Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world's most terrifying legends. From the real stories behind horror movies to the creepiest corners of the internet, be ready to experience terror like never before. New episodes every Monday.Twisted Tales is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Latest episodes
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28 min
Halloween Terrors: Best of Horror Explained 1 | The Backrooms
In 2018, an anonymous user posted a photograph of an empty yellow room on 4chan — no caption, no story, no name. A year later, two paragraphs turned that image into one of the most…
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29 min
Halloween Terrors: Serial Killers & Slashers 2
Ed Gein.Ted Bundy.Gary Heidnik.Jerry Brudos.Each of these men committed crimes so disturbing they reshaped public understanding of serial killers.Together, their stories helped ins…
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32 min
PRESENTING: Celebrity Ghost Stories
An A&E original podcast presented by Rewind Studios, Celebrity Ghost Stories is adapted from the first and only series where celebrities share their real-life personal encounters w…
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27 min
Halloween Terrors: Serial Killers & Slashers 1
A killer who watched from the windows. A town students were too afraid to walk through. And a franchise born from real terror. Heidi Wong tells the true origin of Scream’s Ghostfac…
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27 min
Halloween Terrors: Haunted Houses & Hotels 2
A woman found dead at a seaside resort. A man murdered in a locked hotel room. And two ghosts who never checked out. Heidi Wong uncovers the terrifying true stories behind Stephen…
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25 min
Halloween Terrors: Haunted Houses & Hotels 1
A luxury hotel in the Colorado mountains where ghostly music still echoes. A quiet Long Island home where six family members were murdered in their sleep.Heidi uncovers the chillin…
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24 min
Halloween Terrors: Masters of Horror 2 | Ari Aster & Hereditary
A cult that raised children to obey without question. A bloodline marked by mental illness. And a legacy of suicide that refused to end. Heidi Wong uncovers the real stories of gen…
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25 min
Halloween Terrors: Masters of Horror 1 | Osgood Perkins & Longlegs
A filmmaker haunted by his family’s past. A doll that mirrored a tragedy. And a story born from grief, faith, and fear. Heidi Wong explores the real inspirations behind Osgood Perk…
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38 min
Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!
Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are go…
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24 min
Summer Scares: Deadly Premonitions and Final Destination
A writer who predicted the Titanic disaster. A child who dreamed of her own death. And a president haunted by a vision of his own funeral. Heidi Wong uncovers the chilling true sto…
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26 min
Spooky Season: The Devil Made Me Do It
The fourth and final episode of Spooky Season covers a shocking crime from February 16, 1981, when 19-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord and friend Alan Bono to death at a…
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29 min
Summer Scares: Jordan Peele's Us and Real-World Doppelgängers
A vanished child returns as a stranger. A beauty blogger’s twin becomes her killer. A man’s life is stolen by his lookalike. Heidi Wong exposes the real doppelgänger cases that tur…
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34 min
Spooky Season: The Greenbrier Ghost
Our third episode of Spooky Season takes you back to January 1897, when twenty-something Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of her staircase in Greenbrier County, West…
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28 min
Summer Scares: The Real People Who Inspired AHS: Coven
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. A sadistic aristocrat with a torture chamber. And a crazed killer with an axe. Heidi uncovers the real stories of Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie, an…
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34 min
Spooky Season: Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Episode two of Spooky Season covers a case from April 1943, when four boys trespassing in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, discovered a woman's skeleton stuffed inside a hollow wych el…
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43 min
Introducing History’s Greatest Mysteries, a new podcast from Rewind Studios and The History Channel
A History Channel original podcast brought to you by Rewind Studios, History's Greatest Mysteries examines the top theories surrounding the world's most enigmatic unsolved mysterie…
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24 min
Summer Scares: The True Story of Midsommar
A Swedish legend of dancing with the devil. A medieval plague that made people dance to death. And a modern town haunted by a phantom attacker. Heidi Wong uncovers how real cases o…
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34 min
Spooky Season: The Hammersmith Ghost
Welcome to the first episode of Crime House's latest four-part limited series: Spooky Season. In the winter of 1803, the village of Hammersmith was convinced a ghost was stalking i…
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22 min
Summer Scares: Horror's Most Terrifying Camping Trips
A lakeside camping trip ends in blood. A quiet cabin becomes a house of horrors. And the killers were never caught. Heidi Wong tells the real stories that inspired Friday the 13th…
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24 min
Summer Scares: Real Stories of the Conjuring Universe
Step beyond the screen and into the real-life terror behind The Conjuring Universe. Heidi explores the Perron family’s decade-long haunting in a Rhode Island farmhouse and the sini…