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Less Taken 'Real-Life Horror Stories from the Midwest' @lesstakenpod on fb, Bluesky, & IG lesstakenpod@gmail.com Blog, Notes & Sources: https://www.lesstakenpod.com/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lesstakenpod
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Less Taken
'Real-Life Horror Stories from the Midwest'
@lesstakenpod on fb, Bluesky, & IG
lesstakenpod@gmail.com
Blog, Notes & Sources:
https://www.lesstakenpod.com/
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lesstakenpod
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'Real-Life Horror Stories from the Midwest'
@lesstakenpod on fb, Bluesky, & IG
lesstakenpod@gmail.com
Blog, Notes & Sources:
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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lesstakenpod
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6 MAY 2025 · There were no screams. Just photographs.
For years, Rob Berdella tortured and killed in near silence—his victims disappearing without a sound, their agony captured in Polaroids and handwritten logs. Neighbors heard nothing. The house stayed quiet. But behind closed doors, a methodical horror unfolded, room by room, tape by tape.
Berdella kept records like trophies: Polaroids, notes, fragments of lives erased.
This isn’t just the story of a killer. It’s a catalog of cruelty... and the moment one survivor finally shattered the silence. And it also begs the question, what would you do if were suffering but no one was around to hear it?
Let us know what you think! Please rate, review, subscribe & tell a friend. Every little bit helps! Lucky reviewers have a chance of scoring some free LT swag!
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29 APR 2025 · There were no screams. Just photographs.
For years, Rob Berdella tortured and killed in near silence—his victims disappearing without a sound, their agony captured in Polaroids and handwritten logs. Neighbors heard nothing. The house stayed quiet. But behind closed doors, a methodical horror unfolded, room by room, tape by tape.
Berdella kept records like trophies: Polaroids, notes, fragments of lives erased. This isn’t just a story about a serial killer. It’s a question: What happens when suffering echoes... and no one is listening?
This isn’t just the story of a killer. It’s a catalog of cruelty... and the moment one survivor finally shattered the silence. And it also begs the question, what would you do if were suffering but no one was around to hear it?
Let us know what you think! Please rate, review, subscribe & tell a friend. Every little bit helps! Lucky reviewers have a chance of scoring some free LT swag!
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FOLLOW US BEFORE WE FOLLOW YOU!
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Discover more and check out our merch - www.lesstakenpod.com
Submit your ideas for future episodes - www.lesstakenpod.com/ideas
Listen - https://linktr.ee/lesstakenpod
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22 APR 2025 · What if a vanished girl’s voice slipped through your radio, years after she disappeared, and no one could explain how it got there? Tune in to the broadcast that Des Moines was never meant to hear.
In our first 7-Minute Less Taken, "Dead Air in Des Moines," we explore a spooky tale about AM stations, including whether the reported eerie sounds comes from ghosts or something else.
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21 APR 2025 · We're happy to announce that starting tomorrow, we're releasing 7-Minute Less Taken episodes, which cover stories in a quick, eerie way like never before. We hope to deliver these once a month. The first tale lingers in Iowa, to explore the strange voice people claim they heard coming through the AM airwaves in the 1970s. I hope you join us tomorrow and let us know what you think.
-CMH-
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15 APR 2025 · In our first Roads Less Taken episode, we explore details excluded from 'Mary X: The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund' and embark on an eerie road trip from Earling, IA, to Kansas, the setting of our upcoming story 'The Kansas City Butcher.' And we also explore some of the local sights and haunts along the way.
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1 APR 2025 · Growing tired of their defiant daughter, Jacob and his mistress place a curse on a young Anna Ecklund, ensuring her life turns out to be a living hell. Only when a concerned priest reaches out does anyone try to help Anna. As a result, she endures a series of exorcisms and a lifetime of torment.
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25 MAR 2025 · In this upcoming Story episode...
Growing tired of their defiant daughter, Jacob and his mistress place a curse on a young Anna Ecklund, ensuring her life turns out to be a living hell. Only when a concerned priest reaches out does anyone try to help Anna. As a result, she endures a series of exorcisms and a lifetime of torment.
Listen to the full episode Tues, April 1st, 2025!
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18 MAR 2025 · In this episode, we introduce you to what awaits in Season Four of Less Taken, and we might give you a few spoiler samples. Maybe...
ABOUT MARY X:
Growing tired of their defiant daughter, Jacob and his mistress place a curse on a young Anna Ecklund, ensuring her life turns out to be a living hell. Only when a concerned priest reaches out does anyone try to help Anna. As a result, she endures a series of exorcisms and a lifetime of torment.
Preview drops next Tuesday, March 25th, 2025.
The full episode will drop on Tuesday, April 1st, 2025.
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12 MAR 2025 · In preparation for Season Four, we thought this replay might help get everyone in the right mood.
Re-explore the real-life horror story of Tina Resch, a woman who claims she went from a life of demonic imprisonment to an actual prison for life.
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12 MAR 2025 · First and foremost, thank you so much for listening to Less Taken and supporting the podcast!
Send a copy of your review to lesstakenpod@gmail.com,https://www.lesstakenpod.com or otherwise direct us to it, and we'll send you some free stickers and such!
Second - Season Four is almost here! We've made a few changes to our usual scheduling and format, and we hope you'll enjoy them. Our goal is to provide an even richer experience this season.
This means we will release 1 new story per month instead of two, but the storytelling will go more in-depth, and the average episode will run about an hour.
Third - Season Four stories will have a companion episode. In addition to the usual preview episodes, we will have what we call "Roads Less Taken" episodes that explore details left out from our monthly story (like our old Pit Stop episodes from Season Two: Shadowlands), and we'll also explore the roads leading from one Midwest town to the next.
For the latter, we'll pause every so often to cover local horror stories, oddities, and haunts along the way to the setting of our next Real-Life Horror Story.
Hopefully, this sounds as good to you as it does to us. Let us know what you think via email, the website, Facebook, or Instagram. That's lesstakenpod@gmail.com, lesstakenpod.com, and @lesstakenpod on the socials.
Tomorrow, we'll release a Season Three Replay of "Ghost Girl" to help get everyone in the mood for the first story of Season Four.
(That's your second spoiler if you've been following along.)
-CMH-
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Less Taken
'Real-Life Horror Stories from the Midwest'
@lesstakenpod on fb, Bluesky, & IG
lesstakenpod@gmail.com
Blog, Notes & Sources:
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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lesstakenpod
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'Real-Life Horror Stories from the Midwest'
@lesstakenpod on fb, Bluesky, & IG
lesstakenpod@gmail.com
Blog, Notes & Sources:
https://www.lesstakenpod.com/
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lesstakenpod
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| Author | Chase County Productions |
| Organization | C.M. Humphries |
| Categories | Fiction , Society & Culture , True Crime |
| Website | www.lesstakenpod.com |
| lesstakenpod@gmail.com |
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