Grim Podcast

05/01/2023

Tales of the cowboy Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum have floated around New Mexico since he started robbing trains with his brother in the late 1800s, but who would have thought that a cowboy scorned would turn into a ghost that can be seen even now reliving his capture… Join us this week for the start of an exciting new year filled with cowboys and ghosts!
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30/11/2022

The Wendigo is known by several names — Windigo, Witigo, Witiko, and Wee-Tee-Go — but each roughly translates to “the evil spirit that devours mankind.”
“The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody ... Unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption” - Basil H. Johnston
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26/08/2022

On the morning of December 23, 1974, a little before noon, Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson, and Julie Ann Moseley decided to go Christmas shopping. The girls first headed to a surplus store in Fort Worth and then from there, they headed to the Seminary South Shopping Center. But despite being seen by dozens of witnesses at the mall, none of the girls made it home that night. So what really happened that night? We might never know…
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17/08/2022

This story starts with James White, who bought a property called the Overtoun Farm in 1859. He built the Overtoun House three years later in 1862. When White died in 1884, his son, John Campbell White, inherited the house and its estate and started planning to extend the driveway of the house across a deep ravine in order to provide easier access. The bridge was completed in June of 1895. During the 1950s, locals started referring to the bridge as the "Bridge of Death" or the "Dog Su***de Bridge", as it was reported that dogs were leaping from the bridge into the ravine below. The mystery of why dogs become possessed to jump has never been solved, but many theories persist, ranging from the scientific to the supernatural…

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06/07/2022

The Logan Inn, located in New Hope Pennsylvania, and it is very famously known to be haunted by no fewer than 8 ghosts at a time. The most famous of them all is actually the haunting of room 6, which is actually likely to be a few different ghosts. But despite how haunted the Inn is, all of these ghosts seem to be quite friendly, and is probably a good place for what we’d call a “beginner” haunting experience. This haunted Inn is definitely on our list of places we’d like to visit some day. And not just the Inn though, the town also has a few other resident ghosts who like to make themselves known sometimes…
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02/07/2022

Arthur John Shawcross, Genesee River Killer, was born on June 6th, 1945 and died on November 10th, 2008. And his life consisted of multiple jail sentences and years on parole, and far too many lives lost. Today we talk about a truly horrible man…
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18/05/2022

The Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible column-stabilized drilling rig that was operated by Dolphin Drilling. When it was built in 1974, it was one of the more advanced drilling rigs at the time… but what happened on Saturday, November 5th, 1983 at 4am made it clear that it had not stayed the most advanced drilling rigs. In what is generally known as the most gruesome deaths in history, the Byford Dolphin Accident really shows how dangerous being a worker on an oil rig is and why it’s one of the highest paying jobs.
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14/05/2022

Rehmeyer’s Hollow is known for its foundation in witchcraft, spells, and murder, and the story centers around two men: Nelson Rehmeyer and John Blymire. Filled with magic and hexes, murder and intregue, this story is more or less ingrained in the history of the town is still talked about to this day. What really happened at Rehmeyer’s Hollow though? Be sure to listen to this week’s episode to learn a bit more about it…
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23/03/2022

The Bell Witch Cave in Adams, Tennessee is the site of many, many hauntings. It is thought that Ol Kate Batts, the Bell Witch, fled to the sanctuary of the cave in the years she said she would leave the Bell family alone… and in that time she has been seen and heard and felt so many times over the years that it is almost impossible to believe that she isn’t really haunting that cave. So join us for part two of this wild ride…

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16/03/2022

The Bell Witch is one of the most well known urban legends from the South, regarding a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the physical environment, and shapeshift and/or may have been clairvoyant and able to be in two places at once. And just to sum up how scary this spirit is, Andrew Jackson once spent the night at the Bell’s farm and was then quoted as saying "I had rather face the entire British Army than to spend another night with the Bell Witch." I guess only visit the Bell Witch if you dare…

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09/03/2022

Andrew Gosden, known by friends and family as “Roo,” lived in South Yorkshire. By all accounts, he was a normal kid - he had a few close friends, was very academically driven but involved in the Church and in other activities like Cub Scouts. He was the kind of kid who was expected to go to Cambridge one day. That all changed in 2007, when he didn’t go to school and instead boarded a train to London. Andrew Gosden was never seen again. But over the years, people have thought they made contact… this story is still unfolding and we will update you when we know more, but for now we hope you enjoy this episode and if you have any information please do share it with the relevant authorities.
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02/03/2022

“She comes by night, in fearsome flight,
In garments black as pitch,
the queen of doom upon her broom,
the wild and wicked witch,
a crackling crone with brittle bones
and dessicated limbs,
two evil eyes with warts and sties
and bags about the rims,
a dangling nose, ten twisted toes
and fold of shriveled skin,
cracked and chipped and crackled lips
that frame a toothless grin.
She hurtles by, she sweeps the sky
and hurls a piercing screech.
As she swoops past, a spell is cast
on all her curses reach.
Take care to hide when the wild witch rides
to shriek her evil spell.
What she may do with a word or two
is much too grim to tell.”
- The Witch by Jack Prelutsky
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23/02/2022

In 1934, Alcatraz was remade/rebranded as the world’s most secure prison… and was made even more cold and secure than its previous island-surrounded-by-cold-and-foreboding-waters made it out to be. The redesign included tougher iron bars, a series of strategically positioned guard towers, and strict rules, including a dozen checks a day of the prisoners. Despite this, from 1934 to when the prison closed in 1963, 36 men tried 14 separate escapes. Nearly all were caught or didn’t survive the attempt. But three men may have made it out…

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02/02/2022

Claudia Lawrence was born in Malton, North Yorkshire in 1974. While her parents were both in the law field, after her early education she went to a local catering college where she qualified as a chef. After working at hotels and restaurants in York, she eventually settled at Goodricke College in the University of York in 2006. While she never had any serious relationships, she did have a very vibrant social life and was quite close with her parents too. Everything was looking great for her, up until Thursday March 19th when she didn’t show up to her 6am shift.. or drinks with her friend after… or anything after that either. To this date, we don’t know what happened to Claudia Lawrence, but we can only hope that her family will one day find closure about what happened to her.

02/02/2022

There is a road, an “old path” if you will, in southeast Nebraska. And according to the local lore, in the 1900s there were seven women who were murdered on this road. So this legend has been kind of circulating for more than a century so there are a ton of variations and add ons and honestly even more sightings and spooky occurrences. Lots of sevens in today’s story: from seven sisters to seven hills.

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16/01/2022

Rebecca Coriam, a Disney Crew member on the Disney Wonder, sent her last message to her parents on March 21st 2011 saying she would call the next day. However, when she didn't call or show up for work the next morning, the crew understandably got worried. From there began a series of investigations that frankly left more to be desired. Nobody knows what exactly happened from when she was last seen on CCTV at 5:45am. Was it a 100 foot rogue wave that mysteriously appeared in calm waters like Disney suggests? Did she decide to take her own life even though she had made future plans? Honestly, I don't think we'll ever know. But all we can say for sure is we hope Rebecca Coriam's family and friends may one day find peace. 

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05/01/2022

"Harry Maine — you have heard the tale;
He lived there in Ipswich Town;
He blasphemed God, so they put him down,
With an iron shovel, at Ipswich Bar;
They chained him there for a thousand years,
As the sea rolls up to shovel it back ;
So when the sea cries, the goodwives say
“Harry Maine growls at his work today.”"
Image credit: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/harry-maine/

16/11/2021

Joseph Roy Metheny was born on March 2nd 1955, and he was the type of murderer and ra**st to declare himself a serial killer who killed 13 people, there was only sufficient evidence that he murdered 2 people in the Baltimore area. He said “My murder rampage started out as revenge but ended up as a passion for the taste of blood and the overwhelming sense of power one gets for taking the life of another.” And that’s not even the beginning. If you want to learn more, stay tuned for this episode… where let’s just say I’m glad to be vegetarian.
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02/09/2021

Ybor City is chock full of historical buildings and culture… and even some ghosts... 
The Cuban Club is probably one of the most haunted places in the city, and it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972. Joe Howden from Ybor City Ghost tours basically explained that spirits may become attached to a place rather than an event, and so they tend to stick around. 
"What you really are, is energy sewn together by consciousness, you come from somewhere. We’ll say another dimension for ease. You come here, you pick up a body like a Hertz rent-a-car,  you use it for a period of time and then you return, discarding the automobile that you were in. There are some who can't transition and if you think about it in your life, you’ve probably known someone who’s in a toxic relationship and from the outside you say, 'well, why doesn’t he leave her?' or 'why doesn’t she leave him?' Attachment. The Cuban Club is such a great place because I think there’s a lot of attachment here that might be out of love."
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02/09/2021

Milena Quaglini was born on March 25th, 1957 in Mezzanino, Italy, and the reason we are talking about her today is that she murdered 3 men in the late 1990s. She had a tumultuous family life and left shortly after she graduated school. But she went on to meet the love of her life shortly after. For a while her life was as good as it can get, but when her husband died suddenly, things started spiraling out of control. His death hit her hard, and the series of men she met afterwards weren’t the best. So finally, she decided enough was enough and she killed 3 of the men who had hurt or tried to hurt her in the past. When she was arrested, her depression retired and unfortunately she passed away on October 16, 2001.
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18/08/2021

The Kehoe House is at 123 Habersham Street on Columbia Square in Savannah, Georgia. It was completed in May of 1892, built for William Kehoe and his family. Kehoe was an Irish man who immigrated to the US in 1842 when he was only 10 years old. And he made a fortune in iron and became one of Savannah's most prominent businessmen. Kehoe spent $950 ($25,000 today) on the construction of this house, including making the home a “true showcase of his iron trade.” And it comes as no surprise when we say that the house is haunted. By the ghosts of the Kehoe children, their mother, and even William Kehoe himself…
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11/08/2021

In the summer of 1976 two serial killers stalked the roads of Ireland in a Ford Cortina looking for young women to abduct, r**e and murder in order to “fulfil” their “shared fantasy” of ra**ng and killing one woman every week while in Ireland. When they arrived in Ireland, they didn’t immediately start with the killing. They actually went on a crime spree in Wicklow where they committed a series of burglaries before being sent to Mountjoy Prison. When they were released from prison, they decided that they would do what they wanted, namely the aforementioned fantasy. Later, after they were arrested for the final time, they ended up telling the gardaí that they had decided to “embark on an unprecedented and macabre programme of abduction, r**e and murder.”
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27/07/2021

So this case is another one of those cases that makes me irrationally angry, and I’m just going to tell you why - because along with the fact that this man was a terrible terrible person, he still hasn’t been caught yet. This week we’re talking about the Honolulu Strangler, also known as the Honolulu Ra**st. He was Hawaii’s first known serial killer, and he killed 5 women between 1985 and 1986. We hope the families of these victims have been able to find some peace even though nobody has ever been convicted of these horrendous crimes.
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21/07/2021

Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. And while the club may seem like the dark academia fantasy society of your dreams, the club was actually pretty scary - dabbling in the dark arts (of course), devil worship, animal sacrifice, and drinking questionable alcoholic drinks. At the top of Montpelier Hill sits a hunting lodge constructed in the early 1700s that was one of the many locations that the Hellfire club in Ireland used - but this one is particularly haunted. From tales of the Devil stopping by to demonic cat possession to poltergeist activity, the house has had its share of paranormal events. So join us this week for a look into the Devil and his followers…
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14/07/2021

Christine Laverne Slaughter (that’s her actual birth name, we were shocked too) was an American serial killer who was active in a couple different towns in Florida. She had a really rough childhood, and as a young child she began to take that anger out on cats, killing several of them by throwing them from great heights. When she was a teenager, she graduated to killing the children she babysat. This story is especially heartbreaking due to this fact - many of her victims were young children. Definitely don’t listen to us this week if you find these topics triggering in any way, because your welfare always comes first. We hope you all stay safe and have a great week ahead.
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28/06/2021

France has had some prolific serial killers but if the 150 supposed kills by Yvan Keller, the Pillow Killer, are all true then he might be the most prolific serial killer of the 20th century. Active between 1989 and 2003, Yvan was a landscape gardener who gained access to the houses of elderly women who lived alone in France, Switzerland, and Germany. He would then smother them with a pillow before robbing them. While he confessed to many many murders, he was only indicted for five deaths. So did he actually kill that many women? Or is this a case of megalomania?
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09/06/2021

So this week Maddie and I are going back to our roots I guess - because we’re talking about a notoriously haunted house in our home state of Massachusetts. If you know the popular jump rope song: 
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
She gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Lizzie Borden got away
For her crime she did not pay.” 
You probably can guess that we’re talking about the Lizzie Borden House. There are a lot of details in the actual case of the murder and the trial and everything so if you want to hear more about that let us know and maybe we can do an episode just on the case sometime in the future. But for now, let’s talk about the ghosts in this apparently very haunted bed and breakfast...
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13/12/2020

The standout moments of the year. Shout out to all the fans on Spotify.

13/12/2020

02/09/2020

The new episode is up now! Maddie discusses the case of Tammy Kingery, a missing women in South Carolina (and yes Maddie actually did research this week! 🎉). There are a lot of weird twists and turns so be sure to check it out, and if you have any information that could help with the case please contact the Edgefield County Sheriff's Office at 803-278-1625, or South Carolina State Law enforcement at 803-737-9000
The case is still open as a missing persons case.

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