EP46: Dollhouse of Death

Abbess Mariam, better known as “Mother Rasputin,” has been described as one of the most prolific female serial killers in modern history. She cloaked herself in the authority of a Greek Old Calendarist Orthodox abbess while running something far darker than a monastery. Between 1 ...  Show more

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussions of suicide and may be distressing to hear. Please listen with caution. In the tragic and recent case of Sonia Exelby, a vulnerable woman in the UK went online to arrange for her own death. Sadly, she connected with a sadistic man ...  Show more

Dan brings us a creepy doll double feature today!  The first  tale, is a story of a little brother terrorized by his older sister’s doll, first by her pranking him with it, and then later, the doll seems to take the pranking  on as its own. The next doll revolves around the cr ...

Sarah Sherman of Saturday Night Live (aka Sarah Squirm) joins as cohost for this episode about a girl named Samantha who came to me with a story about haunted dolls. This took place when she was in her early 20s and hanging around a weird house where she and her friends used to p ...  Show more

Quiet whispers, distant singing, and hundreds of mutilated dolls staring at those who pass...this is the eerie Island of the Dolls. Along the canals of Xochimilco, legends tell of a drowned girl searching for her doll in the afterlife, a woman who haunts the canals hoping to kidn ...  Show more

When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine. Say hello on Twitter, Fa ...  Show more