Heist, heist, baby! Well, all Shannon’s asking for Christmas is to do what she wants and this week she gets it and regales Emma with The Transy Book Heist. It involved some popped polo collars, a hopeful Oceans 11 plot line, and some very silly boys. A heist getaway in a minivan? Meeting a strange old man with a skinny scarf in a park? Grabbing rare books at random? It’s gotta be guaranteed to work. We know what these boys would bring to a Powerpoint party, that’s for sure. Join us and let us know what you would do if given the choice between making millions in a day or not going to jail!

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Vanity Fair: In-depth heist breakdown

CNBC: Additional reporting

WKYT: Video interview w/ BJ Gooch

AP News: Interview w/ BJ Gooch, librarian

Rare Book Hub: Shady-as-hell appeal description

NPR: Review of American Animals

Reddit: AMA w/ Chaz

YouTube: American Animals trailer

Instagram: Spencer Reinhart art

American Animals on Amazon Prime Video

It's the holiday season! Emma’s coming atcha with the creepiest Christmas companion out there - Belsnickle. This Dirty Santa, while weird and gross, is really here to make sure that the real Santa doesn’t need to put you on his naughty list, so you’d better watch out! We’ve got Carmela the Troll, and Loretta the Elf watching too, so put on your scariest Christmas mask and join the chaos this week!

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The Mother Source

Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

New York State Parks

The Office “Dwight Christmas” from 2012 on Hulu

*Listener Discretion Advised: Themes of violence, racism, and sexual assault*

This week Shannon tells us about the tragic and still unsolved story of Rosenda Strong. Rosenda was a Native woman, but her story, and others like hers, was pushed aside and not given the attention it deserved. Underfunding, overworking, and a long history of racism may be the key factors in the lack of movement in Rosenda’s case, but overall her killer is still out there. Shout out to Mary Pavel, whose recent talk at a local library inspired this episode. Go support your libraries, be like Jim, and if you have any information about Rosenda Strong, contact Yakama Nation Tribal Police at 509-865-2933 or the FBI at tips.fbi.gov.

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People

The Atlantic

Yakima Herald-Republic (Investigation)

Yakima Herald-Republic (4 Years Later)

Refinery29

Medium

Facebook: Help Us Find Rosenda Strong

MMIW USA

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Mary Pavel bio

This week we’re headed down to warmer climates and getting acquainted with Puerto Rico’s cryptid, El Chupacabra. While it’s debated if it’s an alien sent to ruin humanity’s food supply or just a sad dog, the mystery and mystique of this ragged cryptid survives. We make some music, laugh at some stupid jokes, and get scared by our Mailbag Moment, so bring your Chupie remixes and join the chaos.

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The Texas Observer

“The United States of Cryptids” by J. W. Ocker

The Last of the Chupacabras on Disney+

The Mother Source on Chupie

National Geographic

All That’s Interesting

One of the Chupacabra Cocktails

The Chupacabra Homepage (a bit of a conspiracy rabbit hole from 1995, but fun!)

YouTube Ghost Archive of Chupie chicken attack

This week we have another repost for you, this time in honor of the holiday travel we all will inevitably face in the next few months. Enjoy the conspiracies of the Denver airport and we'll see you next week for a brand new episode!

What's scarier than a demon horse named Blucifer? Probably the Illuminati plotting government overthrows with the lizard people below the Denver International Airport. Listen this week to Shannon tell Emma all about the conspiracies surrounding the beautiful, albeit riddled with aliens, airport in Colorado's capital city. Warning: Emma screams with excitement. Watch your ears.

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The Mother Source

The Travel

The New York Times

The Denver Post

Insider

Fly Denver

Uncover Colorado

YouTube: Denver7

YouTube: Atlas Obscura

YouTube: United

Twitter

Fly Denver: DEN Files

Hey everyone! We're taking a little break this week but wanted to bring you back to the National Treasure of the 1880s. Enjoy!

A treasure in the Blue Ridge? Almost a billion dollars? Uncrackable ciphers and a story that’s a bit too good? This week, Emma gifts Shannon with a very Shannon-y episode about The Beale Ciphers, a set of codes printed in the 1880s that continue to draw people in. If you find the treasure the codes lead you to, you could get your own McNugget of gold! Join us and find out if we can really dig up this treasure! Or if it's just another movie Shannon wrote on the fly (she's getting really good at it, you guys).

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The Mother Source 

The Museum of Unnatural Mystery reprint of the pamphlet

“Discovered: The Secret of Beale’s Treasure” by Joe Nickell, found on JSTOR

Northern Virginia Magazine

Mental Floss

Virginia Living Magazine

The NSA’s stash of copies

*Note that today’s episode, and probably those in the future, contains swearing and adult themes. Keep the little ears away!* 

The chaos today is brought to you by peanut butter whiskey and a brand new cryptid, our wonderful friend Greg! Shannon tells us as much as she can about the Werewolf of Dickson County, who still might be hunting in the woods of Tennessee to this day. Tune in for wild stories, French in a southern accent, and lots of healthy cackling. And potentially a boyfriend?! Stay tuned at the end for all the fun stuff Emma cut from the middle.

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Reddit

The Kayseean

What Lies Beyond

Dickson County History

The Tenneseean

Cryptid Wiki: Werewolf

Welcome to the 100th episode!! Thanks for being here, everyone! To celebrate the Podaversary and the end of the spooky season, Emma tries to scare Shannon with the terrifying story of Dear David, the dented head little boy who haunted a man’s apartment and dreams. Was David really out to get Adam? Or was this all a ploy to get a movie in the works? We might never know, but we do think we’ll have an inspector get into every crawl space the next time we move so we don’t have to discover anything unseemly in the walls. 

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A transcript of all the tweets from Adam on Dear David

Bustle about the movie to come

Adam’s Buzzfeed article with the poll at the end

Hello Giggles

For just a dollar a day, you too can support Bi-icon Professor Shannon, who has our last Pod Pop Quiz of the season this week! Come find out what Emma was wrong about (the Princes in the tower for one) and let us know what your special skills are!

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The Press and Journal

Hew Morrison Forensic Art

KFYR TV

The Washington Post

PBS

WYFF4

Athens Banner-Herald

Courier Journal

Deadline

Daily Record

Twitter

The Church of Scotland

King Charles III supports DNA testing of Princes in the Tower from The Mirror

BBC

The Sun

The Mirror

Stornoway Gazette

NPR

This week, Emma gives Shannon all the details we know about the “Gone Girl” of the 20th Century, socialite Dorothy Arnold. Whether it was intentional or if something awful happened to her, the actual fate of the heiress has never been revealed. Come join the chaos and don’t forget to let us know your go-to ghost hunting snacks!

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The Mother Source

NY Daily News

All That’s Interesting

The Bulletin True Crime Edition

Medium

The New York Times Article from 1921

Ninja Journalist