Episodes
Who's responsible— the puppet master or the puppet? Clara Schwartz, the "Chaos Lord," knew how to manipulate her friends through role-playing games. Her codewords and murderous RPG campaigns pulled the strings on her mentally ill friend, Kyle Hulbert, who was quickly losing touch with reality. This eventually led him to kill Clara's father with a sword.
Published 03/22/24
Published 03/15/24
What would cause a family to restrain and kill one of their own? For the Ife family: demonic possession. In August 2016, Kennedy Ife complained of a sore throat, which he later believed was a demonic serpent making its way deeper into his body. Instead of going to the hospital, the Ife family took the situation into their own hands.
Published 03/15/24
Amusement parks often become the opposite of what they're supposed to be: a blissful day in the sun. Instead, they’re places of pure terror, chaos, and gore in the blink of an eye. Deranged hostage situations, fatal mechanical failures, and bleak social experiments have also plagued even the happiest places on Earth.
Published 03/08/24
He believed that Lauren was an angel and it wasn't possible for her to die. By shooting her, he would send her to another dimension. And he believed he was sacrificing himself and his freedom for the common good of the world. He thought there was a cosmic battle between good and evil, and this murder was how he got God involved. But he was a pawn for the Devil.


Published 02/23/24
In 1997, the quiet city of Pearl, Mississippi, hadn't seen a homicide in 2 years. Luke Woodham would quickly change that, killing 3 people, including his own mother, and injuring 7 other students at Pearl High School. He later pled not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that demons had commanded him to kill. Do you believe him?
Published 02/16/24
Born into a devout Mormon family but obsessed with amoral cult-like ideologies, the charming Glenn Taylor Helzer rejected mainstream religion and adopted his own. At the young age of 14, he began hearing voices he believed were spirits sent by God. By the time he was an adult, he had convinced his younger brother and a complete stranger to help him kidnap, extort, and murder his victims in cold blood— all in the name of God.
Published 02/09/24
Known as "Death Row Granny," Velma Barfield murdered between 5 and 7 victims with arsenic-based rat poison. Her victims included her love interests, her husbands, the elderly that she cared for, and even her own mother. Was Velma a heartless killer with no conscience, or did her prescription drug addiction send her into temporary psychosis?
Published 02/02/24
Sarra Gilbert believes her mother is an "evil god." She then stabs her 227 times, bludgeons her with a fire extinguisher, and tries to decapitate her. After a plea of not guilt by reason of insanity, the jury has to decide: was this gruesome parricide brought on by a life of abuse, drugs, and severe mental illnesses? Or is Sarra Gilbert, deep down, a cold-blooded killer looking for revenge?
Published 02/01/24
With 100 confirmed ghosts residing on the property, Chillingham Castle is one of England's most haunted castles. Each spirit has suffered its own personal tragedy. Some watched their loved ones burn alive. Others were forced into barrels embedded with nails and pushed down a hill. As tragic as their stories are, these spirits are now a testament to England's violence against the Scottish.
Published 01/26/24
“The Lord forgives everyone,” says the Satanist murderer who killed and cannibalized his teenage friends. Back in 2008, Nikolai Ogolobyak took his satanic rituals to the next level with human sacrifice. Years later, Putin pardoned him for his crimes after agreeing to serve in combat in Ukraine. Nikolai is now a God-fearing man who believes he is forgiven.
Published 01/19/24
Did a demonic ride-sharing app cause Jason Dalton to go on a killing spree? Once known as an easygoing family man, Jason had no criminal record, no known emotional baggage, no financial troubles, no known mental illness, or extremist ideologies. So what caused him to finally snap?
Published 01/12/24
Behind bars, Larry Millete has professed his innocence in the disappearance of his wife, Maya. Yet the bloody, violent spellcasting rituals, hidden subliminal messages, and well-documented infidelity might tell a different story.
Published 12/22/23
Eldon Samuel III was the product of an incredibly destructive household. His parents had abused tens of thousands of prescription medications, while his father programmed him into believing a deadly zombie apocalypse was already underway. Eldon’s half-sister once said: “He never had a chance.”
Published 12/15/23
For many, college is a time to find yourself, establish your future, and build life-long relationships. For a small group of friends at Sarah Lawrence College, Larry Ray exchanged their experience with manipulation, torture, sexual coercion, and severing all ties to their loved ones.
Published 12/08/23
Only the quiet ones will be left…” In the sleepy college town of Springfield, Missouri, the Staudte family members began to die one after the next— each painted with a mysterious ring of blood around their lips. After a year and a half of tragedy, the local pastor finally uncovered the truth.
Published 12/01/23
In Honolulu, every square mile is swarming with paranormal hauntings— from the Police Headquarters, to the Drive-In Theater, to the Water Pumping Station. But it’s no surprise these hauntings riddle the island of Oahu, since colonizers have desecrated thousands of burial plots since the 1700s.
Published 11/24/23
Grant Amato fell into a deep, disturbing obsession with a Bulgarian cam girl. When his family tried to come between him and the love of his life, it ended in a triple- homicide.
Published 11/17/23
Shelly Knotek knew exactly how to love-bomb, manipulate, and abuse her victims— including her own husband and children. She also knew how to disguise herself as a Good Samaritan in the eyes of the community. But behind closed doors, she was America’s most evil mother.
Published 11/10/23
The "Torture King," Russ McKamey, gets accused of every crime under the sun. But what's fabricated drama, and what's the truth? The infamous man known for running the most intense haunted experience has a lot of explaining to do.
Published 11/03/23
In 1974, a controversial Poltergeist case hit the headlines, and a crowd of thousands gathered around a tiny house in Bridgeport, CT. The haunting would become so high-profile that police were pressured by superiors to write it off as a hoax and disperse the crowd. Famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were later accused of fabricating evidence. All the while, the family living in the home suffered at the hands of the unknown, and no one could help them.
Published 10/27/23
“In a time when most haunted houses were single-file mazes of actors in monster masks scaring an audience of teenagers, the Blackout Experience emerged. Starting in a small Manhattan theater in 2009, Blackout made a name for itself by curating personal horrors for adults only and delivering disturbing realism.”
Published 10/20/23
“Taylor Schabusiness went from a no-name drug addict to one of the most notorious killers of 2022. With 3 different drugs in her system, she murdered, beheaded, and mutilated Shad Thyrion while sexually assaulting his dead body-- only to leave his head in a bucket for his mother to find.”
Published 10/13/23
“Obsessed with bloodlust and mutilation, Richard Chase would take on the nickname “The Vampire of Sacramento.”
Published 10/06/23
“In the early 1900s, reaching the moon seemed like a work of science fiction— or possibly magic. But the enigma, Jack Parsons, was determined to bridge the gap between hard science and fiction, even if that meant dabbling in the farthest corners of sex-magic.”
Published 09/29/23