Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie
He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird.
With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable.
Sean’s sharp eye on the logical and Carrie’s open mind to the unexplainable combine in every episode for an informative hour with a lighter touch.
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Ep. 36: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 2
The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of advanced alien life in the universe - and the total lack of evidence for it here on Earth.
In the conclusion to our two-part series, Sean focuses on the Fermi Paradox...
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Ep. 35: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 1
Are we all alone in the universe? There are hundreds of billions of galaxies - the largest hold trillions of stars, the smallest a few hundred million. It seems impossible that there wouldn't be civilizations out there, some of them far more advanced...
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Ep. 34: The Lost Cosmonauts
Turin, Italy. 1960.
Two enterprising young brothers have rigged up their own radio equipment to listen in on the Soviet Russian unmanned rocket launches during the Cold War Space Race. But they pick up something they never expected...something the...
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Ep. 33: Patty Hearst
This week Sean gives us a closer look at famed heiress-turned-hostage-turned-bank-robber Patty Hearst, and the tragic hippie Communist morons in the radical left "Symbionese Liberation Army" who turned a 19-year-old art history major into a fanatical...
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Ep. 32: Haunted Cemeteries, Pt. 2
This week we complete our two part series on the most haunted cemeteries in the entire world!
From the gateway to hell in Stull, Kansas, to the story of a vampire king in London, England, to crying statues in Savannah, moving coffins in Barbados, and...
67 min
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Ep. 31: Haunted Cemeteries, Pt. 1
This week on the podcast we begin a two part series on the most haunted cemeteries in the entire world!
From the cursed grounds of an accused witch's murder in Salem, Massachusetts, to the site of possibly the most adorable ghost ever in Edinburgh,...
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Ep. 30: Charles Cullen, "Angel of Death"
This week, Sean takes us through the twisted tale of depressive serial killer nurse Charles Cullen.
Cullen confessed to killing "around" 40 patients over 16 years at 7 different hospitals before he was arrested in 2003. Some say he may even have...
71 min
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Ep. 29: Renaissance Poisons & Hygienic Horrors
The Renaissance was a time of enlightenment, opulence, and all-around cultural rebirth. However, that’s not all it was. It was also a time of poisonous murders, toxic cosmetics, and hygienic horrors bad enough to make your hair stand on end…or maybe...
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Ep. 28: The Hinterkaifeck Murders
This week it's back to the world of the grim and unsolved, as Sean takes us through the facts of one of the most chilling unsolved crimes in German history - the Hinterkaifeck murders.
On the night of March 31, 1922, on a remote farm outside of...
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Ep. 27: Is Elvis Alive?
The King isn't dead. At least, that's what some people think.Elvis Presley died on August 16th, 1977, after a myriad of health problems culminating in cardiac arrest. Or...did he?Some fans posit that the King of Rock 'n Roll actually faked his own...
69 min
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Ep. 26: The Phantom Dark Age
What if we weren’t living in 2021? What if we were really living in…1724?
That’s the premise behind the “Phantom Dark Age” theory, which claims that Holy Roman Emperor Otto III inserted 300 years into history that never even happened.
Why would Otto...
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Ep. 25: The Kennedy Curse & the Chappaquiddick ...
Is it possible for a whole family to be cursed?
Some people think so. In fact, there's one particular family in United States history many have asserted IS the victim of a curse - the Kennedys.
From political assassinations to plane crashes to tragic...
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Ep. 24: The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction
Let's go back to 1961 for the first major UFO abduction story in American history - the Betty & Barney Hill Incident!
During a dark night in rural New Hampshire, Betty & Barney Hill (and their pet dachshund, Delsey) were coming back home from a...
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Ep. 23: The Keddie Cabin Murders
April 12, 1981. Keddie, California.
Sue Sharp, her teenage son John, and his friend Dana Wingate are found brutally murdered in the Sharp family's cabin at Keddie Resort in the Sierra Nevada. 12-year-old Tina Sharp is missing. And, shockingly, the...
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Ep. 22: Haunted Dolls
Remember the comfort a childhood stuffed toy brought? Carrying it around everywhere, taking care of it, cuddling it like your own baby? Something about dolls has brought parental instincts out of children since ancient times. But what happens when...
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Ep. 21: Deadly Illusions
Magic acts are all about doing extraordinary things with a wink and a nod to the audience, letting them know that the unbelievable is, indeed, possible. The audience is held spellbound by the illusion, yet always with the knowledge that death will be...
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Ep. 20: Lake City Quiet Pills
We've hit 20 episodes! This week, Carrie is taking us through a mid-2000s internet mystery - that of LakeCityQuietPills.com.
When the moderator of a sketchy sub-Reddit passes away in July 2009, a mystery is ignited. This moderator owned an image...
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Ep. 19: Count von Cosel & His Mummy Bride
In this episode we’re taking a trip to pre-WWII Key West, Florida - a place beyond laws, full of unbelievable characters.
One of these characters is Count Carl von Cosel (born Karl Tanzler), an eccentric x-ray technician that falls head-over-heels in...
76 min
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Ep. 18: The Bridgeport Poltergeist, Pt. 2
On part 1 of this 2-part series we met the Goodins, a small family that was beginning to experience terrifying poltergeist activity in their home on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
This episode the famous ghost-hunting couple Ed & Lorraine...
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Ep. 17: The Bridgeport Poltergeist, Pt. 1
New year, new boo’s! We’re bringing it back home for a local ghost story centered in Bridgeport, Connecticut - right in our own backyard.
The Goodins moved into their home on Lindley Street hoping for a quiet, family-centered life of peace and...
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Ep. 16: The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Let’s take it back, wayyyy back…back to Ancient Egypt! On Episode 16 Carrie’s telling us the story of King Tutankhamun, aka Tut, the boy king of Ancient Egypt. But even more interesting than the story of his life is that of the discovery of his tomb...
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Ep. 15: Lesser-Known American Cryptids
Bigfoot. The Mothman. The Jersey Devil. These are the big bad boys of American Cryptid Folklore. But what about the B Squad? Or even…the C Squad?
In our pre-holiday episode, Sean takes us from the American South to the Northeast and beyond to...
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Ep. 14: The Death of Princess Diana, Pt. 2
In Part 2 of this series, Carrie goes into the major conspiracy theories surrounding Diana, Princess of Wales’ tragic and sudden death.
Was her death really an orchestrated assassination by one or more governments? If so, was it because of her land...
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Ep. 13: The Death of Princess Diana, Pt. 1
Diana, Princess of Wales, was known as the “People’s Princess”, and her tragic death in a car accident in 1997 caused shockwaves to ripple throughout the world. In the first of this 2-part series, Carrie explores the sad life and death of Princess Di,...
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Ep. 12: Time Slips
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’…into the past! On episode 12 Sean brings us several stories of regular people who, on a seemingly normal day, found themselves suddenly transported to the past—including the tale of two Edwardian English...
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