Lucid Lab Podcast

This week we visit the Scottish Highlands to talk about our first cryptid episode of the podcast, The Lochness Monster aka Nessie. Reports of a creature in Loch Ness date back to the 6th century, and sightings continue to be reported as recently as 2025. Even so, there has never been fully conclusive evidence on whether Nessie exists and what kind of creature she could actually be.

Join us this week as Kendra delves into the inform...

In September of 1977, 25-year-old Sigrid Stevenson — a gifted pianist and free spirit — was spending the night at Kendall Hall, the theater building on Trenton State College’s campus. She had nowhere else to go, and the stage, with its old piano and quiet darkness, had become a kind of sanctuary for her.

The next night, she was found brutally murdered — naked, beaten, and left in the very place that had once brought her peace. 

Sig...

For our final week of June reruns, Kendra brings you the story of Travis Walton. Travis went missing for 5 days in the 1970s outside of Snowflake, Arizona. Seven of his coworkers witnessed Travis being struck by a light that was emitted from what they all believed was a flying saucer. When Travis showed back up several days later, disoriented but overall okay, he had a wild tale to share about his time onboard an alien spacecraft. ...

This week, we are revisiting the interesting case of Scott and Yarmila Falater. On January 16, 1997, Scott brutally murdered Yarmila in the backyard of their Arizona home while their kids were asleep upstairs. The kick is… he doesn’t remember doing it. Or so he says. His defense? Sleepwalking! Listen in to see how you’ll side. Was he sleepwalking? Did he have a psychotic break? Or is Scott just another calculated, cold-blooded kill...

As we continue our June break, this week we are bringing you the remastered Cleveland Abduction episode. We released this in November of 2023 and it has been our most listened to case on the podcast. I feel like we are all drawn to this story because it is truly unbelievable that Ariel Castro got away with the abduction of 3 girls for over a decade!

In 2008, the nation was shocked when 3 women were discovered in his home along with...

A huge thank you to our listeners for sticking it out with us for over two years while we figure out this podcast life! We are taking a short break while we both transition through some pivotal changes in our lives. But we will not leave you empty-handed. We are bringing back some ancient episodes that have fallen off (aged out) of certain platforms. They are remastered and better for your ears! First up…The Grimm Brothers!

Snow Wh...

Hey Lab Rats! It's time for the 14th installment of our Lab Reports. This week seems to be Colorado themed. We share a listener story of a UFO encounter in Black Canyon of the Gunnison followed by Kendra's mini episode about John List. He is one of the most famous family annihilator cases. John murdered his entire family and got away with it for 18 years before he was caught by a Colorado neighbor. 

Jessica's mini episode is the sa...

The Poltergeist movie, released in the early 1980s was the one to get Kendra hooked on Horror movies. In this week's episode, we explore the real-world case that inspired Stephen Spielberg to create this movie in the first place.

Popper the Poltergeist, aptly named based on how the spirit presented itself, was active in the 1950s on Long Island at the Hermann household. Spawning on a seemingly random day, Popper would wreak havoc o...

When beloved children's author Helen Bailey vanished in 2016, the world was gripped by the mystery. But beneath the surface was a chilling truth: her fiancé, Ian Stewart, was not only her killer, but had already taken another life years before. In this episode, we unravel the shocking story of Ian Stewart - a man who murdered his first wife, Diane Stewart, in 2010, staging her death as a tragic medical incident, only to be unmasked...

On our second Under the Microscope episode, we delve into two individual cases.

Kendra explores one of the most famous unsolved murders in DC history, that of Chandra Levy. Chandra disappeared in May 2001 and it would take them over a year to find out what happened to her. In the meantime, the media was more focused on the fact that she had an affair with a much older married congressman. This focus may have distracted the police a...

On February 13, 2017, two best friends—13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German—set out for a walk along the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. They never returned. What began as a quiet afternoon in a small Midwestern town quickly spiraled into one of the most high-profile unsolved murder cases in recent American history. 5 years later, police would arrest a local man, Richard Allen and charge him with the mu...

Robert Maudsley is one of Britain’s most infamous and dangerous inmates. From a childhood marred by relentless abuse to a series of gruesome murders, Maudsley's life is a dark exploration of trauma, revenge, and justice. We look at how his early suffering shaped his violent path, earning him the chilling nicknames "Hannibal the Cannibal" and "The Brain Eater," despite false reports of cannibalism.

Robert became a serial killer behi...

This week Kendra explores a complex case from 1996. A mother, Darlie Routier, wakes up to a frightening scene at 2:30am to find her 2 young sons stabbed to death and suffering from her own injuries. Who broke into the house and committed such a violent act? 

Well, according to the police officers that investigated the scene, there was no intruder at all. Instead, they dialed in that it must have been Darlie, a mother who chose to m...

In this episode, we delve into the heart-wrenching stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in North America, including the tragic case of 14-year-old Emily Pike, whose life was brutally cut short in Arizona. We also examine the devastating murders of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg by Jeremy Skibicki, highlighting the systemic issues that contribute to these crimes. Through these cases, we explore the broader cris...

On Vol 13 of our Lab Reports episodes, we share two listener stories, both with stalkerish vibes. One listener tells the story of a creepy customer interaction at her sandwich shop and another shares her trauma from an unsettling roommate situation. 

For our mini episodes, Jessica covers a somewhat recent Domestic Abuse situation in Aurora, Colorado that escalated into a quadruple homicide that shattered a family. Kendra takes us b...

In this episode, we unravel the fascinating history of a reportedly haunted American location, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. 

We explore the hotel's origins, from its construction in 1886 as a luxury resort for the wealthy to its transformation into a college and then into the notorious Baker Hospital, run by the fraudulent "Dr." Norman Baker in the 1930s. Baker’s claims of curing cancer led to untold suffering an...

On a summer evening in 2016, 20-year-old Sierah Joughin vanished while riding her bike in rural Ohio. Her disappearance shocked the community and set in motion a series of events that would uncover dark secrets and change lives forever. This episode delves into Sierah's vibrant life, the tragic circumstances of her abduction and murder, and the swift arrest of James Worley — a man with a troubling past. Is James Worley a serial kil...