Moonless Nights

Are you ready for the most bizarre true story you've ever heard? This is the case of Devin Williams.

Mel Waters had a bottomless hole on his property in Ellensburg, Washington where he and his neighbors threw away their garbage. But Mel's experiments with the hole and calls into the Coast to Coast AM about it gained interest from the public... and the government. Today's topic is Mel's hole.

Bill Sparkman was a professional man, leading a quiet life. So it was quite a shock to find Bill hanging by a noose in a clearing in a wooded area. He was naked. His hands and feet were bound with duct tape. He was gagged with a rag and tape was wrapped around the rag, encompassing his head. The thing that stuck out most in this scene however, were the big black letters written in marker on his chest that read, F E D. Bill worked for the federal census bureau, and unfortunately, part of Bill’s jurisdiction was in a very high crime area of Kentucky. You would assume by the scene that Bill fell victim to someone who didn’t think a federal agent needed to be anywhere on his property. However, this was not the case. Bill’s death was curiously ruled a suicide. This is the suspicious death of Bill Sparkman.

Today's topic is a compilation of my favorite conspiracy theories, including: Birds aren't real, Germ denialism, Backdrop people, the Mattress Firm conspiracy, The Titanic didn't sink, The moon is a projection, and the Walt Disney Frozen conspiracy. http://thirdeyechampagne.com https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2018/09/21/the-great-mattress-conspiracy https://allthatsinteresting.com/titanic-conspiracy-theories https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/22/flat-earthers-declare-solar-eclipse-just-proved-earth-flat/?sh=578e50d26921 https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/frozen-at-the-center-of-bizarre-new-disney-conspiracy/

It was a beautiful, chilly day in September of 2008, and Agneta Westlund took her dog out on a walk. But what they encountered on their path that afternoon would bewilder the community, and everyone else who caught wind of this story. Today’s topic is the Bizarre death of Agneta Westlund. https://medium.com/obscure-horror/the-bizarre-murder-of-agneta-westlund-48ee31862e0c https://medium.com/@natasha.leigh/killed-by-a-drunk-elk-agneta-westlund-d0bfbfddbb3f https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34185000 https://vocal.media/criminal/the-unusual-death-of-agneta-westlund https://assets.deutschlandfunk.de/FILE_9e76a38ea17c443d853005e415155b92/original.pdf https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/UN_BriefFem_251121.pdf

I started out this episode as a Simpson's conspiracy episode. But while looking into one of these Simpson's “predictions”, I found myself sucked deep into another rabbit hole, filled with some mind-blowing information, terrifying conspiracies and scientific conclusions about the end of humankind... that may come sooner than you think. Today's topic includes jumping timelines, the fate of humanity, CERN, and the Hadron Collider. https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson/what https://home.cern/about https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/more-than-three-dimensions/#:~:text=So%2C%20how%20many%20dimensions%20are,phenomenon%20we%27ve%20ever%20observed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W14_C7XkdA0 https://youtu.be/azpUG2GUzFI?si=ffRBNbSxtFIWaoHj https://youtu.be/1_ZsDBMPQMI?si=V8WoIKHmvMU9fQZe

Carolynne Watson and Julian Buchwald went out for a day trip of a picnic and hiking. But the happy day took a turn when a dark hooded figure appeared. This is the bizarre case of Carolynne Watson and Julian Buchwald. https://medium.com/illumination/the-insanely-bizarre-kidnapping-that-turned-into-an-international-hunt-32c2b563fa69 https://www.theage.com.au/national/missing-couple-planned-marriage-at-years-end-20080309-ge6tnh.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-25/gippsland-appeals-kidnap-sentence/2855750 https://www.smh.com.au/national/wanted-german-passed-himself-off-as-an-indian-20091004-ghhv.html https://podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/episode-93-abduction-of-carolynne-watson-and/id1531584100?i=1000575503226 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles https://www.yourtango.com/news/what-happened-julian-buchwald-and-carolynne-watson-after-he-staged-abduction-get-her https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Satanic+kidnap+%27a+fake%27.-a0176720333 https://www.smh.com.au/national/wanted-german-passed-himself-off-as-an-indian-20091004-ghhv.html

Today's case is about a family living a charmed life in southern California who suffers an unimaginable tragedy; the perpetrator being someone they were least expecting. Today's case is the Sachs Family Murders.

Nathaniel Bar-Jonah doesn't deserve to be introduced. Listener discretion is highly advised. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bar-Jonah https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-14-mn-28031-story.html

Patricia "Patty" Stallings was a 24-year-old woman who recently gave birth to a little boy named Ryan. But at 3 months old, Ryan became very ill, and the hospital and police pointed their fingers at Patty causing Ryan's deterioration. Though she maintained her innocence, in the end there was truly no justice for Patty Stallings. ⁠https://www.ourtruecrimepodcast.com/2023/08/224-preconceived-notions-Patty.html⁠ ⁠https://www.studocu.com/en-au/document/murdoch-university/introduction-to-forensic-science/Patty-stallings-case/7825646⁠ ⁠https://www.mamamia.com.au/patricia-stallings-case/⁠ ⁠https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/mo/patricia-stallings.html⁠ ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Stallings⁠ ⁠https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-parents-say-kids-wrongly-taken-them-after-doctors-misdiagnosed-n1096091⁠

When I was in middle school, I was told about a scene in the Wizard of Oz where you could see a man in the background swinging back and forth from hanging himself on a set tree during filming. So I pulled out the VHS and I watched it for myself. There IS something there in the background. If you believe that’s what you’re looking at, you can see a man swinging back and forth from a rope. I thought this would be a cool topic for the podcast, and while looking for more information about this incident, I found some crazy stuff about this movie and well, the curse of the Wizard of Oz. After diving further, I found many more films that have had eerie or extremely tragic circumstances surrounding the cast and crew during and after being involved with these movies. Therefore, many people believe these specific movies are cursed. And some of these curses have followed the cast and crew to the end of their lives… which unfortunately for some, came shortly before or after filming began. Today's topic is: Cursed Movies. https://time.com/5647491/wizard-of-oz-curse/ https://fable.co/blog/the-controversy-with-the-wizard-of-oz https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/wizard-of-oz-appalling-stories https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-wizard-of-oz-seven-things-you-never-knew-about-the-classic-film/news-story/2400061e2c11458fd46b0d4d98101ac1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/wild-wizard-of-oz-movie-facts https://crberryauthor.com/2021/12/10/whos-to-blame-for-the-munchkin-suicide-in-the-wizard-of-oz/ https://filmdaily.co/news/the-omen-curse/ https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/unexplained-phenomena/the-curse-of-the-passion-of-the-christ-movie

In January of 1999, a tugboat captain was making his way down the Vistula River on a dreary winter morning in Krakow, Poland. Suddenly, something got stuck in his boat propeller. When the crew went to investigate, they saw some kind pale, rubber-ish, sac-like… spotted looking substance. But when they got closer, they could smell it. It was putrid. And they were horrified and what they were looking at. This is the case of Katarzyna Zowada. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Murder_of_Katarzyna_Zowada https://www.dailycrime.com/katarzyna-zowada-the-skin-suit-murder-case-that-shocked-a-nation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Katarzyna_Zowada https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/inside-silence-lambs-murder-katarzyna-26787105

Do you believe in coincidences - events and circumstances in your life that seem as if they’ve almost been arranged even though they couldn’t have been? Or do you think these situations WERE somehow arranged; either by a higher power, or possibly… another person? That’s the question in today's case: The Mysterious Murders of Mary Morris and Mary Morris. Sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/onv4pi/the_mary_morris_murders/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Morris_and_Mary_Morris https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/689789/posts https://unsolved.com/gallery/mary-lou-mary-mcginnis-morris/

Urban legends are just that- legends; stories that spread quickly and are believed to be true, yet they are unverified. They usually involve elements of horror, humor, or irony. Today I will be talking about 3 different urban legends. But the catch with these are… they have been documented and verified. https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/state/couple-slept-over-dead-body-ep-408800971-358838911.html/ https://wreg.com/news/man-guilty-in-murder-of-woman-found-under-motel-bed/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sony-millbrook-picture-missing-woman-found-rotting-under-motel-bed/ https://www.actionnews5.com/story/12166367/ex-boyfriend-person-of-interest-in-sony-millbrook-case/ https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/state/couple-slept-over-dead-body-ep-408800971-358838911.html/ https://listverse.com/2018/02/07/10-curious-places-where-corpses-were-discovered/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/elmer-mccurdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-finds-man-hiding-coat-backseat-car-driving/story?id=101397703

Today's story is tragic, and truly... WEIRD. It's about a French toddler who may, or may not have gone missing. The family may or may not have been reunited with their baby. Today's topic is the strange case of Pauline Picard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Pauline_Picard https://www.mamamia.com.au/pauline-picard-mystery/ https://medium.com/@yasminscherrer/two-murders-two-disappearances-the-grisly-murder-of-pauline-picard-7a6f43bfe68 https://www.historicmysteries.com/pauline-picard-disappearance-story/ https://morbidology.com/the-mysterious-case-of-pauline-picard/ https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Louise_Marcelle_Pauline

Today’s story is about a 13 year old girl who went missing the very first time she was going to be left home alone; ironically, on a day she was truly scared to be left home alone. It was during Hurricane Andrew – one of the largest hurricane’s to hit the gulf coast, making landfall as a category 5 in 1992. This is the suspicious disappearance of Leigh Occhi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/56dco8/the_disappearance_of_leigh_occhi_a_13yearold_girl/ https://news.yahoo.com/leah-occhi-disappearance-mother-law-190500480.html

Kacie Woody was a 13 year old girl who met some friends in an online chat room. Her best friends and her family were leery about how much Kacie seemed to trust these new people, especially as she had began giving out some personal information such as her phone number... and home address. Let this be a cautionary tale about the dangers that lurk on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kacie_Woody https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2003/dec/16/running-out-time/

Climbing Mount Everest is on many bucket lists. But, climbers... Beware. https://uproxx.com/life/mount-everest-deaths-how-many-every-year/ https://mounteverest.info/pee-poop-everest/ https://mounteverest.info/how-cold-mount-everest/ https://www.grunge.com/154203/heres-why-people-keep-dying-on-mount-everest/ https://www.outsideonline.com/2317461/what-happens-inside-your-body-when-you-climb-everest https://www.businessinsider.com/high-altitude-climbers-psychosis-hallucinations-2018-1

Bryce Laspisa was a fun, bright 19-year-old who started exhibiting some troubling behaviors 2 weeks into his sophomore year in college. The string of events that happened with Bryce after this are nothing short of bizarre. This is the mysterious disappearance of Bryce Laspisa. https://allthatsinteresting.com/bryce-laspisa https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/the-unexplained-disappearance-of-bryce-laspisa

Today we are talking the mysterious death of a 19 year old girl named Kenneka Jenkins. Kenneka attended a party with her friends. They had a little fun and drank a little bit. Fast forward a few hours, and Kenneka found herself wandering the eerily empty halls of the hotel all by herself. And soon, she found herself in a predicament that she wouldn’t find her way out of. This is the mysterious death of Kenneka Jenkins. https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Kenneka-Jenkins-What-Really-Happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kenneka_Jenkins https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6497675/Family-Kenneka-Jenkins-sues-hotel-died-50MILLION.html https://people.com/crime/kenneka-jenkins-hotel-freezer-dead-party/

Cynthia "Cindy" Anderson was a 20-year-old young woman who was living in Toledo, Ohio in 1980. Cindy began having a recurring nightmare. She kept dreaming that a stranger would break into their house, abduct her, and then murder her. Cindy even told her mother about these alarming nightmares, but her mother reassured her that they were just bad dreams. Unfortunately for Cindy and her family, these so-called nightmares were more than likely premonitions. This is the mysterious disappearance of Cynthia Anderson. ⁠https://medium.com/true-crime-cafe/the-missing-40-years-later-where-is-cynthia-anderson-8027c2575279⁠ ⁠https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Cynthia_Anderson⁠ ⁠https://unsolved.com/gallery/cynthia-anderson/⁠ ⁠https://medium.com/@kharatanurag571/where-is-cynthia-anderson-d5a03edc4c0⁠ ⁠https://charleyproject.org/case/cynthia-jane-anderson⁠ ⁠https://coldcaseexplorations.com/ohio-cold-or-unsolved-casesohio/the-abrupt-disappearance-of-cynthia-anderson/#strange-phone-calls⁠ ⁠https://intothinairmysteries.wordpress.com/2021/08/19/cynthia-jane-anderson/⁠

The simulation theory is one that involves the work of great philosophers, physicists, scientists, and mathematicians… it’s not just one of those “spooky” conspiracy theories, it’s an actual hypothesis. And a terrifying one at that. https://plus.maths.org/content/it-bit https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/05/26/observing-the-universe-really-does-change-the-outcome-and-this-experiment-shows-how/?sh=de4c54f67af1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk https://hackaday.com/2016/09/07/the-quantum-eraser/ https://sciencing.com/schrodingers-cat-simplified-what-is-it-why-is-important-13722577.html

Today we are heading to Germany for one of the country’s most disturbing unsolved murders of all time: the Hinterkaifeck Murders. Sources: https://medium.com/@lisariggio1994/unsolved-but-not-forgotten-the-1922-hinterkaifeck-murders-ace6874f0df0 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crime https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/hinterkaifeck-murders/

Project Bluebeam is a secret government program that most government officials will tell you doesn’t exist. It is one of the WILDEST conspiracy theories out there. Serge Monast, an investigative journalist from Quebec, published a book about NASA’s secret mission known as Project Bluebeam. Monast died mysteriously and many conspiracy theorists believe he was silenced. Today I will be discussing Project Bluebeam.

On Christimas eve of 1945, George and Jennie Sodder, and 9 of their 10 children were getting ready for Christmas day. They all eventually went to sleep, but around 1am, they were awoken to the smell of smoke – their house was on fire. 4 of the 9 family members inside managed to make it out of the house. Which meant that the other 5 never came out. You would assume as investigators did, that these children unfortunately died in the home that night. But things are not always so straightforward. This is the Mysterious story of the Sodder Children.   https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Mysterious-Disappearance-of-the-Sodder-Children https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

If you’re a dog owner like many Americans, you probably take your dog on walks. Most people around the world do this. But the townspeople of Dumbarton, Scotland take extra care, or completely avoid an area in particular with their dogs. Overtoun Bridge… otherwise known as… the Dog Suicide Bridge. https://allthatsinteresting.com/overtoun-bridge⁠ ⁠https://overtounhouse.org/history-of-overtoun-house/⁠ ⁠https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201008/do-dogs-commit-suicide⁠ ⁠https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/11/05/the_dog_suicide_bridge_at_overtoun_house_in_scotland.html⁠ ⁠https://threwthelookingglass.com/overtoun-bridge/⁠ ⁠https://people.com/pets/dumbarton-scotland-dog-suicide-bridge-overtoun/⁠ ⁠https://www.asacredjourney.net/thin-places/⁠ ⁠https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/22/this-column-change-your-life-heaven-earth⁠ ⁠https://rockykanaka.com/mysterious-scottish-bridge/⁠ ⁠https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/why-do-dogs-kill-themselves-at-the-overtoun-bridge-fce5abc75235⁠

Imagine this. You're lying around at home on a lazy afternoon, reclined back watching TV. Your significant other is in the other room. You've fallen asleep watching your favorite show. All of the sudden your significant other smells something.... Burning? They're looking around, calling your name from the next room to ask if you smell it too, but there is no response. So they get up and make their way into the living room where you've been watching TV. And, they begin screaming. They can’t believe what they’re seeing; because YOU are what's on fire. Your significant other frantically tries looking for their phone so they can call 911 all while trying to figure out how to put this fire out. But they're too late. You're like a human wick, your body fat is fueling the fury of flames. By the time the fire department gets to your house, here is nothing left of you... Except your foot. There is no other explanation but no one wants to call it what it is... Spontaneous Human Combustion. https://critical-thinking.org.uk/spontaneous-human-combustion https://www.history.com/news/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real https://allthatsinteresting.com/spontaneous-human-combustion https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-reeser https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-baker-spontaneous-combustion_n_4024833 https://www.livescience.com/42080-spontaneous-human-combustion.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/shc.html

Andrew Dawson was a TikTok user, known on the platform as @andykapt. In April of 2022, Andrew was making a video of the beautiful snowy mountain landscape surrounding him from the passenger seat of a friend's car. Then, he spots something on the mountain top; something that might have been what ended up costing him his life. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOajRmbroY0 https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/what-happened-to-andrew-dawson-from-tiktok-2005529/ https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8401876/andrew-dawson-tiktok/

What do the Vikings, the Nazi’s, Amelia Earhart, Hitler, the Mayans, flying saucers, Reptilians, woolly mammoths, and Giants all have in common? Tune in to find out. 👽 Sources: https://www.wired.com https://new.osu.edu https://www.en.wikipedia.org https://www.atlasobscura.com https://anomalien.com https://www.hollowearthresearch.org https://medium.com

John List and his family were living the American dream… they WERE the American dream. On the surface, everything was beautiful. But as we know, things are not always what they seem. Sources: https://allthatsinterenting.com/john-list https://en.wikipedia.org/

Did you hear? The internet died! Or did it? Take a deep dive into the Dead Internet Theory and how it could change (or is in the process of changing) the future of humanity and life as we know it. Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com https://www.digs.net/the-dead-internet-theory/