Farmhouse murders, zombie powders and Breton omens.
Not Another Horror Podcast pairs documented murder cases with folklore and legend, from the Hinterkaifeck killings in Bavaria to zombie lore in Haiti and superstitions from Brittany. The host narrates each case in atmospheric prose, jokes around the edges and signs off with 'stay safe, stay sane.'
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Not Another Horror Podcast collects dark stories and doesn't fuss much over the line between a police file and a legend. Its episodes show this clearly. One reconstructs the Hinterkaifeck murders, in which the Gruber family and their maid were killed at an isolated Bavarian farmhouse, and lingers on how undeveloped forensic science was at the time, with fingerprints left unexamined. Another follows the Toa Payoh ritual murders in Singapore, where police came to suspect a self-proclaimed black magic practitioner. The host flags it at the start as a darker, more 'true crime-y' outing. Then the show turns toward the uncanny. An episode on Haitian zombies sets the legend against Davis's theory that ritual powders contained tetrodotoxin, a pufferfish neurotoxin that can cause paralysis and a death-like state. Lake Lanier, also known as Oscarville, gets an episode built around drownings, underwater ghost towns, desecrated cemeteries and boats hitting something in the water that turns out not to be there. The Gibbons twins, June and Jennifer, come across through their private language and their refusal to speak to anyone but each other. The narration works in two modes. Case material is read as rich, descriptive prose, full of flickering lamplight, creaking floorboards and a waning moon. Around it, the host talks loosely and warmly. Halloween is declared the favorite holiday over Christmas, screen zombies are admitted to be not very scary, and the scientific vocabulary of the zombie research is confessed to be hard going. Most of the humor lands in the closing lines. Listeners are told not to get turned into zombies, not to get eaten by giant catfish, and not to trust anyone who claims to be a divine sorcerer offering eternal life. Doubt gets room as well. After the twins story, the host allows that 'logical people' probably see a rational explanation and asks what others think. The Samhain episode adds a second voice, a guest named David, who shares Breton folk beliefs. These include shouting a dead man's name three times after burial and listening for an echo, keeping a lost tooth instead of burning it, and reading flowers that wither on a deathbed as the sign of a damned soul. The host also invites case suggestions through the show's Instagram and website. The sign-off stays the same throughout: 'stay safe, stay sane.' For a first listen, the Hinterkaifeck episode shows the atmospheric storytelling at its fullest. The zombie episode suits anyone who wants the folklore tested against science.
Made for: This suits a listener who wants true crime and folklore in the same feed, and who likes atmospheric case narration broken up by an informal, joking host.
What sets it apart: It gives a Bavarian farm massacre, Haitian zombie powders and Breton death omens the same treatment, and it gives rational explanations a fair hearing next to the eerie ones. The host's offhand humor and the fixed 'stay safe, stay sane' sign-off give the grim material a personal frame.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured look at Haitian zombie belief, possible drug-induced paralysis, and a mystery that stays partly unresolved.
The episode sets Haiti's real-world zombie traditions against the flesh-eating monsters of The Walking Dead and World War Z, then finds its most compelling ground in Wade Davis's Haiti investigation.
Brittany folklore and a haunted house give this Halloween episode an intimate, inherited sense of dread.
This Halloween episode follows David into Brittany's seasonal folklore, where Celtic ideas of death, souls, family warnings, and old customs give the conversation a suitably shadowed pull.
Lake Lanier's buried history gives its ghost stories a murky, unsettling foundation.
Lake Lanier comes through as a place where buried history and local dread keep feeding each other. The episode ties the lake to Oscarville, graves said to remain underwater, and sightings around Brown's Bridge, then sets that folklore beside its grim record of boating accidents,…
Celebrity gossip meets survival-crime chaos.
Murder cases, lake monsters and two hosts with opinions.
Vanishings, killings and cold trails, laid out case by case.
One friend tells the case. The other asks why.
["Not Another Horror Podcast's Anthony Rossetti asks whether Haitian zombi lore describes real people rather than The Walking Dead-style monsters.", "He explains the Haitian model of bokor priests, zombie astral jars, and zombie cadavers, where victims could be used for plantation labor or controlled after burial.", "The episode follows Zor Neil Hurston's 1937 Haiti trip, Wayne Davis's 1982 investigation of Cleverius Narcisse, and Davis's tetrodotoxin theory built from eight powder samples.", "It closes on The Lancet's October 11, 1997 Haiti cases and the claim that mental illness, brain damage, and possible toxins may explain some reports without ending the debate."]
Not Another Horror Podcast's 'A Very Special Samhain: Tales From The Forest' starts with Anthony and David linking Halloween to Brittany's Celtic Samhain, called Calin Gouinf, or 'first day of winter.' David says Brittany kept its own language and mythology after France annexed the region in 1532, and he frames the episode around stories his grandparents told him on the farm.
Not Another Horror Podcast's "Oscarville A.K.A Lake Lanier" ties Lake Lanier's reputation to Oscarville, a Black community that the transcript says had nearly 1,100 Black residents before 1912.
A businessman arrived at a Japanese airport with a passport from Torrid, a country officials said never existed.
Tim Horn hopes mVac DNA technology can identify a suspect from the ropes used in the 1971 murders.
Anthony Rossetti recounts the case of Ronald Joseph Dominique, the "Bayou Strangler," who killed 23 men in Louisiana between 1997 and 2006.
A host recounts a bizarre home invasion involving LSD and a hermetic castle in Georgia.
A podcast episode investigating the unsolved 1976 double murder of two unidentified individuals in Sumter, South Carolina.
The host introduces an episode about a mysterious disease in 1950s Mississippi that drove women to kill men, plus listener submissions.
The host thanks listeners and introduces a story about a family that turns out to be a cult.