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Broads Next Door

Broads Next Door

Join Daniela Scrima and guests every Monday-Friday as they discuss pop culture, scandals, unsolved mysteries, weird history and more while trying to gain a broader understanding on how any of this happened.Shop BroadsNextStore.comor join our Patreon.com/BroadsnextdoorBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/broads-next-door--5803223/support.

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43:04

Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento

Broads Next Door ·

2025/10/21

Grab your garlic necklace and maybe double check that your doors are locked, because today we’re getting a Broader Understanding of The Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase. CW: this one’s heavy, graphic, and disturbing. It deals with severe mental illness, animal abuse, necrophilia, cannibalism, and some of the most brutal murders I’ve ever covered on this show. But we’re also going to talk about how the system failed everyone involved and how “evil” isn’t always the right word for something that

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147:42

West Memphis Murders Part 6: The Verdict and The...

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2025/10/20

Grab some tissues and your inner rage because today we're getting the verdict in the trial of Jason and Damien.In part one of this series we told you about Stevie, Michael, Chris and the murders that would forever change West Memphis Arkansas, and in part two we covered the satanic panic that led to the arrests of Jason, Damien, and Jessie. In Part three we examined the months leading up to the trials. In part four, Jessie Misskelley was found guilty of the crimes in a separate trial. In part five

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152:26

West Memphis Murders Pt 5: The Trial of Jason Baldwin...

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2025/10/20

Get an HBO film crew and your best experts on satanic panic, because today we're going back to West Memphis for the trial of Damien Echols and Jason BaldwinIn part one of this series we told you about Stevie, Michael, Chris and the murders that would forever change West Memphis Arkansas, and in part two we covered the satanic panic that led to the arrests of Jason, Damien, and Jessie. In Part three we examined the months leading up to the trials. In part four, Jessie Misskelley was found guilty of

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190:51

West Memphis Murders Pt 4: The Trial of Jessie...

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2025/10/19

Grab your court appointed lawyer and remember anything you say may be used against you, as we head back to West Memphis for the trial of Jessie Misskelley.In part one of this series we told you about Stevie, Michael, Chris and the murders that would forever change West Memphis Arkansas, and in part two we covered the satanic panic that led to the arrests of Jason, Damien, and Jessie. In Part three we examined the months leading up to the trials.In Part 4 of our West Memphis series we're breaking

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73:37

West Memphis Murders Pt 3: Jason, Damien and Jessie

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2025/10/18

Grab your copies of Paradise Lost from Blockbuster because today we're getting a broader understanding of the suspects in the HBO docuseries.In part one of this series we told you about Stevie, Michael, Chris and the murders that would forever change West Memphis Arkansas, and in part two we covered the satanic panic that led to the arrests of Jason, Damien, and Jessie.In part three of our West Memphis Murders series we focus on the time period after the arrests- June 1993 to jury selection for

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143:49

West Memphis Murders Pt 2: Satanic Panic

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2025/10/17

Grab your death metal albums and don't talk to the cops without a lawyer because today we're gaining a broader understanding of the satanic panic of the 80s and 90s and how it greatly impacted the case of the West Memphis ThreeIn part one of this series we told you about Stevie, Michael, Chris and the murders that would forever change West Memphis Arkansas. We told you things the way that they seemed, now it’s time to get into things the way that they actually were.In this episode we try and gain a

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64:53

West Memphis Murders Pt 1: Stevie, Michael and Chris

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2025/10/17

Grab your your old cassette tapes, and your deepest sense of injustice, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the 1993 West Memphis Murders and the three little boys who never made it home.On May 5th, 1993, three second graders- Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers left their homes in West Memphis, Arkansas for an ordinary bike ride. They were eight years old. They never came back.What happened that night would become one of the most infamous child murder cases in

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72:11

The True Story Behind Stranger Things: The Montauk...

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2025/10/16

Grab your Hawkins lab keycard, put on your anti-mind-control headband, and step carefully through the static, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of Camp Hero, the Montauk Project, and what may or may not be hiding beneath the sands of Long Island.We’re going to Camp Hero.To a decommissioned military base at the edge of Montauk, Long Island. Where the Cold War never really ended. Where stories of kidnapped psychic kids, alien technology, and mind control experiments echo beneath the

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94:07

Active Serial Killers: They're Not All Gone

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2025/10/15

Put down your true crime coloring book, turn off that third rewatch of Mindhunter, and triple-check your locks, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of active serial killers.Maybe they didn’t go extinct.Maybe they changed their ways just enough that we stopped noticing.We’re not talking about Jeffrey Dahmer’s glasses or the psychology of Ed Kemper. We’re talking about the now.Because while Netflix has made a buffet of the past’s worst men, we seem to forget:They’re still out

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52:10

Carrie White: Telekinesis and Teenage Trauma

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2025/10/14

Grab a date and put on your prom dress, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of adolescent rage, telekinetic revenge, teenage trauma and Carrie White:On Writing, Stephen KingIs Telekinesis Real? (Ted Ed)https://youtu.be/Jq9D_HkQhAA?s...Analyzing Evil Margaret White from Carrie (The Vile Eye)https://youtu.be/tihF7bFKvW8?s...How Did Carrie Get Her Powers (Screen Rant)https://screenrant.com/stephen...Carrie White (The Take)https://youtu.be/9bSCYqKsu_w?s...Become a supporter of this

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50:06

The Science of Fear: Why We Sometimes Want to Be Scared

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2025/10/13

Grab your heart rate monitor and your Halloween candy because today we’re getting a broader understanding of why we like being scared and the science behind fear itself. How can something that works almost as a survival mechanism also feel kind of good in the right situation? Are we sadists or are we helping ourselves survive?Sources:IFL Science, Fearhttps://youtube.com/shorts/_2W...Why We Love to Be Scared, PBShttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/a...The Science of Fear, Northwestern

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49:16

Weekend Rewind: Celebrity Psychics, Scammers and Seances

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2025/10/12

Grab your clairvoyance and your credit card because today we're getting a broader understanding of celebrity psychics & scammers. From Mary Todd Lincoln’s séances in the White House, tv infomercials for psychic hotlines, CIA psychic spy programs and modern day reality tv mediums- we are taking a look at the business of reading minds, flipping cards and seeing the future. Is anyone the real deal or was it all just a scam?And why has no one won that $1,000,000 psychic challenge? (originally

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105:33

Weekend Rewind: The Never Ending Horror of Family...

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2025/10/11

Get a box of tissues, and your strongest emotional armor, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of one the darkest kinds of killer- the family annihilator. Often pretending to be the perfect dad, the perfect spouse until they lose control and everyone pays the price. Chris Watts, Josh Powell, John List & the more recent horrifying crimes that continue. Why does this happen? How are there more annihilators than school shooters? And how do we change a system that blames women and

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87:35

Weekend Rewind: Mimics, Doppelgängers and Disembodied...

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2025/10/10

Grab your sage & your skepticism, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of doppelgängers, mimics, and the moments that make us question reality. What happens when we see someone who isn’t there? When someone (or something) else doesn’t just look like you but mimics you? Is it a form of hysteria messing with our minds? A glitch in our brains and in linear time or something more sinister? We’ve been documenting doubles for thousands of years, science must know something, right?

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31:27

Cryptids: The Mothman of Point Pleasant

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2025/10/09

Grab your binoculars and maybe don’t drive through any small towns alone at night, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of The Mothman: red-eyed omen? Government experiment? Or just another winged warning that we’re not alone?Sources:Sources:Mothman Legacyhttps://youtu.be/W0qE1xQ_Db0?s...John Keel & The Mothmanhttps://youtu.be/LUKDtRVVaOI?s...Smithsonian Center for Folklifehttps://folklife.si.edu/magazi...Become a supporter of this podcast:

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30:01

A Brief History of Ouija Boards

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2025/10/08

Grab a planchette and dust off that box from the back of the closet, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding (and a brief history) of Ouija boards. From Victorian séances to TikTok rituals, and parlor games to demonic warnings, we’re learning about the board that spells it all out and can make even a skeptic feel superstitious.Sources:Ouija Board History (Fox45 Boston)https://youtu.be/0P5vyfYp1n4?s...SciShow Psychhttps://youtu.be/IqE3YjstENg?s...Crimes Involving Ouija Boards (Readers

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67:30

Clown Sightings, Pennywise, IT & The Evil Legacy of...

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2025/10/07

Grab a red balloon but avoid storm drains, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of clowns. The early history, the clown sightings of 2016, Pennywise and Stephen King’s IT, why clowns scare us, and how the monster that was John Wayne Gacy paraded around as Pogo. What happens when adults don’t believe kids? What happens when we don’t keep track of the missing and most vulnerable among us? Was it really all just hysteria? Maybe we have good reason to be fearful of clowns but if we’re

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56:40

Celebrity Haunted Houses and The Home with a Portal...

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2025/10/06

Grab your sage bundles and your real estate disclosures, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of celebrity haunted houses- starting with the one Britney Spears sold to Brittany Murphy, and the tragic legacy that followed. Sources: Brittany Murphy’s Death, inside the Eerie House (Entertainment Tonight)https://youtu.be/l2wglu_PrLQ?s... The Haunting of Brittany Murphy House (Not My Stories)https://youtu.be/SC3IQOJ3nn8? si=Hr-1ojF4Fo5Jp_jX The Dark History Behind Brittany Murphy's Home —

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62:42

Weekend Rewind: Exorcism and Demonic Possession in...

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2025/10/05

Grab your holy water & learn some Latin, because today we"re gaining a broader understanding of exorcism and demonic possession in pop culture.In this (release) episode we hear the true story behind the movie The Exorcist and how it shaped the way we see possession and exorcism on film.We’ll also hear about the 67 exorcisms of Annalise Michel that led to her death and the prosecution of her parents and the priests who performed the exorcism.Then we have Ed and Lorraine Warren and their

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57:43

Weekend Rewind: The Craft & 90s Movie Witches

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2025/10/04

Grab your black cat and your VCR as we gain a broader understanding of 90’s movie witches from The Witches,The Craft, Teen Witch, Double Double Toil and Trouble, Hocus Pocus, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, The Crucible, Eve’s Bayou, Halloweentown, to The Blair Witch Projectwhy were witches so popular in the 90’s and why do they still hold a special place in our hearts and in our covens? (Originally released October 2023)Become a supporter of this podcast:

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