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Highway to Hell
by Monte Mader
Welcome to Highway to Hell, the unique crossroads where wanderlust meets mystery. Every episode, I take you on a journey to breathtaking destinations around the globe, unveiling not just the beauty of travel but the shadows that lurk behind the postcard-perfect views. From unsolved mysteries to infamous crimes, I explore the darker tales hidden within the world's most enchanting locales. So pack your curiosity, keep your wits about you, and join us as we dive deep into the thrilling intersection of travel and true crime. Your adventure into the unknown starts now.
Episodes
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70. Aleister Crowley
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69. The Worlds Most Haunted Hotels
Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast On the top floor of a hotel in Sydney, on ground that was a convict hospital in 1788, two women on two different nights woke up to a sailor standing at the foot of the bed, looking at them. In a castle on the coast of...
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68. Dangerous Delusions, Surgical Precision: The Ant Hill Kids Cult
In 1977, a charismatic former Seventh-day Adventist named Roch Thériault led a small group of followers into the woods of Quebec’s Gaspé region to await the end of the world. He renamed himself Moïse, after Moses, and told his followers God would end the world in February of 1979. When the...
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67. Carl Tanzler and His Corpse Bride
Support the show, get ad free and bonus content patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast Carl Tanzler was a German-born radiology technician who emigrated to the United States and by 1927 was working at the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida. He claimed that as a young man he had been visited by the...
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66. Family Business- The Hillside Stranglers
Support the show at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast Does evil run in the family? Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. murdered at least 10 women and girls in the Los Angeles area between October 1977 and February 1978. They would use the "cop ruse" posing as plainclothes police officers,...
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65. The Theology of Submission and the Death of a Pastors Wife
TW: Suicide First ever true crossover episode! Flippers meet the Hellions, Hellions meet the Flippers. This case included so much of our mutual subject matter we decided to post it on both shows. Mica Francis Miller, 30, died on April 27, 2024, at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina…
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64. Crime of the Summer- the Lindsay Clancy Case
Andy and I have bombshells about the timeline in our fireside chat on patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast (we also tease the new studio and halloween merch) Clarify some points: **This is by no means all of the data from the trial, only what we could fit into the evidence, we talk more about things…
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63. Extreme Premeditation: The Life and Crimes of Israel Keyes
We're so used to serial killers having a compulsion, a need, an insatiable craving that often makes them sloppy and leads to an arrest. Israel Keyes did not suffer from that reckless compulsion and may be the most calculated killer we have ever covered. On unrelated trips Israel Keyes would get a...
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62. The Jersey Devil
How prejudice, misogyny and a kangaroo in bat wings created a monster. Support the show by becoming a hellion at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast The legend is rooted in the Pine Barrens, the million-acre stretch of sandy pine forest across southern New Jersey. The legend begins in 1735 when a...
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61. The Warrens & The Conjuring Empire
Our longest episode EVER. The ultimate deep dive on The Warrens, their history and their conjuring Empire! Ed and Lorraine were born in a factory town in Conneticut just 19 weeks apart. For both of them, a significant moment at 5 would help shape the course of their future. A chance meeting at a...
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60. The Dyatlov Incident
What could possibly cause experienced hikers to cut their way out of a tent, WALK half clothed to the treeline, and die from the elements? **Special thanks to our patreon supporters for making this show possible patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast** In January 1959, ten students from the Ural...
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59. YES, NO, GOODBYE- The History of the Ouija Board
Get episodes ad free and support the show at patreon.com/highwaytohell The Spiritualist movement swept America, enticing people to entertain the question, "can we truly talk to the dead?". The Fox Sisters in 1848 entranced interest with their rapping phenomena in Hydesville, NY. Beleivers in...
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58. The Butcher Baker
Please support the show, get ad free episodes and bonus content at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast Robert Hansen was born in Estherville Iowa to Danish immigrant parents. His father, was a baker and very domineering. Hansen had a pronounced stutter, acne scars and experiences social rejection…
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57. Herb Baumeister
Herbert Baumeister was born in Indiana in 1947 and grew up in a middle-class family near Indianapolis. Even as a young man he showed troubling signs, and he spent time in a mental institution as an adult. Still, he built what looked like an ordinary life. He married Julie Saiter in 1971, raised...
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56. Lights Out Volume 1
Today a little palette cleanser! After some heavy true crime and hauntings we wanted to do an episode sharing claimed in person paranormal encounters. If you'd like to submit a story- submit to [email protected]
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55. The Worlds Most Haunted Places Part 2
As always special thanks to our hellions supporting us on patreon! patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast This episode closes the two-part countdown of the most haunted places on earth, covering the top five. We open in Edinburgh, Scotland — a city that sealed off its medieval streets and built a new...
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54. The Worlds Most Haunted Places Part 1
Today we start a two part series on the most haunted places in the world. This is the bottom 5 of the top 10. Little bit different format here with each individual place having its own haunted story and mini travel itinerary. Hoia-Baciu Forest in Romania — a 295-hectare forest outside Cluj-Napoca...
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53. Real Life Horror: The Case of Junko Furuto
TRIGGER WARNING: We typically don't have trigger warnings since it is a crime podcast, but this episode is ESPECIALLY graphic in topics of kidnapping, torture, and sexual assault. Not appropriate for young listeners. NEW: Fireside behind the scenes fireside chats available now at...
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52. Bring Me The Beauties
In the early 1980s, Hoyt Richards was on track to become the world's first male supermodel. He worked campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Versace, Cartier, Burberry, and Valentino all while being part of a cult that would consume 2 decades of his life. On a Nantucket beach in 1978, 16-year-old Richards…
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51. The Haunting of Anneleise Michel
In 1952, a devout Catholic girl was born in a small Bavarian town. By 1976, she was dead at 23, weighing 66 pounds, after 67 exorcism sessions conducted by two Catholic priests while a medical diagnosis went untreated. Her name was Anneliese Michel. You probably know her as Emily Rose. At 16,...
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50. The I -5 Killer
Title: The I -5 Killer The I-5 Killer Randall Brent Woodfield seemed, on the surface, like everything America admired. A gifted athlete from Oregon, he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1974 — only to be cut before the season and later arrested multiple times for indecent exposure, a…
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49. "No Humans Involved"- Green River Killer
Apologies this episode is late! We had a major tech issue that showed our podcast no longer existed on our dashboard but all is well and recovered! Thanks for your patience Thank you to our supporters on patreon.com/highwaytohell Between 1982 and 1998, Gary Leon Ridgway murdered at least 49 women...
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48. Rehabilitation Imitation- Jack Unterweger
Thank you so much for all of the kind comments, likes and shares. It truly means so much to us! If you'd like ad free episodes, travel itineraries and first dibs on merch please join us as a HELLION at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast He was born in 1950 in a small Austrian town called Judenburg,...
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47. Metal AF: Music, Satanic Panic, Hype & Hauntings
Between roughly 1980 and 1995, the United States experienced one of the largest collective delusions in its modern history. A significant share of the public, along with police departments, prosecutors, social workers, and clergy, came to believe that an organized network of Satanic cults was...
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46. Above All Obey- Warren Jeffs Part 2.
Apologies for the delay! Monte recently moved and had no internet due to delayed set up. I’m back! In Part 2, we pick up right where the FBI did. Warren Jeffs made the Ten Most Wanted List in 2006 and was arrested that August. A Utah conviction followed in 2007, but was overturned on a...
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45. Above All Obey- Warren Jeffs Part 1
Warren Jeffs was the self-declared prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the FLDS) a polygamist offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. He inherited leadership from his father Rulon Jeffs in 2002, even marrying some of his father's wives after his passing. At its...
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44. Don't Whistle After Dark: Appalachia Hauntings
Thank you to our Hellions for your voted in topic! Subscribe for ad free episodes, voting topics and upcoming bonus episodes at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast. The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest range on Earth, and something has been living in them since before this country had a name. In...
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43. La Llorona - Haunted Costa Rica
Few legends cut as deep as La Llorona, the Weeping Woman. This week we're trading the highway for the rainforest as we trace one of Latin America's most enduring and chilling folk stories into the heart of Costa Rica. We break down the origins of La Llorona, the grieving mother condemned to…
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42. The Chicken Coop Murders
Gordon Northcott and a trip to Canada. In the late 1920s, one of California’s most disturbing child murder cases unfolded on a remote ranch in Wineville—a place so stained by violence that it would later change its name in an attempt to escape the legacy. At the center of the case was Gordon...
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41. "We need to come inside"- Black Eyed Kids
Don't let them in! Black-Eyed Kids (BEK) is one of the most unsettling modern urban legends to emerge from late 20th-century folklore. Described as pale children with completely black eyes, no sclera, no iris. They are most often reported appearing at night, knocking on doors or approaching cars,...
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40. Andrew Cunanan- Versace Spree Killer
In the summer of 1997, a cross-country killing spree gripped the United States, ending in one of the most shocking celebrity murders in modern history. At the center of it all was Andrew Cunanan—a charismatic, intelligent young man whose life of deception unraveled into violence. This episode...
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39. Haunted Highways
Several American roads have become famous not just for travel but for paranormal folklore, drawing visitors interested in ghost stories and unexplained sightings. The historic U.S. Route 66 stretches across eight states and is filled with haunted lore tied to abandoned mining towns, old motels…
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38. Unsolved! Jack The Ripper
Special thanks to our Hellions on Patreon! Subscribe for ad free episodes at Patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel, London in 1888. The victims—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride,...
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37. America's Most Famous Cold Case- The John List Murders
Edit: On our second ad break I gave the wrong patreon (got my podcasts mixed up). If you'd like to support this show please sign up to be a hellion at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast. On November 9th, 1971, John List walked behind his wife at the breakfast table and shot her in the back of the...
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36. All Power- No Accountability: Epstein Part 2
After his sweetheart deal in 2008, Epstein was able to reintegrate into life and maintain his trafficking ring without any loss in wealth, associations or connections. This episode tracks his life and dealings from 2008 to his death in 2019, the aftermath of his cruelty, the arrest and trial of...
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35. Boys will be Boys & The Sweetheart Deal - Jeffrey Epstein Part 1
**Please forgive some slight changes as this had to be recorded remotely* Please support the show at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast 3 million more Epstein files were released and yet in the US there has been no further investigation, no arrests. Files that detail the rape, murder, cannibalism…
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34. The Curious Case of Jon Benet
A ransom note was found on the stairs of the Ramsey house on December 26, 1996. Patsy Ramsey quickly called police and reported that her daughter, JonBenét, was missing. The police treated it as a kidnapping since the three page ransom note demanded $118,000, the exact Christmas bonus, her father...
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33. Quiver Over Care- The Story of Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates, a Texas mother of five, drowned her children in a bathtub on June 20, 2001, shocking the nation. She immediately confessed to police and was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. Her medical history showed years of severe postpartum depression and psychosis, multiple...
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32. Skinwalkers & The Navajo Nation
In this episode, we step into one of the most unsettling corners of American folklore: the legend of the skinwalker. Rooted in Navajo (Diné) tradition, the skinwalker—often called yee naaldlooshii, “with it, he goes on all fours”—is not a cryptid or campfire monster, but a deeply serious and…
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31. West Memphis 3- Part 2
The continuation of the West Memphis 3 case with a travel itinerary in Memphis!!! Want these episodes ad free? Subscribe to be a hellion at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast
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30. West Memphis 3- Part 1
Occasionally there's a story with so much to it and so much nuance, that we break it up into two pieces instead of making a three hour episode. So here is part one! On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were reported missing in West Memphis,...
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29. The Candyman- Houston, TX
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of extreme violence, sexual abuse, and the murder of minors. Listener discretion is strongly advised. This episode examines the crimes of Dean Corll who operated in early 1970s in Houston, Corll, later dubbed “The Candyman”, used manipulation,...
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28. Harm and Hauntings in East State Penitentiary
Welcome to our new release schedule! Midnight every Tuesday (we'll explain more next episode about the schedule change) Want ad free episodes? Bonus content? Early access to merch? Become a Hellion for $5 a month on patreon at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast Opened in 1829, Eastern State...
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27. Missing & Murdered- Laci Peterson
Christmas Eve release for a Christmas Eve crime! Thank you so much for the love and support from new Hellions who have become followers and subscribers! Follow us on IG at @highwaytohellpod Topic you want to hear? [email protected] On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant,...
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26. Beast of Jersey
For more than a decade, Jersey (one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy) was haunted by a figure locals came to call the Beast of Jersey. A masked man who moved through hedgerows and farm lanes at night slicing phone lines and entering homes while families slept. He abducted women…
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25. Heavens Gate
In this episode, we examine the rise and tragic end of Heaven’s Gate, one of the most infamous cults in modern American history. Founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, the group fused New Age spirituality, Christian apocalypticism, and science-fiction belief into a rigid worldview...
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24. Devil in the White City- HH Holmes
Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe! Herman Webster Mudgett — better known as H.H. Holmes — is often regarded as America’s first documented serial killer, but long before the murders came fraud, reinvention, and carefully engineered charm. A medical student with a fascination for...
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23. Albert Fish- New York City
And here's the Albert Fish episode! Sorry every body I uploaded them out of order on accident. But here we are. TW: Extreme child abuse and assault Albert Fish (1870–1936) was an American serial killer, cannibal, and sadomasochist whose crimes in the early 20th century remain some of the most...
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22. The Oakland County Child Murders
Please review and subscribe to our show! Between 1976 and 1977, Oakland County, Michigan was gripped by fear as four children—Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich, and Timothy King—were abducted and murdered in what became known as the Oakland County Child Killer case. This episode…
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21. The Cecil Hotel
Nestled in the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, the Cecil Hotel was meant to be a beacon of glamour when it opened its doors in 1927. Instead, it became one of America’s most infamous landmarks—a towering witness to tragedy, violence, and urban decay. This episode dives deep into the history of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Highway to Hell, the unique crossroads where wanderlust meets mystery. Every episode, I take you on a journey to breathtaking destinations around the globe, unveiling not just the beauty of travel but the shadows that lurk behind the postcard-perfect views. From unsolved mysteries to infamous crimes, I explore the darker tales hidden within the world's most enchanting locales. So pack your curiosity, keep your wits about you, and join us as we dive deep into the thrilling intersection of travel and true crime. Your adventure into the unknown starts now.
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Monte Mader
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Welcome to Highway to Hell, the unique crossroads where wanderlust meets mystery. Every episode, I take you on a journey to breathtaking destinations around the globe, unveiling not just the beauty of travel but the shadows that lurk behind the postcard-perfect views. From unsolved mysteries to...
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