{"podcast":{"title":"Creepy Shit","slug":"creepy-shit-7322721","podcast_index_feed_id":7322721,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166689.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166689","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43436010/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.jpg","author":"Creepy Shit","episode_count":71,"summary":"Creepy Shit Podcast is where we dive into haunted histories, forgotten folklore, and unsolved weirdness that actually happened. Sometimes it’s the obscure stuff nobody’s talking about, sometimes it’s a story you’ve heard before but never like this. No fluff. Just verified mysteries, strange phenomena, and historical oddities that’ll have you questioning everything at 2am. If you’re here for the unexplained and you actually want the research behind it, welcome home, and press play","last_synced_at":"2026-09-07T10:18:51.665747+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creepy-shit-7322721"},"episode":{"title":"46: The Sausage King of Chicago: Murder, Dissolution & the Ghost that Never Left","slug":"46-the-sausage-king-of-chicago-murder-dissolution-the-ghost-that-never-left","published_at":"2026-03-23T05:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creepy-shit-7322721/46-the-sausage-king-of-chicago-murder-dissolution-the-ghost-that-never-left","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creepy-shit-7322721","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8874561","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8874561.mp3?modified=1773678214&sid=5166689&source=rss","summary":"In 1897, Adolph Luetgert — Chicago’s self-made “Sausage King” — became the center of one of the most disturbing and sensational murder cases in American history. When his wife Louisa vanished on the night of May 1st, police followed the evidence straight to the basement of his northwest side sausage factory. What they found there changed criminal justice forever — and allegedly left something behind that never quite left. This week on Creepy Shit Podcast, we break down the fully documented, court-record-verified story of the Luetgert murder case: the lye vat, the bone fragments, the engraved ring, the forensic anthropologist who took the stand in one of America’s earliest uses of forensic science in a murder trial, and the two trials that captivated an entire city. We also get into the ghost sightings that started almost immediately after the crime — the white figure at the fireplace, the watchmen who ran, the twice-relocated house, and the basement that still makes people uneasy today. No embellishment. No invented details. Just the real, documented, deeply unsettling truth — which, as always, is scarier than anything we could make up. References & Resources: ∙ Alchemy of Bones: Chicago’s Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 — Robert Loerzel ∙ WTTW Chicago: Chicago Mysteries with Geoffrey Baer ∙ Mysterious Chicago — Adam Selzer ∙ Cook County Court Records, 1897–1898 (Illinois State Archives) ∙ CBS Chicago: Chicago Hauntings series​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​","meta_description":"In 1897, Adolph Luetgert — Chicago’s self-made “Sausage King” — became the center of one of the most disturbing and sensational murder cases in American h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3028,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/creepy-shit-7322721/episodes/46-the-sausage-king-of-chicago-murder-dissolution-the-ghost-that-never-left/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creepy-shit-7322721/46-the-sausage-king-of-chicago-murder-dissolution-the-ghost-that-never-left.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}