Hey all you cool cats and postal kittens! This week we’re back to our regularly scheduled Shannon programming, except this time she’s got a solved case! Shannon dives deep into the no-longer-enduring mystery of the location of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition ship The Endurance and the harrowing but miraculous adventure that led to its disappearance. Since it was found in March of 2022, the mystery is solved and we couldn’t be happier! Until the end of the episode, when we get a good scare from one of our listeners!

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Nat Geo on TikTok

Historic Mysteries

Live Science

Atlas Obscura

Men’s Journal

The Mother Source on The Endurance and Ernest Shackleton

BBC News

YouTube: The end of Endurance, 1915

Endurance22 Expedition Site

Shipwreck photos!

It's everyone's favorite topic: numbers! Is the number 13 really that unlucky? Or is Friday the 13th actually the perfect day to get married, start a journey, and sit in row 17 on a plane? Well, even with Emma’s inability to count, she decided to tell Shannon about the reality of unlucky numbers and how it might actually be misogyny’s fault (isn’t it always). If only Emma and numbers were friends. Maybe then she’d be lucky all the time.

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The Mother Source on the number 13, Friday the 13th, Chinese numerology, and the lunisolar calendar

How Stuff Works

History Channel

CNN

Powder up, clowns! This is the fourth and final (for now) installment of Shannon’s deep dive into the Taylor Swift album conspiracies! We continue to be joined by our Swift expert, Stephen (aka @thecardiganguy), and knock out the last few album potentials for Taylor’s re-release. We learn that mashed potatoes will get you through Adele’s 25, Stephen Colbert is a Taurus, and everyone wants an invite to the Trixie Motel, but most of all, we learn once again that Taylor RUNS the music industry. So join us this week for the last bit of Taylor fun!

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TIME Magazine

The Mother Source

Us Magazine

Popsugar

Rolling Stone

TS10 theory

Debut theory

Buzzfeed

Late Night with Stephen Colbert

Watch Stephen cry to Adele’s 25

If anything were a crime, we both know we’d be in for LIFE (bookshelves and sinks, look out). This week, Emma brings us back to the 1960s and the most daring prison escape of all time, the Escape from Alcatraz. Did the three men make it out alive? Did they end up beardy and lipsticked for a funeral? Or did they drown like the FBI claims? All we know is that the sound of freedom sure has the ring of a concertina inflating a handmade rubber raft.

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The Mother Source

Britannica

FBI

History

Mental Floss

All That’s Interesting

The best things come in threes, so we couldn’t pass up a third installment of all the clownery and tomfoolery Dr. Taylor Swift has been putting her fans through. And if that wasn’t enough, we are also joined by the subject matter expert on all things Swift: Stephen, aka @thecardiganguy! Shannon takes us through the conspiracies and guesses for what this wonder woman will drop as her next re-record and even with all of our tangents and catching up, we think we prove that Taylor is one of the most influential musicians of all time. Come join the hilarity and speculate with us about what Taylor will do next!

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TIME Magazine

The Mother Source

Us Magazine

Popsugar

Rolling Stone

Award show outfit for the BRITs (very 1989-esque)

Blake Lively’s on-set photo

Birthday photos, with Speak Now award visible in background

Purple hints from Blake

The Things

Stephen’s Crawdads theory

Once again, Emma makes a case for becoming a vase because she just wants to be useful in the afterlife! Just like Zona Heaster Shue, otherwise known as the Greenbrier Ghost, who came from the other side to help convict her husband for her murder. But was it really her? All we know for sure is that justice was served and Shannon didn’t get “scurred”, but somehow a listener ensures Emma gets a taste of her own medicine.

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Medium

The Greenbrier Valley Website on the case

The Mother Source

Dusty Old Thing

Mental Floss

Let’s party like it’s 1989, friends! Shannon is bringing back the Taylor Swift conspiracies and Emma is absolutely convinced that Taylor is the absolute QUEEN of business and Easter eggs. Shannon still isn’t a fan of Nick Jonas, but Stephen Colbert could hold our drinks at the club, no problem. There’s talk of pizza, candles, and a part two?! Pregame with your favorite TSwift album (or post-game like we did).

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Our Taylor Swift Expert: @thecardiganguy

The Mother Source on TSwift

Cosmopolitan Magazine

Popsugar on Woodvale and the JoBros

Buzzfeed on Woodvale and Karma

Refinery29

Teen Vogue (lots of great fan tweets)

Inclusive language 

Diversity Style Guide

Come join the nonsense parade this week (with hopefully very few damp confetti pieces)! Shannon SUCCEEDED in scaring Emma to bits, but Gus the Ghost mismanaged our audio this week, so there are a few surprises mixed in. Watch out for variable noise levels, too. Gus is not very good at adjusting the audio quality, or cutting out the times that Emma swears (whoops). 

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Sources: 

The Mother Source on how to scare properly

LA Times article Shannon talks about extensively

The scary photo Shannon refuses to post

Mardi Gras ghost

Welcome to another nonsense filled episode where Shannon narrowly avoids getting scared, this time by Goatman’s Bridge. Is it a demon on this bridge? A cryptid? A stoner kid in the tree whispering “Steve”? We might never know, but we do know that Emma wants to be a vase but might end up as a couch, and Shannon will certainly be prepared for any demon with a super soaker full of holy water. Apparently, Emma also draws the spooky line at clowns, so you're safe if that wasn't your jam. Just goat-headed barefoot demons here. 

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Buzzfeed Unsolved

Clips from Ghost Adventures

Texas Hill Country

We Denton Do It

The Mother Source on the Old Alton Bridge

Atlas Obscura

All That’s Interesting

High School Newspaper Encounter at Old Alton Bridge

It’s the MUSICAL episode! This week Shannon has prepared a mystery that even Emma didn’t know about! Did you know that Aaron Burr’s daughter Theodosia disappeared at sea? Or did she? We learn that Aaron Burr wanted to be an emperor, Emma won’t eat airport hotdogs, and no cast or crew member was left alive on the ship that Theodosia Burr Alston was last seen aboard. Join the nonsense and don’t forget to send us your heart farts!

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The Mother Source on Theodosia and Joseph Alston

Atlas Obscura

History of American Women

The Library of Congress

All That’s Interesting

Island Life NC