Creep Me Out: A Podcast of True Crime, Urban Legends, & the Weird

This week Ari tells Morgan the story of the notorious

English monarch, Henry VIII.

Citations:

-The Wadsworth Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain, Dr. G.S.P Freeman-Grenville. 

-The Tudors: The Crown, The Dynasty, The Golden Age., Alison Weir

-Henry VIII: King of England, Geoffrey R Elton, John S Morrill 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari, and Morgan each dive deep in the history of Vampires, and the man, the myth, the legend who started the modern fasciation with the bloodsuckers, Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler.

Citations:

-Dracula Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times, Radu R. Florescu & Raymond T. McNally

-Vampire History

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/vampire-history

-Inside The Bloody History Of Vampires, From Ruthless Rulers To Medical Mysteries, Kaleena Fraga

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vampires

-Lichtheim, Miriam (2006) [1976]. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume Two: The New Kingdom. University of California Press. pp. 197–199.

-Decomposing Bodies in the 1720s Gave Birth to the First Vampire Panic, Karina Wilson 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decomposing-bodies-1720s-gave-birth-first-vampire-panic-180976097/

-How vampire lore emerged from shadowy medical mysteries, Bella Isaacs-Thomas

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-vampire-lore-emerged-from-shadowy-medical-mysteries

-The past stinks: a brief history of smells and social spaces, William Tullet

https://theconversation.com/the-past-stinks-a-brief-history-of-smells-and-social-spaces-121383

-The Last American Vampire, Christopher Klein

https://www.history.com/news/the-last-american-vampire

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the internet's favorite cryptid, Point Pleasant WV's very own Mothman!

Citations:

-An Ode to a Hometown Creature: Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Gwen Mallow

https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/mothman-point-pleasant-west-virginia

-Mothman Festival

https://www.mothmanfestival.com

-Point Pleasant Register

https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230219/http:/www.westva.net/mothman/1966-11-16.htm

-Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Handbook, Cassandra Eason

https://books.google.com/books?id=s4AP30k4IFwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR15&hl=en&source=newbks_fb

-From Disaster to Prevention, T. R. Witcher

https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/ciegag.0001250

-American Society of Civil Engineers 1993-11: Vol 119 Iss 4

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-of-civil-engineers-collected-journals_1993-11_119_4/mode/2up

-Gray Barker's Book of Bunk, John C. Sherwood

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2002/05/gray-barkers-book-of-bunk/

-The Portsmouth Times, Claims in Disaster Denied

https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=cJ1eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4537,3056163

-The Blackbird of Chernobyl: Was it a warning? Lauren Dillon

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/chornobyl-blackbird/35908/

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari tells Morgan the story of America's first reported serial Killer, H.H. Homes, and his murderous reign during the 1885 Chicago World's Fair.

Citations:

-Devil In the White City, by Erik Larson

-H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, 2004 documentary now on Prime. 

-H.H. Holmes American serial killer, John Philip Jenkins

⁠https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes⁠

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the mysterious Men in Black of ufology lore.

Citations:

Justin Sablich

https://www.history.com/news/men-in-black-real-origins

-Men in Black" Captured on Surveillance Video Entering Sheraton Hotel in Niagara Falls - FindingUFO

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

-The Editors of Publications International, Ltd.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/men-in-black.htm

-The Coming of Saucers, Kenneth Arnorld and Raymond Palmer

https://archive.org/details/TheComingOfTheSaucers/page/n5/mode/2up

-CANADA: Strange lights spotted over the falls

https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/canada-strange-lights-spotted-over-the-falls/article_cdbc1861-58cb-5b78-bc08-afb69913809c.html

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

Welcome to Season 3 of Creep Me Out! To start off the season Ari tells Morgan the story of the lesser known, but just as brutal European witch trials!

Citations:

-With Trials in Early Modern Europe and new England

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/the-robbins-collection/exhibitions/witch-trials-in-early-modern-europe-and-new-

-History of Witches

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches-World Bewitched

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/witchcraft/exhibition/dueprocess/torture.html#modalClosed

-Additional Citations

https://www.youtube.com/@SnappyDragon

Credits:Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

For the season two finale Ari and Morgan discuss one of the most horrific mass murders in history, Jonestown, as well as the man behind it, Jim Jones.

Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan and Ari discuss one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, Lonnie Daniel Franklin Jr, the Grim Sleeper.

Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan welcomes her new co-host to the podcast Ari Graves!  Ari dives right into their co-hosting duties, and discusses the darker side of the Mormon religion!

Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan has some big news for the future of the podcast, and welcomes Producer Nick to the podcast to discuss the phenomenon of doppelgängers!

Credits:
Modern Mythos Network intro and outro written and performed by Sean McNeilly

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Nick Kizina

Producer: Nick Kizina