Family Plot

In this episode, Krysta busts out of her corner talking about her latest haircut, how she bleached and streaked her new 'do and her addiction to Hero Clash,, the mobile game. Then we get into this week's episode as we go to three Kansas towns and meet their spectral residents. In Manhattan Kansas, we visit Kansas State University and meet three of it's ghostly residents. Nick the Poltergeist, the spectral remnant of a boy who died in a football game haunts the Purple Masque Theater, A former Theta Ki pledge named Duncan now haunts what has become the Phi Gamma Delta house while an unnamed ghost walks the halls of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house. Then we journey to Hutchinson Kansas, also known as Salt City, to meet a librarian who has never gone off duty despite dying almost 70 years ago. Finally, we visit the tiny town of Beaumont Kansas and the small yet beautiful Beaumont Hotel. Inhabitied by the ghost of a cowboy named Zeke, this delightfully quaint place has become a destination for spook seeking tourists. So join us in this local paranormal episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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On this episode, Krysta talks to us about the upcoming 5 Nights at Freddy's movie and her experiences with the game. She also discusses her new fursona, a Koi Kitsune based on Leah Fox Fish from the JH Mott episode. Then we get into the Villisca Iowa Murders of the Moore Family. We discusss what we know of the Moore's, who all was home that fateful night. We discuss how the crime scene was secured (it wasn't) and the brutality of the crimes. We discuss the likely sequence of events and the odd things the killer did (like covering the mirrors and getting out 4 pounds of bacon to lay on a bed). We cover the suspects and a few other theories of the crimes as well as paranormal occurrences that have happened in the home in this paranormal, historical true crime epissode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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There is so much in this episode, the internet can barely contain it! First . Krysta discusses a recent trip to see 'Jesus Christ, Superstar' at Starlight Theater as well as discusses some of her favorite extinct animals including the Dodo, the Sabretooth Tiger and the Thylacine! Then we settle into this week's topic with a broad strokes and very miniscule overview of World War II and after that we discuss three men who were stationed at different places in the Pacific in the early 1940's and none of these men returned home until the 70's. From the quiet hidden life of Shoichi Yokoi as he simply tried to survive in hiding, to the war of Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender until his commanding officer came to the Phillipinse and ordered him to surrender, to Tetsuo Nakamura, a Taiwanese Indiginous person who served in a unit of 'Volunteers' until he was lost on the Island of Morotai where he lived in a hut he built in a small fenced in field for almost twenty years. We cover their lives in wartime and afterwards in this unforgivingly historical episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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This week, Krysta, Laura and Dean go to Crawford Notch, Vermont this time to learn about the Willey Family who had intended to go into the Inn business before several weeks of drought was suddenly ended in violent storm, flooding and landslides. But first, Krysta is back in her corner reccomending a couple of self care apps. One is called Plant Nanny and it helps with your daily water intake, another is called Finch and it also helps with self care. After Krysta gives us these we talk about the history of Vermont, the history of the Crawford Notch area and then the landslide that took a family, but left the house untouched in this historical episode of the Family Plot Podcast.

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On this episode, Laura, Krysta and Dean are joined by member of the extended Family, Cheryl Holland as they discuss the fan-suggested topic of Materializing Medium John H. Mott. First though, we catch up with Krysta as she delves into new ideas for her art and her TikTok success. Then Cheryl takes a few moments to discuss her Scentsy business and the Darren Holland Project. Then we get into a brief overview of Spiritualism as well as it's most famous promoters, the Fox sisters. We also discuss their manager, their older sister Leah Fox Fish and what a strange name that is. Then we get into John Harvey Mott, his odd youth, his establishment as a materializing medium and his later discovery as a fraud that wound up in the national news. We then describe his hegira to Kansas City where he set up shop as a medium once more, quickly attracting wealthy clients including such notable names from the time period as Colonel Van Horn. He was later arrested and tried for fraud forcing him to return to Memphis Missouri. So join us in this special 150th episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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Today, Laura, Krysta and Dean go to Africa in search of the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe, a thirty five foot long dinosaur-like cryptid. It is a creature famed to the Bantu in the region for stopping the flow of rivers when it nests at bends in the river. It is reputed to fight and kill hippos, elephants and crocodiles. footprints have been found and the locals see the creature regularly. We discuss the gorilla, which at one point was considered a cryptid and from there go to the Mokele-Mbembe itself. We discuss all the information we discovered about the creature as well as Josh Gates search for the beast, Rodgers and Hmmerstein's Cinderella, how the brontosaurus became the apatosaurus and so, so much more.

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Who planned the Original White House? How many architects in total have worked on the White House. Who created the Oval Office? The Rose Garden? Who died in the White House? Laura, Krysta and Dean answer all these questions and more as they cover the history of the only residence of a head of state that the public can visit free of charge. They also talk changes and deaths and hauntings in the White House. Join us for this All-American ever so slightly spooky episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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In this episode, Laura, Krysta and Dean are joined by author Dan B. Fierce as they discuss the Piasa. The Piasa is a strange creature that the Cahokia painted on walls in Alton, Illinois. But first, we check in with Krysta who use her corner to talk her girlfriend before we discuss the Cahokia Kingdom, the possibility that the native American legend of the underwater panther may be a representation of a bull shark, plus special birthday messages for Krysta's upcoming 14th birthday and so much more on this special episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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This time, the Family Plot trio of Krysta, Laura and Dean tackle legends from around the world, but First Krysta takes us to her corner to discuss Cookie Run Kingdom, the phone game she has been obsessing over of late. Afterwards, Dean starts of in Death Valley of the United States with an interesting legend about a queen and a palace, followed by an interesting story as well. Then Laura takes us to an Incan Flood Myth from South America as we travel the world via myths and legends and each is followed by a story about that legend found on the internet. So join us in this wild rollicking episode where we find out if a Lung Mo is better than a Lorenzo Llama on this folklore heavy episode!

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Today, Laura, Krysta and Dean visit the small farming town of Skidmore, Missouri. Picture this, you live in a small farming community and one of your neighbors is a thief and a known bully. He has been tried 20 times and has never been convicted. He intimidates witnesses by following them home or parking in front of their house. He intimidates others to lie on his behalf as 'witnesses'...and he shoots the owner of the local grocery store. The store owner survives and finally, the bully is convicteed of assault, but allowed to bond out while he awaits his appeal and loudly threatens the store owner to anyone who would listen. Then picture that bully climbing behind the wheel of his truck only for several people to fire weapons with two bullets striking and killing him. No one is ever accused or arrested in his killing. That is the story of Ken Rex McElroy, the bully of Skidmore, Missouri in a story you will have to hear to believe in the latest edition of the Family Plot Podcast!

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