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Being Dead Serious
by Being Dead Serious
Stories of the strange and unusual. Paranormal, folklore, unbelievable medical records, ghosts, horror, weird history and more!
Episodes
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Ep: 93 The Lovesick Case of Carl Tanzler
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 93: The Lovesick case of Carl Tanzler Alright, buckle up buttercups, because this ain't your grandma's bedtime story. Prepare to dive headfirst into the bizarre, unsettling, and frankly, slightly unhinged world of Dr. Count Carl Von Cosel....…
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Ep: 92 The Brothers Grimm
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 92: The Brothers Grimm is now available. Get ready for a wild ride with the Brothers Grimm! This week, we're diving headfirst into their twisted tales. We'll explore the bizarre world of "The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage," where breakfast...
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Ep: 91 The Strange and Insane Victorian Era: Deadly Homes
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 91: The Strange and Insane Victorian era: Deadly Homes Is now available. Tonight we are again covering our favorite crazy time period.... the Victorian era! But this time its all about their hilariously but horrific dangers that were lurking in...
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Ep: 90 The Gruesome Tale of Fox Hollow Farm
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 90: The Gruesome Tale of Fox Hollow Farm Is now available. Tonight we're diving deep into the Fox Hollow Farm murders, a massive murderer case that you've never heard of but completely shocked the state of Indiana and the nation. We'll examine…
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MIA: March 30th
Send us Fan Mail Had a crazy weekend and had to push back our recording. We will be back this weekend, so stay tuned, and Stay Strange!
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Ep: 89 The Lover in the Attic
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 89: The Lover in the Attic Is now available. One of the strangest love triangles in history involved a wealthy housewife, her oblivious husband, and a secret attic-dwelling lover who lived above them for nearly a decade? Sounds like the setup…
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Ep: 88 The History of Saint Patrick
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 88: The history of St. Patrick is now available. Forget leprechauns and pots of gold, this story is a wild ride of questionable life choices. Tonight we're unpacking the 'true' story, of our favorite drinking saint which includes: a possible...
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Ep: 87 The Mysterious Men In Black
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious Podcast Episode 87: The Mysterious Men in Black Is now available. Tonight we are going to talk about mysterious men in outdated black suits with boring robotic speech and their bizarre behaviors. Who are the Men in Black? Are they top-secret government...
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Ep: 86 The Notorious "Ma" Barker
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 86: The Notorious Ma Barker is now available. In this episode, we dive into the wild tale of Ma Barker and her gang of "little shit boys"—a family bonding experience that involved less baking cookies and more robbing banks. Was Ma really the...
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Ep: 85 The Legendary Mothman
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 85: The Legendary Mothman is now available. In this episode, we unravel the legend of the Mothman, the red-eyed cryptid that terrorized Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1966-1967. From bizarre UFO sightings to unsettling paranormal…
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Ep: 84 The Canary Girls
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 84:The Canary Girls Is now available. During World War I and II, thousands of women stepped into munitions factories to keep the war machine running. But their sacrifice came at a shocking cost—exposure to TNT turned their skin a bright yellow,...
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Ep: 83 The Grinning Man
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast episode 83: The Grinning Man is now available. In the 1960s, UFO sightings were everywhere, but one encounter really took the cake: Indrid Cold-the Grinning Man. This wasn’t your average flying saucer situation—oh, no. This guy came with a huge grin,...
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Ep: 82 The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 82: The disappearance of Agatha Christie In this episode, we’re diving into the juiciest mystery of Agatha Christie’s life—her own disappearance, because who needs fiction when your real life is this wild? In 1926, the Queen of Mystery pulled…
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Ep 81 The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 81:The most dangerous woman in America: Typhoid Mary In this episode, we serve up the hot (and germy) tale of Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary," the cook who put the fever in flavor. Mary didn’t just whip up mouthwatering meals—she also…
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Holiday Break
Send us Fan Mail Hey gang, we are taking a break for the holidays/plague and will be back with an exciting new episode on Jan 11th. Until then, Stay Strange!
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Ep: 80 The Butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 80: The butcher of Plainfield-Ed Gein Is now available In this week’s episode, we dig deep—six feet deep—into the bizarre and horrifying life of Ed Gein, the infamous handyman turned human accessory designer. Ever wonder what happens when…
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Ep: 79 The Masterwork of Rina Yasutake
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 79: The Masterwork of Rina Yasutake In this mind-bending episode, we unravel the peculiar story of Rina Yasutake, a brilliant but disturbed woman shrouded in mystery and surrounded by whispers of her "Masterwork." In a secluded Yorkshire…
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Ep: 78 The Lizzie Borden Murders
Send us Fan Mail Episode 78: Lizzie Borden murders Now available Get ready for a killer episode as we swing into the infamous Lizzie Borden case, where axes, alibis, and awkward family dynamics collide. It’s 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts where a rich but miserably frugal dad, a "I guess we'll...
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Ep: 77 Clarence Roberts: The Man Who Died Twice
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 77: Clarence Roberts: The Man Who Died Twice. What’s more surprising than dying in a fiery blaze? Doing it twice! This week, we’re unraveling the smoky mystery of Clarence Roberts, a man who managed to "die" not once, but twice, in two house...
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Ep: 76 The Man Eaters of Tsavo
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 76: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo Is now available. The "Man-Eaters of Tsavo" tells the wild, slightly horrifying story of two lions who decided they'd had it with their regular antelope diet and thought, "Why not sample the new buffet humans are...
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Ep. 75 Death By Chocolate
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 75: Death By Chocolate is now available. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." Now, we all know breakups can get a little messy, but Cordelia? She took it to the next level, treating arsenic like…
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Ep: 74 The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious Episode 74 The Skinwalker Ranch In this episode, we’re strapping on our tinfoil hats and heading straight to Skinwalker Ranch—aka, the Disneyland for the paranormal. You think you’ve had bad neighbors? Try living next to UFOs, mutilated cows, and…wait, it this…
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Ep: 73 The Dybbuk Box
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 73:The Dybbuk Box Is now available. In this episode, we dive into the spooky tale of the Dybbuk Box, a haunted wine cabinet with a nasty spirit that was bought off of Ebay. .....Hey, what could possibly go wrong?! Spoiler: A lot went wrong.....…
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Ep: 72 Sam, the Sandown Clown
Send us Fan Mail BEING DEAD SERIOUS PODCAST EPISODE 72: Sam the Sandown Clown Now available In this week’s episode, we dive into one of the weirdest encounters to ever grace the Isle of Wight: Sam the Sandown Clown. Imagine a clown, but not the fun kind.... More like, “Why does this clown look…
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Episode 71 The Whisper Estate
Send us Fan Mail Podcast Summary: The Not-So-Quiet Haunting of Whisper Estate In this episode, we take a spooky (but hilarious) tour of Whisper Estate, a haunted mansion in Mitchell, Indiana, where the ghosts apparently never got the memo to "rest in peace." Built in the 1890s, this house has…
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Ep: 70 The Cult of the Great Eleven Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 70 The cult of The Great 11: part 2 Is now available The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven (yes, that was the actual name) AKA: The cult of aThe Great 11 was a 1920s cult in California run by May Otis Blackburn, who convinced...
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Ep: 69 The Infamous Hotel Cecil
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 69: The infamous Hotel Cecil is now available! The Cecil Hotel, located in downtown Los Angeles, is infamous for its dark history of crime, mysterious deaths, and suicides. Opened in 1924 as a budget hotel, it initially catered…
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Ep: 68 The Cult of the Great Eleven Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers Episode 68, The Cult of the Great 11 Pt. 1 Is now available. The Cult of the Great Eleven, aka: the Blackburn Cult, aka: The Divine order of the Royal Arms of the Great 11 was like the 1920s version of a cosmic Ponzi scheme with a sprinkle of apocalyptic…
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Ep: 67 The Mystery Of The Mary Celeste
Send us Fan Mail We're back with the mystery of the Mary Celeste, which is one of history's greatest maritime mysteries. In 1872, the ship was found adrift in the Atlantic with no crew aboard, though it was still seaworthy. The crew had vanished without a trace, and the reason remains unknown,...
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We're Baaaaaack!
Send us Fan Mail Rikki and Nick talk about what's been going on and set a date for their return. Stay tuned, and stay strange!
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Holiday Break
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Nick and Rikki will be on a special assignment for the next month or so for a very important life changing event. We are adopting! This means all our free time that was spent reseaching and recording has now been taken over for getting the house ready, meeting…
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November 11th PSA
Send us Fan Mail Had to take the weekend off, but we will be back next weekend. Somtimes life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. Have a great week everyone!
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Ep: 66 The Bermondsey Horror
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 66: The Bermondsey Horror Is now available. We journey back to Victorian London for a tale of love, loss, and couple that just doesn't seem to have it all together. Marie and Frederick Manning are living in 1840's London, having…
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Ep: 65 The Demon With Many Names
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 65: The Demon with many names Is now available. Tracing back to the cradle of civilization, the Demon Zozo has held many names and worn many faces. It's known for deceit, lies, and corruption, making its origins and motivations...
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Ep: 64 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 64: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Is now available. In the quiet little village of Sleepy Hollow, there lived a legend that not only spread to nearby towns and villages, but has been passed down through the centuries, about a...
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Ep: 63 The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast episode 63: The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel Is now available. In 1976, 23 year old German girl named Anneliese Michel underwent 67 exorcisms in order to free her of the six demons she believed possessed her. Today she is…
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Ep: 62 The Salem Witch Trials
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 62: The Salem Witch Trials Is now available. Back in the before times, when the Colonies were still young, a small town in the Puritan colony of Massachusetts, a frenzy was started when some young girls and women started being...
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Episode 61: Silk Road Pt. 2
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 61: Silk Road: the true story of Drugs, Death and the Dark Web Pt. 2 Is now available. Silk Road, described as the "Amazon of illegal drugs", appeared on the Dark Web in 2011. Ross (THE Ross Man) Ulbricht was the brainchild of a...
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Ep: 60 The Gruesome History of Torture
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 60: The Gruesome History of Torture Is now available. Since the beginning of time, man has sought answers. Sometimes, other people have the answers we seek, and we must employ less than savory methods to get those answers. Of...
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Ep: 59 Silk Road: The True Story of Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 59: Silk Road: the true story of Drugs, Death and the Dark Web Is now available. Silk Road, described as the "Amazon of illegal drugs", appeared on the Dark Web in 2011. Ross (THE Ross Man) Ulbricht was the brainchild of a...
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Being Dead Serious PSA 09/09/2023
Send us Fan Mail Hey Strangers! Nick is down with the sickness this weekend, so no show this week. We will return next week, with another exciting show. In the meantime, be sure to make good choices, and as always, Stay Strange!
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Ep: 58 The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 58 The Mad Gasser of Mattoon is now available. Back in the year 1944, the town of Mattoon Illinois was under siege from a mysterious stranger. No one was safe from the Mad Gasser and his noxious gas. People were waking in the...
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Ep: 57 The Things that Haunt us During Sleep Paralysis
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast episode 57: The thing that haunts us during Sleep Paralysis Is now available. Imagine waking up in pitch darkness and suddenly realizing you are completely paralyzed from head to toe. You try to scream…. but can’t. The only scream you…
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Ep: 56 The Enigma of the Silent Twins
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast episode 56: The Enigma of the Silent Twins is now available. Our tale begins with two little girls, and their struggle to fit in with other people, and ultimately, themselves. Do they share some mental bond? Have they chosen to be mute?...
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Ep: 55 The Weird Science Behind Sleep Experiments
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast episode 55: The weird science behind sleep experiments is now available. Sleep is such a natural part of living that we tend to take it for granted. But there is much more to sleep than we realize. Scientists have been performing...
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Ep: 54 The Mystery of the Yuba County Five
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 54 : The mystery of the Yuba County 5 is now available. In February 1978, five young men, known as "The Boys" from Yuba City, California failed to return home after attending a college basketball game. Their car was found four...
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Episode 53 : The Black Eyed Children Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Being Dead Serious podcast Episode 53 : The Black Eyed Children part 2 is now available. In part 1 of The Black Eyed Children, we talked about these strange children who are appearing around the world. Attired in old fashioned clothing, their skin is pale and…
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Ep:52 The Traverse City State Hospital
Send us Fan Mail Hey Strangers! We're back this week with another spine-tingling tale. In the upper part of Michigan, sits an old hospital. Windows, like missing teeth, do nothing to bar the wind as is barrels through empty halls. Shadows dance from corner to corner as the sunlight plays across…
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Ep: 51 The Black Eyed Children Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Imagine one night you are all alone…. Maybe at home… or maybe in your car… when all of a sudden, out of nowhere you are startled by something pounding at your door. When you go to investigate, you notice 2 young children alone, waiting with their heads down. These children, they...
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Ep: 50 The Mysteries of Bigfoot
Send us Fan Mail Hello Strangers! Welcome to the 2 hour, Season 2 Premier!!! We visit with our good friend John and dive into the stories and legends of the ever elusive Bigfoot. From culture to culture, and generation to generation, the legend of this creature has enticed, and eluded mankind.…
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