If you’re ever going through the state of Georgia and the world ends, make sure to head over to Elberton County and read the Georgia Guidestones! They’ll give you all the “rules” to navigate the end of the world’s necessary creation of a government. Emma regales Shannon with these, who loves lists, as they both try to figure out if this was an elaborate hoax or an elaborate earnest endeavor.

Sources: 

The Mother Source

Media Matters on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

May 2009 Magazine on the Georgia Guidestones

Skeptoid episode on the Stones

Wired Magazine

WSGC Radio article on the stolen stone

Feel like getting mad? Then join us this week as Shannon tells Emma all about Big Pharma's conspiracy to keep insulin-dependant humans as money generators. Hint: the answer might just be greed. Emma also learns about how Nick Jonas may be at the center of it all. #JoNOnus. 

Sources:

From T1 International: Timeline of insulin and the 2018 Out-of-Pocket Cost Report

T1 International's From Gift to Greed

Dexcom commercial ft. Nick Jonas

The Mayo Clinic

Health Digest

Esquire

Substack data for insulin and The Shot

Instagram @MissDiabetes

Library and Archives Canada Dr. Banting photo and stamp

Was it suicide? Murder? A vampire colony's revenge? Or was this lady just combustible? This week Emma tells Shannon AND OUR SPECIAL GUEST SARA all about the Isdal Woman of Norway who died mysteriously on a mountain, half-burned. Emma needs to write a novel series about burnt people and Shannon needs to find a Brit to marry because Norway is too cold. Oh, and don't miss out on Sara's kittens!! 

Sources:

True Crime Database

BBC in 2017 and 2019

The Mother Source

Unidentified Wiki

Medium

Another mail bag THIS TIME WITH REAL PHYSICAL MAIL!!! Come listen to some tales of ghosts, definitely haunted chests, carrot syllabi, and our mutual love of socks. 

This week's episode is a wild, wonderful, kinda-spooky ride! Come join us as Shannon regales Emma with the site of Skeleton Lake in the Himalayas. Shannon does some great pronunciations, Emma gets really angry with human idiots, and it's overall a fun time. Don't forget to answer Shannon's end of episode question!

Sources:

National Geographic

Nature Communications

The Hindu (India’s national newspaper)

The Atlantic

BBC News

Mother Source

Live Science

History Channel

The New York Times

The Daily Beast

Atlas Obscura

Did five of ten children die in a house fire on Christmas Eve? Or did the Mafia have something to do with it? This is a sad one ya'll (SORRY!!). Emma tells Shannon the story of the Sodder Family mystery and how much Emma knows about cremation (she brings up the vase again, guys). Come join us for a couple laughs amid this sad mystery! 

Sources:

Smithsonian Magazine “The Children Who Went Up in Smoke”

Mother Source

1968 Sunday Gazette article

True Crime Files

NPR

The Enduring Mystery on Mental Floss

Are you a theatre kid who was scared into behaving backstage by superstition? US TOO! Did a group of witches put a curse on the Scottish Play because their spells were being bastardized? POSSIBLY! Did Lady Macbeth actually kill anyone? NO BUT OTHERS THINK SO! Come join us as Shannon tells Emma about the curse of Macbeth and all kinds of theatre related stories. 

Sources:

The Tech (MIT)

The Royal Shakespeare Company

Images from the Royal Shakespeare Company

Penguin

The Shakespeare Company (USA)

The Guardian

The History Channel

Mother Source

This week Emma cries while she tells Shannon about the Jersey Devil! It's not all that scary, just a creepy flying T-rex roaming New Jersey. Come join us for stories of brave children and Emma's own potential cryptid encounter! 

Sources:

The Mother Source

Cryptid Wiki

Pinelands Preservation Alliance on the Legend

Jersey Devil Sightings and Stories from WeirdNJ

abcNews on the 2015 “sighting”

Silly Ben Franklin on Mental Floss

Brian Regal book on Quakers and the Jersey Devil

Did one of the most famous mystery writers in the world stage her own disappearance? Or did she really forget that she was the Agatha Christie? In this episode, Shannon tells Emma all about this bad-witch and what we think may have happened in the 10 day span that she was missing.

Sources:

Wikipedia

Agatha Christie Wiki

The New York Times

Medium

All That’s Interesting

The Washington Post

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

How do we know the Earth is round? Because the Disneyland NASA actors told us? Probably. Is the sun a lamp strapped to the ice wall? Definitely.  Buckle in for a tangent-filled, chaotic, messy-but-fun episode about Flat Earthers with our Meme Lord RUTH! 

Sources:

Flat Earth ‘Theory’

Modern Flat Earth belief from the Mother Source

Myth of Flat Earth from the Mother Source

Flat Earth Society webpage

Library of Congress collection of Flat Earth Material

Fighting Flat Earth Theory

Flat Earth Conference coverage from CNN

Forbes on Flat Earth Supporters going to Antarctica