A Scottish ferryman refused to take travelers across the water after dark — and the ones who stayed the night were never seen again. | #WDRadio WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2026
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WHEN CHILDREN BECOME KILLERS: The Youngest Murderers in Criminal History
A comprehensive examination of juvenile homicide cases that shattered assumptions about childhood innocence
THE CHICAGO NURSE MASSACRE: Richard Speck Introduced America To The Reality of Mass Murder
On a hot summer night in 1966, eight young nursing students became victims of one of America’s most horrifying mass murders.
THE DEADLIEST BREAKFAST IN HISTORY: The Oregon State Hospital Mass Poisoning – 47 Dead
The screams echoing through Oregon State Hospital that morning weren’t from the mentally ill patients—they were from 47 people dying in agony after taking their first bite of breakfast.
A Ghost Killed a King, Breath Froze Solid, a Doomsday Plane, and a Séance Warning That Came True
From a vengeful saint’s ghost striking down a Viking conqueror to an occult-obsessed music producer who foresaw death at a séance and then walked straight into his own dark prophecy, February 3rd is one of history’s most unsettling dates.
THE ABDUCTIONS OF LYNDA JONES: Missing Time, Alien Pregnancy, Men In Black, and Decades of Terror
Over four decades, Lynda Jones experienced multiple alien abductions beginning with a terrifying 1979 encounter that left her with 90 minutes of missing time, mysterious pregnancies she never remembered, and recurring visits from sinister men in trilby hats.
Why Are Women Drawn to True Crime Entertainment?
Researchers have discovered that 70% of true crime audiences are women who study murder cases not just for entertainment, but also to learn survival tactics against the human predators they’re statistically most likely to encounter.
GHOSTLY DOGS AND PHANTOM HOUNDS: The Worldwide Legend of the Black Dog
For centuries and across nearly every culture on earth, enormous black dogs with glowing red eyes have appeared to the living as omens of death — and the people who dismissed the legend rarely lived long enough to regret it.
Peter Stumpp: The Werewolf Who Ate His Own Son’s Brain | He Was Brutally Executed On Halloween
A wealthy German farmer confessed to 25 years of murder, cannibalism, and transformation into a wolf — but was it a genuine case of serial killing, or an elaborate political execution disguised as supernatural justice?
Night Owl Horrors | Scary Things That Only Happen When You’re the Last One Awake
From skeletal faces in TV static to well-dressed spirits standing in hallways, these late-night witnesses share the terrifying things they saw while the rest of the house slept.
Obscene Phone Calls and a Shattered Porch Light | The Springfield Three
In 1992, two teenage best friends and one of their mothers disappeared from a Springfield, Missouri home without a trace — their purses, cars, and even cigarettes left behind, but no sign of a struggle.
THE 1855 BIGFOOT WAR: Choctaw Warriors vs. Child-Eating Monsters – Legend or Lost History?
In 1855, Choctaw warriors allegedly rode into the Oklahoma wilderness to hunt kidnappers – and discovered something far worse than human bandits at an earthen mound piled with decomposing children.
THE YPSILANTI RIPPER: John Norman Collins And The Michigan Murders
He was handsome, polite, studied elementary education — and murdered at least seven young women in Michigan between 1967 and 1969.
THE EVIL SPIRIT THAT DEVOURS MANKIND: Wendigo Psychosis and the Monster Within
A mental disorder so terrifying that execution was considered the only cure — and some researchers now question whether it ever existed at all.
ZURVAN: Why Roman Soldiers Built Temples to This Lion-Headed, Snake-Wrapped Demon
Picture a lion’s head twisted in permanent rage. A body wrapped in living serpents. Eyes that see everything but care about nothing. In ancient Persia, they called him Zurvan — the god of infinite time. In the novel Advent of Evil, Zurvan uses a cursed advent calendar to orchestrate twenty-four days of horror. But here’s the thing — Zurvan wasn’t invented for the book. He’s real. And his worshippers celebrated him on December 24th. And the real mythology is stranger than the fiction.
Scientists Can’t Explain Why Transplant Patients Inherit Their Donor’s Personalities
Hollywood has made horror movies about transplant recipients inheriting the personalities of their donors for decades — but real transplant patients are reporting the same thing, and scientists can’t explain why.
True Thanksgiving Horrors: Unsolved Murders, Cold Case Crimes & Mysterious Disappearances
Three young brothers vanish from their father’s backyard on Thanksgiving Day, a hijacker parachutes into the night with $200,000 and is never seen again, and a grandfather’s ghost story leads to the discovery of a 200-year-old mass murder — these are just some of the chilling mysteries that have turned America’s day of gratitude into something far more sinister. From unsolved killings and baffling disappearances to haunted hotels and tragic shipwrecks, this episode explores the dark side of Thanksgiving that most families never discuss at the dinner table.