Grab your eye patches, hide your contraband, and try your absolute best to ignore the eyeballs watching you from the woodwork, because this week our paranormal and true crime podcast is heading straight to the southwest coast of England. We are doing a massive historic deep dive into one of the most famous haunted pubs in Cornwall: the legendary Admiral Benbow Penzance on Chapel Street.

While literature nerds know this exact tavern as the iconic opening inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, we are looking at the building through a much more judgmental lens. We unpack the actual history of the "Benbow Brandy Men"—the local 18th-century criminal gang that utilized an extensive labyrinth of secret smuggler tunnels snaking entirely underneath Chapel Street straight to the Penzance harbour to dodge the tax collectors. We also break down the verified hauntings, the spectral activity, and the ghost of the lady in white roaming the property.

But the absolute star of the episode is our official safety and privacy critique of the pub's interior architecture. We look inside the bar to investigate the historic, deeply unsettling lookout points—literal peepholes built directly into the walls so pirates could keep an eye out for the local authorities. We discuss the sheer psychological horror of trying to enjoy a quiet pint of cider while a sweaty, 17th-century criminal is hiding inside the actual drywall insulation, staring directly at the back of your head. Grab a drink, check the corners of the room, and join us for a wildly funny slice of haunted UK history!

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Grab your life jackets and a dictionary, because this week our UK true crime podcast is bypassing the mainstream media distractions to jump straight into the deep end of London's most baffling river mysteries: The Thames Torso Murders.

We are unlocking a massive, comparative serial killer deep dive spanning two completely different centuries of unsolved British crime. First, we head back to the late 1880s to break down a series of highly calculated, anonymous cold cases where dismembered remains kept washing up along the muddy banks of the River Thames, completely humiliating Scotland Yard. Then, we fast-forward all the way to 2001 to look at a chillingly similar modern London serial killer mystery, breaking down how forensic science tried to piece together a case that perfectly echoed the city's dark, historic past.

But let's be entirely honest—the most chaotic crime scene this week is right inside the studio (vikkis front room). It is a certified, weapons-grade high-dyslexia day for your hosts. The words on the script are actively running a marathon, the alphabet is playing musical chairs, and attempting to pronounce basic British street names has devolved into absolute comedic ruins. Grab a drink, brace your ears for some premium comedy true crime linguistic disasters, and let's try to survive some true crime podcast history!

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Hide your kids, lock up your insurance policies, and guard your skeletons, because this week our true crime podcast is doing a welfare check on the absolute worst businessman of the 19th century. We are unleashing a massive H.H. Holmes serial killer deep dive to look inside the absolute architectural fever dream that was the Chicago Murder Castle.

Most comedy true crime podcasts will tell you he was a criminal genius, but we are exposing him as a wildly chaotic serial fraudster who desperately needed a hobby. We break down the construction of his hotel, his custom gas chamber vaults, and his horrific business plan of hiring builders to construct a secret maze and firing them before payday just so he wouldn't have to fork over any cash. Talk about a toxic boss.

It gets even more unhinged as we dive into his multi-state life insurance scams. We unpack how his entire empire of lies collapsed alongside his side hustle as a weird entrepreneur—specifically his macro-economy strategy of bleaching bodies in acid baths to sell clean bones directly to local medical schools. To top it all off, we officially crown him the ultimate Bad Santa because he apparently decided December was the prime month for a festive holiday homicide spree. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and join us for a wildly chaotic roast of America's first con-artist monster!

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