Sam shares a story about a desperately lonely teenage girl who unwittingly invites evil into her family’s home. This is the chilling tale of the Beckford Family Haunting — what they endured through the spring of 1974, and how America’s favorite demonologist duo, Ed & Lorraine Warren, helped defeat the demons.

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Sam’s Sources:

• Types of Demonic Influence in the World – AIHCP
• Curious About Demonic Possession and Exorcism? 7 Things to Know – The Columbus Dispatch
• The Warren Files Podcast – Case File 1: The Beckford Haunting
• Mombies: A Horror Podcast – Episode 72: The Beckford Family Haunting

For spooky October, Jeff tells the story of the Ed Gein, The Butcher of Plainfield. Gein is known for his gruesome crimes in the 1950s, which included the murder of two women and exhumation of corpses of local cemeteries.

Some of his disturbing practices include using human skin and body parts to create clothing and household items. Gein's crimes shocked and horrified the nation but they also inspired Norman Bates in the 1960 movie Psycho, Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. Find out why Ed Gein is a notorious figure in American true crime history.

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Sources:
📘 Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original “Psycho” by Harold Schechter (1989)
📰 Augusta Gein – Hanneman Archive
📖 Ed Gein – Wikipedia

Jeff and Sam have an ADHD conversation and catch up.

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