One of the most terrifying Russian and Slavic legends is that of the Baba Yaga, an evil witch who lures in unsuspecting victims before murdering them. But back in 2015, St. Petersburg police arrested a very real serial killer, who a lot of people compared to the legend of the Baba Yaga. This was a 68 year old woman named Tamara Samsonova, who claimed to have murdered and eaten as many as 13 people.

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https://snowwhitewrites.com/baba-yaga/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baba-Yaga

https://ces.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/162/Baba-Yaga-informational-material.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221118-baba-yaga-the-greatest-wicked-witch-of-all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Samsonova

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/07/world/russia-granny-ripper-cannibalism

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/world-news/granny-ripper-who-beheaded-neighbour-32989038

https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-chilling-case-of-tamara-samsonova-russia-s-granny-ripper

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Back in the late 1960s, the Pritchard family moved into a house at 30 East Drive in the English town of Pontefract. Soon, strange things began happening in the house. This began what is known as the most violent poltergeist haunting in British history.

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Poltergeist-Destructive-Haunting-Colin-Wilson/dp/1840672846

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlpx8jz1jyo

https://www.ianjarviswriter.com/post/2018/03/20/the-black-monk-of-pontefract

http://www.30eastdrive.com/

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Back in 14th century there lived a woman named Alice Kyteler who would become the first person ever tried for witchcraft in Ireland. The thing about Alice though, is that although she almost certainly was not a witch, she may have been one of Ireland's first serial killers.

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https://www.historickilkenny.com/alice-kyteler

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/lady-alice-kyteler-found-guilty-witchcraft/

https://www.kytelersinn.com/dame-alice-kyteler/

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21127378-dame-alice-kyteler-the-sorceress-of-kilkenny-a-d-1324

https://www.kilkennycastle.ie/event/alice-kyteler-witch-victim-or-feminist-icon/

https://www.historyhit.com/the-infamous-witch-case-of-alice-kyteler/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx241e9d222o

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The most famous story about an alien abduction in history is almost certainly that of Travis Walton. In 1975, he was part of a 7 man logging crew in the forests of eastern Arizona. But when the crew encountered a UFO on their way back home, Travis disappeared without a trace for five days. Was it a hoax? Or is this the most credible proof of aliens in history?

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https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sky-Walton-Experience-Travis/dp/1546673466/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2X8951B6NFZCX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.x6PreG-nX9XdjrOCmnNVABvWhzAWRbklub_Pv7oKtwY9__HX9ddJyVsVgBlP0CO1seshJj6E_eNb9l2H8jvYUCrn3HRuLb0ZLzz0U_TDybD6qJPn2v57cFmHUxyPb86SlRMnBNkO6od00D0kSaJGyYAs5ZpaUr65efPMHN1K0SX-e41sGn2vSOdLSMVm9JG9mPrMEDcY2-ERxT42rIwKxaykCSzTaaUik2wIaUiqb_0.aWwnlmnuVBSBMMD18jFwFeWwTtQ0JB_xWwGlfoHD_aQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=fire+in+the+sky+book&qid=1790361814&sprefix=fire+in+the+sky+book%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-2

https://archive.org/details/ufospublicdeceiv0000klas_o9o5/

https://books.google.com/books?id=U8fqoTvsvUEC&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215956/https://www.ncmufon.com/news/2018/3/10/larry-king-live-travis-walton-ufo-abduction-case-3121993

https://www.travis-walton.com/

https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0H3CIMYO6XGZJNIT1PVJRQ2RE9?xdsso=1&ref_=atv_auth_red_aft&

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Back in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the late 19th century there lived a nurse whose cheery personality earned her the nickname Jolly Jane Toppan. But Jolly Jane had a secret dark side. In reality she was one of America's first female serial killers, and its believed that she may have murdered more than one hundred people.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671014501?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIFjCgAAQBAJ&q=to+have+killed+more+people—helpless+people—than+any+other+man+or+woman+who+ever+lived#v=snippet&q=to%20have%20killed%20more%20people—helpless%20people—than%20any%20other%20man%20or%20woman%20who%20ever%20lived&f=false

https://www.academia.edu/15686136/Jane_Toppan_A_Greed_Power_and_Lust_Serial_Killer

https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=IJ19020625.1.5

https://books.google.com/books?id=i3zgDwAAQBAJ

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Hey everyone, I need to take a week off from our regular schedule to take care of some personal business. In the meantime, I'm re-releasing this classic episode about Leap Castle, the most haunted castle in the world. I’ll be back on our regular schedule with an all new episode next week.

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In 1969, history was made when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Or did they? In this episode I discuss one of the biggest conspiracy theories of them all, the moon landing. I break down the major evidence about the moon landing hoax, and explain the truth behind it all. 

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https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked

https://books.google.com/books?id=N1Gcfdj81T4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/communication-and-mass-media/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/moon/how-do-we-know-we-went-to-the-moon

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871_1860876_1860992,00.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2128/

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/why-do-people-persist-denying-moon-landings

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07h2yx9/watch

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-fly-me-to-the-moon-pokes-fun-at-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-180984686/

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Back in the 1920s, a woman named Anna Ecklund reportedly began hearing voices and experiencing terrible pain when she went to church. This would lead to one of the most well-documented exorcisms in history.

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https://archive.org/stream/begonesatansouls00vogl_0/begonesatansouls00vogl_0_djvu.txt

https://discover.theritualmovie.com/begone-satan.pdf

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-43173-0_2

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/the-anna-ecklund-possession-the-true-story-of-americas-most-famous-exorcism-case/

https://time.com/7290789/the-ritual-true-story/

https://husheduphistory.com/post/619278048738607104/the-evil-and-exorcism-of-emma-schmidt

https://the-line-up.com/the-exorcist-father-theophilus-riesinger-and-possession-of-anna-ecklund

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In this episode I tell you three short horror stories from World War 1 and 2. In the first story, I tell you the horrific true tale of what appeared to be a real zombie attack during the First World War. In the second story, I tell you about the most haunted warship in history. And in story three, I tell you the tale of a liberated building in Germany after the fall of Berlin. According to legend, this building may hold a dark and evil secret in the basement.

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https://wp.umpi.edu/utimes/2025/11/18/history-tidbits-the-attack-of-the-dead-men/

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/the-attack-of-the-dead-men-was-a-horrifying-wwi-infantry-charge/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/osowiec-fortress-zombie/25990/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1990/march/haunted-u-boat

https://roybainton.com/2018/02/28/ghost-boat-the-strange-story-of-ub65/

https://www.spookyisles.com/haunted-ub-65/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/myths-legends/celle-neues-rathaus-legend/16229/

Baxter, Keith. “German Occult Conspiracy (Celle Neues Rathaus),” October 24, 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celle

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Between the summers of 1976 and 1977, the serial killer known as the Son of Sam terrorized New York City. After police arrested a postal worker named David Berkowitz, the city could finally rest easy because the killer was behind bars. But is that all there is to the story? After Berkowitz's arrest, a journalist named Maury Terry continued digging into the story, and he uncovered shocking evidence that David Berkowitz did not act alone, and that he was part of a larger Satanic cult.

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Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683692845?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

https://www.netflix.com/title/81059887

https://www.amazon.com/Son-Sam-Authorized-Transcription-Documents-ebook/dp/B072QBN4PK/ref=sr_1_3?channelId=500&clpRedir=Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.omPIgD8PrctAeaHLfvm2khrwQgyGixKKTMSuF6gQZ32Cg3MvAjnslzIygzlxlAIvpACUsdJwkNVFWEH_0MW7IhoM2_cEYXxvzQSudeHLQFmnp411vxpMIuxiQ4m-tutT_Mv2kZ9hFEHgHbjBn24EpsJZiF1dF76R7ZxyVSuCzCtP7cKx--SOT9H6fXbScDjpS_Hm8JdJwlbvnsiJPTZ6oHXbIASACBJn3H7b-8-MRFA.fJ4ifMssXZl4xqD3ASBxnj0bBnpN6h7zIWYPWUllgrM&dib_tag=se&keywords=son+of+sam&plpRedirect=mhFallback&qid=1786795739&s=books&sr=1-3

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/conversations-with-a-killer-the-son-of-sam-tapes-release-date-news

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In 1946, the United States sent the largest naval fleet of its kind on a secret mission to Antarctica. Officially, the reason given for this mission was to map the continent and to train soldiers. But unofficially, this was actually a mission to find and destroy a secret Nazi base. But when they got there they found themselves facing an ancient race with flying saucers that they couldn't hope to defeat.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/operation-highjump-18223476/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-highjump

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PoRec..43....1S/abstract

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118075139/http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Antartida/Base-Hitler/LaBaseAntarticadeHitler.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vt5paORIc

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