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On March 3, 2008 Memphis, TN experienced one of the worst mass murders in its history.  
Four adults and five children were found brutally attacked in a home on Lester Street.  

In part one of our two part episode we discuss the crime scene, what happened to the victims, and how one of the survivors was able to lead police to the killer. 
​
In part two we discuss the trial, evidence, and sentencing. 


Sources:
Murderpedia: Jessie Dotson
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JESSIE DOTSON
Final autopsy reports released in Lester Street Massacre
First 48: Tracking a Killer, Lester Street Season 7, Episode 6 
(Couldn't link this episode but it is available on Amazon Prime)
Final autopsy reports released in Lester Street Massacre
Ex-girlfriend testifies against defendant in Memphis mass murder trial
Dotson sentenced to death for Lester Street Murders
WMC 5 Trial Blog Day 1-Sentencing



Today Mike and Wendy talk werewolves!  
Mike gives us an overview of werewolf history, adding in a few comparisons to the werewolves in movies.  
Then Wendy provides us with a few gruesome details of real life "werewolf" attacks.

Sources:
Peter Stumpp
Giles Garnier
Poligny Werewolves
12 Real Werewolf Cases Throughout History
8 Historic Accounts of Werewolves By Miss Cellania 10/21/16 
This Small French Town Was An Idyllic Place-Until a Mysterious Wolf Beast Started Eating Everyone
The Beast of Gevaudan
Manuel Blanco Romasanta  
The Morbach Monster: The Sometimes Brutal Origin of Werewolves
The Morbach Monster

Clinical Lycanthropy
Hypertrichosis
Werewolf
The Story of King Lycaon

On today's episode, Michael tells us about the Dancing Plague of 1518 which was most definitely not fun for one and all.  It may or may not have been caused by a curse, moldy bread, or wives needing a spa day. 

Then Wendy provides us with some Scandinavian folklore about the Gjenganger and the Draugr.  Basically super old school zombies or ghost zombie hybrids out for revenge.  

**Nerd Alert** Unfortunately, there is no Skyrim talk anywhere in this episode.
​

Sources:
Dancing Plague
​https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518
https://interestingengineering.com/the-dancing-plague-has-got-to-be-the-weirdest-outbreak-ever-experienced
https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
Gjenganger/Draugr
Gjenganger The Mask of Reason 
Pariah Paranormal FB page
Zombies in Folklore from Fandom
Draugr The World of Myths and Folklore Fandom
Gjenganger Astonishing Legends
Gjenganger Wikipedia
Draugr Wikipedia



Happy pre Valentine's Day everyone!!  

Today Wendy talks about the gruesome and bloody origins of Valentine's Day and gangsters. 

​Michael tells us about the Circleville letter writer and all the scary nonsense that occurred because of cheating?
Sources:
Valentine's Massacre
The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day by Arnie Seipel for NPR
History of Valentine’s Day on History.com
Lupercalia on History.com
Who was Saint Valentine? And why was he beheaded? By Paul Ratner for Big Think
Al Capone vs George Moran: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre by Emily Upton for Today I Found Out: Feed Your Brain
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Al Capone—Excerpt from Get Capone by Jonathan Eig for Chicago Mag

The St Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago by Richard Cavendish for History Today
A Complete Guide to The St Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 – National Crime Syndicate
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on History.com 
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Chicago Tribune
Author: Capone Not Behind Valentine’s Day Massacre CBS Chicago


Circleville Letters
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/633984/circleville-letters-unsolved

https://truecrimetimesblog.medium.com/the-poison-pen-who-wrote-the-circleville-letters-440a302d09ad
https://unsolved.com/gallery/poison-pen-murder/

News Articles
https://www.livescience.com/first-dinosaur-butthole-found.html
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2020-12-18/man-who-sexually-assaulted-jogger-while-dressed-as-a-woman-jailed




​

Today Michael discusses rocks.  But not just any rocks, these particular stones apparently hold all the secrets to sustaining life if the end of the world were to occur. Or could it be something more nefarious??

Wendy talks about a Vietnam War Veteran that is basically the real life Rambo. Or RoboCop? Or maybe the Terminator?  Seriously, he's a machine that just won't quit!

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Sources:

​Georgia Guide Stones
The Truth About: The Georgia Guidestones by Michael East on Medium.com
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-truth-about-the-georgia-guidestones-323cd33bd68

​Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez
Texas State Historical Association           https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/benavidez-raul-perez-roy
Roy Benavidez: “A Will to Live and Fight” by Chuck Lyons on Historynet.com
https://www.historynet.com/roy-benavidez-a-will-to-live-and-fight.htm
Congressional Medal of Honor Society Stories of Sacrifice Roy P. Benavidez 
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/roy-p-benavidez
Roy Benavidez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez


Fresh back from the holidays Michael and Wendy discuss the very recent Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, TN.
​They also touch on a few of the conspiracies that surround the bombing and the bomber. 

If you would like to help those affected by the Nashville explosion please click the link below for a list of ways to help.*
https://fox17.com/news/local/heres-how-to-help-those-affected-by-the-nashville-christmas-day-bombing-tennessee-strong-donations-neighbors-visit-music-city

This episode does briefly discuss suicide and may not be suitable for some listeners.  
If you're in crisis there are options available to you. 

TN Statewide Crisis Line 855-CRISIS-1 (855-274-7471)*
https://www.tspn.org/i-need-help-now/

​National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255)*
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
​
Chat: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/


International Suicide Hotlines*
http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html

*We are not affiliated personally or professionally with any of the organizations listed. 
Sources: 
Nashville Bombing
Nashville Explosion: What to Know
A Timeline of Friday’s Downtown Explosion in Nashville
911 Calls Help to Clarify Nashville Bombing Timeline
Fact check: 3 conspiracy theories about the Nashville bombing
Nashville Bomber’s Girlfriend Warned Police About Him in 2019
Fed probing whether Nashville bomber believed in lizard people conspiracy

Nashville police officers describe Christmas morning explosion in their own words



​Reptiles

Love A Good Conspiracy Theory? – Reptilian Overlords
Reptilian Conspiracy Theory

5G Conspiracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/

It's Christmas time!!!!!  On today's episode Wendy talks about the darker side of Christmas.  You know....all the stories that humans tell their kids so they will behave?  Michael talks to us about weaponized bugs?? 
Sources: 

Dark Christmas
The Monsters of Christmas
From Hanging Stockings to Caroling, these 10 Holiday Traditions have Surprisingly Bizarre Origins
History of Christmas Trees
The Ghosts of Christmas
The History of the Holiday Evergreen
Why Does Santa Come Down the Chimney? Here’s the Origin Story
Each Christmas, Iceland’s Yule Cate Takes Fashion Policing to the Extreme
The Legend of St. Nicholas: The Real Santa Claus
10 Creepy Christmas Monsters that aren’t Krampus



​Weaponized Arachnids
https://sites.newpaltz.edu/ticktalk/social-attitudes/story-by-smaranda-dumitru/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomological_warfare#cite_note-lockwoodbost-7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Buzz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomological_warfare

https://www.rollcall.com/2019/07/15/house-orders-pentagon-to-say-if-it-weaponized-ticks-and-released-them/
https://www.ranker.com/list/what-happens-to-spiders-in-space/inigo-gonzalez
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6818187/nasa-spider-webs-drugs-lsd-marijuana/


Today Mike is going to discuss a barely remembered meat rain that happened in Ky.  Then Wendy will tell us how seemingly harmless foods can blow up buildings and may have helped create a military weapon. ​
Sources: 

Kentucky Meat Shower
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kentucky-meat-shower
https://allthatsinteresting.com/kentucky-meat-shower
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzkmgw/the-mystery-of-the-kentucky-meat-shower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_rain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_snow
https://www.livescience.com/62999-siberian-blood-rain-iron-oxide.html
https://www.livescience.com/61972-bag-of-severed-hands-siberia.html
https://www.livescience.com/62039-siberia-cargo-plane-gold-diamond-rain.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly

Combustible Dust
Good Days Work: Grain Dust Explosion Basics and Prevention
https://blog.gooddayswork.ag/blog/grain-dust-explosion-basics-and-prevention-0
Purdue University: Agriculture Particulates
https://engineering.purdue.edu/FFP/research/dust-explosions
Miller Magazine: Preventing Dust Explosions in Grain Storage
https://www.millermagazine.com/english/preventing-dust-explosions-in-grain-storage/.html
OSHA Fact Sheet
https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/OSHAcombustibledust.html
OSHA: Combustible Dust
https://www.osha.gov/Publications/combustibledustposter.pdf
Hughes Environmental: Don’t Repeat a History of Combustible Dust Explosions
https://hughesenv.com/history-of-combustible-dust-explosions/
DW.com What makes MOAB Mother of All Bombs?
https://www.dw.com/en/what-makes-moab-mother-of-all-bombs/a-38424257


In honor of Thanksgiving Wendy tells us a story about new love, new marriage, and what happens when you're new husband is crazy jealous and earns the nickname, "The Acid Doctor".  

​Then join Michael as he tells us about a ship that may or may not have teleported in something that has been dubbed The Philadelphia Experiment. 
Sources:

The Acid Doctor
Fugitive killer’s haven from Mercury News            http://web.archive.org/web/20030108194043/http:/www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/4824232.htm
The Acid Doctor: The Most Horrendous Murder in American History, 1962From Historical Crime Detective.com
https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/the-acid-doctor-the-most-horrendous-murder-in-american-history/
The Acid Doctor from Catt’s True Crime Corner
https://cattstruecrimecorner.com/the-acid-doctor/
Dr. Geza De Kaplany from Murderpedia
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/de-kaplany-geza.htm
Bride Cordially Invites Parents to Suck It in Wedding Invitation
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/bride-cordially-invites-parents-suck-it-wedding-invitation-10053702.html 


The Philadelphia Experiment
How the Philadelphia Experiment Worked
https://people.howstuffworks.com/philadelphia-experiment.htm
Invisibility Cloak
https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-invisibility-cloak-military-use
This is the Truth Behind the Creepy Philadelphia Experiment
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/philadelphia-experiment-military-conspiracy-theories/


Are you pretty sure your remember your favorite underwear brand having a different logo?  What about a certain actor that most definitely played a genie in a movie?  Today Mike discusses the Mandela Effect and the possible reasons why so many people remember certain events that either never occurred or are just wrong.  
Wendy discusses the unsolved murders of two women that occurred a few days apart.  The strange part....both women share the same first and last name.  Were the women attacked by the same person?  Did the murderer kill the wrong person the first time?

Sources:

​Mandela Effect

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-mandela-effect-4589394
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/False_memory


Mary Morris Murders
Hitman Accidentally Kills Two Women; Mary Morris and Mary Morris by Cat Leigh for Medium.com
https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/hitman-accidentally-kills-two-women-mary-morris-and-mary-morris-9bf4e690a647
The Story Of The Careless Hitman Who Killed Two Women Named Mary Morris by William DeLong for All That’s Interesting.com
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-morris-murders
The Mary Morris Murders: A True Crime Retrospective from the blog Diary of a Part-Time Writer
https://diaryofapartimewriter.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/the-mary-morris-murders-a-true-crime-retrospective/
Mary Lou and Mary McGinnis Morris from Unsolved Mysteries.com
https://unsolved.com/gallery/mary-lou-mary-mcginnis-morris/

Today Wendy discusses the many, many trials of Sharon Kinne and Mike explains what that creepy quickie was actually about.
Sources:

Sharon Kinne
http://www.crimemagazine.com/sharon-kinne-la-pistolera-0  J.J. Maloney
http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/maybe-ill-meet-you-on-the-run/ Mark Gribben
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Kinne

Wendigo
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-wendigo/ 
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo

​

Both Michael and Wendy will return when our next episode drops this Tuesday.
Join Michael for a quick "scary" hunting story. 

Story: Written and performed by Michael Carris


Mike and Wendy discuss reincarnation and the famous Bell Witch!!
Sources:

​Reincarnation

9 Reincarnation Stories That Will Give You Goosebumps
https://wallstreetinsanity.com/9-reincarnation-stories-that-will-give-you-goosebumps/
Chilling Reincarnation Stories: Meet 6 People Who Lived Before
https://www.rd.com/article/chilling-reincarnation-stories/
People with Really Believable Evidence for their Claim They're Reincarnated
https://www.ranker.com/list/believable-reincarnation-stories/erin-wisti


Bell Witch

Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Myths and Legends
https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/exhibits/myth/bellwitch.htm
Tennessee Historical Society “Year of the Witch”: 1937 and the Return of the Bell Witch
https://tennesseehistory.org/year-of-the-witch/
FERRIER FILES: Family member shares unknown, haunted side of Tennessee Bell Witch story
https://fox17.com/news/ferrier-files/ferrier-files-family-member-shares-unknown-haunted-side-of-tennessee-bell-witch-story
The Official Home of the Historic Bell Witch Cave
www.bellwitchcave.com
Middle Tennessee Mysteries
https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/504/robertson-county-john-bell-sr-and-the-bell-witch
Bell Witch 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch

Caution Content Warning
Today our hosts discuss Spontaneous Human Combustion and the tragic case of Rebekah Gay.  

Sources:

​Rebekah Jane and the Pastor

Murderpedia
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/white-john-douglas.htm
Scared Monkeys
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=13700.0
Investigation Discovery
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/dead-north-how-police-chief-laura-frizzo-gave-all-to-catch-serial-killer-kelly-cochran
USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/02/pastor-murder-charge/1678103/

https://tonyjwittkowski.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/john-douglas-white-sentenced-up-to-85-years-for-october-murder-of-rebekah-jane-gay/



​​Spontaneous Human Combustion

How Spontaneous Human Combustion Works
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/shc.htm 
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?
https://www.britannica.com/story/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real
Solving the mystery of Human spontaneous combustion
https://www.labnews.co.uk/article/2027958/solving_the_mystery_of_human_spontaneous_combustion
50 years Later Bentley Death Still a Mystery
https://www.endeavornews.com/articles/50-years-later-bentley-death-still-a-mystery/
Spontaneous Human Combustion: Man's Body Burst into Flames on the Sofa - But he Lived to Tell the Tale
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/spontaneous-human-combustion-mans-body-2337320


Today Mike discusses Huggin' Molly and how an Alabama town has embraced the local legend.  Wendy talks about the mysterious Black Eyed Children and shares a few "real" experiences that have occurred. 
Sources:

Huggin Molly
The Witch Legend Behind Huggin' Molly's, Alabama Eatery Filled with Movie Collectibles

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2017/02/the_witch_legend_behind_huggin.html 
Legend of the Banshee
https://www.celtic-weddingrings.com/celtic-mythology/legend-of-the-banshee
Ghost of Huggin' Molly (Abbeville, AL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDdgmuawQeA
The Wailing Woman
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/wailing-woman
​
​
Black Eyed Children 
Listverse.com written by Marcus Lowth
10 Bizarre but Chilling Encounters With Black-Eyed Children
https://listverse.com/2016/06/15/10-bizarre-but-chilling-encounters-with-black-eyed-children/
The Haunting Legend Behind The “Black-Eyed Children” Rare.us written by Moriah Gill
https://rare.us/rare-life/black-eyed-children/
What are Black Eyed Children – ParaRational.com
https://www.pararational.com/what-black-eyed-children/
Thought Catalog written by Chrissy Stockton
16 Terrifying Encounters With ‘The Black Eyed Kids’
https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2013/11/16-peoples-terrifying-encounters-with-the-black-eyed-kids/

Both Michael and Wendy will return when our next episode drops this Tuesday.  
On this episode, join Wendy for a quick "scary" story to help get the blood flowing and the mind racing.
 

Music:
Ghost Processional by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3804-ghost-processional
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The House of Leaves by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4496-the-house-of-leaves
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


Story: Written and performed by Wendy Carris
​


On this episode, Mike and Wendy discuss a ship that apparently never existed according to ship logs and the murder of a girl that haunts a high school in Texas. 
Resources Include:

​S.S. Ourang Medan

The Strange Case of the Ourang Medan Ghost Ship

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/03/the-strange-case-of-the-ourang-medan-ghost-ship/ 
Tragedy on the S.S. Ourang Medan-Fact or Legend? 
​https://www.historicmysteries.com/ourang-medan/


​Kiss and Kill Murder
A Kiss Before Dying written by Pamela Colloff which appeared in a February 2006 issue of Texas Monthly
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/a-kiss-before-dying/ 
Killer Claims Girl Begged Him to Shoot Her 
The ‘Kiss and Kill’ Murder: How a Teenager Got Away with Killing Betty Williams
by Cat Leigh for Medium.com 

https://medium.com/of-misdeeds-and-mysteries/killer-claims-girl-begged-him-to-shoot-her-6824335131b


​Join us for a small discussion on a morbid government experiment that went all wrong and  a mind blowing voice from the sky.
Resources Include:

Acoustic Kitty
 

Operation Acoustic Kitty www.damninteresting.com/nugget/operation-acoustic-kitty 
The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask 'Acoustic Kitty' 
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-experimented-animals-1960s-too-just-ask-acoustic-kitty-180964313/
Project Acoustic Kitty: the CIA's Real-Life Spy Cats
medium.com/the-vintage-space/project-acoustic-kitty-the-cias-real-life-spy-cats-33a7be8e7c6a
Operation Acoustic Kitty historydaily.org/operation-acoustic-kitty-not-the-cias-most-purrfect-plan
The Black Vault https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/acoustickitty-cia.pdf
CIA Documents https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st27.pdf
Voice of God
The Voice of God (Dr. Robert Duncan) https://jmm.nu/the-voice-of-god/
The Voice of God Weapon Returns https://www.wired.com/2007/12/the-voice-of-go/
Long Range Acoustic Device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device
Elwood "Woody" Norris https://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/elwood-“woody”-norris


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