Guess who's back, back again? Sean & Carrie, of course...now in a new Exhausted Parents ™ Edition! But good news for you - we've made the most of our extended hiatus, and we're dipping our toe back in to all things scary.

On this Ain't it Scary Returns! catch-up, we chat:

• Life since last December, including the arrival of Baby of the Pod Jack!
• True crime news, including the Diddy trial, Epstein saga and major conviction updates
• Paranormal news, including the purchase of CT-local Ed and Lorraine Warren's home and museum
• Science (and pseudoscience?) news, including the discovery of 3I/Atlas and recent Nessie and Mothman sightings
• A full run down of 2025 predictions and how they've panned out, including the doomsday soothsaying of Nostradamus, Baba Vanga, and, of course, The Asparamancer

We're glad to be back, Scary Squad. We've missed ya!

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We're swinging into December with a cavalcade of criminal Clauses this week, as Sean ticks off some notable examples of men who made the Naughty List while dress as Kris Kringle.

Discussion of Santa-themed bank robbers brings us to the aptly-named Santa Claus Bank Robbery of 1927, which was a comedy of errors from the time Marshall Ratliff put on the big guy's suit right up until he was being tied up by a lynch mob. Then, we cap things off with the truly horrific Covina Massacre of 2008, when a desperate moron of an ex-husband donned a Santa suit to bring tragedy for the holidays.

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We return to the autumn of 1885 this week where, in Austin, Texas, six victims - most of them Black domestic servants - have already been claimed by a killer who has successfully eluded police for nearly a year. On Christmas Eve, the midnight murderer's fury reaches its deadly peak.

In the shocking conclusion to our two-parter on this case, Sean details the brutal "double event" that makes the end of the killing spree before delving into the details of the investigation...such as it was. With hundreds of arrests and zero convictions that stuck, police seemed to be at a dead end by 1886...and yet, the murders still stop cold. This episode, we try to figure out why.

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Beginning in late 1884 and throughout 1885, Austin, the boomtown capitol of Texas, was terrorized and sensationalized by a series of horrific murders. One man, six women and a young girl would be claimed by the spree before the year was out. Most of the victims were Black, and many of them worked as domestic servants. Despite over 400 arrests, the crimes remain unsolved to this day... Officially, that is.

In the first of a two-parter, Sean introduces the growing city of Austin in the late 19th century and takes us through the details of the Annihilator's early attacks. Footprints are analyzed, police are baffled, and a famed short story author makes a surprise cameo.

Tune in next week for the final murders, the investigation, and the thrilling conclusion of our series!

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To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never really ends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Vermont, where the skiing is top-notch, the leaf-peeping is absolutely beautiful, and the ghosts...well, the ghosts seem to be all around, too.

On our journey through the Green Mountain State we'll meet the son of a former president who can't let go of the place he once called home...visit a small-town in and its tap-dancing ghost...try to escape the Bennington Triangle before it claims another mysterious disappearance...take a drive through Emily's Bridge and hope that our lovers, unlike her's, are true to their word...give some well-deserved belly rubs to one lifesaving good boy from beyond the grave...and more.

Happy Halloween, Scary Squad!

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A topical storm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online takes a turn for the unhinged in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, we take a quick look at the reality of changing the weather, Ain't It Scary style.

 Sean does his best with the science (and pseudoscience) as he takes us through attempts at weather control including Wilhelm Reich's orgone cannons and government cloud seeding programs like Skywater, Operation Popeye and Project Stormfury. It's...not as much of a Roland Emmerich movie as you might think.

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In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before discussing the flicks we've been watching this Halloween, and the best and worst possible Ain't It Scary party guests. 

7:11 - Urban Legend

11:11 - Halloween (1978)

18:55 - The Addams Family

21:20 - Casper

23:41 - IT Chapters 1 & 2

33:24 - Final Destination

38:30 - Hocus Pocus & Under Wraps

43:25 - Best/Worst Halloween Party Guests (from the AIS archives)

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Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no different - and now, along with our past explorations into the folklore surrounding tainted Halloween candy and the Bloody Mary ritual, we're adding three more legendary deep dives into the mix, all around the theme of "Teens in Trouble."

First, we take a drive down Lovers Lane and try to avoid the Hook-Handed Man - but The Boyfriend's Death just might be inevitable...

Next, we enroll in college to find out why the dorm life might not be the safest life with The Roommate (and also check out the creepy story of The Licked Hand)...

And, finally, we return to a classic and a reminder of why babysitting was so dang stressful with the tale of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs...

Join us for frights, folklore and the surprising truths behind these classic American legends!

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The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's Pinelands and all the creepies and cryptids that supposedly make them their home, from pirate ghosts to the famed Jersey Devil.

Go easy on Sean, Jersey-ites! He meant to say "pork roll."

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On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and the CEO of OceanGate itself, Stockton Rush - to nearly 2.5 miles beneath the ocean's surface to visit the wreck of the legendary doomed ocean liner, Titanic.

None of them would make it back alive.

What has unfolded in the last year since the entire world waited with bated breath to see what happened to the Titan submersible is a story of hubris, particularly surrounding OceanGate's founder and the pilot of the sub, Stockton Rush. Descended from wealth and innovation, Rush believed that he knew better than just about anyone else in the deep-sea exploration industry when it came to the construction of submersibles...and would pay for that confidence with his life, along with those of 4 more innocent victims.

Why did the Titan implode? Was this loss of life simply a tragic accident, or an absolutely avoidable incident? Much information has come out in the last year to try and answer these questions, leading up to and including these most recent hearings - and Carrie takes us through it all to try and find some answers.

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Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders!

Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before covering Berkowitz's tumultuous transition to incarceration and eventual (inevitable?) cellblock conversion to evangelical Christianity. Oh, yes, and a talking dog.

Looming like a conspiratorial shadow is the question: Did Berkowitz act alone? Or was the "Son of Sam" actually an interstate Satanic cabal bent on wreaking havoc? Sean has opinions.

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