In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den where the nuns were whores and the priests were baby murderers. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk/ Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade: 1800-1860; Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal; William Leete Stone's Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; and other contemporary newspaper reports and publications. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]