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This week, we're celebrating our teachers, past and present. We appreciate you! Of course we have to make it weird by talking about some creepy, haunted schools. Kicking it off with El Paso High School, home of Friday Night Lights and a ghost girl who makes herself known quite often. She's been seen as an apparition and in several photos which we'll post on our social media accounts for you to check out! Next up is Fallsvalle Elementary School in Forest Falls, California. Spectral beings...or are they fairies, gnomes, elementals? Come out of the creepy forest surrounding the school to play with the children! And finally, Iowa State University is full of ghost stories. You'll find paranormal activity in the residence halls, a theater, the Memorial Union, the Old Farm House and more! Go hug a teacher, find out their Venmo, or just express your gratitude to them! 

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Today we're talking about a sad and unfortunate case of the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. Her life story involves one tragedy and hardship after the other, and culminates in the untimely deaths of four people at her hands. We discuss the history of the death penalty in the US and the story of how Velma's past and actions led her to death row. Domestic abuse, violence, alcoholism and drug addiction are all discussed in this episode. 
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We get a little tipsy as we reminisce about Stef's wedding 10 years ago! Stef and her husband took their honeymoon in Jamaica, so obviously we had to talk about the most infamously haunted spot in Montego Bay, Jamaica! Rose Hall is most famous for the legend of one of its mistresses, Annie Palmer, aka The White Witch of Rose Hall. The stories retold of Annie's torturous, controlling, abusive and violent ways have continued on for over one hundred years. Her use of voodoo practices and relentless abuse of power took hold over those who were forced to work here. There's no telling how many people were tortured and possibly killed on the grounds and within the walls of the grandest estate in Jamaica. To this day, people report hauntings, especially in Annie's sitting room and in the dark, cold dungeon of the mansion. 

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In the summer of 1995, beautiful local celebrity news anchor, Jodi Huisentruit, went missing from the parking lot of her apartment complex. The town of Mason City, Iowa was shocked and saddened by the disappearance of their beloved local TV star. All the police had to go on was a sign of a struggle, a partial palm print, one hair and a lot of stories. For 28 years, police have been following potential leads to no avail. Many people have their theories about what happened to Jodi, but no one has ever officially been named a suspect in this case. Come on in and listen to the case that is still fresh in the minds of Iowans and still wide open...

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Come on down to the rootin' tootin' booty scootinest place in Skagway, Alaska! First, we'll talk about the history of the s*x work industry and brothels in the United States beginning with the first Gold Rush in 1799. No matter what your moral stance may be on the matter, there's no denying the s*x work industry played a huge role in the economics and culture of the budding pioneer towns of the Wild West and beyond. The ladies of the Red Onion Saloon worked hard to service their clients who were on their way to strike it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Today, you can still have a whiskey drink at the saloon and take a tour of the workin' girls' cribs upstairs. You may even catch a glimpse of Lydia, the most famous and friendly ghost of the Red Onion. Hopefully you avoid the still angry spirit of the bouncer who was killed there!

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It all began with Adam Lemp, who came to St. Louis from Germany with a German Lager recipe that people couldn't get enough of! His beer brewing empire grew, along with his large family. Success, wealth, fame, love...it was all a dream...until it wasn't. In the following decades, the Lemp family would experience death, heartbreak and tragedy upon tragedy. Some say the Lemp family was cursed to repeat a sad fate. Today, visitors to the Lemp mansion report various hauntings and paranormal happenings within the walls of the huge home that once held a family destined for victory and broken by loss.

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Something horrible happened in the beautiful, sacred grounds of Gitchie Manitou preserve on the border of Iowa and South Dakota in November of 1973. Three monsters decided to end the lives of four teenage boys, senselessly. Had it not been for the story of the lone survivor of the horrendous attack, we may never truly know what happened in the woods. Sandra Cheskey tells her survivor story in the book, Gitchie Girl, and it's truly beyond belief. 

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This week we're exploring the bizarre stories of towns that have mysteriously disappeared into thin air (?) Urkhammer, a town that existed in Iowa before 1932 slowly faded into transparency, then disappeared completely without a trace. Did Doveland, Wisconsin really exist? Most Wisconsinites say no, but others insist they have souvenirs from Doveland before it vanished in the 1990's. Then there's Ashley, Kansas that very dramatically fell into a fissure after a major earthquake in 1952?!? Are these urban legends rooted in factual events or are they complete BS? Did we shift timelines? Help, we don't know what's real anymore! 

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They've been living among us since 5,000 BCE? That's what Charles James Hall claims. Charles tells of his time meeting and working with the Tall White aliens during his time on Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1960's. This story is as wild and outrageous as they come. Even Charles thought he was hallucinating the beings for months. Chalk-white skin, very thin, bright white hair and wide-set blue eyes. The Tall Whites only want to learn about humans but, are they still here on Earth? We like to think they are. Listen to some of the unbelievable stories here, then go read his books and watch the documentary! You'll never be the same!

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In the final part of our discussion on Alexander Pichushkin, aka The Chessboard Killer, aka the Bitsa Park Maniac, we cover his descent into egotistical chaos and finally, his arrest and conviction. This story is so unbelievable, it almost reads like a movie script. But, this nightmare was occurring in real life for the citizens of Moscow for years before any real effort was put towards finding him. Join us for this maddening, frustrating, horrifying and inconceivable story. 

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