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Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie

Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie

He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird.

With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable.

Sean’s sharp eye on the logical and Carrie’s open mind to the unexplainable combine in every episode for an informative hour with a lighter touch.

Recent Episodes

Oct. 10, 2024

Ep. 190: Halloween Urban Legends - Teens in Trouble

Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no different - and now, along …
Oct. 3, 2024

Ep. 189: Legends of the New Jersey Pine Barrens - Ghosts, the Jersey Devil and Pirate Treasure

The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's Pinelands and all the cree…
Sept. 26, 2024

Ep. 188: The OceanGate Disaster

On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, busine…
Sept. 19, 2024

Ep. 187: Son of Sam, Pt. 2 - Son of Hope

Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders! Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before covering Berkowitz's tumultuous…
Sept. 12, 2024

Ep. 186: Son of Sam, Pt. 1 - The Chubby Behemoth

Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year. From July 1976 to July 1977, David Berkowitz embarked …
Sept. 6, 2024

Ep. 185: The Tylenol Murders

In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take investigators long to realize all seven victims had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol…
Aug. 29, 2024

Ep. 184: Mothman, Pt. 3 - Unifying Theory of Mothman

#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, a tragedy in which 46 people lost the…
Aug. 22, 2024

A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals

Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer just ahead of Labor Day! In the interest of our sanity, we kept it fairly loo…