Evil Everywhere: A True Crime and Horror Podcast

Have a happy, creepy, safe Halloween everyone! 

will be releasing sources shortly!

What if the most terrifying monster isn’t something lurking in the woods but something you could become? The Wendigo or Wendigo is a cryptid who’s lore began with the Algonquian speaking Indigenous peoples, associated with insatiable hunger, greed, and the terrifying fear of losing your humanity. Unlike the antlered monsters we see in modern media today, traditional Wendigo folklore often focuses more on a hunger that can never be satisfied, and a transformation that turns a human away from its own humanity.  But this legend goes beyond folklore. There are stories of people who have murdered their own f...

In a small town along the Missouri River, in Atchison, Kansas, you’ll find quiet streets, historic homes, and a history that stretches back to the days of the American frontier. But tucked away on one of those streets is a house that has become one of the most talked about haunted locations in the country. It’s known as the Sallie House. And the stories surrounding this little Victorian home are enough to make you think twice about spending the night there. The legend begins with a little girl named Sallie, who, according to the story, died inside the...

In a small town along the Missouri River, in Atchison, Kansas, you’ll find quiet streets, historic homes, and a history that stretches back to the days of the American frontier. But tucked away on one of those streets is a house that has become one of the most talked about haunted locations in the country. It’s known as the Sallie House. And the stories surrounding this little Victorian home are enough to make you think twice about spending the night there. The legend begins with a little girl named Sallie, who, according to the story, died inside the...

Charleston, South Carolina is city known for its beauty, history, and centuries-old buildings that fill the streets. But beneath that beautiful history is a much darker past. For more than a century, the Old Charleston City Jail was a place of incarceration. Thousands of people were housed in its walls — criminals, enslaved people awaiting sale, prisoners of war, and others. Disease. Violence. Overcrowding. Executions and death were all extremely common among the inmates. The building eventually closed its doors in 1939. But the stories didn't stop. They only spread further. Today, the old jail is associated with reports of a mu...

Cayuga, Indiana, a small Midwestern community surrounded by open fields, quiet roads, and farmland stretching toward the horizon. The kind of place where life moves a little slower. And that's part of what makes the story of Willows Weep so unsettling. Because this isn't some abandoned mansion hidden deep in the woods. For years, it was simply a house in an ordinary community. And yet, according to the stories surrounding it, there was nothing ordinary about what happened inside. Willows Weep has been described as having a distinctive cross-shaped design, with some paranormal accounts claiming that parts of the...

In the summer of 1994, Trent DiGiuro had every reason to believe his life was just beginning. He was 20 years old, a starting offensive lineman for the University of Kentucky football team, a good student, and the kind of friend everyone wanted. Just days before his 21st birthday, Trent’s friends threw him a small party at his off campus home. But around 2am, a gunshot echoed through the night. Trent was sitting on the porch…but he never got up. For five years, the case went nowhere. Then, someone finally came forward. A woman claimed her ex boyfriend had conf...

In February of 1993, Dade City, Florida, was a very different place. Just west of town, the landscape was rural and quiet, orange groves, pastures, hay fields, wooded stretches of land, and homes sitting on large parcels. Jennifer Odom's family lived in that kind of setting, where the rhythms of everyday life revolved around school, family, friends, and the familiarity of a small community. There were no smartphones. No social media. No GPS tracking a child's location. And for Jennifer, walking the roughly 200 yards from her school-bus stop to her home was an ordinary part of her day. Until February 19...

In the summer of 2002, Leawood, Kansas, was the kind of place where nothing terrifying or terrible seemed to happen. Quiet neighborhoods. Families. Swimming pools. Kids spending their summers with friends. That all changed on June 18, 2002. Ali Kemp was 19 years old, a college student, athlete, daughter, sister, girlfriend. Ali was also the kind of person who seemed to be constantly involved in something. That June afternoon, Ali was at work, alone at the neighborhood swimming pool. She was excited for her date that evening but never made it home. When her younger brother came to relieve her at the pool...

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing, with 239 people on board. It was supposed to be a routine overnight flight. But less than an hour after takeoff, something happened that would leave the world searching for answers for more than a decade. The plane disappeared from civilian radar. Its communication systems stopped responding. And then investigators discovered something even more confusing: Flight 370 hadn't simply vanished. Radar suggested the aircraft had turned around, and satellite data showed that it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from radar. Search crews from around the world...

The quiet Victorian resort of Cape May, NJ was shattered when a body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, just a few miles from shore. The victim was 16-year-old Kimberly Holton, a teenager from Dover, Delaware. Despite having been submerged in water for a time, investigators managed to identify her. The autopsy revealed a number of concerning factors: multiple skull fractures but no water in her lungs. The most concerning, were the chains found wrapped her ankles. These chains led to a local hardware store where surveillance footage showed who had purchased it. But it was 2 men, unknown...

Skara, Sweden. A small, quiet city with more than a thousand years of history. It was founded, according to local tradition, nearly a thousand years ago. For centuries, Skara was known as a center of religion and education. It is home to one of Sweden's oldest schools, and its medieval cathedral still stands at the heart of the city. It's not the kind of place you would expect to become synonymous with one of the most disturbing crimes in Swedish history. But in November of 2010, behind the doors of an apartment, something horrific happened. And at the center of...

What if I told you one of the nation’s most contentious human experiments was occurring while the world was condemning Nazi medical human experiments? During World War II, the U.S. government created a secret study to learn what plutonium did to the human body. Plutonium is the radioactive metal used in nuclear weapons. What may or may not cause shock, the subjects in this experiment were NOT volunteers. They were hospital patients, all with some form of critical ailment, one of which was only 4 years old. Without any physical evidence of informed consent, 18 patients were injected with pl...

What if I told you one of the nation’s most contentious human experiments was occurring while the world was condemning Nazi medical human experiments? During World War II, the U.S. government created a secret study to learn what plutonium did to the human body. Plutonium is the radioactive metal used in nuclear weapons. What may or may not cause shock, the subjects in this experiment were NOT volunteers. They were hospital patients, all with some form of critical ailment, one of which was only 4 years old. Without any physical evidence of informed consent, 18 patients were injected with pl...

It was supposed to be just another Halloween party. On October 23, 1981, seventeen-year-old Kurt Sova left his home in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, to spend the evening with friends. By all accounts, Kurt was a kind, gentle teenager who was close with his parents. He wasn't known for staying out all night, and if he was ever running late, he always made sure they knew where he was. But that night, Kurt never came home. For five days, his family searched desperately, following every lead they could find and hoping someone had seen him. Then, just half a mile from the...

For 800 years, the Louvre has stood at the center of French history. Starting as a medieval fortress and a royal palace, it transformed into the world's most visited museum. But on the morning of October 19, 2025, that history was shattered. Four suspects in disguises broke into the Louvre and stole priceless pieces of French royal jewelry. Some of those jewels had survived revolutions, empires, and two world wars. Police quickly arrested several suspects, but the jewels themselves remain missing. And now, two of the accused have confessed, claiming they were recruited, but they refuse to give the police his identity...

They say some places remember what happened there. High above the lights of Los Angeles, winding through the hills of Whittier, lies Turnbull Canyon, a road surrounded by whispers of tragedy, mystery, and unexplained encounters. Nearby, Founders Memorial Park stands as a quiet reminder of a forgotten past, where history and legend have become almost impossible to separate. For decades, visitors have reported strange lights in the darkness, unsettling sounds carried on the wind, shadowy figures that disappear as quickly as they're seen, and an overwhelming feeling that they aren't alone. Are these experiences the product of suggestion and...

For this episode, join us as we go over two locations in Bulgaria where history, folklore, and unexplained mysteries have become a source of conversation. First, the almost abandoned village of Shishentsi, once home to more than 2,000 people but now only has a few dozen residents. This tiny village has become known throughout Bulgaria for claims of strange encounters, unexplained sounds, and legends. Some of these legends involve the Samovili, supernatural women who lure people into the forest. There have been many reports of mysterious disappearances, witnesses who experience off disorientation, and the chilling legend of the Bloody Wedding...

In October of 2020, in a quiet part of northeast Texas, a young woman named Reagan Simmons-Hancock was getting ready for one of the most important moments of her life. She was a wife, a mother. And she was weeks away from meeting her second child. She lived in New Boston, Texas, a small community where people tend to know each other, or at least recognize familiar faces. It’s the kind of place where a knock at the door usually isn’t something you fear. But on that day everything changed. What happened inside that home would later shock the...

On March 3rd, 2008, John and Elizabeth Calvert walked into a meeting with their accountant and were never seen again. Had they left town? Maybe something had simply been missed. But within days, their silver Mercedes was found abandoned in a parking lot, covered in debris, with no sign of the couple inside. investigators began looking everywhere. The Calverts’ credit cards had not been used. Their private plane never left the ground. Their boat was still in the marina, no signs of struggle or papers with plans of travel. Attention quickly shifted to the last known point of contact. Surveillance fo...

On a warm summer night in July of 1995 15-year-old Elyse answered two phone calls. Nothing about those conversations appeared unusual. A short time later, she told her family she was tired and headed to bed. By morning, she was gone. What followed was an eight-month search filled with sightings, rumors, and desperate hope. Her parents refused to believe she had simply run away. But as the weeks turned into months, answers remained painfully out of reach. Then a confession changed everything. Investigators uncovered a crime so shocking that it would make national headlines and leave an entire community struggling t...

High above the Victorian town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the Crescent Hotel & Spa has stood watch in the Ozark Mountains since 1886. Originally built as a luxury resort for travelers intrigued by the area’s healing springs, the hotel would become much more. It once served as a women's college when tourism slowed, survived a devastating fire, and became the site of a particularly dark chapter when a fraud doctor turned it into a cancer clinic, promising miracle cures. But there was no cure. The treatments were described as torture, claiming at LEAST 42 desperate souls. Today though, it's known for so...

What happens when all the warning signs are there but nobody can stop what's coming? Back in 2011, in Tampa, Florida, one family appeared to have everything together. A decorated military officer. A beautiful home. Two bright, talented teenagers with their entire futures ahead of them. From the outside, the Scheneckers looked like the kind of family people admired. But behind closed doors, something was quietly unraveling. For years, Julie Schenecker struggled with severe mental illness. There were hospitalizations. Psychiatric diagnoses. Family concerns. Emails warning that things were getting worse. And yet, life continued. School. Sports. Homework. Family dinners. Until...

In Elkridge, Maryland, a quiet suburb between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., people move there for the peaceful neighborhoods, hiking trails, and family life.  But in November of 1998, that illusion shattered. Thirty-five-year-old Sara Raras was a brilliant and kind woman who worked as a statistician for the NSA. She was also a deeply devoted mother to her one-year-old son, the type of person who would do anything for the people she loved. But behind closed doors, her marriage was falling apart. A bitter divorce. A custody battle. Allegations of abuse. Then one Sunday night, police entered Sara’s home afte...

There are some killers whose crimes are so disturbing, they almost feel unreal. And then there’s Jaime Osuna. Covered head to toe in tattoos including a horrifying smile across his face. Osuna became infamous long before the world learned what happened inside a California prison cell in 2019. By then, he was already serving life without parole for a brutal murder that had occurred in 2011. But what took place inside that motel room back in November of 2011 wouldn’t be the first time that the community saw the true evil residing with Jamie Osuna. In 2019, what correctional officers discovered duri...

News headlines were going nuts this past January 2026 with disturbing headlines: Corpses discovered in someone’s home. For months, police in Pennsylvania were receiving reports  of graves and mausoleums being desecrated and robbed around the Philadelphia, Yeadon area. Not only were treasured items taken, like jewelry or clothing but the remains themselves had also been taken. A tip pointed them in the direction of 34 year old Jonathan Gerlach. After being caught in the act, a search of his home revealed more horrors than anyone could have anticipated. Jonathan currently sits in custody held on over 500 charges of theft, burglary and...

Cheyenne is a city on the high plains of Wyoming, where Old West history still shapes its daily life. The city is full of quiet streets, experiences endless wind and according to many who live there, something else lingers beneath the surface. Downtown Cheyenne is said to be full of locations tied to unexplained stories. And at the center of it all stands the historic Plains Hotel. Built in 1911, the five-story hotel once hosted figures like Ernest Hemingway, Charles Lindbergh, and even the first female governor in U.S. history. But over time, its reputation changed. Guests report hearing...

There are some crimes that don’t just make headlines, they stop people in their tracks. Crimes so strange, so elaborate, that even seasoned investigators struggle to explain them. And the case I’m covering this week is one of those stories. It begins on an ordinary afternoon in Erie, Pennsylvania but nothing about what happened next was ordinary. A pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with something locked around his neck, something he says is an explosive device. He hands over a set of instructions that read more like a scavenger hunt than a robbery note. And with...

There are some crimes that don’t just make headlines, they stop people in their tracks. Crimes so strange, so elaborate, that even seasoned investigators struggle to explain them. And the case I’m covering this week is one of those stories. It begins on an ordinary afternoon in Erie, Pennsylvania but nothing about what happened next was ordinary. A pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with something locked around his neck, something he says is an explosive device. He hands over a set of instructions that read more like a scavenger hunt than a robbery note. And with...

Bergen, Norway 1970. A woman is found dead in an isolated Norwegian valley. No name. Every clothing label removed. A few days after, two suitcases are discovered at a nearby railway station, filled with wigs, multiple currencies, and a notebook filled with coded messages. When the codes were cracked, it proved she had checked into hotels under at least 8 different aliases. Reports from witnesses at these hotels revealed the woman had changed her appearance constantly. She also may have been seen near sensitive military sites during the height of the Cold War. Then, the autopsy results: dozens of sleeping pills...

Hong Kong is known as one of the world’s leading financial hubs, home to immense wealth, towering skylines, and global influence. But beneath that image of prosperity lies a different reality. For many, survival is a daily struggle, shaped by deep income inequality and limited opportunity. Fahn Man-yee was one of those people. Abandoned as an infant and raised in an orphanage, she was forced to navigate the world on her own by the age of 15. Her life was marked by hardship: homelessness, addiction, and instability. But by 1999, she was trying to turn things around. She had a ne...

In Oslo, Norway. 1995. A woman checked into the city’s most prestigious hotel, the Oslo Plaza Hotel, under the name Jennifer Fairgate. No ID. No credit card. Three days later, a gunshot was heard from behind a locked hotel room door on the 28th floor. Inside, police find her body. Alone. No signs of struggle. No identification. No personal belongings. Even the labels on her clothes were removed. She’s dressed in all black with heels on.  There was a powerful handgun in her grip held in a way that doesn’t make sense.  And somehow NO ONE knows who she is...

Imagine your life is completely normal.  You and your spouse are raising three kids in the quiet suburbs of Horicon, Wisconsin. A ranch-style home, an attached garage, nothing out of the ordinary. Safe. Comfortable. Then one day, you bring home a secondhand bunk bed for your daughters. They love it. You got a great deal. It feels like a win. But not long after it enters your home something changes. At first, it’s subtle. Your young son is suddenly too afraid to sleep alone. Then your daughter says she’s seen something, an evil witch, glowing orange, inside the h...

What if the floor you were standing on began to stare back at you? Deep in Southern Spain lies a small town that is seemingly unremarkable. But it is home to the most enduring unexplained cases in Spain’s history. Back in 1971, a woman named Maria was casually doing house chores in her home in Belmez when she noticed a strange pattern forming in the concrete floor. The stain over time began to form, becoming more distinct, forming a human face. Despite cleaning attempts and even removal of the section of floor, the face kept appearing. But not just on...

They called him the “Truck Stop Killer” but for years, no one even knew his name. In the late 1970s and 80s, young men and women began disappearing along America’s highways, hitchhikers, runaways, women just trying to get from one place to another. Their last known locations? Truck stops. Rest areas. The in-between places most people pass through without a second thought. Behind the wheel of an ordinary semi-truck, Robert Ben Rhoades blended in perfectly. He was a long-haul trucker, someone no one would look at twice. But inside his cab, investigators would later uncover something horrifying: a custom...

In March of 2006, 55-year-old musician Raymond James Merrill traveled to Brazil for the third time in five months. He told friends he was in love and was going to propose to the love of his life but he was never seen again. Ray’s online romance with a Brazilian woman named Regina Filomena Rachid quickly escalated into something deeper. Within weeks, Ray was sending her money. Within months, he had bought her a car, investing in her business and planning a future in Brazil. But behind the romance, there were warning signs: unauthorized charges. Tens of thousands of dollars di...

Sources:

Wikipedia – Murder of Peter Porco - Murder of Peter Porco - Wikipedia

Democrat and Chronicle – UR student, after attack on parents, hires lawyer – Greg Livadas – November 21, 2004

CBS – Christopher Porco’s bid to overturn conviction in the hands of Schenectady Prosecutor – Alex Weidner – February 28, 2025 - Christopher Porco's bid to overturn conviction in the hands of Schenectady prosecutor

48 Hours – Memories of Murder – Season 20, Episode 7

Fox News – Axe murderer set to appeal verdict with support from badly maimed mother – Taylor Penley – September 14, 2023 - Axe murderer set to appeal verdict with support from badly maimed mother...

What would you do in the face of murder charges? Most people would be frantic, pleading their innocence, and very anxious of what is to come. But that was not the case for Jessie Costello in 1933. That February, she found her husband, Captain William J. Costello, dead on the floor of their home in Peabody, MA. At the request of close friends, an autopsy was performed which found poison, despite the body having already been embalmed.  It was confirmed the poison had been sold to Mrs. Costello the night before the captain’s death, but Mrs. Costello claimed she had...

Ever get that feeling like someone’s watching you but when you look, there’s nothing there? Or worse someone is there. Picture this: it’s late at night. Maybe you’re home alone, maybe you’re just starting to wind down and then there’s a knock at your door. You’re not expecting anyone. You hesitate but you check anyway. Standing outside are two children. They look… off. Pale. Quiet. Almost too calm. They speak politely, like everything is totally normal. They just want to come inside. They need to come inside. And then you notice their eyes. Completely...