A lover’s lane under a moonless Tuscan sky. Two bodies, a ritual signature, and a .22 that ties eight double homicides across nearly two decades. This episode unravels the crimes, the botched manhunts, and the spiraling occult theories that turned a serial killer into modern folklore.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_of_Florence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/09/rorycarroll.theobserver

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-of-florence-amanda-knox-prosecutors-satanic-theories-rejected-by-judge/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/07/the-monster-of-florence/304981/

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A lover’s lane under a moonless Tuscan sky. Two bodies, a ritual signature, and a .22 that ties eight double homicides across nearly two decades. This episode unravels the crimes, the botched manhunts, and the spiraling occult theories that turned a serial killer into modern folklore.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_of_Florence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/09/rorycarroll.theobserver

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-of-florence-amanda-knox-prosecutors-satanic-theories-rejected-by-judge/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/07/the-monster-of-florence/304981/

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On a late-night broadcast of Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell introduced a chilling tape. What spilled from the speakers was a nightmarish roar of countless human screams – the infamous “Sounds from Hell.” The recording, Bell explained, was said to come from a Soviet drilling project in Siberia during the 1980s, where geologists allegedly bored nine miles into the earth. According to legend, their instruments registered impossible heat, and when a microphone was lowered into the shaft, it captured the agonized cries of tortured souls.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-well-to-hell/

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4159

https://medium.puzzlingmysteries.com/echoes-from-the-abyss-the-hellish-sounds-below-05e87b7b7b91

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2003-05-02-show

https://allthatsinteresting.com/well-to-hell

https://eosty.medium.com/real-story-of-well-to-hell-unknown-truth-af694a951393

https://web.archive.org/web/20120729090228/http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hellsounds.htm

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In February 1997, a man named Mel Waters phoned into Coast to Coast AM with a story so strange it would become one of the program’s most infamous legends. On his rural property near Ellensburg, Washington, Mel claimed there was a mysterious pit – a hole with no bottom. He said he had lowered fishing line more than 80,000 feet without hitting the end, that objects tossed into the hole never made a sound, and that bizarre events surrounded it: animals feared it, a neighbour's dead dog was supposedly thrown into it only to be seen alive again, and a bucket of ice lowered into the depths came back transformed.

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https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/the-legend-of-mel-s-hole

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4081

https://washingtonstateghostsociety.org/mels-hole

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mel%27s_Hole

https://spookylittleearth.com/mels-hole-bottomless-mystery

https://www.historicmysteries.com/mels-hole

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mel%27s_Hole

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In 1922, a remote Bavarian farmstead became the scene of one of Germany’s most gruesome and enduring mysteries. The Hinterkaifeck murders claimed the lives of six family members and a maid, slaughtered with a mattock by an unknown assailant who may have been hiding in their attic for days—or even weeks—before striking.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crime

https://vocal.media/horror/the-farm-at-the-end-of-the-woods-the-hinterkaifeck-murders

https://www.hinterkaifeck.net

https://web.archive.org/web/20120512083417/http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/schrobenhausen/Hinterkaifeck;art603,2538485

https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/hinterkaifeck-murders/

https://strangeoutdoors.com/true-crime-in-the-outdoors/hinterkaifeck-farm

https://fathersonholygore.com/2018/10/19/lore-season-2-episode-3-hinterkaifeck-ghosts-in-the-attic/

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In 1922, a remote Bavarian farmstead became the scene of one of Germany’s most gruesome and enduring mysteries. The Hinterkaifeck murders claimed the lives of six family members and a maid, slaughtered with a mattock by an unknown assailant who may have been hiding in their attic for days—or even weeks—before striking.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crime

https://vocal.media/horror/the-farm-at-the-end-of-the-woods-the-hinterkaifeck-murders

https://www.hinterkaifeck.net

https://web.archive.org/web/20120512083417/http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/schrobenhausen/Hinterkaifeck;art603,2538485

https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/hinterkaifeck-murders/

https://strangeoutdoors.com/true-crime-in-the-outdoors/hinterkaifeck-farm

https://fathersonholygore.com/2018/10/19/lore-season-2-episode-3-hinterkaifeck-ghosts-in-the-attic/

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When 11 members of a Delhi family are found dead under bizarre circumstances, investigators uncover eerie rituals and a series of cryptic diaries. This Obscurata episode dives into the mysterious 2018 Burari deaths of the Chundawat family – exploring the chilling discovery of their bodies, the family’s seemingly ordinary life in Burari, and the haunting clues that blurred the line between a shared psychosis and the supernatural.

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/burari-deaths-family-members-killed-themselves-in-delhis-burari-police-say-1778806

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/burari-deaths-cctv-footage-shows-final-moments-of-the-11-family-members-1276445-2018-07-03

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/11-in-family-found-dead-in-delhis-burari/article24316571.ece

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evke7k/india-burari-mass-suicide-docuseries-netflix-house-of-secrets

https://www.firstpost.com/india/burari-deaths-one-year-on-family-suicide-delhi-7012451.html

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When 11 members of a Delhi family are found dead under bizarre circumstances, investigators uncover eerie rituals and a series of cryptic diaries. This Obscurata episode dives into the mysterious 2018 Burari deaths of the Chundawat family – exploring the chilling discovery of their bodies, the family’s seemingly ordinary life in Burari, and the haunting clues that blurred the line between a shared psychosis and the supernatural.

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/burari-deaths-family-members-killed-themselves-in-delhis-burari-police-say-1778806

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/burari-deaths-cctv-footage-shows-final-moments-of-the-11-family-members-1276445-2018-07-03

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/11-in-family-found-dead-in-delhis-burari/article24316571.ece

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evke7k/india-burari-mass-suicide-docuseries-netflix-house-of-secrets

https://www.firstpost.com/india/burari-deaths-one-year-on-family-suicide-delhi-7012451.html

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