Under the Pendulum Podcast

Happy Halloween!! We are continuing our Halloween fun by talking about one of our favorite shows of all time, The Twilight Zone. Heather gives us a brief history of the show's origins and it's creator, Rod Serling. Each of us have also picked our favorite episode and we discuss why we chose them. We hope everyone has a Spooktacular Halloween and beware any masks, dolls, or doors. Stay Spooky. 

Thank you everyone for being patient with us getting this episode out late, but we hope the wait is worth it. On this episode, Heather and Kaitlin talk about one of our favorite shows of all time, Tales from the Crypt. The girls talk about some of their favorite episodes and share some tidbits about the show. It will be a real slice of horror on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

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Today's episode is the last part in our series on the Radium Girls. We'll cover the aftermath of the lawsuit in Orange, New Jersey, the new case in Ottawa, Illinois, a lawyer with a heart of gold, and of course more deaths. We will also discuss the repercussions of the radium industry into the present. Thank you everyone for sticking with us through this long and horrid journey. 

Sources: 

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. , 2017. Print.

We are taking a break from the Radium Girls before closing out the series with Part 4. On today's episode we will be talking about industrial disasters and bastards. Emily Seabold from Everyday Lies Podcast joins us for some horror and retribution. We tell two stories of fraud, negligence, death, disease, and pollution. You know...all the things you've come to know and love from us. It's bitter and then sweet on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast

Sources:

Bhopal Disaster

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/

https://www.bhopal.org/continuing-disaster/the-bhopal-gas-disaster/union-carbides-disaster/

Tachakra, Sapal S. “The Bhopal Disaster: Lessons for Developing Countries.” Environmental Conservation, vol. 16, no. 1, 1989, pp. 65–66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44521150.

Kurien, C. T., and A. Vaidyanathan. “Bhopal Disaster.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 19, no. 51/52, 1984, pp. 2142–2142. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4373895.

Formosa Scandal

Tim Schütz, "Dirty Money, Point Comfort, Texas ", contributed by Tim Schütz and Kim Fortun, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 2 October 2020, accessed 16 September 2021. (Netflix).

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_3895ae9c-4f69-11eb-afcd-e78c03d643a4.html

We are continuing our story of the Radium Girls in this week's episode. The radium companies are as conniving as ever, and the girls finally have their first big court case against USRC. Shocking revelations and harrowing stories are presented, and the stage is set for a new cast of characters and villains for part 4. Order! Order in the podcast! 

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Sources:

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. , 2017.

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on the Radium Girls. In this episode, we meet more of the girls, the doctors who desperately tried to help them, and the United States Radium Corporation shows us just how horrible they can be. It's an episode that will make your shout YIKES-A-ROO!! Thank you for listening to Under the Pendulum Podcast.

Sources:

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. , 2017.

We hope everyone is having a wonderful week...now let's ruin it!! On this week's episode we are covering the Radium Girls, a deadly phenomenon of the early to mid-20th century. In this first part of a two part series, we will talk about the effects of radium on the body, the companies who tried to suppress the dangers, and a taste of what horrors awaited the young women employed by these radium dial companies. Get ready to throw things on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

Extra! Extra! Today we will be reading and discussing strange and bizarre news stories from the 19th and 20th centuries. We have mysterious blobs and cryptids, murderous families and ghosts, and so much more! This just in, you're listening to Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

We have a very special episode for you all! This week we will be doing an impromptu performance of "Murder Castle" from the horror radio show Lights Out, 1938. the story is a reimaging of the crimes of H.H. Holmes and his murder castle. Stay tuned after the show for an actual commercial from the Lights Out show. Put the lights out, relax, and enjoy this tale of the macabre from Under the Pendulum Podcast.

Source:

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/lights-out/murder-castle-1943-08-03

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Well, we're just pleased as punch that ya'll could join us!! On this episode, we go down south to Alabama to tell some ghostly tales from the place of our birth. We have four stories of haunted steamboats, a hole that never stays filled, the gruesome history of Sloss Furnaces, and a lynching that refuses to be ignored. Ya'll just take a seat and enjoy this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

Footnotes:

Windham, K. T., & Figh, M. G. (1969). In 13 Alabama ghosts and Jeffrey, Strode Publishers

https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/william-bill-sketoe-and-the-hole-that-wont-stay-filled/

https://www.executedtoday.com/2013/12/03/1864-bill-sketoe-hole-haunt/

https://www.ghostlyworld.org/places/sketoe-hanging-hole/

https://historysoutheast.com/history/early-account-of-the-ghost-of-sketoe-s-hole

https://www.hauntedrooms.com/alabama/birmingham/haunted-places/sloss-furnaces

https://frightfurnace.com/hauntings/haunted-history-of-sloss-furnace/

https://www.slossfurnaces.com/history/

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/sloss-furnaces-haunted-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_County_Courthouse_%28Alabama%29

https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/faceinthewindow.html

https://www.al.com/living/2015/10/were_there_once_2_spooky_faces.html