Malice in the Mitten

Halloween gets weird on Round Robin! Tracy, Christine and Nina uncover bizarre old-school Halloween dating rituals, terrifying turnip jack-o'-lanterns, the strange history behind trick-or-treating.  Tracy also honors Halloween historian Ruth Edna Kelley as Woman of the Week and recommends Peacock's new Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake. Grab the candy, turn down the...

On Halloween night in 2019, Willie Lawrence Wilborn was standing inside a Detroit gas station when a gunman wearing a clown mask approached and fatally shot him.

But the story didn't begin that night.

Two years earlier, Wilborn had been charged in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, LaDiamond Myers, a 24-year-old mother of four. Those charges were dismissed a...

Deep in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, stands a Victorian mansion that once became a twenty-bed community hospital—and later one of Mid-Michigan's most enduring paranormal legends.

Harriet Chapman Hospital opened in 1918, founded by nurse Harriet Chapman alongside physicians Charles Stimson and Francis R. Blanchard. Less than a year later, tragedy struck when Dr. Blanchard st...

A black bear walks into an Alaska shopping mall, steals a peach, poops in the hallway, and leaves. Beavers in Poland destroy a sign warning people about… beavers. And a frightened monkey turns a Spirit Halloween store into its own personal jungle gym.

You seriously cannot make this shit up.

Because on Round Robin, sometimes we start with a bear taking a shit in ...

In December 1883, William Vanderhoof died after years of unexplained illness in Berrien County, Michigan.

His wife, Elizabeth, was accused of poisoning him with arsenic.

A jury convicted her of murder.

But William's attending physician believed he was suffering from heart disease, and the medical evidence was far from straightforward.

In 1888, the ...