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Settle in, friends, because this Halloween, the vampires are real, or at least they believed they were. In the summer of 2001, police in a small city in western Germany walked into an apartment draped in black, with a coffin in the living room, a dead body, a message in blood on the window, and a list of names warning that the people on it were next. The newlyweds who lived there were gone, and the race was on to find them before anyone on that list got hurt. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES TIME - The Devil Made Us Do It TIME - What's Another Year for Satan's Recruiting Sergeants? CNN - German satanic couple sentenced The Irish Times - Satanist couple jailed for killing Irish Examiner - Satanic murder couple sent to psychiatric hospital UPI Archives - Analysis: Murder at the Devil's command IOL - Bloodsucking Satanist killer grips Germany kath.net - Satanisten-Paar gesteht: Der Teufel gab den Auftrag zum Morden VICE Germany - Der "Satanist von Witten" soll einen neuen Mord geplant haben VICE Germany - Drei Jahrzehnte satanistischer Verbrechen im Überblick Infoportal Rituelle Gewalt - Der sogenannte "Satansmord" von Witten: Daniel und Manuela Ruda Berliner Zeitung - Ruhe sanft, Freund Presseportal (ZDF press release) - Als Mörderin verurteilte Satanistin Manuela Ruda bereut ihre Tat t-online (dpa) - Bochum: Satanist von Witten freigesprochen t-online - Freispruch im Prozess gegen früheren Satanisten von Witten Allmystery (reposted 2001 and 2002 trial reports and a 2011 Der Westen article) - Satans Mord?, Seite 5 Allmystery (reposted trial reports, verdict, and the Federal Court of Justice press release) - Satans Mord?, Seite 6 Crime Library - Team Killers, Part Three Crime Library - Vampires: Manuela and Daniel Ruda Rafa.at (archive of 2001 and 2002 German press reports, Daniel Ruda's book, and a transcript of TV news clips used in a 2003 song) - Mord in Witten These Last Days Ministries (reprint of 2002 British trial coverage) - The horror of a 'vampire' murder case Websleuths (excerpts of 2011 London Evening Standard and Telegraph coverage) - Germany: Daniel Ruda, Satanic killer up for release podcast.de (Mord hoch zwei episode notes) - Teuflische Verbindung: der Satansmord von Witten, Teil 1 📚 BOOKS Goodreads - Fehlercode 211: Der Satansmord von Witten, was wirklich geschah, by Daniel Ruda (2004), quoted through the sources above Goodreads - Der Satan von Witten: Und andere fanatische Ritualmörder, by Guido Grandt, quoted through the sources above 🎬 DOCS YouTube (WAZ, Der Gerichtsreporter) - Der teuflische Mord von Witten, Teil 1 Apple Podcasts (WAZ, Der Gerichtsreporter) - Der teuflische Mord von Witten, Teil 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Settle in, friends, because this week we're heading into the misty mountains of 1800s Spain for a werewolf story... that really happened. In a little village in Galicia, a gentle little shopkeeper offered to walk the local women and their children over the mountains to good jobs up north. One by one, they went with him. One by one, he came home alone, with good news and happy letters. Then a brother noticed what the shopkeeper was using to cut his bread. What followed was a chance sighting hundreds of miles from home, a confession no Spanish court had ever heard before, a mysterious hypnotist, a Queen who stepped in, and a mystery about the shopkeeper's fate that took more than 150 years to solve. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The Black Spain - Manuel Blanco Romasanta: The Werewolf of Allariz Revista Quadernos de Criminología - Romasanta, el hombre lobo gallego GCiencia - Que foi Manuel(a) Blanco Romasanta? 1: o 'home do unto' que puido nacer muller GCiencia - Que foi Manuel (a) Blanco Romasanta? 2: A detención, a confesión e o xuízo GCiencia - Que foi Manuel (a) Blanco Romasanta? e 3: A morte e os misterios sen resolver La Senda del Crimen - Crónica negra: la leyenda de "El Hombre Lobo de Allariz" Mundo Enfermo (reprinting Interviú) - Manuel Blanco Romasanta: El único "hombre lobo" procesado judicialmente en España El Faro de Ceuta - ¿Dónde descansa el Hombre Lobo de Allariz? Diario de León - Hermanos Castro Vicente: "Manuel Romasanta, 'El hombre-lobo', tuvo mucha relación con León y el Bierzo" Diario de León - La pista berciana del hombre lobo Diario de León - El enigma de la tumba de Romasanta, asesino en serie y 'hombre lobo' El Español - Cuando el pueblo toledano de Nombela pensó que convivía con un hombre lobo La Mañana - Una mala fada Ribeira Sacra Tourism - The Galician Werewolf Wikipedia - Manuel Blanco Romasanta Wikipedia (Spanish) - Manuel Blanco Romasanta La Agenda del Crimen - Romasanta, el Hombre Lobo de Allariz El Español - Romasanta: La historia real de un hombre lobo gallego 📚 BOOKS Simón Lorda et al., in VI Jornadas Internacionais de História da Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental (2016), via AGSM - El Dr. Joseph Durand de Gros y el caso del hombre lobo Blanco Romasanta (1853): ¿Un "braidista" en la corte de Isabel II? 🎬 DOCS Netflix - Netflix Presents Our 2026 Series and Films and Announces New Projects Vaca Films - Netflix announces the series LOBO, produced by Vaca Films Xunta de Galicia - López Campos visita el equipo de la serie 'Lobo' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Settle in, friends, because today's story starts with something that should have been completely ordinary: responding to a babysitting ad. In October 2007, Katherine Ann Olson met a mom named Amy in Savage, Minnesota. Amy needed someone to watch her 5-year-old, and Katherine said yes. She told her roommate Amy seemed a little strange. She went anyway. The next morning, a purse turned up in a park trash can, and a suburban police department started pulling on a thread that led somewhere nobody in Minnesota was ready for. This is the story of who Katherine really was, who was actually behind those emails, and how her case gave the internet a brand new and terrible nickname. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES FindLaw - State v. Anderson, Supreme Court of Minnesota (2010) MPR News - Teen charged in death of Minn. woman who answered Craigslist ad MPR News - Victim in Craigslist murder remembered for warmth, energy MPR News - Indictments made in Craigslist killing MPR News - Craigslist founder helps memorialize murder victim CBS News - Teen Charged In Craigslist Nanny Slaying CBS News - Craigslist Killer Gets Life Without Parole NBC News - Police: Woman inquires about online ad, killed NBC News - Teen charged with killing woman seeking job NBC News - Killer who lured victim with online ad gets life Fox News - 19 year old charged in death of woman answering craigslist ad ABC News - Ad for Online Nanny Lured Woman to Her Death ABC News - Craigslist Killer Lured Victim With Baby Sitter Ad Minnesota Daily - Coverage of Katherine Olson's death and the criminal complaint, October 2007 Arizona Daily Wildcat (U-Wire) - Murder brings Craigslist safety in question Star Tribune - Asperger's diagnosis is rejected in Craigslist trial Star Tribune - Defense: Shy youth's desire for sex led to 'Craigslist' killing The Village Voice - Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings The Village Voice - Craigslist Founder Speaks on Minneapolis "Craigslist Killer" Victim Savage Pacer - Family finds solace 10 years after Craigslist murder Worldwide Faith News (ELCA News Service) - Memorial concert on May 3 to benefit ELCA's St. Olaf scholarship Crime Library - Katherine Ann Olson Lured to Her Death by Internet Classifieds Crime Library - Katherine Ann Olson Lured to Her Death by Internet Classifieds, continued Crime Library - Police Have Strong Evidence That Michael John Anderson Was Katherine Ann Olson's Killer Crime Library - Police Have Strong Evidence, continued Crime Library - The Illicit List: Minnesota Murder, No Mystery Crime Library - The Illicit List: The Death of Katherine Olson Westword - Letters, from the week of May 14, 2009 A&E - Richard Beasley, Philip Markoff and Others: The Many Faces of the Craigslist Killer Wikipedia - Murder of Katherine Ann Olson 📚 BOOKS No books were used to research this episode. 🎬 DOCS CNN - Nancy Grace, broadcast transcript, October 29, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say Friday the 13th is unlucky for a reason. Well, on one Friday the 13th back in 1980, in a quiet Texas suburb where everybody goes to the same church and everybody knows everybody's business, that superstition came true in the worst way. Because that morning, a young mom and Sunday school teacher was found dead in her own home, and nobody could make sense of it. She had the husband, the two girls, the whole life. So who would do this? Well, friends, the answer had been sitting in the next pew the whole time. This week, a friendship, a secret, and one summer morning that turned a quiet Texas town upside down. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Texas Monthly - Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I: Candy Montgomery's Affair A&E - The Betty Gore Murder: Could 41 Axe Blows Be Self-Defense? TODAY - The true story of Candy Montgomery that inspired 'Love and Death' TODAY - Where are Candy and Pat Montgomery from 'Love and Death' now? Oxygen - What Happened To Candy Montgomery, Betty Gore? Newsweek - What Happened to Candy Montgomery and Where Is She Now? Biography - Where Is Acquitted Murderer Candy Montgomery Now? 📚 BOOKS Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs - John Bloom and Jim Atkinson (Open Road Media, 1984) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In August 2006, a young woman fell to her death from one of the most famous cliffs in the American national park system while hiking with her husband, the only witness. It was ruled an accident. Twenty years later, two phone calls changed everything and in June 2026, the case ended in a way nobody saw coming. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES NBC News - Former Vegas youth pastor charged with murder 20 years after his wife's deadly fall at Zion National Park NBC News - David Vander Meer, former Vegas youth pastor charged in wife's murder, dies before court appearance NBC News - Ex-youth pastor accused in wife's 2006 death lived lavishly after insurance payout, authorities allege CNN - 20 years after his wife fell to her death in Utah, a youth pastor's story unravels PEOPLE (via AOL) - Cheating pastor sent teenage mistress to confront wife during church tryst months before murder Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Vegas man David Vander Meer arrested in 2006 death of wife at Zion National Park Las Vegas Review-Journal - Bernadette Vander Meer's family reacts to arrest of her ex-husband Las Vegas Review-Journal - David Vander Meer dies before hearing in 2006 case involving wife's death Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Vegas school where Vander Meer counseled issues statement; 'not enough,' parent says Las Vegas Review-Journal - Bombshell murder charge renews questions about other deaths at Angels Landing Las Vegas Review-Journal - 'No winners in any of this,' former pastor says of Vander Meer death Las Vegas Review-Journal - Clark County sheriff addresses Vander Meer case, calls in-custody death 'unique' Las Vegas Review-Journal - 'A real angelic being': Friend reflects on Bernadette Vander Meer's life and death Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Vegas church rehired David Vander Meer as youth pastor despite hearing concerns, former staff say Las Vegas Review-Journal - Hiker falls to death at Angels Landing in Zion National Park (April 2026) Las Vegas Review-Journal - Bernadette Vander Meer obituary, published Aug. 26, 2006 (via Legacy.com) KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas - 20 years later: What led investigators to charge an ex-Las Vegas youth pastor with murder in his wife's death KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas - Family of Las Vegas woman speaks out after husband charged with her murder nearly 20 years later ABC News - Former youth pastor dies day he was set to appear in court for the 2006 death of his wife News 3 Las Vegas (KSNV) - 'Suspected him all along': Parents react to arrest of Las Vegas man for wife's death News 3 Las Vegas (KSNV) - 'She's been vindicated': Family reflects after 2006 Zion murder suspect's death News 3 Las Vegas (KSNV) - Former youth pastor in Las Vegas arrested in wife's 20-year-old murder case 8 News Now (KLAS) - 'Vindicated': Henderson family of woman killed in 2006 rejoice over former husband's arrest 8 News Now (KLAS) - Family of Zion NP murder victim reacts to suspect's jailhouse suicide 8 News Now (KLAS) - Inside the relationship of Vander Meer and teen girl: Affidavit outlines timeline 8 News Now (KLAS) - Charges filed against Las Vegas man for allegedly murdering wife during Angels Landing hike in 2006 KSL - Husband charged in 2006 death of wife in Angel's Landing fall KUTV - Former youth pastor charged in wife's death accused of relationship with underage girl ABC4 Utah - Charges filed against Las Vegas man for allegedly murdering wife during Angels Landing hike in 2006 Fox 13 Utah - Man charged with wife's murder at Zion allegedly had affair with underage girl Fox News - Former Las Vegas youth pastor accused of murder in death of wife at Zion National Park St. George News - Details emerge in cold case alleging husband pushed wife to her death at Zion National Park Backpacker - Man accused of pushing wife off of Angels Landing found dead before court date The Washington Times - Former Las Vegas pastor dies in custody after being charged in wife's murder at Zion National Park Deseret News - Texas man identified as hiker who fell at Angels Landing at Zion National Park 📚 BOOKS None for this episode, this case broke in June 2026, so all research comes from court documents and news coverage. 🎬 DOCS None yet - this story is only weeks old. Expect coverage to follow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the winter of 1959, ten experienced hikers set out on a route rated at the highest difficulty level their country had. One turned back early, and the other nine never came home. When searchers found the camp, the tent had been cut open from the inside, and the bodies were scattered across the snow, some barely dressed, some with injuries that made no sense at all. The official investigation ran three months and closed with a conclusion so vague that people are still arguing about it sixty years later. This week we are going up that mountain. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. This episode was written and researched by Chloe Kibbe. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Communications Earth & Environment (Nature) - Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959 National Geographic - Has science solved history's greatest adventure mystery? BBC News - Dyatlov Pass: Russia opens new investigation into 1959 mystery The New Yorker - Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved? Smithsonian Magazine - Has Science Solved the Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident? Dyatlov Pass (archive site) - Case files, autopsy reports, diaries, and photographs The Guardian - Dyatlov Pass mystery: Russian prosecutors say avalanche killed hikers 📚 BOOKS Donnie Eichar - Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Keith McCloskey - Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident 🎬 DOCS Prime Video - Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) Discovery - Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives (2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three women. One small house in Springfield, Missouri. On the night of her high school graduation, Stacy McCall followed her friend Suzie Streeter home to spend the night at the house Suzie shared with her mother, Sherrill Levitt. By morning, all three of them were gone. Their cars were in the driveway, their purses were still inside, and the only thing out of place was a broken porch light. 34 years later, the Springfield Three are still missing. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Wikipedia - Springfield Three City of Springfield, MO - Three Missing Women FBI ViCAP - The Springfield Three - Springfield, Missouri KY3 - The Springfield Three: What we know about the cold case KY3 - The Springfield 3: June 7 marks 34 years since the disappearance KY3 - Three Missing Women: A look back at the case 27 years later NBC Dateline - 30 years later family still seeking answers Newsweek - Three Women Vanished. More Than 30 Years Later, No One Knows What Happened Springfield Daily Citizen - Missing women: Theories and investigations into The Springfield Three cold case Unresolved - The Springfield Three, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four The Charley Project - Suzanne Elizabeth Streeter True Crime Society - The missing Springfield Three Ozarks First - Crime Traveler: The case of Springfield Three continues to haunt the city 30 years later True Crime News - Crime Watch Daily investigates the mysterious disappearance of 'the Springfield Three' 🎬 DOCS Crime Watch Daily - The Springfield Three investigation (2017) NBC Dateline - Missing in America: The Springfield Three Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm revisiting one of the most infamous cases in American true crime; a woman the press called the Damsel of Death. Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found dead along the highways of central Florida, and the person behind it was the last kind of suspect anyone expected. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. This episode was researched and written by Chloe Kibbe. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Britannica - Aileen Wuornos Capital Punishment in Context - The Case of Aileen Wuornos - The Facts A&E - Case File: Aileen Wuornos Justia - Wuornos v. State, Supreme Court of Florida (1994) 📚 BOOKS Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos by Michael Reynolds Lethal Intent by Sue Russell Monster: My True Story by Aileen Wuornos with Christopher Berry-Dee 🎬 DOCS Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992), dir. Nick Broomfield Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003), dir. Nick Broomfield Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who she says she is either. And when a real young man comes into the picture, the whole thing turns into obsession, threats, and eventually murder. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News (20/20) - Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder CBS News - Internet Love Triangle Comes To Deadly End CBC News - Web user sentenced for killing online rival Fox News - 22-Year-Old New York Man Murdered After Being Drawn Into Internet Love Triangle The Daily Beast - Web's Killer Love Triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - MURDER: Guilty plea in Internet love triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - COURTS: Montgomery gets 20 years in 'Internet love triangle' killing 🎬 DOCS Talhotblond (2009), directed by Barbara Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with brown eyes, dark hair, and an accent you could spot from across a room. And somehow, for nearly five months, nobody in that family said a word. This is the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the impostor the world came to call the Chameleon, and the missing boy whose name he wore like a coat. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The New Yorker - The Chameleon The Scotsman - Interview: The private detective who uncovered The Imposter The Mirror US - Our missing son returned home after three years, but it was actually a French conman KSAT - Case of missing San Antonio boy from 1994 remains a mystery The Charley Project - Nicholas Patrick Barclay Swallowing The Camel - Fake Teens V: Serial Teen Frederic Bourdin Grunge - Frederic Bourdin: The Crazy True Story Of A Serial Impostor 📚 BOOKS David Grann - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (contains the expanded "Chameleon" essay) Christophe D'Antonio - Le Caméléon (the authorized Bourdin biography) 🎬 DOCS The Imposter (2012), directed by Bart Layton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951 Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point? CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada 📚 BOOKS Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957) Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968) Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the other two were walking toward something they swore was real. That was 2014. Eleven years later, one of them cut off her ankle monitor and ran. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast Please leave a rating and review. It helps more than you know! Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Survivor's Parents: 'She's Meant to Do Something Special' ABC News - 'Slender Man' Interrogation Tapes Reveal Shocking New Details About Alleged Stabbing Plot ABC News - Mothers of teens who pleaded guilty in 'Slender Man' stabbing case say there were no warning signs of violence ABC News - 'Slender Man' teen to be released, survivor's family wishes she served longer sentence ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Timeline: Out of the Woods ABC News - Slender Man stabbing victim speaks publicly for first time: 'Without the whole situation, I wouldn't be who I am' Newsweek - The Girls Who Tried to Kill for Slender Man Newsweek - How Slenderman, the Internet's Horror Star, Crawled out of Creepypasta New York Magazine via Harvard Center for Law, Brain & Behavior - Slender Man Is Watching NBC News - 911 Call Released in Waukesha 'Slender Man' Stabbings NBC News - 'Slender Man' Victim's Family Thankful for Special Day NBC News - The 'Slender Man' stabber made a close new friend — then ran away so they could be together CNN - What we know about Morgan Geyser's 24-hours on the run more than a decade after the 'Slender Man' stabbing took place Courthouse News Service - Slender Man stabber loses conditional release after escape WBAY/AP - Conditional release of Morgan Geyser upheld by judge WTMJ - Conditional release plan moves forward for accused "Slenderman" stabber Morgan Geyser WTMJ - Conditional release finally approved for Slenderman stabber Morgan Geyser TMJ4 News - Judge approves conditional release plan for woman convicted in Slender Man stabbing TMJ4 News - Morgan Geyser arrested in Illinois after cutting off ankle bracelet, fleeing group home TMJ4 News - Slender Man trial: Jury finds Anissa Weier mentally ill, won't face prison FOX6 Milwaukee - Slenderman stabbing case: Court learns what private investigator found in Morgan Geyser's bedroom FOX6 Milwaukee - Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser escapes, group home neighbors react ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser 911 calls detail Slender Man attacker's escape from Madison group home ABC7 Chicago - Where is Morgan Geyser now? Wisconsin judge sends suspect in Slender Man stabbing back to mental health institution ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser waives extradition after escape from Wisconsin group home WKOW - DOC places three staff on leave during investigation into Morgan Geyser's escape from group home WMTV - Despite escape, state finds no supervision violations at Morgan Geyser's group home CBS 58 - The Latest: Jury finds Anissa Weier not criminally responsible for stabbing classmate due to mental illness CBS News Minnesota/AP - Wisconsin Judge Orders Release Of Anissa Weier In Slender Man Stabbing Court TV - Judge approves conditional release plan for Morgan Geyser Patch.com - Slenderman Trial: Anissa Weier Sentence Is 25 Years Inverse - Mr. CreepyPasta Explains the Problem with 'Slenderman' Biography.com - Slender Man Attacker Morgan Geyser Is Back in Custody After Sparking a Brief Manhunt A&E - The Slender-Man Inspired Attempted Murder of a Sixth Grader Heavy - Payton Leutner's Injuries in the Slender Man Stabbing Heavy - Morgan Geyser's Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Crime + Investigation UK - The Slender Man stabbing: Attempted murder inspired by an urban legend All That's Interesting - Who Is Payton Leutner, The Girl Who Nearly Died In The Infamous Slender Man Stabbing? Jezebel - There's More Than One Boogeyman in the Slender Man Doc Inside Edition - Slender Man Fan Who Tried to Kill Friend at 12 Gets Release Hearing Good Morning America - Cyclist Recalls Finding Slender Man Stabbing Victim LegalClarity - Anissa and Morgan Case: Charges, Mental Health, and Release 📚 BOOKS Slenderman: A Tragic Story of Online Obsession and Mental Illness - Kathleen Hale, 2022 Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology - Shira Chess and Eric Newsom, 2014 Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet - edited by Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill, 2018 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Beware the Slenderman - HBO, 2016, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky 20/20: Out of the Woods - ABC News, September 2014, with David Muir 20/20: 'Out of the Woods' - ABC News, October 2019, Payton Leutner's first interview, with David Muir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm December night and was gone before the Coast Guard could get there. This week we're going into the lore. The famous cases. The ghost ships. And what science actually thinks is happening out there, because the real answers might be stranger than the myth. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywicked.thepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Naval History and Heritage Command - H-057-4: The Disappearance of Flight 19 National Archives - The Official Record and the Loss of Flight 19 History.com - The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19 Naval History Magazine (USNI) - USS Cyclops, The Deadliest Unsolved Mystery in the Navy History.com - Bermuda Triangle Mystery: What Happened to the USS Cyclops? Naval Historical Foundation - The Unanswered Loss of USS Cyclops Library of Congress - The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering's Crew NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources - The Carroll A. Deering, Ghost Ship National Park Service - The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Tiger coverage and inquiry summary PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Ariel coverage Bernews - Plausible Solutions To Bermuda Triangle Mysteries (Tom Mangold reporting) Civil Aeronautics Board / USDeadlyEvents - Report on DC-3 NC16002 Coast Guard Inquiry Findings, summarized - USDeadlyEvents on Marine Sulphur Queen Porchlight International - Burack and Father Horgan / Witchcraft case file NOAA Ocean Service - What is the Bermuda Triangle? National Geographic - Gas Craters Off Norway Linked to Bermuda Triangle Theory Live Science - Could Gas Explosions Explain Bermuda Triangle Mystery? Fox News - Bermuda Triangle Rogue Wave Theory (Dr. Simon Boxall, Channel 5 documentary) Britannica - What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle Smithsonian Magazine - How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend ElectronicFog.com - Bruce Gernon's account of his 1970 flight 📚 BOOKS The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved - Lawrence David Kusche, 1975 The Bermuda Triangle - Charles Berlitz, 1974 Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea - Vincent Gaddis, 1965 Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps - Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor, 2017 Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum, 1900 Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering - Bland Simpson, UNC Press, 2005 🎬 DOCS The Bermuda Triangle Enigma - Channel 5 documentary featuring Dr. Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a quiet Italian town, there was a woman everyone trusted. She baked. She welcomed people in. She was the kind of person no one questioned. And then people started disappearing. When she finally confessed, it wasn’t just what she had done… it was why. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Weird Italy - Leonarda Cianciulli, the Soapmaker of Correggio https://weirditaly.com/2013/04/25/leonarda-cianciulli-the-soapmaker-of-correggio/ All That's Interesting - The Chilling Story of Leonarda Cianciulli https://allthatsinteresting.com/leonarda-cianciulli Utterly Interesting - The Crimes of Leonarda Cianciulli https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-crimes-of-leonarda-cianciulli-the-soap-maker-of-correggio Cardinal Points Online - Soap Maker of Correggio https://cardinalpointsonline.com/cardinal-sins-soap-maker-of-correggio-murders-three-women/ Medium - Mother Dearest: The Crimes of Leonarda Cianciulli https://medium.com/@rocknrollgeek1975/mother-dearest-the-crimes-of-leonarda-cianciulli Museo Criminologico, Rome - The Correggio Soap-Maker http://www.museocriminologico.it/correggio_uk.htm Life in Italy - Italy During the Second World War https://lifeinitaly.com/italy-second-world-war/ History Rise - Italy Under Mussolini https://historyrise.com/italy-under-mussolini-fascism-propaganda-and-world-war-ii/ Chapman University - Italian Society During World War II https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=history_books Working Class History - Italian Resistance https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ Baltimore Sun - "Rendered Her Friends to Wax, She Says" (April 28, 1946) Referenced in multiple secondary sources above - original print archive only. 📚 BOOKS The Curse: A Shocking True Story of Superstition, Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism - Ryan Green (2019) Confessioni di Un'Anima Amareggiata (Confessions of a Bitter Soul) - Leonarda Cianciulli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if the boogeyman you grew up hearing about wasn't just a story? On Staten Island, there was a figure parents whispered about to keep their kids close to home. Bedtime warnings, campfire dares, everyone thought it was just make-believe. But then children started to vanish. And suddenly, it wasn't just scary anymore. It was real. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. Quick corrections: Ethel Atwell disappeared October 1978, Rand legally changed his name in 1972, and Tiahease Jackson was sent to the supermarket by another motel resident while her mother was napping, not on an errand from home. Sources in the show notes 🔗 WEB SOURCES The Charley Project - Holly Ann Hughes The Charley Project - Alice Pereira The Doe Network - 136DFNY Holly Ann Hughes The Doe Network - 134DFNY Alice Pereira NCMEC - Have you seen this child? Alice Pereira UPI Archives - Jennifer mourned as loveable child who comforted all All That's Interesting - The Haunting Story of Andre Rand, the Real-Life Cropsey Killer Who Stalked Staten Island in the 1980s The Line-Up - Cropsey: The Terrifying Urban Legend Brought to Life Historic Mysteries - Cropsey: New York's Terrifying Urban Legend Disability Justice - The Closing of Willowbrook NYU Undercover Reporting - Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace - Geraldo Rivera, WABC-TV The New York Review of Books - The Horrors of Hepatitis Research Our Black Girls - Tiahease Jackson, 11: May Have Fallen Victim to Serial Killer in 1983 Whereabouts Still Unknown - Ethel Atwell Find a Grave - Holly Ann Hughes Memorial 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Cropsey (2009), directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (1972), Geraldo Rivera for WABC-TV Killer Psyche Daily episode on Staten Island's "Cropsey" Killer Production notes: Specific quotes from Andre Rand have been attributed broadly to prison staff and fellow inmates rather than named individuals where the named source could not be independently verified. Some details about the missing victims, particularly the adult cases, are circumstantial and Rand was never charged in connection with them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices