Where the Weird Things Are

Brittany and Heather discuss the murders of Shad Thyrion and Jeffrey Freeman. These two cases really show how extramarital affairs can go very, very wrong for all parties involved.





Sources:

https://www.drugs.com/trazodone.html

https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/woman-allegedly-decapitated-lover-hid-his-penis-in-bucket/amp/

https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/wisconsin-woman-pleads-not-guilty-to-decapitating-lover/

https://fox11online.com/amp/news/crime/taylor-schabusiness-deemed-competent-stand-trial-disturbing-gruesome-green-bay-murder-decapitation-mental-competency-sexual-assault-mutilating-corpse-stony-brook-lane-shad-thyrion-homicide-psychological-exam-quinn-jolly-basement-bucket-drugs-meth

https://www.wbay.com/2022/11/22/competency-hearing-tuesday-woman-charged-green-bay-murder-dismemberment-case/?outputType=amp

https://www.weau.com/2023/01/20/court-schedules-another-competency-hearing-woman-charged-with-murder-dismemberment/?outputType=amp

https://heavy.com/news/taylor-schabusiness/amp/


Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/freemanmarthaannopn.pdf
Deadly Women
Scorned: Love Kills

Brittany and Chris dive (but not too deep) into the Loch Ness and the supposed monster that lives within. Gear up and join us but, be careful, the water might be a little murky.







Sources:

The History Channel - In Search Of: The Loch Ness Monster
Naked Science: Loch Ness
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend3.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Loch-Ness-monster-legendary-creature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

In this Way Off Track episode Thurlow tells Brittany the story of how Robert Gibbon Johnson exposed the truth about tomatoes, and it's a juicy one.





Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412926/#:~:text=Tropane%20alkaloids%20(TA)%20are%20valuable,the%20Solanaceae%20and%20Erythroxylaceae%20families.

The Story of Robert Gibbon Johnson and the Tomato, Salem County Historical Society

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/#:~:text=The%20tomato%20didn't%20get,contain%20toxins%20called%20tropane%20alkaloids.

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Happy 2023! Brittany and Jenna go back to the supposedly not-so-wild West to the maybe not-so-haunted "ghost town" of Bodie State Historic Park. Get your cowboy hats and pamphlets ready, and come hang out!










Sources:

• This Ghost Town’s “Curse” Isn’t What You Think, Carly Severn, Jan 12, 2018
  • https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers
• Bodie, the Cursed Ghost Town, Jan 19, 2023
  • https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/bodie-the-cursed-ghost-town/
• Bodie Ghost Town, US Ghost Adventures Contributor
  • https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/bodie-ghost-town/
• Beyer’s Byways: Seeking ghosts in Bodie’s arrested decay, John R. Beyer, Victorville Daily Press, Oct 24, 2021
  • https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/lifestyle/travel/2021/10/24/beyers-byways-seeking-ghosts-bodies-arrested-decay/6140108001/
• Bodie & Hawthorne T&T (Wo & Cain)
  • https://wallpaperingnevada.weebly.com/tong-sing-wo-and-js-cain.html
• Bodie, California website
  • https://www.bodie.com/

• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-bodie/
• http://hauntedhouses.com/california/bodie-ghost-town/
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-ghosts-haunting-a-visit-to-californias-most-famous-gold-rush-ghost-town
• https://www.visitmammoth.com/blogs/history-and-geology-bodie-ghost-town/

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Brittany and Thurlow delve into the first ever World Cup Tournament. It's a WILD one!

Sources:


https://www.thenationalnews.com/fifa-world-cup-2022/2022/12/02/dead-player-gatecrashing-own-wake-capped-off-the-first-and-weirdest-world-cup/
https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/1930uruguay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup
https://readtheleague.com/the-big-feature/the-1930-world-cup-the-story-of-the-one-armed-man
https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/1930-fifa-worlc-cup-uruguay/
Half-Arsed History Podcast


Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Brittany and Heather present each other with some...interesting cases of people who faked their own kidnappings. It's not always for the ransom money!

https://time.com/5751349/karol-sanchez-kidnapping-bronx/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/16-karol-sanchez-kidnapping-new-york

https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/karol-sanchez-staged-her-own-kidnapping-police-sources/amp/

https://people.com/crime/karol-sanchez-new-york-staged-abduction-boyfriend-honduras/

https://6abc.com/amp/bonnie-sweeten-hoax-mom-stealing-from-former-employer-wire-fraud/12341089/
https://www.inquirer.com/news/bonnie-sweeten-fake-abduction-disney-world-new-charges-theft-20221108.html?outputType=amp

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/12/woman-who-faked-her-own-kidnap-and-assault-jailed-by-london-court

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/stalker-woman-fake-kidnapping-london-jessica-nordquist-alaska-rape-pr-marketing-a8680351.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6265113/Woman-claimed-ex-raped-convicted-stalking-perverting-course-justice.html





Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Brittany and Chris keep the spooky going a little longer with this episode on the Headless Horseman and its possible origins.

Sources:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

https://www.history.com/news/legend-sleepy-hollow-headless-horseman

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/halloween-history-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_Horseman

https://www.grunge.com/215250/the-legend-of-the-headless-horseman-explained/

https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/German_folktale_23.html#gsc.tab=0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan

https://www.theirishplace.com/heritage/the-dullahan/

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/how-tales-of-the-headless-horseman-came-from-celtic-mythology-1.4060086

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Welcome to the first Way Off Track episode! Thurlow tells Brittany the story of the Crash at Crush; basically, some people crash some trains into each other.

Sources:

https://wacohistory.org/items/show/70#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20infamous,15%2C%201896.

https://texasproud.com/texas-the-crash-at-crush

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686

Brittany and Jenna go way back to discuss Samhain and learn about where Halloween as we know it came from. Happy Halloween, Weirdlings!

Sources:

Year of the Witch: Connecting with Nature’s Seasons through Intuitive Magick, Temperance Alden, 2020

The Master Book of Herbalism, Paul Beyerl, 1984

Samhain in Your Pocket: A Tiny Little Book About the Celtic Origins of Halloween, I.E. Kneverday, 2022

How the Early Catholic Church Christianized Halloween, Patrick J. Kiger, 2020
https://www.history.com/news/halloween-samhain-celts-catholic-church

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain#:~:text=on%20HISTORY%20Vault-,Ancient%20Samhain,while%20the%20harvest%20was%20gathered.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Samhain/

https://time.com/5434659/halloween-pagan-origins-in-samhain/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Samhain

Brittany and Thurlow cover the fascinating life and death of Harry Houdini. Hold your breath, because this is a deep one!

Sources: https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/houdini-timeline/


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/harry-houdini-and-the-art-of-escape

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=92253&page=1

The Greatest: Houdini

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/aviation-australia/our-first-aviators#:~:text=Ehrich%20Weiss%20(better%20known%20as,Rosehill%20Racecourse%2C%2018%20April%201910.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhJLs3-i9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6ulLJGPB8

Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686