This week, Brianne podcasts on nighttime cough syrup, Melanie poops her pants in Australia, the cryptid bracket gets to the final four, Brianne hates getting possessed, Melanie is aggressively unhelpful, a free gift turns out to just be death, and Melanie tells one of the most upsetting stories we've ever covered.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Large-scale deaths of children throughout (most graphic and upsetting details are 28:00-40:00, brief mention of vomit.

Links:
183 Children Died in a Stampede for Toys in 1883
...about The Victoria Hall...
Crash bar
Design from disaster
Robert Alexander Briggs and the invention of the Panic Bolt - By Patricia Lovell
Smashed case which houses tribute to 183 dead children in Sunderland to be repaired
Sunderland memorial to Victoria Hall disaster is in Mowbray Park
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT SUNDERLAND
The Fays
The Fays: Tragedy and Trials
The Sunderland Disaster
THE SUNDERLAND DISASTER
THE SUNDERLAND DISASTER
THE SUNDERLAND DISASTER
Victims of the Victoria Hall Calamity
Victoria Hall and the Victoria Hall disaster
Victoria Hall disaster
Victoria Hall Disaster
Victoria Hall Disaster Toy Rocking Horse
Wearside Echoes Re:vealing the life of tragic hall magician
William McGonagall

This week, Melanie is gonna have a baby and the southerners are unimpressed, The Audio Guy requests a specific head in a box, Chicago Mothman battles The Jersey Devil, we embark upon the maiden voyage of a Titanic extravaganza, women care for each other, someone dies standing up, and Brianne's inner 10 year old is having the best day of her life.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: death of an adolescent and teen from their mother's perspective, loss of various spouses, death of a child 1:01:00, body shaming, drowning, near-drowning.

Links:
10 Premonitions of Doom from History That Actually Came True
25 Facts About The Movie Titanic That Will Make You See It In A Different Light
33 Things You Didn't Know About The Movie "Titanic"
41 facts about Titanic the movie - from Leonardo DiCaprio's lizard to Kate Winslet's bid for the role
43 secrets you never knew about the Titanic and the people aboard it
57 fascinating facts about the Titanic
A History of Kate Winslet and James Cameron's Relationship: Why Their Reunion for Avatar Is Raising Eyebrows
Authenticating the Wallace Hartley Titanic Violin
Collapsible A
Dorothy Gibson: The woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and a Nazi prison
Graphic Story of Titanic Survivors' Rescue
Kate Winslet Shows Off Submerged Acting Chops in Wild Look at ‘Avatar 2’ Underwater Shoot
Kate Winslet Thinks James Cameron Has Chilled Out a Lot Between Making Titanic & Avatar 2
Premonitions
The Mystery of Rhoda Abbott Revealed
The strange tale of an Oswego man who wrote a book predicting a Titanic-like disaster ... 14 years before it happened
Titanic Songbook
Winter is finally coming, from the same place where the RMS Titanic was built

This week, Melanie ventures into the worst part of 2007 internet, the wendigo finally gets his day in court, Brianne would rather get eaten than deal with someone crying but Melanie loves the aesthetics of it, we get a classic “I didn’t know I was pregnant” story at 42,000 feet, someone jumps out of a moving train, Melanie introduces a different kind of birth canal, someone has a baby up a tree with crocodiles, Brianne nearly walks out on the job over a nightmarish story, and Melanie is marked safe.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: traumatic births throughout but especially at 45:00-59:00, which includes gore.

Links:
2000 Mozambique flood
A miracle baby from the tree is doing wonders.
A Mozambican court has stripped parental powers from the country’s most famous child, Rosita Pedro Mabuiango
Baby arrives by train, falls down the toilet - and lives
Baby born in a tree
Baby born on plane that happened to be carrying doctor and neonatal nurses
Fla. woman gives birth after wrecking her car
Florida woman gives birth in car wrecked in canal
Fundraiser for Lavinia Mounga by Alilia Kalina Lavaki: Lavi's Airborn Baby
Hawaii Pacific Health and North Kansas City Hospital Healthcare Workers Help Deliver Baby on Flight to Hawaii
'I put the knife in and pulled it up. Once wasn't enough. I did it again. Then I cut open my womb'
It's the 'baby being born while we're above the Pacific Ocean' for me
Made Of Steel: Read How A Mother Of Seven Successfully Performed A Cesarean Section On Herself
'Miracle' baby born in tree during Mozambique floods to turn 17
'Miracle' baby comes to UK
Mom who gave birth on flight to Honolulu didn't know she was pregnant
Mozambique Tree Baby In DC
Mozambique's 'Treetop-baby' at 19
Newborn Baby Survives Fall Through Train Toilet On Rail Tracks
Newborn falls down train toilet
Self-inflicted caesarean section
This Woman Performed Her Own Cesarean Section—and Survived
 Tree baby Rosita captures hearts around the world
True grit: the mum who delivered her own baby
Woman gives birth in train toilet, baby slips through hole, is safe
Woman Gives Birth to Son on Delta Flight to Hawaii

 This week, we complete each other, dingbats go up against melon heads, a little girl wants to smash a glass ceiling, Brianne has some unresolved gifted child issues, MELANIE IS HILARY SWANK, forensic anthropologists sling mud, we maybe start a book club, and our house tools get an upgrade.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: brief mention of stillbirth at 13:50, alcoholism, transportation accident.

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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart’s Final Flight
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
Betty's Notebook
Missing! The unsolved mystery of Amelia Earhart's last flight
Reporter’s diary adds another new clue in 70-year-old Earhart mystery
She took off from Miami into a cloud of mystery. Inside Amelia Earhart’s last flight
United States Coast Guard Cutter
Wiley Post flies solo around the world

We've officially been a podcast for ONE YEAR! To celebrate, we wanted to record a little rundown of our first year in numbers, from ghosts in the studio to animals attacks to decapitations to conspiracy theories. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening and making every single day of it so fun.

This week, we enter Jeremy Bearimy time, Bigfoot faces off against sentient pants, Melanie gets high-brow on us and continues with her favorite chaotic men theme, ballerinas catch fire, firefighters eff around and find out, a man hacks his way through a crowd, 807 Walnut Street is hit by disaster after grandiose disaster, and Melanie rolls out the exclusive new $20 Patreon level.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: extensive animal cruelty, slavery/dehumanization, animal attacks, amputation, racism/minstrel shows, humans on fire, people falling/jumping out of windows, brief reference to death of a child 1:39:00, structural fire,

Links:
A History of the Traveling Menagerie
Allen, John D. (fl. 1890-1923)
Bilby, T. (1858). The book of animals: For the amusement and instruction of young persons: Exemplified by original and select illustrative anecdotes. In The book of animals: For the amusement and instruction of young persons: Exemplified by original and select illustrative anecdotes (pp. 125-127). New York, NY: Leavitt and Allen.
Blazing Ballerinas And A Rampaging Elephant At 807 Walnut Street
Columbus II (Mogul?) an Asian elephant at Raymond & Warings Menagerie, Museum and Circus United
Eaton Stone, "The Devil Rider"
Elephants dead 1847
Flames, In Gauze And Crinolines, The Gale Sisters Last Dance Together, Sept 14, 1861
Mysteries from the Morgue: Where is Columbus the elephant buried?
Nance, S. (2013). Entertaining elephants Animal agency and the business of the American circus. In Entertaining elephants animal agency and the business of the American circus (pp. 109-110). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Night of the Flaming Ballerinas
Philadelphia, PA Continental Theatre Fire, Sept 1861
Philadelphia, PA Grand Central Theater Fire, Apr 1892
Philadelphia, PA Grand Central Theatre Fire, Apr 1892 - Seven Dead or Missing
Ringling Brothers
The Black Crook, the “First” Broadway Musical, Is Headed Back to NY
The Bonfire of Ballet Girls
The evening telegraph. [volume], June 20, 1867, FOURTH EDITION, Page 8, Image 8
Town of Somers History
Watson, J. F. (1855). Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a collection of MEMOIRS, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of pennsylvania, from the days of the founders ... In Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders ... (pp. 374-375). Philadelphia: Parry and M'Millan. 

This week, discombobulation abounds, we start the hairdo pocket revolution, cryptid teeth arrive in the mail, Brianne does not want a head in the box, the wendigo and selkie face off, Melanie has an alarming conspiracy, we struggle to be mature, and a whole bunch of scuba diving disasters happen.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: brief reference to gore from last episode, sexual innuendo, brief mention of suicide in a legend at 34:03, drowning, death of adult child from parent's perspective, decomposition, loss of spouse.

Links:
16 Terrifying Scuba Accidents That Will Make You Think Twice About Diving
515: Good Guys
A Visit to the World's Deadliest Dive Site in the World
Blue Hole (Red Sea)
Boesmansgat
Dave Not Coming Back - documentary
Dave Shaw (diver)
Deon Dreyer
Diver Records Doom | Last Moments
Found Footage of Diver Who Records His Own Death (Full Video)
Raising the Dead
Raising the Dead by Phillip Finch
The Blue Hole
Top diver’s death casts long shadow over deep beauty of the Blue Hole
Where No One Should Go

This week, Melanie and Brianne contemplate mortality, Melanie crosses her legs to keep Baby John Mellencamp in, a cryptid has an elaborate backstory, we're joined in the studio by fourteen badass ghosts drinking beers, Brianne loves atmospheric trains, we all learn about saturation diving together, YouTube crowns the most gruesome death imaginable, and Melanie has disaster-themed maternity photos.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: death/mortality, claustrophobia, drowning deaths, very vague mention of suicide risk at 58:48, extremely graphic description of gore/dismemberment 1:11:10-1:21:31.

Links:
16 Terrifying Scuba Accidents That Will Make You Think Twice About Diving
Avascular necrosis
Blowout preventer
Decompression sickness
Drill Master diving accident
How does saturation diving work?
Nitrogen Narcosis
Saturation diving
Saturation Diving
Saturation Divers Live Under the Sea for Weeks | World's Strangest
Saturation Diving | North Sea oil | Dangerous jobs | TV Eye | 1981
Saturation Diving- You're in a different world
Saturation Diving Salary Breakdown: What Can You Earn Annually?
Scuba Q & A: Common Questions Asked By Nondivers
Star Canopus diving accident
The Most Gruesome Death Imaginable: The Byford Dolphin Accident
The Science of Breathing Underwater
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
Under pressure: my job as a deep sea saturation diver
Understanding Nitrogen Narcosis (The Rapture Of The Deep)
Venture One diving accident
What It's Like to be a Saturation Diver
Wildrake diving accident

We aren't able to record this week, but we have an older episode you should check out today.

This week, Brianne plans a chair operation, the cryptid bracket continues with another lake snake versus an angry mountain monster, Melanie denies her taxidermy derby hat energy, a real life dryer fire crisis is averted, Brianne is underwhelmed by a drug syndicate, a villain falls from the sky, a black bear stumbles upon the stash of a lifetime, an unexpected snack rains down on Kentucky, a museum gets eaten, science and creativity win the day in Disaster Relief.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: threatened housefire, drugs, plane crash, death of adult man, abuse/murder of dog at 50:30, accidental death of a wild animal 52:30, missing person, gross story involving meat, sinkhole without injuries.

Links:
Bluegrass Conspiracy Supplemental – “Company” Drug Plane Down in Jenkinsburg, Georgia
Cocaine and a Dear Bear
Cocaine-Carrying Chutist Was Ex-Policeman, Lawyer
Corvette Cave In Exhibit
Corvettes disappear into massive hole
Danisi, J. (Writer). (2004, February 18). Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice: Freefall [Television series episode]. In Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice. Court TV.
Death of  a Sky Smuggler
Denton, S. (2016). The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder. United States: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Drew Thornton's Last Adventure
DRUG SMUGGLERS LINKED TO DEATH OF 17 SKYDIVERS
Eight vintage Corvettes swallowed by 40-foot sinkhole inside National Corvette Museum
Flesh Descending in a Shower
Kentucky Horseman A. Carter Thornton Dies
Kentucky Meat Shower
Meet Our New Mascot: Cocaine Bear
Melanie Dee Flynn
Museum Commemorates 5th Anniversary of Corvette Swallowing Sinkhole with 360 Degree Virtual Cave Tour
National Corvette Museum
National Corvette Museum Sinkhole - 5th Anniversary
Old Fulton NY Post Cards By Tom Tryniski
Police following credible tip about 1977 disappearance of Melanie Flynn
Revisiting The Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876
Second Dead Parachutist Helped Make Tennessee Cocaine Drop, Newspaper Says
The Great Kentucky Meat Shower mystery unwound by projectile vulture vomit
The True Story Behind ‘Cocaine Bear’
Time-lapse Video of the Corvette Museum Skydome Sinkhole Construction
Triple Crown Near Misses
VIDEO: Inside the National Corvette Museum sinkhole seven years later
West Virginia Student Creates Model of Museum’s Sinkhole
WORRY OVER ILLEGAL ARMS EXPORTS GROWING AMONG U.S. PROSECUTORS