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2月4日

Cropsey: The Boogeyman of Staten Island

For decades, children on Staten Island grew up hearing the same warning. Don’t go near the abandoned buildings. Don’t cut through the woods. Because Cropsey was waiting. Cropsey was a boogeyman said to have escaped from the ruins of the Willowbrook State School, a story parents used to keep children away from a place they didn’t know how to explain. For years, it was just folklore, a cautionary tale meant to turn geography into safety. Then children began to disappear for real. In the 1970s and 1980s, several young people vanished during ordinary routines, sent on short errands, leaving apartment buildings, walking home. When one child’s body was later found on the grounds of Willowbrook, attention turned to a former employee who had slept in camps nearby and would later be convicted of kidnapping. As fear spread, the boundary between myth and reality collapsed. Cropsey stopped being just a story told to children and became a way a community tried to make sense of loss and danger. This episode examines the real cases behind the legend, the history of Willowbrook, and what happens when folklore collides with true crime. revealing how easily fear can turn tragedy into myth. *** If you have a story where crime and the otherworldly intertwine, something strange, unexplained or just plain haunted, get in touch at paranormia@alwaystruecrime.com. Paranormia is an Audio Always production. Presented by Elizabeth McCafferty. Written and produced by Mansi Vithlani. Executive produced by Ailsa Rochester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2月4日

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43 分鐘
1月21日

The Case at Dyatlov Pass

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers disappeared in the northern Ural Mountains. When searchers found their tent weeks later, it was cut open from the inside. Boots were left neatly behind. Food sat untouched. Footprints, some barefoot, led into the snow. Over the months that followed, the bodies were recovered in stages. Some had died of exposure. Others suffered catastrophic internal injuries with almost no external wounds. Two were missing their eyes. One was missing her tongue. The Soviet investigation closed the case with a single, unsettling phrase: “an insurmountable force of nature.” In the decades since, the Dyatlov Pass Incident has become one of the most debated wilderness tragedies in modern history. Theories have ranged from avalanches and extreme weather to military testing, folklore, and outright conspiracy. Each explanation reflects not only the evidence, but the era, and the fears that produced it. This episode traces what is known, what remains disputed, and how a remote mountain became a canvas for grief, secrecy, science, and myth. It’s a story about limits: of survival, of certainty, and of how easily unanswered questions harden into legend. If you have a story where crime and the otherworldly intertwine, something strange, unexplained or just plain haunted, get in touch at paranormia@alwaystruecrime.com. Paranormia is an Audio Always production. Presented by Elizabeth McCafferty. Written and produced by Mansi Vithlani. Executive produced by Ailsa Rochester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1月21日

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57 分鐘
2024/09/18

Paradise, Lost

In Kent, UK, Police Officer Peter George is asked to investigate an alleged serious crime: the rape of a child. The crime is not in England but on the remote Pacific Island of Pitcairn, and what Peter and his colleague find is a complicated story. They decide that modern British law and policing must be taken to this worryingly lawless Island, but how to implement an entire legal system on a remote Pacific island? And what are the secrets that are hidden in plain sight? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024/09/18

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27 分鐘
2025/12/31

The Hurricane Lovers

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became a city stripped to its bones. Power was gone. Tourists vanished. And for a brief moment, life in the French Quarter felt suspended outside of time. Zack Bowen, a former soldier, and Addie Hall, a poet and bartender, chose to stay. They scavenged food, cooked in the streets, drank beneath darkened skies, and were photographed by national media as symbols of defiance; young lovers riding out the end of the world together. A year later, Addie was dead. Dismembered in an apartment above a voodoo temple. Zack would take his own life days later, leaving behind a confession and one of the most disturbing crime scenes New Orleans has ever seen. This episode traces the arc from disaster romance to domestic horror, from Katrina’s strange, intoxicating aftermath to addiction, untreated trauma, and a relationship collapsing under the return of ordinary life. It asks why this story became framed as a “voodoo murder,” what we miss when we reach for supernatural explanations, and how catastrophe can amplify the quiet damage already living inside people. If you have a story where crime and the otherworldly intertwine, something strange, unexplained or just plain haunted, get in touch at paranormia@alwaystruecrime.com. Paranormia is an Audio Always production. Presented by Elizabeth McCafferty. Written and produced by Mansi Vithlani. Executive produced by Ailsa Rochester. *** Support & Resources: This episode discusses suicide, domestic abuse, addiction, and trauma. If you or someone you love needs support, help is available: United Kingdom: Samaritans - Call 116 123 (24/7) or visit samaritans.org National Domestic Abuse Helpline - Call 0808 2000 247 (24/7) or visit nationaldahelpline.org.uk United States: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - Call or text 988 (24/7) or visit 988lifeline.org Veterans Crisis Line - Call 988, then press 1, or text 838255 National Domestic Violence Hotline - Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or visit thehotline.org Australia: Lifeline Australia - Call 13 11 14 (24/7) or visit lifeline.org.au 1800RESPECT - Call 1800 737 732 or visit 1800respect.org.au Global: International Association for Suicide Prevention Find local helplines at findahelpline.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2025/12/31

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41 分鐘
2025/01/08

Up the Hill of Difficulty

Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken Pitcairn party, one evening, another girl makes an allegation of rape. Detective Peter George returns to Pitcairn and a distressing and astonishing picture begins to emerge of child sexual abuse on an unimaginable scale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2025/01/08

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33 分鐘
2024/04/30

The Night She Vanished

When exactly did Claudia disappear? The night of the 18th March 2009 after she chatted to her mum on the phone, early the next morning when she didn't show up for work at York University, or sometime in between? This episode pieces together what we know and don't know about those important hours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024/04/30

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30 分鐘
1月7日

The Witch Killers of San Francisco

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Michael and Suzan Carson drifted through the American West, moving between communes, shared apartments, and marijuana farms. They changed their names, adopted a patchwork belief system of mysticism and religion, and came to see themselves as warriors in a hidden war. Between 1981 and 1983, three people were killed. A young woman found stabbed and bludgeoned in a San Francisco basement. A co-worker shot and buried in the woods of Humboldt County. And a man who stopped to help two hitchhikers, shot on the side of a California highway. The Carsons insisted their victims were witches. They held a five-hour jailhouse press conference, spoke of visions and holy missions, and framed murder as religious duty. Decades later, they have never renounced those beliefs. This episode traces how an ordinary couple built a shared delusion powerful enough to justify killing, the damage it inflicted on children and families left behind, and why the story has been remembered as something occult rather than what it was: a case study in belief, control, and the human capacity to turn ideology into violence. If you have a story where crime and the otherworldly intertwine, something strange, unexplained or just plain haunted, get in touch at paranormia@alwaystruecrime.com. Paranormia is an Audio Always production. Presented by Elizabeth McCafferty. Written and produced by Mansi Vithlani. Executive produced by Ailsa Rochester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1月7日

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35 分鐘
2025/12/24

The Sodder Christmas Mystery

On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire tore through a family home in the hills of West Virginia. Four children escaped. Five never came out. When the smoke cleared, there were no bodies in the ashes, no bones, and no clear explanation. In the years that followed, the Sodder family rejected the official story. They spoke of cut phone lines, a missing ladder, warnings from strangers, and a photograph mailed decades later that seemed to show one of the lost children alive. For eighty years, the case has hovered between accident and conspiracy, grief and obsession. This episode explores the disappearance of the Sodder children and the questions that refuse to fade. It asks what happens when tragedy leaves no physical proof, when mourning turns into investigation, and when a Christmas night becomes a mystery that will not let a family, or a nation, move on. If you have a story where crime and the otherworldly intertwine, something strange, unexplained or just plain haunted, get in touch at paranormia@alwaystruecrime.com. Paranormia is an Audio Always production. Presented by Elizabeth McCafferty. Written and produced by Mansi Vithlani. Executive produced by Ailsa Rochester. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2025/12/24

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48 分鐘
2024/05/22

The Mature Student

In the past few months Kat Denkinson and Sue Perkins have uncovered all kinds of evidence from victims of Carrie Jade’s antics, but there are still some stories which have not yet been told. In episode 8 they take a deeper look at her past and fill in some of the blanks in the story of her life in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024/05/22

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29 分鐘
2025/01/16

Glenda, A Survivor’s Story

Luke Jones meets Glenda at her home, in the UK. Glenda grew up on Pitcairn but now lives in the UK. She was abused growing up but told no one, until she was contacted by Kent Police during Operation Unique. This is the first time Glenda has recorded her story and it is very emotional. Glenda is supported in the room by her therapist and friend Sandy. And what about justice for the victims and survivors? Some fear the risks to the Island are too great to take this to trial. Politicians and lawyers around the world fiercely debate whether there is a case to answer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2025/01/16

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34 分鐘

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