Suspects & Spirits

Join your host Taylor Serafin, as she explores the strange, the sinister, and the supernatural. Journey into the darkest sides of humanity and the eeriest corners of the unknown. Whether it’s a baffling cold case or a haunted hotel, this podcast will be sure to satisfy your creepy cravings. And maybe even make you laugh along the way.

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15 July 2026

Portraits of the Damned: Can Paintings Be Cursed?

Can a painting hold a piece of someone's soul... or has some artwork simply fallen victim to decades of terrifying folklore? This week, we're stepping inside the world's most infamous "allegedly" haunted paintings. From a portrait blamed for devastating house fires across Britain to the mysterious painting a family claims unleashed shadow figures, unexplained noises, and nightmares after hanging it in their home, these stories have frightened collectors, paranormal investigators, and curious onlookers for decades. Today we will investigate the legends behind The Crying Boy, The Anguished Man, and the internet's most infamous haunted painting, The Hands Resist Him. Then, as a bonus, we'll take a look at a truly unsettling portrait made with the blood and ashes of a serial killer. Can evil leave an imprint on an object? Are these paintings truly cursed... or is the real power found in the stories we tell about them? You decide. 👻 Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! 📬 suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: ☕ RYZE Mushroom Coffee Promo Code: SUSPECTSANDSPIRITSPODCAST15 🔗 https://get.aspr.app/SH1a6r 📚 Audible 🔗 https://amzn.to/4t1MuwJ 🍪🥄✨ DOICH Cookie Dough Promo Code: SPIRITS20 🔗 https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/SPIRITS20 Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2009/10/26/south_yorkshire_crying_boy_feature.shtml https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crying-boy-painting-fires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy https://www.stonehamstudios.com/the-hands-resist-him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2002/oct/31/painting-goes-bump-in-the-night/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/unexplained/2002/haunted_painting/ https://www.youtube.com/@SeanRobinson https://thehauntedmuseum.com/ https://www.newsweek.com/inside-zak-bagans-charles-manson-murderabilia-collection-haunted-museum-1511857 https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/arts-culture/charles-mansons-ashes-used-in-painting-at-haunted-museum-1535215/

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08 July 2026

Episode Revisit: The Murder of Rose Harsent (The Peasenhall Murder)

Ghouligans! It's Suspects & Spirit's first revisit episode. While I am busy (hopefully) not dying on a horse or on a boat, you can listen to this old-timey case that never sat right with the people of Peasenhall. Whether you've been here since the beginning or you're just now tuning in, enjoy the very bad audio and editing skills from Episode 3. Today, we revisit a mystery that has plagued a quiet English village for over a century. In 1902, a young servant girl was found brutally murdered in her employers cottage. With scandal, suspicion, and religious rifts tearing through the tight-knit community, the question remains: Who killed Rose Harsent? Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: ⚡🥤DUBBY Energy Drink Discount Code: SUSPECTS10 🔗 https://www.dubby.gg/discount/SUSPECTS10?ref=txkscqas Sources: Was Justice Served? Podcast hosted by Jen Bladwin and David Wilson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCHCW9ppAQ&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasenhall_murder

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01 July 2026

XOXO, Gef (The Talking Mongoose)

Dear Diary, Spotted: one remote farmhouse on the Isle of Man... and one unbelievably chatty mongoose with enough gossip to ruin everyone's day. This week on Suspects & Spirits, we're diving into the bizarre legend of Gef the Talking Mongoose; a furry little menace who claimed to be "extra clever," eavesdropped on the neighbors, roasted people for fun, and somehow convinced paranormal investigators to take him seriously. Think Gretchen Wieners if she were a problematic mongoose. He has all the tea, absolutely no filter, and somehow always knows everyone's business. Was Gef a cryptid? An elaborate hoax? The original Gossip Girl? Or Gretchen Wieners' long-lost ancestor? Grab a snack, settle in, and prepare for one of the strangest paranormal cases ever recorded. Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: 🛒🛍️👕Printful 🔗 https://www.printful.com/a/suspects 👓✨ ANYLUV Blue Light Glasses 🔗 https://amzn.to/4bddP7M *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you* Sources: Price, Harry, and R. S. Lambert. The Haunting of Cashen's Gap: A Modern "Miracle" Investigated. Methuen & Co., 1936 (🔗Book link) https://amzn.to/4eO4Wne Josiffe, Christopher. Gef!: The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose. Strange Attractor Press, 2017. (🔗Book link) https://amzn.to/44ACFLW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor_Fodor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor_Fodor_and_the_Talking_Mongoose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Lambert https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-104-where-the-weird-things-are/id1271249164?i=1000447201268

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26 June 2026

June Boo's Clues: Cursed Games, Gamblin' Grannies, and Stevie Nicks

It’s baaaackkk! Today is the last Friday of June, Ghouligans. Which means not only are we getting closer to spooky season (yay!), but we are back with another round of Boo's Clues! Where your spooky, hilarious, and downright questionable life choices take center stage. This month we're hearing from listeners who played those cursed games I told you to NEVER play! There are also cameos from gambling grandmas, unsettling death predictions, bats with questionable timing, jury duty nightmares, and a spiritual healer who may or may not have looked exactly like a young Stevie Nicks. Whether these stories are paranormal, pure coincidence, or just the result of some terrible life choices...I'll let you be the judge. Get ready for another collection of creepy, chaotic, and unforgettable listener stories. No sources needed. Just listener trauma. 🖤👻 Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: 📚 Audible 🔗 https://amzn.to/4t1MuwJ 🍪🥄✨ DOICH Cookie Dough Promo CODE: SPIRITS20 🔗 https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/SPIRITS20

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24 June 2026

Erika & Benjamin Sifrit (AKA: The World's Dumbest Killer Couple)

Freshly married and seemingly ordinary, Benjamin "BJ" and Erika Sifrit looked like any other couple enjoying Memorial Day weekend in Ocean City...until two vacationers vanished after a night out. In this episode, we unravel the murders of Joshua Ford and Martha "Geney" Crutchley, the chilling events inside the Sifrits' condo, the dumb mistakes that led to their downfall, and the evidence that shocked a jury. Join me as we dive into the disturbing case of Erika and Benjamin Sifrit, or as I like to call them, The World's Dumbest Killer Couple. Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains discussions of murder, violence, dismemberment, and other disturbing themes. Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: ⚡🥤DUBBY Energy Drink Promo Code: SUSPECTS10 🔗 https://www.dubby.gg/discount/SUSPECTS10?ref=txkscqas 🐶 WOOF Pupscicle 🔗 https://amzn.to/47hPxsa 🧊 Pupscicle Refill Pops 🔗 https://amzn.to/4subNai 🛒🛍️👕Printful 🔗 https://www.printful.com/a/suspects Sources: Phelps, M. William. Cruel Death. Pinnacle Books, 2009. (🔗 Book link) https://amzn.to/4eHo4nK https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-mdd-1_12-cv-00910/pdf/USCOURTS-mdd-1_12-cv-00910-0.pdf https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/md-court-of-appeals/1438595.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/04/star-witness-recounts-evening-with-suspects/cf43c629-1cb7-46dc-81b3-0f6341998b96/ https://thedailyrecord.com/2003/06/09/closing-prosecutor-calls-erika-sifrit-8216little-miss-scrapbook8217/ https://thedailyrecord.com/2003/06/03/state-says-fatal-shots-came-from-357-magnum-erika-sifrit-carried/ https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/joshua-ford-martha-crutchley-ben-erika-sifrit-maryland https://wtop.com/local/2026/04/no-parole-for-now-for-woman-convicted-of-murdering-fairfax-couple-in-ocean-city-in-2002/ https://www.wboc.com/news/convicted-ocean-city-murderer-benjamin-sifrit-requests-reduced-sentence/article_9a81ac4f-17fb-4711-9f43-de27bfe5ce0c.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_and_Benjamin_Sifrit

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17 June 2026

Five Cursed Games You Should NEVER Play!

Remember playing Bloody Mary at sleepovers? Standing in a dark bathroom with your best friends, trying not to laugh while secretly hoping something wouldn't happen? Well... Bloody Mary can step aside, because we're diving into five cursed games that make chanting into a mirror look like child's play. From being hunted through your own home by the Midnight Man, to wandering the eerie hallways of your subconscious in Red Door, Yellow Door, to the infamous Elevator Game, Daruma-San, and the Corner Game, these internet legends have terrified people for years...and they will ruin your life. So even if you think these are nothing more than creepy campfire stories and a bunch of malarkey, the potential paranormal trauma probably isn't worth it. Trust your lizard brain on this one... and DON'T play these games.. 🖤👻 The games featured are presented for entertainment and storytelling purposes and are not endorsed or encouraged by the host. 🖤 You've been warned. Got a story to tell? Send it in for the next episode of Boo's Clues! suspectsandspiritspod@gmail.com And help spread the word! Share the podcast with your true crime coven of friends and family or your paranormal pals. Website: https://www.suspectsandspirits.com/ Follow the podcast on IG, Facebook, and TikTok IG: suspectsandspiritspodcast Faceboook: Suspects & Spirits Podcast TikTok: suspectsandspiritspod 🎙️Today’s Sponsors: ☕ RYZE Mushroom Coffee Get 15% off your first order with code: SUSPECTSANDSPIRITSPODCAST15 🔗 https://get.aspr.app/SH1a6r ⚡🥤DUBBY Energy Drink Promo Code: SUSPECTS10 🔗https://www.dubby.gg/discount/SUSPECTS10?ref=txkscqas 🍪🥄✨ DOICH Cookie Dough Promo Code: SPIRITS20 🔗 https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/SPIRITS20 Sources: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Midnight_Game https://hideandgokill.fandom.com/wiki/The_Midnight_Man https://www.creepypasta.com/red-door-yellow-door/ https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/11/21/the-most-dangerous-games-red-door-yellow-door https://theghostinmymachine.com/2018/05/21/the-most-dangerous-games-daruma-san-the-bath-game/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Game https://theghostinmymachine.com/2014/08/11/the-most-dangerous-games-the-elevator-game/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Game https://theghostinmymachine.com/2014/09/08/the-most-dangerous-games-the-corner-game/

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