Pretty Wicked
by Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media
Pretty Wicked is storytelling with no filler. Each week, Megan brings you a carefully researched and written episode, guiding you through fascinating stories from beginning to end. From true crime and unsolved mysteries to scandals, deception, folklore, dark history, and the fascinating stories that make you wonder how they ever happened. No co-hosts. No unnecessary tangents. No distractions. Just you, Megan, and a story worth hearing. Pretty Wicked is created, researched, written, and hosted by actor and voice artist Megan Alda. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 [email protected] ✨ Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast & @aldamegan If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, leaving a rating or review helps other listeners discover the show and genuinely means the world!
Episodes
-
Vampires Next Door: A Murder in Witten
Settle in, friends, because this Halloween, the vampires are real, or at least they believed they were. In the summer of 2001, police in a small city in western Germany walked into an apartment draped in black, with a coffin in the living room, a dead body, a message in blood on the window, and a...
-
The Tallow Man: The Werewolf of Allariz
Settle in, friends, because this week we're heading into the misty mountains of 1800s Spain for a werewolf story... that really happened. In a little village in Galicia, a gentle little shopkeeper offered to walk the local women and their children over the mountains to good jobs up north. One by...
-
The Babysitter Ad: The First Craigslist Killer
Settle in, friends, because today's story starts with something that should have been completely ordinary: responding to a babysitting ad. In October 2007, Katherine Ann Olson met a mom named Amy in Savage, Minnesota. Amy needed someone to watch her 5-year-old, and Katherine said yes. She told…
more -
Sunday Best: Blood and Betrayal
They say Friday the 13th is unlucky for a reason. Well, on one Friday the 13th back in 1980, in a quiet Texas suburb where everybody goes to the same church and everybody knows everybody's business, that superstition came true in the worst way. Because that morning, a young mom and Sunday school...
-
Before Sunrise: A Death on Angels Landing
In August 2006, a young woman fell to her death from one of the most famous cliffs in the American national park system while hiking with her husband, the only witness. It was ruled an accident. Twenty years later, two phone calls changed everything and in June 2026, the case ended in a way…
more -
Dead Mountain: Cut From the Inside
In the winter of 1959, ten experienced hikers set out on a route rated at the highest difficulty level their country had. One turned back early, and the other nine never came home. When searchers found the camp, the tent had been cut open from the inside, and the bodies were scattered across the...
-
Vanished: The House on Delmar Street
Three women. One small house in Springfield, Missouri. On the night of her high school graduation, Stacy McCall followed her friend Suzie Streeter home to spend the night at the house Suzie shared with her mother, Sherrill Levitt. By morning, all three of them were gone. Their cars were in the...
-
Hitchhiker: The Drifting Damsel of Death
Today I'm revisiting one of the most infamous cases in American true crime; a woman the press called the Damsel of Death. Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found dead along the highways of central Florida, and the person behind it was the last kind of suspect anyone expected. SHOW NOTES 🖤...
-
Talhotblonde: From Message to Murder
A married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who she says she is either. And when a real young man comes into the picture, the whole thing turns into obsession…
more -
The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family
A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with…
more -
Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story
Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants...
-
Proxies: The Faceless Man
A birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the other two were walking toward something they swore was real. That was 2014. Eleven years later, one of them cut off her...
-
Into the Triangle: The Devil's Sea
Some stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm December night and was gone before the Coast Guard could get there. This week we're going into the lore. The famous cases....
-
The Recipe: Blood and Lye
In a quiet Italian town, there was a woman everyone trusted. She baked. She welcomed people in. She was the kind of person no one questioned. And then people started disappearing. When she finally confessed, it wasn’t just what she had done… it was why. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New...
-
Boogeyman: The Hook-Handed Stranger
What if the boogeyman you grew up hearing about wasn't just a story? On Staten Island, there was a figure parents whispered about to keep their kids close to home. Bedtime warnings, campfire dares, everyone thought it was just make-believe. But then children started to vanish. And suddenly, it...
-
England's Most Haunted: What the Stones Don't Tell
Today Megan is revisiting a medieval building in a quiet Cotswolds village. A 900-year legend that doesn't quite hold up under the tree rings. A pagan burial ground nobody can find in the archaeological record. And the man who spent fifty years inside it, telling stories nobody could verify and...
-
Borrowed Faces: Forty Million in Two Minutes
In August 2009, two men in tailored suits walked into the most exclusive jewelry store on London's most exclusive street, and two minutes later they walked out with forty million pounds in diamonds. No masks. The makeup artist who'd spent four hours disguising them thought they were working on a...
-
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Ripper
In February 2001, Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher drove to a woman's house to pick her up for a date. She didn't answer the door. He looked through the window, saw what he thought was a red wine stain on the carpet, assumed she had gone out without him, and left. The next morning her roommate came...
-
Poison in the Pocky Aisle
In 1984, something really unsettling started happening across Japan. Boxes of children’s candy were showing up on store shelves laced with cyanide, and it didn’t feel random or hidden. It felt intentional, like someone wanted people to notice. The group behind it called themselves The Monster…
more -
The Price of a Lie: When the Con Turns Deadly
For thirty years, a man called himself Clark Rockefeller, claimed to be an heir to one of the most powerful families in American history, and the world believed him. He moved through the most elite circles in the country, he married a Harvard educated millionaire, and charmed everyone he ever…
more
About this show
Pretty Wicked is storytelling with no filler.
Each week, Megan brings you a carefully researched and written episode, guiding you through fascinating stories from beginning to end. From true crime and unsolved mysteries to scandals, deception, folklore, dark history, and the fascinating stories that make you wonder how they ever happened.
No co-hosts. No unnecessary tangents. No distractions. Just you, Megan, and a story worth hearing.
Pretty Wicked is created, researched, written, and hosted by actor and voice artist Megan Alda.
New episodes every Wednesday.
🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
📩 [email protected] ✨ Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast & @aldamegan
If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, leaving a rating or review helps other listeners discover the show and genuinely means the world!
Hosted by
Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media
Categories