Grimly Podcast

This week, Missy steps into something a little different as Grimly joins a group of fellow podcasters for a special scripted Halloween anthology. Part One of this two-part event brings together original spooky stories, urban legends, haunted places and things that go bump in the dark, all wrapped inside one increasingly sinister broadcast.

We hope you enjoy this series just in time for spooky season. Without further ado, ladies and ghouls.... DEAD AIR: Part 1. 

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Tonight we come to you from an abandoned radio station for a very special Halloween two part series to...

This spooky season, we’re heading inside the Old Idaho State Penitentiary. A place marked by executions, riots, solitary confinement, violent deaths, and more than a century of incarceration. We’ll dig into the prison’s history, some of its most infamous inmates, and the ghost stories, unexplained voices, footsteps, and strange encounters that still cling to its sandstone walls.

Some places come with warnings, and some warnings are better left untested.

In this episode, we’re traveling around the world to four places with reputations for something darker than being haunted. From a Thai island where visitors mail stolen stones back after their luck turns bad, to an Italian island surrounded by tragedy, a Czech castle allegedly built over a gateway to Hell, and a remote Canadian wilderness where prospectors vanished or were found dead, each location has earned its own unsettling legend.

Are these places truly cursed, or are we seeing coincidence, danger, hi...

In Part 2 of the disappearance of Aaron Hedges, the search shifts into an investigation as authorities begin taking a closer look at the accounts given by Joe Depew and Greg Leitner. Inconsistencies in their story, the delay in reporting Aaron missing, and questions about where they had really been hunting all come under scrutiny. Then, months later, Aaron’s belongings begin turning up miles from where anyone expected him to be, followed by the discovery that would finally reveal his fate. But even with Aaron found, the biggest questions remain: why did he keep moving farther into the mountains, wh...

In September 2014, Aaron Hedges and two friends set out into Montana’s rugged Crazy Mountains for a five-day elk hunting trip. But after a series of frustrating setbacks, Aaron ventures off alone to retrieve his camping equipment and never returns. As the days pass and a brutal snowstorm sweeps through the mountains, a massive search and rescue operation uncovers a trail of abandoned belongings but no sign of the missing hunter. In Part 1, we retrace Aaron’s final known movements, the questionable actions by his companions, and the desperate search that would leave investigators with more questions than answers.

In moments of extreme danger, some people report something they can’t explain: the unmistakable feeling that someone is there with them. From frozen mountains and underwater caves to the chaos of September 11th, survivors have described unseen presences that comforted them, guided them, and sometimes seemed to help keep them alive. This week, we’re diving into the strange phenomenon known as Third Man Syndrome and asking whether these mysterious companions are a trick of the brain, a survival mechanism, or something else entirely.

In April of 1989, Patricia Meehan was involved in a car accident on a rural Montana highway nearly 400 miles from her home. After silently staring at the other driver, she climbed over a fence, walked into a dark field, and vanished.

What followed were thousands of reported sightings across multiple states, theories involving amnesia, dissociative fugue, and foul play, and one haunting question that remains unanswered: what was happening to Patricia before she ever reached that highway?

In March of 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished while sailing through the Atlantic with over 300 people on board. There was no distress call, no confirmed wreckage, and no definitive explanation for what happened. More than a century later, the disappearance remains one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. naval history. This week, we’re diving into the final voyage of the USS Cyclops, the strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance, and the theories that have tried to explain how such a massive ship could simply vanish.

In 2019, actress Zoe McLellan vanished from public view with her six-year-old son, Sebastian, in the middle of a bitter custody battle filled with abuse allegations, court orders, and conflicting claims. Years later, Sebastian is still missing and Zoe is wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant. But this case isn’t as simple as it sounds. Was Zoe a mother willing to risk everything to protect her child, or a parent who broke the law and disappeared with him? This week, we unpack the complicated disappearance of Zoe McLellan and Sebastian Gillain.

On August 21, 1955, a quiet night in rural Kentucky turned into one of the strangest alleged alien encounters in American history. After seeing a mysterious object streak across the sky, a group gathered at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky claimed small, metallic-looking creatures began emerging from the woods and approaching the house. What followed was hours of gunfire, terrified witnesses, and a police response, and a story that would eventually become the legend of the Kelly-Hopkinsville “goblins.” This week, we’re breaking down what happened that night, the theories that have tried to explain it, and why we think the truth might...

In July 2006, Mary Cooper and her daughter Susanna Stodden set out for a hike along Washington’s Pinnacle Lake Trail. Hours later, both women were found murdered in the wilderness they loved. Nearly two decades later, no one has been charged, no clear motive has been established, and the person responsible has never been identified. This week, we’re looking at the unsolved murders of Mary Cooper and Susanna Stodden, the investigation that followed, and the questions that still linger along the trail.

In Part 2 of Project Pegasus, Andrew Basiago’s story moves beyond the early teleportation experiments and into even stranger territory. He claims he was sent through time to witness significant moments from history, trained alongside other child “chrononauts,” and was eventually recruited into a separate program involving missions to Mars. But as the story grows, so do the contradictions. This week, we follow Project Pegasus to its most unbelievable claims and examine why the evidence behind them may not survive the journey.

In Part 1 of Project Pegasus, we trace the alleged origins of one of the strangest government conspiracy stories ever told. After Nikola Tesla’s death, his research was seized and examined by the U.S. government but according to the legend, some of his most important work never resurfaced. Decades later, a Washington State attorney named Andrew Basiago claims that Tesla's research was used to create a classified teleportation and time-travel program, with children serving as its test subjects. From the mysterious Tesla files to Andrew’s first alleged journeys through space and time, we begin unraveling the unbelievable story of P...

On May 31, 2013, a massive tornado descended near El Reno, Oklahoma, growing into the widest tornado ever recorded. What began as another dangerous day on the Plains quickly became a chaotic and deadly event, claiming the lives of residents, motorists, and three highly respected storm researchers from the TWISTEX team. In this episode, we look at the storm’s rapid evolution, the people caught in its path, and the lasting impact El Reno had on the storm-chasing community.

When six year old Brooke Sutton survived the attack that killed her grandmother, Judy Johnson, she told police the man looked like her Uncle Clarence. But “looked like” became “it was him,” and Clarence Elkins was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

This episode covers the wrongful conviction of Clarence Elkins, the years-long fight by his wife Melinda to prove his innocence, and the DNA evidence that finally exposed the truth hiding right next door.

In 1992, Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier were involved in a car crash on a rural South Dakota road. One passenger survived, but Arnold and Ruby vanished from the scene before help arrived. Months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the crash site a place investigators, the family of Arnold and Ruby, volunteers had already searched.

Their deaths were eventually ruled accidental, but the case left behind questions that have never been fully answered. Where were Arnold and Ruby during the months they were missing? How did they end up back near the crash site...

Vicki Morgan’s life was tangled in wealth, politics, secrets, and scandal long before her brutal murder in 1983. Known publicly as the longtime mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, a wealthy businessman and close friend of President Ronald Reagan, Vicki became the center of a story filled with lawsuits, rumors, and powerful men. But when she was found dead inside her Los Angeles home, her murder raised a question that still lingers: was this simply a violent crime, or did Vicki Morgan know too much?

This week, we’re taking a haunted road trip through California’s eerie eastern edge. From the brutal silence and strange legends of Death Valley, to the cursed ghost town of Bodie, through the Sierra Nevada home of Penelope the cryptid, and finally to Lake Tahoe, where folklore gives way to a much darker real history. Buckle up for strange caves, curses, cryptids, ghost towns, and the stories still lingering beside the road.

When Gary McCullough disappeared in 1999, the truth about what happened to him seemed to vanish with him. Years later, Lena Chapin came forward with a shocking story about his death, only to disappear herself before she could testify. This week, we’re covering the tangled and haunting disappearances of Gary McCullough and Lena Chapin, a case filled with family secrets, buried truth, and unanswered questions that still linger today.

In part two of the Betty Broderick case, we see events and the consequences of the divorce war as it reaches its breaking point.

After years of bitter court battles, custody fights, restraining orders, obscene voicemails, and escalating rage, Betty Broderick walks into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. By morning, both Dan and Linda are dead.

But the question that consumed the courtroom, the media, and the public was never whether Betty pulled the trigger, she admitted that she did. The question was, what...

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behind the country club image, their marriage was slowly cracking under resentment, ambition, betrayal, and control. In part one of the Betty Broderick story, we’re looking at the life Betty and Da...

On a quiet summer morning in July 2007, Barbara Bolick set out on a familiar trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana with a friend. It was a place she knew well, a short, easy hike with nothing unusual about it. But in the span of just a few moments, Barbara disappeared no sound, no struggle, no trace left behind.

Despite extensive searches, helicopters, and tracking dogs, there has never been a single piece of evidence explaining what happened that day at Bear Creek Overlook. How does someone vanish so completely, in broad daylight, on a trail they’ve...

In this weeks special episode, we’re stepping inside Overbrook Asylum with Brandon O. from Terrorific. Overbrook was a place that once held thousands and left behind countless unanswered questions about the care that was supposed to happen but instead was met with tragedies that we will never hear. From its overcrowded past to the chilling events of 1917 and the ghost stories that followed, this is the story of a hospital that may have closed its doors… but never fully let go of its history.

Be sure to rate and review Grimly and Terrorific and as always, stay...

In our final episode of this series. We cover the final years of the group that would come to be known as The Heavens Gate Cult. We cover additional member recruitment after the death of Bonnie Nettles. Along with the shift in ideology that eventually leads to the groups final major act in 1997 after the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet. But with the conclusion of Heavens Gate we still wondering, where does free will end and coercion begin and when does influence negate personal responsibility. 

Be sure to rate and review and as always, stay grimly curious. 

In part two of our three part series of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, we dive deeper into the psychology of the coercion and control that became more and more apparent under Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite's leadership. We also talk about how the group changed from their original doctrine and beliefs to one that has the catastrophic end in 1997. 

Be sure to rate and review and as always, stay grimly curious. 

Before the mass suicide that shocked the world, there was a story of two people, a growing following, and a belief system that promised something beyond Earth.
This week, we dive into Part 1 of the Heaven’s Gate story breaking down the early lives of Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, how they met, what their teachings were and how their teachings began to pull people in to the cult that would later be known as Heaven's Gate. 

In 1997, a man calling himself Mel Waters phoned into Coast to Coast AM with a story that sounded almost impossible. On a piece of land near Ellensburg, Washington, he claimed there was a hole with no measurable bottom. A place where anything thrown inside simply vanished… and where the deeper the story went, the stranger it became. Over time, Mel described bizarre phenomena, mysterious government interest, and a discovery that blurred the line between legend and something far more unsettling. Listen as we explore the origins of Mel’s Hole, the man behind the story, and the question that still linge...

A newlywed marriage in Florida hides a deadly secret when police uncover a murder-for-hire plot targeting Michael Dippolito. What follows is a dramatic sting operation, hidden cameras, and one of the most bizarre true-crime sagas of the modern era. In this episode, we unravel the twists, trials, and shocking moments behind a case that left people wondering how far someone might go to get away with murder.

When a quiet Arkansas community learned that a 67-year-old man had been arrested on dozens of charges related to the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl, many believed justice was already in motion. But months later, that same man was out on bond. Then, one night in October 2024, everything changed. After discovering his daughter missing from her bedroom, Arkansas father Aaron Spencer began searching for her. He soon found her in a truck with the very man accused of abusing her, Michael Fosler. What happened next would ignite a national debate about justice, parental instinct, and the limits...

In September 1952, a fireball streaked across the evening sky over the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. What began as a group of boys chasing what they thought was a fallen meteor quickly turned into one of the strangest encounters in American history. Waiting on the hillside was a towering figure… floating, silent, and unlike anything they had ever seen. The witnesses ran home terrified, reporting burning eyes, the smell of sulfur and ozone, and a creature that still defies explanation more than seventy years later.

Was it a trick of the light? Misidentified animal? Cryptid?… or some...

On the night of April 15th, 1988, 17 year old Randy Leach borrowed the family car and headed out to a party with friends in the small Kansas town of Linwood. But sometime between the party and the drive home, he vanished. In the decades since, investigators, family, friends and volunteer searches have never been able to explain how a boy, a car, and small town could hold so many secrets that still haven’t revealed what happened to Randy Leach. In this episode we talk timelines, witness accounts of the party and the crazy rumors that surround this story. 

After a fire broke out in 1834 at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers forced their way into the attic, and uncovered a scene so disturbing it shocked even a city already accustomed to brutality. The discovery turned Madame LaLaurie from respected socialite into one of the most infamous figures in American history, and the house on Royal Street into a legend of cruelty, tragedy, and lingering unrest.

Nearly two centuries later, the LaLaurie Mansion remains one of the most haunted locations in America. But what truly happened inside those walls history, exaggeration...

In the final episode of our coverage of DeOrr Kunz Jr. disappearance , the focus turns to what still doesn’t add up. As private investigators take a closer look at the case, growing suspicion centers on the people who were with DeOrr the day he vanished.

We examine the involvement of PIs, the mounting questions surrounding DeOrr's parents Vernal and Jessica, and the leading theories of what may have happened during the camping trip in Idaho. With no physical evidence and no definitive answers, the case remains painfully unresolved.

This episode doesn’t offer closure sadl...

In July 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from a remote campground in Idaho’s Lemhi Range. He was last seen playing near his family’s campsite, surrounded by adults who believed he was never out of sight for more than a moment. Within minutes, he was gone. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, we lay out the foundation of the case: the family trip to the wilderness, the timeline of DeOrr’s disappearance, analyze some of the families behaviors after the immediate disappearance and the massive search effort that followed. All while asking, what happened to little DeOrr? 

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In 1975 in Snowflake Arizona one of the most infamous UFO abduction stories happened, or did it? The Travis Walton abduction still sits at that gray area between belief and doubt. Polygraphs, hypnosis sessions, skeptical analyses, and tabloid deals have all been analyzed and scrutinized, but none have overturned the basic testimony of the seven men who were there the night of the abduction. Despite the decades of pressure, criticism, and national exposure, their accounts have remained consistent, and none of them have publicly recanted. So what happened that November night? Listen to this week’s episode, where skepticism and ey...

It is episode 90 and we are back and as unhinged and chatty as ever! Today Meg is doing her annual tradition of kicking off the new year with an episode with a perplexing and frankly frustrating missing persons case. Daniel Robinson was 24 when he disappeared from a geologist worksite in the Arizona desert. For his family, the search has lasted years through recovery efforts, lackluster police investigation, and a battle for media attention many missing families know all too well. In this episode, we look at Daniel’s final known movements, the investigation that followed, and the questions that st...

In this episode, we dive into the darker roots of Christmas folklore from around the world. Where winter isn’t just cozy, it’s crawling with creatures, warnings, and ancient traditions meant to keep people in line through the longest nights of the year. From Iceland’s terrifying Gryla and the towering Yule Cat to Wales’ eerie Mari Lwyd and the restless household spirits like the Tomte, we explore the legends that shaped midwinter celebrations long before modern Christmas.

Before Christmas was all lights and cheer, Victorians gathered by firelight to tell ghost stories. This episode dives into the legend of the Mistletoe Bride and the haunting of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, two of the most famous Victorian Christmas tales still whispered about today.

On Christmas Day 1929, the quiet tobacco fields of Germanton, North Carolina, became the backdrop for one of the most haunting family tragedies in American history. What began as a day of celebration ended in unthinkable violence when Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his children before taking his own life. Nearly a century later, the question of why still lingers like a cold winter fog over Stokes County. In this episode, we unravel the events leading up to that horrific morning, explore the rumors and theories that have surrounded the case for decades, and trace the echoes...

A missing nurse. A desperate search to find her. And a woman who claimed she could see what no one else could. In 1980, the disappearance of Melanie Uribe spiraled into one of the most baffling true-crime stories in Los Angeles history when aerospace worker Etta Louise Smith came forward with a startling vision, one that led police directly to Melanie’s body. But instead of gratitude, Etta found herself arrested and accused of murder. This episode dives into the mystery, the intuition, and the injustice behind the case that still leaves more questions than answers.

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