Episodes

May 26, 2021

Life is Just a String of Detour Montages: Meeley's Life and Death

This week, we complete each other, dingbats go up against melon heads, a little girl wants to smash a glass ceiling, Brianne has some unresolved gifted child issues, MELANIE IS HILARY SWANK, forensic anthropologists sling mu…
May 25, 2021

A Smash Cake for Your Ear Holes: Marked Safe by the Numbers

We've officially been a podcast for ONE YEAR! To celebrate, we wanted to record a little rundown of our first year in numbers, from ghosts in the studio to animals attacks to decapitations to conspiracy theories. From the bo…
May 19, 2021

Panic at the Ballet: 807 Walnut Street

This week, we enter Jeremy Bearimy time, Bigfoot faces off against sentient pants, Melanie gets high-brow on us and continues with her favorite chaotic men theme, ballerinas catch fire, firefighters eff around and find out, …
May 12, 2021

The Limits of the Possible: Scuba Diving

This week, discombobulation abounds, we start the hairdo pocket revolution, cryptid teeth arrive in the mail, Brianne does not want a head in the box, the wendigo and selkie face off, Melanie has an alarming conspiracy, we s…
May 5, 2021

Descending Into Worse Stuff: Saturation Diving

This week, Melanie and Brianne contemplate mortality, Melanie crosses her legs to keep Baby John Mellencamp in, a cryptid has an elaborate backstory, we're joined in the studio by fourteen badass ghosts drinking beers, Brian…
April 28, 2021

The Details of How She Lived: See You Next Week

We aren't able to record this week, but we have an older episode you should check out today.
April 21, 2021

Do You Have That Sinking Feeling?: The Kentucky Compilation

This week, Brianne plans a chair operation, the cryptid bracket continues with another lake snake versus an angry mountain monster, Melanie denies her taxidermy derby hat energy, a real life dryer fire crisis is averted, Bri…
April 14, 2021

It Shouldn't Have Happened: ValuJet Flight 592

This week, the cryptid bracket kicks off, Brianne plans to catch a lonely meshekenabek from a local lake, an elderly airline fleet causes catastophic problems, disaster relief needs its own disaster relief. SHOW NOTES Conten…
April 7, 2021

The Best Strip Mall Castle You've Ever Seen in Your Life: The Count Dante Story, Part 2

This week, the true cure for hiccups is unveiled, somebody spots a flying baby, the king of animals is crowned, listeners have a chance to win a cryptid, Count Dante bankrolls his own prize money and reports his own death, t…
March 31, 2021

Count Dante Walked So Joe Exotic Could Run: The Count Dante Story, Part 1

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Vague old-timey racism, particularly violent martial arts, one joke about drugs, poor treatment of exotic animals, bombings/explosions, violence against bulls, testicle injury Links: A history of…
March 24, 2021

Headlights Rained From the Sky: The Skyway Bridge Collapse

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Child abandonment, possible rabid animal, bridge collapse, severe weather, ship collision, car accident(s), threatened drowning, animal abuse (dog) 1:16:50-1:17:36, animal abuse (birds) 1:28:00-1…
March 17, 2021

Pancake Houses Between 1 and 6AM: Nine Heroes

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Snakes, wasps, animals killing each other in nature, violence in war, IED, fire, human being on fire, graphic description of severe burn injuries, hypothermia death, drug dealing, hurricane, inte…
March 10, 2021

A How-to Guide for Boomers and Melanies: Death by Coconut

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death by accidental gunshot wound, vague discussion of shark attacks, death by falling projectile, a couple euphemistic dirty jokes (younger kids would not understand, adolescents might), specifi…
March 3, 2021

Answered in the Dark: Five Heroes

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism in the military, stereotype of black men as sexual predators, gun violence in the context of war, grenades, bludgeoning death, stabbing death, disembowelment, coma/near-death, traumatic de…
Feb. 17, 2021

A Great Deal of Treatment for Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Experiment

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Institutional/medical racism, COVID-19/vaccine hesitancy, syphilis, brief and euphemistic adult joke Links: 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study Black Airmen turn raci…
Feb. 10, 2021

Shut the F*ck Up, Lucy: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

Audio disclaimer: For my birthday this year, Melanie wanted to make sure I shone for this episode and recorded with the wrong microphone. The Audio Guy did what he could, but her parts don't sound quite as good as usual. We'…
Feb. 3, 2021

I Am Not a White Supremacist, and I Love Armadillos: The Tylenol Murders

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: White supremacists (in the context of their existence and that we dislike them), ghosts/paranormal, passing mention of exorcisms, extremely venomous animals, mention of intubation/ventilators, br…
Jan. 27, 2021

A Bat Dress of an Episode: The St. Mary's Orphanage Disaster

Content warnings: Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarriage and infertility, being an orphan, forced medication, orphanages, trag…
Jan. 13, 2021

You Don't Have to Really Say it Like That: Air Florida Flight 90

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Pigs eating people, animal death, plane crash with fatalities, water rescue, hypothermia, broken arms, loss of spouse/SO, loss of adult child, heart attack, depression, loss of infant in disaster…
Jan. 6, 2021

All the Hungriest Escalators with Something to Prove: Escalator Accidents

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death of birds, deer hunting, discussion of mortality and grief, crushing death of an adolescent around 22:00-24:00, strangling death, anti-Muslim racism 33:05-34:18, scalping, death of a mother …
Dec. 29, 2020

Never Back Down From a Street Fight: A Sh*tty Goodbye to 2020

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Poop, birds, plane emergency landing, mention of pornography, brief mentions of vomit Links: 12 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors Inspired By Musicians, Bands, and Festivals 2004 Dave Matthews Band…
Dec. 22, 2020

Let Your Kids Spread Their Wings at the Oceaneer Club: The Laroche Family

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism, vaguely mentioned premature birth, specific children in theoretical peril, frostbite, loss of spouse, death by drowning (very vaguely mentioned), death by freezing (very vaguely mentioned…