Horrifying History

With the emergence of the infamous QAnon conspiracy theory came a new generation of charismatic leaders for this movement.  In Canada, one of the most notable ones is a woman named Romana Didulo, who used the internet to create a following filled with threats, violence, and failed prophecies.   So, break out your tin foil hats, my spooky friends.  Today, you will hear the story of a woman who claimed that she was the Queen of a kingdom that didn’t exist Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On April 20, 1914, the wind howled across a barren stretch of land known as Ludlow in Southern Colorado.  It carried with it the scent of ash, and something far worse.  Beneath the blackened earth lie the dead bodies of men, women, and children.  This was not the site of a war or some revolution.  It was the site of a massacre.   So, get cozy, my spooky friends.  Today, you will hear the story of the Ludlow Massacre and how this event affected the labour laws of today. Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The airwaves have always carried more than music. More than late-night callers. More than static. Sometimes… they carry fear. Tonight, the shadows grow deeper as Horrifying History joins forces with some of the most chilling voices in independent podcasting for a collaboration event unlike anything you’ve heard before. Welcome… to Rogue Darkness, Part 2 Rogue Transmissions: the edgy, semi-annual anthology of indie podcasts is invading your podcast feed with DUNGEONPUNK PART 2 ... a symphony of 80s nostalgia, dystopian cyberpunk, and savage swords drawn against both super sorcery & super science. Featuring an adventuring party of your indie podcast favourites! FIRST UP, Octoberpod presents "Byzantium Slab: The Shell Remember," a wraparound tale of adventure on the savage streets of the dystopian Witch Kingdom (featuring the voice talents of Ari Shey, MJ McAddams, and Arthur Williams of the Family Plot podcast). THEN: The Final Trace investigates the satanic panic epidemic of the 1980s & the case of Bink Pulling. LATER: Ghost Bites presents a dire warning about mysterious arcade games in "Insert Coin to Die." FINALLY: Horrifying History plumbs the depths of 1980s paranormal activity with the Smurl Family Haunting. Rogue Transmission 4: DungeonPunk. Total Power. Total Mystery. Total Savagery ... Totally AWESOME! Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There are crimes that shock and horrify us, and then, there are crimes that erase. Not just a life or person, but entire families. So, get comfortable, my spooky friends. Today, we are going to talk about entire families who vanished without a trace.   Our website is the spot for everything spooky! Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week!   Find us on social media:  Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history  X: @horrifyinghist1  Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I am breaking into your feed to tell you that Rogue Transmissions has arrived.  It’s a collaboration with me and other top indie podcasts that will drag you deep into the shadows of the 1980s.  Forgotten broadcasts. Dark legends. Disturbing true stories. It’s the kind of tales you won’t hear anywhere else. This isn’t nostalgia. This is a transmission from the darker side of history. Rogue Transmissions: the edgy, semi-annual anthology of indie podcasts--is invading your podcast feed with DUNGEONPUNK PART 1- a symphony of 80s nostalgia, dystopian cyberpunk, and savage swords drawn against both super sorcery & super science. Featuring an adventuring party of your indie podcast favourites! FIRST UP, Octoberpod presents "Byzantium Slab: Life Without A Soul," a wraparound tale of savagery & adventure in the dystopian Kingdom of the Witch King (featuring the voice talents of Ari Shey, MJ McAddams, and Family Plot podcast's Arthur Williams). THEN: Our True Crime Podcast presents "The Acid King of the 80s" a true crime case of drugs, delusion, DnD, and murder. LATER: The Morbid Forest Takes "A Roll of the Dice" on a journey into a role playing game that is much more than it appears. FINALLY: The Serial Napper herself, Nikki Young, lulls you to sleep (or into the arms of a nightmare) with the true tale of "Monsters Made of Dice" Rogue Transmission 4: DungeonPunk. Total Power. Total Mystery. Total Savagery...Totally AWESOME! Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today, our friends at the podcast Fresh Hell take us back to 19th-century Kentucky to uncover the haunting and tragic story of Oceana Sneed — a woman whose life became tangled in betrayal, violence, and one of the most infamous family murder scandals of the era. What began as whispers of greed and forbidden relationships would soon erupt into a horrifying crime that shocked an entire community and left behind questions that still linger today. Who was Oceana Sneed really? A devoted wife trapped in impossible circumstances? A calculating conspirator? Or a victim of a much darker family dynamic hidden behind closed doors? Fresh Hell podcast will unravel the twisted relationships, suspicious deaths, courtroom drama, and chilling aftermath that transformed this case into a true-crime legend. As always, listener discretion is advised. Fresh Hell contains discussions of murder, violence, and disturbing historical events that may not be suitable for all audiences. So dim the lights, settle in, and prepare yourself… because some family secrets were never meant to stay buried Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory You can find Fresh Hell on your favourite podcast provider or on their website www.freshhellpodcast.com.  You also can find them on Instagram @freshhellpodcast and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/1040430206345400.           Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In 1632, an entire convent of nuns was allegedly possessed by demons.  In the centre of all this was a Mother Superior, an exorcist, and a priest.  By the end of these events, one would become famous, one would go insane, and the last one would be dead.  So grab a rosary, my spooky friends.  Today, we are going to talk about one of the most famous cases of mass possessions in history. Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week!  Find us on social media:  Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory  Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1  Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Imagine leaving your home for a few minutes just long enough to buy a bag of potatoes.  You tell your partner that you will be right back, walk out the front door, and vanish—no phone call, no note, and no trace.  Then, five days later, your body appears in a place no one expected.  So break out your tin foil hats, my spooky friends.  Today, we are going to talk about a UFO event like no other. Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week!  Find us on social media:  Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory  Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history  X: @horrifyinghist1  Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Across history, there have been cases so disturbing that even seasoned investigators struggled to understand them.  Kids who should have been riding bikes, trading baseball cards, or doing homework were leaving behind crime scenes, terrified communities, and questions that still haunt psychologists and criminologists to this day.  Is it pure evil?  A broken mind, or perhaps something more disturbing than we want to admit?  So break out your notebooks and pens, my spooky friends.  Today, we are going to talk about something deeply unsettling…killers that still had a curfew.  But before we get started, I want to give you a heads up.  Today, we will be talking about violence among children, child abuse and the death of children.  Listener discretion is advised.  Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week!  Find us on social media:  Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory  Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history  X: @horrifyinghist1  Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Imagine for a moment a world with future technology that allows the authorities to catch criminals before a crime is even committed.  Sounds like a movie?  That’s because it is. This is the plot for the 2002 movie “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise.  Cool concept, but pure fiction, right?  Not quite.  So break out your tin foil hats, my spooky friends.  Today, you will hear the tale of a psychiatrist who tried to do just that.  Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week!  Find us on social media:  Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory  Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history  X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Deep in the mist-shrouded mountains of Austria is one of the most chilling strongholds in all of Europe.  Moosham Castle is a place where medieval power, brutal justice, and ancient superstition collided…and where echoes of tragedy still linger in its stone corridors and shadowy dungeons. So get out your hiking boots, my spooky friends.  Today, you are going to hear a tale about a place that feels like creatures of legend walk with you through its halls Our website is the spot for everything spooky!  Go to https://horrifying-history-shop.fourthwall.com to watch our history videos, find our social media links, read our spooky blog, get some great creepy merch, and join our fan club! If you are a member of our fan club, you will receive a permanent discount in our store while you are a member, and get our episodes a week early.  You will also get a bonus episode each week! Find us on social media: Facebook:www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory Instagram & Threads: @horrifying_history X: @horrifyinghist1 Blue Sky:@horrifyinghistory.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@horrifyinghistory   Link to Ghost Hunters International Episode S02E04, The Witches Castle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFAgroQ-vK8&t=160s   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.