Creep Me Out: A Podcast of True Crime, Urban Legends, & the Weird
Join friends Morgan Benek, and Kat Bueman once a week every season, as they dive into stories of true crime, urban legends, spooky history, and the paranormal.
Episodes
For the season 3 finale, Morgan concludes the telling of the heinous crimes of the prolific serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Citations:
-Lionel Dahmer, A Father's Story (Out of Print)
-Jeffrey Dahmer. (n.d.). In Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (No. 7-MW-26057-Section 2). Retrieved June 19, 2024 https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer-part-03-of-20
-Masters, B. (2020)....
This week Morgan tells the first part of the story of one of the most notorious serial killers in history, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Citations:
-Lionel Dahmer, A Father's Story (Out of Print)
-Dvorchak, R., & Holewa, L. (1992). Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders.[Kindle]. Dell Publishing.
-Festival that Dahmer victim was planning to attend 6/18/78. (1978, June 17). Newspapers.com.
This week Ari tells Morgan the history of a past time of a bygone era, Freak Shows.
Citations:
-CIRCUS HISTORY: FREAK SHOWS AND SIDESHOWS, Kim Hart
https://www.aaastateofplay.com/circus-history/
-Freak Shows in the United States (1840-1940), Combined sources article
https://disabilityhistory.org/2021/12/29/freak-shows-in-the-united-states-1840-1940/
-Freak Shows in the United States (1840-1940), Michael M Chemers
This week Ari and Morgan share the different customs, rituals, and beliefs from around the world surrounding the one thing we all can't avoid, death.
Citations:
-5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Funeral Industry
https://evermore.org/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-funeral-industry/
-HOW THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY HAS EVOLVED
https://www.funeralwise.com/resources/funeral-industry/
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro writte...
This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the saddest, most pathetic serial killer in American History, Dennis Radar better known by his self appointed moniker, BTK.
Citations:
-Katherine Ramsland, Ph. D Confessions of a Serial Killer
-FBI Records: The Vault
https://vault.fbi.gov/dennis-rader/dennis-rader-part-01/view
-Matthew Crawford, Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer: Psychology of a Psychopath
This week Ari tells Morgan the story of the notorious
English monarch, Henry VIII.
Citations:
-The Wadsworth Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain, Dr. G.S.P Freeman-Grenville.
-The Tudors: The Crown, The Dynasty, The Golden Age., Alison Weir
-Henry VIII: King of England, Geoffrey R Elton, John S Morrill
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and p...
This week Ari, and Morgan each dive deep in the history of Vampires, and the man, the myth, the legend who started the modern fasciation with the bloodsuckers, Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler.
Citations:
-Dracula Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times, Radu R. Florescu & Raymond T. McNally
-Vampire History
https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/vampire-history
-Inside The Bloody History Of Vampires, From Ruthles...
This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the internet's favorite cryptid, Point Pleasant WV's very own Mothman!
Citations:
-An Ode to a Hometown Creature: Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Gwen Mallow
https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/mothman-point-pleasant-west-virginia
-Mothman Festival
https://www.mothmanfestival.com
-Point Pleasant Register
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230219/http:/www.westva.net/mothman/1...
This week Ari tells Morgan the story of America's first reported serial Killer, H.H. Homes, and his murderous reign during the 1885 Chicago World's Fair.
Citations:
-Devil In the White City, by Erik Larson
-H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, 2004 documentary now on Prime.
-H.H. Holmes American serial killer, John Philip Jenkins
https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes
Credits:
Modern Mythos Netwo...
This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the mysterious Men in Black of ufology lore.
Citations:
Justin Sablich
https://www.history.com/news/men-in-black-real-origins
-Men in Black" Captured on Surveillance Video Entering Sheraton Hotel in Niagara Falls - FindingUFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMEYaQiOBo
-The Editors of Publications International, Ltd.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/men-in-black.ht...
Welcome to Season 3 of Creep Me Out! To start off the season Ari tells Morgan the story of the lesser known, but just as brutal European witch trials!
Citations:
-With Trials in Early Modern Europe and new England
-History of Witches
https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches-World Bewitched
For the season two finale Ari and Morgan discuss one of the most horrific mass murders in history, Jonestown, as well as the man behind it, Jim Jones.
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Morgan and Ari discuss one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, Lonnie Daniel Franklin Jr, the Grim Sleeper.
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Morgan welcomes her new co-host to the podcast Ari Graves! Ari dives right into their co-hosting duties, and discusses the darker side of the Mormon religion!
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Morgan has some big news for the future of the podcast, and welcomes Producer Nick to the podcast to discuss the phenomenon of doppelgängers!
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Nick Kizina
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Morgan and Kat discuss serial killer Jerry Brudos
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Kat Bureman
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Kat and Morgan discuss the phenomenon of Sleep Paralysis, and the demons which come with it.
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Kat Bureman
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Kat and Morgan discuss the history and weirdness behind the haunted dolls, Peggy and Robert.
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Kat Bureman
Producer: Nick Kizina
This week Morgan and Kat discuss the unusual circumstances of the death and disappearance of Elisa Lam.
In this episode Kat and Morgan explore the lives of paranormal investigators, and exorcists, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The pair explore the stories behind them, and the possibility they are con artists.
Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly
Album art: Ben Harrison
Hosts: Morgan Benek and Kat Bureman
Producer: Nick Kizina
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