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Veil of EchoesThe Last Bite: 12 Final Meals on Death Row (Mini-Sode)Send us a textA single olive. Two pints of mint chip ice cream. A feast no one touched. And a slice of pecan pie “saved for later”…Tonight, we’re stepping out of the shadows of true crime and into the prison cafeteria for a special Veil of Echoes Mini-Sode: a deep dive into 12 of the strangest, saddest, and most unhinged last meals ever requested on death row.We explore the final plates of:John Wayne GacyAileen WuornosTimothy McVeighTed BundyVictor Feguer (the single oliv...
2025-11-2634 minVeil of EchoesEp. 20 — David Parker Ray: The Toy Box (Part II)Send us a textA barefoot woman. A locked metal collar. A broken chain dragging behind her in the dark. This is where David Parker Ray’s empire of terror finally began to unravel.In Part Two of our most chilling case yet, we follow the escape of survivor Cindy Vigil, the frantic 911 call, the police response, and the shocking discovery inside the trailer Ray called his Toy Box. What investigators found would ignite one of the most disturbing true crime cases in American history:Surgical toolsHand-built torture dev...
2025-11-2456 minVeil of EchoesEp. 19 - The Banshee: When the Veil WeepsSend us a textHer cry was never meant for the living. On the quiet edges of Ireland’s folklore, one voice has haunted bloodlines for generations— the voice of the Banshee.Tonight, we step into the mist, into the keening wail that has echoed across centuries, and into the encounters—ancient and modern— that leave families certain they were visited by something watching from beyond.In this cinematic deep dive, we explore: • The origins of the Banshee (Bean Sidhe — the Woman of the Fairy Mound) • How her form...
2025-11-2150 minVeil of EchoesEp. 18 - David Parker Ray: The Toy Box Killer (Part I) - The Devil in the DesertSend us a textFor decades, the deserts of New Mexico hid one of America’s most sadistic predators in plain sight. Behind the walls of a small, unmarked trailer… in a quiet lakeside town… David Parker Ray built a room designed for torture, control, and pure domination — a place his victims called the Toy Box.In Part I, we pull back the veil on David Parker Ray’s early life, the environment that shaped him, the disturbing signs everyone missed, and the women whose voices were dismissed again and again. And then… we f...
2025-11-1754 minVeil of EchoesEp. 17 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident - Part II: Theories from the ColdSend us a textNine hikers fled into the frozen night… but the truth didn’t flee with them.In Part II of The Dyatlov Pass Incident, we peel back the ice to examine every unsettling theory buried beneath the snow: avalanches, secret Soviet weaponry, radiation, extraterrestrial sightings, KGB involvement, paradoxical hypothermia, creature encounters, and the whispers that still haunt the Ural Mountains today.What chased them into the dark? What silenced them before they reached safety? And why has this case remained one of the most chilling myster...
2025-11-1454 minVeil of EchoesEp. 16 - The Butcher of British Columbia: The Willie Pickton CaseSend us a text“It sits at the end of a gravel road outside Port Coquitlam… a stretch of farmland that looked ordinary from the highway — until the truth clawed its way to the surface.”In this haunting deep dive, Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay pull back the curtain on one of Canada’s darkest chapters — the case of Robert “Willie” Pickton, the pig farmer who preyed upon Vancouver’s most vulnerable. From a childhood steeped in cruelty to the horrifying discoveries unearthed on his family farm, this episode explores how silence, neglect, and systemic failure allowed a m...
2025-11-101h 26Veil of EchoesEp. 15 -The Dyatlov Pass Incident — The Nine Who Vanished (Part I)Send us a textNine friends. One mountain. No return.In February 1959, nine hikers set out across Russia’s Ural Mountains on a winter expedition led by Igor Dyatlov. Weeks later, rescuers uncovered their tent — ripped open from the inside. Footprints led barefoot into the blizzard… and what they found in the snow defied all logic.In Part I — The Nine Who Vanished, Veil of Echoes unravels the haunting early days of the Dyatlov Pass expedition — from the hikers’ preparation and final diary entries to the discovery of their bodies and the mystery that froze the wo...
2025-11-0738 minVeil of EchoesEp. 14 - Maury Travis: The House of Tapes (The Street Walker Strangler of St. Louis)Send us a textIn 2002, detectives in Ferguson, Missouri, uncovered a nightmare hidden behind an ordinary smile. Maury Travis—a polite waiter, soft-spoken neighbor, and former college student—was living a double life. Down in his basement on 1001 Ford Drive, he built what investigators later called a house of tapes: a place where fear, control, and performance intertwined.Known to the press as “The Street Walker Strangler,” Travis targeted women along St. Louis’s streets and filmed their final moments. When he mailed a taunting letter to the St. Louis Po...
2025-11-0340 minVeil of EchoesEp. 13 - The Amityville Horror: The House That WatchesSend us a text🏚️ On November 13, 1974, the peaceful town of Amityville, New York, awoke to the unimaginable—six family members found murdered inside their home on Ocean Avenue. A year later, another family moved in… and claimed they weren’t alone.Was it madness? Possession? Or something far older than both?In this episode, Veil of Echoes descends into The Amityville Horror — a story where true crime bleeds into the paranormal, and the line between faith and fear vanishes. From the DeFeo murders to the haunting of the Lutz family, we unravel what really happened inside the house tha...
2025-10-3143 minVeil of EchoesHalloween Origins & True Crimes | The Night the Dead RememberSend us a textWhen the veil thins and the fire still burns, Halloween becomes more than costumes and candy—it becomes remembrance.In this Veil of Echoes Halloween Special, Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay travel back to the ancient fires of Samhain, uncover the forgotten rituals that shaped All Hallows’ Eve, and share the eerie folklore that still lingers in every carved pumpkin and flickering candlelight.But not all the night’s stories belong to ghosts. From The Candy Man’s poisoned Pixy Stix to the Napa...
2025-10-3151 minVeil of EchoesHalloween Treat Mini-Sode IV – Haunted Forests: Where the Dead Still WhisperSend us a textOur final October mini-episode takes you deep into the world’s most haunted forests — places where history, myth, and tragedy intertwine. From Japan’s Aokigahara to Germany’s Black Forest, we explore the legends, disappearances, and echoes that linger long after the footsteps fade.If the trees could speak… what would they tell you?📚 Sources CitedAokigahara – Sea of Trees • Yamada, Haruki. Aokigahara: Jukai no Fushigi. Tokyo Press, 2003. • Paranormal Japan Archives. “Voices of the Forest.” 2019. • BBC Travel. “The Suicide Forest and Japan’s Struggle...
2025-10-2951 minVeil of EchoesEp. 12 - Aileen Wuornos - The Woman Who Became the StormSend us a text“They called her a monster. But monsters aren’t born — they’re made.”Aileen Wuornos was one of the most infamous names in American true crime — a woman whose life blurred the line between victim and villain.In this episode, Veil of Echoes takes you beyond the headlines into the storm that created her: a childhood marked by abandonment and abuse, a life on the margins, and the desperate choices that would turn her into one of history’s most complex killers.From the highways of Florida to the courtroom that sealed her fate, we tr...
2025-10-2739 minVeil of EchoesEp. 11 - The Winchester Mystery House: The Widow and the CurseSend us a textFor thirty-eight years, the sound of hammering never stopped. Behind the ornate walls of a California mansion, a grieving widow built a labyrinth for the dead — staircases that led to ceilings, doors that opened into air, and rooms that refused to end.Was Sarah Winchester haunted by spirits… or by her own sorrow?In this episode, we step inside the infamous Winchester Mystery House — a home born of guilt, grief, and obsession. From the tragic losses that drove Sarah into isolation to the whispered séances th...
2025-10-2449 minVeil of EchoesHalloween Treat Mini-Sode III – 6 Urban Legends That Still Haunt UsSend us a textSome stories begin as warnings… whispered at sleepovers, told around dying campfires, or passed along by a friend of a friend. But what if the legends we grew up hearing weren’t just stories — what if they were echoes of something that really happened?In this third Halloween Treat mini-sode, the Veil of Echoes team dives deep into six of the most chilling urban legends ever told: the hook-handed killer waiting on Lover’s Lane, the babysitter who realizes the calls are coming from inside the house, the girl who summon...
2025-10-2250 minVeil of EchoesEp. 10 - The Black Dahlia: The Murder of Elizabeth ShortSend us a textShe came to Hollywood chasing the light—but found only darkness beneath the spotlight. Dive into the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short—known to history as The Black Dahlia—and the chilling secrets, corruption, and ghosts that still linger in Los Angeles.Los Angeles, 1947. A dreamer named Elizabeth Short stepped into the city of angels with a suitcase, a smile, and a hope for something brighter. Within days, she would vanish—and the world would remember her not for her dreams, but for the horror she endured.
2025-10-201h 01Veil of EchoesEp. 9 - The Haunting of the Cecil Hotel: Evil That Lives WithinSend us a textIt was meant to be a symbol of glamour and hope — but behind its ornate doors, the Cecil Hotel became a monument to misery. From the unsolved murder of “Pigeon Goldie” Osgood and the twisted stays of Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger, to the mysterious death of Elisa Lam, the Cecil’s history reads like a catalog of tragedy.Some say it’s cursed. Others say it’s haunted — by grief, by evil, or by the weight of everything that’s happened within its walls.In this episode, we descen...
2025-10-171h 03Veil of EchoesHalloween Mini Treat 2 - Midnight Rituals - Paranormal Games from the Other SideSend us a textSome games are made for fun — others were never meant to be played at all. In this Halloween Treat mini-sode, the Veil of Echoes team explores the chilling world of paranormal games — rituals whispered about online and dared between friends after midnight. From elevators that open to other worlds, to mirrors that reflect something not quite human, to spirits that follow you out of the bath… these are the “games” that test the line between courage and foolishness.Join Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay as they uncover the dark origin...
2025-10-1548 minVeil of EchoesEp. 8 - The BTK Killer: Dennis Rader - Bind. Torture. Kill.Send us a text🎙️ Episode VIII — The BTK KillerFor three decades, Wichita, Kansas lived in quiet fear. A husband. A father. A church leader. Behind every smile, every Sunday service, he hid a secret that would haunt an entire city. He called himself BTK — Bind. Torture. Kill. In this episode, we step inside the mind of Dennis Rader — the man who built his life around rules, control, and deception. From the Otero family murders to his chilling letters to the police, BTK orchestrated a reign of terror that blurred the line between o...
2025-10-1356 minVeil of EchoesEp. 7: The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism - The True Story That Inspired The ExorcistSend us a textBefore The Exorcist terrified the world, a quiet thirteen-year-old boy in St. Louis endured something no prayer could stop. In 1949, priests recorded weeks of violent phenomena—scratches carved into flesh, voices that mocked the sacred, a hospital wing sealed in fear. Was it possession… or the unraveling of grief and faith colliding?Join Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay as Veil of Echoes steps inside the case that inspired one of horror’s greatest legends. From the Maryland home where it began to the Jesuit diaries that tried to contain it, this i...
2025-10-1053 minVeil of EchoesHalloween Treat Mini-Sode I: Haunted Objects — Dolls, Paintings & Cursed ThingsSend us a textStep inside the cabinet of horrors…Behind the glass and shadows are objects that look ordinary — but each has left a trail of fear, fire, and death. From dolls that move when no one’s watching to paintings that refuse to burn, this Halloween Treat mini-sode opens the case files on some of the world’s most infamous haunted objects.Join Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay as they uncover the chilling histories behind Annabelle, Robert the Doll, the Dybbuk Box, The Crying Boy Painting...
2025-10-0837 minVeil of EchoesEp. 6: John Wayne Gacy - The Killer ClownSend us a textThe laughter of children. The shimmer of balloons. The painted grin of a clown. But behind that bright smile was something far darker.John Wayne Gacy was the neighbor everyone trusted — a contractor, volunteer, and self-proclaimed community man. Yet beneath his home at 8213 Summerdale Avenue lay a nightmare that would shake Chicago to its core. Thirty-three young men and boys, buried beneath the floorboards of a suburban house of horrors.In this episode of Veil of Echoes, we peel back the mask of the man who became known as...
2025-10-0600 minVeil of EchoesEp. 5: The Bell Witch of Tennessee – America’s Most Haunted LegendSend us a textIn the quiet hills of Adams, Tennessee, a family once found themselves tormented by something they could not see — but could hear, feel, and fear. From ghostly voices whispering in the dark, to violent attacks that left the Bell family shaken, the legend of the Bell Witch has become one of America’s most famous hauntings.For over 200 years, her story has been whispered around campfires, etched into folklore, and even tied to the death of John Bell himself. But who — or what — was the Bell Witch? A restless spirit, a curse, o...
2025-10-0337 minVeil of EchoesEp. 4 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of PlainfieldSend us a textSnow drifts across the quiet fields of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Behind the sagging curtains of a lonely farmhouse, deputies would uncover one of the most disturbing crime scenes in American history. From bowls carved out of skulls to masks made of human skin, Ed Gein’s story blurred the line between reality and nightmare — and inspired some of the most iconic horror films of all time.This week, we explore the twisted life of Ed Gein: his isolated childhood under the grip of his domineering mother, the grave robbing that turned his farm...
2025-10-0351 minVeil of EchoesEp. 4 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of PlainfieldSnow drifts across the quiet fields of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Behind the sagging curtains of a lonely farmhouse, deputies would uncover one of the most disturbing crime scenes in American history. From bowls carved out of skulls to masks made of human skin, Ed Gein’s story blurred the line between reality and nightmare — and inspired some of the most iconic horror films of all time.This week, we explore the twisted life of Ed Gein: his isolated childhood under the grip of his domineering mother, the grave robbing that turned his farmhouse into a house of horrors, and...
2025-09-2951 minVeil of EchoesEp. 3 - Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer - Echoes of TerrorSend us a textStep through the veil with us as we explore the disturbing story of Edmund Emil Kemper III — the Co-Ed Killer. Standing at 6’9”, Kemper was an imposing figure whose terrifying crimes shocked California in the 1970s.From his early murders at just 15 years old, to the brutal slayings of young college women, to the chilling aftermath with his own mother, Kemper’s case remains one of the most unsettling in true crime history. What made him confess so openly? How did he manage to evade suspicion for so long? And why do h...
2025-09-2659 minVeil of EchoesEp. 2 – The Wendigo: Where Hunger Becomes HorrorSend us a textFrom the Algonquian peoples of North America comes a legend of a creature born from famine and greed — the Wendigo. Described as gaunt, skeletal, with glowing eyes and an insatiable craving for human flesh, the Wendigo has haunted the collective imagination for centuries.In this episode of Veil of Echoes, Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay explore:🌲 Origins in Indigenous Folklore – stories passed down by Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Great Lakes and Canadian woodlands.🥶 Historical Accounts – reports of “Wendigo psychosis” documented by Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s and by settler...
2025-09-2439 minVeil of EchoesEp. 1: Albert Fish - The Gray ManSend us a text✨ Step through the veil with us as we begin our very first episode of Veil of Echoes, where true crime meets the paranormal.In this episode, we explore one of America’s most infamous figures: Albert Fish, also known as The Gray Man. From his disturbing early life to the horrifying crimes that shocked a nation, we separate fact from myth and ask where the line between monster and man truly lies.⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains graphic discussion of violence against children and dist...
2025-09-2248 minVeil of EchoesTrailer: Welcome to Veil of Echoes - A True Crime & Paranormal PodcastSend us a textStep through the veil with us. Veil of Echoes is where true crime meets the supernatural—unraveling chilling cases, haunted histories, and the mysteries that linger between worlds.Hosted by Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay, each episode dives into the darkest corners of crime and the eerie whispers of the paranormal. Join us as we explore what lies beyond the ordinary… and ask, what echoes remain?✨ Official launch: September 22, 2025—the first day of fall. 🍂🍁Follow now so you don’t miss when the veil opens. 🕯️✨ Step through t...
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