Jacob Erwin Wetterling was an American boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota who was kidnapped from his hometown and murdered at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989. His abduction remained a mystery for nearly 27 years.

It’s not everyday a plane filled with 239 passengers and crew goes missing and is never found. 7 years ago on March 8th 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off on a routine flight from Malaysia to China. The journey was to be 5 hours and family members gathered at the airport in Beijing to await their loved ones. They never arrived. One hour after take off, flight 370 took a sharp turn back towards Malaysia after the radar and communications on board were shut off. It was supposed to be...

The final episode in the pilot season of the Very Eerie, Extremely Wicked, and Quite Spooky podcast. This season has been all about the perplexing world of cults and how they may start off as welcoming communes that bring peace but eventually turn into something more sinister or vile. Unlike the previous cults we have discussed, Heaven’s Gate falls on to a different spectrum. It didn’t have scandals or allegations of abuse that led to its downfall. It didn’t have a siege or was claiming to be...

NXIVM was an American sex cult that engaged in sex trafficking while claiming to be a multi-level marketing company. Based in Clifton Park, New York, a suburb of Albany, the group claimed to offer personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs" of large-group awareness training. The Garden, formerly known as Shut Up and Grow It, is commune that claims to be egalitarian, alternative, leaderless (leaderful), community, propagating a culture of sharing,...

For nearly two months in 1993, the city of Waco, Texas was under the spotlight for the intense standoff between federal and state law enforcement against the religious sect The Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh. A religious group originating in the 50s, The Branch Davidians were founded based on Victor Houteff’s prophecy of an imminent apocalypse involving the Second Coming of Jesus. After allegations of abuse and potentially housing illegal weapons, law enforcement began investigating...

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: CHILD S*XUAL ABUSE* A family with a sinister history. On episode 3 of our pilot season on cults, Raven and Rhe get pretty heated when discussing the notorious group Children Of God which unlike the previous cults we’ve looked at, this one is still active despite the decades worth of scandals, controversies, and illegal activities. This cult is known to have once had members you may recognize like the family of River & Joaquin Phoenix as well as Rose McGowan. We warn our...

The Manson Family was a desert commune and cult led by Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The group consisted of approximately 50 of followers, who lived an unconventional lifestyle with habitual use of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD

Have you ever had someone tell you “don’t drink the kool-aid?” Did you know that phrase was coined following the tragedy of Jonestown that took place in 1978? After 918 devoted followers of The Peoples Temple died from drinking cyanide laced KooL-aid, the phrase means for one to not be taken in by anything like an idea or person to the point where your whole life is dedicated to it, which is unfortunately what happened on that fateful day in Guyana. On the pilot episode of season one of The...

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