Leonarda Cianciulli was born in Montella, Avellino on November 14th, 1893.In 1917, Cianciulli married a registry office clerk, Raffaele Pansardi. Her parents did not approve of the marriage, as they had planned to marry her to someone else. Cianciulli claimed that when this happened, the couple moved away. Because of this, her mother cursed them. Cianciulli had seventeen pregnancies during her marriage, but lost three of the children to miscarriage; ten more died in their youth. She was heavily protective of the four surviving children. Her fears were fueled by a warning she had received some time earlier from a fortune teller, who said that she would marry and have children, but that all of the children would die. Of course, she immediately thought it had been the curse her mother put on her and her husband. In 1939, Cianciulli’s eldest son, Giuseppe, was to join the Italian army in preparation for World War II. Giuseppe was her favorite child, and she was determined to protect him at all costs. She came to the conclusion that in order to keep him safe, she needed human sacrifices. She said this was told to her by another psychic. She found her victims in three middle-aged women, all neighbors. You may be wondering where the title for this infamous (and first) Italian female serial killer came from... Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia Murderpedia sites.psu.edu Thefamouspeople.com Medium.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

British Columbia, Canada is known for many things: gorgeous landscapes, skiing, the 2010 Olympics, and the running shoes with feet in them that have been washing on shore for the past 9 years? Since 2007, at least 14 human feet have been found in running shoes that washed up on the shore in British Columbia. Is the cause natural disasters? Drug or human trafficking? A serial killer? ALIENS? The world may never know...  Sources for this Episode:  Theguardian.com  Wikipedia.com  The Washington Post  Vox.com Vice.com  The NY Times  Science daily  The Red Cross  History.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo did as he does every year. He signed up to be a deacon at this church’s Christmas Eve service at midnight. However, he never arrived at church. At about 11:30 pm Christmas Eve in 2008, Pardo dressed in a Santa suit and went to his former in-laws home in Covina, California. His former in-laws were having a Christmas party that night with their 5 children and their families. There were about 25 people in the house when he arrived. Pardo came in with what seemed to be a gift because it was wrapped in wrapping paper. It was not a gift though. The package has a home made flame thrower on a trolley with a 9 mm semi-automatic handguns. He also had 2 more 9 mm semi automatic guns in his possession.  Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia  Oxygen.com The New York Times  The LA TIMES  CNN murderpedia.org  telegraph.co.uk  The Daily Mail --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Roch Theriault was born on May 16th, 1947 in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in Thetford Mines. In the early 1970’s, Theriault used his charisma to start convincing a group of people to leave their jobs and homes behind to join him in a religious movement. His goal was to form a group where people could listen to his speeches, live in equality, sell baked goods, and be free of sin. On paper, this seems like a good idea, but we all know what happens in cults when people get too much power. Shortly after the cult’s formation, Theriault began to move away from a motivational leader and started to be an outright totalitarian leader. The Ant Hill Kids ended up becoming a place on a mountainside where people had legs broken with sledgehammers, amateur and unnecessary surgeries were performed, and children were nailed to trees and had rocks thrown at them. Oh, they also sold baked goods.  Sources for this episode:  https://io9.gizmodo.com/6-lesser-known-cults-that-will-give-you-more-nightmares-1800917042  Wikipedia Murderpedia.org  Cvltnation.com  Morbidology.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Annabelle movie, a prequel to The Conjuring, was released in October of 2014. In the movie, the doll is porcelain and made in a child’s image, with long hair. However, in real life, she is a raggedy Anne doll and has red yarn for hair. The writers and producers couldn’t use the raggedy Anne for royalty purposes, but they also wanted to make the doll seem scarier for the viewers. According to the Warrens, the doll is possessed by an inhuman spirit. Because of this, she is locked away at The Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut with a warning label on the glass as well as the Lord’s Prayer and a cross. Most people have seen the movie or at least the doll, but not everyone knows the truly horrifyingly true story behind it.  Sources for this episode:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/amp/Real-Annabelle-story-shared-by-Lorraine-11382545.php  Wikipedia  Allthatsinteresting.com  History vs Hollywood  The Hollywood reporter  Filmdaily.co - Altpress.com  The Monroe Sun --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Omaima Aree Nelson was born and raised in Egypt, and immigrated to the United States in 1986. Her main source of support and income seemed to have come from her many boyfriends. She would get involved with a man and move in with him right away, spend his money freely, and then, when he caught her or she just got tired of him, she would rob him and disappear. Until she met one man, Bill Nelson at a bar in California. The two got married very quickly. On Thanksgiving day, Bill spoke with his daughter Margaret on the phone. He told her how everything was going great and invited her to join him and his new wife for dinner. Margaret refused. Little did she know this would be the last time she would be able to speak to her father...  Sources for this episode: https://delanirbartlette.medium.com  Wikipedia Murderpedia.org  All thatsinteresting.com History channel --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of my memories from my childhood trick-or treating days is my mom making my brothers and I put all of our Halloween candy on the kitchen counter so she could go through it. She would always throw away the suckers, tootsie rolls, and other candies that were in like unwrappable and rewrap-able containers. I feel like this is a thing a TON of parents do because the news is always like “there is razor blades in candy” or “there is drugs in the candy” but it never REALLY seems to actually happen to anybody in recent years. However, today’s story is the REASON this stuff happens every year. On Halloween night in 1974, O’Bryan along with his neighbor, Jim Bates, took all 4 of their kids trick or treating in Pasadena, Texas. Later that night, young Timothy O'Bryan unfortunately died from poison in his Pixy Stix. Who could have done such a thing? Sources:  Wikipedia  Murderpedia  Insider.org Statesman.com Ctpost.com Vice.com Findagrave.com Medium.com cdc.gov --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of my favorite activities to do during the Halloween season is to go to Halloween Haunt at Kings Island (that's where the hint came from on the Instagram). If you don't know what Halloween Haunt is, it is basically a bunch of haunted houses and other spooky things at King's Island (which is a theme park in Mason, Ohio). In honor of the spooky season and the fact that Halloween Haunt was cancelled this year, I decided to do today's episode over extreme haunts. Extreme haunts are like haunted houses, but they are designed to be far more intense. People who visit extreme haunts are willingly signing themselves up to be tortured by people who could possibly be called psychopaths. This week I focused on Blackout, Scare house, Castle of Chaos, and the infamous McKamey Manor. These places are HORRIFYING. Would you sign yourself up to be beaten, gagged, drugged, and kidnapped by strangers? **Petition to shut down McKamey Manor** https://www.change.org/p/tennessee-state-senate-shut-down-mckamey-manor Sources for this episode: https://blog.cheapism.com/extreme-haunted-houses/#slide=12 Wikipedia http://www.theblackoutexperience.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKamey_Manor https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/30/extreme-haunted-house-masochists-mckamey-manor https://worldofbuzz.com/this-haunted-house-in-america-is-so-extreme-people-who-have-gone-in-call-it-a-torture-chamber/ https://www.ranker.com/list/what-is-blackout-extreme-haunted-house/jacob-shelton https://castleofchaos.com/about-the-castle/ https://www.uvureview.com/front-page/recent/artsculture/get-thrown-around-this-october-at-castle-of-chaos/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ScareHouse https://www.haunting.net/experiences/scarehouse-basement/  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hey spooky babes, so this Minisode is really really short and is just information about the Patreon, the merch, as well as my Instagram giveaway I am having for when I reach 100 Instagram followers. All the links for those are below:  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sharedmadness Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/sharedmadnesspod/ Redbubble for merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Madisonmcvey/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It is 10:48 p.m. on May 19, 1983. A red Nissan sports car pulled into the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital ER in Springfield, Oregon. A young woman jumped out of the car and began shouting: “Someone killed my kids!" Inside were three children, two girls and a boy, covered in blood. The children had been shot multiple times at close range (about 0-6 inches). 7-year-old Cheryl was already dead, 8-year-old Christie had suffered a stroke from immense blood loss, and 3-year-old Danny was paralyzed from a bullet wound to his spine. Their mother, 27-year-old postal worker Diane Downs, had a minor gunshot wound to her left arm. All this happened while Duran-Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" played in the background. Who was the culprit? A shaggy-haired man? Two men in ski masks? A drug dealer? A corrupt police officer? Or somebody closer than we think... Sources for this episode:  Wikipedia  Oregonlive.com www.thoughco.com Murderpedia  Heavy.com ABC’s 20/20 Reddit: User trochanter_the_great Link to mother’s letter: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march112014/diane-downs-wf.php Link to her mother’s website saying her daughter is innocent: http://www.dianedowns.com/  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app