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  2. Ray John De Aragon, The Legend of La Llorona (Sunstone Press, 2006), pp. 10-12.

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  2. “The Reality of the Slaves Who Built the White House: Enslaved Workers Were Employed During Construction of the White House,” Thoughtco., 8 May 2017, www.thoughtco.com/slaves-who-built-the-white-house-3972335.

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  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

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  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.

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

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

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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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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.

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  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.

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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).

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  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.