In August 1951, residents of the small French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit suddenly started having terrifying hallucinations. Some people imagined lions and tigers were coming to eat them, a man jumped out of a window thinking he was a dragonfly. At least seven people died, over 50 people were taken to the local asylum in straitjackets and hundreds were affected. What caused this mysterious case of mass insanity?

THEORIES: The CIA spiked bread with LSD as part of a mind control experiment, ergot poisoning from contaminated rye crops, mercury poisoning from fungicides used to treat grains, werewolves. 

ALSO: Ali’s dad told her a story about moldy bread curing pneumonia. Maria thinks Jeremy Piven is an excellent businessman.

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BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested today. She is accused of recruiting, grooming, and sexually abusing underage girls as part of a years-long sex trafficking ring. What will happen to Prince Andrew? What was with that insane interivew where he said he couldn’t physically sweat? 

THEORIES: Is Jeffrey Epstein still alive? Is he a spy? Is he in the Illuminati? Is he a robot and his consciousness was transferred to a Roomba?

ALSO: Maria creates the TV show Ghislaine’s Ghavel

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EMAILS: A listener’s father had lunch with John Wayne Gacy, a listener wants to rescue their sister from a cult, a haunted bathroom, Elizabeth Bathory, and teens on TikTok found a dead body in a suitcase using Randonautica. 

VOICEMAILS: A listener thinks her friend hooked up with a guy from The Source Cult (but we think it might be Andrew Keegan’s cult), and fireworks conspiracies.

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On July 7, 2011, the body of 69 year old Richard Oland was found in the office of his investment firm in New Brunswick, Canada. Discovered by his personal assistant, Richard had been bludgeoned to death. He was the CEO of Moosehead Breweries, a pillar of the community, and his family was one of the wealthiest in New Brunswick. His son was charged with the murder, but a botched police investigation led to the verdict being overturned. The trial was one of the longest and most expensive in New Brunswick's history.

THEORIES: The mistress's husband, Richard's son Dennis, or the financial manager and his son.

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EMAILS: A woman-led cult called Blackburn that was accused of poisoning members. Nicolas Cage purchased his tomb in New Orleans because of a curse. A misplaced winning lottery ticket. The gruesome murder of Odessa Carey by her daughter who decapitated her.

VOICEMAILS: Jeb leaves a message on his way to the feed store about his cousin who was abducted.

IN ADDITION: Maria talks about a traumatizing encounter with Shia LaBeouf

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Psychic, astrologer, and animal communicator Jessica Lanyadoo from Ghost of a Podcast joins the show today to communicate with the Web Crawlers pets. Ali’s dog Asher has some opinions about wearing bowties, and the men in Ali’s life. Melissa’s cat Professor Kitty silently judges her disorganized thoughts. Maria’s dog Miss Piggles has some intuitive views on bringing a baby into their household. 

Jessica’s Website: https://www.lovelanyadoo.com

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H.H. Holmes was one of America’s first serial killers who confessed to killing 27 people, although that number could be as high as 200. Many victims were said to be killed in his “Murder Castle” which was a building in the south side of Chicago that was outfitted with trapdoors, gas chambers and a basement crematorium. Holmes was also a con artist, had multiple wives, and was the subject of over 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone.

THEORIES: Were H.H. Holmes’s crimes exaggerated for newspaper headlines? Is H.H. Holmes actually Jack the Ripper? Is Meghan Markle his distant relative?

IN ADDITION: Ali contemplates opening an Ice Creamatorium that would be a combination ice cream/death/sex shop. 

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Nicolas Cage is a fascinating person. He collects shrunken pygmy heads, he bought a $300,000 dinosaur skull that turned out to be stolen, in 2011 Dog the Bounty Hunter bailed him out of jail, and he once slept in Dracula's castle. Producer Maria's boyfriend Craig tells a story about Nic Cage's insane race car collection, and Ali plays her friend's song about National Treasure.

ALSO: A voicemail from the niece of Denny Whelan- a private investigator who worked on the Johnny Gosch case.

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Listener voicemails: A spooky Bridgewater Triangle encounter and a message all the way from the UK.

Listener emails: A truck driving grandpa death, Amelia Earhart monument, Sopranos connection, chili sauce catastrophe, a hitchhiking uncle avoiding a knife fight, and haunted New Orleans tales.

ALSO: Ali's Tinder date who sends her ghost stories. Update on Chad Daybell & Lori Vallow's missing children.

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In the 1960's, James Baker, soon to be known as Father Yod, moved to Los Angeles and opened a health food restaurant called The Source. Through vegan food and teaching Kundalini yoga, he managed to amass a trusty following of young LA hipsters. To outsiders, the group, known as the Source Family, seemed like stereotypical hippies, with names like Galaxy and Olympus. But there was a dark side: Yod was having sex with young members of the group and declared himself to be essentially God. Somewhere along the way, they even started a jam band. Father Yod, who by the end “married” 14 of his followers, was becoming increasingly paranoid that the government was watching him. He moved the entire family to Hawaii, where he rashly decided to go on a hang gliding mission. Listen in to hear how this quintessential California cult met its messy end.

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• This article has a menu from The Source. Maria “doesn’t need their bullshit food”. Ali admits she doesn’t mind when she finds hair in her food. Melissa calls the avocado “nature’s butter”.
• As for cult names, our hosts are in agreement that Electricity is a solid name. Maria thinks her cult name would be Bumblebee Blasucci. Ali’s? Petal Aquamarine. Ali suggests listeners should make a cult name generating app. 
• This article talks about the prime LA real estate The Source family resided in, including the Harry Chandler Estate. Also, Bud Court from Harold and Maude was a member of The Source at one point!
• A minor brawl erupts when Ali mis-quotes Walt Whitman as saying “Two roads diverged in a yellow road”. She meant Robert Frost, whose poem begins “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” Ali threatens to leave the podcast. 
• Maria assumes The Source Family’s band Ya Ho Wha 13 “did not sound great”.
• What?? Cafe Gratitude is inspired by The Source?? Here’s the podcast about it, from Oh No, Ross and Carrie! And here’s Vespertine, another Source-ey culty eating establishment that Melissa mentions.
• To learn more, watch the documentary The Source Family, available to rent on Prime. 

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