Manic Manor: A True Crime Podcast
True Crime and Supernatural podcast
Episodes
The Smoky Mountains are as dangerous as they are beautiful. Although you don't expect it to happen, there have been people to disappear off the trails, never to be heard from again. Today, we talk about one of those missing people.
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We're taking a look at an area most familiar to any Knoxville native, the historic Bijou Theatre in the HEART of downtown Knoxville!
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https://usghostadventures.com/knoxville-ghost-tour/the-bijou-theatre/
https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/10/31/bijou-theatres-haunting-history/
Join me in exploring Haunted Tennessee! Our first stop is one of the most notorious haunted areas in my home state, Brushy Mountain!
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https://www.wate.com/haunted-tennessee/six-places-in-east-tennessee-with-haunted-history/
https://tourbrushy.com/history
https://morgancountychamber.com/tourism/historic-brushy-mountai...
We have some more chilling legends for you today, including two tales out of Cherokee legends and how a ghost solved her own murder in West Virgina!
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https://mythlok.com/raven-mocker/
https://easttennessean.com/2022/11/02/a-cryptic-column-spearfinger-a-cherokee-legend/
Today's episode dives into another scary urban legend...The weeping woman who is La Llorona.
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https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/10/la-llorona-an-introduction-to-the-weeping-woman/
Let's take a look at one of the most infamous cults in history and how its leader's paranoia brought everything to an ugly head.
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/jonestown/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Jones
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/
A look into the deadliest aviation incident in the World's History.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/reviews-crash-in-canary-islands-180972227/
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kNZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6418%2C7066417
What should have been a simple commute home for many people aboard the
Pacific Southwest Airline Flight 1771 turned into a horrific nightmare as a result of an angry man seeking revenge for his termination.
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Mayday: Air Disaster: Three Horrific Disasters that were linked to a breakdown in security measures
Over 30 years ago, a father wound up convicted of indecency with a child and accusations of being involved with a Satanic Cult. It took a long while before he and his children would be able to exonerate him of a crime he never commited.
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The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial of LA – Known to be one of the longest and most expensive cases in American history.
Also set a precedent for the Satanic Panic problem of the 1980s-1990s through even now.
It's a wild and insane story and the credibility of the initial witnesses really had people divided and questioning whether or not the accused were actually guilty.
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In 1968, one of many brutal massacres would occur in Vietnam at the hands of the very soldiers there to protect the South Vietnamese citizens. They attacked under the guise the village was sympathizing and hiding Vietcong soldiers. This is the story of an innocent village and the heartbreak through the years as they try to give forgiveness.
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in 1993, three boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenage boys were pinned for the murder, despite there not being anything but circumstantial evidence. This is the story of the West Memphis 3 and the story of Satanic Panic in the United States during the late 80s./early 90s.
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https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/west-memphis-three-3039/
For 27 years, the disappearance of three young boys from their home in Newfoundland has perplexed not just Canada, but the world who has come to learn of their case.
Adam, Trevor, and Mitchell O'Brien were set to visit their father, Gary O'Brien during a custody agreement, but never made it back home. To this day, we don't know where they are, or what happened to them. Will we ever?
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Two brothers go on a massive crime spree that leaves a devastating path. Why would they do it and who are the innocent people that had to suffer because of them?
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https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/carr_brothers/index.html
https://www.kmuw.org/crime-and-courts/2016-08-10/family-members-of-car...
Quite possibly the most darkest secret that Japan has as a nation. World War II is known to us for how gruesome it was and the major impact it had on the world. We know well of Nazi Germany and the horrid acts committed against the Jewish people as well as the Gypsies and other groups deemed less than, but not many people have spoken about Imperial Japan and the absolutely grotesque acts committed on not just Korea, China, and all ...
We have a case directly from my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. January 2007 shook Tennessee to its core with the gruesome murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
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A night that was supposed to be a dream come true for many young people in 1970 turned into an inferno nightmare. Something as simple as making sure all the proper safety protocols were in order was overlooked, leading to one of the worst nightclub fires in history.
Requested by youtube user: reneauvray3440
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Lacey Fletcher was a 36 year old woman who had been living with her parents when a horrific 911 call was made. Police arrived to find a scene unlike any other. Lacey had been fused to her couch in her own urine and feces while her parents claimed to have "loved her to a fault".
We're discussing what we know so far about her case. Currently, her parents' trial is set for March 20, 2024 where they can face up to 40 years in prison ...
Horror beyond your biggest nightmares. In 2014, the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona was raided by the FBI after allegations that its owner, Stephen Gore, was selling bodies for profit and defrauding the next of kin of the victims.
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