Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie
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Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie
He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird. With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable. Sean’s sha...
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Ep. 195: Bad Santas
We're swinging into December with a cavalcade of criminal Clauses this week, as Sean ticks off some notable examples of men who made the Naughty List...
Ep. 194: The Austin Servant Girl Annihilator, Pt. 2 - BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
We return to the autumn of 1885 this week where, in Austin, Texas, six victims - most of them Black domestic servants - have already been claimed by a...
Ep. 193: The Austin Servant Girl Annihilator, Pt. 1 - "We Are All Dead"
Beginning in late 1884 and throughout 1885, Austin, the boomtown capitol of Texas, was terrorized and sensationalized by a series of horrific murders....
Ep. 192: Vermont Hauntings, Legends and Strangeness
To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never really ends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Ve...
Ep. 191: Weather Control
A topical storm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online t...
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Spooky Flicks and Halloween Party Invites
In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before di...
Ep. 190: Halloween Urban Legends - Teens in Trouble
Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting i...
Ep. 189: Legends of the New Jersey Pine Barrens - Ghosts, the Jersey Devil and Pirate Treasure
The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anyt...
Ep. 188: The OceanGate Disaster
On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire...
Ep. 187: Son of Sam, Pt. 2 - Son of Hope
Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders!
Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David B...
Ep. 186: Son of Sam, Pt. 1 - The Chubby Behemoth
Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic fo...
Ep. 185: The Tylenol Murders
In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take invest...
Ep. 184: Mothman, Pt. 3 - Unifying Theory of Mothman
#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastr...
A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals
Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer jus...
Ep. 183: Mothman, Pt. 2 - Pinkeye in Point Pleasant
This week, we return to Point Pleasant for even more high strangeness as the Men in Black, a fleet of UFOs, and author John Keel descend on the town a...
Ep. 182: Mothman, Pt. 1 - Daddy Magneto
This week, #HotMothSummer continues as we finally reach the story we've been building up to: the strange tale of the Mothman, a maybe-cryptid maybe-al...
Ep. 181: Men in Black, Pt. 2 - Good Cop, Bathroom Cop
#HotMothSummer presses on this week with part 2 of our primer on the Men in Black!
Sean takes us back to 1953 Bridgeport, Connecticut, as we hea...
Ep. 180: Men in Black, Pt. 1 - Middle-Aged White Guy Activities
Best known today for diminishing cinematic returns, the Men In Black have been one of the creepiest boogymen of the UFO community for nearly 80 years....
Ep. 179: The Culper Spy Ring
As an Independence Day treat, we hop into the time machine for a little "Ain't it Sneaky" here on the show with the twisting tale of the Culper Spy Ri...
Ep. 178: Sam the Sandown Clown
This week it's a summertime holiday story for the summertime holiday season as Sean introduces us to the creature fondly remembered as the Sandown Clo...
Ep. 177: Haunted Lighthouses of the Northeastern U.S.
Lighthouses have stood on the Northeastern coast of America for centuries, beacons of hope in dark night or a desperate storm...and, sometimes, silent...
Ep. 176: John Reginald Christie - The Monster of Rillington Place
We take a trip back to '40s and '50s London this week to cover the grimy and gruesome story of serial killer John Reginald Christie, who gassed and st...
Ep. 175: Black Eyed Kids
For our 175th episode, we're going back to our spooky roots to investigate another internet-popularized urban legend: Black Eyed Kids.
In 1998,...
Ep. 174: Waiting for Vermeer - The Gardner Museum Heist
This week we tackle the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, one of the most notorious and high-value art heists of all time. One March night in Bos...
Ep. 173: Modern Mummies - Crime, Tragedy, and Idolatry
This week, we're celebrating all kinds of mums - but no, that isn't in observance of America's Mother's Day holiday this upcoming Sunday! No, the coll...
Ep. 172: Ancient Aliens
This week we're tackling the "ancient astronaut" hypothesis: the idea that ancient humans had repeated contact with extraterrestrials that is borne ou...
Ep. 171: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Pt. 2 - Trial of the Century
Last week we shared the first half of the dramatic tale of one of America's so-called "Crimes of the Century" - the kidnapping, and tragic murder, of...
Ep. 170: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Pt. 1 - Crime of the Century
On the night of March 1st, 1932, little Charles Lindbergh Jr. was tucked into his crib for a good night's sleep. Mere hours later, the family nurse di...
Ep. 169: The Bell Witch
It's an old school ghost story this week - and we mean *way* old school, as we jump back to the early 19th century to explore the Bell Witch Haunting....
Ep. 168: Suicide Songs - 'Gloomy Sunday', Lavender Town Syndrome, and the 'My Way' Murders
[Obvious TW this week for discussion of suicide.]
Over the years, certain songs have attracted dark reputations. Reputations like that the songs...
Ep. 167: Leonarda Cianciulli - The Soap-Maker of Correggio
Born in small-town Italy in 1893, Leonarda Cianciulli had led a hard and tragic life - but her friends and neighbors in Correggio, Reggio Emilia knew...
Ep. 166: Metal, Mayhem, and Murder, Pt. 2
This week, we finish our two-parter on the rise of the Norwegian black metal scene and the leaders of the pack, Mayhem, as the culture descends into e...
Ep. 165: Metal, Mayhem and Murder, Pt. 1
In the early 1990s, a series of crimes rocked the historically peaceful country of Norway. Churches were burned, home-grown terrorist plots were revea...
Ep. 164: Hannibal, Pt. 3 - With Their Heads Buried in the Ground
The raison d'etre for our whole series on Hannibal and the Punic Wars is here this week, and that's very bad news for 50,000 Roman soldiers.
Aft...
Ep. 163: Hannibal, Pt. 2 - Shades of My Foully Murdered Countrymen
Welcome back to the dusty horrors of ancient warfare, in part 2 of our rapidly expanding series (well, to 3 episodes, anyway) on Hannibal and the Seco...
Ep. 162: Hannibal, Pt. 1 - Fire and Steel
Sean has the podcast reins for two weeks of HANNIBAL. No, not the cannibal - the Carthaginian general who made himself the worst nightmare of the Roma...
Ep. 161: Crossroad Blues - The Mystery of Robert Johnson
This week, Carrie takes us on a trip back to the 1930s Mississippi Delta with the mysterious story of Robert Johnson, American blues icon and “first e...
Ep. 160: Black Shuck and the Deadly Hounds of Britain
Since at least the 16th century, the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have told stories of "Black Shuck", a ghostly black dog who appear...
Ep. 159: The Curious Case of the Sodder Children
On Christmas Eve, 1945, a mysterious fire burned the home of George and Jennie Sodder to the ground. George, Jennie, and four of their children escape...
Ep. 158: Lobster Boy - The Violent Life and Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
Perhaps the most notorious carnival sideshow performer of all time, Grady Stiles Jr. is known to history as Lobster Boy.
Born with severe ectrod...