Bug in a Rug
Friends gather together to talk about all the things that keep us up at night! We just hope that after listening you can still sleep as snug as a bug in a rug...
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Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
This week's episode adds another reason why we stray away from hitchhiking! Was the right man convicted for the murder of Karen Ferrell and Mared Malarik? There might still be clues left unearthed in our own backyard.
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Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/48y4rx/mystics_murder_and_missing_heads_the_1970_wvu/
https://www.timeswv.com/news/exploring-new-possibilities-in-decades-old-murders/article_d0353258-4086-11e8-877c-8f3e726617c5.html
https://birthday.wvu.edu/history/timeline
https://law.justia.com/cases/west-virginia/supreme-court/1980/14070-3.html
https://www.coedmurders.com/
https://www.facebook.com/maredandkaren/photos/a.1597423243642372/1670485239669505/?type=3&theater
https://open.spotify.com/show/0s7Rc9jIBtE3nSoEcvOmA4?si=psHa32pZSTOlIc-cY0RqGA
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
If you thought the Grinch was bad, don't stop to help injured goats in New Orleans, Louisiana... you might just come face-to-face with THE GRUNCH!
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Orleans#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20New%20Orleans%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20traces%20the,by%20the%20United%20States%20in%20the%20Louisiana%20Purchase.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a6942194/most-haunted-us-cities/#:~:text=%20The%2010%20Most%20Haunted%20Cities%20in%20the,of%20the%20destruction%20in%20Galveston.%20Though...%20More%20
https://www.thetravel.com/haunted-spots-new-orleans-stories/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/marie-laveaus-tomb
https://witchesbrewtours.com/2018/02/13/beyond-ghosts-grunch-new-orleans/
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/The-Grunch-A-Chupacabra-on-the-Bayou
http://www.hauntedneworleanstours.com/devilbaby/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
https://www.livescience.com/24036-chupacabra-facts.html
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
ATTENTION! There is a beast on the loose! This is a call to all listeners. Will you raise up your pikes, travel with us to Gévaudan, and protect the women and children from the monster lurking in the woods?
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Sources:
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190807/map-where-in-france-do-wolves-live
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monument-to-jean-chastel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
We are back in the saddle and cooking up some spicy chili! Our beans are of a supernatural kind, more specifically Yokai. These strange, mysterious creatures are from Japanese folklore. Giddy-up cowboy!
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai
https://sites.temple.edu/yuki/yokai/
http://yokai.com/introduction/
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Parade-One-Hundred-Demons/dp/0985218428
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro
https://yokainosekai.fandom.com/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai_Types#:~:text=The%20Four%20Sacred%20Beasts.%201%20Dragon%20%28Spring%2FEast%29%20Fearsome,White%20Tiger%20%28Autumn%2FWest%29%20%204%20Tortoise%20%28Winter%2FNorth%29%20
https://yokaitoons.com/index.php/category/yokai-type/tsukumogami/
https://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Bakemono
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-animism-4588366#:~:text=Animism%20is%20a%20feature%20of%20various%20ancient%20and,anthropological%20term%20when%20discussing%20different%20systems%20of%20belief.
https://yokai.fandom.com/wiki/Oni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni
http://animalia.bio/raccoon-dog
https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Tanuki
https://gogonihon.com/en/blog/legend-tanuki-big-bellied-magical-japanese-raccoon-dog/#:~:text=Over%20time%2C%20the%20tanuki%20has%20transformed%20into%20its,its%20head%20which%20was%20once%20a%20lotus%20leaf.
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
A Christmas Eve tragedy left a family searching for five of their children. Join us as we explore the West Virginia mystery of the Sodder family.
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Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/
https://www.cremationresource.org/cremation/how-is-a-body-cremated.html#:~:text=Cremation%20of%20a%20dead%20body,a%20retort%2C%20of%20a%20crematory.
https://www.ready.gov/home-fires
https://thoughtcatalog.com/emily-madriga/2018/03/35-puzzling-facts-about-the-sodder-children-disappearance/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/mystery-5-children-killed-house-14235748
https://science.howstuffworks.com/napalm.htm
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
We celebrate West Virginia Day with a story that won't fall flat! Journey with us to the center of the state to either be abducted by aliens or attacked by an owl.
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Sources:
https://cryptidlab.com/west-virginia-cryptids/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods,_West_Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
https://www.history.com/news/flatwoods-monster-west-virginia
http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/washingtondailynews15sep1952.htm
paratopiary.blogspot.com/2012/09/bashful-billy-alien-of-wheeling-wv.html
https://www.ufoinsight.com/the-flatwoods-monster-ufo-incident-a-case-study/
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Belle traveled from Norway to America in search of a new life... a new life that came to include a great deal of wealth and murder.
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Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/belle-gunness
https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/strychnine/basics/facts.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine#Mechanism_of_action
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/killer-wives-8-most-infamous-black-widow-murderers-249561/
https://laportecountyhistory.org/exhibits/belle-gunness/
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
When you are finished listening to this episode, you must come carry us up the mountain to drink from the stream so that we can grow stronger. If you don't, you are your family will be cursed for always and eternity.
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Sources:
https://list25.com/25-creepy-cursed-objects-that-actually-exist/
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-a-curse-248646
https://www.ststworld.com/the-hands-resist-him/
https://www.stonehamstudios.com/haunted
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/08/mysterious-cursed-and-haunted-paintings-of-the-world/
https://paranorms.com/thomas-busby/
https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-deathly-stoop-chair-of-thomas-busby/
https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Dibbuk-Box-Where-is-it-Now
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Put your bibs on! We are serving up some Creepypasta. Gluten may not keep you up at night, but tales of the Russian Sleep Experiment sure will.
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Sources:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/05/can-you-die-from-lack-of-sleep.html
https://www.livescience.com/52592-spooky-effects-sleep-deprivation.html
https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep-deprivation/effects-on-body
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/insufficient-sleep-definition-epidemiology-and-adverse-outcomes?search=sleep%20deprivation%20consequences&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1#H8
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreaming-in-the-digital-age/201412/why-sleep-deprivation-is-torture
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment
https://www.optalert.com/sleep-deprivation-as-a-form-of-torture/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_techniques
Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
In honor of the cicadas returning after 17 years of peace and prosperity, we try to decipher the mystery surrounding the group Cicada 3301. Did the bugs learn how to use computers?
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Sources:
Twitter Account - 1231507051321
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vigenere-cipher
https://www.lexico.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
https://thepangean.com/On-Codes-and-Ciphers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
https://www.deepwebsiteslinks.com/cicada-3301-2017/
https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/cicada-3301-first-puzzle-walkthrough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_cryptogram
https://uncovering-cicada.fandom.com/wiki/What_Happened_Part_1_(2013)
https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/TCP-IP
https://www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/cicada-3301-test#event-a-href-articles-timeline-australian-researchers-developed-442tbps-internet-connection-using-microcombaustralian-researchers-developed-a-442tbps-internet-connection-using-039-microcomb039-a
https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/cicada-3301-puzzle-brightest-minds-posted-unknown-mysterious-organizationt/
https://www.businessinsider.com/cicada-3301-returns-after-year-of-silence-with-cryptic-tweet-2016-1