Welcome back to Para(normal). First up on this week’s episode is the true story of Nellie Bly — the 23-year-old journalist who asked Joseph Pulitzer to send her somewhere dangerous… and ended up going undercover inside the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum. We walk through what she witnessed: brutal conditions, forced ice-cold baths, starvation-level food, and the chilling realization that many women inside weren’t “insane” at all. Her exposé, Ten Days in a Madhouse, didn’t just shock readers, it helped force public scrutiny and reform, and leaves behind one haunting question: what kind of treatment creates madness instead of curing it?

Then we pivot to a modern haunting that feels like it crawled out of a nightmare: The Screaming House of Union, Missouri. A single father rents a duplex at 809 N. Christina Avenue, and what starts as small disturbances turns into a house that breathes, stinks, marks walls, and screams, with reports of shadow figures, claw marks, EVPs, and a presence that may have followed the family after they fled.

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10 Days in a Madhouse & The Screaming House

On this episode of Para(normal), Nicolina begins with the story of “This House Murdered Me” – the story of April Miller and her family, who move into a Victorian home in Salt Lake City’s Avenues district. A too-cheap house, a boy’s “imaginary friend” named Benjamin, and a family tragedy that refuses to stay buried.

Then Marie dives into the true horror of MKUltra, the CIA’s real-life mind control program. From the 1950s onward, unwitting subjects were dosed with LSD, locked in sensory deprivation, hypnotized, and subjected to brutal “treatments” in the name of national security.

The episode closes with a chaotic round of F/M/K because after haunted houses and government mind control, why not?

If you like your paranormal with a side of dark history, conspiracy receipts, and unfiltered banter, this one’s for you.

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Haunted House Murdered Me & MKUltra

Marie kicks things off with a chilling paranormal case: Julie Weinstein’s Ontario farmhouse, where peaceful country living quickly turned into a nightmare of footsteps in empty rooms, disembodied whispers, bleeding walls, freezing temperatures, and a hostile shadow figure that targeted her child. The haunting eventually ties back to the land’s dark history and a former slave runner whose violence seems embedded in the foundation.

Nicolina follows with the true-crime story of Issei Sagawa, the “Kobe Cannibal,” who murdered and cannibalized Dutch student Renee Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. They break down his early fantasies, the crime itself, and the shocking legal loopholes that let him walk free and become a bizarre public figure—raising questions about justice, media ethics, and whose names get remembered.

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Bleeding Walls & The Kobe Cannibal

This week, Marie and Nicolina take you on a wild ride: one part ancient mystery, one part full-blown haunting. First, Nicolina digs into Mohenjo-daro, the 4,500-year-old Indus Valley city so advanced it had private wells, sewage systems, standardized homes, and a perfectly engineered public bath — yet left behind no readable writing and no clear reason for its sudden disappearance.

Then Marie unpacks the San Pedro haunting, one of the most disturbing and documented paranormal cases ever recorded. Single mom Jackie Hernandez faces violent activity, including floating heads, bloodlike liquid dripping from cabinets, and a cameraman nearly being hanged by an invisible force in her attic. The case ties to a mysterious 1930s drowning — or something even darker.

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Ancient Ghost Cities & The San Pedro Strangler

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, child abuse, death, and religious violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

 

This week, Marie and Nicolina return with a wildly dual-toned episode — equal parts bizarre, chilling, and emotionally heavy. We kick off with eyebrow-related self-surgery (yes, really), trichotillomania confessions, and some questionable horoscope slander — before diving into two of the darkest stories we’ve ever covered.

Marie takes us back to 1997, when 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult willingly died in hopes of boarding an alien spacecraft. Nicolina then brings a heartbreaking 2025 case from Fort Pierce, Florida — a story that has barely left local headlines. When six-year-old Ramil stopped showing up at school, a welfare check revealed a tragedy: his mother had performed what she believed was a divinely commanded exorcism.

This is one of the most emotionally intense stories we’ve covered — and we end the episode by dedicating it to Ramil.

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Heaven’s Gate & The Florida Exorcism: Cults, Comets, and Tragedy

Some hauntings can be explained.

Some can be disproven.

And some—defy everything we know about reality.

In this chilling episode of Para(normal), Nicolina and Marie explores two true stories that continue to defy explanation..

First: The House in Between — a Mississippi home so haunted that engineers, physicists, and paranormal investigators spent years trying to decode it. From objects moving on their own to lights flickering in patterns, this isn’t just a ghost story—it’s an ongoing scientific anomaly that blurs the line between energy, consciousness, and the afterlife.

Then, journey to Brazil, 1966, where two men were found dead on a hillside wearing lead masks, with no signs of struggle, and no clear cause of death. Their notebooks spoke of “spiritual experiments” and “light visions,” leaving investigators and ufologists grasping for answers. Were they conducting a psychic ritual? Or did they meet something — or someone — not of this world?

Tune in for a deep dive into the places where logic fails, and the paranormal takes over.

Episode Highlights:

 * The real haunted house that scientists couldn’t debunk
 * Why The House in Between may be one of the best-documented hauntings in history
 * The mysterious deaths behind Brazil’s “Lead Masks Case”
 * Paranormal experiments, UFO sightings, and psychic phenomena connections
 * How both cases challenge what we think we know about death and energy

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The House in Between & The Lead Masks Mystery

In this Devil’s Night two-part episode of Para(normal), Nicolina and Marie travel back to the origins of one of Denver’s first recorded hauntings and unravel the true crime that would decades later inspire one of Hollywood’s most chilling slashers.

First: The Loretto Possession.

When the Sisters of Loretto founded St. Mary’s Academy, they came to teach—until a mysterious new boarder arrived. What followed terrified them and became known in church archives as “The Sighting of Spirits and the Devil”—the earliest ghost story ever written in Denver.

Then: The Real Killer Behind Scream.

In 1990, college student Danny Rolling murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida—crimes so brutal they paralyzed an entire town. His taunting phone calls, voyeuristic stalking, and theatrical crimes inspired screenwriter Kevin Williamson to write Scream—the movie that changed horror forever.

Two stories.

One century apart.

Both proof that sometimes…the monsters are real.

Sources & References

 * The Sighting of Spirits and the Devil, Sister Joanna Walsh (Loretto Archives, Denver)
 * Operation Sacred Rescue — MSU Denver RED (2022)
 * Loretto Heights and the Sisters Who Built It — Denverite (2017)
 * Gainesville Ripper Case Files, FBI & Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement
 * Inside the Mind of Danny Rolling, Court TV (1994)
 * The Making of Scream, Kevin Williamson Interview, Entertainment Weekly (1997)

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The Loretto Possession & The Killer Who Inspired Scream

In this chilling Para(normal) feature, Nicolina and Marie dive deep into the real-world horrors that inspired one of cinema’s most infamous monsters — Freddy Krueger — and then chart a course to the mysterious waters of Japan’s own Bermuda Triangle.

First, Marie uncovers the terrifying true events that gave birth to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. You’ll hear how reports of Southeast Asian refugees dying mysteriously in their sleep — healthy young men who screamed before never waking again — sparked the idea of a killer who strikes in dreams. These were real documented cases of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS), sometimes tied to folklore about night demons and shadow men. Craven’s monster wasn’t just a creation of imagination — it was a reflection of a very real cultural fear.

Then, Nicolina takes us to the Dragon’s Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Sea, located south of Japan near the Miyake Island region — a place where ships, planes, and even military vessels have vanished without explanation. From ancient legends of sea dragons and ghost ships to 20th-century disappearances of Japanese research vessels, the area mirrors the Bermuda Triangle’s legacy of unexplained loss. Could it be natural magnetic anomalies, methane gas eruptions… or something far older lurking beneath the waves?

Together, the hosts connect the dots between nightmares, mythology, and the unseen forces that haunt both our minds and our world.

🕯️ What You’ll Hear:
The true origin of Freddy Krueger and the refugee nightmare deaths that inspired A Nightmare on Elm Street
Medical and supernatural theories behind SUNDS
Interviews and firsthand reports from families of victims
Legends surrounding Japan’s Dragon’s Triangle and the unexplained disappearances
Scientific vs. paranormal explanations for these phenomena
How sleep, the sea, and fear connect across cultures

“They said he screamed in his sleep… and never woke up. What kills you when you’re dreaming — and what’s waiting in the dark when you close your eyes?”

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Dream Demons & The Devil’s Sea

In this bone-chilling episode of Para(normal) [https://thesonarnetwork.com/paranormal/], Marie and Nicolina dive into two hauntingly different—but equally disturbing—corners of the unexplained: the true horror of Ed Gein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein], the real-life inspiration behind Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs… and the vast, mysterious wilderness of The Alaska Triangle [https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/alaska-triangle/], where planes vanish, compasses spin, and entire towns go missing without a trace.

Marie unearths the twisted story of Ed Gein, the mild-mannered Wisconsin farmer whose quiet demeanor masked unspeakable darkness. Through first-hand police reports, small-town rumors, and the grotesque discoveries found in his farmhouse, she explores how one man blurred the line between myth and monstrosity — and why his story still haunts America’s psyche.

Then, Nicolina takes us thousands of miles north to Alaska, where a massive swath of land has earned a reputation as the Bermuda Triangle of the North. From unexplained disappearances of bush pilots to eerie lights in the sky and whispers of ancient curses, she examines whether it’s magnetic anomalies, alien activity, or something far more sinister lurking beneath the permafrost.

What You’ll Hear
The shocking truth behind Ed Gein’s crimes — and how they rewrote the blueprint for American horror.
The unsettling similarities between Gein’s psyche and Hollywood’s greatest monsters.
The mystery of the Alaska Triangle: hundreds of unsolved vanishings and unexplained phenomena.
Eyewitness accounts from pilots and residents who swear something “out there” is watching.
A chilling reflection on why humanity is drawn to darkness — and what these stories reveal about us.

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Ed Gein & The Alaska Triangle

🏰 The True Story Behind Frankenstein Castle
In this chilling episode of Para(normal), hosts Marie and Nicolina uncover the real history of Frankenstein Castle—a gothic ruin in Germany that may have inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Before the famous monster was born on the page, the castle’s resident alchemist Johann Conrad Dippel conducted bizarre experiments in the 1600s involving corpse reanimation, animal transplants, and a mysterious “elixir of life.” Local legends claim Dippel’s spirit still roams the castle grounds, fueling centuries of ghost stories and paranormal sightings. From eerie EVP recordings to reports of glowing lights and shadow figures, Nicolina digs into the castle’s haunted past and explores how science, myth, and the macabre became forever intertwined in Frankenstein’s legacy.

🕉️ The Dark Legacy of the OSHO (Rajneesh) Cult
Marie takes listeners into one of the most infamous modern cults: the OSHO movement, led by the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho). What began as a spiritual community preaching love and enlightenment in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, descended into chaos—marked by poisonings, wiretaps, mass manipulation, and the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history. Through archival news footage, first-hand testimonies, and chilling audio clips, Marie exposes the psychological grip of cult leadership and how a vision of utopia turned toxic.

💀 What You’ll Hear in This Episode
The real-life connection between Frankenstein Castle and Mary Shelley’s novel
Secrets of Johann Conrad Dippel’s forbidden experiments
The rise and fall of the Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon
How charisma and control fuel cult psychology
Paranormal activity and haunted energy at Frankenstein Castle

🔮 About Para(normal)
Para(normal) is a paranormal documentary podcast hosted by Marie and Nicolina, exploring the dark corners of history where myth, science, and spirituality collide. Each episode dives into real hauntings, unsolved mysteries, and true stories of belief gone too far.

If you love creepy history, cults, true crime, and the supernatural, subscribe to para(normal) and join our community of curious minds who believe that the strange… is perfectly normal.

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Frankenstein’s Castle & the OSHO Cult

Para(normal) is a weekly entertainment, comedy, and non-investigative paranormal podcast where hosts, Marie Adoranti & Nicolina Savelli share tales of ghostly experiences – from famous hauntings to listener submitted hometown haunts, and special guest encounters – it’s like listening to spooky stories at a slumber party with your best friends.