An alleged witch who became a ghost who was involved with an occultist who was hand-picked to replace the devil himself: true stories don’t get more Halloweeny than that of Dublin’s Darkey Kelly.

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• https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/darkey-kelly-brothel-keeper-of-dublin/
• https://archive.org/details/diaboliadapoemd00combgoog/page/n18/mode/2up
• https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/a-widows-memory-episode-65/id1516362673?i=1000540665709
• https://dublin.ie/live/stories/the-hell-fire-club/

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Today we talk about inventions that kill and their well-meaning inventors. Including Franz Reichelt, Alfred Nobel and Thomas Midgley Jr.

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• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654
• https://www.invent.org/inductees/dean-kamen
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-tailor-eiffel-paris-france-parachute
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel
• https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/
• https://interestingengineering.com/culture/thomas-midgley-jr-the-man-who-harmed-the-world-the-most
• https://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf

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This week, Sarah brings a hearty dose of death positivity into October with the help of some actual newspaper articles from the Victorian era. From real life ghost stories to one widow’s zany worst day ever, this episode truly has it all.

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• http://thebabydied.blogspot.com/
• "The Victorian Book of the Dead" by Chris Woodyard

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Sarah is in prison, both figuratively and literally, and tortured with an episode about implications and paradoxes surrounding infinity, supertasks and Zeno of Elea.

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• https://www.cantorsparadise.com/zenos-dichotomy-paradox-b185b7167f61
• https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae281.cfm#:~:text=Answer,the%20size%20of%20a%20proton

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Handle with care - or the world ends. This week, Clay shares two stories of men who found themselves in the unpleasant position of having to make a decision with the fate of humanity in balance.

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• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/
• https://www.brightstarsound.com/
• https://www.brightstarsound.com/world_hero/weekendavisen.html
• https://historyofyesterday.com/the-soldier-who-saved-humanity-from-extinction/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3136111.stm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRj0dAuETA&t

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Hedy Lamar - known as both “the most beautiful woman in the world” and “the mother of WiFi” - was more than meets the eye. This week, Sarah presents the story of a Golden Age actress who was also a brilliant inventor.

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• https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hedy-lamarr-howard-hughes-relationship/10134/
• https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/hedy-lamarr-frequency-hopping/

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Harriet Tubman is famous for helping slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, but this is only part of her story. During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman started out as a civilian volunteer with the Union Army cooking and caring for ex-slaves and later, she was tasked with leading a group of spies into the Confederacy. But that is not all and you will have to listen to hear the full story.

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• https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/june/tubman-civil-war-larson.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/
• “Harriet Tubman: The Road To Freedom” by Catherine Clinton; 2004; Little, Brow

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Long before phishing emails and ransomware, conmen had to make their living the old fashioned way: smooth talking and forged documents. This week, Sarah shares the buckwild bananas story of legendary scammer, George C. Parker!

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• Meet the Conman Who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge — Many Times Over | HowStuffWorks
• A conman who ‘sold’ the Brooklyn Bridge (upworthy.com)
• The Man who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge - Naked History (historynaked.com)

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This week we talk about the infamous Glico-Morinaga Case. What started as a kidnapping and ransom turned into a mass panic in Japan after poisoned candy hit grocer store shelves. The culprit was the Monster with the 21 Faces. But who was it and was it one person or many?

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• https://medium.com/explaining-the-unsolved/glico-morinaga-the-mystery-of-the-monster-with-the-21-faces-c855378185c6
• https://theghostinmymachine.com/2019/08/12/unresolved-the-monster-with-21-faces-the-glico-morinaga-case-and-the-candy-poisoning-incident-of-1984-kidnapping-katsuhisa-ezaki-extortion-unsolved-fox-eyed-man-video-man/
• https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/02/10/national/npa-admits-defeat-in-glico-morinaga-case/#:~:text=Prior%20to%20Saturday's%20expiration%20of,crime%20runs%20out%20midnight%20Saturday.

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There’s a 200-square mile area of eastern Massachusetts that boasts more bizarre history, paranormal activity, and cryptid sightings than anywhere else in the United States - and possibly the world. In this second part, Sarah explores the mysterious and frightening Hockomock Swamp and Bigfoot!

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• https://www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/bridgewater-triangle-and-hockomock-swamp
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVKPZLwr0k
• https://www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/sites/bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/files/attachments/01_DeAndradeCollection_Articles.pdf
• https://bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/sites/bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/files/attachments/01_TriangleCollection_001-merged-compressed.pdf
• http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/bridgewater.htm
• https://www.theyankeexpress.com/2022/05/10/399962/creatures-of-the-bridgewater-triangle-part-1
• https://www.abandonedamerica.us/taunton-state-hospital

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