Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie
He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird.
With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable.
Sean’s sharp eye on the logical and Carrie’s open mind to the unexplainable combine in every episode for an informative hour with a lighter touch.
Recent Episodes
April 19, 2024
Ep. 170: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Pt. 1 - Crime of the Century
On the night of March 1st, 1932, little Charles Lindbergh Jr. was tucked into his crib for a good night's sleep. Mere hours later, the family nurse discovered that Charles Jr. was no longer in his bed...nor was he anywhere e…
April 11, 2024
Ep. 169: The Bell Witch
It's an old school ghost story this week - and we mean *way* old school, as we jump back to the early 19th century to explore the Bell Witch Haunting. From 1817 to 1821 John Bell Sr. and his family were harassed by an invisi…
April 4, 2024
Ep. 168: Suicide Songs - 'Gloomy Sunday', Lavender Town Syndrome, and the 'My Way' Murders
[Obvious TW this week for discussion of suicide.] Over the years, certain songs have attracted dark reputations. Reputations like that the songs might drive you made enough to end your own life... or make others made enough …
March 28, 2024
Ep. 167: Leonarda Cianciulli - The Soap-Maker of Correggio
Born in small-town Italy in 1893, Leonarda Cianciulli had led a hard and tragic life - but her friends and neighbors in Correggio, Reggio Emilia knew her as a kindly woman and a good neighbor. Naturally, they were all shocke…
March 21, 2024
Ep. 166: Metal, Mayhem, and Murder, Pt. 2
This week, we finish our two-parter on the rise of the Norwegian black metal scene and the leaders of the pack, Mayhem, as the culture descends into edgelord-on-edgelord crime - first with a series of arsons across Norway, a…
March 14, 2024
Ep. 165: Metal, Mayhem and Murder, Pt. 1
In the early 1990s, a series of crimes rocked the historically peaceful country of Norway. Churches were burned, home-grown terrorist plots were revealed, and arrests were made. Then, the murders came. This rash of crime all…
Feb. 22, 2024
Ep. 164: Hannibal, Pt. 3 - With Their Heads Buried in the Ground
The raison d'etre for our whole series on Hannibal and the Punic Wars is here this week, and that's very bad news for 50,000 Roman soldiers. After being beaten and humiliated by Hannibal for two years straight, the Romans ca…
Feb. 15, 2024
Ep. 163: Hannibal, Pt. 2 - Shades of My Foully Murdered Countrymen
Welcome back to the dusty horrors of ancient warfare, in part 2 of our rapidly expanding series (well, to 3 episodes, anyway) on Hannibal and the Second Punic War! It's 218 BC, and Hannibal just marched a whole army across t…
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