Serial killers, Bigfoot and constant interruptions.
Attention Horrors puts real murders and paranormal lore on the same table, from the Son of Sam shootings to one man's claimed hand-to-hand war with aliens. The case notes get read out, the interruptions start almost at once, and most stories end up half case file, half roast.
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In one closing plea for help, Attention Horrors calls itself a true crime podcast that also does comedy, and that is a fair summary. Its recent run moves from real killers to folklore without changing gear, with episodes titled 'Episode 37: Son of Sam – The Chubby Behemoth', 'Episode 34: Black Eyed Children - Totally Real, Totally Serious', 'Episode 33: Chris Benoit Murders - WWE Makes a Whoopsie' and 'Episode 32: Mysterious National Park Disappearances - Militarized Portals'. Read in a row, the titles show the approach: a grim or strange subject up front, a flippant subtitle after the dash. Donald Wood introduces himself as the host with the most, Mike Chiari is a regular sparring partner, and Brandon Galvin is named as part of the crew. The mechanics are simple. One voice works through the notes while the others cut in with objections, tangents and instant solutions. In the national park episode, one of them is still reading the account of a boy who vanished along the Appalachian Trail, with trackers and Marines brought in, when another announces he can already solve it. A family reported hearing a scream and seeing a 'bear man' carrying something, so his answer is Bigfoot. The same urge to puncture a claim drives the Randy Cramer episode, where the idea of a man fighting aliens hand to hand, with an axe, gets roasted point by point, with a detour into whether Star Wars is really set in the future. The black-eyed children episode trades jokes about whether a witness named Bethel was really driving a Miata. Then it lands on a real point: on paper the story sounds tame, but hearing him tell it on a reality TV series, nearly in tears, is another matter. The magick episode covers a statement of intent, the building of a sigil and Norse, Greek and Egyptian symbology, plus a warning that you cannot always know what energy you are bringing in, and a crude joke is never far away. The true crime material shows a different side of the show. Going back over a March 1977 Son of Sam shooting, in which a 19-year-old woman raised her textbook to protect her head, one of them calls it the scariest murder of them all. He points to a documentary that shows the tunnel through the park where it happened. The Chris Benoit episode spends time on the wrestler's growing paranoia and sudden religious turn, and on an interview in which a woman says she could tell he was losing touch with reality in 2004. That episode ends by thanking a graphic designer, a director of music and a research assistant by name. The profanity is constant, and the jokes reach places many listeners will find uncomfortable, including a missing child case. Many episodes open with a theme song about a 3 a.m. knock at the door, multiple personalities, 13 extraterrestrials, Bigfoot and the Illuminati. Closings ask for five-star ratings and topic ideas by email, and they usually end on the promise that the crew is here to stay. For the true crime side, start with the Son of Sam episode. For pure disbelief, start with Randy Cramer.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime and paranormal lore without the reverence and doesn't mind profane cross-talk, crude jokes, or a Bigfoot theory offered as a case solution.
What sets it apart: It puts documented killings like the Son of Sam shootings next to black-eyed children and one man's claimed war with aliens, and heckles all of them. The sharpest ridicule goes to the unbelievable claims, while a real murder can still leave one of the crew openly rattled.
Listen to Donald Wood, Mike Chiari and Brandon Galvin break down the world of the macabre with a splash of humor, including serial killers, aliens, bigfoot, ghosts, magick, cryptids and so much more!
A Son of Sam cult theory gets challenged; your inner skeptic can stay for the jokes.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A disturbing murder scene turns into a larger argument over what really belongs in the case.
The episode is at its most focused when it turns to the killing of 19-year-old Virginia Voskarichian, who raised a textbook to shield her head before the fatal shot.
The Mars story lands best when the hosts test its exosuit logic against Doom.
Attention Whores runs Kramer's secret space program story through the show's messy comic machinery, with Donald Wood, Mike Iori, and Brandon Gavin moving from Mars, extraterrestrials, and Illuminati involvement into ax-based alien combat and a zero-point-energy exosuit.
A sigil-building lesson becomes a funny argument about willpower, symbolism, and what ritual might invite.
The episode frames magick as something closer to applied willpower than spectacle, then keeps pressing on the risk implied by that idea: what happens when a ritual asks unknown energy into the room.
Black Eyed Kids lore gets a rowdy, joke-prone treatment built around fear, testimony, and odd detours.
Attention Horrors approaches Black Eyed Kids as both a campfire scare and a running argument about how far that scare can stretch. The episode lets the premise build, then keeps nudging it off balance with talk of a Miata, YouTube searches, alleged footage, and whether the…
A candid episode tying Benoit's wrestling world to religious fixation, paranoia, and the deaths of Nancy and Daniel.
Chris Benoit's murders anchor a wrestling discussion that keeps circling the point where paranoia, religious fixation, and a weakening hold on reality appeared to meet.
Firsthand stories from the edge of death.
The story after the documentary.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
["Donald Wood hosts Brandon Gavin and Mike Chiari on Attention Horrors for a Son of Sam episode built around their argument over lone shooter versus multiple shooters.", "Wood says his reporting draws on Lawrence Klauser's 473-page authorized transcription of David Berkowitz's confessions, the Netflix series \"The Son of Sam: A Descent into Darkness,\" and 1970s newspaper archives.", "The episode traces Berkowitz from his Brooklyn birth and Bronx adoption through Army service, fire-setting, and the Christmas Eve 1975 stabbing of 15-year-old Michelle Foreman in Co-op City.", "It then follows the .44-caliber shootings in Pelham Bay, Yonkers, and other New York City neighborhoods, alongside police missteps and newspaper coverage that turned the case into citywide panic."]
["Attention Horrors centers on Randy Kramer, whom Donald Wood describes as a secret-space-program veteran who served 20 years and returned in a cloned body.", "Wood says he pulled the episode from seven and a half hours of Gaia TV footage, EarthCitizenConsulting.org, and Kramer\u2019s book Technology, Mind Control, and Free Will.", "The discussion moves through Mars bases, Moon training from age 4 to 17, reptoids, rail guns, exosuits, and a claimed sexual encounter with an alien royal family.", "Mike Iori and Brandon Gavin keep challenging the details, so the result is a skeptical, joke-heavy breakdown of disclosure lore rather than a straight interview."]
Attention Horrors Episode 35, Magick - Let's Do a Ritual, turns ceremonial magic into a step-by-step practice session.
Attention Horrors episode 34 turns the Black Eyed Children legend into a running argument, with Donald Wood, Brandon Galvin, and Mike joking about every search returning Black Eyed Peas instead.
["Attention Horrors, billed in the transcript as Attention Whores, spends this episode on Chris Benoit and the June 2007 deaths of Nancy Benoit and Daniel Benoit.", "Donald Wood, Mike Yara, and Brandon Calvin frame the episode around Dark Side of the Ring, Ring of Hell, Chris and Nancy, Dungeon of Death, and Chris Jericho's interview with Sandra Toffolini.", "The timeline moves through Chavo Guerrero's texts, the 4:01 a.m.
Attention Horrors examines mysterious National Park disappearances using David Paul’s Missing 411 books, including cases involving children, hunters, and unexplained recoveries.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood and Mike Chiari examine the unidentified Zodiac Killer, whose confirmed attacks involved seven victims in Northern California between 1968 and 1969.
Attention Whores examines Robert Durst, a real-estate heir linked in the episode to Kathleen McCormick Durst’s 1982 disappearance, Susan Berman’s 2000 murder, and Morris Black’s 2001 death.
Attention Horrors examines Hollow Earth beliefs from ancient Greek and Mesopotamian underworld stories through Edmund Halley’s 1692 model of concentric shells and Leonard Euler’s proposed inner sun.
Attention Horrors examines Henry Lee Lucas, who became known as the “confession killer” after admitting to as many as 3,000 murders while the hosts identify at least three killings as certain.
Attention Horrors examines execution last meals, including Florida's $40 local-food limit, Oklahoma's $15 allowance, and countries that give prisoners little warning.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin examine Whitley Strieber’s claim that hundreds of thousands of readers reported alien encounters after he published his address in Communion.
Attention Horrors examines Whitley Strieber’s reported abduction memories, including a 1957 train journey, a 1984 fog-bank encounter, and recurring visitors with unusually large dark eyes.
Attention Horrors examines Whitley Strieber’s reported December 26, 1985 encounter at his upstate New York cabin and the earlier memories he later recovered through hypnosis.
Attention Horrors follows Ted Bundy’s escape from Chicago to Tallahassee, where he rented a room near Florida State University under the name Chris Hagen.
Attention Horrors continues its Ted Bundy series as Bundy moves from Seattle to Utah and enters the University of Utah law school in August 1974.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin begin a Ted Bundy series using The Stranger Beside Me, Conversations with a Killer, and a four-part Netflix documentary.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin examine hexagonal clouds, magnetic fields, Gulf Stream currents, reefs, Atlantis, and UFO explanations for Bermuda Triangle incidents.
Attention Horrors: Episode 19 examines how the Bermuda Triangle became a cultural mystery through Edward Van Winkle Jones's 1950 Miami Herald report, a 1952 Fate Magazine article, and Vincent Gaddis's later writing.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin read ghost submissions and book excerpts, including a 2002 phone call apparently made from a dead friend’s disconnected phone.
Attention Horrors Episode 17 begins a multi-episode examination of ghosts by defining apparitions, reviewing historical beliefs, and separating proposed evidence from skepticism.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood and Brandon Galvin examine Albert Fish's crimes against children, beginning with Cyril Quinn and continuing into the 1928 disappearance of ten-year-old Grace Budd.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood and Mike Chiari begin a two-part examination of Albert Fish, whose crimes and movements reportedly spanned at least 23 states.
Attention Horrors: Episode 14 examines Aleister Crowley’s relationship with the Ordo Templi Orientis, including Theodore Royce’s 1912 confrontation over sex-magic secrets and Crowley’s appointment to the O.T.O.’s British branch.
Attention Horrors begins a two-part biography of Aleister Crowley, focusing on Thelema, ceremonial magic, sexuality, and claims that he worked as a spy.
Attention Horrors: Episode 12: Ed Gein Part 2 – A Stranger’s Hand follows Donald Wood, Mike Kiari, and Brandon Galvin through the first police search of Gein’s Plainfield house.
Attention Horrors examines Edward Theodore Gein, a murderer and grave robber from Plainfield, Wisconsin, who was arrested in 1957.
Attention Horrors hosts Donald Wood, Mike, and Brandon Galvin examine Mothman, the Loch Ness Monster, the Jersey Devil, and the Kraken while comparing folklore with reported sightings and misidentifications.
Attention Horrors Episode 9 examines Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Skunk Apes, and related cryptids through stories, historical references, and competing explanations.
The hosts discuss macabre topics with humor, including serial killers, aliens, and cryptids, in a lighthearted roundtable format.
The host introduces a surreal scenario involving multiple personalities, extraterrestrials, Bigfoot, and the Illuminati, setting the stage for a humorous exploration of macabre topics.
The hosts discuss aliens, Bigfoot, and the Illuminati with humor, then introduce a bonus episode on Majestic 12.
The hosts introduce their new show covering macabre topics with humor, including a surreal skit about multiple personalities and extraterrestrials.