In this episode we return to Dean's senior year and find him sitting in science class watching the shuttle take off just before it exploded 73 seconds later.  We discuss the Challenger itself, the crew, NASA at that time and the launch and what happened.  Arthur also talks Genshin Impact, and we talk about Settlers of Catan in this nerdy yet tragic episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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In this episode we go back to the 1800;s to meet two Missouri witches.  First we meet the Witch of Taskee who lived in Taskee Station Missouri and astounded those who saw her with her clairvoyance, that came when she was possessed by a spirit that called itself Little Joe.  Josie Forbes was reported far and wide for her abilities, even using them to solve crimes!  Then we head back to the turn of the 19th Century and meet the Wild Witch of Victoria Missouri in one Prudence Bevins, a part Cherokee woman who seemed to be able to curse the locals and when confronted about being a witch would merely laugh.  She was called Queen Bevers and her power was legendary, only occasionally thwarted by the country magic of a local witch charmer.  We cover their histories and the folk tales that inevitably rose up surrounding these two strange figures from Missouri history in this special episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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TRIGGER WARNING:  There is a brief mention of suicide during our discussion of the hospital's history.  If this is too much for you, feel free to skip this episode.  As Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss used to say, You Matter!  And if you need mental health resources, 988 will connect you with so much.  Thank you

This week we discuss the Indiana State Sanitorium.  In an episode chosen by our very own Arthur, we look into the history of tuberculosis in America, the history of the hospital itself, it's time as a mental health institute as well as the Lee Allen Bryant Psychiatric Center.  We cover it's fall into disrepair and it's many, many hauntings and odd occurences in this spooky fun episode of the Family Plot Podcast!!!

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So in this episode, we once more return to Victorian London where we meet Mary Ann Cotton (nee 
Robson) a lovely wife and mother with the unfortunate curse of having her husbands and children die around her.  Digging deeper,  we begin to discover she is a poisoner with a body count somewhere in the range of 15 to 20, mostly her children, husbands and lovers,  We discuss her life, her history, how easilty arsenic was available to people at that time.  We give our thoughts and along the way even manage to touch on a few other things in this Victorian true crime episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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This week our final proper week of spooky season, we release a tale of a violent maniac with a literal lust for blood.  We discuss Peter Kurten, psychopath, serial murderer and all around bad guy.  A man whose life was almost a blueprint for creating a serial murderer he committed his first killings at the age of 9.  We cover his life, his crimes and his death in this very dark and bloody episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains brief mentions of sexual assault and incest.  If these are deal breakers for you, please feel free to skip this episode.  As always we keep our descriptions of the violence of these assaults to a minimum.

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Welcome to yet another spooky season episode of the Family Plot Podcast!  This week we go to the McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois.  We talk about the history of this beautiful showplace, how it was built by Henry Guest McPike a Civil War soldier, a man who owned a box making company, produced his own grape that became popular in wine making, was an executive for an Insurance company and even sold real estate.  We cover McPike's history and the home's and then settle down to talk about the spooks that still haunt the place.  Arthur has a lot in his corner after managing to break one foot and sprain the other while dancing in a clean room.  How?  He's Arthur.  And he has more cool tidbits to tell you in his corner (including how he plays the role of Satan in Octoberpod's 'The Satanic Rites of Doctor Frankenstein'!  Then we talk about the ghosts who make McPike Mansion their home in this spooky season episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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TRIGGER WARNING:  This episode mentions both sexual assault and incest.  If these subjects are triggering for you, please feel free to skip the episode.  As our friend Kate used to say:  You Matter.

This week we go full spooky True Crime as we visit a German farmstead called Hinterkaifeck where we discover a particularly spooky and gruesome series of murders.  Murders that were likely committed by someone hiding within the home.  We discuss the area, events that happened around the time of the murders (committed March 31st 1922.  We discuss the fact that the killer or killers hid on the farm after killing the family, feeding their animals and eating their food.  We discuss possible suspects, theories of the crime and so much more in this weird and spooky historical true crime episode of the Family Plot Podcast!



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We are back with another spooky season episode, this time, we go to nearby (to us) Weston, Missouri where we learn about the charming little town's history, we discuss a few haunted locations as well as a few of the more famous 'residents' of the town's Laurel Hill Cemetery.  We discuss the town's beginnings and it;s modern spookiness, the most delightful place to have a cup of hot cocoa or hot apple cider while discussing things that go bump in the night with friends.  We visit a rustic home and the spirits the family has encountered, a local business that is still frequented by a few long dead spirits and a local hotel that houses a few spooky spirits as well as some guests in this second spooky season 2024 episode of the Family Plot Podcast.

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So this episode is the first of our 2024 Spooky Season and we begin with a few haunting tales of phantom trains.  We begin in Washington DC for a story about Lincoln's Funeral train and how it would reappear at night years afterwards chugging it's way down the tracks attended by skeletons and sepulcheral figures.  Then we go to Maco Station in North Carolina to meet a signalman killed during a crash whose signal light would appear again and again forcing the company to put a signalman with two lanterns at Maco Station to stop trains from stopping for the phantom signalman.  Then we go back to North Carolina and examine the Bostian Bridge train wreck, and it's phantom that still appears crossing the old bridge.  Finally we go to Frenchtown Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and see a ghost train that is still seen to this day.  Arthur talks Detroit: Become Human in her corner and packed full of the usual banter and insanity.  Enjoy!

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Well this week we go back and meet a woman who revolted against the Romans around the time of Jesus.  Boudicca has become a legendary figure but we do our level best to track down what she was really like.  We dig into this enduring historical figure who has become an enduring figure of empowerment as well,  We discuss what we could discover of her early life, how she rose to power among the Iceni people and how she led a revolt that came darn close to pushing the Romans out of Britain entirely.  Plus Arthur introduces us to Thunderstorm, her new cat in her corner as we go all girl power in this historic episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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