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American Horror Story 13 continues. The two storylines finally collide. Kelli takes us through episodes 9 and 10 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Devil Is in the Details” and “The Prodigal Son.” Constance makes her demands of Satan, and he answers by unrolling a very long scroll of her sins. Ben finally learns what his 616 tattoo means. Papa Legba reveals the bet between God and the devil, Mallory confesses, and the coven gets an unexpected visitor at the door. We also get into Ben’s not-so-great plans for killing Satan, the many theories about the AI storyline, and the very real pope whose botched embalming went horribly wrong. Wine Pairing: 13 Rams Cabernet Sauvignon For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fear.wine.podcast https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We're back with American Horror Story 13 (AHS). Devil’s Night comes to Miss Robichaux’s. Kristin takes us through episodes 7 and 8 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Baddest Witch of Them All” and “Hell No.” With Cordelia down and James March playing piano through the chaos, Madison, Queenie, Mallory, and Coco take on Jeffrey Dahmer, the Zodiac Killer, and Richard Ramirez. Then Fiona makes the entrance of the season. Papa Legba strikes a deal, Queenie goes back to Chubby’s, and Marie Laveau joins the coven against Satan. Before the recap, everyone shares what they’re watching this fall, including Carrie, Widow’s Bay, Gilmore Girls, and a reality TV rewatch. Plus the great debate over bringing Gene Wilder back with AI. Spoilers for AHS Season 13 through episode 8. Explicit language. Play our month-long horror movie quiz on Instagram and TikTok, and find spooky season extras on Patreon. Wine Pairing: Book of Shadows Zinfandel For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Vampire Folklore, Rabies, and the Milwaukee Protocol... In 1725, the Austrian government sent an official to watch a village dig up a corpse. He wrote down what he saw: no decomposition. Hair and beard grown. New skin. New nails. Fresh blood in the mouth. They staked it. They burned it. His report ran in a Vienna newspaper, and Europe got a new word for it. Vampire. This bonus episode is the real history of vampires. The 1725 panics. Mercy Brown, the nineteen-year-old in Rhode Island whose heart was burned in 1892 because her family had tuberculosis. The 1998 paper in Neurology arguing that rabies is where the whole legend came from — the biting, the foam, the fear of water, the sleeplessness. And then the real vampire. The one with wings. And the fifteen-year-old girl in Wisconsin who picked up an injured bat in a church, got bitten on the finger, and became the first person in history to survive rabies after it had already reached her brain. The first person to survive using the Milwaukee Protocol For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

American Horror Story: 13 is cramming its final season into October, and this week Kelli, Leah, and Alisan cover episodes 4–6. The Jezebel Ball goes down beneath the Apollyon: Elsa Mars MCs, Tate does the pushing, and thirteen of Mr. Nas's “favorite bad girls” head into a lava pit. It does not go to plan. Constance comes clean about her deal with the devil. Ben has a date night with fellow crash survivor Ashley, and she brings a lot of red flags. Then James Patrick March gets the Devil's Night crew back together, with Jeffrey Dahmer on group-text duty, and they come for the Coven. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite AHS seasons. Wine Pairing: 13 Celsius Sauvignon Blanc For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Part 2 of a 2-part episode... It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what it bills as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. Nas who throws up in the worst possible way. Constance is back, and so are Twisty, Tate, Addie, Kai, Winter, and the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short. John Waters shows up with a medical bag full of coral snakes. We get into the Last Supper, the Fibonacci sequence, the Death card, and the German folk tradition of Rauhnacht, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Kristin has theories (deals with the devil, AI glitches, timeline slips), and Kelli is just along for the ride. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows, and share our thoughts on Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Wine Pairing: 13 Years Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve PART 1 00:00 Welcome, spooky-season bonus episodes 01:15 Question of the week: favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows 12:15 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story 21:38 AHS 13 cast and Episode 1, “13” 58:43 Episode 2, “1:13 AM” PART 2 1:27:00 Episode 3, “Rauhnacht” 1:44:00 Theories: deals with the devil, AI glitches and timelines For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Part 1 of a 2-part episode... It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what's billed as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story: 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. Nas who throws up in the worst possible way. Constance is back, and so are Twisty, Tate, Addie, Kai, Winter, and the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short. John Waters shows up with a medical bag full of coral snakes. We get into the Last Supper, the Fibonacci sequence, the Death card, and the German folk tradition of Rauhnacht, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Kristin has theories (deals with the devil, AI glitches, timeline slips), and Kelli is just along for the ride. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows, and share our thoughts on Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Wine Pairing: 13 Years Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve PART 1 00:00 Welcome, spooky-season bonus episodes 01:15 Question of the week: favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows 12:15 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story 21:38 AHS 13 cast and Episode 1, “13” 58:43 Episode 2, “1:13 AM” PART 2 1:27:00 Episode 3, “Rauhnacht” 1:44:00 Theories: deals with the devil, AI glitches and timelines For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Mothman didn't stay in Point Pleasant. In Part 2 of our deep dive, Kristin follows the winged humanoid known as The Mothman out of West Virginia and into the modern world. A 1948 sighting in Chehalis, Washington, that predates Point Pleasant by nearly two decades; a disputed 1957 case in Braidwood, Illinois, and then Chicago, where paranormal investigator Lon Strickler mapped over 160 reports between 2011 and 2020, from O'Hare Airport to Lincoln Park's Oz Park. We dig into the skeptical case from a University of Chicago memory researcher, cross the border into Mexico's El Hombre Pájaro and reports from Argentina and Brazil, and land somewhere much closer to home: recent winged-humanoid reports out of Zephyr Hills and Pasco County, Florida — just up the road from where we record. Is the internet manufacturing the Mothman, or just finally letting us compare notes? For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

A spooky-season strange-phenomena episode of Fear & Wine. The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Before the movie, there was Point Pleasant, West Virginia: a small Appalachian town built on an abandoned WWII TNT plant, ancient burial mounds, and Cold War nerves. In Part 1 of our two-part Mothman deep dive, Kristin traces the seven-foot, red-eyed figure back through 48,000-year-old cave paintings, Mesopotamian demons, Welsh death omens, and Shawnee tradition, before landing on November 1966, when two young couples reported a winged creature outside the old North Power Plant. From there, the story widens: John Keel, the Men in Black, sewing-machine salesman Woodrow Derenberger and his telepathic visitor Indrid Cold, and the December 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge that ended the sightings and turned a cryptid into an omen. (Part 2- the Mothman's return in Chicago...coming soon.) Note: Bonus video version (with Kristin's full presentation) available on Patreon For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Part Two of our investigation into the disappearance of Ingrid Lane. On October 15th, 2023, Ingrid Lane, a violinist, scholar, and quantum computing researcher affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories, left her home outside Albuquerque and was never seen again. In this episode, Kristin walks through the last documented day, hour by hour, built entirely from original body-cam and witness recordings obtained through a public records request that have never been played publicly before. It includes an eyewitness account of two unidentified people with Ingrid on a remote mountain road that's never been reported anywhere, and a contradiction in the official record about where her car actually was that no one has ever explained. We also cover why Ingrid Lane's identical twin's DNA still isn't in the national missing persons database, three years later, and what you can do if you have any information at all. For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Season 4 Episode 3 of Black Mirror: Crocodile. We're back with another Black Mirror deep dive; this time it's Season 4's “Crocodile.” One reckless night in the Icelandic mountains, one hit-and-run, and one very bad decision to cover it up together set off a spiral that follows two people for years. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through Mia and Rob's unraveling. From panicked twenty-somethings to a successful architect and a recovering alcoholic who can't let the past go — plus the memory-recall technology that turns a routine insurance investigation into something much worse. We also get into the Black Mirror episode's title backstory and go down a rabbit hole about whether automated pizza delivery trucks are real yet. Wine Pairing: The Squad Sauvignon Blanc by Tooth & Nail Winery For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Havana Syndrome and the Physics of Silence: How Microwave Weapons Damage the Brain. The Physics, The Biology, and The Cover-Up This is a Fear & Wine Uncorked Coven Patreon episode we felt was important for more people to know. Fear & Wine dives deep into Havana Syndrome, the mysterious illness that has affected hundreds of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers since 2016. What the government once dismissed as stress, overwork, or even crickets has now been confirmed by independent scientists and government officials in 2025–2026 to be the result of a real, portable, directed-energy weapon that uses pulsed microwave radiation. Kristen walks through the confirmed physics of Havana Syndrome, the documented biology, the weapon’s escalation ladder, its chain of historical development, and the disturbing pattern of who is being targeted and why. For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Witch Recap Part 2. This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steals the entire movie. Plus, our usual sidebar: could any of us actually survive alone in the woods? This one came recommended by Kristin's daughter as a certified Gen Z cult classic, and it more than earns the label. It's streaming on Netflix Wine Pairing: Stories & Spells Red Blend by Witching Hour For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This week we're deep in 1630s New England for The Witch (2015). Robert Eggers' slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family exiled to the edge of the wilderness, and what starts picking them off once they're alone in it. Kelli walks Kristin, Leah, and Alisan through a recap of The Witch. The disappearance of baby Samuel, the family's unraveling faith, and the goat who steals the entire movie. Plus, our usual sidebar: could any of us actually survive alone in the woods? This one came recommended by Kristin's daughter as a certified Gen Z cult classic, and it more than earns the label. It's streaming on Netflix Wine Pairing: Stories & Spells Red Blend by Witching Hour For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fearandwinepod https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Kristin covers one of Florida's coldest cases and the story of serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. In late June 2026, federal agents and cadaver dogs turned up on a ranch road in Hernando County, Florida —and a case most people have never heard of resurfaced. This episode traces the full story of Billy Mansfield Jr., convicted of murdering six women and girls across Florida and California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a 15-year-old on a family camping trip and a young Tampa woman last seen leaving a bar. We walk the timeline from the first excavation on the Mansfield family property in 1981 — where investigators say Billy's father and brother were more involved than most coverage lets on — through a still-unresolved 2020 discovery, to the 2026 dig that turned up nothing new. We also cover the ongoing effort to identify Billy Mansfield's one remaining unnamed victim through DNA and genealogy, and how listeners can help if they have a missing family member from this era. For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fear.wine.podcast https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Tate & LaBianca Murders. Part Two of our Strangers companion series turns from fiction to fact. Over two nights in August 1969, eight people were murdered in Los Angeles — a case that decades later helped inspire the horror film The Strangers. This solo episode spends most of its time with the people who died: Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca — who they were before that August, and what we actually know about their final hours. Then we cover Charles Manson, the “Family” he built through manipulation and isolation, the contested “Helter Skelter” theory prosecutors used at trial, and where each of the people who carried it out ended up. For bonus episodes, sneak peeks, and group chats, join our Patreon! If you have a fun discussion question that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, email it to us at [email protected] Visit our website:https://www.fearandwine.com/ Follow us: Instagram: @fearandwinepod https://www.instagram.com/fearandwinepod/ Threads: @fearandwinepod https://www.threads.net/@fearandwinepod TikTok: @fear.wine.podcast https://www.tiktok.com/@fearandwinepod YouTube: @FearAndWinePod https://www.youtube.com/@FearAndWinePod Buy Me A Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/fearandwine X: @fearandwinepod Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fearandwine Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.