Disquietude. A podcast concerning the unsettling pieces of internet history that keep you up at night, along with real stories from real people that have experienced "True Horror".
In this part 2 episode, we discuss the end of Bill Cooper's life, his ascension to a pillar of reverence for U.S. militia movements and domestic terrorists, and the impact of his book and ideas on pop culture, to include sci-fi and hip-hop music.
In 1991, renowned UFOlogist and conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper published a book that would end up becoming the catalyst for the zeitgeist of the pre-millennium tension of the 90's. Behold a Pale Horse contained documents, notes, and essays detailing a New World Order plan to enslave the human population via the media and government mind-control experiments, secret society oaths, and and even an imminent UFO invasio...
Tonight, we talk about real-life Halloween tales gathered from internetland, ranging from the absurd, to the comical, to the truly horrifying. It's enough to make you just want to stay at home and eat candy, where it's safe. Or is it?
On Halloween in 1974, a man named Ronald Clark O'Bryan would commit a horrific act that would have a continued impact over the next 5 decades and become the basis for the urban legend of strangers poisoning candy handed out to children on Halloween. Now, while this urban legend has been mostly debunked, there are small bits of truth that help enforce the idea that people are using Halloween candy as a method to harm children....
Tonight, we discuss topics from past episodes in which the mystery surrounding them has been solved since we last covered them. The Murders at Steve's Motel, the Gabby Petito disappearance, and even the one that started it all, the Ruth Price 911 call are up for re-evaluation. So welcome back, and enjoy this walk through the archives.
From 1894 until 1997, the United States and Canada ran a schooling system for Native Americans that equated to systemic genocide- children, some as young as newborns, were taken from their families and forced to live in boarding schools with the intent of assimilating them into Christian society. Not allowed to engage in their native languages or religious practices, these children endured horrific physical and mental abuse a...
For 84 years, there existed a small, dark stain in the heart of America. A place where travelers of the night passing through a small town in Ohio were likely to be surrounded by rapists, drug dealers, murderers and sex traffickers and not realize it. Despised by some, loved by others who knew it was a place where anything goes, it's notoriety reached it's peak in 1991 when a triple homicide occurred, the victims being ...
This week, we each choose what we believe to be the most haunted place in America, and discuss our reasons why. A quaint southern town known for having more ghostly inhabitants than live ones, a mental health facility with a hellish reputation, and a house in Kansas with a haunting so incredible it was captured multiple times on network television. So grab your Halloween candy, and enjoy!
Over the last few years, there has been a growing trend in horror- the Extreme Horror Experience. Evolved from the notoriety of "Extreme Haunted Houses" like McKamey Manor and Blackout, these experiences look to disturb and unnerve visitors by blurring the line between safety and danger. Although what actually happens in these experiences is rather secretive, there are reports of intentional physical harm and borderline...
At the base of the tallest mountain in Japan, there is a place where hundreds of people a year go to purposefully never return from. Curious visitors to the area may encounter corpses, curses left behind by the dead, or sometimes, hear screams from deep within the trees. Though there is some debate over whether or not Aokigahara is haunted in the traditional sense of the word, there is no doubt that there exists a dark ...
Tonight, we discuss the case everyone is talking about- the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito, while traveling cross-country with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie. This case has a series of oddities and downright bizarre coincidences, including a double murder that occurred in an area of Utah that Gabby and Brian happened to be in at the same time. At the time of this recording, Brian Laundrie's whereabouts were unkn...
On April 1st 2014, two young students from the Netherlands, Kris Kremmers and Lisanne Froon, disappeared while hiking the forests during their trip to Boquete, Panama. Despite an extensive search and investigation by both Panama and Dutch authorities over 10 days, no traces of the two girls were found. Then, 10 weeks later, a backpack containing items belonging to the two missing girls mysteriously appeared on a riverba...
In 1971 a book was published, titled "The Anarchist's Cookbook", which contained instructions for the creation of explosive devices, drugs, and anything that could be used to fight the government during the counterculture era. The book came under review by federal authorities, who determined that it was mostly useless and was protected by the 1st amendment, and the book fell out of publication 20 years later. But thanks...
In 2012, international student from Wuhan, Jun Lin was drugged, murdered and dismembered in an apartment in Toronto. The crime was captured on video in gruesome detail and uploaded to the internet. This very event was foretold by a group of internet sleuths who had been tracking the perpetrator, Luka Magnotta, for over a year due to videos he had previously posted on Facebook of him killing kittens. An internation...
We follow up our episode on the death of Elisa Lam with a quick review of the Netflix docuseries about the case, give our thoughts about it, and whether or not our opinions about Lam's death have changed.
Tonight, we dive into one of the most famous pieces of internet lore- the 2013 disappearance of Elisa Lam, which took the internet by storm with the release of the unsettling surveillance video from the infamous Cecil Hotel, which showed the last time she was seen alive, displaying behavior inside of an elevator which to some indicated she was being followed. Elisa's body was found days later inside of of the water tanks on t...
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A lake monster possibly summoned from an interdimensional portal. An arachnid the size of a small car. A humanoid moth that is also a harbinger of bad things to come, and... a kangaroo horse dragon from the tri-state area? We discuss the wonderful world of Cryptozoology, and some of our favorite mythical beasts, both terrifying and comical.
In 2018, a "Mukbang" YouTuber named Kate Yup became a bit of an internet sensation, showcasing her ability to consume monstrous amounts of seafood on her channel, despite being a woman of small physical stature- all the while making sure to keep her face hidden. As her views rose into the millions, viewers began to notice something... well, odd about her videos. People noticed bruising and other signs of physical ...
In October 2019, Erin Valenti, a 33 year-old successful CEO of a tech company, traveled to California from Utah for business. On the day she was set to return, she made a series of bizarre phone calls to her parents, at one point, stating, ""It's all a game, it's a thought experiment, we're in the Matrix." She was then never heard from again, and police determined that she was "voluntarily" missing. 5 days later, ...
Hard to believe, but it's been one year exactly since we published our very first episode, "The Ruth Price 911 call". 40 episodes and 15,000 plays later, we talk about the past year, our favorite moments and episodes, as well as our funniest- and worst memories. Sit back and relax with us this week, we'll get back to the creepy stuff next week, we promise.
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