Dallas-based comedians and friends, Christie Wallace and Heather McKinney focus on a different true crime, cult, or creepy topic each week "and chat all things sinister in this funny and well-researched podcast." (Marie Claire).
With a burning passion and desire to share their love of all things creepy, crime, and comedy with others, Christie and Heather launched Sinisterhood in May 2018. Just seven months later, the show broke into the iTunes Top 10 Comedy Podcasts and appeared as a Spotify Featured Podcast. Three months after that, an impressive milestone occurred with 1 million downloads. Now, almost three years after the show's inception, Sinisterhood has been downloaded over 45,000,000 times. The show has been featured in Marie Claire, Vulture, AV Club, and Women’s Health and consistently appears on the Apple Podcasts Top Comedy chart.
meet the hosts
Christie Wallace
From a very young age, Christie has had a fascination with the dark side. She would be the one at a slumber party to bring the Ouija board or suggest everyone crowd into a pitch-black bathroom, stare into the mirror, and say Bloody Mary three times. Book reports on the Bermuda Triangle and the JFK assassination were not uncommon. Performing, writing, and teaching comedy for over a decade, Christie now combines those skills with her love for true crime, the paranormal, and anything involving cults and witchcraft to produce a weekly podcast.
In addition to co-hosting a full-time podcast, Christie is also a full-time parent with her husband, Tommy. Together, they have an amazing five-year-old daughter, Ella, and a two-year-old son, Simon. Their family is rounded out by a dog, some fish, and a very sassy pig named Petal. When Christie isn’t working on the show or caring for this menagerie, she can be found binge watching Love Island and The Great British Baking Show, fangirling about Beyonce, and dreaming of one day having her very own pet sloth.
Heather McKinney
Dallas-born and Chicago-trained, Heather has been performing and writing comedy since 2007. She is also an attorney who has worked for one of the world’s largest law firms, performed pro bono work for the Innocence Project, and represented victims of crime at legal aid. She has done scholarly research on the Fourth Amendment and loves making the legal aspects of cases make sense to non-lawyers.
When she’s not reading law stuff for the podcast or making short films with her husband, Paris, Heather spends her time listening to audiobooks on 2x speed, serving as a volunteer librarian for the local juvenile justice program, and re-watching the same episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Always Sunny, and King of the Hill for the millionth time.