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*CW: racism, autopsies, abuse, drug use, and death.* This week Shannon brings us the harrowing case of Kelvin Moore and the current state of the Alabama prison system. New laws are in place to keep inmates from earning time back for good behavior and there is a prevailing next-of-kin issue, among myriad other problems. One of these problems has led to family members of incarcerated peoples not receiving the bodies of their loved ones intact after they have passed. We explore the claims of why and the mystery of whether this will ever be remedied.  Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources: ANDSCAPE Bureau of Justice Statistics Equal Justice Initiative The Guardian Alabama Reflector Alabama Daily News Vera UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog - Pt. 1, Pt. 2 ABC 15 News Atlanta Black Star - 1, 2 Prison Book Network

We’re back together and headed to West Virginia this week, home to not only Mothman (Holland?!) but to the Flatwoods Monster, too. Was it a cryptid? An extraterrestrial? A bird? Does it deserve to be on the runway of Ru Paul’s Drag Race? We think so. We delve deep into fandoms of Drag Race, Ghost Adventures, and Marvel so hop in the car; we’re headed on a roadtrip through the Appalachian, cryptid-covered hills! Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart! Sources:  The Mother Source on the Flatwoods Monster Skeptical Inquirer: The Flatwoods UFO Monster by Joe Nickell Braxton County website History.com West Virginia Public Broadcasting All That’s Interesting WBOY website Braxton Citizens’ News: Mrs. America Competition Cryptid Wiki Snopes

Our reigning ghost host Holland is back again to talk all things folklore! Is Limewire folklore? What about Mothman? Taylor Swift?! We truly talk about everything this episode, from Slenderman to parakeets to licking. So much licking (New here? Sorry!). Come for the expert and stay for the idiots! Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart! Sources: Whatisfolklore.org Cryptid Quiz Green Bean Casserole: The Logic of a Midwestern Foodways Aesthetic “Our Lady of Authenticity: Folklore’s Articles of Faith” in Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies (pp. 19-37) Willow G. Mullins Folklore Rules by Lynne McNeill

We're back and it's a big one! This week Professor Chris (a real professor y'all) is stepping in for Shannon to tell us about the SS Central America and her untimely end. She's full of gold when she goes down, but 130 years later Tommy Thompson finds her and brings up some of her treasure. When asked to pay his backers, Tommy disappears with the gold. So what happened to the gold? How long is too long to be held in contempt of court? And what did Emma believe was a Spanish doubloon for way too long? Come find out and make sure to bring your lawyer! Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart! Sources: Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (2009) PGCS, The Coins of the S.S. Central America Another Delay for Ex-Deep-Sea Treasure Hunter Stuck in Jail Fugitive Treasure Hunter Arrested in Florida Treasure Hunter Still in Jail After 6 Years for Refusing to Disclose Whereabouts of 500 Gold Coins Found in Historic Shipwreck Tarnished Treasure: Will Shipwreck Hunter Tommy Thompson’s Legal Limbo Finally End? Court Cases (Various Docket Filings): Columbus-America Discovery Group v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, 56 F.3d 556 (4th Cir. 1995) United States v. Thompson, Case No. 2:15-cr-81 (S.D. Ohio) Williamson v. Recovery Limited Partnership, Case No. 2:06-cv-292 (S.D. Ohio)

Emma didn’t get bingo this week but maybe you will as Shannon tells us about the German town of Bielefeld that just might not exist! Numerology rears her (sometimes ugly, sometimes beautiful) head, tangents abound, and there’s a lot of disclaimers, but one thing is for sure: Bielefeld understands a #bit.  Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart! Sources: Wikipedia Deutsche Welle City of Bielefeld BBC News Degruyter: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Atlas Obscura Goethe Institut Bielefeld Marketing Reddit

This week Emma shocks Shannon with the disappearance of quintessential-70s college student Steven Kubacki. What exactly happened to this man during his last year of college? Time travel? Laylines? Aliens?! Listen in to learn why aliens love the fall, who Emma’s new stepdad is, and the scope of man's audacity. Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources: The first installment of Ellen Killoran’s six piece Substack Steven Kubacki, PhD website The Anchor, Hope College’s Student Newspaper Steven Kubacki’s LinkedIn and his Psychology Today page The Lake Michigan Triangle Holley Archeology website about the “North American Stonehenge”

Have you got a demitasse set? Carafes? Drums?! Whatever you have, Buttercup Sunshine and Dandelion Moss have got the piping hot tea ready for you. This week, Shannon clues us into everyone’s favorite nighttime go-to, Sleepytime Tea, and the cult that may have started it all. Does this cult have a weak grip on the tea as it stands today? Or is it still steeped in it?  Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources: Inverse Thought Catalog Celestial Seasonings: Our History Wikipedia The Urantia Foundation Youth Pastor Ryan’s TikTok Extra Crispy Bon Appetit (in case you want a tea rebrand)

Happy New Year, Pod Fiends! We're closing out 2023 with our favorite dirty Santa, Belsnickle! Enjoy the throwback and we'll be back in your ears with fresh new episodes in 2024. It's the holiday season! Emma’s coming atcha with the creepiest Christmas companion out there - Belsnickle. This Dirty Santa, while weird and gross, is really here to make sure that the real Santa doesn’t need to put you on his naughty list, so you’d better watch out! We’ve got Carmela the Troll, and Loretta the Elf watching too, so put on your scariest Christmas mask and join the chaos this week! Come follow us on ⁠TikTok⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠! Visit our ⁠website⁠! ⁠Send us a heart fart⁠! Sources: ⁠The Mother Source⁠ ⁠Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine⁠ ⁠Museum of the Shenandoah Valley⁠ ⁠New York State Parks⁠ The Office “Dwight Christmas” from 2012 on Hulu

Happy Holidays from your favorite chaos besties! We hope you all have a wonderful season however you celebrate and enjoy this throwback to Christmas gone by! Merry Christmas, Witches! We’ve got a short one this week to get you in the holiday mood; Shannon tells Emma the terrifying tale of Grýla, the Christmas Witch of Iceland, and her crazy sons, the Yule Lads. Is there anything better than traumatizing your kids into behaving? Probably, but telling them there are thirteen trolls coming to lick all of their belongings might keep them in line while you prepare for the holidays. So take a quick break with us and snuggle in for some creepy holiday cheer! Sources: Smithsonian on ⁠Gryla⁠ and the ⁠Yule Lads⁠ ⁠Iceland.is⁠ ⁠The Reykjavik Grapevine⁠ ⁠Mythical Creatures Guide⁠ ⁠The Mother Source⁠ Guide to Iceland on ⁠Gryla⁠ and the ⁠Yule Lads⁠ ⁠Mental Floss⁠ ⁠Villains Wiki⁠ ⁠Iceland Mag⁠ ⁠Vice

This week it’s short and sweet…smelling? When was the last time you smelled a frog? We’re not sure as Emma regales with the legend of the Loveland Frogman. Is this creature extraterrestrial, somehow deciding that Ohio was the best place to touch down? Or is it simply an escaped Pokémon that Emma can’t pronounce? Join the chaos, and thank God for the Loveland Frog(man). Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources:  Loveland, Ohio and the Loveland Frog from the Mother Source The Frogman of Loveland Christmas book Frogman video sighting Finding the Truth North American Cryptids Cryptid Wiki The Portalist Creature from the Black Lagoon Snopes Cincinnati Enquirer WCPO Weird U.S.

We’re back with the two OG best friends this week and it’s an expedish! Shannon brings us the story of Salomon August Andrée’s Arctic balloon expedition and the mystery that surrounds what happened to the crew to this day. Emma gets excited about mass spectrometry, there are so many pigeons, and a 24-year-old professor makes an appearance; bound to be a great time. Yay science!  Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources: The Map House: George Melville Boynton Ep. 65: Cheerio, My Dude: George Melville Boynton Wikipedia 1 Wikipedia 2 Aviation History ExplorersWeb: Expedition Karolinska Institutet SciHi Blog ExplorersWeb: Hoax Don’t Take Pictures

This week it’s all things vampy with special guest host Marissa! Shannon and Emma are along for the centuries-long ride as Marissa talks through the origins, history, and facts of vampire lore. Would we want to be alive forever, having to make new friends every century? We’d rather not, please and thank you? So come join the sparkly chaos and learn how Emma knows next to nothing about Twilight; like, where the hell you been, loca?! Come follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter!  Visit our website! Send us a heart fart!  Sources: Ask a Mortician History.com on Vampires  Let’s Talk Religion on the history of Vampires History.com on consumption  When Rhode Island was “The vampire capital of america.”  The Evolution of Vampires in Pop Culture TED-Ed - Vampires: Folklore, fantasy and fact from Michael Molina