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Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world's most terrifying legends. From the real stories behind horror movies to the creepiest corners of the internet, be ready to experience terror like never before. New episodes every Monday.Twisted Tales is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Best of Horror Explained 2 | The Exorcist
In 1949, a 13-year-old Maryland boy named Ronald Hunkeler underwent a series of harrowing exorcisms that would inspire the film The Exorcist. Decades later, a…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongHAUNTED TAKEOVER: The First 48: Brothers Down
Beware...for Halloween, The First 48 is haunting this feed with an episode just for you. Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime House…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Best of Horror Explained 1 | The Backrooms
In 2018, an anonymous user posted a photograph of an empty yellow room on 4chan — no caption, no story, no name. A year later, two paragraphs turned that image…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Serial Killers & Slashers 2
Ed Gein. Ted Bundy. Gary Heidnik. Jerry Brudos. Each of these men committed crimes so disturbing they reshaped public understanding of serial killers…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongPRESENTING: Celebrity Ghost Stories
An A&E original podcast presented by Rewind Studios, Celebrity Ghost Stories is adapted from the first and only series where celebrities share their real-life…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Serial Killers & Slashers 1
A killer who watched from the windows. A town students were too afraid to walk through. And a franchise born from real terror. Heidi Wong tells the true origin…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Haunted Houses & Hotels 2
A woman found dead at a seaside resort. A man murdered in a locked hotel room. And two ghosts who never checked out. Heidi Wong uncovers the terrifying true…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Haunted Houses & Hotels 1
A luxury hotel in the Colorado mountains where ghostly music still echoes. A quiet Long Island home where six family members were murdered in their sleep…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Masters of Horror 2 | Ari Aster & Hereditary
A cult that raised children to obey without question. A bloodline marked by mental illness. And a legacy of suicide that refused to end. Heidi Wong uncovers…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Halloween Terrors: Masters of Horror 1 | Osgood Perkins & Longlegs
A filmmaker haunted by his family’s past. A doll that mirrored a tragedy. And a story born from grief, faith, and fear. Heidi Wong explores the real…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongIntroducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!
Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: Deadly Premonitions and Final Destination
A writer who predicted the Titanic disaster. A child who dreamed of her own death. And a president haunted by a vision of his own funeral. Heidi Wong uncovers…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Spooky Season: The Devil Made Me Do It
The fourth and final episode of Spooky Season covers a shocking crime from February 16, 1981, when 19-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord and friend…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: Jordan Peele's Us and Real-World Doppelgängers
A vanished child returns as a stranger. A beauty blogger’s twin becomes her killer. A man’s life is stolen by his lookalike. Heidi Wong exposes the real…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Spooky Season: The Greenbrier Ghost
Our third episode of Spooky Season takes you back to January 1897, when twenty-something Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of her staircase in…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: The Real People Who Inspired AHS: Coven
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. A sadistic aristocrat with a torture chamber. And a crazed killer with an axe. Heidi uncovers the real stories of Marie…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongIntroducing History’s Greatest Mysteries, a new podcast from Rewind Studios and The History Channel
A History Channel original podcast brought to you by Rewind Studios, History's Greatest Mysteries examines the top theories surrounding the world's most…
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Spooky Season: Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Episode two of Spooky Season covers a case from April 1943, when four boys trespassing in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, discovered a woman's skeleton stuffed…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: The True Story of Midsommar
A Swedish legend of dancing with the devil. A medieval plague that made people dance to death. And a modern town haunted by a phantom attacker. Heidi Wong…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Spooky Season: The Hammersmith Ghost
Welcome to the first episode of Crime House's latest four-part limited series: Spooky Season. In the winter of 1803, the village of Hammersmith was convinced a…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: Horror's Most Terrifying Camping Trips
A lakeside camping trip ends in blood. A quiet cabin becomes a house of horrors. And the killers were never caught. Heidi Wong tells the real stories that…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Summer Scares: Real Stories of the Conjuring Universe
Step beyond the screen and into the real-life terror behind The Conjuring Universe. Heidi explores the Perron family’s decade-long haunting in a Rhode Island…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Penpal: The Stalker Who Watched from the Beginning | Creepypastas
When Dathan was five, his kindergarten class released helium balloons with letters inside as a sweet lesson about connecting with strangers. But someone found…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongReal People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Twisted Tales, you are going to love CRIMES OF…
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Borrasca: The Sound on the Mountain | Creepypastas
In 2015, a writer named C.K. Walker posted a story to Reddit's r/nosleep forum about a boy named Sam who moves to a perfect small town in the Ozark…
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Psychosis: When Screens Replace Reality | Creepypastas
In 2010, writer Matt Dymerski published a creepypasta called Psychosis: a journal written by a programmer slowly convinced that everyone he knows has been…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Candle Cove: The Kids' TV Show That Wasn’t There | Creepypastas
In 2009, a web cartoonist named Kris Straub published a short story formatted as an internet forum thread, in which a group of strangers collectively…
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The Strangers: The Passengers You Should Ignore | Creepypastas
Andrew Erics is a twenty-five-year-old factory worker in New York City who passes his daily commute by people-watching... until he notices riders who are too…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongIntroducing: The First 48 | From Crime House and A&E
For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don’t get a lead within the first 48 hours.Adapted from the hit A&E true crime…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The Devil's Cosmonaut: Horror on a Space Station | Creepypastas
In 1976, Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov endured a catastrophic solo stint aboard the Salyut 5 space station: contaminated air, a crumbling support system, and…
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NoEnd House: Nine rooms, No Way Out | Creepypastas
No End House is a creepypasta about a nine-room haunted attraction that promises five hundred dollars to anyone who makes it through... a feat no one has ever…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Polybius: The Arcade Game That Drives You Insane | Creepypastas
In 1981, a plain black arcade cabinet appeared overnight in a Portland, Oregon arcade. No logo, no artwork, just a name glowing in pale green letters…
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Ted the Caver: The Horror Underground | Creepypastas
In early 2001, a recreational caver named Ted documented his obsessive attempt to break through a sealed passage deep inside a cave... and what he found on the…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Crimes that Built America | Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House’s Murder: True Crime Stories presents a special series for America’s 250th Birthday: The Crimes That Built America. Listen every Monday until July…
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BEN Drowned: Horror You Can't Control | Creepypastas
In September 2010, a college student bought a used copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask at a garage sale, and discovered a save file named BEN belonging…
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Dear David: The Ghost in the Replies | Creepypastas
In August 2017, New York-based cartoonist Adam Ellis began documenting a haunting on Twitter: a dead boy named David, a dented skull, and a rocking chair that…
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Anansi’s Goatman: When the Terror Blends In | Creepypastas
In the summer of 2012, a teenager's camping trip on remote Alabama woodland turns into something no one can explain. What begins with strange smells and…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The Backrooms: From Anonymous Post to A24 Horror Movie | Creepypastas
In 2018, an anonymous user posted a photograph of an empty yellow room on 4chan — no caption, no story, no name. A year later, two paragraphs turned that image…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
When Beloved Cartoons Became Something Darker | Creepypastas
Three of the internet's most notorious lost media creepypastas take aim at SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons, and classic Disney — spinning tales of hidden…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The Horror That Never Stops Walking
What if something was following you… …and it never stopped? It doesn’t run. It doesn’t rush. It just keeps walking. This episode explores the real-world fears…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The True Stories That Inspired "The Silence of the Lambs"
Ed Gein. Ted Bundy. Gary Heidnik. Jerry Brudos. Each of these men committed crimes so disturbing they reshaped public understanding of serial killers…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The Mummy Is Back: But Was the Curse Ever Real?
A boy king erased from history. A tomb filled with gold. And a wave of deaths blamed on ancient revenge. As the Mummy universe expands once again, Heidi Wong…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
Ready or Not 2 Is Coming: Here’s the Dark History Behind It
An exclusive society hidden in the woods. Brides trapped inside powerful institutions. And a king who killed for an heir. As the next chapter of Ready or Not…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
The Killers Who Changed a Country
A man who hunted the wealthy and the vulnerable. A serial predator who evaded justice for decades. And a public murder that ignited a feminist movement. Heidi…
- Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong
A Family Curse That Spanned Generations
A cult that raised children to obey without question. A bloodline marked by mental illness. And a legacy of suicide that refused to end. Heidi Wong uncovers…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongTicci Toby: The Creepypasta That Defined Internet Horror
It started as a story online. A troubled teenager. A violent transformation. A character that felt just real enough to stick in your head long after you…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Russian Sleep Experiment and Other Internet Nightmares
What would happen if someone stayed awake for fifteen days? In this episode of Twisted Tales, Heidi Wong explores three legendary Creepypastas about science…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Curse That Followed People Home
A daughter tortured in the name of faith. A school overtaken by mass possession. And an online “game” blamed for real deaths. Heidi Wong explores the…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Underground City That Inspired a Horror Film
Hidden tunnels beneath familiar streets. Stories of powerful men operating in secret. And a myth that refuses to disappear. Heidi Wong reveals the true origins…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Internet Myth That Refused to Stay Fiction (The Empty Man Explained!)
A monster born in the Himalayas. A legend created on an internet forum. And violence sparked by belief alone. Heidi Wong uncovers the true stories behind The…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Killer Behind the Mask (Your Scream 7 Cheat Sheet!)
A killer who watched from the windows. A town students were too afraid to walk through. And a franchise born from real terror. Heidi Wong tells the true origin…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Scientific Expedition That Ended in Madness (Annihilation Explained!)
A nuclear blast disguised as a meteor. A room that reads your mind. And three men who saved the world underwater. Heidi Wong dives into the real events and…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Chilling UFO Encounter That Shocked a Family
A town where people vanish without a trace. A pilot stalked by lights no one else could see. And a sky filled with secrets that defy explanation. Heidi Wong…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongDeadly Chefs and Kitchen Horrors (The Menu Explained!)
A gravedigger and chef who stewed a man’s body. A husband who disposed of his wife through culinary skill. And a celebrated caterer who killed for money. Heidi…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongA Powerful Family, a Trail of Deaths, and a House Built on Secrets (Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher Explained!)
A family built on blood money. A curse born in a colonial basement. And a mansion that swallowed its sins. Heidi Wong uncovers everything from the real family…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Mining Disaster That Turned a Town Into a Death Trap (Return to Silent Hill Cheat Sheet!)
A town cursed by murder. A fire that’s been burning for 60 years. And a community swallowed by the earth. Heidi Wong uncovers the true story behind Silent…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongA Family Surrounded by Death (Longlegs Explained!)
A filmmaker haunted by his family’s past. A doll that mirrored a tragedy. And a story born from grief, faith, and fear. Heidi Wong explores the real…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongCrimes So Disturbing They Were Almost Unfilmable
A killer who turned skin into furniture. A journalist murdered for a story. And a podcaster killed by her biggest fan. Heidi Wong uncovers the real stories…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongThe Crimes Behind Japan’s Curse Legends (The Grudge Explained!)
A curse born in blood. A spirit fueled by rage. And three ghosts who never rest. Heidi Wong uncovers the real Japanese ghost stories behind The Grudge and…
Twisted Tales with Heidi WongHaunted Hotels and Unexplained Deaths
A woman found dead at a seaside resort. A man murdered in a locked hotel room. And two ghosts who never checked out. Heidi Wong uncovers the terrifying true…