Sinister Sightings - EP394

Donna takes us to Cold War Leningrad to meet Nina Kulagina, a WWII veteran and housewife who Soviet scientists claimed could spin a compass, float a ping-pong ball, and stop a frog’s heart using nothing but her mind. Was she the real deal, a skilled trickster, or a propaganda weapon in the psychic arms race? Kerri heads to Deer Park, Ohio, where a beloved former homecoming king, Troy Temar, was found in the trunk of a burning Mustang on the Fourth of July, 1999. The case went cold for six years, until investigators took a closer look at his ex, Theresa Voss, and the alibi that just didn’t add up. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at [email protected] Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Sinister Sightings, we're starting with a familiar Creeper who's back with more stories from a trailer that apparently came with a few unwanted roommates. We've got a haunted childhood home where something liked to mimic voices, a sweet little sign from a loved one on the other side, and a missing donut mystery that takes a hilarious turn. Plus, a few updates from past stories and a creepy little coincidence! Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio: gstrmstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kerri takes us to Anchorage, Alaska, where 20-year-old Jael Hamblen, a young mom with a baby boy, came back from a regular dinner out with her roommate in October 2014. More than a decade later, Jael is still missing. Donna heads to the woods outside Gurdon, Arkansas, where for almost a hundred years people have seen a strange light bobbing over the railroad tracks. If you have any information about Jael Hamblen’s disappearance, please contact the Anchorage Police Department at (907) 786-8900 (case #14-42656) or Anchorage Crime Stoppers at 561-STOP. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at [email protected] Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Sinister Sightings has us wondering if the people we’ve lost ever really leave us. A black dog, a perfectly timed cardinal, and a solar light that suddenly comes to life may be signs from someone on the other side. Then, a sleepwalker keeps waking up dangerously close to the staircase, a haunted family home comes with footsteps, voices from the closet, and mysteriously disappearing holy water, and two listeners share beautiful reminders that the people we love might still find ways to let us know they’re near. Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio: gstrmstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab your apples, your candles, and your hand mirror because this week Donna is digging into the old-school Halloween fortune-telling traditions people swore could reveal who you’d marry, whether you’d make it to next year, and what was waiting for you in the dark. Kerri takes us to Prohibition-era Cincinnati for the story of George Remus, a lawyer turned bootlegger who built a whiskey empire so lavish people still whisper that he inspired The Great Gatsby. But while George was behind bars, his wife Imogene was making some moves of her own, and by the fall of 1927, their marriage would end in a public park in a way nobody in Cincinnati would ever forget. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Head to ww.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off. BetterHelp works with more than 125 health plan networks, and eligible members have an average copay of just $23 per session with insurance. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories!Email us at [email protected] The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcastEdited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when two kids, years apart, see the exact same “old man” in their home? This week’s Sinister Sightings brings us a possible guardian angel, a woman in white who multiple people swear they saw, a house where objects seem to move on their own, and a terrifying shadow figure that appeared in a dream just hours before a family emergency. Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio: gstrmstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kerri takes us to Indianapolis, 1977, where a man walked into a mortgage office with a sawed-off shotgun and a grudge. Tony Kiritsis was convinced mortgage broker Dick Hall had cheated him out of his land, so he took Hall hostage with a “dead man’s wire,” a shotgun wired straight to the back of Hall’s head. Donna heads to Staten Island to a gorgeous Victorian mansion with a very ugly history. Kreischer Mansion was built as a wedding gift by a wealthy brick-maker, but tragedy moved in almost as fast as the family did. Generations later, the house became the scene of something even darker, and the people who’ve spent time inside swear it never really emptied out. This episode is sponsored by Uresta. Head to www.uresta.com to stop bladder leaks today! If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at [email protected] Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Sinister Sightings has messages from the other side, a childhood crime that involves a very determined neighbor and a getaway bike, and a tiny sign from a lost loved one that showed up exactly when it was needed. We’ve got a medium delivering a message she shouldn’t have known, dreams that may be more than dreams, a five-year-old getting fingerprinted by police, and one little dime that means absolutely everything. Creep it real, and don’t get scared! Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio: gstrmstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna takes us to Cokeville, Wyoming, in 1986, where a man walked into an elementary school with a homemade bomb and took nearly 150 kids and teachers hostage. When that bomb went off, the outcome made no sense on paper. Kerri brings us to postwar Tokyo and the story of Miyuki Ishikawa, a respected midwife trusted with the most vulnerable babies in the city. What was actually happening inside her maternity home is one of the darkest cases Kerri has ever covered. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at [email protected] Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Sinister Sightings is packed with creepy listener stories, paranormal experiences, and one story that goes completely off the rails. We’re heading to the allegedly haunted Road to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolina, where an abandoned tunnel and a broken government promise have helped create one of the eeriest spots in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then, one listener shares emotional visits from deceased family members through incredibly vivid dreams, while another takes us back to a childhood camping trip that turned into a nightmare. And then… there’s Frank. A creepy stranger, a mysterious locked shed, a little pink teddy bear, and a summer job making homemade concrete blocks that gets more horrifying with every single detail. Ghost stories, haunted places, creepy encounters, and horrifying listener tales, just another week of Sinister Sightings. Creep it real, and don’t get too scared. 👻 Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio: gstrmstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices