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Strange and Dreadful Things

  • STRANGE: The Franklin Hotel

    7 MAY. 2024 · Strawberry Point is known for being home to the world's largest strawberry. But what many people don't know is that it's also home to the Franklin Hotel, a 150-year-old hotel and event venue that has the spirit of a 1920's prostitute still wandering the halls. 
    9m 34s
  • The Diamond Coal Mining Disaster of 1883

    19 ABR. 2024 · In February 1883, dozens of men and boys descended into the depths of the Illinois prairie to mine coal. By noon, the pump man saw water rising in the mine tunnels. Little did he know that something was horribly wrong. In a matter of minutes, a third of the men in the mine that day would meet a terrible end in what would become one of the worst coal mining accidents in Illinois history. 
    15m 40s
  • Mabel Moore: The Bride Abandoned for Revenge

    5 ABR. 2024 · Mabel Moore had just gone to St. Louis with her new husband, Arthur. After just a few days and one bad argument, he left her stranded there. Abandoned in a strange city, Mabel turned to the unthinkable. When police investigated later, what seemed like a straightforward story became unbelievably bizarre. 
    9m 29s
  • Carol Eberle: Death by Wedding Dress?

    18 MAR. 2024 · Carol Eberle was getting married, and she was overjoyed. But no one else really was. Something had happened just a few weeks before that had soured several people toward Carol in their small North Dakota town. She didn't care one bit what they thought, but sometimes karma has a way of catching up with people. 
    14m 53s
  • Swift Runner: Murderer and Cannibal

    3 MAR. 2024 · Swift Runner and his family journeyed into the Canadian wilderness in 1878 for the winter. Only Swift Runner emerged the following spring. He said that his entire family starved to death, but there was something off about his story. When police investigated, one of the most infamous tales of murder and cannibalism in Canadian history was revealed.
    23m 23s
  • Why Did the Farmer Try to Shoot the Deputy?

    10 FEB. 2024 · Henry Kuehl was just trying to do his job. On a warm January night, he rode out to a rural Iowa farm to help settle a dispute between the farmer and his landlord. The night started off normal enough, but soon degeneratedinto an evening that Kuehl would never forget.
    6m 37s
  • The Chicken Thief's Ghost

    15 ENE. 2024 · Sam Smith was a desperate man. He couldn't find a job, and he had a family to feed. Out of desperation he turned to stealing. But when he died suddenly, did his ghost return to watch over his family?
    11m 5s
  • Julia Buccola: The Ghostly Italian Bride of Chicago

    30 DIC. 2023 · Imagine driving near Chicago's Mount Carmel Cemetery and seeing a woman wearing a white wedding dress walking along the road. It's rainy and muddy, and yet she seems untouched by all of it. You would be seeing the Italian Bride, one of Chicago's most famous ghosts. But who was she, and why does her ghost still haunt the area?
    13m 57s
  • Omaima Nelson: Killing in Self-Defense or Murder in Cold Blood?

    10 DIC. 2023 · William Nelson was a private pilot who had just married the beautiful Onaima Nelson, a woman 23 years younger than himself. Then, just after Thanksgiving 1991, he disapeared. He was found in early December, murdered and dismembered by his new bride. But had she killed him out of self-defense, or had she murdered him in cold blood?
    18m 14s
  • Charles Albright: The Texas Eyeball Killer

    23 NOV. 2023 · In late 1990, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was found in a quiet Dallas, Texas neighborhood. She had been severely beaten and then shot to death. If that wasn't bad enough, it was soon discovered that her killer had expertly removed both her eyes. Mary Lou had just become the unwitting victim of one of the strangest and brutal serial killers in Texas history.
    27m 19s
Strange and Dreadful Stories of True Crime, Dark History, and the Paranormal that your grandma didn’t want you to hear.
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