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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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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)

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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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)

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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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

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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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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

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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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

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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)

We yearn for the tunnels... so do ghosts in Switzerland! They especially like to hitch rides through the Belchen Tunnel.

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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)

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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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

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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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)

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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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

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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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