Creepy InQueeries

Happy day, Queerdos!

We’ve got a beefy pair of stories for your ears this week.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin teaches us some Baltimore history. Today’s lesson: all about the Plug Uglies, a street gang full of jerks!

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie teaches us how to retain your vital essence.

So put up your fists,

channel your s3x energy,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:11:04 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:51:04

Welcome to our home, Queerdos! We made it to another Wednesday and we brought two beefy stories to mark the occasion. 

First, in our True Crime Story, get ready to get mad at the cold-too-long case of Sherri Rasmussen’s 1986 murder. 

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin brings us a world first: an AI cryptid! 

So don’t clean out your freezer, 

hone those text prompts, 

and get ready for this week’s show. 

Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:10:27 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:52:26

Welcome to another Wednesday, Queerdos! We've got a beefy one for you this week.

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First, in our True Crime Story, Miss takes us back 100 years to share the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists who were treated super fairly by America's unassailable criminal legal system and everything worked out great. 

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Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin whisks us once again to Cryptid Corner! This week's creepy li'l guy: the Beast of Gévaudan! He's French! 

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So get your stories straight, 

look out for sharp claws, 

and get ready for this week's show. 

Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:12:00 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:52:21

🚨EPISODE 119: THE BRONCO CHASE / THE GIANT PENGUIN HOAX 🚨

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Spring has sprung, Queerdos! Frolic amongst the plants and flowers in the garden of stories with us, won't you? Sniff them--they're pungent! 

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First, in our True Crime Story, Edie shares the story of one very slow freeway chase that changed American media (for the worse) forever. 

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Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss brings us a giant penguin who was very real and lived in Florida and was not a hoax! 

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So pour a glass of OJ, 

check the ground for inexplicable footprints, 

and get ready for this week's show. 

Let's dive in!

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True Crime starts at 00:15:15 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:47:31

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Would you believe it's a Wednesday once again, Queerdos?

Hope you like beef, 'cause we've got a meaty one for you this week.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin takes us right back to Bummersville for the conclusion of his series on the tragedies in and around the Stayner family. This week: Cary aka The Yosemite Killer.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie whisks us off to the Fun Zone by way of the lost continent of Lemuria. Sorry, LEMURIA!

So keep your tissues handy,

charge up your crystals,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:10:10 Spoopy Tale starts at 01:04:10

April showers bring new podcasts, Queerdos! And we have a doozy for you this week. 

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss takes us back to 1970s England via Bummersville to talk about how hyper-religiosity poisoned a mind and ended a life. 

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin takes us to science class! Or, more accurately: pseudoscience class. We’re talkin’ about freezing our bodies for the future! 

So say a Hail Mary, 

ready your liquid nitrogen, 

and get ready for this week’s show. 

Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:14:20 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:51:48

Spring has sprung, Queerdos, and beautiful things are in bloom! We've gathered a couple of fresh-cut stories for your ears this week.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie whisks us all the way back to 2018 for the rise and fall of your neoliberal aunt's once-favorite guy, Michael Avenatti. #basta

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss finally--finally!--introduces us to a top-tier cryptid: the Jersey Devil.

So start your engines, look out for Mother Leeds's thirteenth child, and get ready for this week's show. Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:12:05 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:59:05

Welcome to another Wednesday, Queerdos! You made it! And for your trouble, we’ve brought you a pair of stories.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin takes us on a trip to Bummersville in the first of a two-part series (!!!) about one family and the various tragedies that have befallen it. This week, we talk about Steven.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie brings us the royal conspiracy everyone’s talking about: Kategate!

So flex your Photoshoppin’ fingers, don’t talk to strangers, and get ready for this week’s show. Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:10:26 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:44:05

Queerdos, who abandoned Snoopy in the vestibule? It certainly wasn’t us—we were too busy with our stories for this week’s show!

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss takes us on a globe-trotting tour of … karaoke-related violence. Turns out, some of us take karaoke much more seriously than others.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin takes us back to Cryptid Corner for a bonded pair of spoopies: Rawhead and Bloody Bones!

So warm up your vocal chords (& punchin’ arms) Don’t look in that cupboard, and get ready for this week's show. Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:14:02 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:43:05

We're back, Queerdos! Did you miss us? We sure missed you. We welcome you back into our soft and welcoming bosom with two new stories for your ears.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie drags us back to Bummersville, Utah to catch us up on the last four months of Tim Ballard troubles.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss gives us a primer on the galaxy's creepiest little rascals: the Black-Eyed Kids!

So lawyer up, lock your doors, and get ready for this week's show. Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:11:15 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:52:17

ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE—04.26.23 REDUX RELEASE DATE—02.28.24

**2.28.24: Creepy InQueeries is taking the week off, but are excited to get back to new episodes next week! Until then, we’re re-releasing a fully re-edited episode (yassified if you will) from the archives!**

Category is: Fibbers in the Fun Zone!

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin tells us all about Laziness hero and corner-cutting queen Rosie Ruiz, who “definitely” “won” the 1980 Boston Marathon!

Next, in Miss’s Spoopy Tale: time travel adventures with John Titor! He’s a real guy who really knows what’ll happen in the future—and he’ll tell you all about it in a series of… faxes.

Yes, this really happened.

So straighten your sweatbands, punch in the coordinates on your worldline, and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:10:55 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:56:30

We’re almost out of the winter woods, Queerdos! But as the February frosties persists, come inside and keep warm with a pair of piping hot stories. First, Kevin takes us to the 1870s Wild Wild West to tell us about a family who’d do anything to get by. Next, Edie brings us up to speed on whether Taylor Swift is a Pentagon plant. Look what you made her do! So don’t let your valuables out of your sight, book a private jet from Tokyo to Kansas City, and get ready for this week’s show. Let’s dive in! True Crime starts @ 00:11:55 Spoopy Tale starts @ 00:50:05

Call us Bilbo Baggins, Queerdos, ‘cause we’ve turned eleventy-one this week! And we have presents!.

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss shares the story of a pair of Kiwi teens whose…friendship (?) led to devastating results. Come for the main story, stay for the references to our ouw PEAK WEIRDO YEARS! Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin’s back on his cryptid beat! This week, he gives us the schoop on an Irish shapreshifter who loves to fuck shit up.

So keep up with your journal entries, Put your spurs on, And get ready for this week’s show! Let's dive in! True Crime starts at 00:13:38 Spoopy Tale starts at 01:02:42

We've made it to February, dear Queerdos! And to celebrate, we've got a couple of delicious meaty chunks for your ears.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie tells us about the rise and fall of Beanie Babies. There are crimes in this story, we promise!

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss gives us an overview of the Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. . . we've already said too much.

So cuddle up with your Peanut the Elephant, watch what you say in the mirror, and get ready for this week's show. Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:08:40 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:52:52

Welcome to another Wednesday, Queerdos! We’ve got a heaping helping of hijinks and happenings for you this week. 

First, Kevin takes us on our inaugural voyage to CI’s Rage Cage to infuriate us with the story of one of New York’s “finest.” It turns out that there’s a thin blue line between a business expense and wire fraud. 

Next, Edie beams us back up to the Fun Zone to talk about the Moon. What’s inside that thing, huh? 

So keep your receipts, 

break free from the prison of the five-sense reality, 

and get ready for this week’s show. 

Let’s dive in!

Welcome to another Wednesday, darling Queerdos! And we’ve got a theme for you this week: Mummy Madness!

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin tells us about an exciting archaeological find that might not be what it seems.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie takes us to the Gross-out Grotto and teaches us about the history of eating human remains—for your health!

So brush up on your cuneiform, grind a spare human skull into a fine powder, and settle in for this week’s show. Let’s dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:12:33 Spoopy Tale starts at 00:39:02

It's 2024, Queerdos! And we're ringing in the new year with a hell of a pair of stories.

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss tells us all about a 1997 heist of $17 MILLION BUCKS that went totally awesome, no issues, no notes.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin teaches us a lesson about what happens when you're a bad kid in 2014 Naples, Florida and your parents have a cell phone.

So put on your bank robbin' gloves,

adjust your rotting clown mask,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime starts at 00:11:57 Spoopy Tale starts at 01:04:27

There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the gore-ies of Christmases long, long ago.

Queerdos, Creepy InQueeries has taken this week off from a new recording. But we'll be back next week with brand new stories for Ep 105!

Until then, please enjoy this Franken-sode combining the Spoops from Episodes 52 and 53 from last year. We talk about Krampus, The Yule Lads, Grýla the Christmas Witch, the Mari Lwyd, the Schnabelperchten, AND The Yule Cat!

So gather all naughty kids in the village,

beat them/toss them into Krampus's basket,

And get ready for this week's franken-sode.

Let's dive in!

Krampus starts @ 00:00:57 Schnabelperchten starts @ 00:04:24 Mari Lwyd starts @00:05:44 Yule Cat starts @ 00:14:48 Gryla Starts @ 00:20:55 The Yule Lads Starts @ 00:27:09

Welcome, Queerdos, to a special Kevin's Birthday edition of the pod! In celebration, we're taking an all-day field trip to the Fun Zone.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin tells us about a serial escape artist and American hero who would do *anything* for love (and anything for scams).

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie beams us back to 2019 when a meme about raiding Area 51 got out of hand.

So practice your forged signatures,

get ready to see them aliens,

and settle in for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:25

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:01:08

Hey there, Hi there, Ho there! Another week, another ep. Those are the rules!

For Episode 101, Miss's True Crime brings us the story of the ever-so-lovable Bernie Tiede and the reasons why Hollywood made a movie about his life in 2011...

Then, Kevin brings us a Spoop for the gods, mawmaw. Well, actually, just one god in particular. And he's...ya know....*limp hand*

So call up Jack Black,

Split yourself into twin gods,

and get ready for this week's episode!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:12:25

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:47:43

It's almost Thanksgiving, Queerdos!

And we're so thankful for this show. As a token of our gratitude to the Queerdos, we've got two heaping helpings of stories for you.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin tells us about world-class Reaganite nepobaby Alfred Bloomingdale (of Bloomingdale's Bloomingdale) and the people he harmed along the way.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie takes us back to Melted Film School to learn about 2019 body horror masterpiece CATS.

So establish a safeword,

practice your cat-like movements,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:10:07

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:54:00

Hearty salutations, dearest Queerdos! The stork’s brought double trouble for you this week: two stories about twins! 

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss takes us back to 2008, to a very bad week for a pair of Swedish twins (and for the town of Stoke-on-Trent). 

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin tells us about Edward Mordrake, a fictional example of a real medical phenomenon. 

So look out for passing cars, 

ignore the cruel whispers of your parasitic twin, 

and get ready for this week’s show. 

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:45

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:53:07

What's this? What's this? There's magic in the air! 

Why, it's a brand-new episode of the pod, Queerdos! And we've missed you so. Upon our triumphant return from vacation, we've got a pair of stories that are sure to entertaint you. 

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie’s back from Australia with an update on the tacticool grifter (and subject of Episode 83 of the pod) Tim Ballard. How's Tim doing? Pretty bad! 

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss tells us all about psychic vampires and how to defeat them. 

So slap on a henna tattoo, 

listen to Dave in Accounting tell you all about his cat's ear infection, 

and get ready for this week's show. 

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:12:23

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:03:19

Well howdy, there, Queerdos! Welcome to our humbly refurbished pied-à-terre.  

Creepy InQueeries is taking a week off and will return for Episode 97 next week! 

Until then, feast your ears on a redux of Episode 57 from January 2023! 

Kevin edited the original 57 down by removing all our “ums” and girl, that shaved 4 minutes off the entire thing. 🤣

If you’ll remember, Miss’s True Crime Story is about New York’s “Cannibal Cop” and whether and *when particularly*… vivid online fantasies can be punishable as crimes. 

Edie’s Spoopy Tale is an introduction to one of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theorists of the last 50 years: British sports commentator and turquoise tracksuit enthusiast David Icke. 

So boot up your modems, 

look out for Annunaki shapeshifters, 

and attune your vibrational energy to this episode’s frequency. 

Let’s dive in! 

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:12

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:51:34

Originally recorded: January 2023

Reedited release: October 2023

If you’re reading this: you’ve made it to another Wednesday. Bully. It also means you get a new episode! 

For this week’s True Crime Story, substitute-co-host-and-queer-historian Big Library is bringing Baltimore Queerstory with the 1971 police raid on Cicero’s Cafe. “We had to fight our way in and we had to fight our way out!”

Next, for the Spoopy Tale, Kevin’s adding to his menagerie of Fearsome Critters with soon-to-be Millennial icon…the Squonk!  

So grab your ashtrays;

literally *burst into tears*;

and get ready for this week's show!

Let’s dive in! 

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:9:28

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:36:20

Welcome to Spooky Season, Queerdos!

Make sure you polish your eyeglasses, folks, 'cause we're getting scientific with our stories today.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin tells us about a 1970s Tennessee grave robbery that perplexed the local forensic examiner and changed the course of research history.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie tells us about Silicon Valley vampires.

So carbon-date your bones,

hand over $8,000 to a "real" "doctor,"

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:10:42

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:33:07

Well met and good morrow, fair Queerdos!

Welcome to another Wednesday, and to another set of stories!

First, in our True Crime Stories (!!!), Miss feeds us a few nibbles from an old-timey Grifter Grab Bag!

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin tells us all about a weird little...thing... on the side of the road outside 1977 Boston. What’s his deal?

So practice your nonsense languages,

polish your shiny peanut-shaped heads,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:32

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:49:24

Hello there, Queerdos! Gird your loins, ‘cause we’re back with a bang this week.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie tells us about the “life” of one of America’s pop cultural mainstays: McGruff the Crime Dog.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss whisks us off to 1941 Missouri to give us the skinny on a little-known UFO crash.

So button up your trench coat,

watch out for falling extraterrestrial debris,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:55

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:57:35

We've cheated Death once again to make it to another Wednesday, Queerdos! And boy howdy, do we have some doozies this week.

First, in Kevin's True Crime Story, we talk (and yell) about how Baltimore City law enforcement and politicians fucked around with one family while managing to utterly avoid finding out.

Next, in Edie's Spoopy Tale, we learn more than we ever wanted to know about television ghost guy Zak Bagans: his life, his loves, his content.

So polish your night-vision cameras,

watch where you're going with that dirt bike,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:09:10

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:43:53

There’s a new Creepy InQueeries…must mean it’s Wednesday again!

And we hope you’ve had your first bowl of beef stew of the season; because you’ll need that cozy feeling for today’s episode. 

Miss’s True Crime Story unravels the tangled 2011 web of a murder at the posh athleisure store Lululemon. 

For the Spoopy Tale, Kevin’s bringing a mind-melting paradox involving 2 TV shows from the early Aughts. 

So practice your downward dog;

Prepare your gabagool charcuterie board;

And let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:07

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:04:45

Hiya Queerdos!  

Welcome to Creepy InQueeries: a podcast dedicated to all things creepy, spoopy, and true crime-y!  

Your hosts, Miss (she/her), Kevin (he/him), & Edie (she/they) have been best friends for 20 years, are obsessed with the macabre, and are queer AF.  Join them every Wednesday as they share 2 stories per episode: a true crime story AND a spoopy tale.  

A serial killer?...absolutely.  A fabled cryptid?...you betcha.   A haunted locale?...100%. Take a listen to this trailer and then click that Next button to continue onto the other 100+ Episodessss. You know you want to, boo. 

Salutations, Queerdos!

Hope you're soaking up these last drops of summer--we've got a hot pair of stories for your ears this week.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie tells us about a Scottish shithead who failed upwards his whole got-danged life, leaving a pile of bodies in his wake. (Sound familiar, Donny boy?)

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss takes us to Cryptid Corner to talk about a furry li'l guy who hunts apples around Amish country: The Albatwitch!

So polish your military medals,

brush out your chimpanzee-like fur,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:13:25

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:12:09

We’ve made it to yet another Wednesday, Queerdos! Time marches unrelentingly onward, and so do our stories.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin takes us on a deep dive through the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst—and the botched robberies and shootouts with the feds that came after.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie whisks us off to the Fun Zone for a vacation on David Copperfield’s private island.

So adjust your berets to their jauntiest angle;

pick a card, any card;

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:11:30

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:11:53

Happy hump day, Queerdos!

Hope you’re ready for a meaty stew of stories today.

First, in our True Crime Story, Miss takes us to Illinois by way of Bummersville to talk about the tragic deaths of three women on a birdwatching trip, and the tragic aftermath for the person authorities came to suspect of the crime.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Kevin gives us an on-location report from his Delaware Airbnb to tell us about hauntings and spookies in the Rehoboth Beach area.

So look at some twine under a microscope,

brush up on your ghostly Dutch accents,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:9:40

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:53:06

Hello there, Queerdos!

You look marvelous. We’ve made it to another Wednesday and have a succulent pair of stories for you.

First, in our True Crime Story: Edie tells us all about that time covert Navy operatives got their dingalings sucked for Uncle Sam, then arrested the unsuspecting dingaling-suckers.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss talks about one Rhode Island family’s years-long haunting by the ghosts of their house’s former residents. Do Ed and Lorraine Warren show up? Of course they do!

So head over to your favorite cruising spot,

light candles for a seance,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:12:33

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:01:25

Hey Queerdos, do you ever think about dying?

Well, wash away the blues of existential dread with today’s episode.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin asks a question a town in the English Midlands has been asking since 1943: “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?”

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Edie forces upon us everything they know about the 2000 John Travolta mega-flop 'Battlefield Earth'.

So put on your thinking caps,

lock up your man-animals,

and get ready for this week’s show.

Let’s dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:10:13

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:43:25

We've made it to Wednesday, Queerdos!

And you deserve a treat. Good thing we've cooked up a brand-new episode, just for you.

First, in our True Crime Story, Edie tells us about "anti-trafficking" vigilante Tim Ballard, subject of the new "based on a 'true' story" movie Sound of Freedom that's thrilling right-wing audiences across America. Oy vey.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale, Miss guides us through the story of cartoonist Adam Ellis who live-tweeted his own haunting.

So synchronize your watches,

look closer at that strange shadow over there,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:07:53

Spoopy Story Starts @ 01:00:13

On Wednesdays, we wear podcasts! And we're serving style today, Queerdos.

First, in our True Crime Story, Kevin gathers us scallywags 'round the poop deck to tell us the story of 17th century pirate, Captain William Kidd! Turns out, pirating is hard, but getting people to like you is harder.

Next, in our Spoopy Tale: What's really underground? Like, deep underground? Edie's gonna tell us the "real" tea about the Hollow Earth.

So sharpen your cutlasses,

explore those polar holes,

and get ready for this week's show.

Let's dive in!

True Crime Story Starts @ 00:10:45

Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:44:13