Don't Look Now

There is an area is Southwest Vermont centered on Glastonbury Mountain that has become famous for the mysterious disappearances of hikers and a layered history of unease.  The area has been dubbed the Bennington Triangle and we discuss it on this week's podcast. 

We discuss the history of board games from thousands of years BC to today.

Do people sometimes mysteriously ignite without a known reason? We discuss SHC and the theories surrounding it.

In 1994 Gloria Ramirez was brought to Riverside Hospital in acute distress.  While working on her in the ER, doctors and nurses were suddenly overcome something that acted like a nerve toxin after drawing her blood.  The ER was evacuated and multiple medical professionals were hospitalized but no trace of a toxin could be found.  We discuss the mysterious death of Gloria Ramirez.

We discuss Easter Island, home of the famous Moai Statues and the mystery of the society that built them.

Learn all about the fairly common 18th and 19th century phenomena of Vampire Scares in New England and the rest of the US.  Wasting diseases such as Tuberculosis were often blamed on undead relatives stalking their living kin, requiring the exhumation and desecration of said relatives to ensure that they remained in their graves.  The most famous case, that of Mercy Brown, might have inspired Bram Stoker.

We discuss the history of Tarot cards from their beginnings as a card game in 1400s Italy to their re-purposing as a means of divination in Revolutionary France, to their status today.
 

A podcast two-fer, with our first attempt at Podcasting while Social Distancing.  

First up, we discuss the Public Universal Friend.  The Friend was a religious leader that came from the Quaker tradition and eschewed all gender identity including gendered pronouns back in early days of the United States.

Second, two boys playing on the railroad tracks find (not a body amazingly enough) but a priceless piece of american history.

in 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer left the house for a walk and was shot to death shortly after the publication of the Warren Report.  Why does that matter?  Because she was thought to be a mistress of JFK and was married to a CIA operative.  Conspiracy theories about on this episode.

This episode is all about tornadoes.  What are they, how do they form, where do they appear?  We discuss some famous tornadoes from history and our own run ins with them.