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  3. “The Charleston Earthquake of 1886,” Lithospheric Seismology, date unknown, http://www.seis.sc.edu/projects/SCSN/history/html/eqchas.html.

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  2. “Why We All Need to Belong to Someone,” Psychology Today, 3/11/2014, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-the-name-love/201403/why-we-all-need-belong-someone.

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Sources from Episode 124

  1. “Arsenic Pills and Lead Foundation: The History of Toxic Makeup,” National Geographic, 22 September 2016, https://tinyurl.com/y5ps3d7o.

  2. “Ballerinas On Fire (1861),” Tidings of Yore, 21 November 2014, https://tinyurl.com/y2h8wkce.

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  4. “Cleopatra’s Eye Makeup Warded Off Infections?,” National Geographic, 15 January 2010, https://tinyurl.com/y3zdykb7.

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Sources from Episode 123

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  2. “Resorts Offer Guests the Chance to Room with ‘Ghosts’,” The Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2013.

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  4. James Grant, Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994).

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  7. Thomas D’Agostino, A Guide to Haunted New England: Tales from Mount Washington to the Newport Cliffs (The History Press, 2009).

  8. “A Contract with the Devil,” Murder by Gaslight, 9 Feb. 2013, www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/02/a-contract-with-devil.html.

  9. Julie Boardman, When Women and Mountains Meet: Adventures in the White Mountains (Durand Press, 2001) pp. 38–47.

  10. Anthony Pioppi and Chris Gonsalves, Haunted Golf: Spirited Tales from the Rough (Lyons Press, 2009) pp. 25–39.

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Sources from Episode 122

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  2. Allan C. Hutchinson, Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 1-27.

  3. A. W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy (The Hambledon Press, London, 1994).

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  5. “Cannibalism on the High Seas: The Common Law’s Perfect Storm,” Duhaime.org, 20 August 2011, https://tinyurl.com/y5vvb4pu.

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  2. “Lambi Dehar Mines: The Haunted Abandoned Ruins near Mussoorie,” Euttarakhand, https://www.euttarakhand.com/lambi-dehar-mines-the-spooky-abandoned.

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Sources from Episode 118

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Sources from Episode 117

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Sources from Episode 116

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Sources from Episode 113

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  6. Owen Davies and Francesca Matteoni, Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

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Sources from Episode 112

  1. Jack Farrell, Mystical Experiences: Wisdom in Unexpected Places from Prisons to Main Street (Untreed Reads, 2012).

  2. Ray John De Aragon, The Legend of La Llorona (Sunstone Press, 2006), pp. 10-12.

  3. Earl Murray, Ghosts of the Old West, Vol. 1 (Tom Doherty Associates, 2008).

  4. W. B. Yeats, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales (Chartwell Books, 2015).

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Sources from Episode 111

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  3. “History Space: Vermont’s Mediums and Spirits,” Burlington Free Press, 10/31/2017, https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/10/28/history-space-vermonts-mediums-spirits/107113274, accessed 1/21/2019.

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Sources from Episode 110

  1. “The Myth That Washington Was a Swamp Will Never Go Away,” Smithsonian.com, March 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/draining-swamp-guide-outsiders-and-career-politicians-180962448.

  2. “The Reality of the Slaves Who Built the White House: Enslaved Workers Were Employed During Construction of the White House,” Thoughtco., 8 May 2017, www.thoughtco.com/slaves-who-built-the-white-house-3972335.

  3. Jeff Dickey, Empire of Mud: the Secret History of Washington, DC (Lyons Press, an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

  4. “Exploring the Haunts of a Georgetown Past,” The Hoya, 3 Nov. 2015, www.thehoya.com/exploring-the-haunts-of-a-georgetown-past.

  5. Tom Ogden, Haunted Washington, DC: Federal Phantoms, Government Ghosts, and Beltway Banshees (Globe Pequot, 2016), p. 88–93.

  6. Martin, Joel and William J. Birnes, The Haunting of the Presidents: a Paranormal History of the U.S. Presidency (Signet, 2003), p. 353.

  7. “Haunted Halcyon House,” Seeks Ghosts, January 2013, seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/01/haunted-halcyon-house.html.

  8. “The History and Hauntings of Illinois: The Haunted President,” American Hauntings, 2002, www.prairieghosts.com/lincoln2.html.

  9. “Is the White House Haunted? A History of Spooked Presidents, Prime Ministers and Pets,” The Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/30/is-the-white-house-haunted-a-history-of-spooked-presidents-prime-ministers-and-pets/?utm_term=.7584f10b3141.

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Sources from Episode 109

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Sources from Episode 108

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  2. Gary J. Galbreath, “The 1848 ‘Enormous Serpent’ of the Daedalus Identified,” Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.5 (September/October 2015).

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Sources from Episode 107

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  2. Rob Iliffe, Newton: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007).

  3. Gale E. Christianson, Isaac Newton: Lives and Legacies (Oxford University Press, 2005).

  4. Eleanor Herman, The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul (St. Martin's Press, 2018).

  5. “Czechs,” Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University, https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/czechs.

  6. Steve Shukis, Poisoned: Chicago 1907, a Corrupt System, an Accused Killer, and the Crusade to Save Him (TitleTown Publishing, 2014).

  7. “A Historical Look at Czech Chicagoland,” Chicagoland Czech-American Community Center, http://www.chicagocacc.org/the-historical-czech-chicagoland.

  8. “History of Pilsen,” WTTW—My Neighborhood, https://interactive.wttw.com/my-neighborhood/pilsen/history.

  9. Alicia Cozine, “Czechs and Bohemians,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/153.html.

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  11. “BILLIK A CONFESSED FAKIR,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 17 July 1907, p.5.

  12. “WOMEN DUPES OF BILLIK,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 11 Dec 1906, p. 3.

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  16. Deborah Blum, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

  17. Linda Civitello, Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017).

  18. Holly Tucker, City of Light, City of Poisons: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017).