Family Plot

Today, Krysta, Laura and Dean discuss the Stanley Hotel, it's founder and first owner, the history of the area and finally discuss the hauntings and it's famous guests. Full disclosure, Dean calls Jim Carrey a coward for fleeing room 217, though Laura and Krysta chastise him for it. Krysta lays down some weird facts about steam powered cars and we discuss the Shining and it's many forms. All together, a well put together plot about a different kind of Christmas vacation.

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This episode begins with Laura, Krysta and Dean kicking around about how the flu has run through the family and in consequence of Krysta feeling run down, she has no facts this week. Then they begin to give the history of Alcatraz Island, it being a home to (and then fled by) indiginous peoples to it's discovery by the Spanish in the late 1700's to it's becoming a home to a milirary base in the 1850's to it becoming a military prison, an inescapable prison, to being taken over by Native Americans and finally turned over to the National Park Service. They then discuss some of it's famous inmates, it's escape attempts and it's hauntings. So join us as we visit the Rock!

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TW: In this episode, we discuss a suicide. If you feel suicidal, please reach out, the world is a much better place with you in it. You matter!, Laura, Krysta and Dean discuss the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis. But first, Krysta gives us a very brief history of boats and ships with her weird facts! Then Dean discusses the kamikaze that hurt the Indianapolis which sent it to Pearl Harbor for repairs.It is there she is assigned the mission to deliver parts for the A Bomb that will be dropped on Hiroshima. Laura finds out the bomb was codenamed 'Fat Man' and has some sharp words about it. From there they go to join the USS Idaho in Layte gulf but before they can get there they are torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and thus begins four days of hell where they fights sharks, salt poisoning, dehydration and fatigue while they wait for rescue. Enjoy!

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Laura, Krysta and Dean discuss the life of John Wilkes Booth and the events surrounding the Assassination of Lincoln. Young Booth had his fortune told by a Romani fortune teller who read his palm and told him he would have a grand life, but that he would die young and meet a bad end. At the age of 26, Booth dies paralyzed from the neck down, killed for Lincoln's assassination. We dive deep into this historical and true crime story. So join us as we tell the tale of American Assassin John Wilkes Booth.

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On this episode, Krysta, Laura and Dean discuss Countess Elisabet Bathory, aka the Blood Countess. Bathory was a Hungarian noblewoman who was believed to have murdered many young peasants and lesser noblewomen just so she could bathe in their blood and restore her beauty. But first, Krysta takes the opportunity to catch listeners up on what she has been doing when not on the show. Then Dean begins to discuss Bathory, her birth, her childhood, her supposed bloody mindedness and her death. We discuss the crimes she is accused of and the possibility that the charges were all a sham to level her political power and free the king from having to pay a debt he owed to her. We discuss the fact that her seizures might have been proof of psychopathic urges later in life.

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In this episode, Laura, Krysta and Dean discuss the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, a cult of Black Americans founded by Dwight York based originally on JudeoIslamic ideals, plus several Egyptian ideals eventually becoming a child molestation grooming temple for the cult's founder who was a convicted sex offender. But first, Krysta tells us all about velociraptors and lays out those weird facts. Then Dean digs into the research about this cult that might have been a cool religion had it not been run by a child molester. So join us for this first investigation into a cult for the Family Plot!

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Krysta, Laura and Dean go to Bennington, VT in the 1940's to investigate the Bennington Triangle. Bujt first, Krysta discusses several of the covered bridges in Vermont and then we talk about the areas history, the failed town of Bennington wiped out by bad planning and floods. We discuss strange lights, ufos, and of course mysterious disappearances. We even discuss a wild man who came down off Glastenbury Mountain to expose himself. All in all we hunt for something solid in this investigation. What do we concude? Join us to find out!

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In this Episode, Laura, Krysta and Dean discuss Conspiracy Theories for Halloweeen, but since they are joined by Kelli, Kara and Ryan from the Drunk Theory podcast! We talk Reptillians, the Denver International Airport and the Great Clown Panic! We also discuss the Bildaberg group and so much more as we cover so much in this episode!

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In this Episode, Krysta, Laura and Dean discuss John EEdward tRobinson, a serial killer and general bad guy who preyed on women that he lured to the Kansas City area. Holding himself out as a business executive and philanthropist, Robinson first preyed on women who were down on their luck and later used the internet to find victims. His victims were consigned to large chemical barrels, though a handful of his victims have never been recovered. Krysta tells us the advantages and disadvantage of featherless chickens and we posit dressing them up. All this and more on this October Episode of the Family Plot Podcast.

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Krysta, Laura and Dean begin with small talk and eventually discuss the various Star Wars symbols Dean would like to get on the bottom of a pool they do not currently have. Then somehow a pool full of toes enters the conversation and there was much revulsion. Krysta drops some weird facts on colors and Dean goes over the background and the events of the Texarkana Moonlight Murders and discuss the possible identity of the Phantom Killer. All this and more on the latest episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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