Ep. 22 – The Unfriendly Skies

On April 7, 1994, FedEx Flight 705 took off on a routine flight from Memphis to San Jose. What happened next was anything but routine though. A rogue FedEx employee attempted to seize control of the aircraft, and this flight turned into one of the most harrowing and violent skyjackings in history. This is the amazing true story.

 

Notes:

http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm

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

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

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

Bensound, November

http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/cinematic

Philipp Weigl, The Scent of Cedars and Subdivision of the Masses

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Philipp_Weigl/

Scott Holmes, The Fight Against Time

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Music_for_TV__Film/Fight_Against_Time

Kai Engel, Rejecting the Sirens

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Written_in_Ink/Kai_Engel_-_Written_in_Ink_-_09_Rejecting_the_Sirens

Ep. 21 – The Bloody Benders

It’s bizarre enough when a single serial killer is terrorizing the community. But an entire family of serial killers is almost unheard of. In 1843, in rural Kansas a family of serial killers known as The Bloody Benders cut a deadly swath across the prairie.

 

Notes:

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

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53672/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers

http://www.prairieghosts.com/bender.html

Scary House On The Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Brush With ‘Bloody Benders’ Serial Killers

Little House of Murder: The Bloody Benders

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

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

Chris Zabriskie, The Oceans Continue to Rise

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Music_from_Neptune_Flux/ChrisZabriskie-MusicfromNeptuneFlux-04

Blear Moon, Gean

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon/Town_of_Two_Houses/Gean

Blue Dot Sessions, Cobweb Transit and In Paler Skies

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/In_Paler_Skies_1276

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Speakeasy_1959/Cobweb_Transit

 

Ep. 19 – The Prince of Humbugs

P.T. Barnum was many things in life–a showman, a con artist, a politician, and much more. This is the amazing true story of the man who managed to hoax the world.

 

Notes:

www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-p-t-barnum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

http://hoaxes.org/archive/display/category/p.t._barnum

http://www.barnum-museum.org/manmythlegend.htm

P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_cardiff_giant

http://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-fools-the-nation-145-years-ago

http://www.livescience.com/55787-cardiff-giant.html

 

Music:

All music from this episode is by Dexter Britain.

The Tea Party, The Time to Run Finale, Juncture, Losing Love and Opus 04

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

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. 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/

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