Happy Friday, and to all who observe Halloween, welcome to our day. If there’s one day sanctioned for the bullshitters and the pirates, it’s October 31st. You don’t have to love it to appreciate the general air of mystique.
Luckily for you, we’ve prepared a little darkness to take with you into the weekend.
Yesterday, we dropped the first three episodes of Witchgrass: A Small Town Investigation. What started as a passion project tumbled headfirst into an investigation into questionable police work, the esoteric, and a death that could never properly be named a murder or a suicide. You can listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music.
And for the fun and the fuck of it, a horror short story from one of the head bullshitters herself, Kennedy. Take a read of Ignored, a Halloween tale that will make sure you startle anytime your phone rings today. Enjoy.
What We Wrote
Out to everyone this week was A Ghost Hunt. Kennedy goes digging into the history of a place her family has long called home, a place that, inconveniently (or delightfully), also comes with a ghost.
Out to paid subscribers before hitting inboxes for all next week was the seventh in a series on Commonwealth v. Russ. Some Lawyer examines testimony and the almost naive disposition of Oscar Russ. Look forward to the next instalment in the series, coming November.
What Justin Recommends
Podcast | The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Living Dead and the Teenager from Mars by DISGRACELAND - The Misfits were truly unique. Scary, violent, angry and nihilistic. Particularly frontman Glenn Danzig. Rumored to have been arrested for grave robbery, locked up abroad and inciting riots in the States, the Misfits blazed a path of annihilation trading on fictional B-movie and scandal rag imagery to create one of the most enduring cult followings of all time and combating the very real sense of alienation that fuelled Danzig’s creativity and violent behaviour.
Audio | WKBW Radio Halloween Show (1973) - I’m a sucker for spooky radio tales and I have newly discovered that WKBW, out of Buffalo, New York would really pull out all the stops on Halloween. In 1968, they were even responsible for a War of the Worlds panic, 30 years after the original.
Fill up the candy bowls, blow the dust off your favourite slasher VHS (fine, find it on a streaming service, just doesn’t sound as good), and enjoy your weekend.
Until next time,
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew