Gruesome Gossip

In the season 2 finale, Marti shares five Halloween poems she composed using real-life tales of horror as her inspiration.

She also brings back a favorite segment from season 1; this time involving live alligators being dressed up in Halloween costumes.

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I (Britany) am hitting the open road with a few other members of my paranormal team, Cheyenne Mountain Paranormal Investigators, in November to check out a few allegedly haunted places in Kansas; including one location that has been very high on my paranormal bucket list for years.

In this episode, I share a little backstory about the Sallie House, the 1889 McInteer Villa, the Eldridge Hotel, and Stull Cemetery.

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This week Marti is finally covering a subject she’s been wanting to talk about on the podcast since before it even started! So, get ready for a deep dive into Victorian-era mourning practices. Trust us when we say that no one knew how to be sad like the Victorians, and we’re going to tell you all about just how extra they could get!

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This week, we're continuing the story of the truly evil acts of the Ken and Barbie Killers; aka The School Girl Killers; aka Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

If you haven't listened to part 1 yet, we strongly encourage you to listen to it first.

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This week we're revisiting a story that was briefly discussed in the finale of season one and that's the truly evil acts of the Ken and Barbie Killers; aka Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

There's so much to this story that we've turned it into a two-parter so be sure to come back next week for the devastating, infuriating, and shocking conclusion.

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So most of you that have been listening for a while know Marty is from Taylorsville KY...But something I feel like most people may not know about Kentucky is that it has an abundance of urban legends and haunted places.

So, while you may have heard of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY (which is said to be one of the most haunted places in the US) or Bobby Mackey's Music Hall in Wilder, KY (that is said to have a portal to ...

This week the ghouls dive deep, 15 miles deep in fact, into Mel’s Hole!

10% craziness, 10% conspiracy theory, 75% urban legend, and 5% reason for Marti to make dirty puns. Mel’s hole is one of the craziest stories we’ve covered yet! So, buckle in cause this is sure to be a Hole-In-One! Seriously it’s the "hole" Kit and Caboodle … Hehe Hole!

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I (Britany) figured you might need a palate cleanser after last’s week episode (see what I did there??), so I’m bringing you a short and not-so-sweet episode this week.

In this episode, I’m bringing back on our On This Day segment from season one and talking about the last execution via guillotine in France; which was shockingly not all that long ago.

I also share the gruesome story about the last public guillotine execution in Fra...

We’re baaaaack! Welcome to the premiere episode of season two!

Ever seen a roadside stand selling delicious BBQ sandwiches? Tempting right? Well not after hearing the story of Joe Metheny. That’s right, the ghouls are back and this season the tea is STRONG! No topic is brewed too dark and we’re ready to prove it by kicking off season 2 with one of our most upsetting episodes yet. So get ready to s...

Welcome to the season finale! If you've made it this far you either really like us, or you're a glutton for punishment.

Don't fret though, we will be back September 1st! In the meantime, we thought we would leave you with some fun homework.

This week we share some of our favorite Wikipedia and TikTok rabbit holes to go down and, just in case that's not enough to keep you busy, we also list our favorite and most popular episodes!

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A lot of people choose to donate their bodies to science in hopes that they'll be able to help doctors and scientists discover gain a better understanding of how our bodies work or find cures for diseases.

I'm sure the last thing they'd probably expect is for their body to be turned into Frankenstein's Monster. Or have their genitals be severed and thrown into a cooler full of other genitalia like hot dogs at a BBQ.

But, Marti has...

In honor of my birthday, we're doing another birthday-themed episode!

In episode 15, we talked about bizarre birthday murders and rituals.

In this episode, we're sharing three stories about murders that occurred at birthday parties; with each one being more horrific than the last.

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A while ago Marti had fun ruining your childhoods by talking about messed-up things that happened in kid's shows. Well, today she's decided to ruin your childhood through song!! Just kidding she's not going to torture you with her awful singing, but she is going to tell you why all those cutesy nursery rhymes you liked as a child were disturbing, to say the least. So gather round and follow the bouncing ball cause this week we're g...

Marti and I met at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana and somehow we both managed to get through our years there without ever hearing about the vicious murders of VU students Brooke Baker and Erika Norman that occurred less than a decade before we became VU students ourselves.

In this episode, I share the details of both of their murders and also provide an update on Leticia Stauch, a local woman currently awaiting trial f...

Oooohhhhh SNAP! We're doing it, we're really going for it! That's right, this week we're finally talking about one of the most infamous and haunting murders to have ever happened in the Australia of America because today we're talking about Casey Anthony...

Party girl, liar, and murderer (allegedly, but I mean come on). Marti discusses the ins and outs of one of Florida's most infamous cases and even gives us a peek at where Casey...

After our previous episode about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, we knew we had to talk about another tragedy from the industrial boom of the early 1900s; the radium girls.

While this episode may be quick, the devastating saga of the radium girls was not it's in honor of Women's History Month that we bring you their story.

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In this week's episode, Marti discusses a topic that actually makes her feel something inside her cold dark heart. Get ready, because this is one for the history books, literally!

Today we are going to be discussing the Triangle Shirtwaist Fires. Tragically, 145 souls lost their lives on March 25th, 1911 in what was an easily avoidable fire.

We're going to serve all the tea about the horror, infamy, and the ultimate legacy of those...

Hey, remember those dolls from the 1980s?? You know, the child-sized dolls called "My Buddy"? Well, this story is NOT about those, but maybe if Anatoly Moskvin had been given one as a child he wouldn't have felt the need to create his own life-size dolls as an adult.

And by life-size dolls of course I mean real human corpses he played dress-up with and kept in his modest two-bedroom apartment. In this week's episode, things get we...