THE SINISTER PAST

In the small hours of a September morning in 1889, a constable's lantern found a woman's torso hidden under a railway arch in Whitechapel — headless, legless, and eerily similar to something London had already seen...

London, 1837-1904. For nearly seventy years, witnesses across England report attacks by a tall, thin figure who breathes blue fire, has clawed hands, and can leap over walls and buildings in a single bound. Police...

Mexico City. A man finds the body of a drowned girl in the canal near his island. Haunted by her presence, he begins hanging dolls from the trees — hundreds of them, over fifty years. He tells visitors the dolls are...

Bavaria, March 1922. A farmer notices footprints in the snow leading to his isolated farmstead — but none leading away. Days later, all six members of the household are found dead, killed one by one with a mattock. The...

Key West, 1930s. A German radiologic technician becomes fixated on a young tuberculosis patient who never returns his affection. When she dies, he visits her tomb nightly for two years — then steals her body and lives...

Boston, January 15, 1919. A poorly built, rushed storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapses without warning, sending a wave up to 25 feet high through the streets of the North End at 35 miles per...

Adams, Tennessee, 1817–1821. A frontier family is terrorized for four years by an invisible entity that speaks, sings, quotes scripture, and ultimately claims credit for a man's death — the only case in American history...

Los Angeles, 1927–present. A downtown hotel that has hosted at least two serial killers, an unconfirmed brush with the Black Dahlia murder, decades of suicides, and one disappearance — Elisa Lam, 2013 — that defies...

Manchuria, 1936–1945. A covert Japanese military unit built a secret research complex disguised as a water purification bureau — and used it to conduct years of human experimentation on thousands of prisoners. In this...

Ural Mountains, February 1959. Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent from the inside and flee barefoot into a blizzard at thirty degrees below zero. They never come back. In this episode, we...

New Orleans, March 1919. Newspapers publish a letter from an unidentified killer: he will strike again on a specific night, at a specific hour — but he'll spare any home playing jazz. That night, the entire city played...

Louisville, Kentucky. A 525-foot tunnel drops from a hospital's basement straight into a hillside, built for one grim purpose: moving the dead out of sight so the living wouldn't lose hope. In this episode, we explore...

Kansas, 1873. A search party finds a trapdoor nailed shut beneath a bed, and underneath it, a pit soaked black with blood. The family who lived there — and ran an inn for two years — is already gone. In this episode, we...

July 1518. A woman steps into a Strasbourg street and begins to dance. She does not stop — not that day, not the next. Within a month, four hundred people have joined her, and the city's own physicians make it...

Winter, 1610. Armed men storm a Hungarian castle in the dead of night, torches raised against the dark. What they find inside — sworn to under oath — will make one noblewoman's name synonymous with horror for the next...