This week Liz and Dakota get silly looking at the history of the Tomato in Europe and America, and at the story of that time a town put a bushel of tomatoes on trial for being evil.

Episode Notes

https://www.britannica.com/story/is-a-tomato-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable

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

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

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nightshade-vegetables#what-are-nightshades

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/americas-alleged-trial-against-tomatoes-not-witches-in-salem/#:~:text=The%20Salem%20Tomato%20Trial%20of%201820&text=Disgusted%20by%20the%20unfounded%20information,with%20a%20basket%20of%20tomatoes.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/02/23/tomato/?chrome=1

https://www.thefactsite.com/salem-tomato-trials/

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This week, Liz and Dakota share some little known Saskatchewan history, the story of the Cypress Hills Massacre

Episode Notes

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

https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1633

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cypress-hills-massacre-feature

https://teaching.usask.ca/indigenoussk/import/cypress_hills_massacre.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Hills_(Canada)

https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP9CH1PA3LE.html#:~:text=On%20March%2020%2C%201869%2C%20the,of%20Canada%20for%20%241.5%20million.

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at the many different uses for honey - as torture, and as medicine!

Episode Notes

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

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

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mellified-man

https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-history-moments/lauren-glen?ref=browse_list&l=1

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This week, Liz and Dakota talk about one of the most infamous cases of spontaneous human combustion: Mary Reeser. Then they get into theories explaining the phenomenon and whether it actually exists.

Episode Notes

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/10/17/spontaneous-combustion-in-st-petersburg-the-curious-case-of-mary-reeser/

https://www.history.com/news/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real

https://www.britannica.com/story/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/shc.htm

https://www.livescience.com/42080-spontaneous-human-combustion.html

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at a secret fraternity from Germany where the believers adhered to the characteristics of a very strange being.

Episode Notes

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freemasonry

https://www.history.com/news/freemasons-facts-symbols-handshake-meaning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Pug#:~:text=The%20Order%20of%20the%20Pug,In%20eminenti%20apostolatus%20of%201738.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/31/order-of-the-pug/?chrome=1

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This week, Liz and Dakota look back at one of the experiments conducted by a member of the secretive Order of the Dolphin, in an attempt to learn about extraterrestrial life.

Episode Notes

https://allthatsinteresting.com/margaret-howe-lovatt

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

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

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-woman-who-fell-in-love-with-nasas-drug-and-sex-addicted-dolphin-b8b3036e3dce

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/

https://astronomy.com/news/2018/10/the-order-of-the-dolphin-setis-secret-origin-story

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In this episode, Liz and Dakota get a little silly looking at the papal bull, "Vox in Rama", and how Pope Gregory IX set out to find witches in his midst.

Episode Notes

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/did-pope-gregory-ixs-hatred-of-cats-lead-to-the-black-death-327d163adfb2

https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/pope-massacred-cats

https://historycollection.com/thou-shalt-not-suffer-a-cat-to-live-why-pope-gregory-ixs-vox-in-rama-implicated-cats-in-devil-worship/3/

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at a strange phenomenon that occurred in the months following the biggest earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in 2011: hundreds upon hundreds of ghost sightings.

Episode Notes

https://www.britannica.com/event/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011/Aftermath-of-the-disaster 

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a34414398/unsolved-mysteries-tsunami-ghosts-real/

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559062959/ghosts-of-the-tsunami-examines-the-disaster-that-haunts-japan

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a34398241/japan-tsunami-ghost-sightings-true-story-unsolved-mysteries/

https://unsolved.com/gallery/tsunami-spirits/

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1651534/exorcist-kansho-aizawa-ishinomaki-japan-tsunami-town-ghosts/

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/inside-ghost-school-ishinomaki-74-22851854

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This week, Liz and Dakota look back at the nefarious story of the US government and how they poisoned their citizens during the Prohibition Era.

Episode Notes

https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html

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This week, Liz and Dakota talk about a bizarre, if sticky disaster - The Great Boston Molasses Flood. Looking at some of the problems that surrounded the tank's construction, Liz and Dakota imagine what it would have been like to be in Boston at the time of this disaster.

Episode Notes

https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-molasses-1328678

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/million-gallons-water-how-much-it

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

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Molasses-Flood

https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science

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