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What happens when a town bully pushes residents past their breaking point? Find out what became of Ken Rex McElroy after thirty-some years of feeling invincible in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri. When a town or city has no law enforcement of its own, is it safe to leave the citizens in charge of handing out justice? 

Part one of a series of bizarre stories from the 1980s. Do you remember your school or city's bully? 

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In our last episode we touched on the first half of our top ten music related curses. Episode 42 delivers the top 5 curses in music history. Buddy Holly, Fleetwood Mac, the Glass Armonica, Robert Johnson and the 27 Club. 

Do you believe? Or is it all just a series of coincidences? 

Can songs be haunted? Can one death cause countless more? Can an instrument created by Ben Franklin drive you insane?  

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In part one of the Musical Maledictions episode, we will learn about John Lennon's history with the number 9. How Jan and Dean created a song that jinxed one of the members so bad they nearly died. We'll discuss the Devil's Trill, Sonata No. 6, and a whole lot more. Curses in music, real or really made up? Apologies for my voice in this one, I'm on my eighth day of Covid. 

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In the early 1900s alternative healing practices and occult beliefs were all the rage. Voodoo and Satanism washed over the United States as people began to look outside of the church for answers. Benny Evangelist and Aurelius Angelino were two Italian immigrants looking for a fresh start in America. 

Both became interested in the occult and both of their families suffered for it. 

Learn all about the horrific tragedies that struck their households and the roles they have played in them. Aurelius broke free from an insane asylum and was never heard from again. Benny lost his head. 

*May not be suitable for children

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Chuck E. Cheese. Where a kid can be a kid and adults can be absolute animals. 

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, had another money making idea. Bring arcades out of pool halls and bars and place them inside family restaurants. 

When Disney wouldn't hire him, he decided to bring Disney style animatronics to his restaurants. Chuck E. Cheese, Mr. Munch, Pasqually and the rest of the crew were soon putting on shows for countless kids across the country. 

Somewhere along the way, Chuck E. Cheese restaurants became magnets for murder, fights and a host of other legal issues. Nearly forty years later, they're still going strong. What is it that we love... and hate... about Chuck E. Cheese. 

And how did one man take the idea of animatronics coming to life and turn it into a million dollar video game, movie, toy and book franchise with Five Nights at Freddy's?  

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When you're a ghost, nowhere is off limits not even schools. 

While Curator 135 uses an old American Girl doll to scare his students, schools around the world have experienced the wrath of much scarier spirits, specters and phantoms. Travel to schools from Japan to New Jersey as we discuss some of the creepiest school haunting stories of the past few decades.  

Headless ghosts who render you unable to move, long dead football players looking for a little competition, a school built on a cemetary and a young woman who might lure you into the bathroom to give you a swirly.  

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As World War II raged on, a crew of nine strangers were assigned to an Army Air Corp bomber called "Lady Be Good". The bombing mission in Naples, Italy would be the first and last for both the crew and aircraft. What happened during the return trip? How did the plane end up almost 400 miles away from the Libyan air base? If they survived the crash, how long would they survive the harsh desert climate of the Sahara when no one knows where they are?  

The true story of an unanswerable S.O.S.

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In the early 1900s, Pearl Lenore Curran began experimenting with a Ouija board.  Shortly after a woman named Patience Worth started communicating with her. They would go on to publish novels, plays, poems and essays together.  Nearly a million of Patience's words were transcribed. Pearl claimed to be nothing more than a vessel for Patience Worth. Scientists, psychics and skeptics had a hard time disproving the existence of the spirit who lived in the 17th century. 

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For a few months in 1942 the city of Pascagoula, Mississippi faced a new fear. As World War II raged on for its third year; what kept these folks up at night was not the threat of bombs but the possibility of losing their hair... to the Phantom Barber. 

Hair for cash? Hair for religion? Hair for pleasure? Why was a man sneaking into people's homes at night and cutting off locks of hair? 

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West Virginia, wow. From Mothman to Bat Boy and everything in between. Take a trip along the Appalachian Mountains and get a taste of some of the bizarre and curious stories that haunt the state. Aliens, ghosts, monsters and a Swiss village. 

Curator 135 has never been to West Virginia but it's certainly on his bucket-list now. 

Learn about Screaming Jenny, Dangerfield Newby, The Snarly Yow, The Braxton County Monster, The Grafton Monster, Lost World Caverns, Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park, Helvetia Swiss Village, The Mystery Hole, The Mothman Museum and Gift Shop, The Weeping Woman Statue, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and more.  

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