Kayla Cauldron
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Goof around with two boneheads while we dive into topics in the paranormal, conspiracy theory, science fiction and true crime realm. With a healthy amount of skepticism, we go through deep research on supernatural topics in 30 minutes. Topics include but are not limited to exorcisms, ghost stories, Salem Witch Trials, cults, UFOs and other paranormal mysteries phenomenon, conspiracy theories and true crime cases. Make sure to follow along on our journey on this somewhat funny paranormal podcast
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kayla and Xenu make eerie folklore and unresolved cases approachable by testing frightening claims through research, skepticism and irreverent conversation.
Cauldron Convos turns eerie subjects into a running exchange between Kayla and Xenu, pairing scene-setting narration with research, questions and loose comic interruptions.
A Vatican exorcism count meets a calculator, and your spooky-night brain gets both chills and arithmetic.
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A brisk, conversational pass through skinwalker folklore with jokes, encounters, and historical context.
Cauldron Convos takes skinwalker folklore and keeps it moving, mixing fear, story, and a bit of historical context without losing the thread. It starts with a simple take on the legend, then shifts into encounter accounts and the tradition behind them, while the hosts keep…
A lively Lizzie Borden recap that keeps the case's circumstantial core in view.
Cauldron Convos frames the Lizzie Borden case around money, discipline, and suspicion. It tracks Andrew Borden's rise from modest beginnings, his reputation for being cheap, the family's lack of indoor plumbing, and the way Lizzie's calm demeanor and slipping social standing…
A grim, unsentimental update on a Chicago mystery.
Missing People in Chicago: 2024 Update stays on the uneasy question at the center of the series: why so many young men in Chicago have gone missing and ended up in waterways.
A conversational Bell Witch episode that balances folklore, skepticism, and the Bells' unsettling ordeal.
This Bell Witch episode keeps the story rooted in rural Tennessee: the Bells, their move to Robertson County, and the haunting that settled over Bell Farm.
A skeptical, conversational take on why Simpsons prediction lore keeps hanging around.
Cauldron Convos digs into why The Simpsons keeps getting treated like a future-predicting show, and the basic answer lands where it usually does: the series has so many episodes that a few coincidences start to look eerie.
A bridge story that starts eerie, turns heavy, and keeps its human voice.
Cauldron Convos keeps The Bridge Outside My Bedroom Window tight and uneasy, beginning with a child's diary, a bridge that appears outside the bedroom window, and an old man who turns each visit into a stranger game.
Chatty ghost talk that balances skepticism, folklore, and practical haunted-house advice.
Cauldron Convos treats haunted houses with just enough seriousness to keep the jokes landing, then keeps the tone relaxed and easy to follow. It moves cleanly from shelter and safety to a poll, then on to folklore, abandoned-house logic, and the Myrtles Plantation story without…
A haunted-mirror story with playful banter and a few folklore detours.
The episode stays with a stormy antique mirror, moving from Dolores's eerie encounter into death customs, family lore, handprints, and a few other reported mirror hauntings.
Cauldron Convos reads Matt Demerski’s “A Shattered Life” from creepypasta.com, a story about a narrator whose life is eaten in fragments by an invisible entity.
This segment discusses the potential resentencing and possible release of the Menendez brothers, who were convicted in 1989 for murdering their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills, with updates as of 2024.
This segment discusses a recent sonar image discovery by Deep Sea Vision near Howland Island that may be Amelia Earhart's plane, exploring theories and skepticism about her 1937 disappearance.
This segment introduces the Urchinrot, supernatural beings from Yupik folklore in Alaska, describing them as tricksters and hunters that inhabit a parallel world.
Greyrock is where the story opens, with villagers whispering about an old curse and a vampire that stirs when the moon goes dark.
Vatican City is framed as the smallest independent state on Earth, but the show treats it like a place crowded with shadows, secrets, and old stone that seems to hold onto prayer.
A warped antique mirror in a family home becomes the center of a story about whispers, cold rooms, and a girl named Dolores who gets pulled into the glass.
It starts with Wiltbrook's abandoned carnival, all bright paint and dead air.
Cauldron Convos digs into why haunted houses matter at all, starting with shelter, safety, and the unsettling idea that your own home might not feel like yours.
It starts with a mall Santa and a bad feeling.
Cauldron Convos spends this episode on Mokele Mbembe, the Congo Basin creature described as a long-necked, four-legged, herbivorous animal with a horn or tooth on its head.
Kayla reads The Last Halloween, a creepypasta about a trick-or-treater, a dark porch, and Granny Clark, the town's kindest, sweetest old woman.
Cauldron Convos turns to Ervil LeBaron, the polygamous Mormon fundamentalist leader known as the Mormon Manson.
This segment describes the premise and format of the 1960s television game show 'The Dating Show', where a single woman interviews three hidden men to choose one for a date, and mentions its popularity and celebrity participants.
John O'Keefe is found dead outside a home in Canton after a night that started at bars and ended at a police officer's house party.
Cauldron Convos’ “Are Mermaids Real?” traces mermaid lore from ancient Sumer around 3000 BCE to Greek sirens, Irish Miro’s, Inuit Kalapulit, Japanese Ningyo, and Thai/Cambodian Suvarnamacha.
This episode explores skinwalkers, shape-shifting witches from Navajo folklore, detailing their origins tied to historical trauma, abilities like mimicking voices, and modern encounters including Skinwalker Ranch.
The hosts explore the unsolved Lizzie Borden case, detailing her wealthy but frugal family life, the brutal murders of her father and stepmother, and her controversial acquittal.
The hosts come back to the Chicago missing-men story with a new update.
Cauldron Convos walks through the Bell Witch legend in Robertson County, Tennessee, starting with John Bell Sr.’s 320-acre land purchase from Kate Batts, the local outcast.
Kayla and Xenu dig into the old claim that The Simpsons predicted the future.
The episode features a Creepypasta story about a boy named Toby who sees a mysterious bridge outside his window, which leads to supernatural encounters and parallels his battle with illness.