Macabrepedia: A Marriage of True Crime and the Truly Bizarre

Ivan the first Tsar of Russia is sometimes thought of as a madman, a psychopath whose paranoia leads to some horrible acts being brought upon those he declared to be enemies. Although in the early years of Ivan IV's reign, he could be better described as, Ivan the soon-to-be but not at the moment, terrible. In part one of our two-part episode on Ivan the Terrible, we will cove

We talk about a few ghost-y stories we have, read a scary story (The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit), and talk a little bit about where trick-or-treating comes from. Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected] the show

Project MKUltra was a series of illegal experiments carried out by the CIA that were designed to test the effects of drugs and how they might be weaponized. We discuss this and a little about white room torture.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=776lDlNopJU&t=79shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDAOFgye1Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO

In what is called one of the biggest mysteries of the American Old West, the Bender family fled from suspicion and a looming search of their homestead... and nobody can agreed on what happened to them. This search would result in finding the bodies of many people who had gone missing in the area, but what happened, and who were these... Bloody Benders? Join us as we add another ent

Throughout our history, there have been terrible weather events that have impacted history, and solar eclipses have had a special place as well, as frightening and unexpected events. In this episode, we'll discuss a few of these events.Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected] the show

Taking a turn toward the bizarre this week, we discuss the marathon monks of Mount Hiei where monks walk 24,000 miles to clarify their mind and spirit.Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected]:https://www.trailrunnermag.com/people/culture-people/the-marathon-monks-of-mount-hiei/https://en.japantravel.com/blog/fudo-myo

This week, we explore some weird ways rulers have died throughout history.Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected] the show

From a chance detour, we came across the Sidna Allen House. Then into the wormhole on this week's episode about the Hillsville Courthouse Massacre, a bit of forgotten Appalachian history.Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected]:https://theroanoker.com/interests/history/hillsville-massacrehttps://www.geni.com/peo

Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar was responsible for the deaths of 1/3 of her people during her reign, through a series of campaigns to avoid Westernization. This Queen of Madagascar will go down in history for her bloody reign.Twitter & Facebook: @macabrepediaInstagram: @macabrepediapodEmail us at: @[email protected] the show

H.H. Holmes (real name Herman Webster Mudgett) was an American con artist, bigamist, and serial murderer. His gruesome deeds made him famous, and the newspapers expanded that fame. People know the story of his murder castle, where gruesome tortures, dissections, and murders supposedly took place. But when you look at the story as a whole, what is actually true, and what is the resu