Creepy AF Halloween Tales

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this special Halloween episode, I’ll share creepy tales of corpses that were mistaken for Halloween displays. I’ll also share the bizarre tale of a failed outlaw who became a successful carnival oddity…after his death. Resources: “Was a Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration?” by David Mikkelson for Snopes.com, Oct. 28, 2005. “75-Year-Old Marina Man Found Dead on Apartment Balcony” by Vince Echavaria for The Argonaut, October 22, 2009. “Body is Mistaken for a Halloween Display” by Rebecca Cathcart for The New York Times, Oct. 17, 2009. “Dead man slumped on balcony mistaken for Halloween decoration” by Seema Mehta for LA Now, October 16, 2009 “Woman’s Dead Body Mistaken for Halloween Decorations” by Maya Rhodan for Time, October 15, 2015. “Murdered woman hanging from fence mistaken for Halloween decoration”, WKRC/WSYK/Sinclair Broadcast Group, Oct 15, 2015. “Man faces murder charges after woman’s body found” by Sara Nealeigh for The Chillicothe Gazette, Oct 13, 2015. “See the Funhouse ‘Mannequin’ that was Actually the Body of an Old Bank Robber”, retrieved from All That’s Interesting, December 20, 2017. “How a Real Corpse Ended Up in a California Fun Park Spookhouse” by Ella Morton retrieved from Atlas Obscura on Slate.com, April 11, 2014.

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.0	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	It is not intended for children.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for episode number 220 of Once Upon a Crime. You who have been
0:26.2	listeners of this podcast for a while know that Halloween is my favorite holiday.
0:30.8	Part of the reason for this is because there's no pressure to
0:34.2	give gifts, no fancy dinners that take you all day to prepare, 20 minutes to eat,
0:38.8	and hours for cleanup, and you don't even have to invite your problematic relatives over.
0:43.4	Nope, all that's required is to maybe purchase a bag of premium candy for trick-or-treaters
0:48.8	and keep the porch light on. Even decorating your house or wearing a costume is optional, but of course adds to the fun.
0:56.0	To me, the best part of Halloween is the opportunity once a year to immerse ourselves in things that may be considered outside of the norm.
1:04.9	It's a time when we're free to embrace the shadow side of ourselves and indulge in all that's
1:09.7	dark and morbid, even if just for a little while.
1:13.0	Unless, of course, you're a true crime podcaster,
1:16.0	well then, every day is Halloween.
1:18.0	One way that we indulge in the dark and creepy at our house
1:22.0	is by going full Griswold with our outdoor
1:24.0	Halloween decorations. Last year we added a 13-foot skeleton and special lighting.
1:28.9	This year's editions include zombies, sound effects pipe through outdoor speakers, and if you look in our
1:34.8	front window, you'll see a number of really strange things going on inside, from dancing skeletons
1:40.1	to the undead wrapping on our windows beckoning you inside. It's pretty cool. But even
1:45.9	those of us who go a little over the top to entertain and or scare trick-contreaters on all
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