Episodes

  • The History Of The Davenport Hotel

    The History Of The Davenport Hotel
    Jan 21 2026
    The Davenport Hotel: History, Hauntings, and the Shadows of Spokane In the heart of downtown Spokane stands the Davenport Hotel — a landmark synonymous with elegance, ambition, and a century of Pacific Northwest history. But beneath the polished marble floors and grand ballrooms lies a quieter legacy, shaped by loss, transition, and stories that refuse to fade. In this episode, we explore the full history of the Davenport Hotel — from its early days as a symbol of modern luxury, through financial collapse, abandonment, restoration, and rebirth. Along the way, we examine the people who lived, worked, and died within its walls, and how those histories gave rise to the hotel’s enduring reputation as one of Spokane’s most haunted locations. We look at documented accounts from staff and guests, long-reported apparitions, unexplained sounds, and recurring experiences tied to specific rooms and hallways — not to sensationalize, but to understand where legend ends and memory begins. This is not a ghost tour. It’s a study of place — how buildings absorb human presence, how history lingers, and why some locations never fully let go of the past. 🎧 Shadows in the Pines 📍 Pacific Northwest history, folklore, and the stories that still echo
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    32 mins
  • Israel Keyes - Part 3 -The Unraveling

    Israel Keyes - Part 3 -The Unraveling
    Jan 17 2026
    Episode 3 — The Unraveling In Episode 3 of Shadows in the Pines, the investigation finally gains traction — not through a witness or a confession, but through a debit card. As ransom-linked ATM withdrawals begin appearing outside Alaska, investigators shift from reacting to a disappearance to tracking a moving trail. Each transaction produces a timestamp, a location, and eventually a pattern — one that leads across state lines and narrows onto a single vehicle. This episode follows that trail step by step: the financial data, the surveillance footage, the emergence of a BOLO, and the Texas traffic stop that ends the movement investigators had been following for weeks. What begins as a fraud arrest quickly becomes something more complex. In custody, Israel Keyes agrees to speak — but on his terms. As the first interviews unfold, investigators realize they are not dealing with a suspect who will unravel under pressure, but one who intends to control the exchange itself. Episode 3 ends not with answers, but with a new understanding: the truth is now within reach — but it will not be given freely.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Israel Keyes - Part 2 The Curriers & Samantha Koenig

    Israel Keyes - Part 2 The Curriers & Samantha Koenig
    Jan 10 2026
    Israel Keyes – Part Two: The Curriers & Samantha Koenig In Part Two, the distance becomes the weapon. After leaving Alaska, Israel Keyes travels thousands of miles to rural Vermont, where a quiet farmhouse becomes the site of the abduction and murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier—a crime with no bodies, no traditional crime scene, and only the details he would later choose to reveal. From Vermont, the story returns to Alaska, where a deliberate cooling-off period follows. Ordinary life resumes. Work continues. And beneath that surface, something far more calculated is taking shape. This episode also examines the crimes that ran parallel to the murders: bank robberies, financial planning, and long-distance movement designed to blur timelines and distract from violence. The episode then turns to Anchorage, where the restraint ends with the abduction and murder of Samantha Koenig—the crime that finally forces his careful system into the open and brings years of silence to an end. Part Two traces the line between these crimes, the choices that connected them, and the moment when a system built on distance and control finally began to collapse. Shadows in the Pines — keep your eyes open, and your footsteps light.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Mini Pines - Roy Olmstead, The Gentlemen bootlegger

    Mini Pines - Roy Olmstead, The Gentlemen bootlegger
    Jan 8 2026
    Roy Olmstead was one of the most successful bootleggers in American history — and one of the least suspected. Known as The Gentleman Bootlegger, Olmstead built a sprawling Prohibition-era liquor empire across the Pacific Northwest while presenting himself as a polite, soft-spoken family man. He bribed officials, coordinated fleets of boats and trucks, and moved massive quantities of alcohol through Washington state — all while avoiding violence and cultivating an image of respectability. In this episode, we trace Olmstead’s rise from Seattle police officer to criminal mastermind, examine how his operation functioned with near-military precision, and explore the federal investigation that ultimately brought him down. We also break down the landmark Supreme Court case that emerged from his wiretap surveillance — a decision that would shape American privacy law for decades. This is not a story about glamour or nostalgia. It’s a story about systems, corruption, quiet power, and how crime can flourish when it learns how to look respectable.
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    31 mins
  • Israel Keyes - Part 1 Preparation With Purpose

    Israel Keyes - Part 1 Preparation With Purpose
    Jan 3 2026
    In Part One of our three-part series on Israel Keyes, we examine how preparation became a way of life. Long before any known murder, Israel Keyes was laying groundwork — not impulsively, not emotionally, but deliberately. Raised in extreme isolation and shaped by rigid authority, he learned early how to exist without drawing attention, how to test boundaries quietly, and how to move through the world without leaving impressions. This episode focuses on environment and conditioning: his upbringing in rural Washington, the influence of an insular and authoritarian church, years of unnoticed boundary-testing behavior, military service, and the carefully maintained normalcy of adulthood. We examine what the FBI later described as extensive and unexplained travel, and how distance itself became a form of protection. Part One ends at the point where preparation becomes irreversible — when planning leaves the abstract and becomes physical. Years before anyone knew his name, weapons and tools were already buried in the ground, waiting. No violence has occurred yet. But everything is already in place. Part One: Preparation With Purpose lays the foundation for what comes next.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • The Bizarre Case of Flypaper Lyda

    The Bizarre Case of Flypaper Lyda
    Dec 27 2025
    Flypaper Lyda — Idaho’s First Serial Killer At the turn of the twentieth century, sickness was a part of everyday life. People got ill at home, doctors offered few answers, and deaths—especially slow ones—were rarely questioned. That silence created the perfect conditions for something far more dangerous to hide in plain sight. This episode tells the story of Lyda Southard, often cited as Idaho’s first documented serial killer. Over the course of years, husbands and family members grew sick and died under eerily similar circumstances. Each death, on its own, seemed ordinary. Together, they revealed a pattern no one was prepared to see. We follow Lyda’s life chronologically—from her early years and marriages, through repeated illness and loss, to the moment coincidence finally collapsed and authorities were forced to look back instead of forward. This is a case about trust, domestic spaces, and how violence doesn’t always look violent. Because sometimes the most dangerous harm doesn’t come from strangers in the dark—but from someone you’re taught never to question. Content warning: illness, poisoning, death. Listener discretion advised.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • The Dark Lore of Yule

    The Dark Lore of Yule
    Dec 25 2025
    🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunger, and darkness were unforgiving. We begin with Krampus, the horned enforcer of the Alpine regions — not as a novelty figure, but as a system of fear designed to regulate behavior when winter mistakes could be fatal. We examine how Krampus functioned across regions, why his rituals were tolerated, suppressed, and eventually revived, and why modern culture is drawn back to him during periods of uncertainty. From there, we descend into Icelandic folklore with Grýla, a figure so tied to starvation and consequence that she could never be softened or redeemed. We trace her origins, suppression, and lasting cultural weight — and why she remains one of the most disturbing figures in European folklore. We then break down the Yule Lads, not as playful mischief-makers, but as a coordinated system of household enforcement targeting food security, labor, sleep, tools, and routine — the slow failures that dismantle survival from the inside. Next, we examine the Yule Cat, a creature of visibility and accountability, enforcing contribution through public proof of labor — and what it reveals about class, shame, and survival economies. Finally, we turn to elves, not as helpers, but as dangerous neighbors — boundary enforcers rewritten by industrialization into something harmless, and what was lost when fear was replaced with comfort. This episode is not about nostalgia. It is about why these stories existed — and what they taught when winter offered no forgiveness. Because the monsters were never the point. Winter was.
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • The Dark Lore of Yule

    The Dark Lore of Yule
    Dec 24 2025
    🎄 Winter Was Never Gentle: The Dark Origins of Christmas Folklore Before Christmas became lights, music, and warmth, winter was something people survived — not celebrated. In this special holiday episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step away from our usual case format to explore the brutal, uncomfortable truths behind some of the darkest winter legends ever told. These stories were not meant to entertain. They were meant to enforce discipline, obedience, and survival in a world where cold, hunger, and darkness were unforgiving. We begin with Krampus, the horned enforcer of the Alpine regions — not as a novelty figure, but as a system of fear designed to regulate behavior when winter mistakes could be fatal. We examine how Krampus functioned across regions, why his rituals were tolerated, suppressed, and eventually revived, and why modern culture is drawn back to him during periods of uncertainty. From there, we descend into Icelandic folklore with Grýla, a figure so tied to starvation and consequence that she could never be softened or redeemed. We trace her origins, suppression, and lasting cultural weight — and why she remains one of the most disturbing figures in European folklore. We then break down the Yule Lads, not as playful mischief-makers, but as a coordinated system of household enforcement targeting food security, labor, sleep, tools, and routine — the slow failures that dismantle survival from the inside. Next, we examine the Yule Cat, a creature of visibility and accountability, enforcing contribution through public proof of labor — and what it reveals about class, shame, and survival economies. Finally, we turn to elves, not as helpers, but as dangerous neighbors — boundary enforcers rewritten by industrialization into something harmless, and what was lost when fear was replaced with comfort. This episode is not about nostalgia. It is about why these stories existed — and what they taught when winter offered no forgiveness. Because the monsters were never the point. Winter was.
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    1 hr and 27 mins