If you love travel and true crime, this is the podcast for you. Sandi will tell you true crime stories or crazy travel stories and a little bit about the history and landscape of the places where they occur. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twisted-travel-and-true-c/support
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twisted-travel-and-true-c
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 19 minutes
episode 11: Head shrinking is still happening and Enno Lolling-Nazi Doctor and experiments on bodies.
Off with their heads! We have all heard that quote from the queen of hearts in Alice in Wonderland. Maybe you remember the scary story of the headless horseman from childhood? Beheading is how people were put to death in France via the guillotine and even in current times we have heard of beheadings within terrorist organizations. What is the fasciation behind "losing our heads"...
episode 12: Murder and Cannibalism in the Marquesas - The Rape and murder of Heike Dorsch and Stefan Ramin
Stefan Ramon and Heike Dorsch decided to leave the trappings of their traditional life in order to explore the world and to delve into the cultures they would come across in their travels. They were nearing the end of a 3 year sailing trip which had nearly taken them around the world, when they decided to stop at the inviting Marquesas island of Nuku Hiva. They enjoyed their time there and had made a mental list of things they wanted to complete while visiting the island...
episode 13: Surviving a Tsunami, the story of 3 survivors of the 2004 Christmas Tsunami
Dwayne Meadows, a marine biologist and seasoned diver had spent Christmas day of 2004 in the world-renowned Similan Islands Marine National Park. He Had made plans to go on a snorkeling trip with a friend. right after breakfast, he went to his Bungalow to start Gathering his snorkeling gear when a scream shattered the morning air. He turned to see the harbor emptying and a thick white line of foam on horizon racing towards him. He saw the boats bobbing wildly in Khao Lak Bay...
episode 14: Cruise Ship Murder or Not? The unsolved case of George Smith
A huge cruise ship named the Brilliance of the Seas weighed anchor and eased out of Harbor at the Greene island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea. It was America’s Independence day in 2005. It was also the sixth night of the trip for the passengers. There were 2300 of them on board and most of them were Americans. George Smith and his newlywed wife Jennifer were enjoying their honeymoon. They spent the day exploring Florence, eating and drinking exotic drinks...
episode 14: Wells Grey Park Camping Murders
Camping, I love it. Many people hate it and cases like this one sometimes make me question why I enjoy it so much. A heartless killer staled his prey while they are innocently camping and enjoying the natural beauty found in one of Canada’s gorgeous parks. This man killed 6 innocent fun loving campers just to satisfy himself and to get what he felt like he was entitled too. The search for this man ended up being one of the most expensive and well known cases in Canada’s history...
episode 15: The Dyatlov Pass Mystery. A group of 9 experienced hikers are dead due to very mysterious circumstances.
Sixty two years ago an intrepid group of young men and women were determined to hike and ski through a mountain range in Russia. After they failed to return home rescuers were sent to find them. What they found stumped everyone. They had all died, some from hypothermia, Some were severely injured, but they wore no shoes and were nearly a mile from their tent. What happened to these young, healthy, experienced people. This is one of Russia’s greatest mysteries...
episode 16: Evil at Birth - Serial Killer Charlie Brandt
The debate over nature versus nurture is a hot topic among true crime listeners. It’s the question of whether our biological makeup, or what is in our DNA makes us who we are, or whether the environment we are raised in contributes more to who we become. This is often debated when it comes to murderers...
episode 16: Survivor Rachael Moore is saved by her own 5 children, all under 14ys.
Today’s story involves five child heroes. Their heroic acts saved their mother from being murdered. These five children all under the age of 14 protected their mother who had been shot, from their very own father. The man who is supposed to love and take care of them. I don’t cry very often when researching cases but this one definitely put a tear in my eyes...
episode 17: Ghost Ship in the Bloody Bahamas, the murder of Bill and Patty Kamerer on their sailboat.
Did they fight to save their boat and their lives? Did they look into the faces of their attackers or was it an ambush? Did the killers approach them silently or did they betray the couple acting like friends to gain their trust? Who died first and did the other have to bear witness? These are just a few of the many questions left behind in the wake of the ghost ship, the Kalia 3. The only witness, a domestic boat cat named Gypsy, was unable to tell the story of Bill and Patty Kamerer...
episode 20: Insane Asylum Killer. Andre Rand, aka Cropsey
The Cropsey Urban legend is a staple on Staten Island in New York. Most of the children who grow up in the area have heard of the escaped mental patient who lives in the tunnels under the abandoned hospital. This version or similar stories tell of a crazy man who has an affinity for naughty children and would come out at night and snatch them. They would disappear forever. This well known tale unfortunately, like many tall tales and spooky nursery rhymes, has some basis in reality...