In this episode, Emma and Brian talk about the Tylenol murders that happened in 1982 in Chicago area. Could things have been stopped if Johnson & Johnson had done a better job? Yes. Who was really responsible? Who knows. Will we talk about conspiracies around the event? Yes!

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Sources for this episode:

https://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/tylenol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylenol_(brand)

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

https://www.nyccriminallawyer.com/the-1986-tylenol-murder/

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014/01/28/yonkers-86-cyanide-death-reignited-82-tylenol-scare/4956857/

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/cyanide_poisoning/article_em.htm

This week, Brian teaches Emma about the Ohio State Reformatory. This reformatory turned maximum security prison is home to gruesome events and creepy tales, and even a few ghosts.

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Sources for this episode:

https://www.mrps.org/blog/2017/11/22/shocking-proof-of-10-real-life-ghost-stories-at-an-ohio-prison

https://www.liveabout.com/haunting-ghost-stories-ohio-state-reformatory-972978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSQG0zvR6dk

http://i.imgur.com/zEMAgAG.gif

https://www.tourguidetofun.com/lockedup/

This week, Brian and Emma bring you the final episode of the Salem Witch Trials. We go through the actual trials and what happened after them. Join us on part two and learn how Cotton Mather might be the literal Devil.

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Sources for this episode:

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Timeline

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

https://www.bibleref.com/John/6/John-6-10.html

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

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tituba

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Osborne

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

Davies, Owen. America Bewitched: the Story of Witchcraft after Salem. Oxford University Press, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_Village_-_map_of_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17845.jpg

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

On this special Halloween episode, Brian and Emma talk about the worst witch hunt in colonial American history. They go over how and why these things could happen and just who could be to blame for it.

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Sources for this episode:

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Timeline

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

https://www.bibleref.com/John/6/John-6-10.html

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

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tituba

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Osborne

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

Davies, Owen. America Bewitched: the Story of Witchcraft after Salem. Oxford University Press, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_Village_-_map_of_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17845.jpg

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

On this episode, Brian and Emma sit down to talk about some more scary creatures. Each of them brings a description of a monster and the other uses their knowledge of the creepy to guess what it is. Join along in the fun and take a guess for yourself. Enjoy!

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack

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

https://www.newsweek.com/who-nian-mythical-beast-ate-children-and-started-chinese-new-year-803173

In this episode, Emma teaches Brian about the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (aka The Weston State Hospital) in West Virginia. Join us as we learn about the insane number of "patients" that were held here and the erosion of their well being, as well as the building itself. Also, ghosts.

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum

http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/index.html

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.4.1.75

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2434

http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990620paint4.asp

https://archive.is/20010713141751/http://www.westonlandmark.com/history.htm

https://www.theintelligencer.net/life/features/2018/10/haunted-hospital-former-w-va-mental-asylum-offers-historical-and-ghost-tours/

In this episode, Emma and Brian compile all of the small monsters that they can find and pit them in a straight up freak-off. Join in to learn about these bite-sized stores of monsters.

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Sources for this episode:

https://itsmth.fandom.com/wiki/Japanese_Hairy_Fish

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

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

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

On this week's episode, Brian teaches Emma about the life of an amazing author: H. P. Lovecraft. Join us as we learn a little bit about his upbringing and an what lead him to become the author we know him as today. Also, how much of a wimp and xenophobic crazy person he was. So there's that. 

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft

On this episode, Emma teaches Brian about the "missing" woman: Monika Rizzo. No one "really knows" what happened to her, but maybe between the two of us, we can piece things together.

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Sources for this episode:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Monika_Rizzo

https://unsolved.com/gallery/monika-rizzo/

https://www.ksat.com/news/crime-stories/more-than-200-bone-fragments-found-nobody-ever-charged-in-the-monika-rizzo-murder

https://www.criminallyintrigued.com/blog/2017/12/30/the-bone-yard

On this episode, Brian and Emma sit down to talk about some more scary creatures. Each of them brings a description of a monster and the other uses their knowledge of the creepy to guess what it is. Join along in the fun and take a guess for yourself. Enjoy!

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Sources for this episode:

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

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/man_eating_tree_of_madagascar

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/maneatingplant