The Pool Cleaner Hour

The Putnamville Correctional Facility

A totally unnecessarily in-depth look at the construction and history of The Putnamville Correctional Facility, originally known as Indiana State Farm. An outdoor prison used for labor and agriculture. 

Reading by the Pool: Caterpillars

A short horror story by E. F. Benson first published in his anthology, The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912).

Strange Prison Compilation

Part One of my Prison Series Today we break the ice, getting to know a few horrific pits of confinement. 

Reading by the Pool: The Moon Bog

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written circa March 1921

The Gruber Family Massacre

100 years have passed, and we are no closer now to the truth than the day an entire family was horrifically slain. 

Searching for The Beast

Three Davids, Three Mysteries 

The Mad Gasser

The Gas Fiend, The Thin Man of Mattoon, The Mad Phantom and The Screwball Chemist! 

Christmas Morning Massacre

This Christmas, we remember the fallen

Reading by the Pool: The Kit Bag

The Kit-Bag
Author: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
From "Pall Mall Magazine", December 1908

Creepy Christyas

Joe and Puddin' present: Drunk (?) Horse, drunk Christmas witches, and talking cows. MERRY CHRISTMAS