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June 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 37: The "Crying Boy" Curse

In 1985, U.K. tabloid The Sun started a frenzy of fear when they published a series of articles about a cursed mass-produced painting - dubbed "The Crying Boy" - that had been found at the sites of dozens of house fires. In each of these instances, the story was the…

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June 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 36: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 2

The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of advanced alien life in the universe - and the total lack of evidence for it here on Earth. In the conclusion to our two-part series, Sean focuses on the Fermi Paradox answers that include civilizations beyond our planet.…

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June 3, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 35: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 1

Are we all alone in the universe? There are hundreds of billions of galaxies - the largest hold trillions of stars, the smallest a few hundred million. It seems impossible that there wouldn't be civilizations out there, some of them far more advanced than ours. So...where are they? The Fermi…

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May 24, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Minisode - #8: The Curse of the Bambino

Hey Scary Squad! We wanted to include a sample Patreon minisode here to be accessible by all and hopefully get more of you beautiful people over to our Patreon page! The CURSE OF THE BAMBINO is the alleged baseball curse that befell the Red Sox after they sold "Sultan of…

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May 19, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 34: The Lost Cosmonauts

Turin, Italy. 1960. Two enterprising young brothers have rigged up their own radio equipment to listen in on the Soviet Russian unmanned rocket launches during the Cold War Space Race. But they pick up something they never expected...something the Soviets never thought would be uncovered. A voice, in Russian, begging…

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May 19, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 33: Patty Hearst

This week Sean gives us a closer look at famed heiress-turned-hostage-turned-bank-robber Patty Hearst, and the tragic hippie Communist morons in the radical left "Symbionese Liberation Army" who turned a 19-year-old art history major into a fanatical urban guerrilla...within just a couple of months. The horror in this story is a…

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May 19, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 32: Haunted Cemeteries, Pt. 2

This week we complete our two part series on the most haunted cemeteries in the entire world! From the gateway to hell in Stull, Kansas, to the story of a vampire king in London, England, to crying statues in Savannah, moving coffins in Barbados, and a one-two punch of weirdness…

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May 19, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 31: Haunted Cemeteries, Pt. 1

This week on the podcast we begin a two part series on the most haunted cemeteries in the entire world! From the cursed grounds of an accused witch's murder in Salem, Massachusetts, to the site of possibly the most adorable ghost ever in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the final resting ground…

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May 12, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 30: Charles Cullen, "Angel of Death"

This week, Sean takes us through the twisted tale of depressive serial killer nurse Charles Cullen. Cullen confessed to killing "around" 40 patients over 16 years at 7 different hospitals before he was arrested in 2003. Some say he may even have killed as many as 300. What drove this…

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May 12, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 29: Renaissance Poisons & Hygienic Horrors

The Renaissance was a time of enlightenment, opulence, and all-around cultural rebirth. However, that’s not all it was. It was also a time of poisonous murders, toxic cosmetics, and hygienic horrors bad enough to make your hair stand on end…or maybe that was just all the grease. You might not…

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April 18, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 28: The Hinterkaifeck Murders

This week it's back to the world of the grim and unsolved, as Sean takes us through the facts of one of the most chilling unsolved crimes in German history - the Hinterkaifeck murders. On the night of March 31, 1922, on a remote farm outside of Munich, a family…

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April 18, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 27: Is Elvis Alive?

The King isn't dead. At least, that's what some people think. Elvis Presley died on August 16th, 1977, after a myriad of health problems culminating in cardiac arrest. Or...did he? Some fans posit that the King of Rock 'n Roll actually faked his own death with funeral and all to…

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April 18, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 26: The Phantom Dark Age

What if we weren’t living in 2021? What if we were really living in…1724? That’s the premise behind the “Phantom Dark Age” theory, which claims that Holy Roman Emperor Otto III inserted 300 years into history that never even happened. Why would Otto have done that? How did he pull…

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March 24, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 25: The Kennedy Curse & the Chappaquiddick Incident

Is it possible for a whole family to be cursed? Some people think so. In fact, there's one particular family in United States history many have asserted IS the victim of a curse - the Kennedys. From political assassinations to plane crashes to tragic accidents and even murder investigations, the…

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March 22, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 24: The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction

Let's go back to 1961 for the first major UFO abduction story in American history - the Betty & Barney Hill Incident! During a dark night in rural New Hampshire, Betty & Barney Hill (and their pet dachshund, Delsey) were coming back home from a weekend trip in Canada when…

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March 8, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 23: The Keddie Cabin Murders

April 12, 1981. Keddie, California. Sue Sharp, her teenage son John, and his friend Dana Wingate are found brutally murdered in the Sharp family's cabin at Keddie Resort in the Sierra Nevada. 12-year-old Tina Sharp is missing. And, shockingly, the youngest children - Rick Sharp, Greg Sharp, and Justin Smartt…

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Feb. 17, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 22: Haunted Dolls

Remember the comfort a childhood stuffed toy brought? Carrying it around everywhere, taking care of it, cuddling it like your own baby? Something about dolls has brought parental instincts out of children since ancient times. But what happens when that relationship goes wrong? What happens when that DOLL goes wrong?…

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Feb. 8, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 21: Deadly Illusions

Magic acts are all about doing extraordinary things with a wink and a nod to the audience, letting them know that the unbelievable is, indeed, possible. The audience is held spellbound by the illusion, yet always with the knowledge that death will be defied, they will be captivated, and the…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 20: Lake City Quiet Pills

We've hit 20 episodes! This week, Carrie is taking us through a mid-2000s internet mystery - that of LakeCityQuietPills(.)com. When the moderator of a sketchy sub-Reddit passes away in July 2009, a mystery is ignited. This moderator owned an image hosting site, "That Old Guy's Image Host", that supposedly served…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 19: Count von Cosel & His Mummy Bride

In this episode we’re taking a trip to pre-WWII Key West, Florida - a place beyond laws, full of unbelievable characters. One of these is Count Carl von Cosel (born Karl Tanzler), an eccentric x-ray technician that falls head-over-heels in love with a young Latina beauty named Elena Hoyos. Problem…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 18: The Bridgeport Poltergeist, Pt. 2

On part 1 of this 2-part series we met the Goodins, a small family that was beginning to experience terrifying poltergeist activity in their home on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This episode the famous ghost-hunting couple Ed & Lorraine Warren (they of the "Conjuring" movies) come on the scene…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 17: The Bridgeport Poltergeist, Pt. 1

New year, new boo’s! We’re bringing it back home for a local ghost story centered in Bridgeport, Connecticut - right in our own backyard. The Goodins moved into their home on Lindley Street hoping for a quiet, family-centered life of peace and normalcy. What they got instead was a chaotic,…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 16: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Let’s take it back, wayyyy back…back to Ancient Egypt! On Episode 16 Carrie’s telling us the story of King Tutankhamun, aka Tut, the boy king of Ancient Egypt. But even more interesting than the story of his life is that of the discovery of his tomb and mummified remains in…

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Feb. 4, 2021

Ain't it Scary? Podcast - Ep. 15: Lesser-Known American Cryptids

Bigfoot. The Mothman. The Jersey Devil. These are the big bad boys of American Cryptid Folklore. But what about the B Squad? Or even…the C Squad? In our pre-holiday episode, Sean takes us from the American South to the Northeast and beyond to introduce us to the Cryptid C Squad:…

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