I like that she calls a vagina a vagine. 5 stars

Love the podcast, the only thing I don’t like are all the commercials. There are so many for a 30-40 minute podcast. Wish there were fewer.

I love it

The content of the podcast is interesting, which keeps me coming back. However, the misuse of certain words, grammar mistakes, and mispronunciations of common words make this podcast difficult to listen to at times. I just finished the episode on “Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught” and she pronounces “pattern” as “pat-rin” 3 different times. Like…what??

She calls a vagina a vagine. And Sonny sounds like Sounny.

The content is interesting. I can get past most grammar problems and an occasional mispronunciation can be overlooked but it’s so frequent that it’s a huge distraction. It should be part of your basic research to learn to pronounce Mr. Spielberg’s name rather than mispronouncing it repeatedly in an episode. It’s not Steelburg. And genre does not have a d in it. Keep at it but maybe get an editor to review before you publish?

Too many ads. 30 min pod but multiple ads, annoying. Names pronounced wrong. “Steven Steelberg”? It’s only 11 min eps and there’s multiple ads throughout the show. Kinda annoying. I don’t think the host is from the US so ppl should lay off on the mispronunciations. It’s presumptuous to assume everyone is American.

Love the content of these podcasts. However, the narrator speaks with such a bubbly and happy tone, you would think she’s telling fairytales. Just not the right tone/mood for the theme and content. The constant repetitive ads are very obnoxious as well.

You would have found me snoozing in my history classes in school, but if they were teaching this kind of history I would have been hooked!

The Titanic episode was a little tone deaf, considering the very recent loss of life in the tourist submersible heading to visit the shipwreck.

Hey Brenda! It’s been awhile since we last spoke but I wanted to reach out and leave you some love. I don’t know why you’re getting the negative reviews you have gotten but I have to disagree with them. You are well spoken and your podcast is actually really incredible. Much love to you and please keep it going 💜🙏

I really enjoyed the content and length of the older shows. They have gotten much shorter and the same commercial plays over and over. I believe the most recent podcast was 25 minutes in length but heard the same commercial 5 times. I get you need sponsors but this is over kill.

So much potential with this show as the content is good, but the host’s disregard for proper pronunciation of well-known places and names, as well as a nasally voice sounding robotic make this a tough show to retain in my subscribed-to list. If I’m pruning, this one may be one that quickly goes…

Interesting stories and I love the delivery. On my regular podcast rotation now!

There’s a lot to like about this podcast but some things are a bit grating. There are occasional factual mistakes, poor grammar, and I just can’t shake the thought that the voice sounds so robotic. Not sure about this one.

There are lots of reviews from a way back suggesting that the host invest in editing. According to the recent episode on devil chairs, New FOUND land is in Lambador. Have you ever heard of a Lambador retriever? Long words are hard, but we have google. It isn’t hard to learn proper pronunciation, which should be part of the research process. At this point, it’s just blatant disregard, so why bother listening?

The Stanley Hotel in Colorado was the inspiration behind Stephen King’s book “The Shining”, not the Banff Springs Hotel.

This is a awesome podcast hi!!!

This is a very good podcast. Good topics, good research, host has a good voice. My only mark against it is the host’s pronunciations. Some random words I would understand, but there are everyday words that the host mispronounces that are just maddening. If you can look past this give it a go.

I love this Cast, I listen to this podcast every chance I get, and recommend it to everyone I know. Brenda thank you for all the amazing stories you bring to us every week

I’ve always enjoyed history but dark history is my favorite and Brenda does an excellent job presenting such great topics!

Brenda has such a relaxing voice to listening to, and she does such a good job providing the history of the topic she is covering. Her podcast is very binge able and informative.

Great topics, I love the short format. Brenda’s voice is very easy to listen to. But I will agree with other reviewers that the mispronunciations and bad grammar make it hard to make it through more than one episode at a time. Having someone proofread and/or listen before recording would do wonders for this pod.

I chose “The Mysterious Disappearance of the Sodder Children” as the episode in this podcast that comes to mind the most when writing this review. The concept is great, as is the allure of the mystery at hand, however almost seven minutes of the podcast is devoted to Mussolini which was a turn off to me, as it would have been sufficient to simply say he was a Fascist Dictator of Italy, etc. instead the presenter felt the need to narrate Mussolini’s life story such as the dictator stabbing students in his youth, which was entirely irreverent to five missing children. I would also add that the speed at which the narrator speaks is abnormally fast and could be slowed for the listeners sake.

Host provides concise information about the case or history they are covering -Crime Diner

I’m about 10 episodes and and it’s driving me crazy that things that I thought of common knowledge are being mispronounced. I can let your pronunciation of Edisto slide but who doesn’t know the name of Tennessee Williams play the glass menagerie? On a positive note I find these subjects incredibly interesting and well researched. But please, please work on pronunciation.

Painful to listen to with likely paid reviews. Trash.

I love the content of this podcast - all the stories are fascinating and the episode lengths are perfect. However, I agree with other reviews that bring this up. The research and show script REALLY needs to be proofread before recording. There are so many strange mispronunciations, made-up words (adding -ed to the end of past tense words, etc.), and incorrect use of conjugations / tense (was instead of were, etc.).

The host knocks it out of the park each and every time. I love learning something new every time I listen. The hard work and research that goes into this podcast really shows!!!

I really am enjoying this podcast. I was hooked after listening to the first few episodes. I love the way Brenda tell stories and her approach and the topics are subjects I enjoy. If you like history, true crime, Folklore and the Supernatural then this podcast is for you.

I found this podcast just recently and can’t stop listening

A great podcast with wonderfully creepy content!! It’s deceptive, because Brenda, the host, has an upbeat, perky voice… but ooooh! She delivers the GOODS! Highly recommend!

Awesome job, really getting into it. Only negative/helpful feedback would be I’d like the reading to be slower, Hope it helps! Great show. Sounds good, music, theme. The stories I’ve listened to so far are good.

I hear about this podcast from a friend and I wanted to give it a try. I like to listen from the very beginning and continue the episodes in chronological order. So I started! My problem was with audio issues. I kept thinking my internet was bad or speakers until I read other reviews. I was not the only one. It is very interesting and very entertaining. Hopefully the audio is better in later episodes

I really enjoy this podcast, but it’s newest episode Silent Twins really turned me off of it. A very insensitive portrayal of two sisters who were put through so much in their lives. I can see an episode being made about how horrifying they were treated and what they went through (moving to a predominantly white area as some of the only black children, suffering bullying, both being institutionalized for 10 years because of drug/alcohol addiction and their selective mutism). Saying that a girl was possessing her twin and her sister was free after her death, in doing so also taking June’s own words out of context to fit this narrative…yeah, I think I’m going to find another spooky history podcast to listen yo.

I love this podcast and it’s one of my top favorites to listen to. She’s done her research, not just one sided research either, she gets both sides and i absolutely love it. I didn’t realize till now that I’m almost finished with all her episodes and now I’m desperately trying to find something like her podcast till there’s new episodes. My only issue is that sometimes the sound gets too loud or too quiet randomly in some episodes. But it’s not so bad.

I just recently discovered this podcast and i’m addicted ! i love that every episode goes straight into the story instead of a bunch of random talk. Some of the episodes are quick and others take more time to listen to and i love that. i listen all day at work! very educational and entertaining!

This podcast is very informative it seems like the host has done her research. I enjoy the lore and information but I don’t find it horrifying, nevertheless worth a listen if you like history, theory, and lore.

Needs to slow down when you read. Way too many mistakes it’s kinda unbearable to listen to.

I really like this podcast! It has amazing content and it’s intriguing. My only grievance is that on episode six, while the title was attention grabbing, it kept cutting off. I thought it was my phone or possibly my earbuds and speaker that were messing up. No, it wasn’t those items. It was the podcast. I know this because I went to episode seven and it was just fine. It would have been okay if I didn’t keep skipping forward to find out if it stopped eventually. I would give it about thirty seconds and it would be somehow worse than when it first started cutting out. While I appreciate that Brenda does this and it’s amazing but the cutting of the audio was super distracting and aggravating. Maybe it was an editing error or maybe a recording error but I do hope that she goes back at some point in the future to fix episode six and the random cut outs. I’m sure it won’t happen because it’s such a hassle but other than that hiccup I like this.

I’m a huge true crime and history nerd so this is right up my alley, but I have to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to how words are pronounced. It’s a bit painful to hear her pronunciation of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. That being said I find the stories she tells to be refreshing. I’ve heard all the well known ones many times, but this is the first podcast that tells stories that I’ve never heard before. One suggestion would be to shorten the time between stories, there is a lot of dead air. I’m always having to check to make sure it’s still playing. Thanks Brenda for getting me through the work day!

I really enjoy Brenda and how she brings such life to the stories and makes it so much more interesting. I’ll listen to her every single day and I always look forward to the next upload.

During work I have ten hour shifts to fill with podcasts. During October I wanted fun haunted stories and this one was an immediate favorite. I binged all episodes back to back and now look forward to the newest weekly posts. Such a good podcast

I love her voice it’s so soothing! I saw a few reviews about her pronunciations ….. first of all she is from Canadá and different provinces will have different accents or pronunciations ! I’m from the states have traveled all over the U.S. you would be amazed at some of the accents and pronunciations! So obviously get out and visit other places and see how she’s actually rad and super great at story telling!!

So very entertaining! 👽💀👻🤡👺👹

I’ve never been a fan of horror movies, but I’ve always liked real life horror stories. This podcast tells a lot of those stories, and Brenda is a very good host. She deserves a 5 star review.

And get off her about grammar and pronunciation issues. I have been around the world as an old (retired) government employee and lived around our country. I have heard many words mispronounced from my original Midwest area home, my college Minnesota residence, my adopted decades in the San Francisco Bay Area base home port. Do you know what it is like to hear an author from that area having a paid reader mispronounce “Alameda” repeatedly. And now living retired in Georgia, yep same thing. I live in Houston County. No, that’s not how you pronounce it. I love Brenda, grammatical warts and all. You go girl. Great podcast and wide variety of weirdness.

I find this podcast entertaining, but i really struggle with the narrators inability to pronounce words or names correctly (for example “drowning” she pronounces it “drownding” It drives me crazy! Honestly Its distracting. Or any time she tries to pronounce Massachusetts. The stories are good, and interesting, but she often uses incorrect wording and punctuation that makes it confusing while shes speaking. For example she will say something like “due to that the man left before anyone could see him” which maybe should be said “due to the fact that the man left before anyone could see him.”

This woman butchers the English language. She has no grasp of tense, adding “-ed” to words instead of using the correct past tense word, does not know when “has” should be used versus “have” or “had”, etc. She also mispronounces words constantly and often slurs/mumbles. There are also audio problems. I only made it 20 episodes in, I was hoping it would get better.

I just discovered your podcast today and girl I’m hooked!!!! Love history & horror !!! Thanks for the awesome podcast