Ep. 17 – The Beast

For three years during the mid 18th Century, the Gevaudan region of southern France was terrorized by a real life monster. To this day, no one knows precisely what the creature was, or where it came from, but in the end The Beast of Gevaudan has been accused of killing as many as 113 people. This is the true story.

 

Notes:

Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast – Jay M. Smith – Google Books

http://les.cevennes.free.fr/en/gevaudan.htm

http://fortean.wikidot.com/beast-of-gevaudan

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/beastofgevaudan.php

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-beast-of-gevaudan-wolf-manor-wolf.html?m=1

https://www.geriwalton.com/index.php/2016/06/the-beast-of-gevaudan/

The Beast of Gevaudan Terrorizes France

The Beast of Gévaudan: A Real-Life Werewolf?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5871897/the-modern-day-hunt-for-frances-beast-of-gevaudan

http://www.historytoday.com/crispin-andrews/sherlock-holmes-and-beast-gevaudan

http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/gevaudan_beast.htm

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/27/solving-the-mystery-of-the-18th-century-killer-beast-of-gevaudan/

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Chris Zabriskie, Cylinder Seven

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/2014010103336111/Chris_Zabriskie_-_Cylinders_-_07_-_Cylinder_Seven

Crimson Curtain, Vanishing

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Crimson_Curtain/Music_for_Vampires/05_MusicForVampires_-_Crimson_Curtain_-_Vanishing_1147_1300

David Cooper Orton, Soundtrack 2. Act 4

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Cooper_Orton/Caligari_An_Exquisite_Corpse/Soundtrack_2_Act_4

Edmund Sullen, A Cry Within

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Edmund_Sullen/Music_for_Vampires/A_Cry_Within_1364

Mike Fazio, Soundtrack 1. Act 2

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mike_Fazio/Caligari_An_Exquisite_Corpse/Soundtrack1Act2

Nevermore Eleanor, Invitation

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nevermore_Eleanor/Music_for_Vampires/Invitation_1213

 

Ep. 16 – The Living Dead

For centuries there have been stories of people who were buried alive. These are the macabre true stories of people who were declared dead and buried, even though they really weren’t.

 

Notes:

https://www.bizarrepedia.com/joseph-burrus/

Supposed Corpses: Almost Buried Alive

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2460850/amp

Angelo Hays: The Man Who Was Buried Alive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duns_Scotus

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257330/Lifting-lid-macabre-history-buried-alive.html

http://www.calebwilde.com/2014/05/true-story-essie-dunbar-lived-47-years-after-she-was-buried-alive/

I’m Not Dead Yet

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, December, January and River

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Phillip Weigl, The Scent of Cedars

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Philipp_Weigl/Sound-trax/Philipp_Weigl_-_03_-_The_Scent_of_Cedars

Sergei Chereminisov, Pulsar

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/

Julie Maxwell’s Piano Music, Dark Wonder

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Julie_Maxwells_Piano_Music/Piano_Soul/Julie_Maxwells_piano_music_-_Piano_Soul_-_18_Dark_Wonder

Scott Holmes, Secret Garden

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Music_for_TV__Film_Vol_2/Strange_Encounter

Andrew Sack, 1a 01

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Andrew_Sack/IA879/IA_01

Ep. 15 – The Cannibals

In 1961, millionaire Michael Rockefeller disappeared in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Did he drown as the official stories claim? Or did he suffer a much more grisly fate at the hands of native cannibal headhunters? This is the true story.

 

Notes:

http://www.outsideonline.com/1929556/mysterious-disappearance-michael-rockefeller

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Machlin

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/whatever-happened-to-michael-rockefeller

Lost Lands, Cannibals, and the Mysterious Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Past the Lanterns, Rejecting the Sirens and Without Redemption

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Scott Holmes, Abandoned City

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Film__Documentary/Abandoned_City

James Joshua Otto, Midnight Drive

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Joshua_Otto/And_then_the_mountains_moved/Midnight_Drive

Jon Luc Hefferman, Treacherous Voyage

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jon_Luc_Hefferman/Production_Music_2/Treacherous_Voyage

 

 

Ep. 14 – The Saint

They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. History has many tales of people who took the act of revenge to a whole new level. In this episode hear the stories of The 47 Ronin of Japan, and of Olga of Kiev, the Russian princess turned Catholic Saint whose bloodthirsty act of vengeance wiped out an entire city.

Notes:

http://www.littlebudha.com/olga-of-kiev-bird-fire/

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Olga_of_Kiev

Olga of Kiev: One saint you do not want to mess with

http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/history-and-mythology/princess-olga-of-kiev/

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/saint-buried-people-alive-burned-city-revenge/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seven_Ronin

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/punishment

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/revenge-evolution/

 

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music from this episode by Kai Engel.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

http://www.kai-engel.com/

Ep. 13 – The Bone Wars

In the mid-1870s two of the most prominent paleontologists in the world, Edward Drinker Cope and O.C. Marsh, waged an epic and often ridiculous war against one another. This is the bizarre true story of The Bone Wars.

 

Notes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-31623397

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed

Bone Wars! Othniel Marsh vs. Edward Drinker Cope

http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-march-1-1872-bone-wars-heat

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/15/battle-for-the-bone-wars-beasts/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/dinosaur-intro/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music by Julie Maxwell’s Piano Music

The Place I Called Home

Forever In Your Arms

Someday

Redefining

Dark Wonder

Time Traveler

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Julie_Maxwells_Piano_Music/

http://www.juliemaxwell.com/

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