Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie
He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird. With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable. Sean’s sharp eye on the logical and Carrie’s open mind to the unexplainable combine in every episode for an informative hour with a lighter touch.
Episodes
December 5, 2024 • 52 mins
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 th...
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November 21, 2024 • 58 mins
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 delvin...
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November 14, 2024 • 61 mins
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-part...
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October 31, 2024 • 63 mins
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...vi...
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October 24, 2024 • 70 mins
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 Re...
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October 17, 2024 • 68 mins
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 W...
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October 10, 2024 • 53 mins
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."...
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October 3, 2024 • 63 mins
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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September 26, 2024 • 79 mins
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 o...
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September 19, 2024 • 76 mins
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...
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September 12, 2024 • 75 mins
Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year.
From July 1976 to July 1977, David Berkowitz embarked on a string of cold-blooded murders with a .44 caliber pistol, killing six innocent people and wounding another seven more. This week, Sean gives us a quick tour of the life and times of the sad-sack slayer befo...
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September 6, 2024 • 52 mins
In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take investigators long to realize all seven victims had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol just prior to their deaths. All of them had been murdered, by a stranger, with cyanide, which had tainted the Tylenol capsules as they sat on store shelves.
Join us this week as Sean runs down the facts and the...
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August 29, 2024 • 61 mins
#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, a tragedy in which 46 people lost their lives. Was the Mothman trying to warn those of the calamity to come...or merely a harbinger of their doom? And what was with all those UFOs, Men in Black, and of course, Indrid Cold?
We try to get to the bott...
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A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals
August 22, 2024 • 72 mins
Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer just ahead of Labor Day!
In the interest of our sanity, we kept it fairly loose this week with a late catch-up featuring Sean & Carrie gathering round the spooky campfire and talking their recently-consumed horror content (Fallout the TV show, a cameo by our love of The Traitors, Immacul...
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August 15, 2024 • 64 mins
This week, we return to Point Pleasant for even more high strangeness as the Men in Black, a fleet of UFOs, and author John Keel descend on the town and get mixed up in a series of bizarre encounters including a little man with a ballpoint pen obsession, Indrid Cold and his posse of Lanulans (including our fave, Kletaw) and one very (and rightfully) pissed-off Native American Chief by the name of Cornstalk.
Next time, we'll attempt...
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August 8, 2024 • 56 mins
This week, #HotMothSummer continues as we finally reach the story we've been building up to: the strange tale of the Mothman, a maybe-cryptid maybe-alien that descended upon the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966 to freak out the locals and eventually nab himself his own festival, museum, and of course, a particularly bootylicious statue.
We begin this bizarre story with sightings of odd man-bird-creatures across t...
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July 18, 2024 • 73 mins
#HotMothSummer presses on this week with part 2 of our primer on the Men in Black!
Sean takes us back to 1953 Bridgeport, Connecticut, as we hear in Albert Bender's own words what he says he experienced that fateful summer. What sounded from the outside like an intimidating visit from government officials quickly spins into a sci-fi thriller full of telepathic messages, astral projection, and the occasional sexy alien rubdown.
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July 11, 2024 • 59 mins
Best known today for diminishing cinematic returns, the Men In Black have been one of the creepiest boogymen of the UFO community for nearly 80 years. This week, Sean takes us all the way back to 1947 and the first reported incident of someone being approached by a black-suited government agent after a UFO sighting and told to keep quiet.
Next we jump ahead to the early '50s to meet Albert Bender, whose own encounters with so-calle...
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June 27, 2024 • 75 mins
As an Independence Day treat, we hop into the time machine for a little "Ain't it Sneaky" here on the show with the twisting tale of the Culper Spy Ring, America's first foray into espionage during the Revolutionary War.
Formed after the tragic execution of newbie colonial spy and forever Connecticut hero Nathan Hale, the Culper Spy Ring was the brainchild of none other than George Washington, who realized a more sophisticated syst...
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June 20, 2024 • 61 mins
This week it's a summertime holiday story for the summertime holiday season as Sean introduces us to the creature fondly remembered as the Sandown Clown.
This C-team cryptid (maybe) is reported to have chatted with two vacationing children on the Isle of Wight one warm day in 1973, introducing itself, "Hello and I am all colors, Sam." The "clown's" eye-catching appearance and inescapable high strangeness have made it a favorite of ...
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