It’s the 1923 and Chicago is shocked by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. The culprits ended up being 18-year olds Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who thought they had committed the perfect crime. Join Clay as he shares the crime of the century.

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• Baatz, Simon “For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago” New York Harper, 2008

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Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood icon, timeless sex symbol, and…film producer responsible for upending the entire movie industry? Yep, you read that right. Spend Valentine’s Day with us as Sarah explains how Marilyn Monroe changed Hollywood forever.

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It is time we talk about the duck who joined the US Marine Corps and waddled to war against the Japanese. Yes, this is our second episode about animals fighting in World War II.

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• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/566246/story-siwash-beer-drinking-duck-who-joined-marines
• http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-47643.html
• https://historicperiodicals.princeton.edu/historic/?a=d&d=MarineCorpsChevron19441007-01.2.71&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-Siwash------
• https://books.google.com/books?id=3lYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=For+courageous+action+and+wounds+received+on+Tarawa&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiziaHzhYffAhUrrVkKHcAfCqIQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=For%20courageous%20action%20and%20wounds%20received%20on%20Tarawa&f=false
• https://books.google.de/books?id=BkIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=Life+magazine+siwash&source=bl&ots=455uTebpp6&sig=za0fbgEQ9bb0awNPF-34pmnNCjc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiBpN3h5IbfAhUGbcAKHSaoBGQQ6AEwCHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Life%20magazine%20siwash&f=false
• https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2022/11/23/the-marine-who-was-a-duck-yes-an-actual-duck/

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A pope, a corpse, and the entire Catholic diocese walk into a bar… Join us this week as Sarah tells the extremely macabre tale of Pope Formosus and his posthumous criminal trial.

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• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/vatican-dead-pope-on-trial?loggedin=true&rnd=1674328065646

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It's the end of the world! Apocalyptic radio broadcasts, computer bugs and an alien invasion!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• W: https://www.historylink.org/File/5136
• W: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/
• X: Peebles, Curtis (March 24, 1995). Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth, Ch 2 'The 1947 Flap'. Berkley Books.
• X: https://www.history.com/news/roswell-ufo-aliens-what-happened
• Y: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/Y2K-bug
• Y: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4138-2004Jun24.html
• Y: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/years-911-wtc-security-experts-prepared-y2k
• Z: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4766

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Part 3 is a real gas! Chock full of spooky clowns, vampires and witches!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• P: https://historycollection.com/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/10/
• Q: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37293494
• R: https://web.archive.org/web/20080306220348/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,917
• S: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
• T: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/society.health
• U: https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/12/13122196/clown-panic-hoax-history
• V: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650659/scotland-gorbals-vampire-hunt

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Was it hyperthyroidism or maybe polyphagia that drove Charles Domery and Tarrare to eat anything they could get their hands on? Or, better yet, were their stories even true? This week, Sarah shares two tales so wild that they're difficult to believe, despite scientific documentation of their unusual eating habits.

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• https://gizmodo.com/what-caused-these-men-to-eat-cats-and-candles-1685293458
• https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/03/02/an-insatiable-hunger-tarrare-and-charles-domery/

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The panic's keep coming this week as we cover Oujia boards, disappearing penises and Lisztomania! History sure has had some great panics. Let's talk about 26 or more of them in this multi-part series!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• H: https://web.archive.org/web/20071023075655/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820350,00.html
• I: https://archive.org/details/1688firstmodernr00stev/page/249/mode/1up
• J: https://www.history.com/news/mysterious-illnesses-mass-hysteria#:~:text=5.,believed%20were%20making%20them%20sick.
• K: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603112434/http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Health/Story/A1Story20120309-332578.html
• L: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160817-franz-liszt-the-worlds-first-musical-superstar
• M: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2002/07/return-of-spring-heeled-jack/
• N: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/
• O: https://www.vox.com/c/the-highlight/21242299/outbreak-girlstown-chalco-world-villages-villa-de-las-ninas

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History sure has had some great panics. Let's talk about 26 or more of them in this multi-part series!

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• A: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/05/29/pinball_was_banned_in_new_york_until_a_single_miraculous_shot_convinced.html
• B: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fight-to-save-america-from-satans-subliminal-rock-messages
• C: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/
• D: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105
• D: https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
• E: http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/03/18/christ-and-an-egg-from-leeds/
• F: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14117464.flashback-hundreds-blackburn-pupils-hit-fainting-frenzy/
• G: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax
• G: https://factordaily.com/edgar-allan-poe-science-fiction/

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It's another double-decker episode! This time, I share two stories of people who disappeared under bizarre circumstances, but reappeared alive. However the details of what happened to them are still unknown.

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• https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/why-this-toronto-firefighter-may-never-know-what-happened-on-his-puzzling-journey-across-the-u-s-1.4998819
• https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/One-year-later-still-questions-on-how-Whiteface-13607502.php
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585515/how-presumed-dead-lawrence-bader-invented-new-life
• https://medium.com/the-crime-scene/the-disappearance-of-lawrence-joseph-bader-74bce923acbb
• https://www.upi.com/Archives/1965/02/10/The-Strange-Case-of-John-Fritz-Johnson/3111570208794/

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