Pretty Wicked

Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media

Pretty Wicked is storytelling with no filler. Each week, Megan brings you a carefully researched and written episode, guiding you through fascinating stories from beginning to end. From true crime and unsolved mysteries to scandals, deception, folklore, dark history, and the fascinating stories that make you wonder how they ever happened. No co-hosts. No unnecessary tangents. No distractions. Just you, Megan, and a story worth hearing. Pretty Wicked is created, researched, written, and hosted by actor and voice artist Megan Alda. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com✨ Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast & @aldamegan If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, leaving a rating or review helps other listeners discover the show and genuinely means the world!

  1. Jul 22

    Dead Mountain: Cut From the Inside

    In the winter of 1959, ten experienced hikers set out on a route rated at the highest difficulty level their country had. One turned back early, and the other nine never came home. When searchers found the camp, the tent had been cut open from the inside, and the bodies were scattered across the snow, some barely dressed, some with injuries that made no sense at all. The official investigation ran three months and closed with a conclusion so vague that people are still arguing about it sixty years later. This week we are going up that mountain. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. This episode was written and researched by Chloe Kibbe. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Communications Earth & Environment (Nature) - Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959 National Geographic - Has science solved history's greatest adventure mystery? BBC News - Dyatlov Pass: Russia opens new investigation into 1959 mystery The New Yorker - Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved? Smithsonian Magazine - Has Science Solved the Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident? Dyatlov Pass (archive site) - Case files, autopsy reports, diaries, and photographs The Guardian - Dyatlov Pass mystery: Russian prosecutors say avalanche killed hikers 📚 BOOKS Donnie Eichar - Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Keith McCloskey - Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident 🎬 DOCS Prime Video - Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) Discovery - Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives (2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Jul 15

    Vanished: The House on Delmar Street

    Three women. One small house in Springfield, Missouri. On the night of her high school graduation, Stacy McCall followed her friend Suzie Streeter home to spend the night at the house Suzie shared with her mother, Sherrill Levitt. By morning, all three of them were gone. Their cars were in the driveway, their purses were still inside, and the only thing out of place was a broken porch light. 34 years later, the Springfield Three are still missing. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is written, researched, and hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Wikipedia - Springfield Three City of Springfield, MO - Three Missing Women FBI ViCAP - The Springfield Three - Springfield, Missouri KY3 - The Springfield Three: What we know about the cold case KY3 - The Springfield 3: June 7 marks 34 years since the disappearance KY3 - Three Missing Women: A look back at the case 27 years later NBC Dateline - 30 years later family still seeking answers Newsweek - Three Women Vanished. More Than 30 Years Later, No One Knows What Happened Springfield Daily Citizen - Missing women: Theories and investigations into The Springfield Three cold case Unresolved - The Springfield Three, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four The Charley Project - Suzanne Elizabeth Streeter True Crime Society - The missing Springfield Three Ozarks First - Crime Traveler: The case of Springfield Three continues to haunt the city 30 years later True Crime News - Crime Watch Daily investigates the mysterious disappearance of 'the Springfield Three' 🎬 DOCS Crime Watch Daily - The Springfield Three investigation (2017) NBC Dateline - Missing in America: The Springfield Three Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Jul 8

    Hitchhiker: The Drifting Damsel of Death

    Today I'm revisiting one of the most infamous cases in American true crime; a woman the press called the Damsel of Death. Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found dead along the highways of central Florida, and the person behind it was the last kind of suspect anyone expected. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. This episode was researched and written by Chloe Kibbe. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Britannica - Aileen Wuornos Capital Punishment in Context - The Case of Aileen Wuornos - The Facts A&E - Case File: Aileen Wuornos Justia - Wuornos v. State, Supreme Court of Florida (1994) 📚 BOOKS Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos by Michael Reynolds Lethal Intent by Sue Russell Monster: My True Story by Aileen Wuornos with Christopher Berry-Dee 🎬 DOCS Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992), dir. Nick Broomfield Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003), dir. Nick Broomfield Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Jul 1

    Talhotblonde: From Message to Murder

    A married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who she says she is either. And when a real young man comes into the picture, the whole thing turns into obsession, threats, and eventually murder. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News (20/20) - Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder CBS News - Internet Love Triangle Comes To Deadly End CBC News - Web user sentenced for killing online rival Fox News - 22-Year-Old New York Man Murdered After Being Drawn Into Internet Love Triangle The Daily Beast - Web's Killer Love Triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - MURDER: Guilty plea in Internet love triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - COURTS: Montgomery gets 20 years in 'Internet love triangle' killing 🎬 DOCS Talhotblond (2009), directed by Barbara Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Jun 24

    The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family

    A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with brown eyes, dark hair, and an accent you could spot from across a room. And somehow, for nearly five months, nobody in that family said a word. This is the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the impostor the world came to call the Chameleon, and the missing boy whose name he wore like a coat. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The New Yorker - The Chameleon The Scotsman - Interview: The private detective who uncovered The Imposter The Mirror US - Our missing son returned home after three years, but it was actually a French conman KSAT - Case of missing San Antonio boy from 1994 remains a mystery The Charley Project - Nicholas Patrick Barclay Swallowing The Camel - Fake Teens V: Serial Teen Frederic Bourdin Grunge - Frederic Bourdin: The Crazy True Story Of A Serial Impostor 📚 BOOKS David Grann - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (contains the expanded "Chameleon" essay) Christophe D'Antonio - Le Caméléon (the authorized Bourdin biography) 🎬 DOCS The Imposter (2012), directed by Bart Layton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Jun 17

    Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story

    Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951 Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point? CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada 📚 BOOKS Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957) Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968) Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Jun 10

    Proxies: The Faceless Man

    A birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the other two were walking toward something they swore was real. That was 2014. Eleven years later, one of them cut off her ankle monitor and ran. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast Please leave a rating and review. It helps more than you know! Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Survivor's Parents: 'She's Meant to Do Something Special' ABC News - 'Slender Man' Interrogation Tapes Reveal Shocking New Details About Alleged Stabbing Plot ABC News - Mothers of teens who pleaded guilty in 'Slender Man' stabbing case say there were no warning signs of violence ABC News - 'Slender Man' teen to be released, survivor's family wishes she served longer sentence ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Timeline: Out of the Woods ABC News - Slender Man stabbing victim speaks publicly for first time: 'Without the whole situation, I wouldn't be who I am' Newsweek - The Girls Who Tried to Kill for Slender Man Newsweek - How Slenderman, the Internet's Horror Star, Crawled out of Creepypasta New York Magazine via Harvard Center for Law, Brain & Behavior - Slender Man Is Watching NBC News - 911 Call Released in Waukesha 'Slender Man' Stabbings NBC News - 'Slender Man' Victim's Family Thankful for Special Day NBC News - The 'Slender Man' stabber made a close new friend — then ran away so they could be together CNN - What we know about Morgan Geyser's 24-hours on the run more than a decade after the 'Slender Man' stabbing took place Courthouse News Service - Slender Man stabber loses conditional release after escape WBAY/AP - Conditional release of Morgan Geyser upheld by judge WTMJ - Conditional release plan moves forward for accused "Slenderman" stabber Morgan Geyser WTMJ - Conditional release finally approved for Slenderman stabber Morgan Geyser TMJ4 News - Judge approves conditional release plan for woman convicted in Slender Man stabbing TMJ4 News - Morgan Geyser arrested in Illinois after cutting off ankle bracelet, fleeing group home TMJ4 News - Slender Man trial: Jury finds Anissa Weier mentally ill, won't face prison FOX6 Milwaukee - Slenderman stabbing case: Court learns what private investigator found in Morgan Geyser's bedroom FOX6 Milwaukee - Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser escapes, group home neighbors react ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser 911 calls detail Slender Man attacker's escape from Madison group home ABC7 Chicago - Where is Morgan Geyser now? Wisconsin judge sends suspect in Slender Man stabbing back to mental health institution ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser waives extradition after escape from Wisconsin group home WKOW - DOC places three staff on leave during investigation into Morgan Geyser's escape from group home WMTV - Despite escape, state finds no supervision violations at Morgan Geyser's group home CBS 58 - The Latest: Jury finds Anissa Weier not criminally responsible for stabbing classmate due to mental illness CBS News Minnesota/AP - Wisconsin Judge Orders Release Of Anissa Weier In Slender Man Stabbing Court TV - Judge approves conditional release plan for Morgan Geyser Patch.com - Slenderman Trial: Anissa Weier Sentence Is 25 Years Inverse - Mr. CreepyPasta Explains the Problem with 'Slenderman' Biography.com - Slender Man Attacker Morgan Geyser Is Back in Custody After Sparking a Brief Manhunt A&E - The Slender-Man Inspired Attempted Murder of a Sixth Grader Heavy - Payton Leutner's Injuries in the Slender Man Stabbing Heavy - Morgan Geyser's Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Crime + Investigation UK - The Slender Man stabbing: Attempted murder inspired by an urban legend All That's Interesting - Who Is Payton Leutner, The Girl Who Nearly Died In The Infamous Slender Man Stabbing? Jezebel - There's More Than One Boogeyman in the Slender Man Doc Inside Edition - Slender Man Fan Who Tried to Kill Friend at 12 Gets Release Hearing Good Morning America - Cyclist Recalls Finding Slender Man Stabbing Victim LegalClarity - Anissa and Morgan Case: Charges, Mental Health, and Release 📚 BOOKS Slenderman: A Tragic Story of Online Obsession and Mental Illness - Kathleen Hale, 2022 Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology - Shira Chess and Eric Newsom, 2014 Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet - edited by Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill, 2018 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Beware the Slenderman - HBO, 2016, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky 20/20: Out of the Woods - ABC News, September 2014, with David Muir 20/20: 'Out of the Woods' - ABC News, October 2019, Payton Leutner's first interview, with David Muir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jun 3

    Into the Triangle: The Devil's Sea

    Some stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm December night and was gone before the Coast Guard could get there. This week we're going into the lore. The famous cases. The ghost ships. And what science actually thinks is happening out there, because the real answers might be stranger than the myth. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywicked.thepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Naval History and Heritage Command - H-057-4: The Disappearance of Flight 19 National Archives - The Official Record and the Loss of Flight 19 History.com - The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19 Naval History Magazine (USNI) - USS Cyclops, The Deadliest Unsolved Mystery in the Navy History.com - Bermuda Triangle Mystery: What Happened to the USS Cyclops? Naval Historical Foundation - The Unanswered Loss of USS Cyclops Library of Congress - The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering's Crew NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources - The Carroll A. Deering, Ghost Ship National Park Service - The Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Tiger coverage and inquiry summary PlaneHistoria - BSAA Star Ariel coverage Bernews - Plausible Solutions To Bermuda Triangle Mysteries (Tom Mangold reporting) Civil Aeronautics Board / USDeadlyEvents - Report on DC-3 NC16002 Coast Guard Inquiry Findings, summarized - USDeadlyEvents on Marine Sulphur Queen Porchlight International - Burack and Father Horgan / Witchcraft case file NOAA Ocean Service - What is the Bermuda Triangle? National Geographic - Gas Craters Off Norway Linked to Bermuda Triangle Theory Live Science - Could Gas Explosions Explain Bermuda Triangle Mystery? Fox News - Bermuda Triangle Rogue Wave Theory (Dr. Simon Boxall, Channel 5 documentary) Britannica - What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle Smithsonian Magazine - How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend ElectronicFog.com - Bruce Gernon's account of his 1970 flight 📚 BOOKS The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved - Lawrence David Kusche, 1975 The Bermuda Triangle - Charles Berlitz, 1974 Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea - Vincent Gaddis, 1965 Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps - Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor, 2017 Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum, 1900 Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering - Bland Simpson, UNC Press, 2005 🎬 DOCS The Bermuda Triangle Enigma - Channel 5 documentary featuring Dr. Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pretty Wicked is storytelling with no filler. Each week, Megan brings you a carefully researched and written episode, guiding you through fascinating stories from beginning to end. From true crime and unsolved mysteries to scandals, deception, folklore, dark history, and the fascinating stories that make you wonder how they ever happened. No co-hosts. No unnecessary tangents. No distractions. Just you, Megan, and a story worth hearing. Pretty Wicked is created, researched, written, and hosted by actor and voice artist Megan Alda. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com✨ Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast & @aldamegan If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, leaving a rating or review helps other listeners discover the show and genuinely means the world!

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    Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
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