Woes and Wonders of Women, Witches and Wives

Trigger warning: This episode contains brief mention of sensitive topics, please skip if you don't want to hear!

OOOF you guys it has been a minute since we uploaded new content and we are so sorry! Our lives got busy and things happened and we didn't have a backup plan so here we are.

But we're BACK with a long and wild story of the murder of the Grimes Sisters and the twisty turny investigation that followed. Join us for a wild ride and let us know what you think happened to these two beautiful, wonderful, girls who were taken out of the world way before their time.

And stay tuned for more episodes to come!

Sources:
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-films/the-grimes-sisters-murders/will-detectives-discovery-help-solve-grimes-murders/

https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-films/the-grimes-sisters-murders/did-investigators-overlook-a-crucial-lead-in-girls-murders/

https://medium.com/@natasha.leigh/the-gruesome-unsolved-murders-of-the-grimes-sisters-48122a88b78b

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

https://www.missinginillinois.org/post/barbara-and-patricia-grimes-chicago-cook-county-illinois-december-28-1956

Morbid Podcast - Episode 515

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Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hey Witches!! We're doing true crime! 

This week Juliana tells us about the tragic murder of Playboy Model, Jasmine Fiore. 

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Join us this week to once again dive deep into some pirate lore as Elaine tells us the story of Anne Bonny!  One of the most famous female pirates and ship-mate/friend/lover?/bestie of Mary Read who Juliana told us about last week. Ahoy mateys!

Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bonny

http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/anne-bonny/

https://www.history.com/news/5-notorious-female-pirates

https://www.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate.htm

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-annebonny/

https://www.piratesinfo.com/famous-pirates/anne-bonny/

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Ahoy Witches!!!

Sit back and enjoy this much-anticipated episode all about the famous pirate, Mary Read. 

Chit Chat includes: Juliana's beef with Disney and Elaine is opening a bar. 

Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/if-theres-a-man-among-ye-the-tale-of-pirate-queens-anne-bonny-and-mary-read-45576461/  

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/read-mary-and-anne-bonney 

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

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Read 

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

One day late on posting this but WORTH THE WAIT!!

This week Elaine brings us the story of Marina Roskova and the Night Witches; the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment in the Soviet Air force during World War II. Tune in to learn all about these incredible women, their planes, the missions they put their lives on the line to complete, and the war they waged on Nazi Germany from the air.

Sources:
Podcast: AirSpace Sn. 2, Ep. 10 by Emily Moyer, Executive Producer
https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/night-witches-the-female-pilots-who-struck-fear-into-the-nazis/
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airspaces2ep10
https://www.museumofwomenpilots.org/women-pilots-marina-raskova-48.htm
https://greydynamics.com/marina-raskova-and-the-night-witches/

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hey Witches! Welcome back to the pod! 

This week, Juliana tells the story of the Mongolian Warrior Princess, Khutulun.  

Chitchat includes discussion on Disney movies, Elaine cries and Juliana impulsively chopped her hair with dull scissors. FUN! 

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hi all! Welcome back to our podcast! We took a week off to deal with some personal things in our lives and reconfigure our podcast schedule to match up better with our work and life schedules, listen to the episode for more details! That being said, lets get into it!

This week Elaine takes us into the life and story of Alice Coachman, one of the first Black women to compete in the Olympics and the ONLY American woman to win a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics. She was truly and incredible athlete and woman and an amazing piece of Black American history. We hope you enjoy learning about her and hearing her story!

Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sports-history-forgot-about-tidye-pickett-and-louise-stokes-two-black-olympians-who-never-got-their-shot-glory-180960138/

https://www.biography.com/athlete/alice-coachman

https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/alice-coachman

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-coachman

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Happy February! In honor of black history month, we will be focusing on some amazing black women. This week, Juliana shares the story of performer, spy, and activist, Josephine Baker.  Elaine tells us about the incredible and wildly resilient Fannie Lou Hamer. 

Sources: 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Josephine-Baker  
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/josephine-baker
https://www.biography.com/artists/josephine-baker 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/arts/design/josephine-baker-exhibition-berlin.html 
https://nmaahc.si.edu/josephine-baker 

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hey Witches! This week we get into the stories of some women who lived during what we would call the pioneer days in the Western United States (think 1800s). These women truly went through it in terms of just about everything; ambushes, widowing, cholera, yellow fever, cattle drives, childbirth, pretty much every struggle a pioneer woman could face. Tune in to learn about Marie Dorien and Margaret Herffernan Borland!

Sources:
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2015/07/margaret-borland.html

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

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

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/borland-margaret-heffernan

https://calfnews.net/archive/heroes-among-us-margaret-borland-trail-boss/

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

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1871?amount=24

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pecuniary

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

This week we dove into the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King, the wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We felt that she deserved her own episode to really appreciate all the work she did, throughout her life, to further equality in the United States and around the world, alongside MLK and after he was assassinated. Truly an inspiring, courageous, strong, kind, beautiful, wonderful woman we hope her story inspires you as much as it inspired us <3.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King

https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/about-mrs-king/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Coretta-Scott-King

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com