Murder cases and ghost stories, argued out among friends.
Bill and Ashley move between real cases, including a five-episode run on Billy Milligan, and the uncanny, from doppelgangers to the ghosts reported at Mount Vernon. The talk is profane and full of tangents, but it keeps coming back to hard questions of sanity, evidence and what actually happened.
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Don't Go In There runs on two tracks, real crime and the unexplained, and makes no secret of it. A sign-off in the Milligan finale states plainly that the show does both. The titles back that up. 'The Toy Box Killer', 'Charles Albright', 'Jake Bird' and 'Hi Fi Murders' share a feed with 'Vampires', 'Werewolves', 'La Llorona' and 'The Stanley Hotel - Episode 27'. The crime side is most sustained in a five-episode run on Billy Milligan, from 'Billy Milligan Part 1' to 'Billy Milligan Finale!!!!'. Bill and Ashley cover the attacks around Columbus, the shifting accents and personalities that doctors recorded, and his stay at Athens Mental Health Center, where the extra freedoms he was granted clearly frustrate them. They also stop to correct a common belief: an insanity verdict, they point out, is more likely to mean confinement in a state hospital than release. The finale covers a disappearance that was never solved. The hosts lean hard on the word 'allegedly' while making their suspicions obvious. 'Randy Herman Jr' takes a stranger legal turn. The case hinges on a claim of killing while asleep, and the discussion brings in the documentary Dead Asleep and the concept of automatism, while a guest compares it with her own sleepwalking. The paranormal episodes are looser and more playful. 'Ghost Washington' collects tour guides' encounters at Mount Vernon, including an electric candle switched on in a room closed to the public and a woman in 18th-century dress on the stairs. 'Doppelganger' ranges from the Egyptian ka and Hopi twin legends to Lincoln's reported double image and a string of first-person stories from Reddit. Some episodes bring in family and friends. DJ Debunk, Ashley's husband, plays the skeptic. Dr. Killjoy, Bill's wife Anne, and their friend Bree round out the table, and the podcast pup Shiva even gets a say. The result sounds like a crowded living room, full of roasting, interruptions and running jokes. The register is unfiltered. Profanity and crude humor run throughout, and tangents about Psych, Disney films, Step Brothers and Rugrats arrive without warning. The hosts are open about the rough edges, from admitting they are winging an episode to apologizing for audio that kept cutting out. For the case-driven side, 'Billy Milligan Part 1' is the natural place to start. For the full household energy, try 'Ghost Washington'.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime and haunted history delivered as a loud hangout, and who does not mind tangents, crude jokes and rough audio along the way.
What sets it apart: It sets grim case work, including a five-part Billy Milligan series, beside folklore, cryptids and haunted landmarks. When the hosts' families join in, a resident skeptic named DJ Debunk challenges the ghostly explanations.
A true crime podcast with a paranormal twist, with one rule Don't Go In There!
A ghost-hunt kit sits beside a kidnapper's cash-for-Ferrari mistake; both suit your curiosity.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Sleepwalking, muscle memory, and a haunted-house detour give this true crime episode its uneasy spark.
Sleepwalking gives this episode its uneasy pull, as the hosts circle the idea that muscle memory could carry someone through familiar rooms and old routines while fully asleep.
A Mount Vernon ghost story turns a sudden little-girl sighting into golf-cart, black-eyed-children, and frog-butt chaos.
"Ghost Washington" follows a Mount Vernon ghost story built around two guards in a golf cart, a little girl seen off the road, and the unnerving turn when she seems to appear right beside them.
A loose, playful paranormal survey where folklore, psychic projection, and Disney memories share the same eerie corridor.
Doppelgangers give Don't Go In There a clean, eerie hook: the unnerving idea of seeing or hearing someone before that person arrives, or sending an image of oneself somewhere else.
A Puerto Rican goat killing anchors the Chupacabra legend in a grisly, oddly specific origin story.
This single-episode review follows the Chupacabra name back to a 1995 goat killing in Puerto Rico, where David Nguyen described a black, hairy, red-eyed creature with a reptilian, kangaroo-like shape and a crest running from its head down its back.
A blunt finale follows Billy from hunger strike to evaluation as suspicion still outruns certainty.
Don't Go In There closes its Billy case by following his return to Columbus, where questions about his state of mind and motives sharpen again. Flown back into Dr.
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.
Don't Go In There turns Randy Herman Jr.'s West Palm Beach murder case into a sleepwalking-defense debate centered on Brooke's death on March 25, 2017.
Don't Go In There examines reported ghost stories connected to George Washington's Mount Vernon, including a candle extinguishing in his bedroom and alarms sounding from the stables to his bedchamber.
Don't Go In There examines doppelgangers through German folklore, historical accounts, paranormal stories, and competing explanations involving hallucinations, brain injuries, and parallel universes.
Don't Go In There examines the Chupacabra, a Latin American legend associated with attacks on goats, sheep, and other domestic animals.
Don't Go In There's Billy Milligan finale examines Michael Madden's 1986 disappearance after Christopher Carr was seen arguing with him, cashed his disability check, and sold his car.
Don't Go In There: Billy Milligan Part 4 follows Billy’s transfer through Lima, Dayton, and Columbus after doctors disagreed over multiple personality disorder, psychopathic schizophrenia, and personality disorders.
Don't Go In There — “Billy Milligan Part 3” examines Dr.
Don't Go In There examines Billy Milligan’s childhood, family history, reported abuse, and the origins attributed to his personalities.
Bill and Ashley introduce Billy Milligan through a 1977 Ohio State University case involving four women assaulted and robbed during a twelve-day campus panic.
Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie recount Tika Adams's 2009 abduction after Stephanie lured the seven-and-a-half-months-pregnant Washington, DC woman with an offer of free baby supplies.
Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie explain table turning as a séance practice involving rotating, tilting, or levitating tables and coded movements.
Don't Go In There examines how Grace Fryer and other women at the United States Radium Corporation painted luminous clock dials in Orange, New Jersey, using a technique that made them ingest radium.
Don't Go In There examines David Parker Ray, known as the Toy Box Killer, through his New Mexico upbringing, the trailer investigators called the Toy Box, and the 1999 escape of Cynthia.
Don't Go In There covers Christy Mirack, a 25-year-old Lancaster elementary-school teacher murdered on December 21, 1992.
Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie compare modern vampire imagery with folklore about blood, shapeshifting, burial practices, garlic, and counting grains.
Don't Go In There hosts Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie examine La Llorona, a Mexican and Latin American folklore figure known as the weeping woman.
Don't Go In There examines Jake Bird, also called the Tacoma Axe Killer, through reported attacks, a 1949 murder case, and an alleged courtroom hex.
Bill Reed and Anne, introduced as “Dr.
Don't Go In There examines the Ghost Hound of Goshen, a massive white dog reportedly seen along a five-mile stretch of Buncombe Road in South Carolina.
Don't Go In There examines the 2019 disappearance and killing of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, whose final known movements began after a 1:30 a.m.
Ashley Ernie and DJ D-Bunk, identified as Ashley's husband John, examine reported paranormal activity at Colorado's Stanley Hotel.
Don't Go In There examines Charles Albright, known as the Eyeball Killer, through Texas Monthly's 1993 article “See No Evil” and Jim Lukowski's biography.
Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine paranormal stories connected to Gettysburg, beginning with the July 1–3, 1863 battle and its reported 51,000 casualties.
Don't Go In There hosts Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine Danny Rolling’s childhood, abusive family environment, military discharge, and escalating criminal record.
Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed finish the Bell Witch story by covering the spirit's reported return in 1821, when Betsy Bell broke her engagement to Joshua Gardner.
Don't Go In There hosts Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine the first part of the Bell Witch story, beginning with John Bell's 1804 move to Robinson County, Tennessee.
Don't Go In There examines John Leonard Orr, a Glendale Fire Department fire captain and arson investigator whom ATF agent Mike Manassa estimated had set nearly 2,000 fires between 1984 and 1991.
Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine the Mothman legend alongside Point Pleasant's history, including Chief Cornstalk's 1774 murder and alleged curse.
Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed continue their account of the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, moving from the child’s May 12 discovery to the investigation of suspects including Violet Sher and John Corden.
Don't Go In There hosts Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine the 1932 kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son from the family's New Jersey home.
Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie examine the murder of Al Bremlett, a Las Vegas union leader who expanded Culinary Workers Union 226 from 1,500 to 22,000 members.
Ashley Ernie and Bill Reed examine the Whitaker murders, beginning with 911 calls from Bart and neighbor Clifton Stanley after Trisha, Kent, Kevin, and Bart were shot.
This episode covers the life and crimes of serial killer Albert Fish, including his acts of murder, rape, and cannibalism.
Hosts Bill Reed and Ashley Ernie interview the Steel City Ghost Hunters about their ghost hunting experiences.
The hosts introduce their St.
Co-hosts Ashley and Bill introduce their new true crime podcast with a paranormal twist, explaining their shared interest and inviting listeners to share spooky stories.