In this week's episode, Abby brings us back to the true crime of it all with the horrible story of Daniel LaPlante. Although this story is chock-full of disclaimers and content warnings, the gang forges ahead with the story about a disturbed teenager who would go on to commit heinous crimes against the Bowen family and the Gustafson family during the 1980s in Massachusetts, culminating in the murder of three innocent lives. Credits: The Boston...

In this week's episode, Shawna and Abby have a lot of catching up to do, especially after Shawna's return from Mexico. If you want to skip to the story, we understand that; the time stamp you're looking for is 20:40. After catching up, Shawna delves into the mysterious missing person case of Brian Shaffer, a young American medical student who went out to celebrate the beginning of spring break with friends and was never seen again. Credits: Wikipedia.com Crime Junkie Podcast And That's Why...

In this week's episode, Abby shares the harrowing survival story of Juliane Koepcke. Juliane was a teenage girl who became the only survivor of LANSA flight 508 after the plane crashed in the Amazon rainforest in 1971. Tune in to hear about Juliane's incredible resourcefulness and willpower, which helped her to escape the jungle and survive. Credits: When I Fell From The Sky By Juliane Koepcke 1998 Documentary: Wings Of Hope, directed by Werner Herzog Wikipedia.com Music...

In this week's episode, Shawna tackles the thrilling and mysterious case of three prisoners who escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. Tune in as we delve into the meticulous planning and execution of the prisoner's escape plan, as well as the theories surrounding what happened to the men after their great escape. Credits: Wikipedia.com FBI.gov My Favorite Murder Ep 214 Documentary-Alcatraz Prison Escape: Deathbed Confession Music By: Brokeforfree.com Matt Edwards Edited By:...

In this week's episode, Abby brings us back to the story that started it all, The RMS Titanic. Tune in to hear the tragic first-hand accounts of the passengers who survived the sinking and vivid descriptions of what it was like to be on the ill-fated ship the night it went down. Credits: A Night To Remember by Walter Lord Wikipedia PBS.org Buzzfeed.com Music By: Brokeforfree.com Matt Edwards Edited By:Michael Website:https://anxiousandafraidthepod.com/ Support the show by purchasing...

In this week's episode, Shawna kicks off the return of Anxious and Afraid by telling the incredible and harrowing survival tale of Harrison Okene, a man who sank to the bottom of the sea and lived to tell the tale. Tune in for this extraordinary story of human endurance and the ability to keep a level head even in the most stressful times. Don't miss this astonishing story! Listen to the Anxious and Afraid podcast now on your favorite platform. And show your support by purchasing our...

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In this week's episode, Abby tells the crew all about the natural disaster at Lake Nyos. In Cameroon, West Africa during the month of August in 1986, a crater lake called Lake Nyos abruptly erupted a large cloud of mysterious white gas which traveled into the nearby villages, wreaking death and destruction on whatever it touched. Listen in to hear all the details on this devastating natural disaster and how scientists cracked the case and worked to ensure it never happened again. **If you...

In this week's episode, Abby regales the crew with the mystifying tale of the ghost blimp. Amid WWII, a fleet of blimps would be assigned the mission of patrolling the West Coast of California for Japanese submarines. These missions were largely uneventful until August 16th, 1942 when two experienced pilots would set out on a routine patrolling mission and never be seen again. The blimp, however, was a different story. Tune in to hear all the details on this mind-bending unsolved...

In this week's episode, the crew is excited to celebrate their 100th episode milestone! We want to say a big thank you to all of our listeners for sticking with us and joining us on this crazy ride of a podcast, we couldn't have done it without you! As for the topic of this momentous episode, Abby and Shawna decided to collaborate on a natural disaster they both find equally terrifying: Earthquakes and tsunamis. In March 2011 in the country of Japan, a massive 9.1 earthquake would strike just...

In this week's episode, Abby regales the crew with another disaster story detailing the horrific Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a stiflingly hot day in Hartford, Connecticut on July 6th when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to town. What started as a day of fun would come to a terrible end when the big top caught fire and killed many people still trapped inside. The following events would mark the day as one of the worst fire disasters in United States...

In this week's episode, Abby brings the crew part one of a real nail-biter of a two-part series on the demise of Eastern Airlines Flight 401. On December 29th, 1972, Eastern Airlines flight 401 departed from JFK airport on a regularly scheduled flight to Miami, Florida. Sadly, many of the passengers and crew would not make it to their destination as multiple errors and distractions in the cockpit caused the flight to crash into the Everglades. Tune in for all the devastating details from this...

In this week's episode, Abby pulls another strange "rain" story out of her pocket, much to Shawna's delight. It was the year 1983 in Stroudsburg PA when a young man named Don Decker became seemingly possessed by a dark entity and began exhibiting strange abilities. Much to the shock and confusion of the people around him, wherever Don went, rain would follow him...indoors. Tune in for all the soggy details on this strange unexplained paranormal case! Credits: Unsolved Mysteries...

In this week's episode, Abby takes on a very infamous case in the state of Oregon and the horrible tragedy that occurred in the host's hometown of Springfield, Oregon. In 1983 a young woman named Diane Downs brought her grievously wounded children to the hospital claiming that a bushy-haired stranger had shot them all. The ensuing investigation would bring the real story to light, forever changing the small town and the lives of Diane's small children. Credits: Small Sacrifices by Ann...

In this week's episode, Abby takes the gang on a spooky adventure with the story of Norman the doll. Stephen Lancaster, a longtime paranormal investigator, would be thrust into the case of a lifetime after he purchased a Matty Mattel doll from an antique store in 2016. Within 24 hours, the doll would prove itself as a paranormal force to be reckoned with and Stephen's life would never be the same. Credits: Norman, The Doll That Needed To Be Locked Away by Stephen Lancaster Phenomenologist...

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In this week's episode, the gang returns from their break to bring you an action-packed story of adventure and tragedy in the country of Kyrgyzstan. In the year 2000, 4 young American rock climbers would depart on a trip of a lifetime to a remote region of Kyrgyzstan to do some epic climbing, sponsored by The Northface. Sadly, the group would be taken hostage by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the days that followed would test the Americans to the ends of their mental and...

In this week's episode, Abby brings the crew an anxiety-inducing tale of devastation and destruction when she tells the story of the 1947 Texas City industrial disaster. April 16th, 1947 started out like any other normal day in the small port town of Texas City but would soon turn deadly after a large cargo ship carrying explosive materials caught fire and detonated, killing hundreds of people and ravaging the area. Tune in for the heartbreaking details of this case and listen to some of the...

In this week's episode, Shawna shares the story of the disappearance of Frederick Valentich. In October of 1978, Valentich, a young pilot, was performing a training flight over the Bass Strait between the Australian mainland and Tasmania when he reported a strange sighting to Melbourne Flight Service. Valentich's radio then cut out and he was never seen or heard from again. Listen in as the crew discusses possible theories as to what happened to Frederick Valentich and his plane that night in...

In this week's episode, Abby returns with part two of the two-part story on the tragic death of Brittany Murphy. After Brittany was pronounced dead just before Christmas in 2009, the public and the media went wild with theories of drug overdoses and complications from an eating disorder. The official cause of death however, would only quell the rumors for a short time before another death in the same household as Murphy would fuel the media storm even further. Listen in to learn the strange...

In this week's episode, Abby introduces a two-part story on the life and tragic death of Brittany Murphy. In part one, the crew discusses the Hollywood culture of the 2000s and its damaging effects on the celebrities who experienced it, including Brittany Murphy. Even after gaining relative success in her acting career, Murphy struggled with her image in the press and constant rumors about drug abuse and eating disorders. In 2007 she married Simon Monjack, a British writer, and producer with...

In this week's episode, Shawna revisits her favorite topic of reincarnation cases! This time she tells the tale of a little girl named Rylann O'Bannion from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Little Rylann was only two years old when she started saying odd things about a past life that had tragically been cut short. Her parents would eventually come to believe what to them was unbelievable. Was Rylann O'Bannion a bonafide case of reincarnation? Listen in for the details! Credits: Ghost Inside My Child...

In this week's Baby Bonus episode, Abby brings the crew together to tell them all about a great book she recently read called Chasing Ghosts by Marc Hartzman. Listen in as Abby reads a couple of her favorite stories from the book about hungry ghosts, swindling spiritualists, and cursed movie sets! Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural https://www.marchartzmanbooks.com/books/chasing-ghosts-a-tour-of-our-fascination-with-spirits-and-the-supernatural ...

In this week’s episode, Abby takes us once again into the now declassified Government-funded program, Project Stargate. But this time the crew will be hearing a story about a man named David Morehouse, a decorated soldier who found himself in the remote viewing program during his time in the military and came away with some incredible accounts and lasting effects. Tune in for David Morehouse’s unbelievable story and the insider details on the top-secret program. Credits: Psychic Warrior by...