Send us a text This week we have some fun with a host of tales that are little easier to swallow. Join us for a selection of treats a bit too small for a full episode. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text Anatoly Moskvin is a Russian academic linguist from Nizhny Novgorod Russia. He was arrested in 2011 by police investigating a spate of grave desecrations in cemeteries in and around Nizhny Novgorod. 26 mummified bodies of young girls aged between 3 and 15 were found in his apartment. He exhumed the bodies and mummified them himself b…

Send us a text Join us this week on our strange trip into the Stoned Ape Theory. The theory, first proposed by Terence McKenna in the 1990s, suggests that the use of psychedelics played a crucial role in the evolution of early human ancestors. According to McKenna, the consumption of psychedelics, particularly psilocybin mushrooms, allowed our ance…

Send us a text Thelema is a complicated set of magical, mystical and religious beliefs formed in the 20th century by Aleister Crowley. Thelemites might be anything from atheists to polytheists, viewing the involved beings as actual entities or primal archetypes. Today it is embraced by a variety of occult groups including the Ordo Templis Orientis …

Send us a text This week we dive deep into revealing our shadowy overlords. You may know the names Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street. All are global investment managers who have done a lot to champion low-cost access to investing for retail investors. Due to their scale and focus on index tracking funds, they have a stake in the great majority …

Send us a text In the year 1988, a strange phenomenon swept across the globe, one that went unnoticed by the public but caused ripples through the fabric of reality. It was the year humanity faced an unrecorded extinction, and everything we know today is built on the echoes of that lost world. Did a universe ending event in 1988 cause reality to re…

Send us a text Charles C. Morgan was the president of his own Escrow company. He had a wife and 2 daughters in Tucson, Arizona when he first disappeared in the 1970s. He returned alive but would be found dead a short while later. No one knows exactly what happened to Charles C. Morgan but a conspiracy that spans from organized crime through to the …

Send us a text Ventusky is an application that presents weather and meteorological data to allow people to monitor developments anywhere in the world. Several times in recent months the application showed a cluster of waves reaching over 80 feet in height and spanning a distance wider than the state of Texas, moving up from Antarctica and toward th…

Send us a text For centuries, a large winged beast known as the Snallygaster is said to have terrified the people of Frederick County, Maryland. The dragon-like beast is described as a half-reptile and half-bird living deep in South Mountain’s caves. The mysterious creature is said to swoop silently down from the sky, stealing farm animals and chil…

Send us a text Perseus was a major hero in Greek mythology and even today, his name is surely one of ancient history’s most familiar. But who, exactly, was he? He famously slayed the terrifying Gorgon Medusa, a seemingly impossible task, completed through sneaky stealth and trickery. Unlike some Greek heroes, his strength came not from physical pow…

Send us a text The Beale ciphers are several coded messages, originally published in an 1885 pamphlet. This pamphlet purports to tell the story of frontiersman Thomas Beale, who (along with his party) mined quantities of gold, silver, and jewels (currently worth approximately $38 million), transported them across the country on wagons and/or pack m…

Send us a text In the late summer of 1878, a sleepy Nova Scotia town found itself in the middle of a mystery. Unexplained banging sounds rang from a home on Princess Street, buildings combusted into flames and a disturbing message was scratched above a young woman's bed: "Esther Cox, You Are Mine to Kill." If you're from Amherst, this ghost story n…

Send us a text Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its circumference) in the third century B.C. But a fringe society founded in the 1950s, dedicated to insisting that the Earth is flat, has given …

Send us a text Ireland's Vanishing Triangle is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsolved as well. All of the cases appeared to share some common char…

Send us a text This week we dive into a number of weird but true stories. You truly need to hear these to believe them. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text According to legend, Pukwudgies can appear and disappear at will, shapeshift, lure people to their deaths, use magic, launch poison arrows, and create fire. Native Americans believed that Pukwudgies were once friendly to humans, but then turned against them, and are best left alone. According to lore, a person who annoyed a Pukwudgie…

Send us a text Why do tunnels seem cause such strong feelings? Is it the fear of not knowing what lies in the dark? Is it the cold damp air? Is it maybe some primal fear left over from the early days of our species? This week we look into multiple tunnels, from the simply haunted to the completely outrageous. Support the show…

Send us a text Raelism, or the Raelian Movement, is another UFO religion and claims to be the largest. The Raelians are the followers of a cult founded in 1974 by the French auto racing journalist Claude Vorilhon. They have had two symbols to represent their cult; a swastika embedded on the Star of David, which was later replaced by a variant star …

Send us a text Today we conclude our study of the Munich Manual of Demonic Stuff. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic or Liber incantationum, exorcismorum et fascinationum variarum is a 15th-century grimoire manuscript. The text, written in Latin, largely deals with demonology and necromancy. The text is a fully digitally restored facsimile copy, but some parts of the text have been left unchanged (in the final par…

Send us a text This week we scour the interwebs for some esoteric demon summoning rituals, and have fun commenting on and critiquing their methods. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text After a New Year’s incident at a Miami mall sparked a massive police response, social media users started spreading some out-of-this-world claims. Videos circulating social media show dozens of police cars and shadowy figures at Bayside Marketplace, located about 5 miles from South Beach. Many people claimed these figures were not hu…

Send us a text This week we take a look at just how disturbing the dark web can be. Word warning weirdos don't go there yourself. Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show…

Send us a text This week we celebrate spooky season with a verity of creepy stories from around the world. Happy Halloween weirdos. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text This week we bring you various cryptid encounters from all over world. From bigfoot to possible aliens, maybe even things you've never heard of. Check out these first hand accounts for some mystery and laughs. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short story writer, editor, and critic. Credited by many scholars as the inventor of the detective genre in fiction, he was a master at using elements of mystery, psychological terror, and the macabre in his writing. Join us as we talk about his life, career and the strange circumstances of his death. Supp…

Send us a text Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command have been repeatedly searched, but no documents have been located w…

Send us a text On July 8, 1947 Public Information Officer Walter Haut of the Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico issued a press release indicating that a flying saucer had been found in the desert. By the next day, the Army had changed their tune, stating the object had actually been a weather balloon, but it was too late. Rumors that a UFO had cr…

Send us a text The squonk is of a very retiring disposition, generally traveling about at twilight and dusk. Because of its misfitting skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy...Hunters who are good at tracking are able to follow a squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal weeps constantly. When cornered and escape s…

Send us a text The Smurls moved into a house on Chase Street in West Pittston, Pennsylvania in August 1973. They claimed that the premises were disturbed by a demon that caused loud noises and bad odors, threw their dog into a wall, shook their mattress, pushed one of their daughters down a flight of stairs, and physically and sexually assaulted fa…

Send us a text One of the most infamous serial killer couples in British history are Fred and Rose West from Gloucestershire, England. Over twenty years, they raped, tortured and murdered an unknown number of girls and women, including two of their own daughters. Their gruesome string of murders would shock the nation to its very core and even toda…

Send us a text This week we continue our deep dive into the book of shadows. Support the showBy Chris and Chuck

Send us a text Gerald Gardner, the "father of Wicca", first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s. He claimed that it was a personal cookbook of spells that have worked for the owner; they could copy from his own book and add material as they saw fit. He said that t…

Send us a text Every town seems to have its own urban legends. This week we dive into some of our favorites. I wont spoil it here, check out the episode and see if we cover your favorites, or maybe find an urban legend that you've never heard before. Support the showBy Chris and Chuck

Send us a text The theory of cellular memories states that memories, as well as personality traits, are not only stored in the brain but may also be stored in organs such as the heart. In 2009 Harvard Medical School defined cellular memories as “a sustained cellular response to a transient stimulus.” Basically, when a cell is introduced to a specif…

Send us a text Berkowitz grew up in New York City and served in the United States Army. Using a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed six people and wounded seven others by July 1977, terrorizing New Yorkers and gaining worldwide notoriety. Berkowitz eluded the biggest police manhunt in the city's history while leaving letters that mocked…

Send us a text Jinn, especially through their association with things unseen, have always been favorite figures in North African, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, and Turkish folklore and are at the center of an immense popular literature, appearing notably in The Thousand and One Nights. In India and Indonesia they have entered the local Muslim imaginat…

Send us a text The Bermuda Triangle is a patch of ocean in the western North Atlantic Ocean. It’s near Florida and Bermuda and is famous for being the site of mysterious disappearances and spooky happenings. If you believe the legends, Vermont is also home to a cursed area known as the Bennington Triangle. The Bennington Triangle is located just no…

Send us a text Said to be one of the ten most haunted places in America, the Lemp Mansion in St.Louis, Missouri, continues to play host to the tragic Lemp family. Over the years, the mansion was transformed from the stately home of millionaires to office space, decaying into a run-down boarding house, and finally restored to its current state as a …

Send us a text According to Walton and a number of other members from the logging crew, on November 5, 1975, he was working with a timber stand improvement crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers, they allegedly encountered a saucer-shaped object hovering over the grou…

Send us a text The Rougarou is werewolf like cryptid reported to dwell in the swamps of Louisiana. Often the story-telling has been used to inspire fear and obedience. I'd like to use this space to give all you awesome weirdos a heads up. We recently changed our studio set up and I didnt take the time check everything before recording, so the audio…

Send us a text The most famous legend about the lost city of Dwarka can be found in the ancient epic of Mahabharata. Dwarka, like Atlantis, is said to have sunk beneath the sea at some point in the distant past. However, unlike Atlantis, whose remains have never been discovered, remnants of this ancient kingdom could be found in the depths. Accordi…

Send us a text In the early days of Weird Candy Chris covered the topic of shadow people. Armed with new information and deeper research into this phenomenon we attack this topic again. Join us as we cover the many different types of shadow people and the explanations (from the scientific to the ridiculous) behind these entities. Support the show…

Send us a text The Highway of Tears is a 725-kilometre (450 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia Canada, which has been the location of many missing and murdered indigenous beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was thinking of the victims' families …

Send us a text Sorry Virgil couldn't make it so you weirdos will have to settle with Chris and Chuck as your guides through the nine circles of hell. The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness, and culminating at the centre of the earth, where Satan is held in bondage. The sinners of each circle are punished for etern…

Send us a text The Texas Killing Fields is a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas situated a mile from Interstate Highway 45 and approximately 26 miles southeast of Houston. Since the early 1970s, 33 bodies of murder victims have been found along the I-45 area. They were mainly the bodies of girls or young women. Furthermore, many additional…

Send us a text The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic, inhabiting lakes, rivers,swamps, lagoons, billibongs, creeks, waterholes, sometimes "particular waterholes in the riverbeds". The Bunyip, is represented as uniting the characteristics of a bird and of an alligator. It has a head resembling an emu, with a long bill,…

Send us a text This week we take a look at the life of Anton LaVey founder of the church of Satan. We examine the life that led him to be what many consider the most evil man in history. Support the showBy Haunted Alley Productions

Send us a text The Sallie House is reported to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who died there. According to the legend, a child named Sallie was brought to Dr. Finney's house by her mother for severe abdominal pain. He thought that she had appendicitis and began emergency surgery, as he believed that Sallie's appendix was about to rupture. …

Send us a text This week we look into the legendary Irish leprechaun. These tiny drunk shoe makers are known to be mischievous little pranksters. What do they do other than trick humans and make shoes for the other fairy folk you might ask. Well check out this episode to find out. Support the showBy Chris and Chuck