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Ep. 155 The White Thing and Sheepsquatch

Welcome to Wild and Wonderful West Virginia, where we have cryptids called The White Thing and Sheepsquatch!
One is a large, dog-like creature with filthy white, wooly fur and saber-like fangs, while the other is an 8-foot, hairy bipedal creature with a long head that holds a single-point set of horns not dissimilar to those found on a young goat.
What's not to love? 
Join us as we discuss whether or not everyone is seeing the same entity or if there are two monstrous creatures stalking the Appalachian Mountains.
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Sources:
Ruth Ann Musick - Wikipedia
Sheepsquatch | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom
Tale of West Virginia monster may have first been documented in 1950s - West Virginia Explorer (wvexplorer.com)
Ted Fauster: Meet the top five monsters from the West Virginia hills - West Virginia Explorer (wvexplorer.com)
Telltale Lilac Bush - Wikipedia
The Legend Of The White Things Of West Virginia (onlyinyourstate.com)
The Sheepsquatch: A Cryptid In American Folklore - Mother Farmland
The Sheepsquatch - Is West Virginia's White Thing Real? (cryptidophilia.com)
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales : Ruth Ann Musick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The WV Presents "The Telltale Lilac Bush" Webisode #1 - PILOT (Series Premiere) (youtube.com)
West Virginia Monsters – White Thing – Upper Monongahela River Association (uppermonriver.org)
White Thing/Sheepsquatch Sighting - Clio (theclio.com)

Ep. 154 Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner

On May 13th, 1998, Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner went hiking through Furnace State Park. Unbeknownst to the couple, they were being stalked by Stephen Carr who would ultimately attack the two women unprompted. 
Join us as we discuss the unfortunate events that unfolded, the "gay and trans panic" defense used in court, and statistics surrounding crimes against the LGBTQ+ community. 
 
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Sources:
12 Crimes That Changed the LGBT World (advocate.com)
Appalachian Trail Histories | Rebecca and Claudia · LGBTQ Hate Crime (Student Exhibit) (appalachiantrailhistory.org)
CDE (cjis.gov)
Fact Sheet on Injustice in the LGBTQ community | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Gay panic defense - Wikipedia
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Killed For Being Gay: The Murder of Rebecca Wight | by Verity Partington | Medium
LGBT people nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime - Williams Institute (ucla.edu)
Michaux State Forest (pa.gov)
Murder of Rebecca Wight - Wikipedia
Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner - Newspapers.com™
The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It (americanbar.org)
Victimization rates and traits of sexual and gender minorities in the United States: Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017 | Science Advances
Wayback Machine (archive.org)

Ep. 153 Ghost Chickens and Vampires invade Highgate!

Are ghost chickens and vampires wreaking havoc on Highgate, London? Can we take raccoons to court? Does this podcast support cannibalism?
...Tune in to find out!
 
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Sources:
A Scientific Spirit: Sir Francis Bacon and the Ghost Chicken of Highgate | Mental Floss
Francis Bacon - Wikipedia
Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery - Wikipedia
Highgate Cemetery: A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Highgate Cemetery, London, England (historic-uk.com)
Highgate Chicken Ghost (real-british-ghosts.com)
Pond Square Chicken, Highgate – Mysterious Britain & Ireland
The ghosts of Hampstead and Highgate | Ham & High (hamhigh.co.uk)
The Highgate Vampire: Horror of the Dead | The Unredacted
Visit Highgate | A visitor's guide
What Is the Highgate Vampire and Has it Ever Been Spotted? (vice.com)

Ep. 152. Leonarda Cianciulli... The Soap Maker of Correggio

To celebrate Women's History Month, we are dedicating this episode to the infamous serial killer known as The Soap Maker of Correggio. Leonarda Cianciulli's horrific crimes will make you rethink where your soap comes from... and how many people have forced you to commit cannibalism without your knowledge. 
 
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Sources:
Leonarda Cianciulli - Wikipedia
LEONARDA CIANCIULLI: SHE CREATED SOAPS WITH HUMANS – HORRORS REVEALED (wordpress.com)
Meet Leonarda Cianciulli, Italy's Infamous Female Serial Killer (allthatsinteresting.com)
The Correggio soap-maker - Mucri - Criminology Museum (archive.org)
TIME.com: A Copper Ladle -- Jun. 24, 1946 -- Page 1 (archive.org)
Sodium: Getting rid of dirt - and murder victims - BBC News

Ep. 151 Dobhar-chú

All hail the Otter King this St. Patrick's Day! The Irish legend of the Dobhar-chú warns of its appetite for human flesh... so let's maybe not go chase it down for the protective properties of its fur. 
 
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Sources:
Dobhar-chú - Wikipedia
Dobhar Chu, Ireland's Vicious Supernatural Crocodile Otter Monster | Spooky Isles
Dobhar-chú: The Otter King of Irish Folklore - Historic Mysteries
Giant otter - Wikipedia
Irish Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures of Folklore and Legend - IrishWishes
The Dobhar-Chú Tombstones of Glenade, Co. Leitrim (Cemetries of Congbháil and Cill-Rúisc) on JSTOR
The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu (irishcentral.com)
The tale of Leitrim's own Loch Ness Monster - the Dobhar-Chú - Leitrim Live (leitrimobserver.ie)

Ep. 150 The Belchen Tunnel

We yearn for the tunnels... so do ghosts in Switzerland! They especially like to hitch rides through the Belchen Tunnel.
 
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Sources:
Belchen Tunnel: Key Route in Swiss Transport Network - Vignetteswitzerland.com
Belchen Tunnel - Wikipedia
Hörbuch «Sage uf d Ohre» erzählt Unheimliches aus dem Baselbiet (bzbasel.ch)
Microsoft PowerPoint - 2014 03 Vortrag Belchentunnel ETH_druck handout.pptx (ethz.ch)
Road Trip of Terror: Exploring the World's Most Haunted Highways - Nightmare on Film Street (nofspodcast.com)
Shrove Tuesday - Wikipedia
The spookiest places in Switzerland (thelocal.ch)

Ep. 149 The Pamela Smart Affair

23-year-old Pamela Smart began an affair with a 15-year-old student in the early 90s. Although she denies it, she ended the affair a few months later by convincing the boy to murder her husband.
 
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Sources:
Court rejects sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, serving life in prison for plotting with teen lover to have her husband killed - CBS News
New Hampshire Supreme Court will consider challenge to Pamela Smart's life sentence - ABC News (go.com)
Pamela Smart - Wikipedia
Pamela Smart got four boys to kill her husband nearly 29 years ago. Now, they're free. She isn't. - The Washington Post
Pamela Smart, The Woman Whose Teenage Lover Killed Her Husband (allthatsinteresting.com)
Pamela Smart, Who Inspired ‘To Die For,’ Is Denied Parole Bid - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The Trial of Pamela Smart: Sex, lies & murder | Court TV
 

Ep. 148 Richardson Family Murders

In April 2006, Marc and Debra Richardson were found murdered in their home along with their 8-year-old son, Tyler Jacob. Authorities would horrifyingly discover that their 12-year-old daughter and her 23-year-old "boyfriend" had been behind the heinous crime, making her the youngest person ever convicted of a multiple murder in Canadian history.
 
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Sources:
Canadian Girl, Boyfriend Responsible For Brutal Murder Of Her Entire Family – New Arena
Girl on trial for murder agreed to marry lover (thestar.com)
Jasmine Richardson, Jeremy Steinke, and the Richardson Family Murders - The CrimeWire
Medicine Hat girl guilty of first-degree murder - Calgary - CBC News (archive.org)
Richardson family by ag112397 on emaze
Richardson family murders - Wikipedia
solving a mystery: Steinke, girlfriend smiled at murder coverage: Witness (solvevingamystery.blogspot.com)
Tenth Anniversary of Richardson Family Murders in Medicine Hat | Lethbridge News Now
Three bodies found Medicine Hat, Alta., home - The Globe and Mail
Where is Jasmine Richardson now? Inside the Richardson family murders. (mamamia.com.au)

Ep. 147 The Devil's Footprints

If you like feet, this is the episode for you! Help us track down who left hoofprints in the England snow one cold February night. It might be hungry badgers... or it might be The Devil's Footprints.
 
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Sources:
26 May 1855 - Miscellaneous Extracts. - Trove (nla.gov.au)
Devil's Footprints - Wikipedia
Devil's Hoofmarks - Source Material On The Great Devon Mystery of 1855 PDF | PDF | Nature (scribd.com)
Five of the Strangest Creature Footprints Ever Discovered (coolweirdo.com)
The 1855 "Devil's Footprints" mystery in Devon, England (thevintagenews.com)
The Mystery of the Devil’s Footprints - Discovery UK
The Ongoing Mystery of the 'Devil's Footprints' | Mental Floss

Ep. 146 The Hotel Pierre Robbery

Celebrate the New Year with us as we discuss what the Guinness Book of World Records deems the largest, most successful hotel robbery in history, the heist of Hotel Pierre!  
 
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Sources:
Lucchese crime family - Wikipedia
Mobster in witness protection details world’s greatest heist (nypost.com)
Pierre Hotel robbery - Wikipedia
Police Find a Clue in Robbery at Pierre Hotel - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The Biggest Heists and Bank Robberies in American History - WorldAtlas
The Pierre - Wikipedia