The Parallax Podcast

Karisa DeLay and Willow Grace
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Ever wonder if that unsolved murder was actually a ghostly vendetta? Join fiction Author's Karisa DeLay and Willow Grace on The Parallax Podcast as they explore the eerie intersections of true crime and the paranormal. With a dash of humor and a whole lot of curiosity, they'll dive into mysteries that are sure to leave you questioning everything you thought you knew. Prepare to have your reality... slightly shifted.

  1. Nov 1

    Behind Black Eyes

    They appear after dark. Pale, silent, and barely more than children. Their eyes — completely black, from lid to lid. They speak in calm, measured tones, and all they want is to come inside. But the one thing every account agrees on? No one who opens the door ever tells the story themselves. In this episode, we trace a modern urban legend from a single roadside encounter in 1996 to a sprawling internet phenomenon — one that borrows from vampire mythology, Navajo cautionary tales, and something far older than either. And the one question nobody has been able to answer: if you let them in — what comes next? Because they're still out there. And they're still asking.

    Behind Black Eyes

  2. Oct 30

    The Hex Hollow Curse

    There is a kind of fear that lives in the hollows of the land, passed down in whispers and half-remembered prayers. It is the fear of a neighbor with a grudge and a gift for the old ways. The fear of a word spoken over a candle, of a charm buried in the dark. And once that fear takes root, it is nearly impossible to uproot. In the autumn of 1928, that fear reached its breaking point in the farm country of southern Pennsylvania. A man was killed on a cold November night, not by a stranger or a thief, but by people who believed they had no other choice. What drove them to that door, and what they thought would be waiting for them on the other side, is a story that forces us to look squarely at the line between faith and delusion, protection and persecution, healing and harm. This is not a story about witches. It is a story about what ordinary people are willing to do when they convince themselves that the supernatural is real — and that it has turned against them.

  3. Oct 8

    The Tale of Two Colonists

    Two names lost to history—until now. One man survived a shipwreck and a date with the gallows, then sailed into legend on the Mayflower—but his story doesn't end there, and what he may have inspired will surprise you. One woman was swept into the Salem witch trials, forced to confess, forced to name others. We're sitting down to unravel both stories of Willow's ancestor's, and Karisa brings something she never expected to find—a secret buried in her own family tree that changes everything she thought she knew about one of these figures. This isn't the history you learned in school. This is the part they left out.

  4. Oct 2

    A Puritan Mother and A Murder Trial for the Ages

    What drives a mother to take the life of her own child? This week, we crack open a dusty, unsettling case file from 17th-century Massachusetts—a "first trial" that saw a Salem colonial woman stand accused of the unthinkable in today's America. But we don't stop there. In the second half, we look back through ancient Rome and Greece, pre-colonial Africa, and beyond—to see that accepting a child is not exactly love at first sight. From honor codes to infanticide laws, from desperate poverty to ritual practice, the answers are messier and more fascinating than you'd expect. Equal parts true crime and cultural norms on tossing your newborns to the wolves. Grab your headphones, maybe a comfort snack, and join us for a conversation that's dark, deeply human, and surprisingly full of "I can't believe that happened" moments. Keywords: 17th-century Massachusetts, Puritan history, colonial America, first-order trial, filicide, infanticide, child homicide, maternal violence, legal history, crime history, cross-cultural history, historical true crime, anthropology, women's history, social history, courtroom drama, colonial justice, unthinkable acts, podcast episode

  5. Sep 25

    The Moon Heist

    Three bodies in motion create chaos. Two create order. We open with the three-body problem, then travel backward through history to ask: did ancient cultures somehow sense the existence of other worlds long before telescopes? We explore infinite worlds in Greek and Vedic thought, the Dogon people's uncanny knowledge of Sirius B, the human fascination with alien life, and the Mormon teaching of Kolob — the governing star in a cosmos of "worlds without number." But the yearning for other worlds isn't just ancient. We open this episode with the strange true story of a NASA moon rock heist — stolen pieces of another world, right here on Earth — and ask whether the hunger to touch the cosmos is older than we think? Or i it just a matter of the highest bidder?

  6. Jul 10

    Before MK-Ultra: The First War for Our Minds

    In our previous episode, a modern tragedy in Florida introduced us to William Butler's terrifying belief: that his family had fallen prey to conspri, demonic forms of mind control he called the Illuminati and MK-Ultra. But what if that wasn't a delusion, but a dim recognition of humanity's oldest story? This week, co-hosts Karisa and Willow travel back 5,000 years to the very origins of the battle for human consciousness. We journey to Mesopotamia, where priests crafted the first "firewalls"—rituals and amulets to protect against soul-stealing demons like Lilith. We stand in the fumes of the Oracle at Delphi, and the Zoroastrian showdown between the cosmic force of Truth and the ultimate Corruptor, Angra Mainyu—a blueprint for every "good vs. evil" mind control narrative to come. This episode opens up that the concept of "brainwashing" didn't start with the CIA. It began at the dawn of civilization, as a dualistic struggle. On one side: religions and empires, using ritual, doctrine, and sacred trance to program belief, order, and loyalty. On the other: the demonic, chaotic forces they warned against—the possessors, the whisperers, the eaters of wills—representing the ultimate loss of self. We explore the terrifying question: Were these two forces truly enemies? Or were they the yin and yang of control itself? Join us as we discuss the psychological warfare that would echo through the ages, all the way to a desperate man's comment in Fort Walton Beach. Keywords: Ancient History, Mesopotamia, Lilith, Demons, Possession, Oracle of Delphi, Zoroastrianism, Angra Mainyu, Religion, Mind Control, Brainwashing, Psychology of Belief, Good vs Evil, Archetypes, William Butler, MK-Ultra, Illuminati.

  7. Jun 26

    White Sands and Mind Control: The Fort Walton Beach Tragedy

    In October 2016, the quiet beach community of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was shattered by an unthinkable crime. William Butler murdered his wife and three children before taking his own life. On the surface, it was a case of family annihilation. But a year earlier, Butler left a haunting digital footprint—a comment on an MK-Ultra article that wove a tapestry of conspiracy involving the Illuminati, secret Facebook messages, local businesses, and Air Force bases. Willow begins by laying out the sparse, brutal facts of the case, before sharing Butler’s own chilling words—a confession of a reality so dark, he believed it sounded "too crazy to believe." Then, Karisa picks up the thread, launching a deep historical investigation that asks: What if Butler’s fear wasn't a psychological break? This episode explores whether William Butler was a madman, a victim, or a tragic actor in a war for the human mind that began after a phone call that switched off his own free will. Join Willow and Karisa on The Parallax Podcast as they decode the first chapter in a series that connects true crime to the deepest layers of history, psychology, and the fear that our thoughts may never have been our own. Keywords: True Crime, Conspiracy, MK-Ultra, Brainwashing, Mind Control, Florida, Family Annihilation, Illuminati, Ancient History, Psychology, Fort Walton Beach, William Butler.

  8. Jun 5

    To Time Travel or Not to Time Travel

    In this time-bending episode of The Parallax Podcast, Karisa and Willow tackle one of humanity’s oldest fascinations: time travel. Buckle up for a journey that starts with a stranger at an airport and ends at the edge of the universe—and maybe beyond. Willow kicks things off with the legendary case of The Man from Taured—a traveler who arrived at a Tokyo airport in 1954 with a passport from a country that didn’t exist, who vanished just as mysteriously as he appeared. Was he a time traveler? A dimension-hopper? Or a masterful hoax? Willow unpacks the myth, the evidence, and why this story has captivated conspiracy theorists and sci-fi lovers for decades. Then, Karisa takes the helm to break down time travel basics—from Einstein’s relativity to theoretical wormholes—in a way that won’t make your brain hurt. But she doesn’t stop there. She asks the bigger question: if time isn’t linear, could this reshape how we understand ghosts, prophecy, and even the idea of God? Are spirits just echoes from another point on the timeline? Is divine omniscience a form of temporal perception? Karisa weaves physics, philosophy, and the paranormal into a conversation that’s as profound as it is provocative. Whether you’re a skeptic, a believer, or just chronologically curious, this episode will stretch your mind across the fabric of spacetime. Keywords:Time travel, The Man from Taured, wormholes, Einstein, relativity, theoretical physics, ghosts and time, God and omniscience, philosophy, unexplained mysteries, female hosts, Karisa and Willow, sci-fi reality, dimensional travel. The past is a story. The future is a theory. This episode… is a bridge.

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Ever wonder if that unsolved murder was actually a ghostly vendetta? Join fiction Author's Karisa DeLay and Willow Grace on The Parallax Podcast as they explore the eerie intersections of true crime and the paranormal. With a dash of humor and a whole lot of curiosity, they'll dive into mysteries that are sure to leave you questioning everything you thought you knew. Prepare to have your reality... slightly shifted.

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  • Creator
    Karisa DeLay and Willow Grace
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Karisa DeLay and Willow Grace
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