Hell and Gone - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I love Catherine’s approach to her cases and how she takes a much more ethical approach than many when exploring cases. I also appreciate how thorough and approachable her pod is, as well as the fact she most times covers cases that are lesser known and need more coverage.

I always love this podcast and everything Catherine does, but the Jay Slater episode was extra excellent, important, and helpful. I updated my find my phone settings because of her suggestion and it was so easy to do based on her easy to follow directions.

Podcasts are a lot of work, and creating them takes courage most people don’t have. Most of the Karens in the comments don’t acknowledge this podcast’s great content or the effort required to crank out so many small town stories this quickly.

That said, a couple of tweaks I’ll echo from others: the sound is a major issue, maybe lower the volume or reduce the frequency of music played. Also, the ads. Wow. Make your money, girl, we get it, but how about doing longer commercials at the beginning and end and remove the middle breaks? Same amount of ad time with fewer breaks. The average listener cannot fork out hundreds of dollars/month to listen to all their favorite podcasts. Annoying people multiple times during a single episode is not how to gain new paid subscribers.

Great podcast overall, based on the stories and details provided.

Catherine, I just recently discovered your pod cast and have so far listened to seasons 1-3. You and your team do such a great job and your voice, with its slight twinge of southern accent lend a tender touch to your accounts that draws me in. The attention to detail that you provide shines through the darkness that you cover in your stories! Bless you for keeping these poor lost souls alive and for bringing their tragic endings to light, it shows that you have a heart for lives lost and your search for the truth behind it are touching!

I enjoy this podcast, but I cannot listen to it like I prefer, which is to binge it because of the excessive amounts of ads & commercials. I understand people got to get paid & at least this allows us the opportunity to hear these cases, but you can’t listen while exercising or doing anything, bc you’re constantly having to fast forward past the ads & commercials. Commercial breaks can be over 3 mins, multiple times per episode.
Incredibly frustrating.
During 20 minutes to wash dishes, I had this on. I had to stop, dry my hands & fast forward 3 times in that 20 minute period.
I tried to exercise & had to stop 2 times within 7 minutes to fast forward. I turned it off & chose a podcast that had a normal amt of ads.
Catherine does a really great job, but it’s increasingly frustrating to watch due to excessively long ads.

Interesting content but there are more minutes of ads than minutes of content. I certainly can’t afford to pay for ad free content on 10-20 podcasts. I understand the need for ads and I’m ok with the podcasts with reasonable numbers of ads but this one is out of control.