Don't Look Now

There is an area is Southwest Vermont centered on Glastonbury Mountain that has become famous for the mysterious disappearances of hikers and a layered history of unease.  The area has been dubbed the Bennington Triangle and we discuss it on this week's podcast. 

We discuss the history of board games from thousands of years BC to today.

Do people sometimes mysteriously ignite without a known reason? We discuss SHC and the theories surrounding it.

In 1994 Gloria Ramirez was brought to Riverside Hospital in acute distress.  While working on her in the ER, doctors and nurses were suddenly overcome something that acted like a nerve toxin after drawing her blood.  The ER was evacuated and multiple medical professionals were hospitalized but no trace of a toxin could be found.  We discuss the mysterious death of Gloria Ramirez.

We discuss Easter Island, home of the famous Moai Statues and the mystery of the society that built them.

Learn all about the fairly common 18th and 19th century phenomena of Vampire Scares in New England and the rest of the US.  Wasting diseases such as Tuberculosis were often blamed on undead relatives stalking their living kin, requiring the exhumation and desecration of said relatives to ensure that they remained in their graves.  The most famous case, that of Mercy Brown, might have inspired Bram Stoker.

We discuss the history of Tarot cards from their beginnings as a card game in 1400s Italy to their re-purposing as a means of divination in Revolutionary France, to their status today. 

A podcast two-fer, with our first attempt at Podcasting while Social Distancing.  First up, we discuss the Public Universal Friend.  The Friend was a religious leader that came from the Quaker tradition and eschewed all gender identity including gendered pronouns back in early days of the United States.Second, two boys playing on the railroad tracks find (not a body amazingly enough) but a priceless piece of american history.

in 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer left the house for a walk and was shot to death shortly after the publication of the Warren Report.  Why does that matter?  Because she was thought to be a mistress of JFK and was married to a CIA operative.  Conspiracy theories about on this episode.

This episode is all about tornadoes.  What are they, how do they form, where do they appear?  We discuss some famous tornadoes from history and our own run ins with them.

We discuss Charles Dickens and the fight over his eventual place of rest in Poet's Corner.

We discuss the 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga river in Cleveland which many believe contributed directly to the eventual formation of the Environmental Protection Agency.  

Time to discuss everyone's favorite lake monster, Nessie! Is there really a large creature living in Loch Ness?How many scholars have ruined their careers looking for her?Are the public bathrooms at Loch Ness locked year round?  Learn these things and more while listening to our podcast.

The Amber room was a treasure of the Tsars, given to Peter the Great by King Frederick William I of Prussia.  The room was looted by the Nazis during the invasion of the USSR and lost to history.  Was it destroyed as most think, or is it still hidden away waiting to be found.

Many people around the world report hearing a low frequency hum that they find unsettling and can slowly drive them crazy.  These reports tend to cluster in certain areas at certain times, but no one has definitively determined what they are hearing or even if they are really hearing sound.  We discuss the phenomenon, common theories, and give or own BS answers.Bonus... random discussion of weird pronunciations and accents ;)

Olive Oatman was a young pioneer girl that was captured by the Yavapai in 1851 and went on to live with the Mohave for many years.  The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem quality diamond ever found and was cut into some of the prized pieces of the British Crown Jewels.  What do they have in common?  Nothing other than that both are interesting and are the two parts of this split podcast.

What is a conspiracy theory?  Where do they come from?  What do they share in common?  Why do so many people believe them?We discuss these questions and more in our look at conspiracy theories and why they are a constant part of modern society.

We discuss the history and general tenets of Scientology and discuss the strange disappearance of Shelly Miscavige.

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, was caught, and killed... or was he.  This the the story of the mummy that toured the US for decades while being proclaimed as Booth's body.  Was it John Wilkes Booth?  How did this mummy end up on the carnival circuit?  Where is it today?  Take a listen and find out.

We discuss the origin of the Sadie Hawkins tradition and the background of the Li'l Abner comic strip.