EP 399 - Mad Gasser of Mattoon and Anthony Sowell

A Paranormal Chicks

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Donna dives into the bizarre case of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, a mysterious figure who terrorized an Illinois town with strange nighttime attacks. Was it mass hysteria or a real-life gas-wielding criminal?

Kerri covers the horrifying crimes of Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler, whose house of horrors shocked the nation. She unpacks how his victims were overlooked for far too long.

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0:00.0	Hey all, I'm Donna.
0:20.5	And we are at Paranormal paranormal chicks. Episode 399. Holy shit. I know. I mean, y'all could do the math, too, but we are one away from 400. God, the way Carrie's looking at me, I was like, wait, did I not do that math right? No, I was thinking, I'm the one that's like, oh my God, guess what? How many episodes are we away from this number? I'm so annoying. So wait, you're saying I'm annoying now? No, but I'm usually like, y'all, this morning, I had so much energy at work. I was literally like, I am on my own nerves.
0:55.7	Oh, I've definitely been there.
0:59.3	So we're pre-recording because we're going on the cruise.
1:02.0	Hopefully y'all are going to come sail away with us.
1:09.1	But it's really hard when you don't have a life to talk about things you do when you're pre-recording.
1:10.1	Right.
1:10.3	Because I'm like, well, we do like one thing a week if that.
1:15.8	So.
1:17.8	Because I was just thinking yesterday we did a whole monologue about our nails.
1:23.3	Oh my God.
1:23.9	So boring.
1:25.5	Why are we so boring?
1:26.7	Yeah.
1:28.0	Probably should have scratched that, but oh well.
1:32.0	Well, you know it's not boring?
1:34.0	Patreoners.
1:35.6	And right now we've got Evie J from PA.
1:38.7	Ooh, I love that.
1:40.4	I knew you'd like that.
1:42.0	Alex Kay from Canada.
1:44.5	Well, I see your Alex and I that. Alex K from Canada. Well, I see your Alex, and I raise you Mary G. from Canada.
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