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Has your cat ever sat on you so long that you thought you were going to suffocate? It might just be a Draugr. In Norse mythology, Draugr were corpses come back to life with superhuman strength and magical powers! All you had to do to get rid of them is wrestle them back into their respective grave... easy enough?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/creatures-in-norse-mythology/#:~:text=Creatures%20in%20Norse%20Mythology.%201%20Elves.%20Said%20to,3%20J%C3%B6tnar.%204%20Valkyries.%205%20Draugr.%20More%20items

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr

https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Draugr

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grettis-saga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grettis_saga#:~:text=Grettis%20saga%20%C3%81smundarsonar%20%28%20Modern%20Icelandic%20pronunciation%20%29,life%20of%20Grettir%20%C3%81smundarson%2C%20a%20bellicose%20Icelandic%20outlaw.

https://www.sagadb.org/grettis_saga.en

https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2018/9/12/the-draugr

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/10/the-draugr-the-deadliest-monster-of-all/

https://hiticeland.com/iceland/the-wonderful-world-of-eyrbyggja-saga

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ghosts.shtml#:~:text=Also%20known%20as%20aptrgangr%20%28lit.%20%22after-goer%2C%22%20or%20%22one,spirit%20do%20not%20apply%20to%20these%20supernatural%20creatures.

https://hrafnar.org/articles/lwood/draugar/

Please do not use snakes as facial coverings. Please check your seats before you sit down. Samuel L. Jackson didn't fight Titanoboa, but we might. Prepare for... SNAKES ON A BUS!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLstlbXaFk

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-bus-passenger-uses-snake-as-a-face-mask-12072957

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/snakes-on-a-bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIoDohcPSs

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48078884

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snakes-bus-paisley-bus-driver-14790051

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460234609/large-snake-hops-a-ride-on-mta-bus-in-brooklyn

Gather around the campfire to listen to the tale of a red-eyed, bushy-tailed lunatic known as The Mad Squirrel. It lurks in the woods, seeking out victims to catapult sharpened acorns at. This story still haunts us from childhood thanks to the elaborate storytelling skills of our father. 

This week we discuss the horrendous crimes committed by Nathan Brooks and how they rocked Bellaire, Ohio to its core. The small town was spooked into cancelling Halloween festivities in 1995 after the teenager murdered his parents in cold blood. 

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https://weelunk.com/the-night-nathan-brooks-canceled-halloween/

https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=nathan+brooks&dr_year=1995-1995&offset=9&p_place=OH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVWOq9Wtmw

Have you ever gone trick-or-treating and found a razor blade in your candy apple? Neither have we, but we thought we should talk about reports of candy tampering on Halloween night anyway.

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Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

https://www.history.com/news/how-americans-became-convinced-their-halloween-candy-was-poisoned

The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends by Joel Best and Gerald T. Horiuchi

https://www.rd.com/article/halloween-urban-legends/

https://halloweenlove.com/razor-blades-in-the-apple-urban-myth-or-deadly-fact/

https://candyprofessor.com/2009/10/30/laxatives-and-the-end-of-trick-or-treating/

https://gothamist.com/food/halloween-legend-long-island-lady-who-gave-trick-or-treater-arsenic

New York Times

https://abc13.com/news/houstons-own-real-life-halloween-horror-story/375883/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

https://www.statesman.com/news/20161014/35-years-later-memories-of-notorious-halloween-candyman-murder-remain-vivid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths#:~:text=Poisoned%20candy%20myths%20are%20urban%20legends%20about%20malevolent,legends%3A%20danger%20to%20children%20and%20contamination%20of%20food.

We are celebrating one year of podcasting with a stroll down memory lane. We stopped to smell the flowers, while highlighting our favorite episodes. Hopefully throughout it all, you've still been able to sleep as snug as a bug in a rug. Thank you!

Birmingham, Alabama was built in part by the efforts of Colonel James Withers Sloss. He created Sloss Furnaces, a manufacturing plant that produced record amounts of pig iron, deaths, and paranormal encounters! ...wait what?

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Sources:

https://frightfurnace.com/hauntings/haunted-history-of-sloss-furnace/

https://www.slossfurnaces.com/history/

https://www.countryliving.com/life/g3793/scary-ghost-stories/

https://www.hauntedrooms.com/alabama/birmingham/haunted-places/sloss-furnaces

https://www.travelchannel.com/videos/recap-sloss-furnaces-0169724

https://www.travelchannel.com/videos/sloss-furnace-0185143

http://www.lastgasps.com/page40.html

The Mandela Effect is a dizzying concept that has us wondering what the truth actually is! Join us and our parents as we try to remember if the Monopoly Man has a monocle, if it is Fruit Loops or Froot Loops, and if Darth Vader actually knows Luke's name or not. 

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https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/mandela-effect/#:~:text=The%20Mandela%20Effect%20refers%20to%20when%20a%20large,originally%20attributed%20to%20the%20existence%20of%20multiple%20universes.

https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/mandela-effect

https://mandelaeffectsite.wordpress.com/#:~:text=In%202009%2C%20Fiona%20Broome%20launched%20the%20original%20Mandela,remembered%20nearly%20identical%20details%20of%20that%20funeral%20coverage.

https://theawakeneddreamer.com/2018/02/22/billy-graham-died-again-the-surreal-landscape-of-the-mandela-effect-and-what-it-means-for-humanity/#:~:text=Billy%20Graham%20Died%20Again%3A%20The%20Surreal%20Landscape%20of,this%20is%20his%20third%20death%20or%20more%20already.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/series/berenstain-bears-series/_/N-2kp6

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-mandela-effect-4589394#:~:text=Explanations%201%20Alternate%20Realities.%20One%20theory%20about%20the,involves%20false%20memories.%20...%203%20Memory-Related%20Concepts.%20

https://www.livescience.com/65029-dueling-reality-photons.html

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/false-memories

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-storytelling-animal/201302/the-holodeck-is-real

We find ourselves caught up in the mystery surrounding the disappearance, recovery, and discovery of Pauline Picard. How did this two-year-old go missing, and who was the look-a-like living with her family?

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Sources:

https://www.google.com/maps

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/mysterious-disappearance-little-pauline-picard/

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/the-enduring-mystery-of-pauline-picard-the-girl-who-went-missing-once-and-was-found-twice/ar-BB14xwwS

https://www.mamamia.com.au/pauline-picard-mystery/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doppelg%C3%A4nger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_France

The FBI is hot on our tails once again. This time it is for researching some of the most famous bank heists! Between the First American Bank Robbery, the Knightsbridge Security Deposit Robbery, and the Dunbar Armored Robbery... we may or may not have gathered some tips on how to "retire early".

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Sources:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/robbery

https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/robbery-larceny-or-burglary-what-are-the-differences-47870

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/view

https://www.theclever.com/the-15-biggest-bank-heists-in-history/

https://www.carpentershall.org/timeline

https://www.carpentershall.org/americas-first-bank-robbery

https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-first-american-bank-robbery-was-an-epic-farce/65240/

https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n17a18.html

http://eskify.com/10-most-interesting-bank-heists/

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/safety-deposit-box-etiquette-what-not-to-put-in-your-safe-box/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightsbridge_Security_Deposit_robbery

https://koraldo.blogspot.com/2013/03/knightsbridge-security-deposit-robbery.html#:~:text=Knightsbridge%20Security%20Deposit%20was%20robbed%20on%20June%201,director%20and%20the%20guards%20were%20unable%20to%20react.

https://historycollection.com/tunnels-cross-dressing-kidnap-7-lucrative-robberies-history/2/

https://www.factinate.com/things/44-crazy-bank-robber-facts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Armored_robbery

https://www.txcrimdefense.com/crime-throughout-history-the-dunbar-armored-robbery/

https://medium.com/of-misdeeds-and-mysteries/the-dunbar-armored-robbery-151ee91c3cd3

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-19-me-12221-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPMpmv5WZhA&t=43s