For all intents and purposes, German brewer Johann Adam Lemp achieved the so-called American Dream for generations of his descendants when he arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1838. His humble lager recipe ballooned into a huge brewery with a family mansion to match. However, as the business got passed down the line, dark history unfurled ?haunting the business and house where it all happened.

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The New York Lunatic Asylum opened its doors in 1839 with a mission to humanely treat the mentally ill of NYC from the tranquil isolation of an island on the East River. However, as the years unfolded, cracks showed, trouble ensued and an intrepid reporter found herself within the institution?s walls, reporting its downfall for the world to see. Here?s the story of Roosevelt Island.

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Tara Calico was a smart, accomplished and athletic college freshman who biked into the New Mexico desert one morning in 1988 and never came back. A year later, a peculiar photograph appeared in a parking lot over a thousand miles away in Florida. The search for Tara would enlist the help of investigators across an ocean only to eventually reveal corruption back home. Whatever happened to her resulted in a sprawling mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

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Feeling dead inside is one thing, but truly believing it is a mysterious, medical reality. With only about 200 known cases worldwide, Cotard?s Syndrome is a rare condition characterized by delusions of missing body parts, lost organs or being dead altogether ?even while technically living to tell the tale. In this episode, we?ll go over the history of Cotard?s Syndrome, the stories of people who?ve suffered from it and the theories behind how it can confound and take hold of our minds and bodies.

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One wintry day in 1922, six bodies were discovered on a remote farm in Bavaria. The scene was ominous, scattered with clues indicating an unclear couple of days leading up to the sextuple murder of the family and its maid. Decades later, investigators landed on a culprit whose name still hasn?t been revealed. The tragedy at Hinterkaifeck was a mystery complete with complicated relationships, missing weapons and unexplainable footsteps in the snow.

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In 2006, a man was found on the ballroom floor of a hotel in Baltimore, with a hole in the ceiling overhead and a mystery surrounding the occurrence. Rey Rivera was ?for all intents and purposes? an average guy, who lived, worked and loved in search of greater purpose. But upon going missing, he left clues along the way leading straight back to that hole in the roof of the infamous Belvedere Hotel? without a clear answer as to how he could have possibly fallen through it.

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In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the United States employed an old method of surveillance along its west coast: blimps. And when two pilots took off in one high above San Francisco Bay one summer morning in 1942, no one could have predicted its wild and wacky ride. A crash landing followed by the discovery of an empty cabin confused onlookers and navy personnel alike. What happened?

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One December morning in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City, a young society woman went out to run errands and never returned home. Dorothy Arnold?s forbidden love affair, writerly aspirations and wealth combined to stir up intrigue over what happened to her at the time. Today ?over a hundred years on? her disappearance is still a mystery.

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We're taking a break this week so here's a listen back to our very first episode, based on the same story as the new series "The Watcher" out today on Netflix.

In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought their dream home in Westfield, New Jersey - a 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath mansion at 657 Boulevard. Just days later, before the family even moved in, they received their first letter from "The Watcher."

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In the early 1800s, a Tennessee farm-dwelling family began hearing suspicious noises around their home, seeing strange apparitions along their property and believing a wicked force had befallen them. The Bell Witch would go on to become a legendary haunting, complete with ghostly dialogue, violent scares in the night and even a cowardly visit from Andrew Jackson himself. And when the spirit finally left? it wasn?t for good.

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In the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer terrorized Northern California not necessarily via his body count ?only five confirmed victims over the course of a year? but through his ability to manipulate fear into notoriety. Letters to newspapers, codes to crack and mysterious phone calls to police baited many into tormenting themselves with the question: who is the Zodiac? In this episode, we?ll go over the killer?s string of crimes and one particular suspect with a lot of suspicion still surrounding him.

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An estimated one million people flock to the enigma that is Stonehenge every year, yet the origin of this circle of stones remains unknown. Who built it? How? And, of course, why? In this episode, we?ll cover the facts, debates and theories concerning this mysterious landmark and its five thousand-year history on Salisbury Plain.

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Have you ever left your body, willingly or not? Astral projection has a long history, stretching from ancient religious texts and up through our current, quarantined imaginations. We humans desire to get out of ourselves from time to time, but when we do?where do we go? In this episode, we?ll head into the astral realm with the fascinating practice of accessing it.

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Mind control ?as a conspiracy and fear? has its long, questionable history in the United States. Starting in the 1950s in response to the Korean War and up through the LSD tests of the 1960s, the American government cooked up some experiments for the purpose of psychological manipulation. The top-secret CIA program MK Ultra spawned suspicion? as well as ideas that twisted themselves into a new conspiracy: The Monarch Project.

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We're taking a break this week so here's an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet.

There she lay face down on a beach towel, naked in the sand: handless, dead and with a mouth full of expensive dental work. In 1974, when a kid and her dog discovered the body of a young woman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a mystery took off. Who was she? Well, she?s the Lady of the Dunes. 

In the early hours of a June morning in 1997, 26-year-old Lori Ceci Bova stepped outside for a smoke break and never came back. She forgot her cigarettes, for one, and as the search for Lori unfolded more questions than answers emerged. Loved ones, police and bystanders took turns being cagey, and the abundance of psychic input on the case led everyone astray. When someone disappears truly without a trace ?not a clue, suspect or body identified? how can the truth unearth itself?

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Welcome to the magical world of Disney theme parks, where the huggable characters, glistening turkey legs and all around sparkle are a sheen over some dark secrets ?which makes sense. Any place touting a policy of zero death on its grounds has to have some skeletons hidden away. This week's sponsors:

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We're taking a break this week so here's an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. We'll be back with a new episode next week!

This is the story of a cook who refused to wash her hands and the health department that chased her around New York City in search of a stool sample. She?d end up alone on an island, but everyone knew her name. Here?s how Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary.

This week's sponsors:

BetterHelp - Get 10% off your first month of therapy at BetterHelp.com/Daisy.

Lumi Labs - To learn more about microdosing THC go to Microdose.com and use code STRANGE to get free shipping and 30% off your first order.

Superpower State of Mind - In this new weekly podcast, host Malin Andersson and her guests make uncomfortable conversations comfortable. Search 'Superpower State of Mind? wherever you?re listening to this show, and hit follow so you never miss an episode.

Imagine surviving a freak accident and coming out the other side unrecognizable ? not on the exterior, but inside. Where do our personalities live, and how can they shift drastically? In season one, we covered miraculous talents resulting from traumatic brain injury. On this episode, we?ll head to the dark side of personality change with the stories of Phineas Gage, Eadweard Muybridge and someone whose identity became the personae of whoever they were nearest.

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Can you hear that? It?s like a car ?idling in the distance? or a plane on a tarmac, with a tinge of oil crackling in a pan. Since the 1970s a mysterious sound has tormented communities across the globe and confounded those curious to find its source. With no recording of it in existence, and only 2 to 10 percent of affected area populations able to hear it, this hum is a sonic mystery for the ages that we?ll try to get to the bottom of in this episode.

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In 1974, an article in a local paper turned the sleepy town of Stull, Kansas upside down. It was about an abandoned church and its surrounding cemetery. Accounts of cold brushes with spirits and theories on a stairway to hell drew the likes of rowdy college students and celebrities alike, including Kurt Cobain and Ariana Grande. But what?s more haunted: the places that fascinate us or the stories we spin about them?

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The possibility of parallel universes has long been considered in science fiction, pop culture and even plain, old physics. Accounts of interdimensional travel stretch back to the 12th century and forward to the annals of reddit today. On this episode, we?ll parse through some of these stories about slipping out the other side.

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Jack and Janet Smurl were your typical, civically engaged, small-town couple. That is, until they ?and their four kids? moved into a haunted house in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Exploding appliances, strange sounds, violent events and a foul odor tortured the family inside while drawing onlookers and media outside. But was this craze the work of a demon or something more morally sinister?

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The trial of teenage murderer Alice Mitchell was an all out spectacle. After killing her former lover Freda Ward in a crime of passion, no one seemed to believe her motivation ?least of all her own defense team. She?d end up pleading present insanity under the counsel of men who couldn?t even begin to comprehend any deviation from the sexual and gendered norms of the late 19th century. In the second half of our pride series on Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, we?ll cover what happened to Alice in the wake of Freda?s murder and how their story got warped by the time and place in which they lived.

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When 19-year-old Alice Mitchell jumped from a carriage and slit the throat of 17-year-old Freda Ward one fateful day in 1892, a rampant fascination over the drama soon followed. Alice loved Freda and killed her accordingly ?to the crazed confusion of nearly everyone in Memphis, Tennessee and beyond. In the first half of our pride series, we?ll go over the story of their sapphic relationship, how it functioned in the American South during the Victorian era and how it unraveled to the point of tragedy.

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The mythic metropolis of Atlantis has long been an object of our curiosity, but the search for where it was and who lived there has left its origin story underwater. On this episode, we?ll explore how this thought experiment about a fallen empire from the mind of Plato turn into a justification for grand projects of bigotry from eugenicists, pseudo-archeologists and ?you guessed it? Nazis.

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We're taking a break for the holiday so we wanted to feature an episode from our first season you may not have heard yet. We'll be back with a new episode next week!

Columbus Ohio 2006, 1:15 am: 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer is seen on a surveillance camera walking into a bar with two friends. But he never comes back out. Somehow, in a bar packed with potential witnesses, Brian vanished into thin air seemingly INSIDE the bar. 
Then in New York city in 2011, 22-year-old Ian Burnet, visiting friends to celebrate New Year's Eve gets onto a crowded subway car and is never seen again. How is it possible for someone to vanish without a trace from places packed with people and security cameras? What happened? Where did they go?

When Neil Armstrong touched down and said ?That?s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,? he meant it, right? The 1969 moon landing was a long-awaited event that brought the world together and the United States across the Space Race finish line. But, as with any historic victory for powerful people in powerful governments, doubters soon followed. To this day, many still believe the Apollo 11 mission was a Hollywood hoax.

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We left off in the ill-fated Dryden, NY with two high school cheerleaders missing and a town in mourning for years of tragedy under its belt. In the second half of this series on the ?Village of the Damned,? we?ll go over the hunt for a murderer and the unfortunate string of deaths that followed. How did this decade of terror come to a conclusion? The end would be more bitter than sweet.

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Dryden, New York is your typical, small town nestled among forestry, ponds and plains. But in the 1990s, that peace was disrupted by a string of events so tragic it was hard not to suspect a site-specific curse. Dryden would come to be known for a time as the ?Village of the Damned,? and in Part 1 of this series we?ll trace the first half of this ominous decade there.

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After former president Abraham Lincoln was shot dead at Ford?s Theatre, a manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ensued immediately. History tells us Booth was captured by Union soldiers on a farm in Virginia 12 days after the assassination, but contrarians to this story have been begging to differ even since. Did John Wilkes Booth escape after all? On this episode, we?ll explore alternative fates for the famed killer and the theories behind them.

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The dream world is a mysterious place of delights, nightmares and lots and lots of memories. But what if we could control it? Many do by harnessing the skill and cultural fascination that is lucid dreaming. On this episode, we?ll explore the origins, possibilities and dangers of the practice.

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This show has a bone to pick true crime podcasts. Where are all the women?s perspectives? The detectives, the witnesses, the movers and shakers of any case are not always dudes. So let?s widen our framework, shall we? On Let The Women Do The Work, join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime, one episode at a time.

Let The Women Do The Work is a 10-part series premiering weekly in the True Crime Obsessed feed starting April 28th, 2022.

What started as mysterious letters to a UFOlogist turned into a rumor straight out of science fiction. The USS Eldridge ?a naval destroyer? undoubtedly existed, but how did it become the subject of alleged teleportation in a top secret government experiment? On this episode, we?ll traverse the murky waters of the story that brought The Philadelphia Experiment to life.

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History?s most infamous serial killers had calling cards, from names and symbols to systems and strategies of predation. But the only thing tying together the story of Edward Wayne Edwards was his ability to resist definition. He was a robber and a self-proclaimed ?reformed man.? He was a father and a Zodiac Killer enthusiast. He was a vocal opponent of crime while murderously slipping under the radar. To this day, it?s unclear all that he got away with.

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The Berenstain Bears, Tony the Tiger?s blue nose and a ?90s movie starring Sinbad as a genie have all come back to haunt us. What started off as confusion over Nelson Mandela?s death date has exploded over the years into mass mixups concerning the big and small. On this episode, we?ll dive head first into this global phenomenon that is the Mandela Effect.

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Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... a humanoid, moth-like creature? The Mothman entered the scene of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966 and has fascinated our imaginations since. Here?s how an anomaly with glowing red eyes flew straight into the heart of this small town?s identity.

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One of Georgia?s most popular tourist attractions is also the site of some dark history. From the bottom up, the manmade Lake Lanier holds everything from ghost town remnants, to bodies to monstrous catfish. The legends along its shores only add to that lore. On this episode, we?ll dive into one of the deadliest lakes in the United States.

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This is the story of a cook who refused to wash her hands and the health department that chased her around New York City in search of a stool sample. She?d end up alone on an island, but everyone knew her name. Here?s how Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary.

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From their esoteric symbols to their elusive rituals & doings, secret societies control our curiosity. If we can?t join them, we can still poke around their stories. On this episode we?ll explore the origins of two of the most talked about groups in modern history and where they are today. What happens behind the curtain? Are you wary to find out? Welcome to the club.

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There she lay facedown on a beach towel, naked in the sand: handless, dead and with a mouth full of expensive dental work. In 1974, when a kid and her dog discovered the body of a young woman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a mystery took off. Who was she? Well, she?s The Lady of the Dunes.

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In Part 2 of this series on the Stayners, we turn to Cary: the brother left to live through Steven?s disappearance and eventual return. After tragedy strikes Cary?s family multiple times, he heads down a dark and deadly road into the forests of Yosemite.

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When 7-yr-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped, his family was shaken. And when 14-yr-old Steven returned home, life was still far from normal. How does trauma travel through a family? And what would come next? In these next two episodes, we?ll follow a pair of brothers on their diverging paths, starting with Steven.

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Allison Mack set off on her acting career at a young age, playing dorks, "plain Janes" and other blonde-haired, girl-next-door types across the ?90s and early aughts. But when a crisis of confidence presented a fork in her road, Mack veered down a dark path of sex-trafficking, conspiracy and a whole lot of interpersonal manipulation. How did it all happen? We trace the story in this episode.

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If a tree falls in the forest ?and nobody?s around to hear it? who knows if it killed someone below? The mysterious, fatal instances that occur in nature are hard to piece together. This week, two stories of people who went into the great unknown and died. To this day, how they died is also a great unknown.

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We walk into nature to confront the unknown, but returning home isn?t a guarantee. From the desert of Nevada to the mountainous forest of Vermont, secrets of missing people are embedded across the landscapes they once traversed. This week, we stray from the trailhead with two stories of hikers who seemingly disappeared into thin air.

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Hey, Strangers!  Today the Obsessed Network is launching Season 2 of ?Crimes of the Centuries? - the true crime podcast from award-winning reporter Amber Hunt.
Recently named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 Best Crime Podcasts of 2021, ?Crimes of the Centuries? rediscovers the true crime stories that shocked the nation?cases so unbelievable that we thought we?d never forget them, but somehow did. 

We?re starting off the second season with an episode about the Cleveland Torso Murders - when a series of headless torsos began appearing in that city.  Who was behind these gruesome killings, and would they be caught and brought to justice?
We?re bringing you the first part of this episode here in this feed. To hear the rest, click here to find and follow Crimes of the Centuries wherever you get your podcasts.

On a spring morning in 1979, a young boy walked to his bus stop and never returned home. The disappearance of Etan Patz would result in a search across New York City that spanned 40 years. From flyers to milk cartons, his face and name became a cautionary tale to many, a tale with an unclear ending still to this day.

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Is our existence a reality, or are we the product of someone else's imagination? The chances that we are all just avatars in someone else's video game are better than you think.  This week, we explain what the simulation theory is, share stories of those who have experienced a "glitch" in the Matrix, and offer proof that none of this--or us--are real.