Supernatural with Ashley Flowers

Special Announcement!

July 06, 2022 07:01 - 1 minute

We’re dropping into the feed today to share incredibly exciting news AND an invitation for you. Ashley Flowers and Max Cutler are holding a special event to celebrate the release of their books! It’s happening July 13th, and you can join them virtually or in-person. Listen to this message from Max to hear all about it, then go to parcast.com/cults to register! And a huge bonus: Max is matching all ticket sales up to $125,000 in a donation to Season of Justice, the nonprofit dedicated to helpi...

Introducing: Scotland Yard Confidential

May 19, 2022 07:01 - 6 minutes

Parcast’s newest show takes you into the minds of history’s greatest detectives during the biggest cases of their careers. Every week, follow in their footsteps as they hunt down suspects and solve “perfect” crimes. Scotland Yard Confidential is produced in partnership with Noiser. Start listening here, then follow Scotland Yard Confidential for new episodes every Thursday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MYSTICAL: Lincoln’s Ghost

March 02, 2022 08:01 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MB

Throughout his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was reportedly plagued by strange premonitions and recurring nightmares. Some say they were omens of his assassination. And in the aftermath of his death, Lincoln has been seen haunting the White House and elsewhere.

ALIEN: The Abduction of Betty & Barney Hill

February 23, 2022 08:01 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

A weekend road trip ends bizarrely for a New Hampshire couple after they return home with a two-hour gap in their memories. Then the nightmares begin.

CATFISHING: The Ghost of Easterville

February 16, 2022 08:01 - 43 minutes

In the fall of 2011, a 17-year-old model struck up an online relationship with NBA player Chris “Birdman” Andersen. But someone else was pulling the strings of their ill-fated romance. This is our last crossover episode from the Crimes of Passion Valentine’s special. Follow Crimes of Passion for new episodes every week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CATFISHING: The Facebook Murders

February 09, 2022 08:01 - 50 minutes

When Jenelle Potter's crush, Billy Payne, started dating another woman, she used Facebook to spread rumors about the couple. But when a CIA agent contacted her parents, informing them that Payne was a threat to Jenelle's life, they took matters into their own hands. This is episode 2 of a special Valentine’s crossover from Crimes of Passion, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CATFISHING: The Talhotblond Case

February 02, 2022 08:01 - 49 minutes

Listeners, we’re excited to bring you a special crossover from Crimes of Passion, a true crime podcast from Parcast Network! In this episode: An online love triangle between 18-year-old Tommy, 17-year-old Jessi, and 22-year-old Brian turned tragic when their romantic fantasy world collided with their harsh realities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

HAUNTED: The Amityville House

January 26, 2022 08:01 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MB

Competing narratives and fictionalized accounts make it hard to say what exactly happened in the house at 112 Ocean Avenue after the Lutz family moved in. Maybe the Amityville house truly was haunted — after all, it was the site of a near-complete family annihilation. But what if what happened to the Lutzes had nothing to do with the house at all?

THE UNKNOWN: The Electric Girl

January 19, 2022 08:01 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB

Angélique Cottin was not your typical 19th-century French teenager. For one, she could make huge objects move with the faintest touch. And despite being observed by doctors and scientists across France, no one could conclude anything more than that it had something to do with electricity.

MYSTICAL: The Lady in Blue

January 12, 2022 08:01 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

As a cloistered nun in the 17th century, Maria never left her convent in Spain. But through some miracle, she appeared repeatedly in the American Southwest to spread her religion. Believers said it was bilocation — the ability to be in two places at once. Others feared it was a hoax, or worse: the work of the devil.

MYSTICAL: The Lady in Blue

January 12, 2022 08:01 - 32 minutes

As a cloistered nun in the 17th century, Maria never left her convent in Spain. But through some miracle, she appeared repeatedly in the American Southwest to spread her religion. Believers said it was bilocation — the ability to be in two places at once. Others feared it was a hoax, or worse: the work of the devil. To view this episode’s full list of sources, please visit parcast.com/supernatural Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THE UNKNOWN: Werewolves

January 05, 2022 08:01 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MB

Werewolves have been terrorizing our collective psyche for millennia. Can we still separate the men from the monsters from the myths?

Best of 2021: At the Seance

December 28, 2021 08:01 - 43 minutes

As we look ahead to the new year, we want to take one last chance to say thank you for the year that was — and present our "Best of 2021"! Please enjoy this episode from Mediums, one of our favorite new shows of this year, where we take you straight into the heart of a 19th-century seance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“The Christmas Rapture” from Cults

December 21, 2021 08:01 - 43 minutes

On Christmas Eve nearly seventy years ago, Dorothy Martin and the Seekers stood outside in Chicago and sang carols. They were waiting for a spacecraft that would shepherd them away from Earth — and the impending apocalypse. In this Christmas Special from Cults, join us for a look into a doomsday cult awaiting deliverance. And if you like this episode, follow Cults — a Spotify Original from Parcast — for more chilling insights every week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices....

MYSTICAL: The Comte de Saint Germain

December 15, 2021 08:01 - 26 minutes - 25.1 MB

In the 18th century, an alchemist and philosopher became something of an international celebrity, rubbing elbows with royalty, predicting violent revolutions, and allegedly unlocking the secret to eternal life. Who really was Count St. Germain?

ALIEN: Ancient Aliens

December 08, 2021 08:01 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

Fragments of a map from the 1500s sparked a theory that’s been going strong for decades. It holds that extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, gifting humans with advanced tech far beyond our means. Today we investigate the mysteries that make aliens seem almost plausible.

DISAPPEARED: Granger Taylor

December 01, 2021 08:01 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

A 32-year-old resident of Vancouver Island vanishes in November 1980, leaving behind a note that says he’s heading off on an adventure. But Granger Taylor is not your regular voyager. He’s a mechanical genius who’s built a life-size replica of a flying saucer. And he’s heading to space — with the help of aliens.

ALIEN: Zigmund Adamski

November 24, 2021 08:01 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MB

In June 1980, police officer Alan Godfrey investigated the strange death of Zigmund Adamski. While his superiors eventually ruled the death an accident, it bore all the hallmarks of an alien abduction.

HAUNTED: The Great Amherst Mystery

November 17, 2021 08:01 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB

When strange and terrifying events start happening around 18-year-old Esther Cox, locals blame electricity… then ghosts.

THE UNKNOWN: Time Travel

November 10, 2021 08:01 - 32 minutes - 30 MB

Time travel seems to be firmly in the realm of science fiction, and yet history is filled with alleged cases — from a traveler who broke the internet, to an Italian priest peering into the past.

MYSTICAL: Wolf Messing

November 03, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB

Born in Poland in 1899, Wolf Messing could reportedly read minds, control people's thoughts, and tell the future. But he wasn't any ordinary psychic. When he met Joseph Stalin in 1940, his powers might've become weapons of war.

HAUNTED: The Bell Witch

October 27, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

In 1817, the Bell family noticed strange noises in their log cabin in Red River, Tennessee. For the next four years, they’re tormented by an invisible being. Hundreds of people come to see the infamous Bell Witch… but none of them could stop her when her harassment turned homicidal.

MYSTICAL: The Red Barn Murder

October 20, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MB

When Maria Marten disappears in 1827, her stepmother begins having unsettling visions. She dreams that Maria is dead, and buried in a nearby barn.

THE UNKNOWN: The Flatwoods Monster

October 13, 2021 07:01 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

In 1952, a small group of people in Flatwoods, West Virginia ventured into the dark to find a downed UFO. They came across a strange aircraft… piloted by a monster.

ALIEN: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

October 06, 2021 07:01 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MB

In December 1980, just outside of London, several members of the U.S. Air Force spotted an indescribable craft in the forest. But this wasn't an ordinary sighting. It communicated with one of the officers — and offered an explanation about UFOs that completely turns the concept on its head.

THE UNKNOWN: Robert Johnson and the Devil

September 29, 2021 07:01 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MB

In the 1930s, Robert Johnson broke barriers in the American South to become the king of Delta blues. His music is legendary. But his journey from flop to fame? Downright otherworldly. At least, if you believe the stories that he made a deal with the devil…

MYSTICAL: Bridey Murphy

September 22, 2021 07:01 - 26 minutes - 24.8 MB

When a housewife in the U.S. undergoes hypnosis in 1952, she recalls detailed memories of a past life in 19th-century Ireland.

CONSPIRACY: Bob Lazar

September 15, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MB

In 1989, Bob Lazar joined a top secret project out of Area 51 — supposedly reverse engineering alien technologies. When he was threatened to stay silent about his work, Bob took the opposite approach, blowing the whistle on the government's knowledge about UFOs. Today, he's still paying the price.

HAUNTED: The Winchester Mystery House

September 08, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

This odd 24,000-square-foot Victorian mansion boasts winding staircases that lead to nowhere, windows built into the floors, and doors that open to 13-foot drops. But the oddest thing about this structure is who Sarah Winchester may have built it for.

THE UNKNOWN: Gef the Talking Mongoose

September 01, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 27.8 MB

In 1931, the Irving family started hearing the pitter patter of a rodent living behind their walls. Three months later, that animal starts to talk. He tells them he’s a mongoose and his name is Gef.

CONSPIRACY: Philip Taylor Kramer

August 25, 2021 07:01 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MB

Rock star. Rocket scientist. Computer programmer. Philip Taylor Kramer seemed capable of doing everything. His mysterious disappearance in 1995 may be evidence that he invented a new technology that would shake the foundations of modern physics.

ALIEN: The Pascagoula Abduction

August 18, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

In 1973, fishing buddies Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker turned up terrified at the Pascagoula, Mississippi Sheriff's Station. Over years of hypnosis, interviews, and public ridicule, Charlie and Calvin convinced multiple experts that they had been abducted and probed by aliens.

DISAPPEARED: The Franklin Expedition

August 11, 2021 07:01 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MB

In 1845, the Franklin Expedition left London to chart the Northwest Passage. When Sir Franklin and his crew went missing, his wife turned to the psychic world for answers about his location. But she didn't anticipate those answers coming from the ghost of a child...

THE UNKNOWN: Sleep Paralysis

August 04, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB

In the terrifying, mysterious experience known as sleep paralysis, people wake up to find their bodies completely paralyzed. They are frozen in place, unable to do anything but watch and listen as they are assaulted by nightmarish, shadowy demons.

CONSPIRACY: The Chupacabra

July 28, 2021 07:01 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB

After a wave of animal murders terrorized Puerto Rican farms in 1995, locals banded together to hunt a beast they called the Chupacabra. Some called it a genetic experiment. Others swore it was an alien. But whatever it was, the Chupacabra would soon take its reign of terror across the entire world.

Introducing: Deathbed Confessions

July 26, 2021 07:01 - 10 minutes

Imagine living with a secret so big, if anyone were to find out, it would change everything. From love affairs and fake identities to heists and murder — do you think you could take a secret like that to the grave? Discover the most explosive things people have admitted to just moments before the end in the new Spotify Original from Parcast, Deathbed Confessions. Listen to an exclusive clip from the first episode right here, then search and follow “Deathbed Confessions” to hear more. New epis...

MYSTICAL: The Fountain of Youth

July 21, 2021 07:01 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

Explorer Juan Ponce de León made the quest for the Fountain of Youth what we know it as today, but it's possible that he was searching for something much larger than simply water that turns back time…

THE UNKNOWN: Charles Hatfield, Rainmaker

July 14, 2021 07:01 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

Over a hundred years ago, the city of San Diego hired a rainmaker. His fee was huge, his methods were chemical, and he promised rain — then delivered a deluge. Against all odds, Charles Hatfield’s experiments prefaced the worst flooding in that region’s history.

MYSTICAL: The Fox Sisters

July 07, 2021 07:01 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MB

In the spring of 1848, the Fox sisters heard the chilling sounds of rapping and thumping on their walls. When the noise wouldn't stop, the girls started rapping back. Soon after that, they started speaking to the dead.

CONSPIRACY: Valiant Thor

June 30, 2021 07:01 - 37 minutes - 35 MB

In 1957, an extraterrestrial named Valiant Thor allegedly landed outside of Washington D.C. demanding to speak with President Eisenhower. For the next three years he lived inside the Pentagon working with top scientists and government officials. But his mission has not been completed...

ALIEN: Tic Tac, GoFast, and Gimbal

June 23, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MB

Navy pilots stationed in the Pacific Ocean saw something inexplicable in November 2004. Eleven years later, a different crew saw the same unidentified phenomenon. The U.S. government has confirmed that leaked tapes of the encounters are real… But what exactly are we looking at?

HAUNTED: The Possession of “Julia”

June 16, 2021 07:01 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

In the early 1980s, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Gallagher worked with the Catholic Church to monitor the mental health of people seeking exorcisms. The doctor turned from a rational skeptic to a true believer when he met Julia, a self-proclaimed Queen of Satanism.

Introducing: International Infamy

June 15, 2021 07:01 - 14 minutes

Ashley Flowers explores 15 of the world’s worst crimes in the new Spotify Original from Parcast, International Infamy. The first episode takes you to Mexico and the true story of Juana Barraza — a pro wrestler who became a serial killer known as the “Little Old Lady Killer.” Listen to an exclusive clip right here, then follow International Infamy for the full episode. New episodes every Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MYSTICAL: Nostradamus

June 09, 2021 07:01 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MB

When tragedies occur, the world often points to Nostradamus as a soothsayer of grim times, but both his legacy and his predictions are a bit more complicated than history has let on...

THE UNKNOWN: Mothman

June 02, 2021 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

In the 1960s a half-bird, half-man creature terrorized the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. But it didn't come alone... The Mothman's appearance triggered UFO activity, a vicious Men in Black presence and terrifying premonitions of a catastrophic event. One that ended up costing 46 people their lives.

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