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Happy Thanksgiving! We’re thankful for stretchy pants, FODMAP green bean casserole, that we don’t have crazy partners who cook our food without spices to make us think we have COVID… and more! Get your fill of thankfulness and gratefulness this episode

Charity of the Month - STL Foodbank: https://stlfoodbank.org/ 

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Rumored to be haunted, the Bissell Mansion is the oldest brick house in Missouri. Built circa 1832 by Captain Lewis Bissell it sits atop a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River

Paranormal enthusiasts and local media often list it among St. Louis’s scariest or most haunted houses, even featured on HGTV’s Scariest House in America. But is really haunted or is that just to lure people in for the dinner theater? 

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Links:

https://fox2now.com/news/real-estate/historic-bissell-mansion-in-north-st-louis-on-the-market-for-250k/

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/bissell-mansion-hgtv-21081430.php

https://stlghosts.com/ghosts-of-the-bissell-mansion/

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 No cowboy boots without owning at least two cows. Feeling neighborly? Well, don’t even think about washing your neighbor's car. Speaking of cars, garages are for cars only

Heavy on the ish part - Bizarre laws in ‘C’ and ‘D’ States- California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Delaware

CHOM-  STL Foodbank: https://stlfoodbank.org/ 

Links:

https://forestgrove.pgusd.org/documents/Computer-Lab/Strange-State-Laws.pdf

https://www.history.com/articles/clint-eastwood-california-mayor-carmel-scrooge-city

https://www.ksbw.com/article/1963-law-carmel-abolished-california-high-heel/64478301

https://www.thequeenzone.com/pickles-must-bounce-and-19-other-bizarre-us-laws/

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The extraordinarily wild tale of Simona Kossak - a Polish ecologist who lived alone in a primeval forest with a lynx she referred to as her daughter, a klepto crow, and a photographer lover

Think renegade Snowhite, Polish version of Jane Goodall, and a real life Wild Thornberry- Simona Kossak had a connection with nature and animals therefore earning her the title of ‘Witch.’ She fostered/mothered a plethora of orphaned animals including twin moose, a donkey named Hepunia, a 400lb boar named Froggy who shared her bed and table, and more

Simona was a nonconformist, boss babe who preferred peaceful seclusion and built her life rooted in empathy, ecology, and radical independence

CHOM-  STL Foodbank: https://stlfoodbank.org/ 

Links:

https://www.vulgaradvice.com/p/the-badass-story-of-simona-kossak 

https://przekroj.org/en/world-people/a-paradise-called-dziedzinka/

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/11/02/a-life-less-ordinary-with-a-real-life-snow-white/

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Creepin it real this Hallow’s Eve with tricks, treats, and a spooky doll story. This doll’s name is Lily and she’s based on Elizabeth Bathory- Hungarian Blood Countess allegedly responsible for killing 650 people and bathing in their blood. Happy Halloween Weenies! 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-historly/december-29/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/real-haunted-dolls-annabelle-robert-the-doll-and-lily/

https://colonialghosts.com/lily/

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Maria and Melanie get a tarot card reading from a local witch’s shop

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Obituaries, but make them funny. People who were funny in this life and the next

Links:

https://www.boston.com/news/massachusetts-obituaries/2025/09/25/linda-brossi-murphy-writes-own-obit/

https://www.pulaskifuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-loveless-2023

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/gary-wolfelt-obituary?id=58346356#obituary

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 Ten souls boarded the Mary Celeste in 1872. None were ever seen again

Weeks later, the ship was found drifting silently in the Atlantic—its sails intact, its cargo untouched, its food still fresh. No blood. No bodies. Just eerie silence. The lifeboat was gone. So were the navigational tools. Whatever happened, it happened fast

Was it panic? Piracy? Something far stranger? This episode, we dive into one of history’s most chilling maritime mysteries—and explore the theories that still haunt the sea

Links:

https://murder-mayhem.com/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-the-mary-celeste

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-u-s-government-poisoned-some-alcohol-during-prohibition/3283701001/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mary-Celeste#ref386889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsjh_QeUL-w

https://dannyechase.com/blog/maryceleste/

https://www.thecluecollective.com/single-post/2017/12/05/mystery-history-the-top-10-theories-explaining-why-the-mary-celestes-crew-disappeared

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 “If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?”

That haunting question opens Dr. David Rosenhan’s landmark 1973 study “On Being Sane in Insane Places”—a psychological experiment that shooketh the foundations and shattered the world’s faith in psychiatry

Rosenhan and seven other pseudopatients faked a single symptom to gain admission to psychiatric institutions, only to find out getting in was easy… but getting out was a different story. They were all diagnosed with serious mental illnesses and kept institutionalized for weeks

What happens when you pretend to be insane? What happens when the system can’t tell the difference? And who gets to decide what “sane” even means? 

This experiment pulled back the curtain and exposed the flaws in psychiatric diagnosis, the power of labels, and the chilling reality of being trapped in a system that couldn’t tell sanity from insanity. Was it brilliant? Controversial? Ethically murky? All of the above. Tune in for details and a shocking plot twist when the results are published

Links:

https://online.csp.edu/resources/article/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rosemary-kennedy-before-after-photos/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/rosenhan_experiment.html

https://www.canonsociaalwerk.eu/files/images/canon/1971_stigma/1973%20Rosenhan%20Being%20sane%20in%20insane%20places%20OCR.pdf

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 Compilation of tweets and posts that we find funny 

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