Fresh Hell Podcast

A prison that didn't appear on public maps, where political prisoners would vanished behind its walls...

This week, Annie and Johanna take you to Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, one of East Germany's most notorious prisons. We start in post-WWII Berlin, when the Soviet NKVD established Special Camp No. 3, and follow the site's history over the decades. From the infamous underground U-Boot prison to the detention and interrogation center run by the Stasi.

Stasi, Hohenschönhausen, East Germany, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Soviet NKVD, political prisoners, East Berlin, German history, Soviet occupation, secret police, Stasi prison, true crime history.
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If your husband disappears for three days every week and claims he’s been a wolf, you should have questions.

Spooky Fuckery Month continues with werewolf history, from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval folklore.

werewolves, werewolf history, werewolf folklore, werewolf legends, lycanthropy, European folklore, werewolf trials, Peter Stumpp, Werewolf of Bedburg, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Bisclavret, King Lycaon, Greek mythology, full moon, silver bullets, The Wolf Man, An American Werewolf in London, Halloween podcast, spooky history, Fresh Hell Podcast, Bad Moon Rising
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On Halloween night in 1957, Peter Fabiano was shot and killed at his front door in North Hollywood, California, after answering what he thought was another late-night trick-or-treater.

His lasts words: “Isn't it a little late for this?”

The murder of Peter Fabiano would become known as the Trick-or-Treat Murder, or the Halloween Murder, and it involved broken friendship, jealousy, beauty salons, and a carefully planned murder disguised as a Halloween visit.
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