Episode 4060: Dark Enigma - The Lake Bodom Murders – A Mysterious Mystery if There Ever Was

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries and all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well, we have another listener suggestion and I loved this one, they just said do a story in Europe, so it’s a story in Europe in fact we’re on our way to Finland!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Gustafsson that will be a single shot and every time I say and you’re going to love it, but every time I say Assman, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so don your warmest arctic wear, grab your hockey gear and beware of the Reindeer as we head to Finland and today’s story The Lake Bodom Murders – A Mysterious Mystery if There Ever Was

On a warm summer night in 1960, on the shores of a tranquil lake in Finland a group of teenagers were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant and the case has remained unsolved to this day. They were hacked to death while they slept in their tent, in an attack so frenzied and horrifying, it is said to have inspired the famous Friday the 13th movies. Join me as we explore this unsolved case and delve into the mysteries that surround the Slaughter at Lake Bodom…

Lake Bodom is a little over 12 miles from the Finnish capital of Helsinki, near the town of Espoo. And on the night of June 4, 1960, it's where two teenage couples — Nils Gustafsson, 18; Irmeli Björklund, 15; Seppo Boisman, 18; and Tuulikki Mäki, 15 — set up tents to camp out and enjoy the pristine wilderness. It was only a year since the murders that happened in the Tulilahti camping area, so the parents of the girls weren’t exactly thrilled to let their daughters go on the trip, but they let them go last minute. They rode their motorcycles to the lake’s bay and set up camp. They then pitched their tent near the local beach, where they spent the rest of the evening drinking, talking, and barbecuing before retiring for the night around midnight. The boys claim to have woken up a few hours after falling asleep and went fishing for a short while and returned to sleep.  But between the hours of 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., the teenagers were attacked.