Episode 217: Trina’s Gettysburg Ghost Souvenir And The Matthew Nolan Oppenheimer Case
August 7, 2026
The girls are back, and this time, to ask two very reasonable questions. One, why would you invite a Gettysburg ghost into your home. And, two, why does the Christopher Nolan brother rumor have so much truth to it?
First, Monique tells the story of Trina, a skeptic who went on a Gettysburg ghost tour during her honeymoon, mocked the whole thing and then jokingly invited an entity home like it was a refrigerator magnet. Her husband told her to take it back but she just had to double down. The haunting that followed was water-based and weirdly poetic: scalding showers, exploding water, light bulbs burning out near sinks, CPAP issues, pneumonia that made her feel like she was drowning, and eventually a black shadow figure sliding across the floor toward a pond. Lesson: respect the dead.
Then Amy takes us into the real story behind the viral rumor about Christopher Nolan’s “fugitive hitman brother.” The truth is messier: Matthew Nolan, the filmmaker’s older brother, allegedly used the alias Matthew Oppenheimer while posing as an heir to the Oppenheimer diamond fortune. That alias pulled him into the orbit of Robert Cohen, a tax accountant tied to missing money, fake passports, a kidnapping, a brutal murder, an Interpol red notice, a prison escape plan, and a justice system that somehow still left Cohen’s daughter without the accountability she deserved.
This one has a strong AFHP moral of the story: stop being shitty while you’re alive, because neither ghosts nor consequences are ever impressed with that behavior.
This week on Another Fucking Horror Podcast, Monique and Amy are giving you a haunted honeymoon, a fake Oppenheimer and two stories where the central lesson is honestly pretty simple: stop running your mouth around forces you do not understand.
First, Monique covers Trina’s Gettysburg ghost story, which starts with a honeymoon ghost tour and quickly becomes the most egregious case of “fuck around and find out” out this podcast has ever covered. Trina mocked the experience, wandered into a field connected to Civil War soldiers who had drowned after the Battle of Gettysburg, and joked about taking a ghost home as a souvenir.
What happened next was a water-based horror movie that’ll make you perk right up.
Then Amy covers the case of Matthew Nolan, Christopher Nolan’s older brother, whose story went viral online as the “fugitive hitman brother named Oppenheimer” rumor. The reality is more complicated, but still absolutely fucking wild. Matthew allegedly used the alias Matthew Oppenheimer while posing as an heir to the Oppenheimer diamond fortune, got tied to a Costa Rica scheme involving missing money and became connected to the kidnapping and murder of American accountant Robert Cohen.
We’re talking fake passports, Interpol red notice, a daughter begging authorities to help her father. And there is, somehow, still no real justice for Robert Cohen.
This episode comes with the very clear reminder to respect the dead, research viral claims and maybe don’t invite anything home unless it’s for a friendly coffee.