RedHanded

The Eunuch Maker | #393

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In one of our most horrifying episodes yet, we look at a man who clamped and amputated the genitals of potentially hundreds of men, and carried out un...

Episode 392 - The Menendez Brothers Part 2: The Sweater Defence

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing our filmed mega Menendez marathon, in this episode we dive into the sensational details of Lyle and Erik’s trial – where these Beverly ...

Episode 391 - The Menendez Brothers Part 1: Silver Spoon Killers

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this long-awaited episode, we dive into one of the most infamous true-crime cases in American history: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez. The bru...

Episode 390 - Delia Balmer: Surviving a Serial Killer

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Delia Balmer’s ex-boyfriend wasn’t just a scruffy stoner with a pet tarantula and a sketchbook full of gruesome drawings: he was a murderer.&...

Episode 389 - Babis Anagnostopoulos: High-Flying Homicide

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of 19-year-old Caroline Crouch was found in her attic room after an apparent home invasion – with her 11-month-old daughter crying nex...

FROM THE VAULT - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 2

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we were speechless to learn that Casey Anthony is now on TikTok (and Substack), trying to reposition herself as an online advocate and acti...

FROM THE VAULT - Casey Anthony: Web of Lies - Part 1

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we were speechless to learn that Casey Anthony is now on TikTok (and Substack), trying to reposition herself as an online advocate and acti...

Episode 388 - The House of Védrines & The “Guru” Who Stole it All

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This story of how a rich, aristocratic French family lost their fortunes, and their minds, to a painter-and-decorator conman, unravels like Dan Brown ...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 293 - Gabby Petito: Isolated

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In December 2020 Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie set off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the USA in their tiny little van. The trip ...

Episode 387 - Janet Chandler: Murder at The Blue Mill Inn

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The body of a woman – a hotel night clerk – is found frozen in the deep winter snow of Van Buren County, Michigan. A tragic discovery; but the tal...

UPDATE: Is Lucy Letby Innocent?

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An independent panel of experts has concluded that NO murders took place at the Countess of Chester hospital. If true, it would mean that Lucy Letby, ...

Episode 386 - The Kidwelly Sex Cult

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Through the early 2000s, a satanic, paedophilic sex cult, with dozens of members and an obsession with Ancient Egyptian iconography, ran totally undet...

Episode 385 - Killer Geisha: Abe Sada

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sex-mad geisha who sliced off her lover’s genitals, strangled him with a kimono belt, and carved her name into his arm, is perhaps Japan’s mos...

Episode 384 - Lizzie Borden: High-Society Hatchet Homicide

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The brutal hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still among the most infamous and hotly debated cases in true-crime history.Truly springing f...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Ross Ulbricht now a free man thanks to his recent presidential pardon we thought it would a good idea to look back at who he is, what he did, and...

The People vs. Brock Turner | #383

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world’s media painted Brock Turner as a promising young swimmer – an Olympic hopeful with everything to lose. Whereas his anonymous victim was...

Episode 382 - Ellen Greenberg Part 2: Weaponised Incompetence

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ellen Greenberg was murdered, or at the very least died under very suspicious circumstances. To us, and to almost everyone who has even so much as gla...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 26 - Madness, Murder & Munchausen by Proxy: The Case of Gypsy Rose Blancharde

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the release of Gypsy Rose Blancharde’s memoir just around the corner, we thought it was high time we revisited the full story, from Episode 26 ...

Episode 381 - Ellen Greenberg Part 1: “You’ve Got A Murder Up There”

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you believe the official report, Ellen Greenberg stabbed herself: at least 20 times in the back, neck, stomach, chest, and through her scalp, hard ...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As RedHanded takes a festive pause, we've picked two of our favourite Patreon Bonus episodes from 2024. To get a full-length, bonus episode of RedHand...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Erin Patterson: Mushroom Murder Mystery

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As RedHanded takes a festive pause, we've picked two of our favourite Patreon Bonus episodes from 2024. To get a full-length, bonus episode of RedHand...

Episode 380 - Jim Jones Part 2: The Jonestown Massacre

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we told you how over 1,000 people ended up in the Guyanese jungle following the orders of a meth-head with a god complex. Short answer: Nobo...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 275 - The Assassination of Olof Palme

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In February 1986, the prime minister of Sweden was walking home from the cinema, when a man stepped out of a shop doorway and shot him in the neck wit...

Episode 379 - Jim Jones Part 1: The Journey to Jonestown

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the 18th of November 1978, 909 men, women, and children were killed by chemical-laced Flav-Or-Aid in the Guyanese jungle, all at the will of one ma...

Episode 378 - The Mystery of the Isdal Woman

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we unravel the mystery of the Isdal Woman, Norway’s most notorious cold case. Was it murder, suicide, or something even more sinist...

Episode 377 - Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

​​One of the most prolific serial killers in America's so called 'golden era', Rodney Alcala is responsible for the deaths of at least eight peopl...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 126 - Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Netflix releasing a brand new documentary on the tragic and suspicious death of JonBenét Ramsey, we thought it would a good time to have a littl...

Episode 376 - White Terror

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Through the 2000s, three neo-Nazi terrorists and serial killers rampaged across Germany – bombing and shooting immigrants in broad daylight, with to...

Episode 375 - The Poisoning of Zhu Ling

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1994, Zhu Ling – a brilliant chemistry student at China’s most prestigious university – fell mysteriously ill. A desperate SOS call by her fr...

Delphi Update: Richard Allen Found GUILTY

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Allen has been found guilty on all charges relating to the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German.But if anyone thinks that this story...

Gisèle Pelicot: The Altar of Vice | #374

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Of the 83 men who had raped Gisèle Pelicot, she recognised only two faces. One was a neighbour – and the other was her beloved husband of over...

Episode 373 - Halloween Special Part 2: Art School Murder & Uncle John

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we continue our spooky tradition of swapping stories on All Hallows Eve, with two chilling cases of betrayal and deceit. From a death in th...

Episode 372 - Halloween Special Part 1: Pennhurst Asylum & The Mummy Next Door

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The winter solstice is almost here – the time when the threshold between the living and the dead is at its weakest. And here at RedHanded towers, th...

Episode 371 - Eddie Lee Sexton Part 2: Feral Family Road Trip

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Incest runs in the family – and Eddie Lee Sexton’s depravity knew no bounds. From his own  teenage daughters right down to the children he ha...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 19 - Halloween Special Part 1

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're digging deeper than ever into the dark recesses of the RedHanded vault – seven years to be exact – to bring you our first EVER Halloween spe...

Episode 370 - Eddie Lee Sexton Part 1: Amputee Jesus

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neglect has a smell – and it clung to the walls of 1849 Caroline Street, Stark County, Ohio. As a litany of horrors unfurled, the stench was dwarfed...

David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue | #369

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At first, police thought they were only looking for a double murderer. Nicknamed the ‘Bedsit Killer’ in the press, the suspect’s reputation for ...

Episode 368 - MKUltra - Part 2: The Myth of Mind Control

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We now know that the CIA quietly tested mind-bending psychedelics on unwitting American citizens. But how do we know?In Part 2 of our series on MK-Ult...

FROM THE VAULT: ShortHand: How a NASA Experiment Ended in Dolphin Sex

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ShortHand is available exclusively for Amazon Music and Wondery+ subscribers.Rumours about NASA scientists trying to teach dolphins to talk and gettin...

Episode 367 - MKUltra - Part 1: Cold War of the Mind

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of an Allied victory, the threat of a communist New World Order loomed over the West. Desperate to beat the Soviets at their own game, the...

FROM THE VAULT - Joyce McKinney: Mormon Sex in Chains

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kirk Anderson was abducted from an LDS meeting house in Surrey by his ex-partner – and ex-beauty queen – Joyce McKinney. He said he was taken...

Episode 366 - Constance Marten & Mark Gordon

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of a weeks-old baby was found in a plastic bag in a shed, covered in soil and rubbish, it marked the end of one of the UK’s strangest ...

Episode 365 - Virginia Hall: The WW2 Super Spy

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nicknamed "Artemis" and "The Limping Lady" by Nazi Germany, Virginia Hall was, without a doubt, one of the most effective—and certainly the most fea...

Episode 364 - Ruby Franke: Monster Momfluencer

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the son of Mormon family vlogger Ruby Franke turned up bound, emaciated and apparently covered in blood – it horrified the police, the internet...

Episode 363 - Karen Read & The Death of John O’Keefe - Part 3

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our unexpected third part on this neverending rabbit-hole of a case, we finally take on the big, crucial factors that have sent the internet into a...

Episode 362 - Karen Read & The Death of John O’Keefe - Part 2

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this second (and not-quite-final) part on the Karen Read saga, we take a look at the most talked about trial of the year.In front of a packed court...

Episode 361 - Karen Read & The Death of John O’Keefe - Part 1

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At roughly 12:30am on 29 January 2022, Karen Read drove her boyfriend, Boston police officer, John O’Keefe to a party at a friend’s house. The nex...

FROM THE VAULT: Episode 278/9 - Scott Peterson: Sex, Lies & Fishing Boats - Part 1 & 2

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Scott Peterson back in the news, having given his first interview in decades we thought it would be a good time to refresh our memories on this b...

Episode 360 - Javed ‘Kukri’ Iqbal: “To Make a Hundred Mothers Cry”

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A serial paedophile and murderer, Javid Iqbal dedicated his entire existence to grooming, sexually abusing, and eventually killing young boys from the...

Episode 359 - Bad Brits: Featuring Wine & Crime

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on RedHanded we’re joined by some new friends from across the pond - Lucy and Amanda aka Wine & Crime! Given our geographical and cult...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 33 - Oscar Pistorius & Reeva Steenkamp: The Valentine's Day Murder

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2014, 29 year old model Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death by her partner: South African Olympic sprint runner an...

Episode 358 - Peter Plumley-Walker: The Trial of the Teenage Dominatrix - Part 2

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three trials, countless corrupt officers, and years behind bars faced Renee Chignell, after she and her boyfriend, were accused of the murder of 51-ye...

Episode 357 - Peter Plumley-Walker: Divorce, Death & Debauchery Down Under - Part 1

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does a “true British gentleman”, complete with love of cricket and handlebar moustache, end up dead at the bottom of a waterfall in New Zealan...

Episode 356 - Davy Tweed: Behind Closed Doors

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As far as the people of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, knew, Davy Tweed was a sporting hero, dedicated public servant, and good Protestant family ma...

Episode 355 - The Khamar-Daban Incident: Mystery in the Mountains

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bleeding from the eyes, foaming at the mouth, and bashing themselves to death against the rocks. That was the fate of six skilled hikers in the Russia...

Episode 354 - Mahsa Amini & The Morality Police

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On 19 May 2024, Ebrahim Raisi – “The Butcher of Tehran” and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran – died in a helicopter crash. Immediatel...

Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world’s most infamous nuclear disaster officially killed just thirty-one people, but in reality it’s death toll is incalculable. Raining radio...

Episode 352 - Over the Thin Blue Line: the Undercover Police Scandal

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine finding out that your partner of six years – the love of your life, the father of your children – had never existed. That during all of yo...

Episode 351 - North Korean Abductions: Korean Career Couriers

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kidnapping might seem like an odd solution to low levels of education, but for The Democratic People's Republic of Korea it seemed like a perfect plan...

Episode 350 - War Machine

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Christine Mackinday and her boyfriend were interrupted in bed by her ex-fiancé – a 200-pound ex-MMA fighter who had legally changed his name t...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 157 - The Disappearance of Peter Falconio

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Get your tour tickets at redhandedpodcast.com!In 2001 on a remote stretch of highway in Australia’s Northern Territory, British backpacker Peter Fal...

Episode 349 - A Death in Old Peking

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The state of Pamela Werner’s body alone would have been enough to send 1930s Peking into a frenzy. She’d been frantically stabbed, her chest cut w...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 194 - Ivan Milat: The Real Wolf Creek

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Between September 1992 and November 1993 the remains of seven backpackers were found dotted around Australia’s Belanglo State Forest. The long-putre...

Episode 348 - The Murder of Jill Dando

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shot dead in broad daylight outside her house in West London – the killing of Jill Dando is one of Britain’s most high-profile murders. As one of ...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 173/4 - Keli Lane: What Happened to Baby Tegan?

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate and get everyone in the mood for our soon to be iconic Antipodean Tour, we are digging up some of the craziest cases from down under that...

Episode 347 - Daniel Morcombe & the ‘Mr Big’ Plot

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a 13-year-old boy, out shopping for Christmas presents, disappeared from a bus stop in Australia’s Sunshine Coast, police were initially slow t...

Episode 346 - David Berg & The Children of God - Part 2

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you thought Part 1 was bad – just you wait. Last week we talked about the origins of one of the world’s biggest cults. And this time, we look a...

Episode 345 - David Berg & The Children of God - Part 1

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Communes, propaganda and child abuse are not uncommon in the world of cults. But what made David Berg and his “Children of God” so unique was the ...

Episode 344 - Twin Flames Universe (ft. Help I Sexted My Boss)

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Note: The video version of this podcast can be watched in full on our YouTube channel! Available from the 18th of April.Join RedHanded and Help I Sext...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 254 - Jennifer Pan: Tiger Blood

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Social media is swarming with fresh takes on the Jennifer Pan story, after a new documentary became the third-most watched show on Netflix this weeken...

Episode 343 - Rob Parkes: The Price of Life

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Parkes is not a paedophilic, drug-dealing, gang-leading tyrant. But that’s exactly what his pathologically controlling, abusive ex-wife tried to...

Episode 342 - The Panama Girls: Lisanne Froon & Kris Kremers

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ten years ago, two young women entered the Panamanian cloud forest, accompanied by a dog named Blue. Blue was the only one to ever return. T...

Episode 341 - Michael Barrymore & The Death of Stuart Lubbock

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Found dead and with severe internal injuries in the swimming pool of the UK’s biggest TV star, Stuart Lubbock’s tragic demise became an instant ta...

Episode 340 - The Sea Orphan

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Found drifting on the open ocean on the brink of death, Terry Jo Duperrault’s survival was nothing short of a miracle.She’d been at sea ...

Episode 339 - Sherri Papini: The Woman Who Fooled the World

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three weeks after going missing, Californian ‘supermom’ Sherri Papini was found running down a highway with a chain tied to her waist and the word...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 305 - Natalia Grace: The Orphan

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

UPDATE: Since we released our episode on the Barnetts – who said their adopted 9-year-old daughter had turned out to be a murderous, adult woman –...

Episode 338 - Horror in Hong Kong: The Braemar Hill Murders

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Found raped and brutalised in the hills, just a stone’s throw from one of Hong Kong’s richest neighbourhoods, teenagers Kenneth McBride and Nicola...

FROM THE VAULT - Episode 59 - Danny Casolaro: The Man Who Knew Too Much

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now that a new Netflix doc has got everyone talking about Danny Casolaro – we wanted to rerelease one of our favourite past episodes, to give you th...

Episode 337 - MH370: "Good Night, Malaysia Three Seven Zero”

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the 8th March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was making a routine red-eye flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when it seemingly vanished in ...

Episode 336 - Maura Murray: Not Without Peril

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2004, amid a horrific snowstorm in a remote mountain town, a talented yet troubled young woman crashed her car and vanished off the face of the Ear...

Episode 335 - Shannon Matthews: Under the Bed

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On 19 February 2008, 9-year-old Shannon Matthews left school, waved goodbye to her best friend, and then vanished on the half-mile walk home.West York...

Episode 334 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 2

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following the conviction of Charlie Adelson in November 2023, his mother Donna allegedly attempted to flee the US for Vietnam. Arrested on the runway,...

Episode 333 - Charlie Adelson: The Dentist & The Hitmen - Part 1

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Wendi Adelson was left feeling trapped in Tallahassee, following her divorce from FSU professor Dan Markel, she told her big brother Charlie. Wha...

Episode 332 - Jean-Claude Romand: Doubling Down

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prospect medical student turned slacker spree-killer is hardly a normal turn of events. Yet Jean-Claude Romand managed to throw his entire life away b...

Episode 331 - The Friedmans: A Family Affair

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Friedmans were your average upper-middle-class family in ‘70s America, but everything changed when one day accusations of mass child sexual abus...

Episode 330 - Sarah Everard: The Betrayal

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in the middle of the UK’s shambolic COVID lockdown, 33 year old Sarah Everard went for a walk. That night she crossed paths with a man who woul...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Rodney Marks: Murder at The Bottom of the World

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks to COVID, we all now know, better than ever the impact that social isolation can have on our mental health. Depression, confused thinking,...

Bonus Patreon Upcycle - The Bloody Benders: America’s First Serial Killer Family

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When countless lone travellers began to vanish without a trace along the Great Osage Trail in the early 1870s, the people of Labette County, Kansas, w...

329 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 2

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Michael Peterson remains one of the most baffling we’ve ever come across. Red neurons, missing blood spatter and of course that pesky b...

Episode 328 - The Staircase: Michael Peterson - Part 1

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the outside the Petersons had it all; the perfect family, a beautiful mansion and more money than they could spend. But on 9th December 2001 all ...

Episode 327 - Murder in Ulvila

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At 3 am on the 1st of December 2006, Anneli Auer phoned Finnish emergency services – to tell them an intruder was stabbing her husband to death as s...

Episode 326 - Sarah Payne: Into Thin Air

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vanishing in seconds when her older brother turned away, 8-year-old Sarah Payne’s high-profile disappearance gripped the nation. But as mother and f...

Episode 325 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 2

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The evidence against Chris Dawson was overwhelming from the start - so why did it take several investigations, 2 coronial enquiries and 40 years of ag...

Episode 324 - The Vanishing of Lynette Dawson - Part 1

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Lynette Dawson vanished without a trace in January 1982, her husband played the heartbroken victim. He was an abandoned father of two, with no ch...

Bonus - Israel Keyes: Plan of Attack

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You asked for it – to say a huge final THANK YOU to all of you who brought us Gold in the Listeners' Choice category in this year’s BPAs, we promi...

Episode 323 - The Murder of Marvin Gaye ft. Disgraceland

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The 1984 murder of one of Motown’s biggest stars – at the hands of his abusive, alcoholic, cross-dressing Pentecostal-preacher father – stunned ...

Episode 322 - The Body, the P.I. & the Hole in the Wall

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, the body of a man was discovered in a locked hotel room in Beaumont, Texas. Apart from some minor bruising on his groin, the man didn’t hav...

RedHaunted Special: Ghost Hunting at The Ancient Ram Inn – Audio Preview

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Halloween Spooky B*tches! To celebrate our favourite time of year - and for getting GOLD at the British Podcast Awards - we took on one of the m...

Episode 321 - LIVE: Halloween Special Part 2 – Corpsewood Manor and Burke & Hare

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

’Tis the season, the SpOoKy season… And that means part two of our annual Halloween story swap, this time LIVE from Dallas, Texas!!! Listen u...

Episode 320 - Halloween Special Part 1: The Vampiress of Barcelona & The Dardeen Family Massacre

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spooky season is upon us once again, and that can only mean one thing: another instalment of RedHanded’s Halloween story swap! For the first of two ...