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Bangor Daily News article by Kent Ward, December 4, 2009
Episode 255 - Evil Kids: Top 13 Horror Movies with Kids Behaving Badly, Part 2
More terrible kids scary movies, ending with the number one bad-kid movie, a mostly forgotten classic with the most monstrous baby to ever go on a killing spree.
Episode254 - Evil Kids: Top 13 Horror Movies with Kids Behaving Badly, Part 1
We bring you the “best” horror movies where children do horrific things to people. From classics to little known gems, these are kids behaving badly.
Episode 253 - The Legend of the Dark Watchers
They lurk along the high ridges of the Santa Lucia Mountains on California’s Central Coast. Ten foot tall faceless things in black cloaks that silently monitor those who travel through their rugged territory. Who - or what - are the Dark Watchers?
Episode 252 - The True Story Behind The Exorcist
The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever made. You probably know about the levitating victim, flying objects, twisting heads, bad words, tons of projectile vomit, and crucifix abuse. But did you know this horrifying story was based on actual events? You do now.
Episode 251 - The Fresno Nightcrawler
It’s a super creepy something that struts across a meadow or your backyard in the dead of night in billowy pajama pants. It’s two long legs jutting straight from a tiny head and it moves in an odd, jerky motion. If this thing wasn’t caught on tape we wouldn’t believe it was real.
Weird Bit 48 - Malawi Terror Beast
What terrorized the Doha region of Malawi in 2003? Whatever it was left three dead and 16 more injured, most horrifically disfigured. Though authorities blamed a rabid hyena, locals weren’t so sure…
Episode 250 - Ghost Tape #10
Say you’re a Viet Cong soldier fighting the U.S. in 1969. In the dark of night you hear eerie sounds. Screaming wind. Screeching voices telling you they are your child, your brother, your father. They are dead. They are ghosts. And they want you to lay down your arms and go home. What would you do? This actually happened, so let’s find out.
Episode 249 - Scary Stories Told in the Dark With a Ouija Board
The Ouija board has been scaring people for over 130 years. Today we discover where it came from, its use and misuse through the years, and the six things you should NEVER do to a Ouija board.
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Episode 248 - The Secret Lives of Tarot Cards, Part 2
Are tarot cards a relic of a more magical time gifted to us by the ancients to divine the future? Or do we know exactly when, where and who turned them into what they are today? Let’s find out. And even though some of the techniques many tarot readers use to make their magic might not be what they seem, we still think they’re fun.
Episode 247 - The Secret Lives of Tarot Cards, Part 1
Millions of people use tarot cards to foretell the future or discover their inner selves. Let’s find out how that works. In Part 1 we start with everything you wanted to know about the cards and what they mean but were afraid to ask. Then armed with this knowledge, we do not one but two live tarot readings!
Episode 246 - The Thrilla in Chowchilla
When a group of drug-addled privileged rich kids decide they want to make movies, they know they need money. Their plan - kidnap a bus full of school children and hold them for ransom. Genius.
Episode 245 - Fear of Flying
Juliane Koepcke was just 17 when she saw lightning hit the wing of the plane soaring over the Peruvian rain forest. She felt the plane shudder. Then she could look down and see the tops of the rain forest canopy. 10,000 feet below.
Episode 244 - Weird News 2
More weird news brings us some gruesome discoveries from a drying lake, some old discoveries from a drying river, a vengeful elephant and the possible solution to one of the great Australian mysteries - who was the Somerton Man.
Episode 243 - The Best Restaurant Never
The Shed at Dulwich. Sounds like a trendy London restaurant, doesn’t it? It was. Kind of. Turns out it really was a shed. In Dulwich. But there were other things that made it different from every other restaurant ever.
Episode 242 - Bloody Benders, Part Three
The Benders always seem to be a step ahead of their pursuers. And some who track them into othe wilds of West Texas never return. Then authorities think they found Kate and Ma, but did they? Will we ever really know what happened to the Bloody Benders?
Episode 241 - Bloody Benders, Part Two - **Content Warning
Content Warning - Discussion of death, including child death and some description of violence
The search for one of the missing in Kansas finally finds its way to the Bender homestead. What is discovered in the apple orchard shocks the nation. The Benders are suddenly the monsters of the nation. Now if only someone could find them.
Episode 240 - Bloody Benders, Part One
Kansas of 1870 was the edge of civilization in the U.S. at the time. When an immigrant family from Germany named the Benders open a way station along the Osage Trail in southeastern Kansas in 1871, it wasn’t long before travelers started going missing. It would be tragically too long, though,before anyone began to suspect what happened to them.
Episode 239 - The World of Weird News
It’s tough keeping up with strange stuff happening every day all around us. So relax and let us tell you about crab-flavored whiskey, giant snails, people-swallowing whales and so much more.
Episode 238 - The Town That Dreaded Sasquatch
Something big, hairy and scary was out in the woods surrounding little Port Chatham on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Finally the town gave up and its residents fled en masse. What exactly made Port Chatham a ghost town?