Today's episode is a bit different than my usual content... today we are talking about weird/odd motives that resulted in the horrible deaths of two women in two separate stories that take place in Chicago, Illinois and Macon, Georgia. This episode is titled "Weird Motive Stories," but regardless of the motive, two women did unfortunately lose their lives.  

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I don't known about y'all, but I need a good laugh. This week's episode is more lighthearted and kinda silly. The Mongolian Death Worm is a creature that is said to inhabit the Gobi Desert. It is said to look like a giant worm that's about 3 to seven foot long and red with spike-like projections on both ends. The worm is extremely dangerous: touching any part of the worm will cause instant death and a lot of pain. The Mongolian Death worm survives by preying on camels and will lay eggs in the intestines while also eating the goyo plant. The Worm enjoys staying below the surface unless it rains or senses vibrations from the upper layers of the sand. Numerous investigations have taken place and he unique part about the Mongolian Death Worm is the fact that it has been proven to actually exist?! What??

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British Columbia, Canada is known for many things: gorgeous landscapes, skiing, the 2010 Olympics, and the running shoes with feet in them that have been washing on shore for the past 9 years? Since 2007, at least 14 human feet have been found in running shoes that washed up on the shore in British Columbia. Is the cause natural disasters? Drug or human trafficking? A serial killer? ALIENS? The world may never know... 

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Bruce Jeffrey Pardo did as he does every year. He signed up to be a deacon at this church’s Christmas Eve service at midnight. However, he never arrived at church. At about 11:30 pm Christmas Eve in 2008, Pardo dressed in a Santa suit and went to his former in-laws home in Covina, California. His former in-laws were having a Christmas party that night with their 5 children and their families. There were about 25 people in the house when he arrived. Pardo came in with what seemed to be a gift because it was wrapped in wrapping paper. It was not a gift though. The package has a home made flame thrower on a trolley with a 9 mm semi-automatic handguns. He also had 2 more 9 mm semi automatic guns in his possession. 

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Roch Theriault was born on May 16th, 1947 in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in Thetford Mines. In the early 1970’s, Theriault used his charisma to start convincing a group of people to leave their jobs and homes behind to join him in a religious movement. His goal was to form a group where people could listen to his speeches, live in equality, sell baked goods, and be free of sin. On paper, this seems like a good idea, but we all know what happens in cults when people get too much power. Shortly after the cult’s formation, Theriault began to move away from a motivational leader and started to be an outright totalitarian leader. The Ant Hill Kids ended up becoming a place on a mountainside where people had legs broken with sledgehammers, amateur and unnecessary surgeries were performed, and children were nailed to trees and had rocks thrown at them. Oh, they also sold baked goods. 

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The Annabelle movie, a prequel to The Conjuring, was released in October of 2014. In the movie, the doll is porcelain and made in a child’s image, with long hair. However, in real life, she is a raggedy Anne doll and has red yarn for hair. The writers and producers couldn’t use the raggedy Anne for royalty purposes, but they also wanted to make the doll seem scarier for the viewers. According to the Warrens, the doll is possessed by an inhuman spirit. Because of this, she is locked away at The Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut with a warning label on the glass as well as the Lord’s Prayer and a cross. Most people have seen the movie or at least the doll, but not everyone knows the truly horrifyingly true story behind it. 

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Omaima Aree Nelson was born and raised in Egypt, and immigrated to the United States in 1986. Her main source of support and income seemed to have come from her many boyfriends. She would get involved with a man and move in with him right away, spend his money freely, and then, when he caught her or she just got tired of him, she would rob him and disappear. Until she met one man, Bill Nelson at a bar in California. The two got married very quickly. On Thanksgiving day, Bill spoke with his daughter Margaret on the phone. He told her how everything was going great and invited her to join him and his new wife for dinner. Margaret refused. Little did she know this would be the last time she would be able to speak to her father... 

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