Eerily Beloved
Eerily Beloved, we are gathered here to explore the backdrop that gave us the iconic imagery of Twilight and the X-Files that some twisted few exploit for darker narratives. Each week, join host Madeline, and a rotating door of guests, as they dive into creepy cryptids, sasquatch sightings, paranormal places, and true crime cases that make the pacific northwest region, and its beautifully vast landscape, infamous.
Polybius: The Most Dangerous Arcade Game
In the fall of 1981, a mysterious arcade game appeared in Portland, Oregon, captivating teens with its unmarked black cabinet and strange gameplay. The allure of the game called Polybius grew as word spread about its effects. Players reported nausea, nightmares, seizures, and worse. Just as quickly as it appeared, the game vanished... or in theory it would have, but Polybius never actually existed. Was it a Mandela effect, a test cabinet, a hoax, or something darker?
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Happy Halloween! Love, Bigfoot
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Yes, you read the title right. We somehow convinced Garrett to sit in for another Bigfoot episode, and this time dressed as Bigfoot (Bigfeet?). In our Halloween special, we're heading straight to the source: the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization database.
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Scary Reddit Stories vol. 8: Creepy Cemeteries
Cemeteries are creepy on a good day, but these stories make them creepier. Are these real hauntings, urban legends, or a very good reason not to hop a cemetery fence at 11:30 p.m.?
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The Bothell Hell House
Is the Bothell Hell House the most documented poltergeist case in history or an elaborate hoax?
In 2012, Keith Linder and his girlfriend Tina moved into a rental in Bothell, WA. From day one the couple experienced paranormal activity that over the course of four years escalated into what they claim was a full blown poltergeist infestation. When outsiders are called in to investigate, the evidence doesn't match up to the dramatic and life threatening behavior that Keith described had been happening for years leading everyone to wonder if he's an unreliable narrator.
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The Happy Face Killer pt.2
Content note: This episode discusses murder and sexual violence.
This is the final part covering the Happy Face Killer. After The Oregonian received a letter that confessed to killing 5 women in 1994, including the murder of a woman two were serving time for, investigators were scrambling. Was this simply a hoax? or did they wrongfully convict two people for a murder they didn't commit? When another woman is murdered, a name that police are familiar with comes back on their radar, and suddenly, all the pieces fall into place...at least that's what they think.
The Happy Face Killer pt.1
Content note: This episode discusses murder and sexual violence.
When a woman's body was found in the Columbia River Gorge, followed by an anonymous phone call leading to a suspect, and then finally a confession, police assumed this would be an open shut case. This was completely derailed when literal writing on the wall said the two people they were working to convict were innocent, and the killer still roamed free. When the author was ignored, he proceeded to send letters to the press, a large happy face at the top. The contents of the...
Scary Reddit Stories vol. 7: Spooky Lakes
For our final episode for Spooky Lake Month, we're diving back into reddit to see where you think the spookiest lake is. Safe to say camping is not in our near future after reading these.
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Spooky Lakes: The Lady of the Lake (revisited)
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them.
This episode was too good not to include in our spooky lake segment, so this week we're revisiting episode 10. Hallie Illingworth vanished in 1937. Her husband said she ran off with another man. Three years later, her body surfaced in Lake Crescent, Washington, perfectly preserved by a bizarre and incredibly rare chemical reaction that turned her body into soap.
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Spooky Lakes: Little Lava Lake Murders
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them.
In the winter of 1923, three trappers settled into an isolated cabin at Little Lava Lake, Oregon, but by April 1924, none of their families had heard from them in months. What followed was one of Oregon's oldest unsolved murder cases. This week we dig into: the missing fox pelts, the bloody sled that turned out to be a red herring, the manhunt for an escaped convict, and the questions that, a century later, still don't have answers.
...Spooky Lakes: Crater Lake
September is spooky lake month! Every week this month we'll be covering a different lake and the mysteries that surround them.
Formed nearly 8,000 years ago when Mount Mazama collapsed, Crater Lake is America's deepest lake, and one of Oregon's most mesmerizing. This week we're diving into the dark blue waters that hide more than volcanic history.
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...The Klickitat Ape Cat
Deep in the Columbia River Gorge, hikers and locals are reporting encounters with a mysterious creature known as the Klickitat or Ebony Ape Cat. Since 2022, there's been a growing number of sightings all centered around Bingen, Washington where a local outdoor store has been collecting eye-witness accounts and recording the anomalies that accompany it: Compasses spinning. Batteries draining. No physical evidence...yet. This week we dive into the theories surrounding this creature, ranging from Nuclear plant mutant to large house cat on the loose.
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What Happened to Misty Copsey?
On September 17, 1992, 14 year old Misty Copsey disappeared after a trip to the Puyallup Fair and despite many big crime players operating in the area at the time (like the green river killer) police dismissed it as a runaway case for months. This week we dig into the missed leads, sketchy suspects, and jurisdictional mess that left a lasting impact on her still unsolved case today.
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Scary Reddit Stories vol. 6: Bigfoot Encounters
For our 30th episode we're bringing you true (?) Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters pulled straight from Reddit. Creepy? absolutely. Believable? TBD. Hope you're not planning on camping soon, because these stories even spooked the Sasquatch skeptics in our group.
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Is McMenamins Edgefield Oregon's Most Haunted Hotel?
Before it was one of Oregon's most haunted hotels, McMenamins Edgefield was a Poor Farm: a 330-acre campus in Troutdale where the sick, elderly, orphaned, and unhoused worked at or lived out their final years. Now ranked among the top 10 most haunted hotels in the US, Edgefield's guest ghost log is filled with decades of encounters.
In this episode we dig into the ghost stories, guest book entries, and staff encounters that have made it one of the Pacific Northwest's most talked-about haunted destinations. Would you spend the night there?
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Mystery of the Eastern Oregon Cattle Mutilations
In 1967, a three-year-old horse named Snippy was found stripped to the bone with no blood, no tracks, and no explanation, kicking off decades of unexplained livestock mutilations across the American West. By the 1970s, ranchers in Eastern Oregon were finding cows in similar manners: reproductive organs removed, tongues gone, no blood at the scene, and scavengers mysteriously avoiding the bodies.
In this episode we dig into the history of cattle mutilation reports, the FBI investigation that went nowhere, and the modern-day cases from 2019–2022 that reignited the mystery and became the subject of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Aliens, sa...
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment pt.2
In part 2 we dig into the fallout after JZ Knight's explosive public divorce trial cracked the empire she built with Ramtha (the 35,000-year-old Atlantean warrior that channels ancient wisdom through her) wide open, revealing manipulation, financial control, and lawsuits galore. Former students speak out over fears of reptilian armies, lye poisoning, and.dangerous hours long wine ceremonies. What was Ramtha actually teaching? and did a viral drunken tirade reveal the true character of the woman behind the curtain. Despite everything, nearly 50 years later, Ramtha's School of Enlightenment is still running.
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Ramtha's School of Enlightenment pt.1
In 1977, a Tacoma housewife picked up a paper pyramid as a joke and somehow channeled a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit in her kitchen. That spirit, Ramtha, would go on to turn Knight into a multimillionaire guru and the founder of a controversial "school" on an 80-acre compound in Yelm, Washington that still operates today.
In part 1 we dive into the wild origin story of one of the New Age movement's biggest names. From that first strange encounter through Ramtha's explosion into pop culture, including celebrity followers, appearances in mainstream media, and the birth of the channeling movement that w...
Oak Grove Jane Doe: Oregon's Oldest Unsolved Murder
2026 marks 80 years since the torso of a woman was discovered in the Willamette river on April 12, 1946. In this episode, we trace Oregons oldest unsolved murder case from that first grim discovery through the decades of dead ends that followed. Who is this unknown woman? and can modern technology be used to finally give her back her name.
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Urban Legend: Propman
Have you heard of PropMan? In 1944, a WWII B-24 bomber crashed into Mission Ridge near Wenatchee, Washington and one crew member was never found. Since then, hikers, ski patrollers, and Boy Scouts have reported terrifying encounters with a figure in a military uniform, missing limbs, and a propeller blade protruding from his chest. This Pacific Northwest urban legend has been scaring kids to stay in their cabins for decades. Is it fact, fiction, or something in between?
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Scary Reddit Stories vol.5: Haunted Houses
Don't listen with the lights off because we're reading Reddit's creepiest haunted house stories. As you'll hear in todays episode, for us, there's no amount of vintage charm a house can have to make up for shadow figures, disembodied voices, knocks, closet doors opening, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. But maybe these surprise residents want to help make a haunted house, a haunted home :)
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Maury Island Incident
On June 21st, 1947, Harold Dahl claimed six donut-shaped objects appeared over Maury Island on the Puget Sound. The next morning, a man in a black suit showed up at his door, and recited the entire incident back to him word for word with a warning: stay quiet or else. What followed was a chain of events nobody could have predicted.
Was it a hoax? A government cover-up? Or did something genuinely unexplainable happen that summer?
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Heceta Head Revisited & After Death Communications
We can confirm that the Heceta Head Lighthouse from ep. 14 is just as spooky during the daytime. This week, we're revising Heceta Head to recap our experience at the lighthouse and then diving into ADCs (after death communications). Between 25% and 60% of people who are grieving worldwide report being contacted by someone they've lost, and two of our own have experienced it firsthand.
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Witches of Rathdrum & the Murders of Rita & Ron Marcussen
In the early 1970's the small town of Rathdrum, Idaho was plagued with many rumors and tall tales...at least that's what everyone thought until a young couple vanishes without a trace. Newspaper headlines make it hard to believe what's fact and what's fiction: Witch cult, aliens, satanic rituals, murder or all of the above?
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Cascade Stick Indians
Long before settlers arrived, the Salish, Lummi, Yakama, and Cayuse tribes knew to fear what lived in the woods: malevolent forest spirits so dangerous that many tribes refused to even speak their true name. They are known as Stick Indians. Said to have the power to paralyze, hypnotize, or cause insanity, and in some traditions even eat people who fall prey to them. This week we're diving into one of the Pacific Northwest's oldest and most chilling indigenous legends. What are the Stick Indians, what do different tribes believe about them, and why are people still reporting encounters in...
Bellingham Steam Plant John Doe
On September 20, 1987, a worker at the Georgia-Pacific mill in Bellingham, Washington made a discovery that would haunt investigators for decades. The remains of a man in boiler no. 9. Burned beyond recognition, with no DNA, no identity, and no clear cause of death, he became known as the Bellingham Steam Plant John Doe. Was it an accident? A suicide? A murder? Nearly 40 years later, nobody knows.
If you have information about this case, contact Bellingham, WA PD at (360) 778-8800.
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Dammasch State Hospital
In 1961, Dammasch State Hospital opened its doors in Wilsonville, Oregon, a psychiatric institution meant to ease the overcrowding crisis in the state's mental health system. For over three decades, hundreds of patients with mental illness and addiction cycled through its halls. By 1995, it was shuttered, its buildings eventually demolished and paved over with a housing development. But the stories didn't disappear with the bulldozers. This week we dig into the dark history of Dammasch: the patients, the controversies, the paranormal reports, and what it means when a community literally builds over its past.
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Urban Legend: Mel's Hole
This week we're diving into Mel's Hole: the legendary bottomless pit near Ellensburg, Washington that first shocked listeners on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show in 1997. From supernatural claims and government cover-ups to geologists calling it impossible, we break down the full story of America's most mysterious hole. True story, hoax, or something stranger? You decide.
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Scary Reddit Stories vol. 4
r/backwoodscreepy is exactly what it sounds like. And this week, we're reading the stories that creeped us out the most. Laughing in the woods, sudden silence, and tales from a former SAR. Prepare to never want to venture into the woods again.
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Haunted Heceta Head Lighthouse
The Heceta Head Lighthouse has guided ships safely since 1893. Since then, it's landed itself a spot on the top 10 most haunted lighthouses in the US thanks to its resident ghost named Rue. This week, we're diving into the history of Oregon's lighthouses, the psychologically devastating lives of the keepers who maintained them, and the spirit who has made herself known to nearly every person who has visited. After listening we want to know: would you stay the night here?
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The Martin Family Disappearance
In 1958, a Portland family of five drove into the Columbia River Gorge for Christmas decorations and never returned. The Martin family disappearance is one of Oregon's most baffling unsolved cold cases, involving a bloody gun, a scratched-out name in a detective's notebook, and a station wagon that sat buried beneath the riverbed for nearly 70 years. We're breaking down every detail, every unanswered question, and every reason this case still doesn't add up.
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Scaredy Chats vol. 1: ghosts in Italy, hometown lore, former skeptics
Sometimes, paranormal experiences happen when you least expect it--or where you least expect it. This week Dad tells gives details about his ghostly encounter in Italy, and then we dive into your tales. Every town has its stories and cautionary tales and every former skeptic has that one encounter that made them a believer.
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Sheryl Ruthven and The Doomsday Cat Cult
Would you start a cult for your cat? Called by the word of god after the death of her cat and inspired by her dabble with Egyptian alchemy, Sheryl Ruthven began preaching that cats would be the vessels that saved their souls during the apocalypse... and that's not the most surprising thing you'll hear in this episode. This week, we're diving into how one woman's aspiration to be a pentecostal preacher spun so wildly out of control.
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Lady of the Lake: The Murder of Hallie Illingworth
Hallie Illingworth vanished in 1937. Her husband said she ran off with another man. Three years later, her body surfaced in Lake Crescent, Washington, perfectly preserved by a bizarre and incredibly rare chemical reaction. This week we dive into the real story behind the legend of the Lady of the Lake, one of the Pacific Northwest's most chilling cases.
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Scary Reddit Stories vol. 3
What would you do if you saw: a huge, bright, orange picnic table in the woods, aliens at Detroit lake, or a not-deer on your drive home? Co-host Morgan is back this week and we went down another reddit rabbit hole --and scared ourselves in the process.
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Urban Legend: The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach
This week, co-host Morgan and I are diving into the bandage man: a mummy-like cryptid that's known to haunt (or hunt) Highways 101 and 26 leading into Cannon Beach, Oregon. Since the 40's, this entity has been wreaking havoc on lovers lanes and terrifying tourists as they drive along the coastline. Unconvinced? you won't be after hearing peoples encounters with him (it??) in real life.
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The Starry Night Murderer
On January 20 1990, 180 counterfeit tickets were discovered being sold to a John Lee Hooker concert at Starry Night, a midsize music venue in Old Town, Portland. 3 days later Tim Moreau, an employee of the popular night club, vanished after admitting to the scheme— at least that’s what the club owner, 35 year old Larry Hurowitz, told police.
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Scary Reddit Stories vol. 2
Haunted dorms at OSU, a ghost entity in our own backyard, a run in with a man suspected of being the green river killer, and a potential encounter with the grim reaper. After last batch of Reddit stories wasn't scary enough I had to up the ante. The family is back once again for their takes on if these are believable, creepy, or downright stupid.
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The Witch Curse of Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery
What is supposed to be a quiet resting place for the families and individuals who travelled west on the Oregon trail, has become infamous for the chilling encounters, physical paranormal attacks, and a witches curse that has haunted the town for over a century. Many say the Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery is one of Oregons most haunted places, but what, or who, is behind the ghostly tales.
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The Missing 411 Theory & Olympic National Park Cases
Gilbert Gilman, James Griffin, and John Devine have 2 things in common: they loved the outdoors, and they all mysteriously vanished in Olympic National Park. While no one is immune to Mother Nature, Internet conspiracy theorist David Paulides suggests that something more sinister is at play.
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Oregon Highway 22 "Jogger"
This week, we're dedicating an entire episode to the strange figure seen by multiple people, years apart, on Highway 22 in Oregon. After reading about this, the family decided to do their own investigating and reports back their findings. Could this be an entity caught in a time loop? or is it just an innocent person walking their nightly route on a dark 2 lane highway.
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