Family Plot

With spooky season at an end we dig into true crime in 1940's Kenya where we meet a group called 'The Happy Valley set', white settlers and colonials in England-controlled Kenya famed for scandals, drug/drink fuled parties and eventually an unsolved murder. Picture the Happy Valley set as Jersey Shore with English Accents. We dig into the historical context, who Lord Erroll was and what might have led to his violent end. We discuss suspects, theories and possibly throw in a few of our own in this historical true crime episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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Our final episode of spooky season is full of weirdness. We travel to Manotick, Ontario Canada and learn the history of Watson's Mill, the Rideau Canal, how it was cut through the Canadian Shield, the woman who died there, her spirit, why you need a tighter plug for your bunghole (yes that sounds like an anatomical reference, but it's about barrels I promise!) and a visit from a ghostly relic of a 90's Mtv pop culture icon! All this and more in the latest episode of the Family Plot Podcast. All that and Brenda from Horrifying History, too!

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Happy Halloween Fam! In this special episode, we discuss the house that screamed in Union Missouri while Laura recounts a tale from her past about a haunted carriage house her sister moved into. Featuring additional tales by Rainbow Crimes, Murder in the PNW, Book of the Dead, Missing in the PNW, The Final Trace and so much more! All hosted by Jackie Moranty of the Cause of Death Podcast! With Halloween around the corner, enjoy this special spooky episode!

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What can I say about our show this week, we go back to the early days of the 1800's and meet a woman who became known as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl" and her mere presence drew celebrities of the time like James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving to the famous tobacco shop on Broadway in the young days of New York. We dig into her life, her family, her world and eventually, her unsolved murder. We detail how and where she was found (Hoboken, New Jersey go figure...sorry Courtney) and the theories about how she came to be deceased. We talk about how her fiance poisoned himself with Laudanum out of grief and how Edgar Allen Poe even composed a short story based upon the case. Finally we discuss the hauntings at Sybil's Cave, the place where her body was found in this spooky season episode of the Family Plot Podcast! Chi! Chi! Chi! Ah! Ah! Ah!

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This week we are joined by Hopper of the Brilliant Final Trace Podcast to discuss the mysterious disappearance of Brandon Swanson on May 14th 2008. We cover the histroy of the world around him, the events in his life and the events that led up to him going missing and openly discuss what we found in this truly mysterious disappearance spooky season episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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In this episode, we dive deep on the man who would become The Great Beast, the self proclaimed 'wickedest man in the world' and the founder of his own religion, Aleister Crowley. Celebrated by pop culture, the man who is involved in dozens of conspiracy theories and who was believed by some to be a spy, we cover the birth of the boy that would grow up to be the man that influenced bands like the Beatles, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Celebrated by pop culture of the sixties and seventies, reviled by the papers of his own time and his parents, and a champion for magical thought, we dig deep onto both the real and spooky history of this legendary mountaineer, traveller and philosopher in this latest spooky season epiosde of the Family Plot Podcast!

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This week, we dig into a mystery from the early days of Hollywood. This Wholly Odd case (what we did there, did you see it) looks into the death of film legend Thelma Todd. Signed to Paramount, on loan to Hal Roach studios, she was hired to be a 'Greta Garbo-Type' but Thelma had a talent. She was naturally funny and wore comedy as easily as she wore a dress. She made regular appearances in Laurel and Hardy short films, was paired with Zasu Pitts and Patsy Kelly. Thelma was also the face of the Sidewalk Cafe, and it's downstairs nightclub, the Joya's Room. She ran the club along with possible romantic partner; director Roland West and his estranged wife Jewel Carmen. Eventually, Thelma would be found dead in her car in Jewel's Garage. It was ruled an accident, but the truth is so much stranger in this early Hollywood Mystery episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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What an episode do we have for you! This episode we drift over the 19th and 20th century to pick out the worst medical products, quacks and crazy health trends we could find. We discuss the man who is responsible for the term 'Snake Oil Salesman', we discuss a surgeon with a degree HE PURCHASED who installed bits of goat testicle (or sometimes the whole darn thing) into his patients scrota...scroti? scrotito? We talk about dentist Painless Parker, a man who barely had a degree, but he had a circus, a gimmick and diluted cocainse, plus we talk about Radithor the energy drink with ACTUAL RADIUM (as well as a brief history of colas and energy drinks), the Pandiculator and the Fluoroscope in this it's good for what ails ya episode of the Family Plot Podcast

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Laura, Arthur and Dean gather round the mic to discuss the 1900 Unsolved Murder and Dismembertment of Ernst Winter in 1900 in the Prussian City of Konitz (these days, the modern Polish city of Chojinice). The crime itself was never solved. In a town with German officials and a culturally Polish populace with an influx of Jewish residents and no modern investigation techniques, a solution was by and large impossible. What occurred in the place of solution was blame based on nothing at all, antisemitic accusations, fear and riots. We discuss how all this came to pass AND how these things still linger and there for still matter now over 125 years later in this, unsolved mystery, can't we all just get along episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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