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Lizzie Borden: The Actual Story Behind Netflix’s Monster

Everyone knows the rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. The problem is that almost every word of it is bullshit. In this episode, Dayna hea

The Whaley House After Dark with Bekah Page

Bekah Page joins Dayna to talk about her paranormal investigations at The Whaley House. Bekah has always been sensitive to energies and drawn to the paranormal. As a chil

The Whaley House: Built On Death

A hanged man, two tragic young deaths, and a whole lot of frontier judgment. The Whaley House, built on top of a killing ground, had no choice but to be haunted. This wee

Reincarnation with Jenn Scott Pickett

For the first time in Loreplay HISTORY, we have a guest on the show! Jenn Scott Pickett has been deep diving reincarnation and sharing the stories for years. She is an au

Past Life Detective: Robert L. Snow

Imagine you're a hard boiled cop that doesn't believe in woo woo nonsense, and then you are forced to face that the woo woo nonsense might be on to something. Robert L. S

The Ghosts Left Behind by the North Berwick Witch Trials

The trials ended. The executions stopped. But according to the ghost stories, some of North Berwick’s dead never really left. In this bonus episode of Loreplay, we’re he

The North Berwick Witch Trials

Season 2 is HERE, and apparently we’re kicking things off with Satan’s cold ass, witches sailing the Scottish seas in kitchen colanders, a weaponized cat, and one very pa

The Hex Hollow Murder

In 1928, on the night before Thanksgiving, a sixty-year-old Pennsylvania folk healer named Nelson Rehmeyer was beaten to death in his farmhouse by three men who believed

Jack Ketch and the Botched Beheadings

Public executions were already brutal… but then came Jack Ketch—the executioner who somehow made death worse. Known across 17th-century England for his shockingly bad aim

Exploding Teeth: Your New Phobia Unlocked

In this absolutely chaotic slice of history, we dive into one of the strangest—and most painful—medical mysteries ever recorded: exploding teeth. Yes. Actual human teeth.

Spring Heeled Jack: The Terror of London

In 1837, something started terrorizing the outskirts of London. It had eyes like red balls of fire, metallic claws, and a deeply unsettling habit of vomiting blue flame d

Bárbara of The Pleasures: Rio's Myth, Murder, and Folklore

In the shadow of colonial Rio de Janeiro, beneath the historic Arco do Teles, lives the legend of Bárbara dos Prazeres—a woman remembered as beautiful, powerful… and poss

The Witch of Yazoo: She Said What She Said

This week we're going fully unhinged in the Mississippi Delta, and I need you to be prepared for that emotionally. We're covering the Witch of Yazoo — a nameless woman, a

The Werewolf Trials

Hey hey, lore-loving weirdos — before Salem, before witch trials became a cultural shorthand for mass hysteria, Europe spent roughly two hundred years putting people on t

The Dancing Plague of 1518

In July of 1518, one woman in Strasbourg walked into the street and began to dance. She didn’t stop. Within days, dozens joined her. Within weeks, hundreds were convulsin

The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales

Think fairy tales were written for children? Think again. In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira dives deep into the dark, disturbing, and wildly misunderstood origin

The Hinterkaifeck Murders

In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote German farm known as Hinterkaifeck. There were no witnesses. No arrests. No clear motive. But what makes this case

The LaLaurie Mansion: True Horror on Royal Street

New Orleans is known for jazz, ghosts, cocktails, and bad decisions made after midnight—but one house on Royal Street manages to out-traumatize them all. In this episode

The Curse of The Pharaoh

In 1922, archaeologists opened the tomb of Tutankhamun, and almost immediately, people started dying. Coincidence? Bad luck? Or did they anger something ancient, royal,

Poveglia Island and The Black Death

A normal ship docks. Europe panics. History absolutely spirals. In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira unpacks the chaos of the Black Death—the pandemic that wiped o