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We revisit some of our most frightening childhood memories by discussing the horrific crimes allegedly committed by Elizabeth Báthory. She might just be the true inspiration behind the tales of Count Dracula and Bloody Mary. Also... we love Frankie Muniz.

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/elizabeth-bathory

http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/VladTepes.html#:~:text=Vlad%20the%20Impaler%20(Dracula)%20was,%2D1462%2C%20and%20in%201476.&text=Dracula%20was%20the%20great%2Duncle,under%20the%20name%20of%20Eupraxia.

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

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/128960

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-countess-elizabeth-bathory

In this episode, we discuss the terrible crimes committed by Marc Dutroux and his accomplices. If we go missing, then you know the conspiracy about a government cover-up was true...

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Sources:

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

https://www.xyz.ng/360/people/marc-dutroux-biography-fact-career-awards-net-worth-and-life-story-632997#:~:text=Born%20in%20Ixelles%2C%20Belgium%2C%20on%206%20November%201956%2C,and%20Dutroux%20stayed%20with%20his%20mother.%20Personal%20life

https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dutroux-marc.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleroi#Economy

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/hno19022004_049

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21326779

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marc-Dutroux

https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/steeds-vond-vader-marchal-een-woord~b1a22a15/

http://archive.is/LxSWS

http://archive.is/SFRGD

https://pedogate.world/cases/dutroux-affair/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent_europe/1962263.stm

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Belgium:_Dutroux_dossier_summary,_1235_pages,_2005

http://archive.is/AyIhz

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/dutroux-trial-to-revive-belgium-s-trauma-1.1133525

https://www.humanite.fr/node/304250

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/belgian-paedophile-dutroux-guilty-of-rape-and-murder-1.1145387

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/81363/michel-lelievre-former-accomplice-of-infamous-belgian-paedophile-dutroux-released-from-prison/

María Gómez Cámara Pereira and her family were shocked to discover that their kitchen floor had been infested... with faces!? Welcome to La Casa de las Caras.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lmez_Faces

https://the-line-up.com/belmez-faces

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/belmez-faces

http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/ghosts/219-the-faces-of-belmez-cordoba-spain

https://www.cuatro.com/cuarto-milenio/programas/temporada-10/Cuarto_Milenio-Cuatro-Iker_Jimenez-caras_de_Belmez_4_1856460006.html?type=listing

For the big 5-0, we decided to "Go along with Joe!" and address the moth in the room... we are FINALLY talking about the Mothman! Hopefully, you don't get cold feet listening to this stellar episode filled with pigeons, conjunctivitis, and dark omens. 

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Sources:

http://www.keelian.org/mothman-archive/

• Mothman:BehindTheRedEyes(2005):Pg129-133

http://hauntedwestvirginia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

https://curioushistorian.com/the-legend-of-the-mothman-agent-of-destruction-or-harbinger-of-doom

https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/Oh,_That_'Bird!'_It_Was_Seen_Again

https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Mothman-Sightings-and-the-Silver-Bridge-Collapse

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1967/12/15/silver-bridge-collapse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyebar#:~:text=In%20structural%20engineering%20and%20construction%2C%20an%20eyebar%20is,which%20only%20tension%2C%20and%20never%20compression%2C%20is%20applied.

https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Silver_Bridge_Collapse

http://www.science-rumors.com/top-10-mothman-sightings-with-pictures-proved-it-is-real/#:~:text=%20%20%201%20%281%29%20Mothman%20is%20said,hijacked%20planes%20struck%20them.%20It%20made...%20More%20

https://timeline.com/the-deadliest-bridge-disaster-in-us-history-was-caused-by-a-tiny-crack-just-3-millimeters-deep-ca5404c4dffa

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbird

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

https://www.mysterypile.com/misignwa-legend.php

http://wafflesatnoon.com/mothman/#:~:text=Here%20is%20a%20description%20of%20Mothman%20based%20on,with%20an%20awkward%2C%20wobbling%20gait.%20More%20items...%20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothman_Prophecies_(film)

https://allcryptid.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Mothman_references_in_popular_culture

https://www.insider.com/mothman-festival-west-virginia-legend-trump-tweeted

https://powerpoetry.org/poems/mothman-said-gay-rights

https://raysharp.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/like-moth-man/

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

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

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/

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.

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

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/