The Pandemonium Witches: Murders, Mystery, and Mayhem

The Pandemonium team is switching gears this week for our first installment of Serotonin Saturday, as Cat and Rachel round up some of the most hopeful, fascinating, and downright delightful stories you may have missed in 2025. From California’s historic ban on cat declawing and new rules on ultra-processed school lunches, to goats preventing wildfires in Spain and breakthroughs in treating Huntington’s disease. This episode is packed with wins for animals, people, and the planet all around. We also celebrate a posthumous degree for Māori scholar, the booming secondhand clothing market, the world’s tiniest injectable pacemaker, along research showing that the smell of pizza can actually lower stress. Add in shrinking ozone holes, falling statistics in violent crime, rebounding bumblebee populations, declining child mortality, artificial blood trials, microfiber recycling, falling peanut allergy rates, and slowing deforestation - and you’ve got yourself a full-on good-news buffet. Pour yourself a coffee, get comfy, and let these bright spots carry you into the weekend.Links We Used:https://time.com/7342096/good-news-environment-hiv/https://happiful.com/32-good-news-stories-from-2025-you-might-have-missedhttps://www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2025-the-good-news-that-mattered/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/52-good-news-stories-you-may-have-missed-in-2025-sgr7hxv5w?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfSMh3X3VanZpQvbFQOX6FRBMERyOycvasTpKlyPHRtPJctJ5xTs4xPXTf24xE%3D&gaa_ts=69594ecd&gaa_sig=EZcgcppmKrBbZZANKeczeAOLncd5aRtUxFxiaY8uTJ5f01YFRe8B0ryXi8GYdy8YbY9eL-rRqZxm8KPKt6tfJg%3D%3Dhttps://ktla.com/news/california/california-bans-declawing-cats-under-new-state-law-signed-by-gov-gavin-newsom/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spain-wildfires-goats/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxprohttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/oxford-university-honours-makereti-papakura-with-posthumous-degree/OU5EYGS4YVFJJEYRYFNDYYYCRY/https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/how-secondhand-fashion-is-reshaping-the-global-apparel-market/2025032080709https://www.globaltextiletimes.com/trends/secondhand-apparel-market-to-hit-367b-by-2029-thredup/#:~:text=The%20analysis%20estimates%20that%20the,garment%20spending%20and%20grew%2015%25.https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/03/worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-activated-by-lighthttps://secretnyc.co/smell-of-pizza-ease-anxiety-boost-mood/https://www.miragenews.com/2025-ozone-hole-short-lived-confirms-recovery-1589066/https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2025-update/https://www.foxnews.com/us/murder-rate-drops-lowest-level-since-1900-across-major-us-cities-nationwidehttps://www.rewildingmag.com/rewilding-denmarkfield-return-of-bumblebees/https://regenerationinternational.org/2024/12/01/bumblebees-increase-by-more-than-100x-in-remarkable-scotland-rewilding-project-from-35-bees-to-over-4000/https://data.unicef.org/resources/levels-and-trends-in-child-mortality-2024/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12017561/https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5336091-universal-artificial-blood-japan-studies/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9618780/https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5477632/artificial-blood-hemorrhage-emergency-medicinehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c991z577e7gohttps://www.letsrecycle.com/news/worlds-first-microfibre-recycling-centre-opens-in-cornwall/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.htmlhttps://www.allergicliving.com/2025/10/22/early-peanut-introduction-linked-to-drop-in-child-food-allergies/https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166148https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/global-deforestation-slows--but-forests-remain-under-pressure--fao-report-shows/en

The Pandemonium team is back, and this week Rachel and Cat examine the case of Anna Marie Hahn, one of the first women in the United States to be executed in the electric chair - and yes, once again we’re asking: WHY is it always arsenic? In the 1930s, Hahn was accused of poisoning elderly men in Ohio, earning headlines that painted her as manipulative and calculating. Her case marked the eighth time we’ve covered arsenic on this show - bringing our running total to 8 cases and 63 victims linked to this particular poison. This episode walks through the accusations, the trial, and the controversy that still surrounds her conviction. Anna Marie Hahn was more than a headline. We break down what happened, how it happened, and why arsenic keeps showing up in the darkest corners of history.Links We Used:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marie_Hahnhttps://www.wosu.org/news/2006-09-18/ohios-hahn-just-an-evil-personhttps://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/female-serial-killer-anna-marie-hahn-1906-1938/HistoricalCrimeDetective.comhttps://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2009/12/08/anna-marie-hahn-blonde-poison/23952839007/https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/anna-marie-hahn-robert-priseman/FwE471GoZrUIvw?hl=enhttps://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hahn-anna-marie.htmhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15812225/anna_mariehttps://web.archive.org/web/20090218041328/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758318,00.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20090904192244/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/anna_hahn/index.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101221045020/http://skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=281

The Pandemonium team is back, and this week Rachel and Cat travel deep into the jungles of Guyana, where a secluded religious community became the site of one of the deadliest mass unalivings in modern history. On November 18, 1978, more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple died after cult leader Jim Jones ordered a coordinated act of mass death that stunned the world.What began as a utopian experiment in faith, equality, and escape from oppression collapsed into paranoia, control, and unimaginable tragedy.Join us as we break down how Jonestown was built, what led to its horrifying final day, and why its legacy still shapes how we view cults, power, and blind devotion.Links We Used:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Templehttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Peoples-Templehttps://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/youth/bridges/workshop20/184275.shtmlhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-guyana/https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/jonestownhttps://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Joneshttps://www.britannica.com/event/Jonestownhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-congregation/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Congressman_Tom_Lantos%27_Remarks_on_the_25th_Anniversary_of_the_Tragedy_at_Jonestown_and_the_Death_of_Congressman_Leo_Ryanhttps://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?post_type=who_diedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46241372http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/jonestownhttps://archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16https://web.archive.org/web/20071114005753/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912249,00.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1509317http://www.jonestownlegacy.com/https://web.archive.org/web/19990428190751/http://www.icehouse.net/zodiac/https://web.archive.org/web/20110309152611/http://freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/p/peoplestemple/jonestown_doc_1/http://kdrt.org/audio/davisville-8414-listening-survivor-and-story-jonestown/https://archive.org/details/Jonestown-FBIhttps://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=78282https://vimeo.com/373653092https://pastvu.com/p/1933302https://vault.fbi.gov/jonestown/Jonestown%20Part%2003

The Pandemonium team is back for the season one finale, and this week Cat, Rachel, Em, and Meg journey to New Mexico - the number 1 state on our Haunted Road Trip top ten list. From haunted adobe homes and ghostly desert highways to chilling small-town legends and restless spirits in historic hotels, New Mexico proves that the Land of Enchantment has a dark side.We explore eerie places, unsettling true crime stories, and local folklore that keeps the state at the top of our haunted list.As we wrap up Season 1, join us for a deep dive into the shadows of New Mexico - where every canyon, adobe, and empty street holds a story waiting to be whispered.Season 1 closes with ghosts that refuse to leave us and its visitors alone. **NOTE: TPW Team was unable to edit the episode due to severe issues with riverside. Yes Trey, we know there's echoing, and yes we did try to fix it. We are so sorry but season 2 we will be back and better than ever!**Love, The pandemonium teamLinks We Used - New Mexico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexicohttps://www.newmexico.org/https://www.nm.gov/https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/states/article/new-mexicohttps://www.britannica.com/place/New-Mexicohttps://www.movoto.com/guide/nm/new-mexico-facts/https://state.1keydata.com/new-mexico.phphttps://www.newmexico.org/haunted/https://www.hauntedrooms.com/new-mexico/haunted-placeshttps://www.reddit.com/r/NewMexico/comments/1assfzu/what_are_the_creepiest_places_in_new_mexico/https://www.townofsilvercity.org/437/Ghosts-and-Haunted-Places-Bookshttps://www.visitalbuquerque.org/abq365/blog/post/albuquerques-most-haunted-places/https://www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerque/comments/16vph0ihttps://alibi.com/feature/spooks-in-the-duke-city/https://www.newmexicohauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/albuquerque-press-club.htmlhttps://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-albuquerqueghosts/https://ghostlandia.media/2023/04/24/purple-toys-for-ghosts-at-the-amador-hotel-in-new-mexicohttps://www.amadorfoundation.org/https://activerain.com/blogsview/2401581/a-las-cruces-treasure---the-historic-amador-hotelhttps://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/dawson-ghost-town-and-cemeteryhttps://ghosttownsbix.com/dawson-new-mexico-hauntings-of-a-lost-coal-town/https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dawson-ghost-townhttps://ghosttowns.placesandpics.com/new-mexico/dawson-nmhttps://kisselpaso.com/el-paso-ghost-hunters-can-investigate-historic-las-cruces-jailhttps://www.visitlascruces.com/things-to-do/museums-history/haunted-historic/https://www.reddit.com/r/LasCruces/comments/19a8vmc

The Pandemonium team is back, and this week Rachel and Cat are exploring Michigan - number 2 on our Haunted Road Trip top ten list. From the abandoned ruins of Michigan Central Station to haunted lighthouses, eerie forests, and historic homes, the state is packed with chilling legends and restless spirits.Mix in some dark true crime stories and unexplained disappearances, and Michigan proves the Great Lakes region has more than just scenic beauty - it’s home to some seriously haunted corners.Join us as we uncover the spookiest sites, the haunted history, and the unsettling tales that make Michigan a must-stop on our road trip. Steel yourself - Michigan’s past has a way of creeping up when you least expect it.For the links we used for Michigan, please visit our website in our bio or on our liqtr33 (cat used over 3 whole pages of links for this episode - and the links were too many to paste here!)link is: https://tpw3mpodcast.godaddysites.com/season-one

The Pandemonium team is back, and this week Meg, Rachel, and Cat descend into the Catacombs of Paris - the number 2 stop on our International Haunted Locations tour. Beneath the bustling streets lies a shadowy labyrinth holding the bones of millions, a chilling reminder of death and history.Built in the 18th century to solve Paris’ overflowing cemeteries, the catacombs have long been a source of fascination, fear, and ghostly legends. From whispered sightings of figures among the skulls to stories of explorers who never returned, the tunnels are as haunted as they are historic. Join us as we navigate the eerie passages, uncover the dark past, and explore why the Catacombs of Paris remain one of the world’s most spine-tingling locations.Grab your nightlight, because it’s dark down here - and the restless souls are watching.For the links we used for the Catacombs of Paris, please visit our website in our bio or on our liqtr33 .Links We Used - The Catacombs of Paris: https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-paris-catacombs/https://venturetheplanet.com/an-adventure-into-the-un-official-paris-catacombs-a-mecca-for-urban-exploration/https://thetourguy.com/travel-blog/france/paris/catacombs/most-bone-chilling-paris-catacombs-legends-and-stories/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Parishttps://www.parisunlocked.com/best-of-paris/top-paris-attractions/touring-catacombs-of-paris-history-facts/https://www.history.com/articles/paris-catacombs-originshttps://www.cometoparis.com/paris-guide/paris-monuments/the-catacombs-of-paris-s955https://www.booksandtravel.page/catacombs-paris/