The Darker Side of Life Podcast

They come a-knockin' when you least expect it. You open your door to find kids standing on your doorstep or maybe they'r... Read more

It was a prison on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. It held those who couldn't be held in other prisons... Read more

He had a hook for a hand. The call is coming from inside the house. Bloody Mary. Everyone grew up hearing urban legends.... Read more

Happy New Year, listeners! What better way to jump into 2020 than to hear about the story of the Tromp family of Austral... Read more

Daniel LaPlante's crimes ran the gamut around towns in Massachusetts in the 1980s. Ranging from bizarre to horrifying, L... Read more

It first happened in 1959, when a group of Russian hikers died under mysterious circumstances. Few people know that it h... Read more

Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? We've been asking that same question 76 years after a group of boys from the skeletonized... Read more

It all started out seemingly well. A man named Jim Jones formed a church with progressive ideas of desegregation, helpin... Read more

It all started as a normal day on the Bell farm. But when John Bell shot at a creature in one of his fields, things star... Read more

The nation was shocked when the body of a woman was found on a farm in the small town of Fort Thomas, Kentucky on Februa... Read more

If you think what happened in Hungary was bad, wait until you hear this. In Renaissance Italy, Giulia Tofana was ultimat... Read more

Early 1900s Nagyrev, Hungary, was a time of struggle for the women who lived there. Poverty was rampant, children were b... Read more

The plan to rob the bank was a simple one - go in, steal the cash, hurt no one and escape via the getaway car parked str... Read more

In 2003 and 2004, Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing in separate incidents in a Southwest Florida city. It... Read more

The Darker Side of Life brings you a special kind of episode this week with not one, but two stories. In episode 4, Dana... Read more

Sixty years ago, nine hikers embarked on a winter trek in the far northern Ural mountains in soviet Russia. They never r... Read more

It's an act mostly unheard of today, but was once a more common practice. While the notion of eating another human disgu... Read more

It was the OG of witch hunts in what would become the United States. Between January and October of 1692, hundreds of co... Read more

Lets get spooky. Come take a tour with us of what is thought to be one of the most haunted places in the United States: ... Read more

In 1959, nine hikers were found dead in the Ural Mountains in Russia after they failed to return from their trek. We're ... Read more