Creepy Shit

On February 11th 1979 five friends from the small Hawaiian town of Hana borrowed a seventeen foot Boston Whaler, loaded it with beer and snacks, and headed out into a calm and beautiful Pacific morning for a day of fishing. By mid-afternoon a storm came out of nowhere. 

The Coast Guard searched 73,000 square miles and found nothing. Not the boat. Not the men. Not a single piece of wreckage. Nine years later — 2,300 miles away on one of the most remote and uninhabited atolls in the Pacific — a marine biologist stumbled across the wrecked boat half-buried in sand. And 100 yards away, a shallow grave marked with a driftwood cross. Inside — the partial remains of one of the five men. And buried beside him, something that has never been explained: a stack of papers separated by squares of tin foil. No writing. No markings. Just paper and foil, buried deliberately with the dead. 

Who put him there? How did that boat travel 2,300 miles through a narrow reef passage that oceanographers say it almost certainly couldn’t have navigated alone? Where are the other four men? And what was buried in that grave with Scott Moorman? 

This is the full documented story of the Sarah Joe — one of Hawaii’s most enduring and genuinely haunting maritime mysteries. All of it is real. None of it has ever been explained.

Topics covered: Sarah Joe disappearance, Hawaiian maritime mystery, Scott Moorman, Taongi Atoll Marshall Islands, missing fishermen Hawaii 1979, unsolved disappearances, paranormal history, maritime mysteries, Pacific Ocean mystery, joss paper burial, unexplained mysteries, dark history, creepy true crime, unsolved mysteries

On January 2nd 1935 a young man walked into the Hotel President in Kansas City Missouri, checked into Room 1046, and was found two days later beaten, stabbed, bound, and barely breathing in a blood soaked room. He died without ever naming his attacker. His name wasn’t even real. It took nearly two years to identify him. And then, after he was dead and buried, someone started sending his mother letters. Typed letters. From cities across the country. Pretending to be him. 

This case has been open for over 90 years. There is a five inch thick police file sitting in the Kansas City Police Department right now. The hotel still stands — it’s a Hilton. Room 1046 still exists. And not a single person has ever been charged. 

This is the full story of one of the most bizarre, layered, and genuinely haunting unsolved cases in American history — and we are going all the way in.

Topics covered: Room 1046, Hotel President Kansas City, Artemus Ogletree, Roland T Owen, unsolved murder 1935, Kansas City cold case, true crime, paranormal history, haunted hotels, dark history, unsolved mysteries, creepy true crime, bizarre historical cases

Off the coast of Brittany, France sits a lighthouse that the French government officially exorcised. Tévennec Lighthouse has one of the most disturbing and well-documented haunted histories of any location in Europe — unexplained deaths, keepers driven to madness, ancient Breton mythology, and a paranormal history that stretches back centuries before the lighthouse was ever built.

In this episode of Creepy Shit, we investigate the full history of Tévennec — from the Napoleonic shipwreck that killed hundreds on those rocks, to the twenty-three lighthouse keepers who couldn’t survive a single year on the island, to the ancient Celtic death mythology that claimed the island long before the French government ever did.

Every claim. Every detail. Fully sourced and documented.

Because the creepiest shit is always the truest.

You think you know the Lake Lanier story. The haunted lake. The Lady of the Lake. The ghost town underwater. But I promise you — you do not know the half of it.

Because underneath the ghost stories is a real, documented, devastating history that most people never talk about. A thriving Black community called Oscarville that was destroyed by racial terror in 1912. A county that maintained a White-only policy until the 1990s. Cemeteries at the bottom of a lake that were never moved. A woman’s body floating in a blue dress with no hands that sat unidentified for over thirty years. Seven people killed on Christmas Day. And a death toll of 700 people in less than 70 years — in a lake that is a fraction of the size of the bodies of water around it. 

This week, I'm joined by Sarah and Mackenzie from Tea Tales & Talks to dig into one of the most complicated, most heartbreaking, and most undeniably haunted locations in America. Because some places carry weight. And Lake Lanier has been carrying centuries of it. Get ready for some creepy shit.

DISCLAIMER** This episode discusses racial violence, lynching, and racial terror in documented historical detail. 

Just outside one of the most populated cities on earth sits a 6,000-acre forest that has been collecting bodies — and secrets — since before the Roman Empire. Epping Forest isn’t just haunted. It’s a thousand-year crime scene layered on top of an Iron Age battlefield, a highwayman’s lair, and a gangland dumping ground. And that’s before we even get to the pond that locals say is *evil beyond measure.*

In this episode of Creepy Shit, we’re diving deep into the true, documented, and wildly disturbing history of Epping Forest — England’s most dangerous woodland. We’re talking Celtic warrior queen Boudica’s last stand in 61 AD, Dick Turpin the real highwayman (not the romantic version — the murderous one), the Kray twins using the forest as their personal graveyard, a 30-year cold case known as the Babes in the Wood murders, a hill where your car rolls uphill with the engine off, and a pond with no location on any map that people say *pulls* you toward it.

This one is packed with true crime, real history, paranormal activity, and the kind of dark folklore that will make you rethink everything you think you know about forests.

In 1915, a ship everyone knew was dangerous capsized in the Chicago River — killing 844 people on their way to a company picnic. More deaths than the Titanic’s passenger list. 22 entire families, gone. 

No one was ever held accountable. 

And to this day, people standing on Chicago’s Clark Street Bridge report seeing faces in the water below. This is the SS Eastland disaster. And it’s been buried long enough.

References & Resources:
• Britannica: Eastland Disaster

• History.com: Hundreds Drown in Eastland Disaster

• National Archives Chicago: Steamship Eastland Disaster

• Chicagology.com: 1915 Eastland Disaster (primary newspaper accounts)

• Eastland Disaster Historical Society: eastlanddisaster.org

• US Ghost Adventures: Clark Street Bridge haunting

• CBS Chicago: Chicago Hauntings — Ghosts of the Eastland Disaster

• Czech Consulate Chicago: 100-year anniversary article

• Forest Park Historical Society: Eastland Ship Disaster

• Strange Ago: SS Eastland Disaster Survivor Accounts

She danced with a man in 1939. He kissed her. She was ice cold. The next morning, he went to her house, and her mother told him she had been dead for years!

This is Resurrection Mary. Chicago's most documented ghost. Shes been hitchhiking Archer Avenue for over 90 years. 

This Episode: The ancient Native American trail that became America's most haunted road, the real women that might be, 30+ witness accounts that all describe the same girl in the same white dress at the same cemetery gates and the night in 1976 when a police officer found handprints burned into iron bars from inside of a locked cemetery. 

True paranormal history. Zero filler. All creepy, its time to press play

Maine's most haunted lighthouse has one legend that will mess with you long after you stop listening. 

A keeper. His wife. A piano. One Song - played on repeat until something in him broke. What he did next is stuff of nightmares. And apprarently, she never stopped playing.

Sailors still hear it drifting across the water on foggy nights. Caretakers report furniture moving on its own, one caretaker got locked in the basment! And there are at least two other presences on that island. 

We're going to Sequin Island. Come find out whats still out there. 

You heard the history and the happenings, Now hear what happened to my husband and I while we were at Shaker's Cigar Bar.

In part 2 of our Shaker's Cigar Bar Bar, Podcast Birthday Celebration. Im taking you back inside, walking you through what I personally felt (& what my husband felt) from the moment I entered the building, what I captured on camera that I wasn't expecting and the moments that were hard to shake long after we left. 

Some of it is subtle, some of it is not.

This is where it gets personal. No history lesson, no interview, just me telling you exactly what it feels like to spend time inside a place that is genuinely, documentably haunted.

One year ago, Creepy Shit was just an idea. Today, we're on Location!

To mark one full year of this podcast. Im sitting inside one of America's Most Haunted bars - Shaker's Cigar Bar in Milwaukee, WI - with a man who has owned and breathed this building since the 1980's, Bob Weiss

And this place has layers, boo

We're talking a building built on top of a cemetery. A prohibition-era speakeasy and brothel run by the Capone brothers. A sixteen year old girl named Molly Brennan who never made it out of the third floor. Human Bones found inside the wallsduring a 2001 renovation. Documented paranormal residents and a barstool that Jefferey Dahmer used to call his. 

Bob has spent nearly 40 years inside this building. In this episode, he walks us through all of it - the documented history, the unexplainable reports, and the personal experiences he's had. 

This is the episode I've been working toward since day one. I hope it hits you the way it hit me. Time to press play