Strange Country

The Osage people were stripped of their homes and land and relocated to a stamp of untillable land in Oklahoma. There they struck black gold, making them extremely wealthy. They seemed to have it all until many went missing or turned up dead. Strange Country co-hosts Kelly and Beth explore the Reign of Terror that befell the Osage people in the early 1920s.

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Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon.

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http://www.famous-trials.com/osage-home/2378-the-osage-reign-of-terror-murder-trials-an-ac

The murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 became the story of urban apathy, but did 38 neighbors really standby and watch the young woman get brutally murdered? In ep. 58 of Strange Country, co-hosts Beth and Kelly explore this horrific crime and Kelly considers becoming a police officer.

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Gansberg, Martin. "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police." The New York Times, 27 Mar. 1964, www.nytimes.com/1964/03/27/archives/37-who-saw-murder-didnt-call-the-police-apathy-at-stabbing-of.html.

Haberman, Clyde. "Remembering Kitty Genovese." The New York Times, 10 Apr. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/us/remembering-kitty-genovese.html.

Lemann, Nicholas. "A Call for Help." The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2014, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help.

McFadden, Robert D. "Winston Moseley, Who Killed Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison at 81." The New York Times, 4 Apr. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/winston-moseley-81-killer-of-kitty-genovese-dies-in-prison.html.

Phillips, Craig. "Filmmaker James Solomon Peels Back the Mythology of the Kitty Genovese Story." PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 20 Jan. 2017, www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/filmmaker-james-solomon-witness/.

Merry, Stephanie. "Her Shocking Murder Became the Stuff of Legend. But Everyone Got the Story Wrong." The Washington Post, 29 June 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/her-shocking-murder-became-the-stuff-of-legend-but-everyone-got-the-story-wrong/2016/06/29/544916d8-3952-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html?utm_term=.eaeda06e041b.

"A New Look at the Killing of Kitty Genovese: The Science of False Confessions." Association for Psychological Science, 30 June 2017, www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/a-new-look-at-the-killing-of-kitty-genovese-the-science-of-false-confessions.html.

Rasenberger, Jim. "Kitty, 40 Years Later." The New York Times, 8 Feb. 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/kitty-40-years-later.html.

Rasenberger, Jim. "Kitty Genovese: The Myth, the Truth ... And Me." History News Network, 1 May 2016, historynewsnetwork.org/article/162664.

Solomon, James, director. The Witness. The Witness, Five More Minutes, 2015.

The American Plan sounds super American like apple pie and wealth inequality, but it's really about locking up women suspected of having STDs. Without due process. And with forcible gynecological exams. Strange Country explores the phenomenal story unearthed by Scott Stern in his book The Trials of Nina McCall. Get ready to get angry.

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Fard, Maggie Fazeli. "Sandra Fluke, Georgetown Student Called a 'Slut' by Rush Limbaugh, Speaks Out." The Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-buzz/post/rush-limbaugh-calls-georgetown-student-sandra-fluke-a-slut-for-advocating-contraception/2012/03/02/gIQAvjfSmR_blog.html?utm_term=.e8377fd2b5a1.

Gwynne, Kristen. "10 Completely Vile Things Rick Santorum Has Said." Rolling Stone, 28 May 2015, www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/10-completely-vile-things-rick-santorum-has-said-169555/.

Kelly, Kim. "A Forgotten War on Women." The New Republic, 22 May 2018, newrepublic.com/article/148493/forgotten-war-women.

Madison, Lucy. "Foster Friess: In My Day, Women 'Used Bayer Aspirin for Contraceptives.'" CBS News, CBS Interactive, 17 Feb. 2012, www.cbsnews.com/news/foster-friess-in-my-day-women-used-bayer-aspirin-for-contraceptives/.

Stern, Scott W. The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women. Beacon Press, 2018.

The story of Greenbrier Ghost may put you in an everlasting faint, but that's way better than worm fever. Elva Zona Heaster married a bad man, but got her justice in the end thanks to the tenacity of her mother. Tune into Strange Country Ep. 56 to hear the story of the only time a ghost helped convict a murderer.

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Cite Your sources dude:

https://www.thornber.net/medicine/html/medgloss.html

https://www.prairieghosts.com/shue.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30608/elva-zona-heaster-ghost-who-helped-solve-her-own-murder

http://www.wvculture.org/history/crime/shuearticles.html

McCrumb, Sharyn. The Unquiet Grave. 2017. Center Point Large Print, Thorndike ME.

Are we defined by the social roles we assume and the circumstances we find ourselves in? Stanford Psychologist Philip Zimbardo thinks so after witnessing college students degrade other students in a prison simulation in August. 1971. The Stanford Prison Experiment is not without its controversy, which Strange Country discusses in Ep. 55. Co-host Beth also admits a dark secret from her past.

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5 Psychology Experiments You Couldn't Do Today, Scishow, 11 Sept. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3l1jgmYrY.

"Adolf Eichmann." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007412.

Baker, Peter C. "Electric Shock: Did Stanley Milgram's Famous Obedience Experiments Prove Anything?" Pacific Standard, 10 Sept. 2013, psmag.com/social-justice/electric-schlock-65377.

Blum, Ben. "The Lifespan of a Lie – Trust Issues – Medium." Medium, Augmenting Humanity, 6 7 June 2018, medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62.

Carey, Benedict. "Psychology Itself Is Under Scrutiny." The New York Times, 16 July 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/health/psychology-studies-stanford-prison.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article.

Garber, Megan. "Why We Prefer Masculine Voices (Even in Women)." The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2012, www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/why-we-prefer-masculine-voices-even-in-women/266350/.

"Interview with Carlo Prescott." The Stanford Prison Experiment, 11 July 2018, static1.squarespace.com/static/557a07d5e4b05fe7bf112c19/t/5b4e1da2575d1f08e7b1304b/1531846050337/PrescottInterview2018-07-11.pdf.

Mcleod, Saul. "Milgram Experiment." Simply Psychology, Simply Psychology, 5 Feb. 2017, www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html.

Prescott, Carlo. "The Lie of the Stanford Prison Experiment." The Stanford Daily, 28 Apr. 2005, stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford20050428-01.2.24&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------.

Resnick, Brian. "The 'Marshmallow Test' Said Patience Was a Key to Success. A New Replication Tells Us S'more." Vox, Vox, 6 June 2018, www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/6/17413000/marshmallow-test-replication-mischel-psychology.

Resnick, Brian. "Philip Zimbardo Defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, His Most Famous Work." Vox, Vox, 28 June 2018, www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/28/17509470/stanford-prison-experiment-zimbardo-interview.

The Untold Truth of the Stanford Prison Experiment, Grunge, 8 Dec. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsWJPNhLCUU.

Weber, Paul J. "'Mad Men' Star Hamm Was Accused in Violent Fraternity Hazing." The Associated Press, 10 Apr. 2015, apnews.com/0500cba41cfe452d92bd36a05d66db24/mad-men-star-hamm-was-accused-violent-fraternity-hazing.

Winkie, Luke. "The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Bullshit." Vice, Vice, 15 Sept. 2017, www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjv8y5/the-myers-briggs-personality-test-bullshit.

"Zimbardo Blames Military Brass for Abu Ghraib Torture." Chapter 6. Consumer Buying Behavior Notes, www1.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/dec/zimbardo120705.html.

Zimbardo, Philip. "Philip Zimbardo's Response to Recent Criticisms of the Stanford Prison Experiment." Stanford Prison Experiment, 23 June 2018, www.prisonexp.org/response.

Zimbardo, Philip. Quiet Rage, 1992, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUlBrvqyyo&t=1670s.

Zimbardo, Philip. "Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Lesson in the Power of Situation." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 Mar. 2007, www.chronicle.com/article/Revisiting-the-Stanford-Prison/9676.

Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker formed PTL in the 1970s. They were beamed into millions of homes telling viewers that they could pray their way to materialistic paradise and double their money by donating to PTL. Then it all started to crumble like the powder foundation shellacked onto Tammy Faye's face. Join Strange Country on its one-year anniversary and donate if you love Jesus.

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Cite your sources:

Carter, Heath W. "The Cautionary Tale of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker." Christianity Today, 19 Sept. 2017, www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/september-web-only/cautionary-tale-of-jim-and-tammy-faye-bakker.html.

Funk, Tim. "Fallen PTL Preacher Jim Bakker Is Back with a New Message about the Apocalypse." The Charlotte Observer, 2018, www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article200297074.html.

Funk, Tim. "Jessica Hahn, Woman at Center of Televangelist's Fall 30 Years Ago, Confronts Her Past." The Charlotte Observer, 16 Dec. 2017, www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article189940794.html.

Himmelsbach, Erik. "The Me Decade." Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2006, articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/08/books/bk-himmelsbach8.

Kurtzman, Daniel. "Pat Robertson's 10 Most Ridiculous Quotes Ever." ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/stupid-pat-robertson-quotes-2734325.

McKinney, Kelsey. "The Second Coming Of Televangelist Jim Bakker." BuzzFeed News, BuzzFeed, 19 May 2017, www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseymckinney/second-coming-of-televangelist-jim-bakker.

"Religions - Christianity: Pentecostalism." BBC, BBC, 2 July 2009, www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/pentecostal_1.shtml.

Stetzer, Ed. "Understanding the Charismatic Movement." Christian History | Learn the History of Christianity & the Church, Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2013/october/charismatic-renewal-movement.html.

Wigger, John H. PTL: the Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakkers Evangelical Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017.

The Bohemian Grove is where the rich, powerful, mainly white dudes go to unwind, drink and pee on the glorious Redwoods that they would likely chop down just cuz they can. This has been happening every summer for nearly 150 years. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly speculate what these masters of the universe may be up to since no women are allowed, and make plans to bring their DEFT truck there next summer.

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Sources:

Flock, Elizabeth. "Bohemian Grove: Where the Rich and Powerful Go to Misbehave." The Washington Post, 15 June 2011, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave/2011/06/15/AGPV1sVH_blog.html?utm_term=.3196c5a24d65.

Guy, Peter. "The Fatuous Folly of the Super Rich and Their Plans to Escape the Apocalypse in New Zealand." South China Morning Post, 18 Feb. 2018, www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2133724/fatuous-folly-super-rich-and-their-plans-escape-apocalypse.

Ingraham, Christopher. "The Richest 1 Percent Now Owns More of the Country's Wealth than at Any Time in the Past 50 Years." The Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/?utm_term=.2ebb43e94b48.

Loudenback, Tanza. "The World's Richest People Spend $234 Billion a Year on Luxury Goods - Here's How Much They Spend on Yachts, Private Jets, Wine, and Clothes." Business Insider, Business Insider, 1 Mar. 2018, www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-spending-on-travel-private-jets-clothes-cars-2018-2.

MacLellan, Lila. "Science Proves Rich People Don't Really Notice You-or Your Problems." Quartz, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2016, qz.com/816188/science-shows-the-richer-you-get-the-less-you-pay-attention-to-other-people/.

Mearhoff, Jeff. "Mississippi close to having most-Restrictive abortion law." ABC News, ABC News Network, 8 Mar. 2018, abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/mississippi-test-state-restrict-abortion-53601798

Santos, Danny F. "15 Weird Habits Of The Super Rich And/Or Famous." Theclever, Theclever, 6 Apr. 2017, www.theclever.com/15-weird-habits-of-the-super-rich-andor-famous/.

Saunders, Debra J. "Bohemian Grove: Men Only." San Francsico Chronicle, 10 July 2011, www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Bohemian-Grove-men-only-2355089.php.

"State Facts About Abortion: Georgia." Guttmacher Institute, 5 Jan. 2018, www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-georgia.

Weiner, Sophie. "My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite." Gawker, gawker.com/my-summer-job-at-the-bohemian-grove-serving-milkshakes-1763551409.

Weiss, Philip. "Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside Bohemian Grove." Spy, Nov. 1989, pp. 59–76, whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/bohemian_grove_spy.html.

Williamson, Elizabeth. "Truth in a Post-Truth Era: Sandy Hook Families Sue Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theorist." The New York Times, 23 May 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/alex-jones-trump-sandy-hook.html.

Is it a bird? A demon? An alien? Most likely a bird. Definitely looks more like a bird than a moth. The Mothman haunted the small town of Point Pleasant, West Va., for a year in 1966. It's got a little of everything in it--UFOs, mythical, stuff, Native-American history, campy tales, a fallen bridge, death, and mystery all tied into one. Tune into Strange Country Ep. 52.

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Cite Your Sources Dude!

Through the Eyes of the Mothman, Documentary, Pellowski, Matthew. 2011.

http://www.mothmanmuseum.com/mothcam.html

http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2622

https://www.prairieghosts.com/moth.html

http://www.prairieghosts.com/cornstalk.html

http://www.mothmanfestival.com/

Dr. Linda Hazzard was the only licensed fasting specialist in the state of Washington. Her methods caught the eye of two English sisters Claire and Dora Williamson. They decided to give Dr. Hazzard's cure a try. By May 1911 Claire will be dead and Dora very near to following her to the grave. Strange Country Ep. 51 dives into the strange world of Starvation Heights.

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Cite your sources:

Baurick, Tristan. "Olalla's 'Starvation Heights' Still Causes Chills after a Century." Kitsap Sun, 30 Dec. 2014, archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/olallas-starvation-heights-still-causes-chills-after-a-century-ep-418381772-357167181.html.

"Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938): Fasting Proponent and Killer." Supreme Court Affirms Limited Right to Abortion in Roe v. Wade Case, Superseding Washington State Law, on January 22, 1973. - HistoryLink.org, www.historylink.org/File/7955.

"Linda Hazzard: The 'Starvation Doctor.'" Medical Bag, 15 June 2016, www.medicalbag.com/despicable-doctors/linda-hazzard-the-starvation-doctor/article/472439/.

Lovejoy, Bess. "The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 28 Oct. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158/.

Olsen, Gregg. Starvation Heights. Three Rivers Press, 2005.

Shea, Molly. "How Celebs Are Tricking You into BS Wellness Fads." New York Post, 13 June 2017, nypost.com/2017/06/13/how-celebs-are-tricking-you-into-bs-wellness-fads/.

Strange Country's first-ever live show features the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse's fight for electric domination. One of its major battles took place in Auburn, NY over which current would power the first electrocution. Thanks to Auburn Public Theater for hosting us.

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Cite Your Sources:

Barry, Dan. "A Specter of Past Executions Resurfaces in Tennesee." The New York Times, 23 May 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/us/a-specter-of-past-executions-resurfaces-in-tennessee.html.

Brandon, Craig. The Electric Chair: an Unnatural American History. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009.

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Clendinen, Dudley. "Editorial Observer; The Long Search for a Civilized Way to Kill." The New York Times, 7 Nov. 1999, www.nytimes.com/1999/11/07/opinion/editorial-observer-the-long-search-for-a-civilized-way-to-kill.html.

Collins, Jeffrey. "South Carolina Senate Empowers State to Use Electric Chair." U.S. News & World Report, 7 Mar. 2018, www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-carolina/articles/2018-03-07/south-carolina-senate-approves-electric-chair-for-executions.

"First Execution by Electric Chair." History.com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-execution-by-electric-chair.

Galvin, Anthony. Old Sparky: the Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty. Carrel Books, 2015.

Gurstelle, William. "The Most Gruesome Government Report Ever Written Evaluates 34 Ways to Execute a Man." Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2017, www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25689/gerry-commission-report-methods-of-execution/.

King, Gilbert. "Cruel and Unusual History." The New York Times, 23 Apr. 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23king.html.

King, Gilbert. "Edison vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 11 Oct. 2011, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edison-vs-westinghouse-a-shocking-rivalry-102146036/.

"The Last Electrocution." The New York Times, 2005, www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/nyregion/the-last-electrocution.html.

Long, Tony. "Aug. 6, 1890: Kemmler First to Ride 'The LIghtning'." Wired, 5 Aug. 2008, www.wired.com/2008/08/aug-6-1890-kemmler-first-to-ride-the-lightning/.

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Newman, Andy. "BLOGOSPHERE A DARK MOMENT; The Last Man Hanged by New York State: Was He Guilty?" The New York Times, 6 Dec. 2009, archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9D01E7DB1531F935A35751C1A96F9C8B63.html.