Halloween Special (part II)

In Part 2, we take you through the doors of Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and explain what awaited political prisoners inside one of the GDR's most notorious prisons. We're talking windowless transport vans, solitary confinement, psychological tricks, wallpapers, house slippers and interrogators who knew way too much about the people sitting across from them. Keywords: Stasi, Hohenschönhausen, East Germany, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, Bernauer Straße, Cold War, political prisoners, Stasi prison, Stasi interrogation, psychological torture, Erich Mielke, Vera Lengsfeld, East Berlin, German history, Häftlingsfreikauf, Stasi surveillance, German reunification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prison that didn't appear on public maps, where political prisoners would vanished behind its walls... This week, Annie and Johanna take you to Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, one of East Germany's most notorious prisons. We start in post-WWII Berlin, when the Soviet NKVD established Special Camp No. 3, and follow the site's history over the decades. From the infamous underground U-Boot prison to the detention and interrogation center run by the Stasi. Stasi, Hohenschönhausen, East Germany, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Soviet NKVD, political prisoners, East Berlin, German history, Soviet occupation, secret police, Stasi prison, true crime history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If your husband disappears for three days every week and claims he’s been a wolf, you should have questions. Spooky Fuckery Month continues with werewolf history, from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval folklore. werewolves, werewolf history, werewolf folklore, werewolf legends, lycanthropy, European folklore, werewolf trials, Peter Stumpp, Werewolf of Bedburg, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Bisclavret, King Lycaon, Greek mythology, full moon, silver bullets, The Wolf Man, An American Werewolf in London, Halloween podcast, spooky history, Fresh Hell Podcast, Bad Moon Rising Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Halloween night in 1957, Peter Fabiano was shot and killed at his front door in North Hollywood, California, after answering what he thought was another late-night trick-or-treater. His lasts words: “Isn't it a little late for this?” The murder of Peter Fabiano would become known as the Trick-or-Treat Murder, or the Halloween Murder, and it involved broken friendship, jealousy, beauty salons, and a carefully planned murder disguised as a Halloween visit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back on the Isle of Man for Part Two of Gef, the ridiculous little wall weasel. This week, people try to figure out what the hell is going on at Cashen's Gap. We have alleged Gef hair, footprints, photographs, zoologists, witnesses and investigators....spoiler alert: Gef is not impressed! Welcome back to Spooky Fuckery Month. Let's finish this fucking mongoose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spooky Fuckery Month is officially here! And we're kicking things off on the Isle of Man, where, in 1931, the Irving family began hearing strange noises coming from inside the walls of their isolated farmhouse. Meet Gef, the talking, swearing, gossiping, possibly supernatural mongoose who lives behind the walls, spies on the neighbors, sings songs, makes deeply questionable claims about himself and has a LOT of opinions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The plane had crashed. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper had been laid to rest. But the story of The Day the Music Died is far from over. In the fourth and final part of our series, we look at everything that came after February 1959: the investigation into the crash, the questions that lingered, the families and loved ones left behind, and the strange rumors and theories that started to spread around one of the most infamous tragedies in music history. Videos we watched while researching this episode: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjx3FvlD6c3pg67YiBvV4Lnav-BpaH4_M&si=s8tHFk4uQKjJk5qj Annie's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6weWg42qTGdvmbWZj5Rtfn?si=8Fqr3gIiQr6wxpgOn7uUyg&utm_source=copy-link&pi=QlxhIPRASOOm8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices