The Château de Fougeret is a château in Vienne, France; it was built some time between the 15th and 16th centuries. So basically, in ancient times, there were Druidic sources in Fougeret that were places of worship. It was the type of place where the villagers would go  to cure skin diseases or to have children, and I guess they claimed that there was a magic link that existed from the beginning on the site, like even before there was a castle. François-Joseph Geffroy and  Véronique Geffroy bought the chateau in 2009. Upon buying it, they said “when we arrived in Fougeret in March 2009, we totally ignored his history. We fell in love with this unusual castle but we did not know why or how it was going to change our lives. Fougeret came into resonance with our own existence because its story and ours was strangely similar.”

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Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Fougeret

https://www.fougeret.com/en

https://ofrench.com/culture/fougeret-haunted-castle-france/

John Joseph Joubert IV (not to be confused with John Joubert, the famous South African composer) was an American serial killer who murdered three boys in Maine and Nebraska. His parents divorced when he was 6 years old, and he went to live with his mother in Lawrence, MA. He was not allowed to visit his father at all and started to resent his mother, who he described as “controlling.” In 1971, Joubert's mother moved them out of their former house into a rundown apartment, and at this point in time, he was considered an outcast at school; so, in order to cope with these feelings of isolation, he decided to join the Cub Scouts. It was around this time that his sadistic and homicidal fantasies progressed to the point where he contemplated murdering strangers on the streets, tying and gagging those who resisted him. And from there, it only got worse... 

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joubert_(serial_killer)

https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j1/joubert-john.htm

Honestly Wikipedia said it best here: "Logan Drew Schiendelman is an American man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Thurston County, Washington in May 2016. The son of a mixed-race mother and a Saudi Arabian father, Schiendelman was raised primarily by his grandmother in Tumwater, Washington, where he was a star athlete at Tumwater High School. After attending Washington State University for one year, he decided to drop out of college and return to Tumwater, where he worked several jobs and moved in with his grandmother and half-sister. Schiendelman was last seen by his grandmother on the morning of May 19, 2016, when the two talked in their kitchen before leaving for their respective jobs. As of 2021, Schiendelman's whereabouts remain unknown."

Join us this week for Maddie's first case back! I won't lie, its not a fun time, but this is grim so we have to call it a good story...

Valdo Taneski was born in 1952 in Yugoslavia. A middle child (the second of three children), his parents were both conservative disciplinarians and he had a particularly tense relationship with his mother. He ended up studying journalism in Croatia, and had a 20 year long career as a very well respected and well liked journalist. But all that changed in 2005, when the body of Mitra Simjanoska was found. Since then, two more bodies were found and one woman is still missing… and the only real reason why they suspected Taneski was because is his very detailed journal reports, even more detailed than was released to the public. Did Taneski want to be caught? Or did he simply slip up? We may never know…

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlado_Taneski

https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/taneski-vlado.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlado-taneski

The Seaside is a historic medical facility at 36 Shore Road in Waterford, Connecticut. It is nationally significant as the first institution designed for heliotropic treatment of children suffering from tuberculosis. It has also been a home for the elderly, a medical hospital and a facility to treat the mentally handicapped. Rumors state that the death toll of Seaside Sanatorium summed up to the low hundreds. This is mostly due to the high mortality rate of tuberculosis and of course the elderly. This has left an imprint on the building which is said to still exist to today. Users who worked in the building claim they would feel cold spots, hear footsteps and strange sounds even while alone

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.damnedct.com/seaside-sanatorium-waterford/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_(Waterford,_Connecticut)

https://www.trytoscare.me/legend/seaside-sanatorium-waterford-ct-2/

https://www.thefisherman.com/hot-spot/seaside-park-waterford-ct/

Adrie "Aalt" Mondria  was born on May 9th 1956, and he was nicknamed Aalt M. by the media. And he started is criminal legacy early on in his life. In 1976, he was around 20 years old, and was addicted to drugs and described as very paranoid - either the result of a mental disorder or because of the drugs (or both). And he then threatened someone else and received 4 months sentence in a treatment clinic - he was a super unmanageable patient here, and ended up destroying a lot of property before he escaped the clinic. From there the story only gets more wild, so join us for this crazy adventure...

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalt_Mondria

https://peoplepill.com/people/aalt-mondria/lists

https://dutchreview.com/culture/how-do-the-dutch-deal-with-mentally-ill-criminals-heres-all-you-need-to-know/

Clementine Barnabet is believed to have been born around 1894 in St. Martinville, Louisiana and moved to Lafayette in 1909. In Proceedings of the 2012 Homicide Research Working Group Annual Symposium, Professor Vance McLaughlin wrote: "Between 1911 and 1912, in towns along the Southern Pacific railroad line running through Louisiana and Texas, a minimum of twelve African-American families were murdered in their homes. All the murders occurred at night and an ax was used to fracture the skulls of the victims. Only one person, Clementine Barnabet, was ever punished for any of these homicides." So while this story seems to be wrapped up in a neat little bow, all may not be what it seems… join us this week for Voodoo, murders, and a church twisted by the media…

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_Barnabet

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502014/voodoo-murders-clementine-barnabet-who-claimed-have-killed-35-people

Join us again friends for part 2 of the ghosts of St. Andrews! This week we talked about three very specific ghosts who have been haunting the university and its grounds for a long long time... and even one who was only just seen in 2018. Who is she? Is she even real? How did people learn about her? Make sure to give this episode a listen and let us know your thoughts!

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.wanderingcrystal.com/ghosts-of-st-andrews/

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/st-andrews-haunted-town

https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/scotland/haunted-sites/

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/five-notorious-ghosts-st-andrews-2471966

https://thestand-online.com/2017/10/31/guide-ghosts-st-andrews/

https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-sites/4309-st-andrews-cathedral-scotland

https://aboutaberdeen.com/White-Lady-Ghost-St-Andrews

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/1685332/halloween-new-ghost-of-eight-year-old-child-investigated-in-historic-heart-of-st-andrews/

You may know St. Andrews as a university town, golf courses and beach and all that... but this is Scotland, so you know that the city has a darker side and what many articles call a macabre history. St Andrews actually has over 200 locations that are rumored to be possessed and has over 400 ghosts that are said to inhabit these areas. In part 1, we're talking about the ghosts in St. Andrews Castle and the Cathedral grounds where we talk about the White Lady and the Nun of Nuns walk as well as a few short stories about the White Angel Statue and St Rule's Tower - but make sure to tune in next week too where we talk about a few other ghosts in St Andrews, including maybe a new one...

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.wanderingcrystal.com/ghosts-of-st-andrews/

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/st-andrews-haunted-town

https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/scotland/haunted-sites/

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/five-notorious-ghosts-st-andrews-2471966

https://thestand-online.com/2017/10/31/guide-ghosts-st-andrews/

https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/haunted-sites/4309-st-andrews-cathedral-scotland

https://aboutaberdeen.com/White-Lady-Ghost-St-Andrews

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/1685332/halloween-new-ghost-of-eight-year-old-child-investigated-in-historic-heart-of-st-andrews/

So we’ve talked about this type of killer before, kind of like an “angel of mercy” or “angel of death” - basically a person employed as a caregiver, usually like a hospital or nursing home or something, who intentionally harms or kills people who depend on them for care

Donald Harvey was born in Butler County in Ohio in 1952 but ended up moving to Kentucky. He started working as an orderly at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, and he worked there from May 1970 to March 1971

He later confessed that during the ten-month period he worked at the hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients.

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With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Harvey

https://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/inmate-charged-in-cincinnati-angel-of-death-donald-harveys-fatal-prison-beating

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/harvey-donald.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/donald-harvey