In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, we walk the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg.

Beneath the monuments and manicured grass lies a battlefield imprinted with grief, rage, and unfinished stories.

We explore the psychological theory of trauma-imprinted landscapes and ask: what does it mean for a place to remember? From phantom regiments seen at twilight to whispered names in the fog, Gettysburg remains one of the most persistently haunted sites in North America.

Through historical accounts, environmental cues, and folklore passed down through generations, we trace the line between residual hauntings and intelligent presences. Is the land itself grieving—or are the dead still trying to speak?

🔍 In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The emotional architecture of Gettysburg’s most haunted locations
• The difference between trauma residue and active hauntings
• A few ghost stories in between,

A man writes a word. Crosses it out. Hours later, he’s found naked, dying in the passenger seat of his own car. He says four men were with him—but no one else is there.

In this episode, we unravel the haunting final hours of Günther Stoll, a food engineer from West Germany whose death in 1984 remains one of the country’s most baffling unsolved cases. At the center of it all: a cryptic note—YOGTZE—a string of letters that may be a call sign, a food additive, a Hebrew word, or nothing at all.

We explore:

• The psychological unraveling that preceded his disappearance
• The eerie collapse at a pub hours before his death
• The forensic contradictions at the crash site
• Theories of espionage, paranoia, and symbolic closure
• Why the word YOGTZE still resists translation—and resolution

This is not just a mystery. It’s a study in fractured meaning, in how language can become a final act of desperation. And how a single word can outlive the man who wrote it.

Before H.H. Holmes built his infamous murder castle, before Jack the Ripper haunted London’s alleys, two men roamed the American frontier leaving a trail of blood and terror. In this episode, we dive into the chilling legacy of Micajah and Wiley Harpe—widely considered America’s first documented serial killers.

From the brutal discovery of John Langford’s body to the Harpes’ arrest, escape, and the bounty that launched a manhunt, we unravel the true story behind the myth. Who were these men? Why did they kill without motive? And how did their reign of violence shape early American folklore?

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