Pretty Wicked
by Megan Alda
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No Bite Marks: The Vanishing on Lake Seminole
No Bite Marks: The Vanishing on Lake Seminole
About this podcast
One story. Start to finish. Every detail sourced.
Pretty Wicked is a solo narrative podcast covering true crime, mystery and folklore. Each week, one story is told from start to finish, scene by scene, with suspense, vivid detail, and every bit of it researched and sourced. There’s no banter and no filler, just a story told the way it really unfolded, and the real people at the heart of it.
Pretty Wicked is created, researched, written, and hosted by actor and voice artist Megan Alda.
Please note: episodes cover real crimes and may include graphic descriptions of violence, death and crime scenes. Listener discretion is advised.
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Episodes
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- No Bite Marks: The Vanishing on Lake Seminole · 1 h 11 minIf a man drowned in a lake full of alligators, what would you expect to find? In December 2000, a young dad from Tallahassee, Florida, went duck hunting and vanished, and months…
- Vampires Next Door: A Murder in Witten · 1 h 5 minImagine hearing about a gruesome murder that the papers are calling satanic, right near where you live, and then having the police tell you your name was on a list next to the…
- The Tallow Man: The Werewolf of Allariz · 1 h 1 minSettle in, friends, because this week we're heading into the misty mountains of 1800s Spain for a werewolf story... that really happened. In a little village in Galicia, a…
- The Babysitter Ad: The First Craigslist Killer · 55 minSettle in, friends, because today's story starts with something that should have been completely ordinary: responding to a babysitting ad. In October 2007, Katherine Ann Olson…
- Sunday Best: Blood and Betrayal · 52 minThey say Friday the 13th is unlucky for a reason. Well, on one Friday the 13th back in 1980, in a quiet Texas suburb where everybody goes to the same church and everybody knows…
- Before Sunrise: A Death on Angels Landing · 55 minIn August 2006, a young woman fell to her death from one of the most famous cliffs in the American national park system while hiking with her husband, the only witness. It was…
- Dead Mountain: Cut From the Inside · 1 h 5 minIn the winter of 1959, ten experienced hikers set out on a route rated at the highest difficulty level their country had. One turned back early, and the other nine never came…
- Vanished: The House on Delmar Street · 57 minThree women. One small house in Springfield, Missouri. On the night of her high school graduation, Stacy McCall followed her friend Suzie Streeter home to spend the night at the…
- Hitchhiker: The Drifting Damsel of Death · 1 h 28 minToday I'm revisiting one of the most infamous cases in American true crime; a woman the press called the Damsel of Death. Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found dead along…
- Talhotblonde: From Message to Murder · 49 minA married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who…
- The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family · 54 minA 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just…
- Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story · 57 minForerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who…
- Proxies: The Faceless Man · 58 minA birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the…
- Into the Triangle: The Devil's Sea · 1 h 9 minSome stretches of ocean don't give people back, and the Bermuda Triangle is the most famous one. Navy squadrons. Cargo giants. A cabin cruiser that called for a tow on a calm…
- The Recipe: Blood and Lye · 28 minIn a quiet Italian town, there was a woman everyone trusted. She baked. She welcomed people in. She was the kind of person no one questioned. And then people started…
- Boogeyman: The Hook-Handed Stranger · 37 minWhat if the boogeyman you grew up hearing about wasn't just a story? On Staten Island, there was a figure parents whispered about to keep their kids close to home. Bedtime…
- England's Most Haunted: What the Stones Don't Tell · 44 minToday Megan is revisiting a medieval building in a quiet Cotswolds village. A 900-year legend that doesn't quite hold up under the tree rings. A pagan burial ground nobody can…
- Borrowed Faces: Forty Million in Two Minutes · 52 minIn August 2009, two men in tailored suits walked into the most exclusive jewelry store on London's most exclusive street, and two minutes later they walked out with forty million…
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Ripper · 54 minIn February 2001, Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher drove to a woman's house to pick her up for a date. She didn't answer the door. He looked through the window, saw what he thought…
- Poison in the Pocky Aisle · 49 minIn 1984, something really unsettling started happening across Japan. Boxes of children’s candy were showing up on store shelves laced with cyanide, and it didn’t feel random or…
