ShortHand: Centralia – The Real Silent Hill
A fire has been raging under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, for more than 60 years – and it’s nowhere near done. After the vast underg...
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RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness. We cover everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions...
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ShortHand: Werewolves
Recorded under a full moon, RedHanded’s guide to all things lycanthropic tells the whole hairy story: from Ancient Greek tales of curses, th...
Halloween Special Part 2: Nicaraguan Jungle Exorcism & Japan’s ‘Little Girl Killer’ | #474
Welcome to part two of our annual Halloween story-swap, where we take turns to try and freak each other out... with the very worst stories w...
ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 3 - The Witches Take America
At first, stories of European witch-panics were nothing more than idle gossip to the settlers of New England. But soon – faced with inexplic...
ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 2 - Hunting Witches in Britain
In Part 2 of our special spooky series on all things witchy, we take a look at how the hag-hunting insanity spread to the British Isles: tha...
Halloween Special Part 1: Nigeria’s House of Horrors & The Real Life ‘Candyman’ | #473
With Halloween fast approaching, it’s time for our annual tradition at RedHanded: a classic spooky story swap. In this first spine-tingling...
ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 1 - The European Witch Craze
Believed for over a thousand years to be local soothsayers who used their powers for everyday charms and spells, European witches' PR machin...
FROM THE VAULT - David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue | #369
Since it's October, we're revisiting one of the most sickening, spine-chilling cases we've ever covered on RedHanded ... The horrifying case...
ShortHand: Hell
Boiled in blood, hacked at by knives, torn apart by iron dogs… the world’s religions differ on what exactly might await sinners in the after...
The Murder of Sydney Loofe: Aubrey Trial and Bailey Boswell | #472
Cursing the courtroom and then slashing his own throat with a contraband shiv, Aubrey Trail had lived up to his promise, turning the trial o...
Introducing Serial Killers & Murderous Minds: Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder
Today we're sharing an episode from the true crime podcast Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and forensic psych...
ShortHand: The Conjuring
In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged ‘true story’ of a house haunt...
FROM THE VAULT - Babis Anagnostopoulos: The Fitbit Killer | #389
With the release of the Amazon Prime documentary about the murder of Caroline Crouch, we're reaching into the vault to bring you H&S' covera...
ShortHand: Exorcisms Around the World
Vanquishing demons lingering in a tainted soul might sound like a very Christian idea – but exorcisms are prevalent in almost every culture...
The Vietnamese Gore Butcher | #471
When videos of a gruesome beheading and dismemberment surfaced on gore-fetish websites across Vietnam in 2025, the internet was shaken to it...
ShortHand: Papua New Guinea's Black Magic Murders
Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea. Horrifyingly, it’s...
ShortHand: Vlad the Impaler - The Real Dracula
To round launch our month of spooky eps, our Halloween ShortHand covers the life and afterlife of one of the most sinister, blood-thirstiest...
The Witches of Guaratuba: Black Magic, Child Sacrifice and a Deadly Plot | #470
In the early 1990s, the beach town of Guaratuba, Brazil had its very own witch hunt. It started with the mutilated body of a seven-year-old...
ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret
From the BBC and Westminster Cathedral to Penguin paperbacks, typeface creator Eric Gill was once lauded as the eccentric genius behind some...
ShortHand: Should We Support Paedophile Catchers?
To some paedophile catchers like Chris Hansen are online superheroes, protecting children and putting predators behind bars. To others they'...