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Pretty Wicked

Pretty Wicked

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If you've ever gone down a rabbit hole at 2am and couldn't find your way back out, you're right at home! Pretty Wicked shares the stories you can't stop thinking about: murder, scandal, obsession, cults, and the cases that are just too wild to let go of. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com ✨ Instagram @prettywickedthepodcast If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, consider leaving a rating and review. It makes a huge difference and helps other people find the show. It genuinely means the world!Copyright Pretty Wicked Podcast Social Sciences True Crime
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  • The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family

    The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family
    Jun 24 2026
    A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with brown eyes, dark hair, and an accent you could spot from across a room. And somehow, for nearly five months, nobody in that family said a word. This is the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the impostor the world came to call the Chameleon, and the missing boy whose name he wore like a coat. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The New Yorker - The Chameleon The Scotsman - Interview: The private detective who uncovered The Imposter The Mirror US - Our missing son returned home after three years, but it was actually a French conman KSAT - Case of missing San Antonio boy from 1994 remains a mystery The Charley Project - Nicholas Patrick Barclay Swallowing The Camel - Fake Teens V: Serial Teen Frederic Bourdin Grunge - Frederic Bourdin: The Crazy True Story Of A Serial Impostor 📚 BOOKS David Grann - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (contains the expanded "Chameleon" essay) Christophe D'Antonio - Le Caméléon (the authorized Bourdin biography) 🎬 DOCS The Imposter (2012), directed by Bart Layton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story

    Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story
    Jun 17 2026
    Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951 Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point? CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada 📚 BOOKS Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957) Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968) Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 mins
  • Proxies: The Faceless Man

    Proxies: The Faceless Man
    Jun 10 2026
    A birthday sleepover. Three best friends. A game of hide and seek in the woods. By the time it was over, one girl was crawling toward a road with nineteen stab wounds, and the other two were walking toward something they swore was real. That was 2014. Eleven years later, one of them cut off her ankle monitor and ran. 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast Please leave a rating and review. It helps more than you know! Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Survivor's Parents: 'She's Meant to Do Something Special' ABC News - 'Slender Man' Interrogation Tapes Reveal Shocking New Details About Alleged Stabbing Plot ABC News - Mothers of teens who pleaded guilty in 'Slender Man' stabbing case say there were no warning signs of violence ABC News - 'Slender Man' teen to be released, survivor's family wishes she served longer sentence ABC News - Slender Man Stabbing Timeline: Out of the Woods ABC News - Slender Man stabbing victim speaks publicly for first time: 'Without the whole situation, I wouldn't be who I am' Newsweek - The Girls Who Tried to Kill for Slender Man Newsweek - How Slenderman, the Internet's Horror Star, Crawled out of Creepypasta New York Magazine via Harvard Center for Law, Brain & Behavior - Slender Man Is Watching NBC News - 911 Call Released in Waukesha 'Slender Man' Stabbings NBC News - 'Slender Man' Victim's Family Thankful for Special Day NBC News - The 'Slender Man' stabber made a close new friend — then ran away so they could be together CNN - What we know about Morgan Geyser's 24-hours on the run more than a decade after the 'Slender Man' stabbing took place Courthouse News Service - Slender Man stabber loses conditional release after escape WBAY/AP - Conditional release of Morgan Geyser upheld by judge WTMJ - Conditional release plan moves forward for accused "Slenderman" stabber Morgan Geyser WTMJ - Conditional release finally approved for Slenderman stabber Morgan Geyser TMJ4 News - Judge approves conditional release plan for woman convicted in Slender Man stabbing TMJ4 News - Morgan Geyser arrested in Illinois after cutting off ankle bracelet, fleeing group home TMJ4 News - Slender Man trial: Jury finds Anissa Weier mentally ill, won't face prison FOX6 Milwaukee - Slenderman stabbing case: Court learns what private investigator found in Morgan Geyser's bedroom FOX6 Milwaukee - Slender Man stabbing: Morgan Geyser escapes, group home neighbors react ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser 911 calls detail Slender Man attacker's escape from Madison group home ABC7 Chicago - Where is Morgan Geyser now? Wisconsin judge sends suspect in Slender Man stabbing back to mental health institution ABC7 Chicago - Morgan Geyser waives extradition after escape from Wisconsin group home WKOW - DOC places three staff on leave during investigation into Morgan Geyser's escape from group home WMTV - Despite escape, state finds no supervision violations at Morgan Geyser's group home CBS 58 - The Latest: Jury finds Anissa Weier not criminally responsible for stabbing classmate due to mental illness CBS News Minnesota/AP - Wisconsin Judge Orders Release Of Anissa Weier In Slender Man Stabbing Court TV - Judge approves conditional release plan for Morgan Geyser Patch.com - Slenderman Trial: Anissa Weier Sentence Is 25 Years Inverse - Mr. CreepyPasta Explains the Problem with 'Slenderman' Biography.com - Slender Man Attacker Morgan Geyser Is Back in Custody After Sparking a Brief Manhunt A&E - The Slender-Man Inspired Attempted Murder of a Sixth Grader Heavy - Payton Leutner's Injuries in the Slender Man Stabbing Heavy - Morgan Geyser's Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Crime + Investigation UK - The Slender Man stabbing: Attempted murder inspired by an urban legend All That's Interesting - Who Is Payton Leutner, The Girl Who Nearly Died In The Infamous Slender Man Stabbing? Jezebel - There's More Than One Boogeyman in the Slender Man Doc Inside Edition - Slender Man Fan Who Tried to Kill Friend at 12 Gets Release Hearing Good Morning America - Cyclist Recalls Finding Slender Man Stabbing Victim LegalClarity - Anissa and Morgan Case: Charges, Mental Health, and Release 📚 BOOKS Slenderman: A Tragic Story of Online Obsession and Mental Illness - Kathleen Hale, 2022 Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology - Shira Chess and Eric Newsom, 2014 Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet - edited by Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill, 2018 🎬 DOCUMENTARY & FURTHER LISTENING Beware the Slenderman - HBO, 2016, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky 20/20: Out of the Woods - ABC News, September 2014, with David Muir 20/20: 'Out of the Woods' - ABC News, October 2019, Payton Leutner's first interview, with David Muir Learn ...
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    58 mins
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