You’ve all heard the story. A piper comes to town and plays a tune that leads the children away. But did you know it was true? Happy Halloween!

Resources:

• Rattenfänger von Hameln
• https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#grimm245
• https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_198.jpg
• https://www.planet-wissen.de/natur/haustiere/ratten/pwiederrattenfaengervonhameln100.html
• https://www.academia.edu/70997122/Der_Kinderauszug_von_Hameln_Eine_Kriegslist_im_Kampf_um_die_Burg_Everstein

Japanese horror is recognized as some of the creepiest in the world. It should be. Japanese urban legends are even scarier.

Resources:

• A Chronicle of Fear: The History and Evolution of J-Horror
• Japanese urban legends and the dark side of folklore – Cultured Wandererand
• Kuchisake-Onna: Japan’s Terrifying Legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman
• Aka manto | Yokai.com
• Aka Manto: Japan’s Red Cloak Legend –
• Hachishaku-sama: The Definitive Guide to Japan’s Terrifying Eight-Foot-Tall Woman – TOCANA Paranormal News Media
• Kuchisake-Onna: The Definitive Guide to Japan’s Terrifying Slit-Mouthed Woman – TOCANA Paranormal News Media
• Teke teke | Yokai.com
• The True Teke Teke Story: Japan’s Scariest Urban Legend | Wakoku
• Gozu (Cow Head): The Definitive Guide to Japan’s Most Forbidden and Terrifying Story – TOCANA Paranormal News Media

Ax murders? Voodoo? A satanic cult? What more do you need for one of the craziest true crime stories ever told?

Resources:

• “NEGRO KILLS WOMAN AND HER THREE CHILDREN” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• “CROWLEY NEGRO, WIFE AND CHILD BRAINED WITH AX AS THEY SLEPT.” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• “FAMILY OF FOUR NEGROES MURDERED; ESCAPED LUNATIC IS SUSPECTED.” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• “BRUTAL MURDER OF NEGRO FAMILY IS DISCOVERED IN WEST CROWLEY” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• Alfred Louis Casaway (1859-1911) – Find a Grave Memorial
• “HORRIBLE CRIME” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 10, September 1991 – Page 307 – The Portal to Texas History
• “CRIME HERE SIMILAR TO ONE IN CROWLEY” · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders
• Weird Wild West: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic | JSTOR
• Felix Broussard (unknown-1912) – Find a Grave Memorial
• Camptown Cemetery: Waiting for the Axeman- The Axeman Panic of 1912 in Texas
• The ‘Voodoo’ Murders of Clementine Barnabet, Who Claimed to Have Killed 35 People
• HRWG Annual Symposium Proceedings
• Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South
• Female Serial Killer Index: Clementine Barnabet Study Collection (Lafayette Advertiser)
• The Story of Serial Killer Clementine Barnabet | They Will Kill You
• Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South by Lauren Nicole

We begin our October episodes with a look at a legend that turned out to be horrifyingly true. Cropsey was a spooky story every Staten Island child knew, an elusive serial killer living in the woods. But even scarier than the story was the chilling reality.

Resources:

• Andre Rand, The Man Behind Staten Island’s ‘Cropsey’ Murders
• Alice Pereira – The Charley Project
• Andre Rand | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
• Holly Ann Hughes – The Charley Project
• Tiahease Tiawanna Jackson – The Charley Project
• Ethel Louise Atwell – The Charley Project
• Henry Gafforio – The Charley Project
• Audrey Lyn Nerenberg – The Charley Project
• Cropsey: New York’s Terrifying Urban Legend – Historic Mysteries
• Andre Rand | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
• S.I. ‘HANNIBAL LECTER’ SEX PERV GUILTY OF KIDNAP | New York Post
• The Crimes of Andre Rand: Urban Legend Turned True Life. | Criminal
• Cropsey (2009), Directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio
• Cropsey: Legend and Truth Behind the Child Killer – HubPages
• Incarcerated Lookup
• Cropsey: The Urban Legend That Became a True Crime Nightmare –
• The Legend of Cropsey — Astonishing Legends
• The terrifying urban legend that became all too real in 1988

A man disappears after a solo hike in the vicinity of Area 51. Accident? Government involvement? Or maybe even extra-terrestrial? This is the story of Kenny Veach and the M cave.

Resources:

Kenny Veach’s Disappearance Near The Mysterious ‘M Cave’ (allthatsinteresting.com)

M Cave and the Unexplained Disappearance of Kenny Veach – Nevada Magazine

Mystery of YouTuber who vanished without trace after ‘finding a vibrating secret cave’ near top secret Area 51 base | The Sun

The mysterious M Cave and the strange disappearance of Kenny Veach — StrangeOutdoors.com

Theories on what happened to avid explorer who went ‘missing’ near Area 51 explained | Daily Mail Online

Kenny Veach Vanishes on his Quest for the M Cave | Mojave Mysteries Vol. 1 – YouTube

M Cave Hike (youtube.com)

I Found the M Cave of Kenny Veach! (youtube.com)

A Curious New Development at the M Cave of Kenny Veach (youtube.com)

M Cave [ COVER UP ] – Found (youtube.com)

We conclude our look at the Leo Frank case and discuss what it all means, then and now.

We continue our look at the Leo Frank case.

It was the trial of the century decades before OJ was even born, and its consequences shaped the 20th Century. Young Mary Phagan was brutally raped and murdered, her body left in the basement of an Atlanta factory. When Leo Frank was fingered for the crime, the nation was divided over his guilt. Did Leo Frank kill Mary? Or was his trial the result of antisemitism? We cover it all.

Sources:

• And The Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney
• Lynching of Leo Frank – Trial, Murder & Legacy | HISTORY
• Chronology of Events in the Leo Max Frank Epic Saga – Leo Frank Case Archive
• Leo Frank | American Factory Superintendent & Lynching Victim | Britannica
• The College Years of Leo Max Frank at His Alma Mater Cornell University 1902 to 1906 in Ithaca, New York, and Brief Employment Experiences – Leo Frank Case Archive
• Leo Frank’s Family Background – Leo Frank Case Archive
• Leo Frank – Breman
• https://famous-trials.com/leo-frank/27-home

We give our final thoughts on the Lindsay Clancy Trial, why it ended up the way it did, and what to expect next.

A deadlocked jury, a red-hot defense attorney, and a highly unusual situation. We discuss.