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In this week's episode, Kendra takes a look at the Turpin Family tragedy, one that shocked the world when a brave 17 year-old Jordan Turpin escaped from her home in California to call 911. What was uncovered after that call was straight out of a horror movie. 13 children, some of them well into adulthood, being held captive in literal shackles by their own parents and subjected to some of the worst abuse you can imagine. 

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S44E720/20 'Escape from a House of Horror' - A Diane Sawyer Special Event

The Twisted Psychology Behind the Turpin Family Case | TIME

After surviving abuse from their biological parents for years, 6 Turpin children were placed in a foster home ‘of horrors,’ attorney says | CNN

In November of 1970, a hiker and his daughters stumbled upon a charred body in Norway’s remote Isdalen Valley. What followed was one of the most puzzling investigations in modern history. The woman had no ID, traveled under at least nine aliases, spoke multiple languages, and carried a suitcase full of wigs, forged documents, and coded notes. Was she a spy? A smuggler? Or simply someone trying to disappear? In this episode, we dive deep into the facts, the forensics, and the theories that still surround the case of the Isdal Woman.

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A&E. (2021). The Isdal Woman Cold Case: Mystery Over Her Identity Endures. Retrieved from https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/isdal-woman

Criminal (Vocal Media). (2022). Autopsy and burial details including coffin and preservation.

Ferro, S. (2016, April 1). New evidence emerges in Norway’s most famous unsolved murder case. Mental Floss. Retrieved from https://www.mentalfloss.com/501142/new-evidence-emerges-isdal-woman-case-norway%E2%80%99s-most-famous-unsolved-murder-mystery Wikipedia+8heartstartspounding.com+8Reddit+8Mental Floss

Futility Closet. (2014, January 3). The Isdal Woman. Retrieved from https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/01/03/the-isdal-woman/ Futility Closet

Gyr, M., & Lemcke, A. (2023, June 12). New leads in unsolved 1970 death point to Nazi‑allied Swiss banker. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. https://www.nzz.ch/english/new-leads-in-unsolved-1970-death-lead-to-nazi-allied-swiss-banker-ld.1741613

Isdal Woman. (2024, May). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman A&E+9Wikipedia+9Mental Floss+9

Mental Floss. (2016). First isotopic analysis placing her origins near Nuremberg.

Mental Floss. (2016). Genoud connection highlighted in new leads.

Reddit thread. (2023, June 12). New info: Isdal Woman … r/UnresolvedMysteries. Retrieved from https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1iordb3/new_info_isdal_woman/

Scarlet & Black. (2021). Quick Cold Cases: The Isdal Woman. https://thesandb.com/36839/article/quick-cold-cases-the-isdal-woman/

Vocal Media. (2022). Mentions of espionage, smuggling, and sex work theories.

Vocal Media. (2022). The Isdal Woman of Norway. Retrieved from https://vocal.media/criminal/the-isdal-woman-of-norway Futility Closet+4J.A. Hernandez+4Medium+4

Vocal Media. (2022). Witness accounts related to Stavanger missile testing.

Wikipedia. (2024). “Penguin missile,” and Cold War testing relevance.

Wikipedia. (2024). DNA haplogroup H24 and forensic reopening via Death in Ice Valley.

In October 2018, the small town of Barron, WI was shocked by the double murder of James and Denise Closs. Not only did someone break in and murder this quiet couple but they also took off with their 13 year old daughter, Jayme Closs. 

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Jayme Closs case: Documents reveal startling details

How Jayme Closs Escaped From Her Kidnapper Jake Patterson

The Disappearance of Jayme Closs – Stories of the Unsolved

Kidnapping of Jayme Closs - Wikipedia

Kackley, Rob. 88 Days: The Abduction of Jayme Closs: A Shocking True Crime Story. Jan 2020. Independent. 

She waits in the mirror. Bleeding, furious, forgotten—or maybe remembered too well. In this episode, we have fun diving into the terrifying legend of Bloody Mary: where she came from, who she might really be, and why generations of kids have dared each other to call her name in the dark.

Is she a tortured queen, a vengeful witch, or something far older hiding behind your reflection? We explore the history, the ritual, the psychology, and the pop culture impact of one of the most iconic urban legends of all time.

And no, the cocktail doesn’t count.

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Brunvand, J. H. (1991). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. W. W. Norton & Company.

Caputo, G. B. (2010). Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion. Perception, 39(7), 1007–1008. https://doi.org/10.1068/p6466

Dundes, A. (1998). Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics. University Press of Mississippi.

HowStuffWorks. (n.d.). How the Bloody Mary legend works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved July 19, 2025, from https://people.howstuffworks.com/bloody-mary-legend.htm

Mikkelson, D. (2001, November 14). Bloody Mary. Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloody-mary/

National Geographic. (2022, October 28). Bloody Mary: The ghost in the mirror. National Geographic Kids. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bloody-mary

Ranker. (n.d.). Who was Bloody Mary, really? The history behind the mirror ghost. Ranker: Graveyard Shift. Retrieved July 19, 2025, from https://www.ranker.com/list/bloody-mary-history/amandasedlakhevener

Reeder, N. (2021, October 27). Bloody Mary: Why we summon a woman in the mirror to scare ourselves. BBC Culture. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211027-why-we-summon-bloody-mary-in-the-mirror-to-scare-ourselves

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. (2005). [Film]. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Wikipedia contributors. (2024, March 29). Bloody Mary (folklore). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)

This week we are highlighting all of your wonderful listener stories, we had so many to choose from we needed a whole episode dedicated to you! Enjoy stories including a complete life change after a Near Death Experience, a tarot reading that was all too accurate, a possible mimic creature living in their spare room and a camping trip interrupted by an unwanted cryptid visitor. 

Listen now and come back next Tuesday for another all-new episode from Lucid Lab Podcast!

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This week we visit the Scottish Highlands to talk about our first cryptid episode of the podcast, The Lochness Monster aka Nessie. Reports of a creature in Loch Ness date back to the 6th century, and sightings continue to be reported as recently as 2025. Even so, there has never been fully conclusive evidence on whether Nessie exists and what kind of creature she could actually be.

Join us this week as Kendra delves into the information that is out there and possible theories about The Loch Ness Monster. Does she truly exist? 

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The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register | Home

Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia

In September of 1977, 25-year-old Sigrid Stevenson — a gifted pianist and free spirit — was spending the night at Kendall Hall, the theater building on Trenton State College’s campus. She had nowhere else to go, and the stage, with its old piano and quiet darkness, had become a kind of sanctuary for her.

The next night, she was found brutally murdered — naked, beaten, and left in the very place that had once brought her peace. 

Sigrid wasn’t just another student. She was brilliant, a bit unconventional, and deeply passionate about her music. Her life and her death left a mark, and for nearly five decades, her case has remained unsolved — a frustrating mix of silence, dead ends, and lingering questions.

In this episode, we dig into the life of Sigrid Stevenson and the strange details surrounding her murder. Was this a random act of violence, or did someone know she was there that night — alone and vulnerable?

It’s a story that’s heartbreaking, maddening, and deeply eerie. And the fact that her killer may have walked right back into the world unnoticed? That’s the kind of nightmare that still echoes through Kendall Hall.

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Deep Lore. (2024, September 18). Sigrid Stevenson: The spirit of Kendall Hall. Deep Lore. https://deeplore.org/sigrid-stevenson-kendall-hall/

Reddit user u/silent_observer34. (2024, September 18). Update on Sigrid Stevenson case – 9/18/24 [Online forum post]. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/1fn8fha/update_on_sigrid_stevenson_case_91824/

TCNJ Today. (2024, September 26). College honors memory of Sigrid Stevenson. The College of New Jersey. https://tcnj.edu/news/2024/09/26/college-honors-memory-of-sigrid-stevenson/

TCNJ Magazine. (2024). Sigrid remembered: A practice room, a legacy. The College of New Jersey. https://magazine.tcnj.edu/2024/10/01/sigrid-remembered/

Trenton State College. (1977). 1977–1978 bulletin of Trenton State College: At Hillwood Lakes [College catalog]. Trenton State College. 

Unsolved Mysteries. (2024). Murder, center stage (Season 4, Episode 1) [TV series episode]. In T. Meurer & J. Meurer (Executive Producers), Unsolved Mysteries. Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/title/81026055

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki. (n.d.). Sigrid Stevenson. Unsolved Mysteries Fandom. https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sigrid_Stevenson

For our final week of June reruns, Kendra brings you the story of Travis Walton. Travis went missing for 5 days in the 1970s outside of Snowflake, Arizona. Seven of his coworkers witnessed Travis being struck by a light that was emitted from what they all believed was a flying saucer. When Travis showed back up several days later, disoriented but overall okay, he had a wild tale to share about his time onboard an alien spacecraft. His account would later be made into the 1980s movie Fire in the Sky. 

Listen now for all of the details on this alien abduction story and tune in next week for an all new episode from Jessica!

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Travis-Walton.com. The Incident. https://www.travis-walton.com/ordinary.html (accessed on May 4, 2023)

Walton, Travis. (1997). Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience. Da Capo Press

Gilson, Cy. (1993). Cy Gilson Polygraph Test of Travis Walton. UFO Evidence. http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc348.htm

Warnick, Karen. (2015). 40 years later: Most documented UFO sighting, abduction still draw interest. White Mountain Independent. https://www.wmicentral.com/news/arizona_news/40-years-later-most-documented-ufo-sighting-abduction-still-draw-interest/article_f10689c2-8982-11e5-82e2-d3306821f49b.html

Fisher, L. Sydney. (2022). Why is Alien Abduction So Hard to Believe?. Medium.com. https://medium.com/the-para-scope/why-is-alien-abduction-so-hard-to-believe-8fc4ba0fe689

Klass, Philip J. Walton abduction cover-up revealed. https://rr0.org/time/1/9/7/6/06/WaltonAbductionCoverUpRevealed_UfoInvestigator/ (accessed May 4, 2023)

The Observation Deck. Mike Heston Rogers Clears up Travis Walton Hoax reports Part 1. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDa29mj8qwM

Three-Dollar Kit. Liar in the Sky. https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/tw-liar-in-the-sky.html. (accessed May 4, 2023)

Generation Why. (2018). Travis Walton - 291. The Joe Rogan Experience. (Jan 19, 2021). #1597 - Travis Walton.

This week, we are revisiting the interesting case of Scott and Yarmila Falater. On January 16, 1997, Scott brutally murdered Yarmila in the backyard of their Arizona home while their kids were asleep upstairs. The kick is… he doesn’t remember doing it. Or so he says. His defense? Sleepwalking! Listen in to see how you’ll side. Was he sleepwalking? Did he have a psychotic break? Or is Scott just another calculated, cold-blooded killer?

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Forensic Files Now. (2017, July 20). Scott Falater: Sleepwalking Killer Gets a Wakeup Call. https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/tag/scott-falater/

Rubin, P. (1999, July 1). Wakeup Call. Phoenix New Times. https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/tag/scott-falater/

Heavy. (2021) Scott Falater Today: Where is the ‘Sleepwalking Killer’ Now? https://heavy.com/news/scott-falater-today-now-update-2021/

Effron, L., Engel, S., Paparella, A., & Resendez, M. (2021, January 28). 'Sleepwalking' killer Scott Falater still wracked with guilt over murdering wife. ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/US/sleepwalking-killer-scott-falater-wracked-guilt-murdering-wife/story?id=75468448

As we continue our June break, this week we are bringing you the remastered Cleveland Abduction episode. We released this in November of 2023 and it has been our most listened to case on the podcast. I feel like we are all drawn to this story because it is truly unbelievable that Ariel Castro got away with the abduction of 3 girls for over a decade!

In 2008, the nation was shocked when 3 women were discovered in his home along with a 6-year-old girl who had been born in captivity. These women had been taken while they were young teenagers and re-emerged as traumatized adults. Their stories of what happened behind these locked and closed doors for 11 years was truly shocking. 

Listen now as we revisit The Cleveland Abductions of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. 

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Glatt, John (2015). The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. London: Macmillan. 

Berry, Amanda; DeJesus, Gina; Jordan, Mary; Sullivan, Kevin (2015). Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. London: Penguin. 

Knight, Michelle; Burford, Michelle (2014). Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings. New York: Weinstein Books.