Sources from Episode 107

  1. John Emsley, The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison (Oxford University Press, 2005).

  2. Rob Iliffe, Newton: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007).

  3. Gale E. Christianson, Isaac Newton: Lives and Legacies (Oxford University Press, 2005).

  4. Eleanor Herman, The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul (St. Martin's Press, 2018).

  5. “Czechs,” Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University, https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/czechs.

  6. Steve Shukis, Poisoned: Chicago 1907, a Corrupt System, an Accused Killer, and the Crusade to Save Him (TitleTown Publishing, 2014).

  7. “A Historical Look at Czech Chicagoland,” Chicagoland Czech-American Community Center, http://www.chicagocacc.org/the-historical-czech-chicagoland.

  8. “History of Pilsen,” WTTW—My Neighborhood, https://interactive.wttw.com/my-neighborhood/pilsen/history.

  9. Alicia Cozine, “Czechs and Bohemians,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/153.html.

  10. “BABY AS WITNESS TELLS OF TRAGEDY,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 12 July 1907, p. 3.

  11. “BILLIK A CONFESSED FAKIR,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 17 July 1907, p.5.

  12. “WOMEN DUPES OF BILLIK,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 11 Dec 1906, p. 3.

  13. “‘Herman Billik Must Die’: Whiting’s Own Palm Reader, Hypnotist, and… Murderer?” Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana’s Digital Newspaper Program, 31 October 2016, https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/hermanbillik.

  14. Sarah Kull and Dolores Kennedy, “Herman Zajicek,” The National Registry of Exonerations, https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetailpre1989.aspx?caseid=371.

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  16. Deborah Blum, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

  17. Linda Civitello, Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017).

  18. Holly Tucker, City of Light, City of Poisons: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017).

Sources from Episode 106

  1. “The Devil and the Art Dealer,” Vanity Fair, March 2014, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment.

  2. “18 Prisoner Demands Studied,” The Weirton Daily Times, 3/22/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/49114343/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  3. “3 Murderers Dig Out at Moundsville Pen,” The Pittsburgh Press, 2/20/1992, https://www.newspapers.com/image/143664657.

  4. “200 Convicts Seize Section of W. VA. Prison,” The Weirton Daily Times, 3/21/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/49114121/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  5. “5 State Prison Guards Held Hostage.” The Charleston Daily Mail, 3/20/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/36765228/?terms=Prison%2Briot&match=1

  6. .“A Hell Upon Earth,” Said to be a Mild Description of the West Virginia Pen,” Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 5/31/1894, http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3901.

  7. “Adkins Falls Twice Through Gallows; Faulty Trap, Laughs Mark Hangings,” Charleston Daily Mail, 3/22/1938, https://newspaperarchive.com/charleston-daily-mail-mar-22-1938-p-1.

  8. Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers, West Virginia: The Mountain State, 2nd Edition (Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1958).

  9. Sherri Brake, The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary: Afterlife with No Parole (Raven Rock Publishers, 2011).

  10. “The Haunted Prison,” Mental Floss, 10/17/2013, mentalfloss.com/article/53239/haunted-prison.

  11. “Disturbance Breaks Out at Moundsville Prison,” The Raleigh Register, 3/20/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/47921017/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  12. “Letter from the West Virginia Penitentiary Warden,” 1/23/1905, wvpentours.com/about/history/articles/letter-west-virginia-penitentiary-warden.

  13. “Civil War,” History.com, 10/15/2009, https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history.

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  15. West Virginia Penitentiary,” Ohio County Public Library, www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3896 and www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3897.

  16. “Charles Manson Requested Transfer to Moundsville Prison in 1983, Wheeling Intelligencer, 11/21/2017, www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2017/11/charles-manson-requested-transfer-to-moundsville-prison-in-1983.

  17. “Haunting History: Moundsville Penitentiary has many Stories to Tell,” Charleston Gazette-Mail, 10/23/16, https://www.wvgazettemail.com/life/haunting-history-moundsville-penitentiary-has-many-stories-to-tell/article_cc19cdc2-d849-5695-b5f2-4c074fce1980.html.

  18. “Man Decapitated by Noose; Head Bounces on Floor,” The Coshocton Tribune, 6/20/1931, https://www.newspapers.com/image/11658766/?terms=frank%2Bhyer%2Bexecuted.

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  20. “Moundsville’s Haunted History,” Travel Channel, https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/moundsvilles-haunted-history.

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  24. “Under the Lash,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/30/1886, https://www.newspapers.com/image/34581676/?terms=kicking%2Bjenny.

  25. Bert Useem and Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

  26. “West Virginia State,” Scary For Kids, 2/4/10, www.scaryforkids.com/west-virginia.

Sources from Episode 105

  1. K.M. Goldney, “General Introduction,” Crookes and the Spirit World, collected by R. G. Medhurst (London: Souvenir Press, 1972).

  2. William H. Brock, William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science (London: Routledge, 2016).

  3. Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England (London: Virago Press, 1989).

  4. Tatiana Kontou, Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: From the Fin de Siecle to the Neo-Victorian (London: Routledge, 2009).

  5. R.G. Medhurst and K.M. Goldney, “William Crookes and the Physical Phenomena of Mediumship,” PSPR 54.195 (March 1964).

  6. William Crookes, Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism (J. Burns, 1874).

  7. Florence Marryat, There Is No Death (London: Griffith Farran and Co., Ltd., 1892).

  8. “FURTHER EXPERIMENTS” and “MISS FLORENCE COOK” in The Spiritualist 1.23, 15 July 1871, p.177.

  9. “GROSS OUTRAGE AT A SPIRIT CIRCLE” and Letter by J.C. Luxmore in The Spiritualist 3.29, 12 Dec 1873, p. 461.

  10. “SPIRIT FORMS,” The Spiritualist 3.30,19 Dec 1873, p. 478.

  11. Ellen Crookes, letter to The Spiritualist, 25 June 1875, p. 312.

  12. Thomas Blyton, letter to The Spiritualist 1.22, 15 June 1871.

Sources from Episode 104

  1. "Italians Viewing Antique Emperor Caligula's Nemi Ships, 1932,” Rare Historical Photos, July 2016, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/caligula-nemi-ships-1932.

  2. “1820-1850 A New State & Prosperity,” Maine Historical Society: Maine History Online, 2010, www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/901/page/1312/display?page=3.

  3. “A Brief History of Freeport, Maine,” Freeport Historical Society Freeport Maine, 2018, freeporthistoricalsociety.org/freeport-history.

  4. “This Ghost Ship Hunted U-Boats in Portland Harbor…Maybe,” The Bangor Daily News , 12 Sept 2017, portland.bangordailynews.com/2017/09/11/history/this-ghost-ship-hunted-u-boats-in-portland-harbor-maybe

  5. Collections of the Maine Historical Society ( Heritage, 1995).

  6. “Legendary Ship Found by Sonar,” The Washington Post, August 2002, www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/08/30/legendary-ship-found-by-sonar/4c22498f-2cb1-466d-9676-cfa99e494e1d/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cd6f50994b63.

  7. “The Final Voyage of the Portland,” National Archives and Records Administration, date unknown, www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/winter/portland.html.

  8. Diana Ross McCain, Mysteries and Legends of New England: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Globe Pequot, 2009).

  9. Kate McCarty, Distilled in Maine: a History of Libations, Temperance & Craft Spirits (American Palate, 2015).

  10. “Portland,” Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/portland.html.

  11. “The Sea Gives up One of Its Ghosts.” CNN, August 2002, edition.cnn.com/2002/US/08/29/historic.shipwreck.

  12. Charles A. Stansfield, Haunted Maine: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Pine Tree State (Stackpole Books, 2007) pp. 31–33.

  13. “Remembering the Portland Gale,” South Coast Today, January 2011, www.southcoasttoday.com/article/19981129/News/311299992.

  14. “The Story of the Dash,” Freeport Historical Society Freeport Maine, freeporthistoricalsociety.org/the-story-of-dash.

Sources from Episode 103

  1. “A History Of 'Snake Oil Salesmen’,” NPR, August 2013, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-history-of-snake-oil-salesmen.

  2. Ron Bopp, “Norman Baker (A Life History),” Carousel Organ, No. 28 (July 2006): 15-25.

  3. Steve Weems, “Notes from the Hollow,” Eureka Springs Independent, Vol. 3, No. 35 (February 2015): 15.

  4. Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2002).

  5. Timothy M. Kovalcik, Eureka Springs Revisited: The Gilded Age, 1879-1900, (unpublished manuscript, 2013).

  6. Matthew Mayo, Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West's Sleaziest Swindlers (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

  7. Janice Tremeear, Haunted Ozarks (Charleston, SC: Haunted America, A Division of the History Press, 2013) pp. 145-151.

  8. June Westphal and Kate Cooper, Eureka Springs: City of Healing Waters (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2012).

  9. D. R. Woolery, The Grand Old Lady of the Ozarks (Eagles' Nest Press, 2000) pp. 73-79.

Sources from Episode 102

  1. “Family Finds Secret Room After Floor Collapses in Garage,” The Mirror, January 2018, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/family-finds-secret-room-after-11867740.

  2. “Factory Owner Murdered; Wife Shut in Closet,” Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1922, Accessed 10/22/18, https://www.newspapers.com/image/380425338/?terms=fred%2Boesterreich.

  3. “Fleeting Glimpse of Phantom Lover Gained by Chilton Resident,” The Sheboygan Press, 5/13/1930, Accessed 11/3/18, https://www.newspapers.com/image/239525103/?terms=dolly%2Boesterreich%2Breligion.

  4. “15 Things to Know About Dolly Oesterreich, the Wife Who Kept Her Lover in the Basement,” The Richest, date unknown, https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-things-to-know-about-dolly-oesterreich-the-wife-who-kept-her-lover-in-the-basement.

  5. “Hold Widow in Murder, Mrs. Oesterreich Accused,” Los Angeles Times, 7/13/1923, Accessed 11/7/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/380440945/?terms=Fred%2BOesterreich.

  6. “The Hollywood Woman Who Kept a Male Sex Slave in Her Attic,” The 13th Floor, date unknown, www.the13thfloor.tv/2017/04/05/the-hollywood-woman-who-kept-a-male-sex-slave-in-her-attic.

  7. “Mrs. Oesterreich Freed,” Los Angeles Times, 1/16/1925, Accessed 11/6/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/380587169/?terms=roy%2Bklumb.

  8. Don Nachaidh, “The Phantom in the House of Oesterreich,” Startling Detective Adventures 5, No. 26 (July, 1930): 12-19.

  9. Addison Nugent, “The Married Woman Who Kept Her Lover in the Attic,” Atlas Obscura, 6/7/2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-married-woman-who-kept-her-lover-in-the-attic.

  10. “Oesterreichs Not Made Happy Through Acquisition of Wealth,” Sheyboygan Press, 4/10/1930, Accessed 11/4/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=25091787.

  11. “Police Obtain Murder Clew,” Los Angeles Times, 8/24/1922, Accessed 11/5/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/380426312 and https://www.newspapers.com/image/380426330.

  12. “’Bat Man’ Case: A Lurid Tale of Love and Death,” Los Angeles Times, 3/20/1995, Accessed 11/3/2018, articles.latimes.com/1995-03-20/local/me-44878_1_dolly-oesterreich.

  13. “The Man in the Closet,” Sunday News, 9/3/1961, Accessed 10/2/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/459146913.

  14. “Los Angeles has Weirdest Murder Case,” Cumberland Evening Times, 4/22/1930, Accessed 11/3/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/3762966/?terms=dolly%2Boesterreich%2Breligion.

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  16. “Widow of Oesterreich is Arraigned as Slayer,” Los Angeles Times, 7/24/1923, Accessed 11/7/2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/380441597/?terms=Fred%2BOesterreich.

Sources from Episode 101

  1. Margaret K. Brady, Navajo Children’s Skinwalker Narratives (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1984).

  2. Donald Callaway, Joel Janetski and Omer C. Stewart, “Ute,” Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11 (Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1986), pp. 336-367.

  3. Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, Hunt for the Skinwalker, Directed by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (The Orchard, 2018).

  4. Warren L. D’Azevedo, “Introduction,” Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11 (Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1986), pp. 1-14.

  5. “Dominguez and Escalante Expedition, 1776,” Uintah Basin, date unknown, www.uintahbasintah.org/jdandemain.htm.

  6. Åke. Hultkrantz, “Mythology and Religious Concepts,” Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11 (Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1986), pp. 630-40.

  7. Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah (New York: Paraview Pocket Books, 2005).

  8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Navaho Witchcraft (Boston: Beacon Press, 1944).

  9. Ryan Skinner and D.L. Wallace, Skinwalker Ranch: No Trespassing, True Stories and Secret Files (Ryan T. Skinner, 2014).

  10. Southern Ute Indian Tribe Chronology,” Southern Ute, date unknown, https://www.southernute-nsn.gov/history/chronology.

  11. Leon Wall and William Morgan, Navajo-English Dictionary (Flagstaff: Native Childe Dinétah, 2014).

  12. “The Dominguez-Escalante Trail,” Washington County Historical Society, date unknown, wchsutah.org/roads/dominguez-escalante-trail.php.

Sources from Episode 100

  1. “Mysterious Sealed Sarcophagus Found in Egypt—What's Inside?,” History.com, July 2018, https://www.history.com/news/sarcophagus-egypt-treasure-discovery.

  2. “The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism,” Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 30, 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697.

  3. M.E. Cadwallader, Hydesville in History (Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1917).

  4. E.W. Capron, Modern Spiritualism: Its Facts and Fanaticism, its Consistencies and Contradictions, with An Appendix (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1855).

  5. Whitney R. Cross, The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015).

  6. Reuben Briggs Davenport, The Death-Blow to Spiritualism: Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters, as Revealed by Authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken (New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1888).

  7. Arthur Conan Doyle, The History of Spiritualism, Volume 1 (Cassell And Company Ltd. London, 1926).

  8. “Find Skeleton in Home of the Fox Sisters,” Salt Lake Telegram, Nov. 28, 1904.

  9. “Hamlet.” Oxford English Dictionary. www.oed.com.proxy.bc.edu/view/Entry/83737?rskey=2xvYmf&result=1#eid. Accessed 8/24/2018.

  10. E.E. Lewis, A Report of the Mysterious Noises, Heard in the House of Mr. John D. Fox (Rochester: Shepard and Reed, 1848).

  11. “A Skeleton’s Tale: The Origins of Modern Spiritualism,” Skeptical Inquirer 32.4 (July/August 2008).

  12. Michael Norman and Beth Scott, Historic Haunted America (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995).

  13. Barbara Weisberg, Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).

Sources from Episode 99

  1. “Squash Holds Decapitated King Louis XVI's Blood,” LiveScience, January 2013, https://www.livescience.com/25914-squash-holds-king-louis-xvi-blood.html.

  2. Giselle Liza Anatol, The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2015).

  3. “1975, February-July: The Vampire of Moca,” Anomaly Info, date unknown, http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/1975-vampire-moca.

  4. Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries (Greenleaf Publications: Murfreesboro, TN, 1997).

  5. “Animals Killed, An Island is Abuzz,” New York Times, January 26, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/us/animals-killed-an-island-is-abuzz.html.

  6. “Chupacabra: Facts About the Mysterious Vampire Beast”. LiveScience, October 16, 2012, https://www.livescience.com/24036-chupacabra-facts.html.

  7. Benjamin Radford, “Seeking the Puerto Rican Chupacabra,” Alibi Volume 19:35, September 2-8 (2010).

  8. Benjamin Radford, Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore (University of Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 2011).

  9. Nick Redfern, Chupacabra Road Trip: In Search of the Elusive Beast (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015).

  10. “Vampire Dog Spotted in Texas,” The Telegraph, 8/14/2008, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2556133/Vampire-dog-spotted-in-Texas.html.

  11. Sola-Santiago, Frances. “Meet la Gárgola de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico’s Latest Chupacabra-Like Sensation.” Remezcla, 8/27/18, http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/meet-la-gargola-de-barceloneta-puerto-ricos-latest-chupacabra-like-sensation.

Sources from Episode 98

  1. Murray Morgan, Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (New York: 1951/Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018).

  2. Junius Rochester, “Bagley, Daniel (1818-1905) and Clarence B. Bagley (1843-1932),” Historylink.org, 28 July 2001, http://historylink.org/File/3470.

  3. Adam Woog, Haunted Washington: Uncanny Tales and Spooky Spots from the Upper Left-Hand Corner of the United States (Guilfort, CT: Globe Pequot Press 2013).

  4. Margaret Read MacDonald, Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest (Little Rock: August House 2005).

  5. Junius Rochester, “Denny, Arthur Armstrong (1822–1899),” Historylink.org, 28 Oct 1998, http://www.historylink.org/File/921.

  6. Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).

  7. “Sin City: A Red Light History of Seattle,” SeattleMet, 29 January 2010, https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2010/1/29/red-light-history-0210.

  8. J. Kingston Pierce, Eccentric Seattle: Pillars and Pariahs who Made the City Not Such a Boring Place After All (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press 2003).

  9. Coll Thrush, “Hauntings as Histories: Indigenous Ghosts and the Urban Past in Seattle,” Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History, edited by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press 2011).

  10. Nena Peltin, “Home, Sweet Haunt,” SeattleMet, 18 December 2008, https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2008/12/18/1008-pastlives.

  11. Bill Speidel, Sons of the Profits: Or, There's No Business Like Grow Business: the Seattle Story, 1851-1901 (Seattle: Nettle Creek, 1967).

  12. Richard Walker, “King County Council Remembers 1865 Exclusion of Native Americans,” Indian Country Today, 10 February 2015, https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/king-county-council-remembers-1865-exclusion-of-native-americans-I5hcpWZ3v0C7FztJkbCHiQ.

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  14. Marjorie A. Muecke, “Resettled Refugees’ Reconstruction of Indentity: Lao in Seattle,” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 16.3/4, Southeast Asian Refugees in the United Sates (FALL- WINTER, 1987), pp. 273-289.

Sources from Episode 97

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  2. John F. Geeting and Henry C. Geeting, American Criminal Reports Vol. XV., Chicago: Callaghan and Co. (1909).

  3. Sherman R. Moulton, The Boorn Mystery/An Episode from the Judicial Annals of Vermont (Vermont Historical Society, 1937).

  4. Leonard Sargeant, “The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Dead,” Journal Book and Job Office (Manchester, VT, 1873).

  5. Gerald M. McFarland, The Counterfeit Man/The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case (University of Massachusetts Press, 1990).

  6. “How Russell Colvin Came Back from the Dead,” Strange Company, June 8, 2015, http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-russell-colvin-came-back-from-dead.html.

  7. “First Wrongful Convictions: Jesse Boorn and Stephen Boorn,” Northwestern School of Law, date unknown, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/vt/boorn-brothers.html.

  8. “The 1673 Murder of Rebecca Cornell,” New England Historical Society, date unknown, http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/1673-murder-rebecca-cornell-good-fire.

Sources from Episode 96

  1. “Wife Discovered With Husband’s Heart, Centuries After Death,” National Geographic, February 2017, https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/france-embalmed-heart-rennes-quengo-perrien-archaeology.

  2. Arthur Conan Doyle, The History of Spiritualism, Vol. I. (The Book Tree, 1926).

  3. MichaelGallagher, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Extraordinary Life of Medium Daniel Dunglas Home,” Michael Gallagher Writes (2013-2018).

  4. Michael Gallagher, “Florence Cook: Materializing Medium or Mendacious Fraud?,” Michael Gallagher Writes (2013-2018).

  5. Daniel Dunglas Home, Incidents in My Life (A.K. Butts, 1872).

  6. Mrs. Daniel Dunglas Home, D. D. Home: His Life and Mission (Trubner & Co, 1888).

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  8. “A Few Words on an Unpopular Subject”, Hartford Daily Times, August 10, 1852.

Sources from Episode 95

  1. Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall, Historic Bye-Ways, Volume 2 (John Maxwell and Company, 1864), pp. 320-338.

  2. John Elfreth Watkins, Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life that Have Never Been Solved (John C. Winston Company, 1919), pp. 120-126.

  3. Jay Robert Nash, Among the Missing (Rowman & Littlefield, 1978), p. 331.

  4. “The Curious Case of Orion Williamson,” Mystic Sciences, February 2018, https://mysticsciences.com/2018/02/01/the-curious-case-of-orion-williamson.

  5. "Can Such Things Be?: The Riddle of Orion Williamson & the Strange Mystery of Ambrose Bierce,” Prairie Ghosts, https://www.prairieghosts.com/bierce.html.

  6. Colin Wilson, Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience (Random House, 2012).

  7. “Bierce’s Second Act,” Strange History, February 18, 2011, http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/18/bierces-second-act.

Sources from Episode 94

  1. “Raining Frogs & Fish: A Whirlwind of Theories,” LiveScience, April 2014, https://www.livescience.com/44760-raining-frogs.html.

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