Horrible History

Today’s episode features stories from Santa Cruz and creepy dentists from around the country.   

Reasons to Listen this Week:

• All the anxiety
• Bad dentists
• Caring too much about high school sports
• Fake curses (with snakes)

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The final episode of Season 1! We figured we should go BIG. So, Emily heads to Santa Cruz to tell the story of Edmund "Big Ed" Kemper, the Co-Ed Killer. Then Rachel heads toward Island Time and visits the Galapagos Island, specifically to tell the story of... The Galapagos Affair! Hopefully, you're horrified.

Thank you to everyone who has tuned in for Season 1! We can't wait to dive into Season 2 next week.

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Sources:

• New York Magazine 
• All That's Interesting - Ed Kemper
• YouTube - Interview with Ed Kemper
• Investigation Discovery 
• Murderpedia - Edmund Kemper 
• Apple TV
• Trip Advisor
• Travel US News
• Facebook
• Adventure - Life
• Lit Hub

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Today’s episode features stories from Finland & Arkansas  

Reasons to Listen this Week:

• Ice balls and immature giggling
• Shoplifting a stripper pole
• Heavy metal knitting 
• Drunk bros with guns
• Dogs that love neck sweat
• Tumors in jars

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Sources: 

• THV11
• NECN 
• 4029 TV 
• CTV News
• AP News
• Huffpost

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For episode 51, Rachel tells a listener suggestion from Finland - the Tulilahti Campground Murders. Then, Emily heads to Fayetteville, AR to talk about the creepy history behind one of the World's Most Haunted Hotels, the Crescent Hotel. Hopefully, you're horrified.

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Sources:

• Taste Atlas
• Travel Jael
• History of Yesterday 
• Smithsonian Magazine
• Legends of America
• Fixr
• Crescent Hotel

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Today’s episode features stories from St. Louis, MO & Madison, WI  

Reasons to Listen this Week:

• Dumpty Humpty
• A bagel that shut down an airport
• Lochness monster or river walrus? 
• What even is hacking? 
• A kidnapped tree
• A gorilla goes ape shit

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Sources: 

• U Express
•  Badger Herald
• ABC News 
• Press Herald
• Huffpost
• Rolling Stone 
  
  

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It's a Halloween Extravaganza for our final episode of Spooky Season. And, we went BIG! First, Rachel heads to Madison, Wisconsin to tell us all about the creep-tastic Ed Gein. Then, Emily takes us back to St. Louis to share the real life history behind the movie, The Exorcism.  Hopefully, you're horrified.

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Sources:

• Livability
•  Graduate Hotels
• Olbrich
• Wisconsin Cheesemart 
• All That's Interesting
• Denofgeek
• Murderpedia
• America's Best Pics
• Last Podcast on the Left Episode 173
• Last Podcast on the Left Episode 174
• All That's Interesting
• STL Today
• Catholic Culture
• Saint Louis University
• Catholic.org
• Live Science

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Today’s episode features stories from Salem, MA & Long Island, NY  

Reasons to Listen this Week:

• Alleged shenanigans
• Lightsaber fights at a stop sign
• The oldest dentist pervert (allegedy)
• A formal pardon
• A very shitty divorce
• A teaser of Witch Tests

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Sources: 

•  NBC Boston
• Click 2 Houston
• History.com
• Fox 59
• US News
• Huffpost

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Week 3 of Spooky Season and Emily and Rachel are upping the stakes once again. First, Rachel tells us about the Salem Witch Trials. Then, Emily tells the multilayered story of the Amityville Horror; first the annihilation of the DeFeo family and then the haunting of the Lutz family. Hopefully, you're horrified.

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Sources:

• Amityville Murders
• Horror Obsessive 
• Biography
• All That's Interesting 
• Travel Channel
• Bewitched After Dark
• PEM
• Smithsonian Magazine
• QZ
• Salem.org
• History of Massachusetts
• History of Massachusetts 

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Today’s episode features stories from San Jose, CA & Worcester, UK.  

Reasons to Listen this Week:

• A severed arm
• Haunted houses for sale
• The Jason Derulo of surgeons
• A horse in the drive-through   

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Sources: 

• Film Daily
• Worcester News
• Independent
• The Week 

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Spooky Season, Round 2! This week, Emily kicks us off with a story of murder and mystery, witchcraft and German spies - the story of Bella and the Wych Tree. Then, Rachel talks about the Winchester Mystery House - a bizarre architectural wonder built by Sarah Winchester  the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester.  For 40 years she added on to the house to try to placate the ghosts that haunted her cursed family.  Hopefully, you're horrified.

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Sources:

• The History Press
• Crime Reads
• Mental Floss
• Occult World
• Winchester Mystery House
• Wikipedia - Winchester Mystery House
• Hotels.com
• Patch

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