Macabre Mondays

📍 Location: Louisiana, United States

At just two years old, James Leininger began having violent nightmares of a plane crash, screaming about fire, explosions, and a “little man who couldn’t get out.” His parents were terrified… until James started giving specific details about World War II airplanes, Navy aircraft carriers, and a real fighter pilot who died decades before James was born.

This is one of the most famous...

This week on Macabre Mondays, we dive into the unbelievable true story of Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester. A soft spoken, polite, fast food robber who locked employees in freezers while telling them to stay warm. A man who escaped a medium security prison by strapping himself under a delivery truck. And a fugitive who went on to live for nearly six months inside the ceiling of a Toys R Us, watching employees through baby moni...

On a snowy January afternoon in 2011, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Rae Greenberg was found inside her locked Philadelphia apartment with twenty stab wounds. Police quickly ruled her death a suicide, a decision that would spark more than a decade of controversy, forensic disputes, legal battles, and unanswered questions. In this episode, we break down the real timeline of Ellen’s final day, the contradictions in th...

Between 1998 and 2006, Mexico City was haunted by a terrifying mystery, dozens of elderly women found strangled in their own homes. When police finally uncovered the truth, it shocked the world: the killer wasn’t a man, but Juana Barraza, a former lucha libre wrestler known as La Mataviejitas, or The Little Old Lady Killer.

In this episode, we unravel her story, from her tragic childhood and wrestling fame to the investigat...

In Chapter 13: Threshold, morning comes to the Marrow house.

The air warms. The lavender remembers itself. And the final rule, Let go when asked by name, has been honored. With the ledger in hand, she writes her own line, returning what the house borrowed and restoring its quiet balance.

When the red door opens at last, the hall beyond is no longer blue.

It’s her own.

This episode marks the end of 13 Nights of Macabre, a...

In Chapter 12: Owed, she finally asks by name.

When the house writes its final rule — Let go when asked by name — everything begins to unravel. The red door unlocks from the inside, the mirror breathes, and the little girl on the other side takes one fateful step. But calling her own name changes the balance. The house listens.

The thirteenth crib stills, the door closes, and for the first time, the Hall obeys.

Yet one voic...

In Chapter 11: The Kept Hour, midnight takes hold.

Upstairs, a realtor and his daughter walk the same hallway, unaware of the house’s patience below. In the nursery, the cataloger faces her reflection — two versions of herself split by a single crack in the glass. The thirteenth rule remains unwritten, glowing with quiet promise.

When the mirror fogs with her mother’s voice and the words Ask by your name, she finally realiz...

In Chapter 10: The Ledger Below, she follows the stairs into the house’s hidden nursery, a place that remembers every name ever borrowed. Rows of cribs and a box lined with antique keys wait in the dark. Each key bears a name, each name marked returned … except one.

When she touches the key labeled Sunshine, kept, the cribs begin to rock, and the house upstairs welcomes new guests.

Midnight has arrived.

Tune in each night fo...

Before it became a campfire story, it was a real nightmare.

In 1950, thirteen-year-old Janett Christman accepted a last-minute babysitting job on a stormy night in Columbia, Missouri. Hours later, a frantic phone call came into the police station, a young girl’s voice begging for help, followed by silence. When officers arrived, they found the phone off the hook… and Janett brutally murdered.

Her case remains unsolved to thi...

In Chapter 9: Returns, the house begins to pull her deeper.

A clear marble rolls from beneath the red door, reflecting both halls overlapped — as if time itself has started to fold. Through the crack, a staircase appears, curving down into the dark. The voices whisper that he keeps the keys and that they’re safer when he does. But when she starts to descend, she realizes returning what’s borrowed might mean giving more tha...

In Chapter 8: The Other Hall, the house draws its boundary.

Through the widening seam, the cataloger sees the mirrored corridor come alive — its air colder, its laughter smaller, its promises softer. When a child’s hand reaches from the blue hall to touch hers, she hesitates, remembering the rule that’s kept her alive so far: Keep to your side.

But when a deeper voice arrives — one that doesn’t belong to a child at all — th...

In Chapter 7: Angle of View, the hall begins to move.

No matter where she stands, the red door shifts back to the center of her vision, the house adjusting her like a subject in a frame. As she places the three marbles across the threshold, they roll toward the mirrored hall, aligning themselves as if called home. Through the blue reflection, her own voice warns her not to let the house “line her up.”

The children are waiti...

In Chapter 6: Static, the count begins.

Children’s voices whisper numbers through the baby monitor, stopping at thirteen as the house shifts its focus. A new marble appears — dark as ink, threaded with silver — showing what moves beneath the floorboards. Through the keyhole, a mirrored version of the hallway comes to life, and her own reflection starts moving before she does.

Every frame fogs with a warning:

Keep to your si...

In Chapter 5: Borrowed Names, the house speaks through lullabies and photographs.

The cataloger discovers a baby monitor whispering the tenth rule — Return what you borrow. When she lifts the hallway runner, the past returns a photo that shouldn’t exist: her own childhood kitchen, her own mother’s hand. A text from an unknown number invites her deeper into the house, and through the red door’s reflection, she sees herself ...

In Chapter 4: House Rules, the ledger is opened.

Every rule in the Marrow house has been written by careful hands, and every name belongs to someone who may never have left. The cataloger finds her own name signed among the others and begins to realize this house doesn’t simply keep guests — it keeps score.

The twelfth rule warns her to never open the red door after midnight.

And the thirteenth rule hasn’t been written yet.

...

In Chapter 3: The Knock, the red door answers.

The voice behind it is too familiar to be a stranger — and too wrong to be real. As new rules appear on the frames, a marble rolls from the crack beneath the door, carrying an image of the hallway inside itself. When a voicemail from the future warns her not to turn around, the house finally reveals how it listens.

The next rule is written.

Rule 3: Knock Back.

Tune in each night f...

⚠️ TW: This episode contains descriptions of severe child abuse, torture, and violence that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

In October 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was found lifeless in the basement of a modest Indianapolis home, her body bearing the marks of unimaginable cruelty. But behind the door of 3850 East New York Street wasn’t a stranger or a kidnapper. It was the wo...

In Chapter 2: Frames, the Marrow house begins to take notice.

The cataloger hears her childhood nickname whispered through the hall, and the photographs start to shift, capturing scenes that haven’t happened yet. When the reflection in the glass moves on its own, she realizes the house isn’t just watching her… it’s learning.

The second rule is revealed.

Stay still when you’re seen.

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Welcome to 13 Nights of Macabre, one haunting story told across thirteen nights.

In Chapter 1: The Showing, a late-night cataloger enters the abandoned Marrow property to document what was left behind. But the walls remember. The frames whisper. And behind the red door at the end of the hall, something knows her name.

A quiet inventory becomes a descent into the house’s strange rules, beginning with a single word that should...