As the Skeleton Key Turns

Skeleton Keyturns

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Every door has a story, and some were locked for a reason. As the Skeleton Key Turns is a deep dive into the shadows of history and the unexplained. Join us as we unlock the vault on cold cases that defy logic and paranormal encounters that haunt the living. From grisly true crime to the things that go bump in the night, we hold the key to the mysteries you were never meant to solve.

2d ago

Dead Zones and Haunted Libraries

Places where signals disappear without explanation.Libraries filled with whispers after dark. In Episode 10 of As the Skeleton Key Turns, we explore the terrifying mysteries surrounding Centralia, Pennsylvania — the real-life town believed to have inspired Silent Hill — along with the eerie Zone of Silence, signal dead zones hidden deep in West Virginia, and chilling stories of haunted libraries where some say the past never truly leaves. From underground fires and abandoned streets to static-filled dead air and paranormal encounters hidden between dusty shelves, this episode dives deep into places that feel forgotten by the world… but not empty. Some places don’t just lose signal.They remember everything.

1h 20m
May 22

Ribbons From the Trees

In Episode 9, Ribbons From the Trees, we enter Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mount Fuji, a place where natural beauty,volcanic geology, folklore, and tragedy converge. The episode follows the forest’s history from its formation on ancient lava beds to the legends, documentaries, and firsthand accounts that shaped its haunting reputation. Along the way, it examines the ribbons left behind to mark paths through thetrees, the quiet work of volunteers and patrols, and the unsettling reports from paranormal investigations. More than a ghost story, this episode explores how grief, myth, and the landscape itself have combined to make Aokigahara feellike a place that watches, remembers, and never fully lets go.

51 min
May 8

The Unmarked and The Unforgotten

In episode 8 of As the Skeleton Key Turns, we head into Illinois’ infamous Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery to trace its frontierhistory—and the chilling legends that refuse to stay buried. From the White Lady and the classic “Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove” photo to reports of a phantom farmhouse flickering in and out of the trees, the night is full of unanswered questions. Plus, Gray shares his own eerie cemetery folklore, including the howling cemetery and the unsettling tale of the Steps Cemetery.

36 min
Apr 25

The Drifter and The Devourer

Two shadows move through America’s underbelly—one wandering, one consuming. In this episode of As the Skeleton Key Turns, we trace the haunted trajectories of Aileen Wuornos and Jeffrey Dahmer, not as tabloid monsters, but as symbols of the fractures that run beneath the surface. A drifter forged by desperation. A devourer hidden behind a quiet door. Their stories never touched, yet the echoes between them reveal something colder: the places where society looks away, and what grows in the dark when it does. This is a descent into trauma, power, and the unseen machinery that shapes both predator and prey.

49 min
Apr 12

Tin Foil Tales

Christina and Gray pull the curtain back on unsettling questions that refuse to stay buried. They revisit the events of 9/11 through the lens of lingering doubts and unanswered details, then slip into the glitchy unease of the Mandela Effect—those memories that feel too vivid to be wrong… and too wrong to be real. From there, the episode drifts toward CERN, strange physics theories, and the unnerving possibility that reality has more than one track. Coincidence, misremembering, or something brushing against the edges of our universe? Tune in and decide what you can—and can’t—explain.

1h 6m
Mar 27

Hellfire and High Places

In episode 5 of As the Skeleton Key Turns, Gray and Christina go where history stops explaining itself. It begins underground. Beneath England, they descend into the Hellfire Caves—tight, winding tunnels carved for secrecy. Torchlight once guided the powerful through these corridors, where rules were suspended and rituals replaced reason. The stone bends the sound. The darkness presses in. And the silence feels intentional… as if it’s waiting. In Ireland, the Hellfire Club becomes harder to trace. Records vanish. Locals learned long ago not to ask questions. What’s left behind isn’t proof, but a pattern—one that suggests these groups didn’t disappear. They refined themselves. They learned how to exist unseen. Then the trail goes cold—and crosses the sea. Deep among California’s redwoods lies Bohemian Grove. Officially, a private retreat. Unofficially, a place where power gathers without witnesses. Cameras are forbidden. Security watches from the shadows. Beneath towering trees, ceremonies unfold; dismissed as symbolism, protected as if they mattered far more. Secrecy isn’t about hiding the past. It’s about controlling the present. And someone is always watching.

47 min
Mar 16

Cryptids oh my

in this episode we discuss our favorite cryptids and more.

46 min
Feb 20

The Lunatic Fringe Part 1

In episode 3 of As the Skeleton Key Turns, we unlock the rusted doors of two of America’s most notorious asylums—places where the walls listened, the halls echoed, and sanity was often lost to time. From the looming stone corridors of Greystone Lunatic Asylum to the sprawling, shadow-soaked halls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, these institutions were built under the ambitious Kirkbride Plan… and haunted by its failures. What was meant to heal instead became a nightmare of whispers, isolation, and restless spirits. Join us as we step inside—where history never sleeps, and neither do the dead.

1h 2m
Feb 7

Home Sweet Cemetery

Step carefully… because in our second episode of As the Skeleton Key Turns, the shadows are deeper, and the dead are far less quiet. We descend into the unnerving stillness of Spring Hill Cemetery, where the ground feels too soft and the silence presses against your ears. Then, we slip into the forgotten Lykes Ayers Family Cemetery—where time has rotted away the markers, but something still lingers, watching from between the trees. And if that weren’t enough to chill your blood…We journey next to a haunted family home in the dark hills of West Virginia—a place where footsteps echo in empty rooms, doors close on their own, and the walls whisper secrets you were never meant to hear. Enter if you dare. Leave if you can.

1h 3m
Jan 23

As the Skeleton Key Turns Ep: 1

Every door has a story, and some were locked for a reason. As the Skeleton Key Turns is a deep dive into the shadows of history and the unexplained. Join us as we unlock the vault on cold cases that defy logic and paranormal encounters that haunt the living. From grisly true crime to the things that go bump in the night, we hold the key to the mysteries you were never meant to solve.

36 min

10 Episodes

Every door has a story, and some were locked for a reason. As the Skeleton Key Turns is a deep dive into the shadows of history and the unexplained. Join us as we unlock the vault on cold cases that defy logic and paranormal encounters that haunt the living. From grisly true crime to the things that go bump in the night, we hold the key to the mysteries you were never meant to solve.

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Skeleton Keyturns
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10
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