Day 11 of the Crimetober Series is about the plague known as “sleepy sickness”, with a connection to October 11, 1921 and the end of a search for the Loch Ness Monster that occurred on October 11, 1987.

**Oops!  Heather had one job and she still messed it up!  Sorry everyone!  Heather traveled to Nashville for her birthday and forgot to schedule the week of October 7th’s episodes ahead of time!  So, you’re getting this a tad late, but you’re still getting it!





Sources
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-a-long-ago-epidemic-teaches-us-about-sleep/ https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/october11th.html https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Movement-disorders-associated-with-encephalitis-A-Vilensky-Goetz/42353c5d8842eb1c2abc38386d33650d043feae4 https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6332/encephalitis-lethargica https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16536352/ https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/11/newsid_3166000/3166741.stm#:~:text=BBC%20ON%20THIS%20DAY%20%7C%2011,ends%20for%20Loch%20Ness%20monster&text=A%20major%20sonar%20exploration%20of,equipment%20to%20scan%20the%20lake. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Loch-Ness-monster-legendary-creature https://voi.id/en/memori/93336