Twisted and Mysterious

On Christmas Eve 1945, a house fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia destroyed the Sodder family home. By morning, five of the ten Sodder children were missing — and no bodies were ever found.

Officials ruled that the children died in the fire, but almost nothing about the investigation made sense. No remains were recovered from the ashes. A ladder vanished. The family’s trucks mysteriously wouldn’t start. And in one of the strangest ...

This week on Twisted & Mysterious, Faren tells the unforgettable reincarnation story of Shanti Devi, a young girl in 1930s India who insisted she was not a child at all—but a grown, married woman with three children, a past life, and some very strong opinions about how things used to be done in the kitchen.

Her claims were so detailed and consistent that they eventually caught the attention of the Indian government, leading to a...

In this week’s episode, Sarah tells the heartbreaking story of Molly McLaren—a bright, driven 23-year-old whose life was stolen by a man who refused to take “no” for an answer. What began as an online romance quickly spiraled into obsessive control, violent threats, and stalking so severe that Molly did everything she could to protect herself… yet the system failed to protect her in return.

We dive into Molly’s life, her bravery in ...

It’s our 1-year podiversary, so naturally we threw a full-on rager… and by “rager,” we mean we raged nonstop about the infuriating disappearance of Bryce Laspisa.

In true Twisted & Mysterious fashion, we celebrate twelve months of chaos by diving into a case that feels like it could have — should have — been prevented. Bryce’s strange behavior, the endless red flags, the baffling choices made along the way… we unpack all of it ...

In this week’s episode, Sarah unpacks the infamous Waukesha, Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing—a case where internet horror, childhood delusion, and the absolute chaos of being 12 all merged into one of the most bizarre true crime stories of the last decade.

We break down the origins of Slender Man, how he crawled out of the “spooky noodles” world of creepypasta, and why two middle-schoolers genuinely believed they had to sacrifice the...

This week on Twisted and Mysterious, Faren takes us to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the shocking murder of Grace Jennings — a young woman whose story spirals into chaos the moment her killers start talking. Between the bizarre interviews, unbelievable text messages, and outrageous claims of “multiple personalities,” this case is as frustrating as it is disturbing. Sarah and Faren talk through the evidence, the excuses, and how dangero...

Two Brazilian technicians climb a hill wearing suits, raincoats, and lead eye masks. They carry towels, a cryptic note, and possibly… big cult energy? In this episode of Twisted & Mysterious, Sarah and Faren try to decode one of Brazil’s strangest unsolved cases — the 1966 Lead Masks Mystery — while somehow turning it into a low-budget Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy crossover.

Sarah absolutely butchers every Portuguese word sh...

This week on Twisted and Mysterious, Faren takes us deep into the eerie woods of Denton, Texas, to uncover the legend of Goatman’s Bridge — where horns meet horror. 👀 Locals say something dark haunts the Old Alton Bridge, but we met a new legend along the way: Steve Goatman. Let’s just say…he’s got anger issues, boundary problems, and possibly hooves.

We dig into the tragic backstory of Oscar Washburn, explore paranormal encounters...

Before The Conjuring made us all afraid of antique furniture, the Perron family actually lived that horror movie. Their "dream farmhouse" in Harrisville, Rhode Island, came with creaky floors, creepy ghosts, and (allegedly) a witch named Bathsheba who did not come with the deed.

This week, we dig into what really went down at the Perron home, from ghostly pranks and paranormal investigators to the kind of supernatural chaos that'll ...

Step inside one of America’s most haunted asylums — the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Once a monument to compassionate mental health care, it became a nightmare of overcrowding, lobotomies, and lives lost within its echoing halls.

This week, Sarah uncovers the asylum’s chilling history, the wild “diagnoses” that could get you locked up (spoiler: having opinions was apparently dangerous), and the horrifying...

In May 2005, Natalee Holloway vanished during her senior trip to Aruba—a vacation that was supposed to be all beaches, pina coladas, and flip-flops, not one of the most infamous missing persons cases in modern history. What followed was a media circus complete with suspects changing their stories more often than tourists reapply sunscreen, wild theories, and years of unanswered questions.

In this episode of Twisted and Mysterious, w...

This week on Twisted and Mysterious, Faren takes us through the heartbreaking case of Timothy Wiltsey, a 5-year-old boy whose 1991 disappearance and murder devastated his New Jersey community. His mother, Michelle Lodzinski, first claimed he was kidnapped from a carnival, but her shifting stories and suspicious behavior raised more questions than answers. After decades of investigation, Lodzinski was finally convicted of Timothy’s ...

This week on Twisted and Mysterious, we sink our teeth into the case of Tony Costa — the so-called “Cape Cod Vampire.” (Spoiler: he wasn’t actually biting necks.) We question where that nickname even came from, Sarah admits she thought Cape Cod was just a town and not an entire geographical feature, and we unpack the bizarre detail that Tony once babysat two little girls and… didn’t hurt them. Medal of honor? Not so much.

And then t...

In this episode of Twisted and Mysterious, Sarah steals the story Faren was researching (no shame, no regrets) and dives headfirst into the bizarre Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine experienced hikers mysteriously died in the frozen Siberian wilderness in 1959 — and we’re unpacking the weirdest theories about what went wrong. Was it an avalanche, UFOs, secret military experiments…or a rogue wolverine attack? Plus, we ask the real questio...

Kenyon College may look like your average picturesque liberal arts campus, but behind the ivy-covered walls are ghost stories that’ll make you rethink walking across campus alone at night. In this episode of Twisted and Mysterious, we dig into the legends, tragedies, and hauntings that make Kenyon one of the most famously haunted colleges in America.

We cover the Old Kenyon fire of 1949, where tragedy left behind more than just scor...

November 24, 1971: A man in a suit, sunglasses, and a clip-on tie (yes, really) boards a plane, orders a bourbon, and politely tells a flight attendant he has a bomb. Fast-forward a few hours: he’s handed $200,000 in ransom money, straps on a parachute, yeets himself out of a Boeing 727… and completely disappears.

Welcome to the mystery of D.B. Cooper—the most legendary unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. In this episode of Twisted...

In 1897, Zona Heaster Shue of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, died under “mysterious” circumstances—which is old-timey speak for “her husband’s story didn’t make sense, but everyone was too polite to push it.” That is, until Zona came back as a ghost and told her mama the real tea: she’d been murdered. This supernatural testimony led to one of the weirdest murder trials in U.S. history—because when your key witness is dead, you’d...

She was Jesus. She was Marilyn Monroe. She was Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, and—at one point—the queen of Lemuria. Oh, and Donald Trump was her dad in a past life, and Robin Williams was her spirit guide. Welcome to Love Has Won, the New Age cult so bizarre it makes most conspiracy theories look like light reading. This week on Twisted and Mysterious, we unravel the psychedelic doctrine, livestream meltdowns, and danger...

This week on Twisted and Mysterious, Faren takes us into one of the most haunting and heartbreaking cases we've ever covered: the tragic death of Lacey Fletcher. For years, Lacey lived in almost complete isolation inside her parents' home—what investigators would later describe as a scene of unimaginable neglect. In 2022, authorities made a discovery that shocked even the most seasoned professionals.

We explore Lacey's background, t...