is in full survival mode. With a murdered man and a ransacked apartment behind him, he recruits his unlikely new ally Colin for a reconnaissance mission to Trent Stoffer's Upper East Side building. What they find — or rather, don't find — turns everything upside down. The apartment is spotless, the bedroom pristine, and Trent, according to a very helpful man named Dennis, is alive and well in Hong Kong. The body is gone, the evidence is gone, and Marshall is left looking like a man who has lost his grip on reality. Meanwhile, in a complete change of pace, Marshall and Boo enjoy a sun-drenched afternoon in New Hope, Pennsylvania — ice cream, Main Street, and the Bucks County Playhouse — before Boo reveals the dark history of Passion House, the B&B where they're staying. A housekeeper. A famous writer. A canal. And a locked storage room upstairs that no one talks about. Back in 1992 New York, the mystery deepens. Dennis's too-smooth performance and the suspiciously immaculate crime scene tell Marshall exactly one thing: everyone is in on it. The doorman, the super, and whoever cleaned up that bedroom with professional efficiency. The only lead left is a computer disk Trent slipped him — and finding a computer to read it on.

She killed her husband with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule — then wrote a children's book about grief. On May 13, 2026, the same day that would have been Eric Richins' 44th birthday, a Utah judge sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In this episode of True Crime Tuesdays, Mark McNease walks you through one of the most chilling cases in recent memory — a tale of debt, deception, a secret affair, and a calculated murder hiding in plain sight behind the cover of a children's book. From the first failed attempt on Valentine's Day to the fatal Moscow Mule, from the internet searches about lethal doses to the jury that deliberated less than three hours — this is a story that is almost too dark to be believed. True Crime Tuesdays is a Fearsome Fiction feature. New episodes every Tuesday.

In these three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town, Marshall James finds himself waking up on the couch of Colin Griffin — a sharp-witted escort who becomes his unlikely confidant — and paying the price of admission: the truth. Marshall lays out his history, from his Hollywood past to the body he found that morning, and Colin listens without calling the police. Meanwhile, in a counterpoint chapter set in the present, Marshall and his partner Boo enjoy a deceptively quiet afternoon in Lambertville and New Hope — a brief, tender interlude that feels worlds away from what's unfolding in New York City. Back in the past, the stakes suddenly escalate. A breaking news report out of Manhattan reveals that Senator Daniel Roth — the powerful man Trent Stoffer had been secretly involved with — has fallen twelve stories to his death from his apartment near the United Nations. With his old flame dead and a senator now gone, Marshall grows convinced that his presence in New York is no accident. He's been here before — marked as a patsy, caught in someone else's design. And so he does what Marshall James always does: he heads straight for the scene of the crime.

Today in this special feature of the Fearsome Fiction Podcast we're offering another short story from Mark McNease's collection, 'Five of a Kind.' Jawbone tells the story of young Richard who was eighteen years old when a head-on collision on a snowy Indiana road took the lower half of his face. He survived — and that, in many ways, was the cruelest part. We Richard Krump across the decades after his accident: the surgeries that promised normalcy and delivered nothing, the friends who never showed up to his homecoming party, the little girl in a drugstore who gave him his name, and the slow, steady retreat of everyone he ever loved — until only his books, his silence, and finally his paintings remained. A haunting, deeply human story about disfigurement, isolation, and the particular cruelty of surviving intact on the inside while the world refuses to see past the outside. Jawbone begins where a young man's life as he knew it ends.

True Crime Tuesdays — A Fearsome Fiction Feature: Shot by a Killer Clown It was Memorial Day weekend, 1990, in Wellington, Florida. Marlene Warren answered her front door to find a clown holding flowers and balloons — and was shot in the face at point-blank range. The clown got back in the car and drove away. Marlene died two days later. The case had a suspect almost immediately. It had circumstantial evidence. It had motive. What it didn't have — for twenty-seven years — was enough to make an arrest. This week on True Crime Tuesdays, we follow one of the most bizarre cold cases in American history from a quiet Florida neighborhood in 1990 all the way to a courthouse in 2023, and a prison release that left a victim's family without the justice they deserved. Fearsome Fiction is produced by MadeMark Media. New episodes every Tuesday.

Welcome to Fearsome Fiction, the podcast that brings you mysteries, thrillers, rare gems, and a weekly True Crime Tuesday. Today we conclude our journey through one of the greatest locked-room mysteries ever written, with chapters 14 through 29. Published in 1907, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room set the standard for a genre that would captivate readers for generations. A young woman is found brutally attacked inside a room locked from the inside. No one could have entered. No one could have escaped. And yet someone did both. Following the investigation is the brilliant young journalist and amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille — one of fiction's most ingenious and overlooked heroes — as he unravels a mystery that seems to defy every law of logic and nature. Now for your listening pleasure, the remaining chapters of Gaston Leroux's 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room.'

Marshall James: Chapters Twenty-Five Through Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Five finds Marshall waking up in Leland's apartment the morning after a drug-fueled night he remembers all too clearly. Filled with regret, he dresses, slips out, and returns to Trent Stoffer's Upper East Side apartment — where he finds the place ransacked and Trent dead, bound and tortured in his bedroom. Knowing the police will eventually trace him to the scene, Marshall grabs a hidden computer disk from his suitcase and disappears into the New York morning — just as Carlton the doorman picks up the phone. Chapter Twenty-Six steps out of the thriller's timeline for a quieter moment, as Marshall and Boo walk the streets of Lambertville, taking in Bridge Street, the Brightside Diner, and the unhurried pace of small-town life. For the first time in a long time, Marshall feels something loosen. He begins to think Lambertville might be exactly the change he needs. Chapter Twenty-Seven brings us back to the immediate crisis. With nowhere to go and the clock ticking, Marshall makes his way to the Big Cup coffee shop in Chelsea, where he encounters Colin — a young, sharp-eyed escort with a gift for reading people. Out of options and running on fumes, Marshall accepts Colin's offer of a couch and a few hours of sleep, knowing he's going to have to tell someone the truth very soon.

True Crime Tuesdays - A Fearsome Fiction Podcast Feature: The Black Dahlia Welcome to True Crime Tuesdays. I'll be sharing a true crime story every Tuesday on Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast. Narration is provided by my own Wondervox. Fasten your headphones for one of the most famous unsolved murders in the annals of American crime - or is it American madness? They found her on the morning of January 15th, 1947. A woman walking with her daughter through a vacant lot in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She thought at first that what she was seeing was a discarded department store mannequin. A broken one, in two pieces. It wasn't a mannequin. The body had been completely severed at the waist. Drained of blood. Cleaned. Posed with a precision that suggested not rage — but ritual. Her face had been slashed at the corners of the mouth, cutting what investigators would describe as a grotesque grin from ear to ear. She was twenty-two years old. Her name was Elizabeth Short. The press would call her the Black Dahlia — a name she never knew in life, but one that would outlast everything else about her.

Story: fearsome light Author: bloodscully Rating: Explicit Site link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79090251 Read by: kristinsauter Summary: It's late at night when she says it, so low and quiet he almost misses it: “When you were missing, I thought of the last time you fucked me whenever I touched myself.” Used by the author's permission. The characters in these works are not the property of the Audio Fanfic Podcast or the author and are not being posted for profit.

Welcome to Monsters on the Edge, a show exploring creatures at the edge of our reality in forests, cities, skies, and waters. We examine these creatures and talk to the researchers studying them.Joining us on this week's show:Cryptid Comforts is the art of Lisa Russell, who specializes in designing cryptid and folklore themed plushies and pet toys. She also makes a variety of other accoutrements featuring her original art, stickers, tote bags, keychains, buttons, ect.Over the past 4 years she's expanded into the roll of Showrunner as well. Beginning with Squonkspalooza in PA, then adding Fearsome Folklore Fest in Nashville, TN last year and now adding UFO DAY in Buckhannon, WV. Each show she co-hosts with someone different and each brings its own unique experience while all are free family friendly fun.Fearsome Folklore Festivalhttps://www.instagram.com/fearsomefolklorefestivalUFO Day West Virginiahttps://www.instagram.com/ufodaywvSquonkapaloozahttps://squonkapalooza.com/Cryptid Comfortshttps://linktr.ee/cryptidcomfortsClick that play button, and let's unravel the mysteries of the UNTOLD! Remember to like, share, and subscribe to our channel to stay updated on all the latest discoveries and adventures. See you there!Join Barnaby Jones each Monday on the Untold Radio Network Live at 12pm Central – 10am Pacific and 1pm Eastern. Come and Join the live discussion next week. Please subscribe.We have ten different Professional Podcasts on all the things you like. New favorite shows drop each day only on the UNTOLD RADIO NETWORKTo find out more about Barnaby Jones and his team, (Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society) visit their website www.WisconsinCAPS.comMake sure you share and Subscribe to the CAPS YouTube Channel as wellhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7ifB9Ur7x2C3VqTzVmjNQ

In the "Forged by Fire" series, we follow David through the ultimate crucible: the transition from a hunted fugitive in the wilderness of 1 Samuel to the established King of Israel in 2 Samuel. These messages explore how God uses seasons of intense pressure, betrayal, and waiting to refine the character of His people. From the caves of Engedi to the heights of the Davidic Covenant in 2nd Samuel 7, we see that God's primary work isn't just changing our circumstances, but shaping our hearts. Join us as we learn how the "fire" of life's trials is designed not to consume us, but to forge a faith that lasts.

On today's episode, we discuss how Elon Musk's tech empire is reshaping both the roads and what's under them, starting with Charlotte's first ride in a Tesla autonomously threading through Dallas rush‑hour traffic and how “Jug” (James's Tesla) handles aggressive drivers better than most humans do. The Fearsome Threesome then dig into The Boring Company's newly approved tunnel projects in cities like New Orleans and Dallas, explaining how Musk's relatively low‑cost, largely autonomous boring machines could bypass surface congestion if regulators will cooperate. From there, they bounce through a grab bag of tech topics: naming future Teslas, how fast‑charging and autonomy might change commuting, and what an eventual web of electric tunnels could mean for urban design. In the back half, the conversation turns to digital privacy and “burner” tech, using a real high‑school case where a student left a burner phone filled with a teacher's photos on her desk to explore how traceable “anonymous” devices actually are through point‑of‑sale data, activation records, and IP logs. Dwayne and Mark lay out how investigators could still unmask the prankster, while James keeps circling back to the core question of what, legally, counts as a crime versus something that's just deeply creepy and grounds for school discipline. Throughout, the crew mix serious concerns about surveillance, safety, and stalking with their trademark humor, local PJ's Coffee ad‑reads, and side riffs about naming cars after blue‑footed boobies and grinning every time someone says, “I'm taking the Jug.” Don't miss it!

This week we're recapping Round 4 of the 2026 Horror Games as we break down the Egregious Eight and prepare to enter the Fearsome Four. We revisit the most creative kills across each matchup, debate the biggest upsets including Art the Clown vs. Jason Voorhees, and honor the fallen tributes from every district. Vote in the Horror Games Leave a Voicemail