Preserved mummies, from the most beautiful mummy to the extremely endowed.Come learn about the mummies of Sicily's Capuchin Catacombs!

Sources:
www.palermocatacombs.com

https://youtu.be/hEsNIf7yKqg

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The Black Agnus, is a statue in Green Mountain cemetery in Vermont. How did the statue which isn't a woman, black, nor has anything to do with an Agnus get this name? The legend behind the statue is even more mysterious..Death, glowing eyes, curses, and missing arms!

Sources:
Book- Wicked Vermont
By Thea Lewis

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/black-aggie-the-spooky-graveyard-statue-of-druid-ridge-cemetery/

indie88.com/black-aggie-the-ghoulish-sentinel-of-druid-ridge-cemetery/amp/

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/druidridge

www.mychamplainvalley.com/ask-the-expert/vermont-historical-society/this-place-in-history-black-agnes-statue/amp/

www.onlyinyourstate.com/vermont/evil-place-vt/amp/

http://vermontdeadline.blogspot.com/2014/01/black-agnes.html?m=1


https://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/2017/05/serene-and-spooky-part-ii-black-aggie.html?m=1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-aggie-from-baltimore-to-washington/2012/08/17/54cef546-e7da-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.html

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Have you ever wondered why we take a dead tree and drag it into our house for Christmas? And where did the ideas for decorations to use come from? And why an evergreen tree? We have these answers and more in this week's episode!

Sources:

https://so-sew-easy.com/a-short-history-of-the-christmas-tree/

https://www.cracked.com/article_15719_pagan-orgies-to-human-sacrifice-bizarre-origins-christmas.html

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The Victorian age had a morbid fascination with death and the dead which carried into their Christmas traditions! Between ghost stories, dangerous parlor games, and creepy Christmas cards there was nothing holly jolly about a Victorian Christmas!

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plea-resurrect-christmas-tradition-telling-ghost-stories-180967553/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-do-ghost-stories-go-christmas-180961547/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.denofgeek.com/culture/scary-christmas-stories-a-history-of-the-holidays-ghostly-tradition/%3famp

https://crimereads.com/on-the-lost-christmastime-tradition-of-telling-ghost-stories/

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/christmas-stories/


https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/633693/gifts-your-wife-will-love?utm_content=infinitescroll1


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Child eating giant cat, a grotesque child boiling giant, and 13 Troll visitors who like to lick and sniff things...you know your typical Christmas traditions. Iceland sure has some traumatizing legends.



Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/each-christmas-icelands-yule-cat-takes-fashion-policing-extreme-180961420/

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You better be good I'm telling you why...Krampus is coming to town. Jolly Old St. Nick has a nightmare of a sidekick in Europe and his name is Krampus, a terrifying part demon part goat with a long tongue horns, and carrying a sack on his back to steal naughty children and take them to the underworld! Want your children to stay in line this year? Listen and learn about Krampus!



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Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143485735/naughty-or-nice-krampus-horror-for-the-holidays

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/goat-headed-christmas-cheer-run-kris-kringle-krampus-is-coming-a-594050.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20100922072934/http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/11/merry-krampus.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/131217-krampus-christmas-santa-devil

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/krampus-is-coming-to-town/



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You have heard of Roanoke and the mystery of the lost Colony. It's been depicted in fiction and there has been a lot of supernatural suspicion involved...but no one really knows what happened. It makes it the oldest cold case in America! Listen to this episode and let us know what do you think happened!

Sources:
The Lost Colony it Roanoke Island by: John Downey

The Lost Colony of Roanoke
by: T.M. Blackwell

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The Queen Mary transported the rich and famous across the Atlantic, and played a huge part in WWII. She transported millions of people across the Atlantic and some didn't want to leave even when they died! She is docked forever in Long Beach California and considered one of the Top 10 Haunted Places! Listen and learn about her fascinating history and meet the ghosts of the Queen Mary!

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https://www.legendsofamerica.com/queen-mary-a-haunting-like-no-other/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-queenmary/

https://www.longbeachlocalnews.com/2021/11/04/locals-fear-possible-demolition-of-queen-mary/

http://queenmary.com/history/stats-fun-facts/comparison/


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What would you do if you woke up and saw cloven footprints outside your door and even on your rooftop? What if you found out these prints were not all over town but also in towns within 100 miles?! What do your think made these mysterious prints in the snow!

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Sources:
https://peter-moore.co.uk/blog/the-curious-case-of-the-devils-foot-prints-or-the-great-devon-mystery-of-1855/

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Countess Bathory has been referenced in countless books, movies, and lyrics! Her story is a bloody one with a lot of gruesome details. Did the Countess actually bathe in blood? Was she as ruthless as the stories say? We get to the bottom of it all in this bloody good episode!

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Sources:

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Erzsabet Bathory by: Kimberly Craft

The Private Letters of Countess Erzsabet Bathory by Kimberly Craft


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bathory-elizabeth-1560-1614

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