Bourbon and Bloodshed

Now that you're finished with the horror of Thanksgiving (turkey), join us as we examine a real life horror, straight out of Illinois. The enfield horror is a cryptid seen in the southern part of Illinois beginning on April 25, 1973. Reports started from a single source, Henry McDaniel, who heard scratching on his door in the evening around 9:30. Upon closer investigation, McDaniel found a strange creature that hissed like a wild cat, was 4.5 feet tall and gray, wih three legs, two short arms, and big pink eyes. Later, additional witnesses would claim to have seen the cryptid and the event actually served as a case study for social contagion in an academic paper written 5 years later.   SOURCES: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7318965/mt-vernon-register-news/ https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Enfield_Horror https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2021/5/8/the-enfield-monster http://www.thevillagersvoice.com/the-enfield-horror/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Coleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_Monster

Welcome to the minisode we recorded right around Halloween and have been saving for release. We'll be back next Saturday with the deep coverage you all know and love, but for now, enjoy this light episode with several stories all rolled into one.   Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/true-scary-stories

Join us as we explore Insider.com's list of 10 terrifying Halloween murders. Link here: https://www.insider.com/murders-halloween-night-2018-10

Bob Berdella, also known as the Kansas City Butcher, is one of the most gruesome serial killers of our time. Berdella preyed on the transient homosexual population of Kansas City Missouri from 1984 through 1987. During that time he raped and tortured six men, murdering all but his final victim.

Bob Berdella, also known as the Kansas City Butcher, is one of the most gruesome serial killers of our time. Berdella preyed on the transient homosexual population of Kansas City Missouri from 1984 through 1987. During that time he raped and tortured six men, murdering all but his final victim.

Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer active from 1978-1983. During that time, he preyed on young men and boys in London, murdering at least 12, but potentially as many as 16. All of his murders were committed at one of two homes where he lived. Nilsen was known to strangle his victims, and sometimes drown them, before ritualistically bathing them and keeping them in his home for periods of time. When he finished with them he’d burn their bodies and flush them down the toilet. Nilsen was caught in 1983. Nilsen was also known as the Kindly Killer and the Muswell Hill Murderer. 

Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer active from 1978-1983. During that time, he preyed on young men and boys in London, murdering at least 12, but potentially as many as 16. All of his murders were committed at one of two homes where he lived. Nilsen was known to strangle his victims, and sometimes drown them, before ritualistically bathing them and keeping them in his home for periods of time. When he finished with them he’d burn their bodies and flush them down the toilet. Nilsen was caught in 1983. Nilsen was also known as the Kindly Killer and the Muswell Hill Murderer. 

Welcome to the first of two updates we’re publishing this week covering stories we’ve covered over the past couple of years. Today’s updatisode provides current standings of the murders of Laci and Conner Peterson.

We're covering the tragic incident at Dyatlov Pass that occurred in the Ural Mountains in 1959 leaving 9 young adventurers dead. The group was comprised of mostly students from the Ural Polytechnical Institute. What was meant to be a three week trek to help them earn the next higher certification for their hiking and outdoors careers ended up being their last in a confusing tragedy that still has people questioning exactly what happened on that mountaintop all those years ago. Bourbon tasting until 20m in- Story begins at around the 20m mark. Today's episode is brought to you by Broken Barrel Whiskey. Shout out to Seth Benheim and his team for the sample bottles he sent over, we're excited to review them over the next few episodes and really enjoyed the bottle of 116 proof we tried at the beginning of this episode. Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113032101/alexander-sergeevich-kolevatov https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-may-have-finally-unraveled-mystery-dyatlov-pass-incident-180976886/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident http://www.museumcenter.org/the-curious-curator/2020/5/15/historys-mysteries-revealed-crystal-skulls-nazca-lines-shroud-of-turin-and-dyatlov-pass-incident-54lfg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kholat_Syakhl https://theethicalskeptic.com/tag/dyatlov/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-photos https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/russia-dyatlov-pass-conspiracy-theory/605863/ https://www.livescience.com/dyatlov-pass-incident-slab-avalanche-hypothesis.html https://abc30.com/emily-harrington-alex-honnold-yosemite-climbing-accident-climbers/5720342/ https://dyatlovpass.com/

We're covering the tragic incident at Dyatlov Pass that occurred in the Ural Mountains in 1959 leaving 9 young adventurers dead. The group was comprised of mostly students from the Ural Polytechnical Institute. What was meant to be a three week trek to help them earn the next higher certification for their hiking and outdoors careers ended up being their last in a confusing tragedy that still has people questioning exactly what happened on that mountaintop all those years ago. Bourbon tasting until 20m in- Story begins at around the 20m mark. Today's episode is brought to you by Broken Barrel Whiskey. Shout out to Seth Benheim and his team for the sample bottles he sent over, we're excited to review them over the next few episodes and really enjoyed the bottle of 116 proof we tried at the beginning of this episode.   Sources:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113032101/alexander-sergeevich-kolevatov https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-may-have-finally-unraveled-mystery-dyatlov-pass-incident-180976886/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident http://www.museumcenter.org/the-curious-curator/2020/5/15/historys-mysteries-revealed-crystal-skulls-nazca-lines-shroud-of-turin-and-dyatlov-pass-incident-54lfg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kholat_Syakhl https://theethicalskeptic.com/tag/dyatlov/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-photos https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/russia-dyatlov-pass-conspiracy-theory/605863/ https://www.livescience.com/dyatlov-pass-incident-slab-avalanche-hypothesis.html https://abc30.com/emily-harrington-alex-honnold-yosemite-climbing-accident-climbers/5720342/ https://dyatlovpass.com/

This week we're thrilled to do something a little different and share with you an interview we did with Psychic Medium Jim Hunt. You may know Jim from the TV show "Knock Knock Ghost" (currently available on Amazon Prime). We talk with Jim about everything from how he got started, what he sees and how he sees it, his adventures over the years, big foot, aliens, everything. You name it, we cover it. This was one of the most fun shows we've done, hope you guys enjoy it as much as we did! You can book sessions with Jim at https://www.jimhuntofficial.com/ or find him on Instagram @jimhuntofficial

Dennis Rader was also known as the BTK Killer o BTK Strangler. BTK stood for Bind, Torture, Kill because of how he killed his victims. Rader murdered 10 people from 1974 to 1991, including men, women, and children. The murders went unsolved for YEARS- obviously since they spanned a nearly 20 year period, but Rader wasn’t caught immediately after the last one in 1991, he wasn’t caught for another FOURTEEN YEARS, and only then after he started sending hints to the police that ultimately led to his arrest. SOURCES: https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dennis-rader-the-btk-killer#:~:text=Rader%20was%20born%20in%201945,his%20head%20as%20a%20kid https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-bio-info.htm https://www.biography.com/news/btk-killer-meaning-dennis-rader-clues https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-rader-btk-killer https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a28859869/btk-killer-dennis-rader/ https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669831/Son-BTK-killers-victims-tells-family-strangled-bound-age-15.html https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm https://survivingbtk.weebly.com/nancy-fox.html    

Dennis Rader was also known as the BTK Killer o BTK Strangler. BTK stood for Bind, Torture, Kill because of how he killed his victims. Rader murdered 10 people from 1974 to 1991, including men, women, and children. The murders went unsolved for YEARS- obviously since they spanned a nearly 20 year period, but Rader wasn’t caught immediately after the last one in 1991, he wasn’t caught for another FOURTEEN YEARS, and only then after he started sending hints to the police that ultimately led to his arrest.   SOURCES: https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dennis-rader-the-btk-killer#:~:text=Rader%20was%20born%20in%201945,his%20head%20as%20a%20kid https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-bio-info.htm https://www.biography.com/news/btk-killer-meaning-dennis-rader-clues https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-rader-btk-killer https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a28859869/btk-killer-dennis-rader/ https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669831/Son-BTK-killers-victims-tells-family-strangled-bound-age-15.html https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm https://survivingbtk.weebly.com/nancy-fox.html

Dennis Rader was also known as the BTK Killer o BTK Strangler. BTK stood for Bind, Torture, Kill because of how he killed his victims. Rader murdered 10 people from 1974 to 1991, including men, women, and children. The murders went unsolved for YEARS- obviously since they spanned a nearly 20 year period, but Rader wasn’t caught immediately after the last one in 1991, he wasn’t caught for another FOURTEEN YEARS, and only then after he started sending hints to the police that ultimately led to his arrest. SOURCES: https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dennis-rader-the-btk-killer#:~:text=Rader%20was%20born%20in%201945,his%20head%20as%20a%20kid https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-bio-info.htm https://www.biography.com/news/btk-killer-meaning-dennis-rader-clues https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-rader-btk-killer https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a28859869/btk-killer-dennis-rader/ https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669831/Son-BTK-killers-victims-tells-family-strangled-bound-age-15.html https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm https://survivingbtk.weebly.com/nancy-fox.html

Dennis Rader was also known as the BTK Killer o BTK Strangler. BTK stood for Bind, Torture, Kill because of how he killed his victims. Rader murdered 10 people from 1974 to 1991, including men, women, and children. The murders went unsolved for YEARS- obviously since they spanned a nearly 20 year period, but Rader wasn’t caught immediately after the last one in 1991, he wasn’t caught for another FOURTEEN YEARS, and only then after he started sending hints to the police that ultimately led to his arrest. SOURCES: https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dennis-rader-the-btk-killer#:~:text=Rader%20was%20born%20in%201945,his%20head%20as%20a%20kid https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-bio-info.htm https://www.biography.com/news/btk-killer-meaning-dennis-rader-clues https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-rader-btk-killer https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a28859869/btk-killer-dennis-rader/ https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669831/Son-BTK-killers-victims-tells-family-strangled-bound-age-15.html https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm https://survivingbtk.weebly.com/nancy-fox.html

Tonight we’re talking about the Gulf Breeze alien sightings from the late 1980s. These sightings, so famous that even fucking FOX MOULDER from the X Files wrote a report about them at one point, still divide opinions among anyone that sees the photographs and the 1:38 video Ed and Frances Walters claim they captured over a six month period from November of 1987 through March of 1988. They claim these sightings plagued them for just these six months, then completely disappeared, and today whether or not it’s real or a hoax still has just about anyone familiar with the story divided.

Today we're covering the grisly murder of pregnant Shannann Watts and her two daughters- perpetrated by her own husband and their father. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the case where a man, supposedly desperate for a life with his mistress, perpetrated some of the most disgusting acts we've covered.     Sources: https://medium.com/honestly-yours/what-netflixs-american-murder-didn-t-tell-you-about-chris-and-shanann-watts-2a90a9a88745 https://www.insider.com/chris-watts-murder-timeline-2018-12#february-18-2019-chris-speaks-to-three-investigators-at-the-federal-prison-where-he-is-serving-his-sentence-and-finally-tells-them-the-whole-story-of-how-he-killed-his-wife-and-kids-44 https://www.reddit.com/r/ShannanWatts/comments/acx36c/comprehensive_case_timeline/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/16JKE6DEzoOBQUGhiyjJqzX-ZhKLn9R9o/view https://www.biography.com/news/chris-watts-wife-daughters-murder-mistress-confession-timeline https://www.reddit.com/r/Chriswatts/comments/a6gb76/question_about_bella_and_celeste_illnesses/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ShannanWatts/comments/9zk4l7/question_about_shananns_lupus/ https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/who-is-christopher-watts-frederick-murders/  

Bourbon tasting and open until 14 mins in, so if you're just here for the creepy fast forward. Tonight we're doing a light episode, we have two stories to cover for you, both about cryptic beings with no real answer- The Expressionless and the Rougarou. Come hang, enjoy, and try some McKenna 10 with us tonight. Cheers!  

This is our final episode of our six part series on Jonestown. In this episode we cover Jones moving to Jonestown and the downfall of Jonestown and his followers. 

In the fifth episode of our SIX part series on Jonestown, we\'re covering the time period immediately preceding the Peoples Temple\'s relocation to Guyana. This covers Jones\'s growing paranoia, increased control over his congregation, and the growing sense of crisis he was fostering within his fellowship as he planned their move.\r\n