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A holiday toast turns into a hard look at a Hollywood legend whose final night still churns like rough water. We start with Black Friday energy and fresh mojitos, then trace Natalie Wood’s path from Miracle on 34th Street to West Side Story, a childhood built by a mother’s ambition, and an industry that too often rewarded silence. The bright arc of her career meets the shadows of Old Hollywood—alleged predation, whispered cover-ups...

A town can break twice: first when its jobs vanish, then when its story gets rewritten by fear. We walked through Fall River—slept in Lizzie Borden’s room, ate with locals, and then pressed into Bedford Street’s harsh past—to examine how a “satanic cult” rose from recession, predation, and performance. The headlines point to demons. The record points to control.

We lay out the players: Carl Drew, a runaway who learned powe...

A hard seltzer on a cold balcony turned into a journey through one of New England’s darkest chapters. We pull back the curtain on Fall River at the end of the 1970s—where a shrinking economy, a booming sex trade, biker swagger, and occult theatrics collided. At the center: Carl Drew, a violent enforcer who ruled Bedford Street; Andy Maltese, an older predator who claimed Jesus and psychic visions when cornered; and Robin Murphy, a ...

A 14-year-old’s name should not depend on a leaked memo to be seen. We sit down after a long day and open up about the case of Emily Pike—how a child in a group home disappeared, was later found murdered, and still no arrests have been made. We unpack why this story matters, how it connects to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Persons (MMIW/MMIP), and what it says about systems that fail the most vulnerable.

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A surprise reunion at the table quickly turns into one of our heaviest episodes: the life and loss of 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl Emily Pike and the systems that failed her. We walk through the timeline with care—from unprosecuted assaults and a distant group home to repeated runaways labeled as routine, the denial of an Amber Alert, delayed notifications, and the devastating discovery near Globe, Arizona. This isn’t about s...

What if the scariest part of your favorite haunted tales isn’t the demon at the door, but the people who profit from your fear? We tear into the Warrens’ most famous cases and the broader ecosystem that turned moral panic into a business model—linking Amityville’s admitted hoax, Annabelle’s elastic mythology, and the Conjuring franchise’s “true story” aura to very human motives: money, status, and control.

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Ever notice how the most famous hauntings get louder the moment a camera shows up? We grab a cold seltzer, shake off a brutal post‑Halloween fog, and trace three headline‑making cases—Enfield, the Smurls, and the Snedekers—while testing each story against timing, incentives, and the thin line between fear and folklore. It’s part road trip through late‑70s and 80s paranormal culture, part reality check on what happens when grief, ad...

October doesn’t just smell like cinnamon and pumpkin at our place—it crackles with stories we were told to fear. We kick off with a joy-soaked Halloween ritual: 66 quarts of candy, shots for stressed parents, porch tacos, and a quick-hit recap of Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando. The fun isn’t filler; it’s how we rebuilt our relationship with fear after growing up with rapture timelines, church “haunts,” and the all-seeing eye of...

A quiet Ocala duplex block with kids playing in the yard should feel safe. Instead, it became the backdrop for months of hostile 911 calls, a neighborhood on edge, and a fatal shot fired through a closed door. We walk you through The Perfect Neighbor—built from body cam footage, interview tapes, and security videos—and trace how a petty patch of grass, a seized tablet, and constant harassment turned into a tragedy that shattered a ...

A haunted waterbed, a family in over their heads, and a courtroom where the devil wasn’t allowed to testify. We pull apart the real story behind The Conjuring 3’s “Devil Made Me Do It” and ask the hard questions the legend prefers to skip. Did a possession jump from a teenage boy to his sister’s boyfriend, or did stress, alcohol, and tangled relationships set the stage for a fatal mistake? We trace the timeline from the Bridgeport–...

We trace the Glatzel and Johnson families from the first day of oddities to the arrival of Ed and Lorraine Warren, “light” exorcisms, and a promise that the beast would claim another soul. When Debbie starts fresh at a kennel owned by Alan Bono, pressure builds: a boozy lunch, doors blocked, music hammering, and a sudden fight that leaves Bono fatally stabbed. In the aftermath, Arnie Cheyenne Johnson denies memory of the attack and...

A brutal family murder, a discounted dream home, and a legend that swallowed a neighborhood—Amityville is as much a story about us as it is about a house. We walk through the facts of the DeFeo killings, then slow down to examine how a decade of grief turned into a global ghost franchise. The details that matter—addiction, violence, a rushed confession, and shifting insanity claims—sit next to the details that sell: cold rooms that...

The most infamous Dutch Colonial in America didn’t start as a horror franchise—it began with six bodies found face down in their beds. We pull back the curtain on 112 Ocean Avenue to separate what’s on the record from what was engineered for the spotlight. We walk through the 1974 DeFeo murders, Butch’s shifting stories, the courtroom battle over insanity and “demonic influence,” and the sober verdict that anchored the case. Then w...

The map said nine days; our hearts turned it into a highlight reel. We roll out at dusk, chase the Exorcist Steps before sunrise, get humbled by DC parking, and reset our nerves at Ford’s Theatre. A tunnel panic in Baltimore tries to hijack the ride, but we breathe through it and learn a trick we’ll use all week: pair fear with a bigger view. Philly greets us with a concierge win, a middling cheesesteak, and the Rocky Steps that fe...

A leather mask, a clink of cans, and a key turning in a famous front door—our night at the Lizzie Borden house started playful and got serious fast. We walk you room by room through Fall River’s most talked‑about address, balancing the eerie staging with the ordinary rhythm of a B&B: check‑in chatter, locals with big hearts, and a neighbor who opens the shop just to tell stories. The trip becomes a prism for the case itself, wh...

We’re sitting in Lizzie Borden’s bedroom, mics in hand, feet on century-old floors that creak like a metronome for the past. That intimacy changes everything. The famous rhyme fades once you see the sightlines, test the doors, and realize how a body could hide behind a bedframe and a myth could hide inside a tidy narrative.

We trace the real timeline: Abby’s silent fall upstairs, Andrew’s final nap on the sofa, a maid sick...

The seltzers crack open, the laundry hums, and we dive straight into the story that haunts American horror: Ed Gein. Coming off a nine-day run through New England and a somber detour to Gettysburg, we trace the path from a Plainfield farmhouse to the birth of a cultural myth, focusing on the small, brutal truths that too many summaries skip. We talk about Augusta’s iron grip, the isolation that starved Ed of normal life, and the su...

Ever wondered where Hollywood's most iconic villains came from? In our landmark 50th episode, we pull back the curtain on Edward Theodore Gein—the Wisconsin recluse whose nightmarish crimes spawned Norman Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill, and countless other fictional monsters.

Born in 1906 to an alcoholic father and fanatically religious mother, Ed Gein's childhood was defined by isolation and psychological abus...

We're raising our Bloody Marys to celebrate both Lindsay's birthday and our podcast's first anniversary in this raw, unfiltered episode that perfectly captures what makes Drink About Something unique – our ability to balance life's joys with exploration of its darkest corners.

The celebration kicks off with a recap of Lindsay's birthday dinner at her favorite Mexican restaurant, complete with a som...