This episode is PACKED with goodness.  Krysta talks Black Velvet Petunias in her corner a wondrous and beautiful flower.  Then she, Laura and Dean discuss the Maiden's Castle at Edinburgh.  They discuss Castle Rock, how there has been a fortified structure on it since at least the Iron Age and it's status as the most besieged castle in all of Britain.  We talk about Kings and Queens who have called it home as well as those who have made changes to it.  We also discuss the guns that defended it and of course all the ghost stories and their originss in this Scottish History, but a lot paranormal episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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On this episode we discuss the nation of Belize and the Mayan city of Xunantunich, what we know about it and it's former residents.  Krysta talks balloon debates and civets, Dean talks ferrets and Laura keeps us all together in this fascinating archaeological, Mayan Culture, slightly paranormal episode fo the Family Plot Podcast!

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This week, we go full British True Crime as we head back to the seventies and eighties and investigate the life and crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper.  We discuss his life, what led him to become a killer, his family life, the hoax that led the police astray in this fascinating case.  Meanwhile Krysta talks more dogs and balloon debates in her Corner and Laura brings us all together in this distressingly bloody-detail free episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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On this episode, we discuss the Antikythera Mechanism, a device found in a Roman shipwreck off the Greek Island of Antijythera.  Retrieved with several other treasures, due to it's advanced state of petrification and other issues, it wasn't even looked at much after it was initially brought up.  But over time, people have discovered this uncanny device that simulates the movement of the heavens created in the time of Before Common Era using a differential gear which otherwise doesn't show up for another 1300 years.  We discuss the devices discovery and the theories about it in this man learning stuff is fun episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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Welcome to another episode of the Family Plot Podcast!  In this episode Krysta debates as Pinkie Pie, and performs a poem about sunflowers.  Then we sit back and talk the Honey Island Swamp, it's history and the creatures that call it home, including the Honey Island Swamp Monster.  We talk about sightings of the creature, what it possibly looks like, a potential origin story and so much more in this we're talking about cryptids, how come it feels like we're still learning episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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In this episode, we talk Sherlock Holmes, his brilliant mind, his mastery of the arts of observation and deduction and so much more.  We talk the Sherlock Holmes museum, his companion John Watson, we take a brief divergence to discuss Professor Challenger in his Lost World in this man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a great character episode of the Family Plot Podcast.  

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In this episode, Krysta, Laura and Dean are joined by cosplayer, Mistress of All Things Hope It Holds Cosplay & Props, SoFettUp. Fett is also a member of the Stockton historical society and together we tell the tale of Cordelia Botkin, a Missouri girl who moved to San Francisco, had a son and began cheating on her husband with the guy in charge of the Associated Press' San Francisco Office. We discuss their lives prior to their meeting and how the pair was soon inseperable, We discuss how their relationship ended and how Cordelia Botkin sent poison candy to her former lover's wife as a form of revenge. This is the first time in American History a person murdered another through the mail and we discuss it all in this man are we glad we have friends episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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This week, we are joined by author Dan B. Fierce as we discuss the Hoia Baciu Forest in Romania. We also talk Dan and my's days at a Westport (in Kansas City) eatery called Lucille's. We also talk Krysta, a recent injury and her metatarsil ductis and so much more as we look into the Bermuda Triangle of Romania (but what should more appropriately be called the Skinwalker Ranch of Romania) in this nostalgic, feel good, man the world is just plain weird sometimes episode of the Family Plot Podcast.

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In this episode, Krysta, Laura and Dean discuss Key West, it's history and specifically, the business currently located at 428 Greene Street, Captain Tony's Key West Saloon. We discuss it's history as a morgue, an icehouse, a telegraph office a cigar factory and so much more. We talk about it's time as the Duval Club, Sloppy Joes and so much more. We discuss the hanging tree that grows within the bar itself, the bar's ghosts and so much more in this Key West centric episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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So in this episode Laura, Krys and Dean discuss Valentines Day, mostly in Krysta's corner before we dig into the life of Harry Oakes. We discuss his life, how he discovered his fortune, how he met his young wife and became a British Citizen and earned the title of Baronet as he settled in the Bahamas. The Bahamas was governed by the Duke of Windsor, the former King of England Edward the VIII and his American wife the Duchess of Windsor. We learn about his murder, how someone attempted to set the body on fire using insecticide and then we discuss suspects, the bungling of the investigation and so much more in this man-history-can-be-weird episode of the Family Plot Podcast!!

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