The Horrifying Purple Fire Snowstorm Of Bar Harbor Maine and Other Weirdness
This podcast we’re going to talk about our town’s purple fire snowstorm about 170 years ago and other weird things that happened in 1853, showcased in just one newspaper on one day. It was February 170 years ago that a lightning storm hit Mount Desert Island, striking dozens of people and creating a weather mystery […]
Just The Facts: Who Gets Murdered and Why Don’t We Know More
This episode we talk facts about homicide. And Iceland. Carrie talks Iceland. Come hang out with us for a bit while we talk about homicide stats from the U.S. and the globe. And Iceland. Always Iceland. So many sources!
The Eastern Roswell?
You guessed it, we’re talking all about one state, one tiny state, on the Eastern seaboard and how it’s been a hotspot for UFO sightings. It’s so fun. Come hang out with us. THE AMAZING BOOK WE REFERENCE It’s Taryn Plumb’s New England UFOs. You can buy it! We weren’t paid to say that, but […]
Werewolves and Dogmen in Maine. Oh Yeah, Bring it.
This episode we talk not just about the infamous tale of five werewolves in Palmyra, Maine, but delve a bit more deeply into Maine’s current outbreak of cryptoids of the canine type. Join us! SOURCES https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/82/werewolf-sighting-maine https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2022/05/bipedal-wolf-pack-stalked-family-in.html https://www.unsettlingthings.com/dogman-sightings-in-maine-4-true-stories/
No One Stopped To Save Her The Story of A Murdered Oregon College Student
When I was in ninth grade, my mom had a man she’d been flirting with move into our house while he “got back on his feet.” He travelled all the way from Oregon to our house, carrying a couple gifts. A Oregon mascot that was green and vaguely cute. Stiff furred. A jersey again with […]
One Car. One Man. No Answers.
The world of stamp collecting doesn’t seem like a world of intrigue and crime, a place where people end up dead in a car in Maine. But some people think that’s exactly what happened to Massachusetts man James Arlington Cassidy Stamp collecting has been a hobby since 1840, which is when the first pre-paid stamp, […]
First Time Hitchhiking Solo and Leslie Spellman Never Made It Back Home Part Two
Last week we started our two-part series about Leslie Spellman, a young woman on a hiking adventure whose body was found in a garden on the island where we live in Maine back in the 1970s and this week we continue that story with a little more detail. This is the story of Leslie E. […]
Cold Case in Acadia National Park Leslie Spellman Part One
There’s something so alluring about national parks, alluring and sometimes dangerous. The big vistas of nature tend to lend themselves to both mishaps and murder. Join us as we talk about the death of 27-year-old yoga instructor, Leslie Spellman. We’re going to have a part two next week where we clean up some of the […]
Maine Man Becomes a Mummy The Life and Death of Elmer McCurdy
Sometimes you can’t catch any breaks. Sometimes you might have the worst train robbery in history with the smallest take ever. And sometimes you die and become an amusement park dummy. It sounds like an episode of Supernatural or the X-Files, but it’s actually true. Join us at Dude, No as we hear about the […]
The Accountant Who Went Missing In Maine
How many people go missing every year in the United States? According to National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS) database, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 600,000. In Maine this year so far there are 108 people missing. Right now there are a couple of men missing in our area and […]