PODCAST · true crime
Her Strange Hour
by Ivy Monroe
I’m Ivy Monroe, and welcome to **Her Strange Hour** — a storytelling podcast about mysteries, strange history, cold cases, cults, deadly or forgotten women, and true stories that sound too bizarre to be real.Each episode uncovers the people, secrets, choices, and unanswered questions behind stories many people have never heard before. Some are eerie. Some are heartbreaking. Some will make you stop and say, “Wait… WHAT?”If you love mysteries, strange history, and forgotten stories told with care, you’re in the right place.
Episodes
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The Grand Island Lighthouse Mystery: Two Keepers, Two Unexplained Deaths
In June 1908, a lighthouse on Michigan's Grand Island went dark. Two men were supposed to be keeping its light burning, but neither was there. Days later, a small sailboat was discovered on Lake Superior with the body of assistant lighthouse keeper Edward Morrison inside. His injuries raised...
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4 Female Serial Killers From Around the World: Ndlovu, Kakehi, Grills & Needle
What happens when the danger comes from someone already welcomed into your home? Join Ivy Monroe for four unsettling cases spanning South Africa, Japan, and Australia. This episode explores Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, Chisako Kakehi, Caroline Grills, and Martha Needle—women whose stories involve...
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The Collyer Brothers: Eighteen Days to Find the Second Body
Two brothers lived behind the blocked windows of a Harlem brownstone. Inside, narrow passages wound through years of accumulated belongings—and traps waited for anyone who tried to enter. When police discovered Homer Collyer dead in 1947, his brother Langley was nowhere to be found. The search...
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The Girl Police Missed Beneath Their Feet | Ruth Cruger & “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes”
Police searched the building where 18-year-old Ruth Cruger had last been seen. They found nothing—yet Ruth was hidden beneath the cellar floor. In 1917, Ruth left her New York City home to have her ice skates sharpened and never returned. As the investigation stalled, attorney and investigator...
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Jane Doe #59: The Unsolved Murder of Reet Jurvetson
For 46 years, the young woman found murdered near Mulholland Drive in 1969 was known only as Jane Doe #59. Her case became surrounded by theories about Charles Manson and the violence gripping Los Angeles at the time—but her real story began thousands of miles away. Reet Silvia Jurvetson was 19...
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The “Doctor” Who Starved Patients to Death | Linda Hazzard
Linda Hazzard had no medical degree, yet Washington legally licensed her to practice medicine. Her treatment was extreme fasting — tiny amounts of broth and juice, harsh massages, hot baths, and daily enemas that could involve gallons of water. Patients became dangerously thin. Some died. And…
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Who Was Bonnie Nettles? The Woman Behind the Heaven’s Gate Cult
Everyone remembers Marshall Applewhite. But Heaven’s Gate began with two leaders. Meet Bonnie Nettles — the nurse, mother, and spiritual teacher Applewhite believed outranked him. We’re uncovering how she helped build the group, why followers trusted her, and how her death in 1985 changed...
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The Woman Who Scheduled Her Husbands’ Deaths: Tillie Klimek
Several of Tillie Klimek’s husbands became sick and died. Then one survived. When doctors found arsenic in Joseph Klimek’s body, investigators began looking into Tillie’s past. They reopened old graves, questioned her neighbors and uncovered stories about mourning clothes, a discounted coffin and…
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3 Bizarre Asylum Cases From the 1800s
One woman was confined after publicly accusing a clergyman of refusing to pay her. Another spent fourteen years trying to prove her real identity. A third secretly wrote appeals for freedom with a pencil barely an inch long. In this episode of Her Strange Hour, Ivy Monroe explores three bizarre...
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Theodosia Burr: The Vice President’s Daughter Who Vanished at Sea
On New Year’s Eve in 1812, Theodosia Burr Alston boarded a ship bound for New York. She never arrived. In this episode of Her Strange Hour, we explore the storm, the rumors, the pirate stories, and the haunting mystery of the woman who vanished at sea.
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She Woke Up to a Stranger Carrying Her Mother Away
Dorothy Forstein vanished from her Philadelphia home in 1949, and the strangest detail came from her 9-year-old daughter. According to Marcy, she woke up in the middle of the night and saw a stranger inside the house. Dorothy appeared unconscious, and the man reportedly told Marcy not to worry...
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One Girl Escaped… and the Cult Collapsed
In Part 3 of The Family cult story, one girl’s escape helps expose Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s hidden world. The raid begins, the truth comes out, and the cult Anne built finally starts to collapse.
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The Cult That Stole 28 Children | The Family Part 2
In Part 2 of our series on lThe Family, we look at the children trapped inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s secretive cult world — a world of control, obedience, and stolen lives. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, go back and start there first, as this will be a 3-part series.
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The Yoga Teacher Who Thought She Was Jesus | The Family Part 1
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a glamorous yoga teacher with a growing circle of loyal followers. But behind the peaceful image was something far darker: a secretive group known as The Family, children taken into her world, and a woman who believed she had a divine mission. In Part 1, we begin the...
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The Lady of the Dunes: The Woman Found With No Name
In 1974, a woman was found in the dunes near Provincetown, Massachusetts. For nearly 50 years, no one knew who she was. She became known only as the Lady of the Dunes. Then DNA finally gave her back her name: Ruth Marie Terry. In this Bizarre Lunchtime Tales episode, we look at the mystery that...
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They Found the Ships and Planes… But Couldn’t Explain What Happened
Three real mysteries where ships and planes were found, but the answers never fully made sense. In this episode, we explore the Mary Celeste, the Star Dust disappearance, and the Joyita ghost ship — three strange historical cases filled with missing people, eerie clues, and unanswered questions.
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The Cecil Hotel Elevator Mystery: Elisa Lam
In 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Her final known moments were captured in strange elevator footage that spread across the internet and turned her disappearance into one of the most discussed mysteries online. Nearly three weeks later, Elisa...
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The Button Man: Australia’s Creepiest Mountain Legend
Deep in Australia’s Victorian High Country, hikers have whispered about a mysterious bushman known as The Button Man. Was he truly someone to fear, or did rumor, isolation, and wilderness folklore turn a real man into a mountain legend? This shorter episode is part of Bizarre Lunchtime Tales —...
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They Went to Meet Aliens... and Were Found Dead in Lead Masks | The Lead Masks Case
In 1966, two men were found dead on a hill in Brazil wearing homemade lead masks. No injuries. No clear answers. Just cryptic notes, strange instructions, and one of the most unsettling mysteries ever recorded. Was it a failed experiment… or something far stranger?
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The Family Cult | Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the Children She Stole
A glamorous spiritual leader. A hidden cult. Children raised under false identities inside an isolated compound in Australia. In this episode of Echoes & Oddities, we explore the disturbing true story of Anne Hamilton-Byrne and The Family cult — a secretive group built on manipulation, fear,...
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The Finders Cult: A Disturbing Case With No Clear Answers
In 1987, a routine police call led to the discovery of two men traveling with six neglected children — and what followed became one of the strangest cases of the decade. The investigation led to a secretive group known as The Finders, a communal organization tied to unusual beliefs, hidden...
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The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Germany’s Creepiest Unsolved Mystery
In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote farm in Germany. But what makes the Hinterkaifeck case so terrifying is not just the crime itself — it is everything that happened before and after. There were strange footprints in the snow leading to the farm but none leading away. Family...
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The Emperor’s Victims: The Stories Rome Never Wanted Told
The Roman Empire is remembered for power, glory, and grandeur… but behind Nero’s golden façade were the people he broke, used, and destroyed.This episode dives deep into the disturbing and tragic story of Sporus — a young victim whose life was twisted by the emperor’s cruelty — along with the...
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HIDDEN HORRORS: The MOST Disturbing True Stories You’ve Never Heard
In this episode of Echoes & Oddities, we explore seven of the darkest and most disturbing true stories buried in history — from the infamous Lizzie Borden case to the mysterious life of Kaspar Hauser, a man with no past. We revisit: 🪓 Lizzie Borden and the murder that divided a nation 🧩 Kaspar...
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Amy Lynn Bradley: Vanished from Cabin 1045
On March 24, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a Caribbean cruise ship without a trace. No splash. No note. No goodbye. What happened aboard Rhapsody of the Seas that night? Was it an accident, an abduction, or something far darker? In this episode of Echoes & Oddities, I...
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The Socialite Who Vanished and the Heiress Who Faked Her Death
Dorothy Arnold vanished while shopping on Fifth Avenue. Violet Charlesworth faked her death on a cliffside in Wales. Both women lived in luxury—and both became legends of deception and loss. 🎙️ A cinematic true story from The Midnight Ledger, where history’s strangest mysteries are told in...
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Rot and Revenge | Corpse on Trial & Tarrare's Unholy Hunger.
In this episode of The Midnight Ledger, I dive into two of the strangest and most disturbing stories in history. First — a pope dug from his grave, dressed in full robes, and put on trial before horrified clergy in what became known as The Cadaver Synod. Then — a man whose appetite defied reason:...
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Poison, Prophecy, and Power: True Tales of 19th-Century Obsession
Three haunting true stories from the 1800s — where faith, desperation, and control all took deadly turns. In this episode of The Midnight Ledger Podcast, we uncover:• The women of Hungary’s “Angel Makers” — who quietly poisoned those they called oppressors.• The failed prophecy of the Millerites…
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He Stepped Outside... Then Vanished Into Thin Air
In 1809, British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst stepped outside to check on his horses— and vanished without a sound. His carriage waited. His assistant was only moments behind him. But Bathurst was gone, leaving behind one of the strangest mysteries in history. Decades later, another man appeared…
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She Got Away With Murder... Or Did She? | The Lizzie Borden Story
In 1892, the small town of Fall River, Massachusetts was shaken by a brutal double murder. Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death, and all eyes turned to their quiet, church-going daughter — Lizzie. Was she a cold-blooded killer who fooled an entire courtroom, or a misunderstood woman...
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Vanished: 3 Cold Cases That Still Haunt Us
In this episode of *The Midnight Ledger*, we dive into Three chilling cold cases: Tammy Jo Alexander, Asha Degree, and the Fort Worth Trio.— These are strange and unsettling cold cases that are of history that still leaves us with more questions than answers. If you know anything about these…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I’m Ivy Monroe, and welcome to **Her Strange Hour** — a storytelling podcast about mysteries, strange history, cold cases, cults, deadly or forgotten women, and true stories that sound too bizarre to be real.Each episode uncovers the people, secrets, choices, and unanswered questions behind stories many people have never heard before. Some are eerie. Some are heartbreaking. Some will make you stop and say, “Wait… WHAT?”If you love mysteries, strange history, and forgotten stories told with care, you’re in the right place.
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I’m Ivy Monroe, and welcome to **Her Strange Hour** — a storytelling podcast about mysteries, strange history, cold cases, cults, deadly or forgotten women, and true stories that sound too bizarre to be real.Each episode uncovers the people, secrets, choices, and unanswered questions behind stories...
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