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Pretty Wicked

Pretty Wicked

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Pretty Wicked is storytelling with no filler. Every Wednesday I sit down and walk you through a deeply researched episode from start to finish. From true crime and unsolved mysteries to folklore and the stories you can't stop thinking about. No co-hosts, no distractions. Just you and me and a story I think you'll enjoy hearing! Pretty Wicked is hosted and written by Megan Alda. New episodes every Wednesday. 🖤 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 📩 prettywickedthepodcast@gmail.com ✨ Instagram @prettywickedthepodcast & @aldamegan If you're enjoying Pretty Wicked, leaving a rating or review helps other listeners find the show and it genuinely means the world!Copyright Pretty Wicked Podcast Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • Talhotblonde: From Message to Murder

    Talhotblonde: From Message to Murder
    Jul 1 2026
    A married, middle-aged man lies about his age online to chase a girl he thinks is eighteen. But he's not the only one catfishing. The girl he thinks is eighteen isn't exactly who she says she is either. And when a real young man comes into the picture, the whole thing turns into obsession, threats, and eventually murder. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES ABC News (20/20) - Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder CBS News - Internet Love Triangle Comes To Deadly End CBC News - Web user sentenced for killing online rival Fox News - 22-Year-Old New York Man Murdered After Being Drawn Into Internet Love Triangle The Daily Beast - Web's Killer Love Triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - MURDER: Guilty plea in Internet love triangle Greater Niagara Newspapers - COURTS: Montgomery gets 20 years in 'Internet love triangle' killing 🎬 DOCS Talhotblond (2009), directed by Barbara Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family

    The Chameleon: An Imposter in the Family
    Jun 24 2026
    A 13-year-old boy walks home from a basketball court in San Antonio and vanishes. Three years later, his family flies across the world to bring him home from Spain. There's just one problem. The young man they pick up isn't their son. He isn't even American. He's a 23-year-old Frenchman with brown eyes, dark hair, and an accent you could spot from across a room. And somehow, for nearly five months, nobody in that family said a word. This is the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the impostor the world came to call the Chameleon, and the missing boy whose name he wore like a coat. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES The New Yorker - The Chameleon The Scotsman - Interview: The private detective who uncovered The Imposter The Mirror US - Our missing son returned home after three years, but it was actually a French conman KSAT - Case of missing San Antonio boy from 1994 remains a mystery The Charley Project - Nicholas Patrick Barclay Swallowing The Camel - Fake Teens V: Serial Teen Frederic Bourdin Grunge - Frederic Bourdin: The Crazy True Story Of A Serial Impostor 📚 BOOKS David Grann - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (contains the expanded "Chameleon" essay) Christophe D'Antonio - Le Caméléon (the authorized Bourdin biography) 🎬 DOCS The Imposter (2012), directed by Bart Layton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story

    Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story
    Jun 17 2026
    Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951 Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point? CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada 📚 BOOKS Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957) Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968) Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 mins
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