Sources from Episode 120

  1. “Code Hidden in Stone Age Art May Be the Root of Human Writing,” New Scientist, November 2016, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230990-700-in-search-of-the-very-first-coded-symbols/.

  2. “Lambi Dehar Mines: The Haunted Abandoned Ruins near Mussoorie,” Euttarakhand, https://www.euttarakhand.com/lambi-dehar-mines-the-spooky-abandoned.

  3. “Cousin Jacks & Tommyknockers Remain a Part of our Mining Culture & Heritage,” County of El Dorado California, https://web.archive.org/web/20110930020820/http://www.edcgov.us/Living.aspx?id=15039

  4. “Remembering a Dark Day of Disaster: 95 Years Ago, Men Died in Milford Mine,” Brainerd Dispatch, https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4567163-remembering-dark-day-disaster-95-years-ago-men-died-milford-mine.

  5. Katharine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures (London: Allen Lane, 1976).

  6. “Milford Mine Disaster was State’s Worst,” StarTribune, http://www.startribune.com/milford-mine-disaster-was-state-s-worst/331893831.

  7. Jane P. Davidson and Christopher John Duffin, “Stones and Spirits,” Folklore 123, n. 1 (April 2012): 99-109.

  8. “Milford Mine Disaster, 1924,” MNOPEDIA, http://www.mnopedia.org/event/milford-mine-disaster-1924.

  9. “Milford Mine Disaster, 1924: ‘Save your breath and start climbing!” MNPost, https://www.minnpost.com/minnesota-history/2013/02/milford-mine-disaster-1924-save-your-breath-and-start-climbing.

  10. Will Hunt, Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath our Feet (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2018).

  11. “Knockers, Knackers, and Ghosts: Immigrant Folklore in the Western Mines,” Western Folklore 51, n. 2 (April 1992): 153-77.

  12. Norman, Michael. The Nearly Departed: Minnesota Ghost Stories And Legends. Minnesota Historical Society Press: 2009.

  13. “Failure to Learn? Destined to Repeat…Part I: The Accident at Milford,” NewsHopper. https://crowwing.us/DocumentCenter/View/117/Miningpart1?bidId=.

  14. “The Pit of Ghosts: Exploring the Haunted Mines of Victorian Wales,” Folklore Thursday, https://folklorethursday.com/urban-folklore/the-pit-of-ghosts-exploring-the-haunted-mines-of-victorian-wales.

  15. “Knock, Knock, Who’s There?” CIM Magazine, http://magazine.cim.org/en/mining-lore/knock-knock-whos-there.

  16. “Cousin Jacks Seek Homes for Displaced Tommyknockers,” Oakland Tribune, https://www.newspapers.com/image/296659535/?terms=tommyknockers.

  17. Charles A. Stansfield, Haunted Minnesota: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the North Star State (Stackpole Books, 2012).

  18. “Superstitions of Mining,” South Wales Daily Post, 3/1/1894, https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3351436/3351440.

  19. “Milford Mine, Crow Wing County, Minnesota,” Prairie Ghosts, http://www.prairieghosts.com/mine.html.