**Content warning: Aside from murder, today's topic also involves sexual assault, animal and corpse abuse (including necrophilia, briefly). Listener discretion is advised.**

It's season 2, y'all! And your favorite co-hosts are back in the saddle and ready to tell you some more terrible stories! B steps up to the plate with the case of serial killer and all around terrible human being, Israel Keyes. Leaving a ton of unanswered questions and countless victims in his wake, Keyes' crimes cover huge swaths of the United States and his ties to Maine don't exempt him from the HGH treatment. 

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A very last minute December bonus episode is our belated gift to you! On this bonus episode we watched an old childhood millenial favorite, the Iron Giant. This movie has it all from solid animation, amazing characters and VO's, to paranoia and fear over iminent Russian nuclear attacks. Come join us for all the laughs, tears, and hog hugs! And join us soon, every Thursday starting in January & beyond, for our regular episodes.

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Here it is you hungry listeners, the promised part two of the ITstraveganza. After a rather demanding few weeks, we finally got ourselves through the entirety of Stephen King's IT. We come away with positive reviews on this story and we get into the good, the bad, and the weird. Float with us on this literary voyage and take in the sights, such as bad dates in junkyards, intense world buidling, dyanmic relationships, and of course the unmatured elephant in the room.

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Due to B and Jackson's combined third grader reading level, the ITstraveganza will be done in two parts! For chapter one your intrepid hosts are disecting IT (1990), IT: Chapter One (2017), and IT: Chapter Two (2019). We watched so much IT we are now available to perform at children's birthday parties at a safe distance. Come float with us! 

Join us in two weeks for Chapter Two of the ITstraveganza where we overcome our bibliophobia!

Graphic content ahead! B and Jackson talk about a murder spree that started in Maryland and spanned its way to Maine. In 1987 Steven Oken killed three people in two weeks. While he evaded police for some time, the bloody bread crumb trail led to his capture. We talk about the murders, the court ping-pong, and give our found farewell as we close out this season. Check out the bonus episodes to be released and join us again for our regular schedule in January. Much love, and we will see you again soon.

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Sources:

Washington Post

- Maryland Executes Oken June 18, 2004

- United by Grief, Divided by Execution April 8, 2001

-17 year wait for Justic Leaves Family Anguished and Broken, June 14, 2004.

-Little Remorse But Many Jabs At Death Penalty in Oken's Letter, June 20, 2004.

-Execution Warrant Signed for Md. Killer, April 27, 2004

 Casemine.com, OKEN V. STATE Court of Appeals of Maryland Sept 17. 1992

Seacoastonline.com, Kittery Killer on death row Jan 23, 2003

critteranne.medium.com, Remembering the Victims of Spree Killer Steven Oken

Murderpedia.org, Steven Oken

**Content Warning - Today's topic is a tragic hate crime. We discuss violence against the LGBTQ+ community in this episode. Listener discretion is advised.**

 B's last episode of the season, we're going back in time to the 80s. The "wholesome" little town of Bangor was rocked by a hate crime that would become national news and inspire multiple pieces of media, including Stephen King's IT. What the country didn't know, is the death of a 23-year-old gay man would incite a change that begin the state's journey to equality and force Mainers to face their own complacency. Remember his name: Charlie Howard.

Sources:

Portland Press Herald -

Bangor Daily News - 

New York Times - 

Additional Sources - 

On today's episode we talk about the strange and errie hauntings of the Strand Theatre of Skowhegan, ME. Since the 1970's employees and theatre goers have experienced the spectral activities of a possibly angry ghost. Is there any truth to these rumors, and what can we learn from all of these stories? We also talk about the end of Fair(e) season, NIMBYs, and more!

Sources:

mainstreetskowhegan.org

Bangor Daily News

hauntedplaces.org

onlyinyourstate.com

cinematreasures.org

centralmaine.com

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It's spooky season, y'all! We at Homegrown Horror kick things off right with a story of spirits, séances, elaborate science experiments, and an *alleged* untimely death, all set to the backdrop of American Spiritualism! B's got something for ghost fanatics and history buffs alike as we dig into the strange circumstances surrounding the death of famed Maine medium, Mary Howe. 

The Mary Howe Room in Damariscotta. 

Sources on Spiritualism

The Rise of Spiritualism in 19th Century America by Angie Grandstaff

When a 19th-Century ‘Spirit Photographer’ Claimed to Capture Ghosts Through His Lens by Dave Roos

History of Modern Spiritualism from the BBC

The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism by Karen Abbott

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