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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https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/48y4rx/mystics_murder_and_missing_heads_the_1970_wvu/

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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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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

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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

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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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/

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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai

https://sites.temple.edu/yuki/yokai/

http://yokai.com/introduction/

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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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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

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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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

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https://www.ufoinsight.com/the-flatwoods-monster-ufo-incident-a-case-study/

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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https://allthatsinteresting.com/belle-gunness

https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/strychnine/basics/facts.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine#Mechanism_of_action

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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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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/

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https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Dibbuk-Box-Where-is-it-Now

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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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

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https://www.optalert.com/sleep-deprivation-as-a-form-of-torture/

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

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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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

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https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/cicada-3301-first-puzzle-walkthrough

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

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