#i think everything except jack the ripper is from 2017 or earlier

[mysterywheeze]

top 5 bfu episodes: can be both true crime and supernatural

this is gonna be a toughie (and i’m mostly basing this on pure personal preference and history with the ep) but here goes...

SPN

5. the toxic woman (after watching this episode i brought it up to my chem teacher. as it turned out, he’d heard about the toxic woman case! and i asked him if we could talk about it in class later in the year. we never got anywhere near that level of advanced chemistry in class but i like to think that we shared a bonding moment that day.) 4. annaliese michel (in a series full of quotations and stock photos, it is nice to hear authentic audio from a the scene of an old case) 3. bigfoot: the convincing evidence (it’s a cryptid episode! those are always great) 2. lizzie borden (i was a massive bordenhead growing up. of course it appeals to me. also, it’s a double-whammy of an unsolved murder and ghost-hunting) 1. 3 horrifying cases of ghosts and demons (i mean... could it be anything else?)

TC

5. jack the ripper (i do love how they had a fuck-ton of suspects and most of them were plausible. you can’t say that for a lot of true crime eps. also... it’s jack the ripper. it’s the unsolved murder case.  4. poisoned pill murders (a very interesting case. also, this was the first episode that i saw right when it came out, so it’s kinda my milestone from “watches this show casually” to “actively follows it”) 3. JFK (sometimes you wanna hear about some small-town crime or an obscure little case. but sometimes you wanna go big or go home) 2. d.b. cooper (a fun ep for an enigmatic guy. also, the line “i’m a mystery man, give me a bourbon” was where i got half my url from!) 1. the axeman (i think this was the first BFU episode i ever watched all the way through. it’s got a special place in my heart. also it has razor boy)