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Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) Join to get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and much more! TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses sexual abuse, physical violence, and torture. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to McKamey Manor, the so-called “haunted house” turned torture chamber that doesn’t believe in safe words. This isn’t your average Halloween attraction with rubber masks and jump scares. McKamey Manor is a real-life psychological nightmare, an "extreme haunt" where participants are bound, gagged, waterboarded, shaved, abused, assaulted, and buried alive, all for the false promise of a $20,000 prize. Founded by Russ McKamey, a sadistic showman with a camera and a God complex, the Manor isn’t about fear for fun; it’s about control, humiliation, and pain. What masquerades as thrill-seeking quickly devolves into torture porn, all under the guise of consent. In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the most disturbing “entertainment experiences” ever created, the cult-like following that has amassed, the twisted mind behind it, and the shattered participants left in its wake. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! (www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod) If you join, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater He looks innocent at first: small, inanimate, chubby-cheeked and wide-eyed. But Harold is anything but innocent. His soft, lifelike features conceal a darkness that has left families terrified and shattered, some suffering lingering illnesses and others marked by the tragedy of death. In this episode, we delve into Harold’s questionable past, the legends surrounding his origins, and the chilling encounters that have made him infamous. Please listen with caution: as some say the longer you are exposed to Harold, the more likely you are to fall victim to his wrath... To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Candiace Dillard Bassett (Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac) and Michael Arceneaux (New York Times best-selling author and culture critic) have thoughts…and on Undomesticated, they’re sharing all of them. Think of it like the group chat you wish you were in - brutally honest, funny, smart, and gloriously unfiltered. From viral TikTok drama to the celebrity news everyone’s talking about (and the ones they should be), Candiace and Michael are here to talk their talk, crack you up, and keep it 100…with just the right amount of petty. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please consider supporting the show on Patreon! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod If you join, you'll get AD FREE episodes, merch discounts, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod In the late 1500s in the village of Bedburg, Germany, children, women, and in many cases pregnant mothers and their unborn babies were found slaughtered and partially eaten, leaving a trail of terror across the autumn-stained countryside. Rumors claimed that a farmer named Peter Stumpp had transformed into a bloodthirsty werewolf who prowled the woods with his inhuman strength, leaving villagers in fear for their lives for decades. In December 1589, Peter was finally captured, tortured, and forced to confess to horrific crimes that blended the supernatural with the utterly grotesque. In this episode, we explore lycanthropy, Peter's chilling confessions, his barbaric trial, and the eerie folklore that has haunted this small German village for centuries. Aaaaaaooooo!!! 🐺 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of Spookypedia! Let's hang out on Patreon! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod If you join, you'll get merch discounts, ad free episodes, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and the opportunity to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Step inside the shadowed halls of history’s most infamous psychiatric institutions, where the echoes of those once cruelly branded as "inmates" still haunt the corridors long after their bodies have vanished. From the clanging of barred doors to the whispers of those who were silenced by cruel treatments, these facilities were meant to heal — but very often harmed, tortured, and killed instead. In this episode, we explore haunted wards, ghostly sightings, and the horrifying realities behind the stories - including lobotomies, electroshock, human experimentation, restraint, and neglect. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get merch discounts, ad free episodes, exclusive content, BTS, private group chats, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Trigger Warning: This case contains discussion of child sexual abuse. On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, investigators walked into a scene that could have been ripped from a horror film. Inside the sacristy of Toledo’s Mercy Hospital chapel lay the body of 71-year-old Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, sprawled across the cold floor. She had been strangled and stabbed repeatedly in the chest and neck, the wounds arranged in the shape of a cross. In a grotesque act of desecration, Sister Margaret Ann was sexually assaulted with a crucifix, and her blood was collected in a golden chalice. The man accused of this atrocity was not a faceless predator, but a priest named Father Gerald Robinson. What followed was a case that touched on satanic ritual, sexual violence, homicide, institutional coverups, and whispers of a cult operating in the shadows comprised of priests, nuns, doctors, and even parents, all accused of committing unspeakable acts of cruelty. Please listen with caution. Revisit Episode 1: Meet Me At The Slaughter House (Apple) (Spotify) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated series. Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test your Springfield IQ. Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there! Perhaps some scenes that almost never aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U Entertainment. Follow now to get new episodes first — and drop your wildest Simpsons’ theory in a review for a chance to be featured on our uniquely unique podcast, Simpsons Declassified. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Robert Leroy Anderson, infamously known as “The Duct Tape Killer,” was a sexual sadist and murderer whose heinous crimes shocked the Midwest during the 1980s. Anderson kidnapped unsuspecting women, subjected them to brutal torture on a homemade “bondage board,” and ultimately bound and murdered them with duct tape. His horrific acts were fueled by a pathological need for domination and sadistic gratification, blending erotic desire with lethal aggression. This case is both graphic and devastating, so please listen with caution! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Part 2 of this horrific case delves even deeper into depravity. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, infamously known as The Snuff Film Killers and one of the most sadistic serial-killing duos in history, claimed between 11 and 25 lives. In at least two cases, they annihilated entire families, deliberately keeping women alive longer to serve as sex slaves in their underground “doomsday” bunker in California. Much of their atrocities were captured on tape, as the killers were keen to document their own twisted acts of cruelty and violence. This episode explores the complex psychologies of both perpetrators, as well as the dynamics of serial-killing teams. It is dark and profoundly disturbing — listener discretion is advised. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the face of death, most would run. It’s human nature to flee, to cling to life. But on September 11, 2001, amidst the chaos of the crumbling South Tower, Welles Remy Crowther did the unthinkable as smoke choked the air, flames licked his skin, and the ground shook beneath him: he repeatedly charged back into the inferno to save others. Fueled by a force fear can’t touch, Welles guided the lost, comforted the wounded, and led the terrified to safety. Every step could have been his last, and he knew this. Yet Welles never wavered. NEVER. And in those impossible moments, he saved 18 lives. The man who faced death without flinching, who stood as a beacon of courage and selflessness in the darkest of times, was indeed The Man in the Red Bandana. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Tank Sinatra Instagram + TikTok: @tanksinatra To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join our Patreon family! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod You'll get ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! Few things are rarer, or more terrifying, than a serial-killing duo. And among them, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng (aka The Snuff Film Killers) stand out as one of the most sadistic partnerships in criminal history. In 1983, Leonard built a secret bunker in the hills of California to imprison women as sex slaves and record his twisted “philosophy tape,” which began as a doomsday/survivalist manifesto and eventually spiraled into videotaped kidnappings, assaults, and murders. Alongside fugitive ex-Marine Charles Ng, Leonard Lake unleashed a reign of terror that claimed between 11 and 25 lives, including men, women, and children - some of whose final moments were immortalized on tape. Part 1 of our two-part coverage of The Snuff Film Killers lays the foundation for the nightmare to come, and unpacks the origins, obsessions, and twisted partnership that set the stage for their reign of terror. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod Welcome to the first episode of Sadistic September. PLEASE LISTEN WITH CAUTION. This case is often described as one of the most sadistic murders in modern UK history. It’s the story of Suzanne Capper, a beautiful 16-year-old girl whose final week on earth was transformed into a living nightmare by six predators who took tremendous joy in inflicting the most horrific forms of torture, degradation, and humilation imagineable. What they inflicted on Suzanne in December 1992 was not "just" physical violence and psychological torment — it was cruelty ritualized. Listener discretion is not just advised, it's essential. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod Revisit Episode 13: Hell Is A Place In Tokyo (Apple) (Spotify) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Subscribe to Psychopedia to stay up to date on the depravity. For early access to all Girl On Gore episodes and for access to AD FREE true crime content: www.patreon.com/PsychopediaPod IG and TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to Psychopedia to stay on top of all new content! Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod She doesn’t blink. She doesn’t breathe. She doesn’t need to. Annabelle just waits....a child’s doll with a stitched-on smile wrapped around something patient, ancient, and hungry. For decades, she’s left behind claw marks, bruises, nightmares that crawl out of dreams and into daylight. She’s been blamed for fires, crashes, even death — including the shocking recent passing of investigator Dan Rivera, a man who respected her power more than anyone else. And yet...she’s still touring the country, out of her case, on display for anyone reckless enough to get too close. This isn’t just a haunted doll, it’s a warning. A reminder that some dark energies demand respect — and if you don’t give it, they’ll take it. Revisit EP94: World's Most Haunted Doll Apple Spotify Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Please SUBSCRIBE to Psychopedia to stay on top of all new content, bonus episodes, and Investigator Slater’s podcast series, Girl On Gore! Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod In 2019, 28-year-old Brittany Zamora went from "Teacher Of The Year" to convicted pedophile when it was discovered that she had been sexually preying upon a 13-year-old child in her class. It began with inappropriate text exchanges in the school app, then advanced into full blown "sexting" in SnapChat, before escalaing into sexual assault and rape. Investigators discovered streams of communications that crossed every ethical, moral, legal, and HUMAN boundary. There was devastating evidence of secret meetups, sexual abuse, and a horrific betrayal of trust and power that played out right under the noses of students, administrators, parents, and even the perpetrator's husband. Because here’s an important point that often gets lost: when the predator is an attractive young woman and the victim is a boy, society tends to look right past it. As if it’s "scandal," not violence; as if it’s gossip, not trauma. But exploitation cuts the same, no matter the gender of the abuser. And the damage is real, and it lasts... Revisit Episode 79: It's Just As Bad When It's A Woman Spotify Apple Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Please SUBSCRIBE to Psychopedia to stay on top of all new content, bonus episodes, and Investigator Slater’s podcast series, Girl On Gore! Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive content, early access to Girl On Gore, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod What compels a man to slice off his own penis, leg, nipple, and ear…and then turn that compulsion into a business of butchering others who claimed to want the same fate? For Marius Gustavson, a Norwegian man in London, it began with self-castration. From there, his obsession metastasized into a full-blown operation whereby he performed extreme body modifications on dozens of vulnerable men. Marius filmed the mutilations and streamed them on a pay-per-view website, where he also sold severed genitalia to paying customers. His hunting ground was the “nullo” community, composed of individuals seeking genital removal as a radical form of body modification. Many struggled with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) and turned to Gustavson for help. Instead, they got mutilation, exploitation, and a predator who feasted on their vulnerability — sometimes literally - as Gustavson went on to cannibalize some of the very testicles he cut off. This case is almost too gruesome to believe. But, it isn’t just about mutilation: it’s about control, sadism, consent twisted into theater, and the terrifying lengths people will go to reshape themselves when the wrong hands hold the scalpel. Revisit Episode 128: R*pe Fantasy Control Killer: Spotify Apple Podcasts Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Please SUBSCRIBE to Psychopedia to stay on top of all new content, including my new podcast series, Girl On Gore! Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive bonus content, early access to Girl On Gore episodes, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the difficult topics of rape and child sexual abuse. Please listen with caution. In June 2005, in the quiet town of Benejúzar, Spain, 51-year-old María del Carmen García walked into a bar, canister of gasoline in hand, and doused a 63-year-old man standing at the counter. Then, she struck a match. Eleven days later, the man was dead from his injuries — and María was hailed as a hero by thousands. Because years earlier, that same man had raped Maria's 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint, and now she was delivering her own brand of justice. To some, María was considered a dangerous criminal guilty of first degree murder who crossed an unforgivable line by taking a human life. To others, she was a mother pushed past her breaking point, and an admirable vigilante stepping in where the system had failed. To this day, this shocking case remains one of Spain’s most fiercely debated examples of vigilantism and continues to force uncomfortable questions about the morality of vigilantism and when, or if, taking the law into your own hands is ever justified. Revisit Episode 12: Murder, Magic and Witchy Viagra here! Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Click SUBSCRIBE to stay on top of all new content - including my new podcast series, Girl On Gore! Join our Patreon family for ad free episodes, exclusive bonus content, early access to Girl On Gore episodes, BTS, private group chats, merch discounts, and to guest co-host with Investigator Slater! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod TRIGGER WARNING: Please note that this episode discusses the horrific crime of infanticide. She was supposed to care for and nurture new life, but instead, she delivered death. In post-war Tokyo, Miyuki Ishikawa—one of the most prolific serial killers in Japanese history—was a respected midwife, trusted by desperate mothers and overwhelmed families. But behind her professional smile lurked something incredibly depraved. Over the course of several years in the 1940s, Miyuki deliberately allowed over 100 infants in her "care" to die of neglect, starvation, and hypothermia. Then, she charged grieving parents for the privilege of secretly killing their babies. When the truth finally came out, Japan was horrified, and the case ignited legal reforms that still reverberate today. PLEASE LISTEN WITH CAUTION. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram + TikTok: @investigatorslater @psychopediapod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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