Strange Country

Strange Country Episode 119 has it all--greed, betrayal, murder, the hazards of women's fashion, and even patent medicine. Nancy Clem, a 19th century grifter, likely killed her business partner and his wife, but after only about a bazillion trials was she set free. Co-hosts Beth and Kelly showcase their financial illiteracy as they talk about the Notorious Mrs. Clem.

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Cite your sources:

GAMBER, WENDY. NOTORIOUS MRS. CLEM: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV Press, 2017.

Nudson, Rae. "Women Used to Burn to Death in Their Dresses Kind of All the Time." Racked, Racked, 19 Dec. 2017, https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history.

Huuuummmm. If you went in the direction of anything related to a phallus- go turn on another podcast. This one is all about the hum that is heard round the world by 2 percent of the people in the world- and driving them a little crazy. Have you heard it Dash Hounds? If you have there is a map you need to go to right now to help those trying to figure out what and where that noise is coming from. Meanwhile Beth and Kelly will remind you it is all about the greed, the climate change, and why basically this like everything else bad and sad on Strange Country is our President's fault.

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Cite Your Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/science/oceans-whales-noise-offshore-drilling.html

http://thehum.info/

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/04/in-the-hopper.html

Ceranic, Irena. Satellite Captures Rarely Seen Atmospheric Gravity Wave Phenomenon off Wa's Coast. 10/23/2019. mobile.abc.net.au

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/593992/doom-vibrations/

https://newrepublic.com/article/132128/maddening-sound

Velcome Dashounds, to Strange Country: The Halloween Edition. In ep. 117, co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the paranormal investigators who started it all, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Hear the story of Annabelle, the doll, and the Snedeker Funeral Home Haunting. . . if boo dare!!!

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Cite your sources:

"Arne Cheyenne Johnson." The Courtroom Sketches of Ida Libby Dengrove, https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/arne-cheyenne-johnson.

Bendici, Ray. "Damned Interview: Ray Garton." Damned Connecticut, Mar. 2009, http://www.damnedct.com/damned-interview-ray-garton.

DeAngelis, Perry, and Steven Novella. "Hunting the Ghost Hunters." NeuroLogica Blog, 22 July 2009, https://theness.com/index.php/hunting-the-ghost-hunters/.

Delazio, Sheena. "'Demon in Home' Grabs Our Attention." Times Leader, 2 Mar. 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20080305004915/http://www.timesleader.com/news/20080303_03lookback_smurls_sd_ART.html.

Frank, Steve. "Snedeker Family Member Goes on Record with Damned Connecticut." Damned Connecticut, Mar. 2009, http://www.damnedct.com/snedeker-family-member-goes-on-record-with-damned-connecticut.

Genzlinger, Neil. "Lorraine Warren, Paranormal Investigator Portrayed in 'The Conjuring,' Dies at 92." The New York Times, 19 Apr. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/obituaries/lorraine-warren-dead.html.

Janes, DeAnna. "Nightmare on Chase Street: The Smurl Family Haunting." The Lineup, 25 May 2016, https://the-line-up.com/smurl-family-haunting.

Martinez, Herza. "The Perron Family's Real Haunting Inspired The Conjuring." The Lineup, 11 Apr. 2019, https://the-line-up.com/perron-family.

Nickell, Joe. "Connecticut Haunting." https://issuu.com/jorgemourinho/docs/skeptical-inquirer-vol.33-issue3-may-june-2009.

Radford, Benjamin. "The Real Story Behind 'The Haunting in Connecticut'." LiveScience, Purch, https://www.livescience.com/5346-real-story-haunting-connecticut.html.

Rubio, J'aime. "The Real Bathsheba Sherman- True History vs. 'Conjured' Fiction." The Real Bathsheba Sherman- True History vs. "Conjured" Fiction, 15 July 2014, https://dreamingcasuallypoetry.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-real-bathsheba-sherman-true-history.html.

Shultz, Christopher. "Every Time Ed & Lorraine Warren Were Exposed As Total Frauds." Ranker, https://www.ranker.com/list/ed-lorraine-frauds/christopher-shultz.

"Snedeker House." Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 10 June 2012, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/snedeker-house.

"Warrens Biography." The New England Society For Psychic Research, 2017, https://www.warrens.net/warrens-biography/.

White, Abbey. "6 Cases Investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren." The Lineup, 10 Nov. 2017, https://the-line-up.com/ed-and-lorraine-warren-paranormal-cases.

Welcome Dear Dash Hounds to another weekly tale of strange behavior from Merkins. Back in the day when slavery was legal and it was illegal to teach slaves to read, there was a woman named Prudence Crandall who knew that was wrong and set to change such terrible ways that white people ran education. In her frustration, Prudence, a highly educated and obviously intelligent woman, opened a school only for black girls. Well Prudence knew damn well this is how we move forward and progress towards a better country - a better world- and she followed her heart and her mind. But in the tiny picturesque town of Canterbury, CONNECTICUT the townspeople had other thoughts on Crandall's school. Who wins in the end? Listen and remember- we haven't reached the end yet.

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Cite Your Sources Dude:

Connecticut's Cultural Treasures: Prudence Crandall. ConnecticutHistory.org. Video. 2015.

Michals, Debra. "Prudence Crandall." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2015. Date accessed, 10/13.2019. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/prudence-crandall

Camera, Lauren. African American Students Lagging far Behind. US News and World Report. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/11/african-american-students-lagging-far-behind

Jurmain, Suzanne. The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and DRamatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students. 2005

https://www.prb.org/empoweringwomendevelopingsocietyfemaleeducationinthemiddleeastandnorthafrica/

Prudence Crandall. National Women's HIstory Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/prudence-crandall

On the surface, The Lonely Doll depicts the glamour of city life. But when you dig deeper, you realize it's a disturbing portrait of deep loneliness, which is way to describe its author, Dare Wright. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about Wright's upbringing, the weird relationship with her mother and whether some people should even have children.

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Cite your Sources:

Bengal, Rebecca. "The Creepiest Children's Book." The New Yorker, 26 Sept. 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-cultish-allure-of-the-creepy-childrens-book-the-lonely-doll.

"Kim Gordon: By the Book." The New York Times, 26 Feb. 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kim-gordon-by-the-book.html.

Nathan, Jean. The Secret Life of The Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright. Picador/Henry Holt & Co., 2005.

Readers, we welcome you to this millionth episode of Strange Country. As much as Kelly and Beth want you to drink and be merry whilst listening to this tale of a woman named Carry A Nation, maybe you should get a glass of water and listen earlier than 9 pm. We are getting old people, and really is drinking that good for you? If Carry were alive today she would say def not- and she would also swing a hatchet in your general direction. Which is why we love her a little bit and she joins the ranks as one of our favorite hatchet wielding Strange Country ladies.

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We like to recognize our firsts, like the first American woman doctor. But sometimes being the first ain't so great especially if you're the first woman executed by the U.S. government. That distinction belongs to Mary Surratt who was executed for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate Pres. Abraham Lincoln and members of his cabinet. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this first as well as consider interesting ideas for throw pillows.

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Cite your sources:

Larson, Kate Clifford. Assassins Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. BasicBooks, 2011.

Mayhew, Robert. "The Female in Aristotle's Biology. Reason or Rationalization." Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.19, 2004, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-09-19.html.

"Surratt Society Homepage." Mary Surratt's Story, http://www.surrattmuseum.org/mary-surratt.

Readers of Strange Country- we have made a milestone- episode 1000! That is a terrible lie, but maybe it will help us in our efforts to become world famous. Also this episode learn how Kelly stays alive everyday along with the other Type 1 Diabetics of the world as Beth and Kelly discuss the discovery of insulin in 1922. Learn all kinds of new things this week including just how many cows it takes to keep a Diabetic alive each year. And why this podcast is way more fun when Beth is pissed.

If your best friend asked you to kill him, would you do it? That's what Raffi Kodikian told the park rangers when they found him in Rattlesnake Canyon, four days past his camping permit. Kodikian said he killed his best friend Dave Coughlin because Coughlin asked him to. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly ponder mercy killings, sinus infections and this sad case in episode 111.

Cite your sources:

Barcott, Bruce. "Two Went Out, One Came Back." The New York Times, 7 Sept. 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/books/two-went-out-one-came-back.html?searchResultPosition=1.

Blanco, Juan Ignacio. "Raffi Kodikian: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers." Raffi Kodikian | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kodikian-raffi.htm.

"Hiking Rattlesnake Canyon In New Mexico." Hiking Rattlesnake Canyon In New Mexico -, https://sedonaredrocktours.com/hikes/hiking-rattlesnake-canyon-new-mexico/.

Holcombe, Madeline. "A 70-Year-Old Woman Fell to Her Death at the Grand Canyon National Park." CNN, Cable News Network, 14 Aug. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/us/grand-canyon-woman-dies/index.html.

Jones, Eliza Brackenridge. "Is a Murderer Always a Murderer?" Criminal, 1 Sept. 2018, https://criminal.media/is-a-murderer-always-a-murderer.

Kersten, Jason. Journal of the Dead: an Extraordinary True-Life Tale of Adventure, Friendship and Lost Dreams. Ebury, 2004

"N.M. Desert Killing Is Described." The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/09/07/nm-desert-killing-is-described/04608402-dac2-4c5d-a53c-81dd89af90f5/.

"Physician-Assisted Suicide Fast Facts." CNN, Cable News Network, 1 Aug. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/physician-assisted-suicide-fast-facts/index.html.

Willingham, AJ. "On Average, 6 People Die in National Parks Every Week. This Is How You Can Protect Yourself." CNN, Cable News Network, 25 Apr. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/us/national-parks-service-deaths-per-week-trnd/index.html.

Robert Tulloch and Jim Parker were like a modern day Leopold and Loeb. The two teenagers believed they were higher beings who could commit murder with impunity. And like their 19th century counterparts, they got caught. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss this ghastly murder that took the lives to two beloved Dartmouth professors in 2001. This episode's PSA: If you think you're a superior being, you're not.

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Cite your sources:

Bovsun, Mara. "Teens Murder Dartmouth Professors for Cash to Start Their Life of Crime Together." New York Daily News, 27 July 2014, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/good-deed-bad-good-deed-bad-article-1.1881655.

"Killer in Dartmouth Professors Stabbing Case Seeks Early Release from Prison." Valley News, 26 Apr. 2019, https://vtdigger.org/2019/04/26/killer-dartmouth-professors-stabbing-case-seeks-early-release-prison/.

"Killer in Murder of Dartmouth Professors Withdraws Bid for Early Release ." Valley News, 19 July 2019, https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/19/killer-in-murder-of-dartmouth-professors-withdraws-bid-for-early-release/.

Lehr, Dick and Mitchell Zuckoff. Judgement Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. Harper, 2003.

Meek, James. "'It Was Dangerous. That Was the Point'." The Guardian, 4 June 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/04/highereducation.news.

Weber, Harry R. "Robert Tulloch: Formative Years." The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, 29 June 2002, https://www.timesargus.com/news/robert-tulloch-formative-years/article_142305f9-4fa8-5f48-9307-92c44202dfd8.html.