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Highway to Hell

Highway to Hell

Monte Mader 50 episodes Nov 10, 2026

Welcome to Highway to Hell, the unique crossroads where wanderlust meets mystery. Every episode, I take you on a journey to breathtaking destinations around the globe, unveiling not just the beauty of travel but the shadows that lurk behind the postcard-perfect views. From unsolved mysteries to infamous crimes, I explore the darker tales hidden within the world's most enchanting locales. So pack your curiosity, keep your wits about you, and join us as we dive deep into the thrilling intersection of travel and true crime. Your adventure into the unknown starts now.

Episodes

73. The Hatman
73. The Hatman Nov 10, 2026 01:31:11 Please like, share and review and support us at patreon.com/highwaytohellHe stands in the doorway. He stands at the foot of the bed. He has no face, and you know exactly where he's looking. He's called the Hat Man, the tall shadow in the wide-brimmed hat and long coat that people all over the world describe in almost the same words.We start with the night visitors of the old world: the Bab
72. The Mushroom Murders
72. The Mushroom Murders Nov 3, 2026 01:58:40 Merch on sale until November 15th: https://monte-mader-shop.fourthwall.com/The door stopper Monte mentioned in episode: https://a.co/d/0548zyofOn Saturday, July 29, 2023, Erin Patterson served beef Wellington to her husband's parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and to Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and Heather's husband Ian, the pastor of the Korumburra Baptist Church, at her new house i
71. Samhain and the Haunted Highlands
71. Samhain and the Haunted Highlands Oct 30, 2026 02:00:02 We are back and Happy Halloween! Since Monte just got back from Scotland-we figured we could give you a highland special! Thank you to hellions on patreon.com/highwaytohell - you will get the full download of Monte's entire itinerary there! In 1891 a chemistry professor alone on Ben Macdui heard footsteps behind him in the mist, each stride three times his own, and ran four miles down the moun
70. Aleister Crowley
70. Aleister Crowley Oct 20, 2026 01:41:40 Born at 30 Clarendon Square, Leamington Spa, on October 12, 1875, to a Plymouth Brethren preacher and a mother who would call him the Beast from the Book of Revelation, Edward Alexander Crowley grew up to make the name his own. This week we follow him from the prayer meetings of Warwickshire to a boarding house in Hastings: the sadistic Brethren school in Cambridge, the Golden Dawn and his brawl w
69. The Worlds Most Haunted Hotels
69. The Worlds Most Haunted Hotels Oct 13, 2026 01:52:37 Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcastOn the top floor of a hotel in Sydney, on ground that was a convict hospital in 1788, two women on two different nights woke up to a sailor standing at the foot of the bed, looking at them. In a castle on the coast of Northern Ireland, a receptionist sent up the tower stair to sweep up a broken glass was shoved from behind o
68. Dangerous Delusions, Surgical Precision: The Ant Hill Kids Cult
68. Dangerous Delusions, Surgical Precision: The Ant Hill Kids Cult Oct 7, 2026 03:00:34 In 1977, a charismatic former Seventh-day Adventist named Roch Thériault led a small group of followers into the woods of Quebec’s Gaspé region to await the end of the world. He renamed himself Moïse, after Moses, and told his followers God would end the world in February of 1979. When the apocalypse never came, he kept them anyway. The group lived in handmade cabins, cut off from their families,
67. Carl Tanzler and His Corpse Bride
67. Carl Tanzler and His Corpse Bride Sep 29, 2026 02:03:22 Support the show, get ad free and bonus content patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcastCarl Tanzler was a German-born radiology technician who emigrated to the United States and by 1927 was working at the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida. He claimed that as a young man he had been visited by the spirit of an ancestor who showed him the face of his destined true love, and in 1930 he became convinced h
66. Family Business- The Hillside Stranglers
66. Family Business- The Hillside Stranglers Sep 22, 2026 02:50:48 Support the show at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcastDoes evil run in the family? Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. murdered at least 10 women and girls in the Los Angeles area between October 1977 and February 1978.They would use the "cop ruse" posing as plainclothes police officers, pull women over or approach them on the street, and take them to Buono's upholstery shop in Glendale. Th
65. The Theology of Submission and the Death of a Pastors Wife
65. The Theology of Submission and the Death of a Pastors Wife Sep 14, 2026 02:13:32 TW: SuicideFirst ever true crossover episode! Flippers meet the Hellions, Hellions meet the Flippers. This case included so much of our mutual subject matter we decided to post it on both shows. Mica Francis Miller, 30, died on April 27, 2024, at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina, roughly an hour from her home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She had bought a handgun that afternoon and cal
64. Crime of the Summer- the Lindsay Clancy Case
64. Crime of the Summer- the Lindsay Clancy Case Sep 8, 2026 02:24:42 Andy and I have bombshells about the timeline in our fireside chat on patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcast (we also tease the new studio and halloween merch)Clarify some points:**This is by no means all of the data from the trial, only what we could fit into the evidence, we talk more about things on the fireside**The timeline discrepancy comes from Patrick testifying he left at 5:15 but an email bein
63. Extreme Premeditation: The Life and Crimes of Israel Keyes
63. Extreme Premeditation: The Life and Crimes of Israel Keyes Sep 1, 2026 01:59:58 We're so used to serial killers having a compulsion, a need, an insatiable craving that often makes them sloppy and leads to an arrest. Israel Keyes did not suffer from that reckless compulsion and may be the most calculated killer we have ever covered. On unrelated trips Israel Keyes would get a five gallon bucket and fill it with a gun, rope, plastic sheeting, anything he needed for a kill trip
62. The Jersey Devil
62. The Jersey Devil Aug 25, 2026 01:53:32 How prejudice, misogyny and a kangaroo in bat wings created a monster. Support the show by becoming a hellion at patreon.com/highwaytohellpodcastThe legend is rooted in the Pine Barrens, the million-acre stretch of sandy pine forest across southern New Jersey.The legend begins in 1735 when a woman remembered only as Mother Leeds went into labor with her thirteenth child. Exhausted and cursing her

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