In 1898, for nine months, two lion brothers would terrorize Tsavo, their main targets were men helping construct a railway bridge going over the Tsavo River. Many men would die brutal horrific deaths, being attacked, dragged away and consumed by the feline predators, until Colonel Lieutenant Patterson took them down.

DEDICATION:

Val Kilmer

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

🇺🇸 Ypsilanti, Michigan
🇮🇳 Imphal, India
🇺🇸 North Royalton, Ohio
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel
🇺🇸 Arroyo grande, California
🇺🇸 Marmora, New Jersey

COVER PHOTO:

Colonel Patterson with Tsavo-Lion.jpg

The first of the two Tsavo man-eating lions (FMNH 23970) shot by Lt. Col. Patterson.

Field Museum

Public domain

Colonel Patterson with Tsavo-Lion.jpg

TO DONATE TO KARA MCCOY:

http://spot.fund/2k856k8sc

And again your thoughts and prayers mean so much

WARNING:

Please be advised that this episode includes violence and gore - humans being devoured.

STORY BLOCKS:

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/overcast-sad-piano-and-strings-instrumental-cinematic-349010853.html

PIXABAY:

https://pixabay.com/music/world-african-savana-beats-315881/

In part two, you will hear about more deaths and disappearances, adding to the mystery of the Lost Dutchman Goldmine curse! 

CREDITS & LINKS

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

🇺🇸 Tolleson, Arizona
🇺🇸 Kenner, Louisiana
🇺🇸 Las Cruces, New Mexico
🇺🇸 Winston Salem, North Carolina
🇺🇸 Utica, Michigan
🇮🇳 Nabadwip, India

COVER PHOTO:

2000-08-supersti-sunset.jpg

Sunset in Superstitions, Arizona - http://www.RobertBody.com

Robertbody at English Wikipedia

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

STORY BLOCKS:

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/lost-in-nowhere-bbhcakoupkgxr5h0r.html

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/while-she-sleeps-acoustic-guitar-duo-347642791.html

People venture to an area, while beautiful, has a notorious reputation. Many come, seeking the lost Dutchman gold mine, but not all come out alive. There are many deaths - several murdered - and disappearances connected to the curse. 

CREDITS & LINKS

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

🇫🇷 Nancy, France
🇨🇦 Sarnia, Canada 
🇺🇸 Traverse City, Michigan
🇺🇸 Balsam Lake, Wisconsin
🇺🇸 Sandwich, Massachusetts
🇮🇳 Pune, India

COVER PHOTO:

Lost Dutchman State Park, Arizona, USA 5-2024 10.jpg

Lost Dutchman State Park

dconvertini

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/old-western-feeling-351668142.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/flight-over-the-mountain-sjrahhmewkctn1ezw.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/the-long-defeat-cinematic-orchestral-melancholic-hveebaadwkh0u0avk.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/dying-wish-hdindq7ywkh6o1kut.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/sorrow-in-pieces-349356874.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/zombie-butterfly-351821012.html

MY OWN RECORDINGS:

Thunder in Colorado, summer of 2024

This blue cannibalistic, vampiric boogey-woman roams the countryside preying upon young children in Leicestershire. 

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna”
🎸 Alien Manner “Listen Official”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

🇧🇷 Campo Grande, Brazil
🇨🇦 North Bay, Canada 
🇺🇸 Prineville, Oregon 
🇳🇿 Christchurch, New Zealand 
🇺🇸 Laramie, Wyoming
🇺🇸 Cinnaminson, New Jersey

COVER PHOTO:

This image was found on Wikimedia Commons. 

(IMAGE NOT BLACK ANNIS)

An illustration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "The Snow Queen", from the book Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. The book can be read online here (the illustration can be seen on page 106, here).

Eleanor Vere Boyle

Public domain

VOICE OVER SHOUT OUTS:

☠️Claire Helen

STORY BLOCKS:

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/the-murderous-witch-347205441.html

It was a plot planned by several hundred, many of these men were respected military men with extensive and impressive backgrounds, like colonels, generals, majors, military police and several more. The plan was to assassinate Hitler. The plot fails miserably and several lives will be snuffed because of it, resulting in executions by the thousands.

CREDITS & LINKS

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Poor Pearl”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Maldonado, Uruguay
Salida, Colorado
Crofton, Maryland
Cushing, Oklahoma
Haltom City, Texa
Hollywood, Florida

COVER PHOTO:

The image used was found on Wikimedia Commons: 

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. 

Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944
Besichtigung der zerstörten Baracke im Führerhauptquartier "Wolfsschanze" bei Rastenburg, Ostpreußen
(v.l.n.r.: X (SS), Martin Bormann, X (SS), Hermann Göring (Luftwaffe), Bruno Loerzer (Generaloberst der Luftwaffe); X (Luftwaffe))

Unknown author

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 de

VOICE OVER SHOUT OUTS:

☠️Shawn Curtis as  Claus Graf von Stauffenberg / Hitler / Hans von Haeften

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/lurking-fear-348854950.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/the-dark-child-348637868.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/sad-summer-night-348987257.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/haunted-wasteland-347433678.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/autunno-greve-347514087.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/calming-ombre-smlhcbwvwkepyjmsg.html

YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43GrnwZetE

With the Italian Campaign put to bed, veteran Gerald Mauro writes home sharing some experiences and encounters that he had, once more giving an inside view of what happened during the Second World War.

CREDITS & LINKS

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Johanna”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Kingston upon Thames, England
Dunlap, Tennessee
Estrablin, France
Columbus, Ohio
Gold Coast, Australia
Geffen, Netherlands

COVER PHOTO:

This image is from the personal collection of my Grandfather, Gerald Mauro.

VOICE OVER SHOUT OUTS:

🦅 Weston Huff

🦅Andrea Bray

🦅Jerry Mauro

🦅Randee Huff

🦅MJ Mauro

🦅Ronda Mauro

🦅Hollie McIntire

🦅KimAnna Cellura

🦅 Jenna Mauro

🦅 Red Mauro

🦅 Kasey Mauro

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/calming-ombre-smlhcbwvwkepyjmsg.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/i-will-see-you-again-someday-soft-solo-piano-347488455.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/soft-emotional-piano-quiet-storm-bcc2bmpgdkkodchgq.html

With over 140 executions under his belt, Gröpler sure has a story to tell. From executing notorious serial killers like Peter Kürten and Fritz Haarmann and oh so many others.

CREDITS & LINKS 

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Johanna”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Elkhorn, Nebraska
Vienna, Austria
Galway, Ireland
Montebello, California
Hutchinson, Kansas
Carquefou, France

COVER PHOTO:

The execution chamber at Plötzensee Prison.

User:MisterBee1966

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

VOICE OVER

Shawn Curtis as Fritz Haarman and Peter Kürten 

STORY BLOCKS

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Located in Weston, West Virginia stand Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Filled to the brim with history, deaths and yes, of course, haunts!

CREDITS & LINKS 

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Johanna”
Stick the Landing “Headliner”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Frankfort, Illinois
Rexburg, Idaho
Ankara, Turkey
Cheltenham, England
Brandenburg, Kentucky
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

COVER PHOTO:

This image was found on Wikimedia Commons:

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.jpg

2019 face image of Weston State Hospital (aka Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum) that is located in Weston, Wv and was finished in 1881 and began accepting patients in 1864 during the Civil War

Sedgwickbrettm

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/secrets-of-the-cursed-garden-348576783.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/lurking-fear-348854950.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/glimpse-into-a-dark-mind-rvdkrc_t8k9n3850n.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/undercurrents-346995057.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/calming-ombre-smlhcbwvwkepyjmsg.html

MY RECORDINGS

Coyote howling (Sun City West, AZ - 2022)

Baby laughter (Denver, CO - 2023)

She spends her life in Long Beach, California, but before she retired she conducted several voyages, and has a deep strong connection to World War II. Also believed to be severely haunted. Her history is rich and at times terrifying.

CREDITS & LINKS 

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Johanna”
Alien Manner “Listen Official”

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Goodlettsville, Tennessee
Assens, Denmark
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Adelaide, Australia
Wimbledon, England
Cool Ridge, West Virginia

COVER PHOTO:

Image not my own, I got from Wikimedia Commons

RMS Queen Mary GJE.jpg

RMS Queen Mary moored at Southampton

George John Edkins (1921-2001)

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/on-the-edge-of-war-347087902.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/lurking-fear-348854950.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/i-will-see-you-again-someday-soft-solo-piano-347488455.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/dark-secrets-347056214.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/calming-ombre-smlhcbwvwkepyjmsg.html

Leakin Park is home to beautiful nature walking trails but sadly plagued with violence, riddled with murders and a convenient location for killers to dump their victims bodies.

CREDITS & LINKS 

MUSIC COURTESY OF:

Bobby Mackey “Johanna“
Stick the Landing “Headliner“

WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS:

Newburyport, Maryland
Orléans, France
Bromma, Sweden
Hanford, California
Rhome, Texas
Edgewater, Colorado

COVER PHOTO:

Photograph by Eli Pousson, 12 February 2015.

Baltimore Heritage

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

⚠️ WARNING⚠️ :

This episode contains graphic and disturbing content about pedophilia, necrophilia, rape, murder, and murder of children

STORY BLOCKS:

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/time-is-running-348653262.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/odious-signs-rzivei-edkepys3gg.html

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/dying-wish-hdindq7ywkh6o1kut.html

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https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/regret-serious-sad-piano-music-grieving-and-mystery-bfu02uyy_kp2zx8ln.html

https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/death-stranding-348652787.html