Haunted and Homicidal

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🎙️ Welcome to Haunted and Homicidal 💀👻 Where true crime meets the paranormal... and chaos meets caffeine. Join Lauren and Courtney twice a week (every Monday and Thursday) as we dive headfirst into the most bone-chilling true crime cases, spine-tingling paranormal encounters, and the kind of unhinged tangents that’ll leave you laughing, horrified, and questioning our mental stability. (Spoiler: It's hanging on by a thread.) We’re your haunted hosts with homicidal humor, blending murder, mayhem, and mystery with a dash of dark sarcasm and an occasional scream. Got a spooky story of your own? A homicidal tale we need to cover? Send it to: hauntedandhomicidal@gmail.com – we love listener submissions (and we promise not to summon anything while reading them... probably). Wanna support our weird little journey into the abyss? Toss us a ghostly tip or unlock exclusive chaos over at: 👉 patreon.com/hauntedandhomicidal So grab your sage, pour your drink, and let’s get spooky. It’s murder. It’s mayhem. It’s Haunted and Homicidal.

  1. 1D AGO

    Manson Part 2: Cults, Courtrooms, and Questionable Life Choices

    This week’s episode begins with Mischa ASMR, because nothing says “true crime podcast professionalism” like aggressive sniffing, dramatic breathing, and a full emotional breakdown over Lauren’s hamburger. Mischa would like the record to show she has never been fed in her life. Ever. Not once. Once the canine chaos settles (it doesn’t), we dive back into the disturbing and bizarre story of Charles Manson — Part 2. We pick up in the immediate aftermath of the Tate-LaBianca murders, when the country realized the killers weren’t strangers or mobsters — but members of a cult led by a man who looked like he hadn’t slept since 1967 and spoke exclusively in cryptic nonsense and ego. We break down: How investigators connected the crimes to the “family” The absolute circus that became the Manson trial The courtroom chaos, singing followers, and carved foreheads (yes, plural) Manson’s obsession with control — even behind bars The loyalty (and eventual unraveling) of his followers His multiple death sentences that became life imprisonment The strange decades he spent in prison giving interviews, proposing to women, and continuing to be… deeply unsettling We also talk about what happened to key Manson Family members after the trial, where they ended up, and how the mythology of Manson somehow kept growing long after the murders stopped. The episode ends with the death of Charles Manson in 2017 — and the absolutely bizarre legal fight over his body, because apparently the chaos refused to die even when he did. This episode contains: Cult manipulation, courtroom theatrics, historical context, uncomfortable laughter, Mischa’s hamburger activism, and at least one moment where we ask, “What is even happening right now?”

    1h 11m
  2. FEB 10

    Flu, Ghosts, and Charles Manson: A Completely Normal Week

    This week’s episode is sponsored by influenza, ghostly personal-space violations, and the demon static that refuses to leave our audio equipment alone because apparently it pays rent here now. After taking a week-long break because the flu absolutely drop-kicked us into another dimension, we’re back — medically fragile, emotionally chaotic, and running on cough drops and bad decisions. We start with important life updates: Lauren’s daughter received a friendship bracelet from 7 Brew and is now thriving, healed, and possibly more emotionally stable than the hosts of this podcast. Lauren got touched by ghosts again (consent is important, even in the afterlife). And yes — the demon static is back. Not full-time, not part-time, just inconvenient-time. Like a toxic ex or seasonal allergies, it shows up when it wants and refuses to explain itself. Once we finish arguing with the paranormal electricity in the walls, we dive into Part 1 of Charles Manson — covering his early years, the messy origin story of the Manson Family, and the manipulative chaos that led to the Tate and LaBianca murders, plus all the deeply disturbing events in between. This episode contains: • Flu survival energy • Haunted podcast equipment • Bracelet-induced childhood joy • Cult leader red flags the size of Texas • At least one moment where we question all of our life choices It’s chaotic. It’s historically horrifying. It’s slightly supernatural for no reason. And unfortunately for everyone involved, this is only Part 1. Welcome back. We missed you. Probably.

    1h 10m
  3. JAN 30

    This Episode Is Cursed (Open Graves, Demons & the Flu)

    Buckle up, grab your EMF detectors, and maybe light a protection candle—because this week’s episode is an absolute paranormal fever dream. We kick things off by unleashing the Ghost Tube app, which immediately chooses violence and becomes an uninvited fourth co-host. The app is popping OFF the entire episode, dropping words at the worst possible times and providing elite comedic timing that has us questioning reality, ghosts, and our life choices. The commentary? Unhinged. The vibes? Immaculately cursed. From there, we head straight into La Noria Ghost Town, where the abandoned buildings aren’t even the creepiest part—because yes, there are open graves, and no, we are not okay about it. It’s giving desolation, forgotten souls, and “absolutely not staying here after dark.” Then we dive headfirst into the Smurl Family Hauntings, one of the most notorious and controversial paranormal cases out there. We break down the alleged demonic activity, the media circus, and of course the involvement of the Warrens… and y’all already know how we feel about that. Side-eye, skepticism, and chaos ensue. Oh—and yes, this episode is a day late because Lauren’s entire house is fully plagued with the flu, and she simply did not have it in her to create additional chaos on top of the biological warfare already happening at home. We’re calling it self-care. Expect ghost app shenanigans, sarcastic commentary, paranormal panic, and us spiraling in real time. Is it haunted? Is it coincidence? Is Ghost Tube just trolling us? Who’s to say. Listen at your own risk—this episode is loud, cursed, slightly delayed, and aggressively on brand. 👻🕯️🔥

    35 min
  4. JAN 19

    Sleep Deprived, Slightly Hostile, Deeply Into Murder

    This week’s episode is brought to you by sickness, sleep deprivation, fried food, demonic interference, unexpected ASMR, and crimes that will absolutely ruin your vibe. Courtney is still sick and hanging on by a thread, Lauren has officially unlocked a new life skill and can now make sushi tacos (growth), and at one point Courtney threatens to beat Lauren’s children because they are being inexplicably loud and have chosen violence against everyone’s sanity. Mischa is operating on fumes after staying up way too late and missing out on her sacred beauty sleep. She is being held together by Slim Chickens french fries and imitation crab sticks, which honestly feels very on brand for us at this point. This exhaustion also results in accidental Mischa ASMR, because apparently whispering into the mic was the only energy level available. As if that wasn’t enough, the demon static is back. Yes, that static. It returns once again to remind us that peace is temporary, our equipment is probably haunted, and we are simply guests in whatever cursed energy surrounds this podcast. Apologies in advance. Once we manage to get it together (barely), we dive into this week’s murder cases: • The Sunset Strip Killers, a dark and disturbing look into Hollywood’s seedy underbelly • The Delphi Murders, a case that continues to haunt, frustrate, and devastate It’s chaotic, it’s unhinged, it’s slightly threatening, it’s whispery, it’s possibly possessed, and somehow… we are almost to our 50th episode. Time is fake, vibes are questionable, and we truly cannot believe you’ve stuck around this long. Press play. We’re spiraling, but make it podcast. 🎙️😌

    1h 6m
  5. JAN 15

    Plague Island 🤌 Swamp Demon 😭

    WARNING UP FRONT: The demon static makes an uninvited comeback near the end of this episode. We don’t know why. We don’t know how. We are sorry in advance. Sorry ’bout it. Today we are ✨international✨, which means we’re talking with our hands and mispronouncing Italian words with confidence. We head to Poveglia Island, Italy’s most haunted little island of Nope, where plague victims were dumped en masse, the ground is basically made of human remains, and a wildly unethical doctor allegedly lost his mind before launching himself off a bell tower. Fishermen won’t go near it. Tourists aren’t allowed on it. Bells ring with no bell. Italy said “absolutely not” and locked it up forever. 🤌 MID-EPISODE CHAOS: Everything stops because Mischa is cold and aggressively demands her blanket like the tiny overlord she is. Ghosts? Can wait. Swamp monster? Can wait. Mischa? Cannot. Then we dive into the Louisiana bayou for the Honey Island Swamp Monster—seven feet tall, red glowing eyes, covered in hair, smells like hot garbage, and leaves behind massive three-toed footprints. Sightings go back decades, animals have been found brutally mauled, and law enforcement has actually investigated. Is it Bigfoot’s swamp cousin? A feral human? A government oopsie? Whatever it is, if you hear something big moving toward you in the marsh… you’re already in trouble. This episode includes plague ghosts, cursed islands, feral doctors, swamp cryptids, emergency blanket retrievals, and possessed audio. You’re technically Italian now. 🤌

    51 min

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🎙️ Welcome to Haunted and Homicidal 💀👻 Where true crime meets the paranormal... and chaos meets caffeine. Join Lauren and Courtney twice a week (every Monday and Thursday) as we dive headfirst into the most bone-chilling true crime cases, spine-tingling paranormal encounters, and the kind of unhinged tangents that’ll leave you laughing, horrified, and questioning our mental stability. (Spoiler: It's hanging on by a thread.) We’re your haunted hosts with homicidal humor, blending murder, mayhem, and mystery with a dash of dark sarcasm and an occasional scream. Got a spooky story of your own? A homicidal tale we need to cover? Send it to: hauntedandhomicidal@gmail.com – we love listener submissions (and we promise not to summon anything while reading them... probably). Wanna support our weird little journey into the abyss? Toss us a ghostly tip or unlock exclusive chaos over at: 👉 patreon.com/hauntedandhomicidal So grab your sage, pour your drink, and let’s get spooky. It’s murder. It’s mayhem. It’s Haunted and Homicidal.