Donna takes us to Merion, Pennsylvania, where the General Wayne Inn served travelers for nearly 300 years and, if you believe the stories, some of them never checked out. She digs into the Revolutionary War–era ghosts, the staff who swore something was sharing the building with them, and why this old tavern has been called one of the most haunted in America.

Kerri covers Sherri Papini, a young mom from Redding, California, disappeared while out on a run and was found 22 days later on Thanksgiving Day with an account of being abducted that launched a massive search for her captors. Kerri walks through what investigators uncovered in the years that followed, and the real people who were affected along the way.

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This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a mimic with a McDonald’s alibi, loved ones finding their way back to say goodbye, a creepy-ass Peekaboo puppy, and a dad who apparently made terrorizing his children a full-time hobby. Plus, we learn that sometimes the scariest monsters aren’t paranormal at all.

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Kerri covers the murders of Rori Hache and Kandis Fitzpatrick, walking through how a routine plumbing call in an Oshawa basement apartment in 2017 blew open a case that reached back nearly a decade to a woman who'd never been found. She digs into how Adam Strong went from a stunned 911 call to two convictions, and why one family is still fighting for the answer they were promised.

Donna tells us about the Battersea Poltergeist, the mysterious 1956 haunting that started when a silver key showed up on 15 year old Shirley Hitchings' pillow and didn't fit a single lock in the house. She gets into the rapping noises, the notes, and the spirit who called himself "Donald" to sort out what actually happened at 63 Wycliffe Road.

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This week’s Sinister Sightings has us asking all the important questions: Why are teenage boys always breaking into places they shouldn’t? Who is peeking around the corner? And can you accidentally astral project while watching Power Rangers?! We’ve got creepy grannies, UFOs, premonitions, shadow people, and one hell of a childhood experience. Basically everything but the kitchen sink.

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Donna dives into the eerie case of Etta Smith, whose vivid psychic premonition led her straight to the body of missing Melanie Uribe. The discovery raises questions about intuition and the unexplained.

Kerri covers the heartbreaking story of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old whose death by suicide followed a cruel MySpace hoax, sparking a national conversation about cyberbullying and online accountability.

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Y’all… what are we supposed to do with these stories?! This week we’ve got a woman in a closet who absolutely does not belong there, a grocery store encounter that has us screaming RED FLAG, a haunted doll because apparently we’re just buying those on the internet now, and an ice fishing trip that quickly turns into a whole lot of NOPE. So get comfy, close your closet door (obviously), and come be creeped out with us.

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Kerri covers the disappearance of Martha Leanne Green, a case that has left her family searching for answers for nearly four decades. What happened during those few hours on a Tennessee highway has become a decades-long mystery, with unanswered questions and a family still waiting to learn what happened to Leanne.

Donna takes us into the supernatural side of Dolly Parton, from the strange experiences that seem to run in the Parton family to Dolly’s own stories of intuition, premonitions, and things that can’t quite be explained.

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A missing bottle mysteriously reappears, a ghost gets a little too handsy, and a paranormal investigation at the Old Jail in St. Augustine may lead to a message from beyond the grave. Plus, a listener shares a devastating hometown crime, a sleepwalking incident that seriously creeped out an ex, and a recurring childhood nightmare involving a car barreling down the highway with no one behind the wheel.

Come hang out with us for another round of your true crime, paranormal encounters, creepy experiences, and all-around weirdness.

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Donna covers the case of Gottliebin Dittus, a 19th-century German woman at the center of one of the era's most infamous cases of supposed demonic affliction, and the years-long ordeal that drew pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt into her story and shaped his ministry.

Kerri covers the murder of Carla Knowlton, shot to death on a rural Arkansas highway just weeks before her wedding. Her fiancé, Elbert Holder, staged to look like a robbery. The witness who helped crack the case open may surprise you.

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We’ve got a listener who still thinks about the little boy from her childhood who desperately needed someone to notice what was happening at home, a creepy encounter with a stranger that ends in a full-on RUN FOR YOUR LIFE moment, and a solo backpacking trip where a therapist realizes the man camping nearby might be trying to tell her he’s a sociopath.

Then we head to 1990s Las Vegas for a terrifying childhood encounter that may have been an attempted abduction. And because we need a little paranormal in our lives, two cats staring and growling at the corner of a bedroom can only mean one thing… demon. Right?

True crime stories, creepy strangers, close calls, possible abduction, and some good old-fashioned paranormal panic.

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Kerri dives into the tragic 2018 killing of University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey, who was murdered by a man she had briefly dated after he lied about his identity and criminal past. The episode examines the warning signs Lauren reported to campus police in the days before her death and the systemic failures that followed, which ultimately led to major reforms in campus safety policy.

Donna explores the eerie phenomenon known as "the Third Man," where people in extreme situations—mountaineers, shipwreck survivors, and disaster victims—report sensing an unseen presence guiding or comforting them. From Shackleton's Antarctic expedition to 9/11 survivors, she unpacks the science and speculation behind this strange, recurring experience of feeling accompanied when utterly alone.

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