
HISTORY: The Egg War
HISTORY In the 1860s, eggs became so important to the diets of miners during the gold rush, collecting eggs from wild birds was a lucrative business. So lucrative that some people would kill for their claim to Farallon I


Hosted by Kompound · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 569 episodes
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This Is Monsters is a podcast that tells the stories of some of the worst people who exist in our world. Each season we will pick a new theme and hand pick stories within that theme that will make your blood run cold. Child killers, torturers, and family annihilators are just a few of the themes that we have lined up. WARNING: This podcast contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.
Kompound hosts This Is Monsters, a history show with 569 episodes published.

HISTORY In the 1860s, eggs became so important to the diets of miners during the gold rush, collecting eggs from wild birds was a lucrative business. So lucrative that some people would kill for their claim to Farallon I

Season 25 : Captive Episode 13 : Louise Monnier When Blanche Monnier planned to marry a man her powerful mother didn't approve of, she simply disappeared. 25 years later, she was found locked in the attic, clinging to li

Season 25 : Captive Episode 12 : John Jamelske When John Jamelske was finally caught in 2003, it turned out that three other women had reported his crimes. Unfortunately, those women weren't believed allowing a predator

HISTORY While trying to choose a leader for South Korea after the end of World War II, one group of citizens began protesting the general election. Those people were largely concentrated on Jeju Island, which became the

Season 25 : Captive Episode 11 : Franklin Delano Floyd When a woman named Tonya Hughes died from a hit and run, it wasn't long before they realized her identity was fake. It turned out that she was really a woman named S

History In this episode, we tell you the story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, in Marianna, Florida. The boys who went there were subjected to horrible conditions and severe abuse leading to many boys dying and

In 1988, while families were traveling for the holidays, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland. Everyone on board as well as 11 people on the ground died and soon Abdelbaset al-Megrahi w

Bonus This episode is not part of this season's theme and takes us throughout the US where Sherman McCrary & Carl Taylor robbed multiple small food shops, sexually assaulting and murdering the girls who worked there in t

UNSOLVED During a parade on July 22nd, 1916, in San Francisco, California, a bomb exploded, killing 10 people and wounding 40 more. Though two men were initially convicted, they were eventually pardoned and the bomber ha

Season 25 : Captive Episode 10 : Thomas Hose Tanya Kach was a troubled 13-year-old when she met Thomas Hose, the security guard at her school. When he started showing her attention, she thought he was the only person who

Season 25 : Captive Episode 09 : Jake Thomas Patterson Jayme Closs was a carefree 13-year-old, living a normal life in rural Wisconsin when Jake Patterson saw her on the road and decided she was going to be his girlfrien

HISTORY In this history episode, I tell you about the deadliest German pilot in World War I, Manfred von Richthofen, also known as The Red Baron. This is Monsters YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@thisisMONSTERS Check o

Season 25 : Captive Episode 08 : Alan Hopkinson Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless didn't have a care in the world when they walked to school on a cold January morning. That was, until they crossed paths with the child pr

Season 25 : Captive Episode 07 : Ming Sen Shiue Mary Stauffer had no reason to think there was any danger around her when she took her daughter for a haircut. Little did she know, a former student had become obsessed wit

HISTORY In this history lesson, I tell you about the Highland Clearances, where a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands were evicted from their homes from 1750 to 1860. This is Monsters YouT

Season 25 : Captive Episode 06 : Barry Keenan, Joe Amsler & Johnny Irwin Frank Sinatra Jr. was following in his fathers footsteps and singing at a casino in 1963. That was when three men decided to kidnap him for 54 hour

Season 25 : Captive Episode 05 : Ariel Castro When Amanda Berry escaped from a house in Cleveland in 2013, the police asked her if anyone was inside, thinking her kidnapper might be there. He wasn't, but she told them th

HISTORY Vlad the Impaler was one of the most brutal rulers in history. The stories of his reign went on to inspire the stories of Dracula. This is Monsters YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@thisisMONSTERS Check out our

Season 25 : Captive Episode 04 : Clark Wiley When Clark Wiley was told by the doctor that his daughter had a learning disability, he decided she wasn't worth taking care of. That was why he locked her in a bedroom for 13

In this bonus episode, I tell you the story of Mac & Muff Graham, who sailed to a secluded island in the Pacific Ocean for a relaxing getaway, only to be the victims of a greedy man named Duane Buck Walker. This is Monst
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