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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, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits and basically anything that tickles our creepy fancy. So, join us, plug in, sit back and prepare for scares.
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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, through the gruesome wolf trials of the Middle Ages, all the way through to whatever yassified teen-he
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 we can unearth. This week, Hannah has the horrific true story of Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japan’s infamous ‘
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 inexplicable blights, punishing winters, and stories of people carried off into the night by indigenous trib
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: thanks to a paranoid new king and a 19-year-old, self-styled Witchfinder General. Plus: what really goe
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 episode, Suruthi takes us into the forest of Ibadan, Nigeria, to a real-life house of horrors where
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 machine finally turned against them in the 16th and 17th centuries: when the continent suddenly became gri
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 of David Fuller: the so-called Monster in the Morgue. At first, police thought they were only lookin
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 afterlife. But one thing they can all agree on is that if you were naughty on Earth, you are in for one h
The Murder of Sydney Loofe: Aubrey Trail 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 of Bailey Boswell and himself into a complete circus. Although the pair’s bizarre relationship, full
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 psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels. Each episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels take you deep into the psychology o
ShortHand: The Conjuring
In 2013, horror blockbuster The Conjuring packed out cinemas worldwide, terrifying moviegoers with its alleged ‘true story’ of a house haunted by malevolent demons. But the real truth behind the tale is far sketchier than we might think – w
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' coverage of this tragic case. When the body of 19-year-old Caroline Crouch was found in her attic room aft
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 across the globe. From ancient China to modern Islam, there are hundreds of ways to free someone fro
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 its core. Not because it was the first time anyone had seen disturbing videos online. But because this
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 also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An epidemic of violence in w
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 bastards in all of human history: Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula. We dig into th
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 boy: Evandro Ramos Caetano... And it would end with a coven of accused ‘black magic’ practitioners –
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 of Britain’s most iconic visual landmarks. But behind the scenes, he was also a sex-mad monster who
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're vigilantes who enforce their own form of justice while putting people in danger. But do they have
The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part Two: The Investigation | #469
Fetal abduction is incredibly rare, so it’s no surprise that it wasn’t top of the list of possible motives when a heavily pregnant 22-year-old Rebecca Park first went missing. Yet when looking back over the countless livestreams and intervi
ShortHand: Deadly Beauty Practices
From Belladonna eye drops to literally eating arsenic, human vanity has taken us to some pretty dark places in our quest to look drop dead gorgeous… But would you risk your life for the perfect makeover? In this week’s ShortHand, we’re look
ShortHand: Princess Anne’s Kidnap Chaos
This week, we’re taking you back to 1974 for a rollocking royal story that The Crown won’t tell you - the time a young Princess Anne was almost kidnapped by a gun-toting loner outside Buckingham Palace, in a shower of bullets and stiff uppe
The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part One: Cortney Bartholomew | #468
Families are complicated, but when Rebecca Park went missing while heavily pregnant with the child of her mother’s ex-boyfriend, it raised eyebrows. Rebecca disappeared on the 3rd November 2025 after going to visit her biological mother Cor
ShortHand: The Black Death
In just seven years, the bubonic plague killed half of all Europeans – more than 50 million people. We look at its surprising origins on the Mongolian battlefield (where diseased bodies were literally catapulted at the enemy); its unstoppab
ShortHand: Julian Assange
When Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006, it was the aim of rooting out corruption and improving transparency. And its successes were unprecedented, exposing hard-kept, dirty secrets from the very highest levels of power. But somewhere
Lindsay Clancy - Part 2: The Trial | #467
Did Lindsay Clancy kill her children? Despite what was portrayed online, this was not the question at the heart of a trial which has gripped a nation. Both the defence and the prosecution agreed, that tragically, the 36-year-old was indeed
ShortHand: Joan of Arc
Jeanne D’Arc – the teenage girl guided by saintly voices to command actual French armies into actual military victories – is one of history’s best-known names. Not bad for a 13-year-old. But that's not all. This week, we take a speedy look
ShortHand: Hikikomori - Japan’s Modern Day Hermits
Societal recluses exist in every culture. But in Japan, the number of permanent shut-ins has risen to incredible levels. There are estimated to be around one million Hikikomori, or ‘modern-day hermits’, in Japan today, and the term has even
Lindsay Clancy - Part 1: The Killing of the Clancy Children | #466
According to her husband Patrick, Lindsay Clancy was found laying on the ground, semi-conscious, having cut her neck and wrists, and thrown herself from a second story window in an apparent attempt to take her own life. Just minutes later,
ShortHand: The World's Forbidden Places
Ever thought about exploring the places on this mysterious planet where your passport won’t take you? Join for a whistlestop tour of the world’s most off-limits destinations – from radioactive wastelands to snake-infested islands, and the o
