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Ominous Origins

Casey Chaplin

Join me on a journey into the origins of the unknown. Every legend, every beast, and every myth has it‘s beginnings, and it‘s time we take a look into the Ominous Origins of our mysterious h...

Episodes

20 of 242 episodes

Why Can't We Have A Nice Adolph? | Adolph James Rode Jr.

Murder, drugs, and SA. That's what Adolph James Rode Jr., AKA Cesar Barone liked to do. He wasn't a good guy, to be honest, he almost lives...

00:17:55May 9, 2026

Bad To The Bone | Israel Keyes

Every so often a special kind of psychopath pops up. One who plans for ages, preps his victims, and even leaves kill kits around the country...

24:37Apr 10, 2026

Culty Cult Cults | Cults

Forgive the weak title for today's episode. I am super sick, which you can probably hear in my voice... Anyway, I wanted to get something ou...

11:45Mar 10, 2026

When is a Sapphire not a Sapphire? When it's cursed | The Delhi Purple Sapphire

Today we're looking at Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence in your shoe... Wait, that's not rig...

14:30Mar 3, 2026

Ken and Barbie Suck | Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Today we're going to pretend I didn't just take like half a year off, and we're also going to look at one of the most notorious cases in Can...

19:44Feb 24, 2026

The Most Infamous Cold Case | The Black Dahlia

Way back in 1947, the most infamous unsolved case in American history happened. A young woman was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, that...

13:47Oct 8, 2025

Alone in the Woods | Gary Hilton

Gary Hilton, AKA The National Forest Serial Killer was a man who stalked the national forests in the Carolina's and Florida in the early - m...

17:11Sep 29, 2025

The Worst Time To Go Missing | Sneah Philip

Back in '01, September of '01... The 10th of September '01 to be exact, a young aspiring doctor went missing. For those of you who were aliv...

20:26Aug 26, 2025

The Biggest Bible Ever | Codex Gigas

Two days in a row? I know. It's a special treat for you! But really, I had the motivation and found a really neat topic that I just wanted t...

13:01Jul 21, 2025

Melanie Ethier | Part 2

Sorry that this took more than a minute. BUT, here's the final part to the Melanie Ethier series. We're going over theories, suspects, and s...

17:52Jul 20, 2025

A Girl Who Vanished | Melanie Ethier Part 1

This is one of those weird cases. A girl walked home alone, about a ten minute walk, only she never made it home. The girl in question is Me...

23:46Jun 21, 2025

Abracadabra The Disappearing Bully | Ken McElroy

If there's one story with a moral out there, it's the one of Ken McElroy. He was a bully, well, he was more than that. He was human refuse....

13:36Jun 9, 2025

He's Got His Eye On You | Balor

Balor was the leader of the Fomorians in Irish Myth. He was a tyrant and warrior in Irish Folklore. He had a big ol' eye that caused all kin...

16:25Jul 15, 2024

Horses are cute | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Disclaimer: I'm bird sitting, and the little bugger literally never stops chirping or screaming. I understand if you want to skip this one a...

16:21Jul 1, 2024

Who Shot That Guy? | The Killing of Scott Guy

New Zealand, 2010 is our setting for today's episode, for that is where the poor soul known as Scott Guy was unceremoniously gunned down in...

15:31May 21, 2024

Love and War | Ishtar

So, let's pretend the last five months didn't happen (god, how I wish that were true...), and that this episode went up directly after the l...

11:51May 7, 2024

The Biggest Finger You’ve Ever Been Flipped

It's about a big ol' finger. You just have to listen to believe it, really. Our sponsor: www.morbidlybeautiful.com Merch: www.redbubble.com/...

15:32Jan 13, 2024

The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel

The case that inspired a few different movies and shows, the case of Anneliese Michel is one of the most important exorcism cases in history...

16:18Jan 2, 2024

The Obligatory Update - 2023 Editon

What the title says! Give it a listen to hear all the excuses as to why I disappeared off the face of the planet!

4:27Dec 22, 2023

Don’t Go Night Swimming | Michelle Von Emster

When a body washed ashore near San Diego, it was a mystery as to what happened. Missing limbs and pieces of flesh torn from the body, many a...

17:34Sep 16, 2023