Bug in a Rug

Ep. 77 Cannibals in National Parks?

Are feral people cannibalizing those who enter National Parks? The locals believe it is true. Do you?
 
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Sources:
https://www.radio.com/podcasts/spooky-show-47958/39-unsolved-cannibals-in-national-parks-357050982
http://hikinginthesmokys.blogspot.com/2019/01/mysterious-vanishings-in-great-smoky.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Dennis_Martin
http://texascryptidhunter.blogspot.com/2020/07/what-happened-to-dennis-martin.html
https://www.radio.com/podcasts/spooky-show-47958/39-unsolved-cannibals-in-national-parks-357050982
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91204584
https://www.unsolvedappalachia.org/thelma-pauline-melton/
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/trenny-gibson
https://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm
https://www.outsideonline.com/2196807/exclusive-scene-missing-411

Ep. 76 The Disappearance of Unique Harris

Unique Harris mysteriously vanished from her apartment in October of 2010. Her mother and two sons were left heartbroken and without answers until an arrest was finally made 10 years later. 
 
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Sources:
Trace Evidence - 030 - The Disappearance of Unique Harris - YouTube
A young mother, gone without a trace - The Washington Post
Unique RaQuel-Leona Harris – The Charley Project
Unique Harris: A Young Mother Disappears in the Night – True Noir (wordpress.com)
Unique Harris Put Her Kids To Bed & By Morning, She Vanished (ourblackgirls.com)
Black and Missing Foundation :: Partnership with TV One, Find Our Missing and Michael Baisden (blackandmissinginc.com)
Police charge man with murder 10 years after woman disappeared in Washington - The Washington Post
DC Metropolitan Police Arrest Isaac Moye for Murder of Unique Harris | STL.News
10 years later, arrest made in DC woman’s disappearance case | WTOP

Ep. 75 Valentine's Days Origins

Hallmark competes with St. Valentine, Chaucer, and a literal wolf to see who gets to claim Valentine's Day. 
 
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Sources:
https://getfluid.com/blog/hallmark-valentines-day/#:~:text=While%20Hallmark%20denies%20its%20involvement,chocolates%20for%20their%20significant%20others.
https://corporate.hallmark.com/news-article/hallmark-helps-celebrate-what-valentines-day-is-really-about-love-for-all-all-for-love/
https://blog.cardsdirect.com/greetingcards/top-5-card-sending-holidays-of-the-year/
https://www.history.com/news/6-surprising-facts-about-st-valentine
https://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/history-of-valentines-day-2
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/lupercalia
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/Fowls.php

Ep. 74 Spring-heeled Jack

We are jumping back in time to the Victorian Era where a mysterious "prankster" was running rampant. Spring-heeled Jack was known for shocking young women with his metallic claws and fiery breath!
 
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Sources:
Spring-heeled Jack | Monster Wiki | Fandom
Spring-heeled jack | Mythology wiki | Fandom (wikia.org)
Spring Heeled Jack (historic-uk.com)
Spring-heeled Jack - Wikipedia
Spring-Heeled Jack | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom
The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack – Dark Hauntings (wordpress.com)
https://oddfeed.net/spring-heeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-who-spread-hysteria-in-victorian-britain/
https://books.google.com/books?id=sdkHAAAAIAAJ&q=spring-heeled
The Times Archive | The Times & The Sunday Times

Ep. 73 Harrison Okene the Accidental Aquanaut

Harrison Okene became known as the Accidental Aquanaut after being trapped in an air pocket on the sunken Jascon 4 for over 60 hours. 
 
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Sources:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/amazing-rescue-video-nigerian-man-survives-3-days-trapped-at-bottom-of-atlantic-1.1572757
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquanaut
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/harrison-okene-the-man-who-survived-a-shipwreck-spending-60-hours-in-seawater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness#Mechanism
https://www.badassoftheweek.com/harrison-okene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA

Ep. 72 Asha Degree's Disappearance

On February 14th, 2000, Asha Degree left her home in the early hours of the morning and never returned. With limited evidence and leads, her disappearance has remained unsolved to this day. 
 
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Sources:
Disappearance - Asha Degree
Disappearance of Asha Degree - Wikipedia
Black & Missing: Asha Degree - Her Mother Speaks - JETmag.com
Black kids go missing at a higher rate than white kids. Here's why we don't hear about them - CNN
The Forgotten Victims of Missing White Woman Syndrome: An Examination of Legal Measures That Contribute to the Lack of Search and Recovery of Missing Black Girls and Women (wm.edu)
Inmate says he knows what happened to Asha Degree (shelbystar.com)
After 19 years, Asha Degree's mother holds on to hope her daughter will be found - News - Shelby Star - Shelby, NC
ASHA JAQUILLA DEGREE — FBI

Ep. 71 Mamie Thurman

Join us as we learn about another star for our upcoming tv show The Real Ghostwives of West Virginia. Mamie Thurman's brutal murder left Logan County residents asking if her good Christian persona was really an act after all. 
 
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Sources:
https://westvirginiahauntsandlegends.com/22_Mine_Road.htm
https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/06/unsolved-murder-of-mamie-thurman.html
https://www.register-herald.com/news/crime/mamie-thurman-murder-still-surrounded-by-mystery/article_1ac93eb6-6ca5-53eb-91f2-f84c2d1f9ef8.html

Ep. 70 Fairy Trees

A road rerouted, a man turned insane, Timothy Shalamagoo... what do these three things have in common? The answer is this episode about the mystical powers of fairies and the portals that they use to venture into our world. We are talking all about fairy trees, fairy forts, and fairy rings. 
 
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Sources:
The Greatest Fairy Characters | List of Fictional Fairies (ranker.com)
The Darker Side of Irish Fairy Lore: When Encounters Turn Dangerous | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)
Types of Irish Fairies: Leprechauns, Grogochs, and Other Species - Exemplore - Paranormal
Crataegus - Wikipedia
Superstitions & Fairy trees in Ireland - Irish Folklore Stories (yourirish.com)
The De Lorean Fairy Tree - Northern Ireland's Remarkable Trees
The Fairy Tree That Moved a Motorway. - Sounds of Sirius
Fairy Trees of Ireland – Irish Culture, University of Alberta, 2020 (home.blog)
Fairy fort - Wikipedia
What are fairy forts? (irishcentral.com)
Fairy ring - Wikipedia
Irish History: Fairy Rings (history-ireland.blogspot.com)
The Difference between Irish Fairy Forts, Fairy Rings, Ráth and Lios – Irish Imbas Books

Ep. 69 Mysterious Staircases

We are climbing into the new year with this week's episode on mysterious staircases. Were they built by Banksy or dipped in time sauce? We may never know...
 
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Sources:
https://medium.com/inside-the-simulation/isolated-staircases-are-being-found-in-national-forests-eb36da9339c8
https://www.rd.com/list/creepy-staircases-to-nowhere/
https://www.historicmysteries.com/mysterious-stairs-forests-legends-history/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StairsintheWoods/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/

Ep. 68 Christmas Folklore

Happy Candlenights!  This year we are celebrating by bringing you a holiday tradition for each letter of the word Christmas. From talking animals to a cannibalistic scarecrow, we've got something for everyone this holiday season!
 
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Sources:
Winter Folklore Traditions and Creepy Christmas Monsters A to Z (mookychick.co.uk)
The Origins Of Animals Talking On Christmas Eve (grunge.com)
Inspirational and Christian STORIES -- The Night The Animals Talked. (skywriting.net)
A Traditional Welsh Christmas - Christmas celebrations in Wales (historic-uk.com)
These 20 Terrifying Christmas Monsters Will Haunt Your Holidays | Hornet, the Gay Social Network
Knecht Ruprecht - Wikipedia
Nuremberg's World-famous Christmas Market Has Been Canceled for 2020 | Travel + Leisure (travelandleisure.com)
Knecht Ruprecht | Article about Knecht Ruprecht by The Free Dictionary
Folklore Friday: Ireland’s Christmas Lore - Shamrock Craic (shamrockgift.com)
Saturnalia - HISTORY
Tomte – One of the most popular Scandinavian mythological characters (sweden.org.za)
Why do we kiss under the mistletoe? - HISTORY
Årsgång - Wikipedia
Divination | Definition of Divination by Merriam-Webster (merriam-webster.com)
To See What the Upcoming Year Holds, Take a Solo Walk in a Dark Forest - Atlas Obscura
The seven most terrifying Christmas traditions around the world | Christmas | The Guardian
The Terrible Tale Of Hans Trapp, The Christmas Scarecrow - Ripley's Believe It or Not!