Bug in a Rug

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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Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/belle-gunness

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

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

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/killer-wives-8-most-infamous-black-widow-murderers-249561/

https://laportecountyhistory.org/exhibits/belle-gunness/

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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Sources:

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/

https://paranorms.com/thomas-busby/

https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-deathly-stoop-chair-of-thomas-busby/

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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Sources:

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

https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep-deprivation/effects-on-body

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/insufficient-sleep-definition-epidemiology-and-adverse-outcomes?search=sleep%20deprivation%20consequences&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1#H8

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreaming-in-the-digital-age/201412/why-sleep-deprivation-is-torture

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment

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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Twitter Account - 1231507051321

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

https://www.deepwebsiteslinks.com/cicada-3301-2017/

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

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

https://uncovering-cicada.fandom.com/wiki/What_Happened_Part_1_(2013)

https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/TCP-IP

https://www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/cicada-3301-test#event-a-href-articles-timeline-australian-researchers-developed-442tbps-internet-connection-using-microcombaustralian-researchers-developed-a-442tbps-internet-connection-using-039-microcomb039-a

https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/cicada-3301-puzzle-brightest-minds-posted-unknown-mysterious-organizationt/

https://www.businessinsider.com/cicada-3301-returns-after-year-of-silence-with-cryptic-tweet-2016-1

For your safety and ours, please do not attempt any of these creepy internet challenges ;)

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/what-is-momo-challenge-800470/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyrobertson/2019/02/27/dont-panic-what-parents-really-need-to-know-about-momo-challenge/#547e33e73a4b

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-32887325

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

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

https://ghostadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Zozo_Demon

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/wbo0u/please_dont_actually_try_this/

https://mindhacks.com/2010/09/18/the-strange-face-in-the-mirror-illusion/

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-46505722

https://www.bustle.com/p/10-creepy-games-like-the-charlie-charlie-challenge-3406866

A classic tale of he said he said that escalated into a man turning a bulldozer into a tool to extract revenge... wait what? Marvin Heemeyer is his name and bulldozing is his game.

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Sources:

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

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/

http://www.portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/06/290173.shtml

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-25-tm-bulldozer30-story.html

Tread – Documentary directed by Paul Solet

plannersweb.com/2013/11/understanding-spot-zoning-2/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/09/killdozer-day-marvin-heemeyer/

Bachelor number one hails from Florida, and they have been described as a furry log. They enjoy long walks on the beach and pushing over life guard stands. They may be a giant penguin, but they are still ready for love. Let me introduce Old Three-Toes!

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Sources:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52460/strange-states-floridas-giant-penguin

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/giant_penguin_of_clearwater

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/06/florida-three-toes/

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

https://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/two-feet-from-clearwaters-past-fathers-funny-legacy-leaves-a-deep/2159682/

This week's special guests are out of this world! In honor of the Pentagon releasing footage of UFO activity, we brought our parents back in to discuss what in world (or not) the Phoenix Lights were!

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Sources:

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

http://www.nuforc.org/phoenix/phoenixslides.html

http://www.nuforc.org/EncyclopediaPhoenixLights.htm

https://www.altereddimensions.net/2012/phoenix-lights

http://everything.explained.today/Phoenix_Lights/

https://thephoenixlights.net/Myths.htm#Weather_Balloons

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-phoenix-lights-are-no-mystery-6661825

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/11/the-phoenix-lights-become-an-incident/

This week we drop into tales of cryptids both near and far. The Squonk has us tearing up while Australian creatures have us avoiding fig trees!

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Sources:

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

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

https://www.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2015/06/pennsylvanias_squonk_ends_the.html

https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/Conservation/ForestsAndTrees/InsectsAndDiseases/HemlockWoollyAdelgid/Pages/default.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara-ma-yha-who

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/magical-mythical-beings

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

https://www.britannica.com/animal/tarsier

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_(2021_film)#cite_note-pk-3

We didn't think pitch black rooms could get any darker, but we were wrong. You might want to listen to this one with the lights on and beware of the shadows that might be moving when you aren't looking.

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Sources:

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/5-terrifying-true-stories-shadow-people/

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

https://www.ancient-code.com/who-are-the-mysterious-shadow-people/

https://the-line-up.com/shadow-people

https://www.pararational.com/types-of-shadow-people/

https://www.bustle.com/p/what-are-shadow-people-these-supernatural-entities-are-scarier-than-any-horror-movie-12219528

https://www.ranker.com/list/phantom-hat-man-facts/erin-mccann

weekinweird.com/2016/08/31/investigating-the-link-between-the-shadow-man-phenomenon-and-the-terrifying-hat-man/

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/09/bizarre-encounters-with-black-mass-shadow-entities/

www.theparanormal.me/2011/10/sleep-paralysis-old-hag-syndrome-shadow.html

http://shadowpeople.org/