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On Dec. 21, 1954, the world was supposed to be flooded, and true believers taken aboard flying saucers to safety. When that didn't happen, the Seekers tried to excuse away the no-show aliens, and thus cognitive dissonance entered the American psyche. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss how Leon Festinger put his theory to the test by pretending to be a true believer to study how followers managed their cognitive dissonance when the world kept spinning.

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Barnes, J. E. (2021, November 24). Pentagon forms a group to examine unexplained aerial sightings. The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/pentagon-ufos.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Liddell, E. (n.d.). Apocalypse Oak Park: Dorothy Martin, the Chicagoan who predicted the end of the world and inspired the theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Chicago Magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/may-2011/dorothy-martin-the-chicagoan-who-predicted-the-end-of-the-world-and-inspired-the-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance/

The current spate of book banning is nothing new in America. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly take readers back to Kanawha County in 1974 when protestors firebombed schools and shot at school buses to protest the adoption of a new textbooks. The books, they said, were obscene and would hurt children so what better way to save them but by throwing sticks of dynamites into their classrooms, right?

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Bloch, E. (2021, May 18). Florida Education commissioner says he made sure Amy Donofrio was fired; now her legal team's responding. The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/05/17/florida-education-commissioner-richard-corcoran-says-fired-duval-county-teacher-supporting-blm/5134544001/

Foerstel, H. N. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: A reference guide to book censorship in Schoolsand Public Libraries. revised and expanded edition. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Franklin, B. A. (1975, April 15). Bomber testifies that minister blessed dynamiting of schools in book dispute. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/15/archives/bomber-testifies-that-minister-blessed-dynamiting-of-schools-in.html

Harris, E. A., & Alter, A. (2022, January 30). Book ban efforts spread across the U.S. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/books/book-ban-us-schools.html

Martin, W. (1982, November 1). The guardians who slumbereth not. Texas Monthly. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-guardians-who-slumbereth-not/

Mason, C. (2009). Reading appalachia from left to right conservatives and the 1974 kanawha county textbook controversy. Cornell University Press.

Mechem, B. (2022, January 20). Parents protest after black lives matter video shown to Sarasota students: Sarasota. Your Observer. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.yourobserver.com/article/parents-protest-after-black-lives-matter-video-shown-to-students

Meckler, L., & Natanson, H. (2022, February 15). New Critical Race Theory Laws Have Teachers Scared, confused and self-censoring. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/14/critical-race-theory-teachers-fear-laws/

NBCUniversal News Group. (2021, December 8). Texas School District pulls 400 books from library shelves for review after legislator's inquiry. NBCNews.com. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-pulls-400-books-library-shelves-review-lawmakers-rcna7891

Posner, Sarah. "Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia." Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A680608885/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=36a235ac. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Schwartz, S., & Pendharkar, E. (2022, February 22). Here's the long list of topics Republicans want banned from the classroom. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/heres-the-long-list-of-topics-republicans-want-banned-from-the-classroom/2022/02

Vass, Kyle "West Virginia textbook battle shows how GOP turned its image from 'blue blood to blue collar'; Before conservatives weaponized critical race theory, a violent 1974 clash over school books helped Republicans rebrand to appeal to white workers." Guardian [London, England], 25 Nov. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A683847032/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=06158f7f. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Whiteleather, M. (2022, February 10). Bill could require posting a year's worth of lesson plans. teachers aren't happy. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/bill-could-require-posting-a-years-worth-of-lesson-plans-teachers-arent-happy/2022/02

What would you want if you were named Queen for a Day? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this strange game show that awarded one woman with the saddest story with blenders and washing machines rather than actual policies or help that would take her out of her awful situation.

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There she is . . . the Strange Country Podcast is back after its brief Covid hiatus to talk about a 100-year-old scholarship beauty pageant that crowns an annual queen in a country that overthrew the British government to escape a king. It was a chance for young women to show their talents wearing a swimsuit and answering questions like "Was the Jan. 6 insurrection an example of legitimate political discourse?"

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Argetsinger, A. (2021). There she was: The secret history of Miss America. Atria.

Bernstein, A. (2016, February 25). Yolande Betbeze Fox, a miss america who rebelled, dies at 87. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yolande-betbeze-fox-a-miss-america-who-rebelled-dies-at-87/2016/02/25/32374126-dbda-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html

Braver, R. (2018, September 30). Remembering 1968: When miss america met Women's Liberation. CBS News. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remembering-1968-when-miss-america-met-womens-liberation/

Haigh, S. (2021, December 14). Miss america turns 100. will she last another 100 years? AP NEWS. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://apnews.com/article/miss-america-turns-100-bf3837c87e003b3025b91700cb4e9bd8

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Mifflin, M. (2021). Looking for miss america: A pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood. Counterpoint.

In the final installment in the Moonies' trilogy, Strange Country looks at Sun Myung Moon's influence in American politics, and how his money helped the New Right gain power. There's also sound effects that you can hear, which is a Christmas miracle.

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Armstrong, Scott and Cheshire, Maxine. "Korean CIA Tied to Moon Rally: Korea CIA Tied to Moon Rallies Supporting Nixon." The Washington Post (1974-), Nov 07, 1976, pp. 2. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/korean-cia-tied-moon-rally/docview/146557133/se-2?accountid=189667.\

Benscoter, Diane. Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Lucky Bat Books, 2013.

Blake, Mariah. "The Fall of the House of Moon" The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon.

Boyer, Jean-Francois. Johnson, R.W. "R.W. Johnson · Rising Moon · LRB 18 December 1986." London Review of Books, London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2019, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n22/r.w.-johnson/rising-moon.

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Frosman, Daniel. "The Untold Story of Sushi." The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html.

Gorenfeld, John. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom. PoliPointPress, 2008.

Hong, Nansook. In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moons Family. Little, Brown, 1998.

Kaplan, Anna. "The Moon's the limit." The Humanist, vol. 64, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2004, p. 14+. Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A121765419/PPPM?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-PPPM&xid=e603ec35. Accessed 19 June 2021.

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McFadden, Robert D. "Donald M. Fraser, Lawmaker Who Bared a South Korea Plot, Dies at 95." The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 June 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/obituaries/donald-fraser-dead.html.

"Moonies Accused of Involvement in Drugs." The Irish Times, The Irish Times, 14 Oct. 2004, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/moonies-accused-of-involvement-in-drugs-1.1161827.

MORPHEW, CLARK. "Daughter-in-law flees abuse by Moon family." Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), 10 Oct. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0FC2AC5BEB9E53AC. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

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Shoaib, Alia. "Trump Spoke at a 9/11 'Moonies' Conference Organized by the Widow of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Praising the Controversial Unification Church." Business Insider, Business Insider, 12 Sept. 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-speaks-at-moonies-911-event-praises-unification-church-2021-9.

White, David F. "Sun Myung Moon Is Criticized by Religious Leaders." The New York Times, The New York Times, 29 Dec. 1976, https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/29/archives/sun-myung-moon-is-criticized-by-religious-leaders-jewish-patrons.html.

In the second installment of the Moonies, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about mass marriage, rituals and how Sun Myung Moon began to cement his relationship with the New Right in America. You'll never look at indemnity sticks and handkerchiefs the same.

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Benscoter, Diane. Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Lucky Bat Books, 2013.

Blake, Mariah. "The Fall of the House of Moon" The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon.

Blake, Mariah. "EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Love Child Rev. Sun Myung Moon Desperately Tried to Hide." Mother Jones, 9 Dec. 2013, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/reverend-moon-unification-church-washington-times-secret-son/.

Boyer, Jean-Francois. Johnson, R.W. "R.W. Johnson · Rising Moon · LRB 18 December 1986." London Review of Books, London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2019, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n22/r.w.-johnson/rising-moon.

Edge, Simon. "The Express: DARK SIDE OF THE MOONIE." Express, The (London, England), 15 Oct. 2009. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12E3828D241D77D8. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

"Frontline: The Resurrection of Reverend Moon." 1992, PBS. https://vimeo.com/520151453.

Frosman, Daniel. "The Untold Story of Sushi." The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html.

Gorenfeld, John. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom. PoliPointPress, 2008.

Hong, Nansook. In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moons Family. Little, Brown, 1998.

Kaplan, Anna. "The Moon's the limit." The Humanist, vol. 64, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2004, p. 14+. Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A121765419/PPPM?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-PPPM&xid=e603ec35. Accessed 19 June 2021.

Levine, Martin, et al. "Sun Myung Moon, We Hardly Knew Ye-or Your Church's Finances!" Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly, 12 Sept. 2018, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/sun-myung-moon-we-hardly-knew-yeor-your-churchs-finances/.

McFadden, Robert D. "Donald M. Fraser, Lawmaker Who Bared a South Korea Plot, Dies at 95." The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 June 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/obituaries/donald-fraser-dead.html.

"Moonies Accused of Involvement in Drugs." The Irish Times, The Irish Times, 14 Oct. 2004, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/moonies-accused-of-involvement-in-drugs-1.1161827.

MORPHEW, CLARK. "Daughter-in-law flees abuse by Moon family." Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), 10 Oct. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0FC2AC5BEB9E53AC. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

"NANSOOK HONG." Weekend Edition Saturday [NPR] (USA), 26 Sept. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/15758DBAA26FDF48. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

Reuter, Lisa. "A HARSH LIFE BEING ECLIPSED BY THE MOONS." Columbus Dispatch, The (OH), Home Final ed., sec. FEATURES - Accent & Arts, 3 Jan. 1999, p. 6F. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/10DD3E8BA07C3D08. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

Sun Myung Moon claimed to be the Messiah who would bring about the kingdom of heaven. See God visited him and told him it was his turn to pick up where Jesus left off. And apparently that was convincing lonely college kids to peddle candy and flowers at street corners and airports. In this multi-episode show, cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the Unification Church, the True Parents, and ways they could possibly convince loyal dashounds to peddle Strange Country merch to the masses.

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Benscoter, Diane. Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Lucky Bat Books, 2013.

Blake, Mariah. "The Fall of the House of Moon" The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon.

Blake, Mariah. "EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Love Child Rev. Sun Myung Moon Desperately Tried to Hide." Mother Jones, 9 Dec. 2013, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/reverend-moon-unification-church-washington-times-secret-son/.

Fessenden, Marissa. "A Brief History of Sesame Street's Snuffleupagus Identity Crisis." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 20 Nov. 2015, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-sesame-streets-snuffleupagus-iidentity-crisis-180957351/.

"Frontline: The Resurrection of Reverend Moon." 1992, PBS. https://vimeo.com/520151453.

Gorenfeld, John. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom. PoliPointPress, 2008.

Hong, Nansook. In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moons Family. Little, Brown, 1998.

Kaplan, Anna. "The Moon's the limit." The Humanist, vol. 64, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2004, p. 14+. Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A121765419/PPPM?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-PPPM&xid=e603ec35. Accessed 19 June 2021.

Levine, Martin, et al. "Sun Myung Moon, We Hardly Knew Ye-or Your Church's Finances!" Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly, 12 Sept. 2018, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/sun-myung-moon-we-hardly-knew-yeor-your-churchs-finances/.

Shoaib, Alia. "Trump Spoke at a 9/11 'Moonies' Conference Organized by the Widow of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Praising the Controversial Unification Church." Business Insider, Business Insider, 12 Sept. 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-speaks-at-moonies-911-event-praises-unification-church-2021-9.

Dashounds and Readers! Ever wonder what to do if your husband dies and you have a farm to keep up? If you're Belle Gunness, you are glad for the extra hog food, and excited to hop onto the 1900's version of Tinder—the newspaper want ads! If only her suitors had FB; they may have been a little more cautious. But alas it was that er-ah when times were tough and a woman could quite literally get away with murder. Join Beth and Kelly as we dive into Belle's story - and try to figure out why this woman did what she did. Spoiler alert: you will never know! And important pre-listening info! Kelly did find the "story of Bell's attack" in a legit source. Check the biblio! Thanks always for listening!

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On this episode, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly delve into two unsolved mysteries, one in 1935 and one in 1978. In 1935, Roland T. Owen checked into The President Hotel and was murdered by those unknown. In February 1978, five men took a wrong turn when leaving a basketball game and never made it home.

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"CASE #5: THE MURDER IN ROOM 1046." Mystery Unsolved, 2 Nov. 2020, https://sites.psu.edu/heidimoustafapassionblog/2020/11/02/case-5-the-murder-in-room-1046/#:~:text=The first theory is the,of the murder, Charles Blocher.

Gore, Leada. "The Mystery of What Was in the Box: Alabama Man Found Dead 83 Years Ago." AL, 19 Sept. 2018, https://www.al.com/news/erry-2018/09/56ecbe55ac9479/the-mystery-of-what-was-in-the.html.

Gorney, Cynthia. "5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back." The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 July 1978, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/?utm_term=.60025d4a662b.

Gutoskey, Ellen. "When a Long Island Housewife Handed Out Arsenic to Kids on Halloween." Mental Floss, 27 Oct. 2020, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/632789/when-long-island-trick-or-treaters-got-ant-poison.

Horner, John. "The Mystery of Room 1046, Pt. 1: Roland T. Owen." Kansas City Public Library, 2 Feb. 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030654/https://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/mystery-room-1046-pt-1-roland-t-owen.

Horner, John. "The Mystery of Room 1046, Pt. 2: Love Forever, Louise." Kansas City Public Library, 2 Feb. 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20120725031332/http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/mystery-room-1046-pt-2-love-forever-louise.

Rossen, Jake. "'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five." Mental Floss, 16 Mar. 2018, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/532063/bizarre-hell-disappearance-yuba-county-five.

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A forever mystery will haunt your ears this week, Dash Hounds. Join Kelly and Beth as we discuss the missing Sodder children, who quite literally went up in smoke one terrible Christmas night in West Virginia, never to be seen again. A warning: if you don't like women or cats, you probably shouldn't listen. But if you do, then you should listen because as you well know, it is an act of love.

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Horn, S. (2005, December 23). Mystery of missing children haunts w.va. town. NPR. Retrieved October 18, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067563.

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