IT’S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY, YOU GUYS! This week Emma was given express permission to SPOOK Shannon out, but did she deliver? Come found out on this episode about The Amityville Horror, from the murders to the movie. There’s also some great gift wrap ASMR, reminders to drink your water, reminiscing about reading scary books far too early, and Barbie Bachelor. Some questions to ponder: Would you eat evil Jell-o? Would you try to come at Dana at the Pizza Pad? Listen to our answers on this creepy episode!

Sources:

The Mother Source on the book

Biography.com with the “real” facts

Rolling Stone

The Mother Source on Butch DeFeo

The Amityville Murders Website 

Amityville Murders on the “true story” 

Horror Obsessive with a comprehensive look at the murders, the haunting, and the movie franchise

Amityville Horror House Shock Doc, available on Travel Channel with a TV provider

Shannon brings us back in time this week with the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke and if the settlers really did disappear, or if they just moved. Or aliens?! They are always an option. Emma is impressed by the deep dive into history (I mean it’s a Shannon episode, are we surprised?), we learn that Sir Walter Raleigh liked sassafras and pipes, and Shannon has an aversion to new gravity. We’d also like to know how you say potato, but really, Emma will still say it wrong.

Sources:

The First Colony Foundation

The Mother Source on Roanoke Colony and Wanchese

ExplorersWeb

National Geographic on Raleigh and the Survivor Camp

History Collection

Supernatural Wiki

The New York Times

Artnet News

It's spooky season, and what's spookier than the real life horror that was the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693! Listen to our 50TH EPISODE (what?!) as Emma lets Shannon know that she is both a witch and a wife. Come play "put a finger down, witch edition," and learn that the past was super uncomfy for a variety of reasons, not just dry skin ones. We have rendered ourselves obnoxious as we explore a potential case of extreme pettiness. 

AND BIG NEWS! We have our own WEBSITE! Come visit! You can find everything you could possibly need from us there. Even the bingo card has its own spot!

AND BIGGER NEWS! We're having a giveaway! Stay tuned into the Instagram page to find out how to play and win! 

Sources: 

The Mother Source

History.com

The History of Massachusetts Blog

Smithsonian Magazine

Mental Floss

Salem.org

The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive

Shannon has done it again with a spooky Scottish episode! This week it's about the three lighthouse keepers who mysteriously vanished off a little Scottish isle, but Emma may have figured it out (ghosts, duh). Therapy is had, stories are swapped, and Emma's undergraduate thesis is discussed in depth because of course it is. Also, does anyone know the tune that we always sing our Mother Source's name to? We certainly don't. Come celebrate the beginning of spooky season with us!

Sources:

Wikipedia

Strange Outdoors

Historic Mysteries

History (UK)

Mental Floss

Fortean Times

Trailer for The Vanishing

Buzzfeed Unsolved

What could have happened to two young boys under their uncle's care? Surely it was all fun and rainbows and shooting arrows? This week we discuss the mystery of the Princes in the Tower, Edward and Richard, and the possibility that Richard III, King of England, killed them for the crown. We learn that the TV show The Tudors is our main source of info on English royalty of the time, learn Shannon's drag name, and make some royal detours along the way. Hop on for the ride into 1455!

Sources:

The Mother Source

Historic Royal Places: The Tower of London

Historic UK

Tower of London Ghosts

Shannon freaks Emma out with this sad and creepy episode on the Dutch hikers Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, who disappeared in the Panamanian jungle. We also confirm to each other that we are not murderers, learn Shannon’s hell loop, and Emma stops breathing at one point. Wanna be too scared to ever go hiking again? Then come listen!

Sources:

From Imperfect Plan: The full story, an analysis of photo 505, a super in-depth analysis of Kremers’s bleached bones, and the Google Earth map

Forensic Tales

Lost Media Wiki

Rivy Lyon via Medium

Mother Source

We're your therapists now. Join us as Emma tells Shannon the sad story of the disappearance of the Beaumont siblings in 1966. As always, however, we must find the levity in the depravity so there is discussion of murderers with mohawks, angry muppets, and our very particular podcast niches. Emma also decides to fight the void, so buy your tickets to that fight now. Open call for engineers/chemists/scientists of all kinds to make some heavy duty evidence boxes with fingerprint passkeys please and thank you! 

Sources:

Mother Source

The Canberra Times article theorizing their fates from 1966

Crime Investigation Australia episode

Phipps lead

Arthur Stanley Brown death

Have you seen a horse before? Are you sure it wasn’t a kelpie?! Join us this week for Shannon’s Cryptid Corner on these mysterious demon water horses of Scotland. Shannon starts her scatting career, we get very invested in our Winnie the Pooh zodiac signs, and make a mental note to stay at least 50 feet from any Scottish ponies loitering by themselves. We think you should, too. 

Sources:

Wikipedia

Icy Sedgwick

BlogSpot

Historic UK

Thought Catalog

YouTube

An island filled with dolls? Cursed, blessed, or just plain awful? Feel like crying along with Shannon? Then join us this week for a short episode about the extremely spooky Island of the Dolls in Mexico. It’s so creepy even Emma cries! Don't forget to send us your ghost resumes!

Sources:

The Mother Source

All That’s Interesting

Atlas Obscura

Discovery Channel

Buzzfeed Unsolved

Could a beautiful, 45.52 carat diamond be the source of suffering for generations of its owners? Shannon is here this week to report on the Hope Diamond, currently in stasis at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Is it really cursed, killing off anyone who touches it? Or was it a well constructed story told in order to sell it to the highest bidder? Join us this week to find out!

Sources:

The Curse of the Hope Diamond

The Smithsonian

The Great Courses Daily

Mental Floss

Forbes

Thought Co

Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker