Rabbit Hole Recap

Episode 3 -

The RHR girls join for a grand Halloween dig finale *sad face* with the lore behind Stingy Jack and BBC’s Ghostwatch. Let us put some ‘ween in your Wednesday and remember Happy Halloween and stay safe this Saturday!

Sources:

Sara

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_O%27Lantern_(Crime-Master)_(Earth-616)

https://www.historicmysteries.com/myths-legends/the-legend-of-stingy-jack/3100/

https://urbanlegendsmysteryandmyth.com/2025/09/stingy-jack-sinister-legend-behind-jack.html

https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-halloween

Maggie

BBC’s Ghostwatch

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41740176

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

Episode Two-

The Halloween fun continues this week as Maggie dives into The Gainesville Ripper and Sara educates us on mummies and their origins. This rabbit hole runs deep filled with Matthew Lillard love, mummy mania facts and cult classics.

Sources:

Maggie

https://www.biography.com/crime/a73284040/gainesville-ripper-danny-rolling

https://ffplaw.com/notable-case/the-gainesville-student-murders/

https://abc7news.com/post/devil-in-gainesville-abc-2020-murders-serial-killer/10505058/

My Favorite Murder Podcast: Ep 133 - Made of Crystals

Morbid Podcast: The Gainesville Ripper Has Spooky Droopy Eyes

Sara

https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-curse-ancient-egytpian-tombs

https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/eating-mummies-as-medicine

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mummies-and-the-usefulness-of-death/

https://www.crazyalchemist.com/dark-history/curse-of-the-mummy-invented-tradition/

https://anthropologyreview.org/history/ancient-egypt/mummification-why-did-the-ancient-egyptians-embalm-their-dead/

Episode One - 

Welcome to Rabbit Hole Recap! Just two best friends that love diving down the rabbit hole each week to chat about the topics that intrigue us the most. From kinks to killers join us on Wednesdays to get into our latest hyper fixations.

This week Sara + Maggie are kicking off the spooky season with the story of the killer clown outbreak of 2016 and the so-called mysterious masked Halloween candy poisoner.

Sources:

Sara

https://www.silive.com/news/2024/03/creepy=staten-island-clown-sent-shivers-down-our-spines-10-years-ago-this-week.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1981-clowns-were-spotted-across-boston-can-this-help=explain-current-clown-panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqZ-B207U8

Maggie

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-for-Humbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/

https://medium.com/tftunderworld/the-twisted-tale-of-ronald-clark-obryan-the-man-who-killed-halloween-7c5c39bcf116

American Hysteria Podcast: Poisoned Halloween Candy