106. The Pockmarked Man and The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Are those human cages hanging from a cathedral? Why yes, they are! Because this week Hayley takes us to Münster, Germany where things started to get culty in the 1500s. Then Kat covers the equally disturbing events of a railroad construction in 1890s Africa that turned into a blood bath. Let’s just say the railroad workers were begging for some of those human cages…. for protection.

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Are you conflict avoidant? Well, don’t avoid this one! Hayley covers a psychological experiment on group conflict, also known as Realistic Conflict Theory. Then Kat covers America’s first daredevil, Sam Patch (who definitely had “live, laugh, jump” in his kitchen.)

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Kat has a horse girl lesson for those who were also obsessed with the novel “Misty of Chincoteague.” But don’t worry if that excludes you, we also rewind 56 million years to the feral/wild “Dawn Horse” that everyone can relate to. Then Hayley follows it up with a lesson on our favorite Nobel Prize winner to stick his tongue out: Einstein. But more specifically his brain and how it was stolen.

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Albert Einstein's Brain Sources: 

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-man-who-stole-einstein-s-brain-hot-docs-interview-carolyn-abraham-michelle-shephard-1.6831222

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-strange-story-of-einsteins-brain#

https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/albert-einstein-quits-germany-renounces-citizenship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga-nA7mPsk

https://www.goldenstepsaba.com/resources/did-albert-einstein-have-autism

https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/was-albert-einstein-autistic/

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

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/einstein-facts-science-genius?loggedin=true&rnd=1708454135397

https://www.discovery.com/science/Story-Behind-That-Wacky-Einstein-Tongue-Photo

https://www.businessinsider.com/story-behind-einstein-famous-tongue-photo-2023-3

https://www.science.org/content/article/closer-look-einsteins-brain

https://www.livescience.com/where-is-albert-einstein-brain#:~:text=Today%2C%20170%20of%20those%20blocks,of%20medical%20history%20in%20Philadelphia.

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Happy 200th episode Night Classmates! This week Hayley covers an ambidextrous inventor, nurse, and Black History month icon: Bessie Blount Griffin. Then, Kat covers the American city that failed trying to secede from the Union. (hint… it’s in Florida.)

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Bessie Blount Griffin Sources: 

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

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/bessie-blount

https://www.thoughtco.com/bessie-blount-physical-therapist-1991361

https://www.findlaw.com/education/student-conduct-and-discipline/school-discipline-history.html

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bessie-blount-griffin-1914-2009/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-blount-griffin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obituaries/bessie-blount-overlooked.html

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The Prison Episode! Kat takes us to North Korea where an American man made a very bad decision and ended up being their prisoner for 40 years. Then Hayley takes us on a witch-hunt of sorts covering the true crime legal drama of pediatric nurse, and tarot card reader, Lucia de Berk.

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Lucia de Berk Case Sources: 

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-everyone-should-know-the-story

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/berk-lucia-de.htm

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statistical-conviction-lucia-de-berk-story-suresh-babu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2263484.stm

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statistical-conviction-lucia-de-berk-story-suresh-babu

https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-fighting-murder-convictions-rest-shoddy-stats

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Hayley covers the explosive finale to the Jack Parsons lesson. Kat follows it up with a town that was fully abandoned in the 1940s supposedly because of “Nantiinaq” lurking in the woods.

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Jack Parsons Sources:

https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/jack-parsons/

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

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Kat takes us to “Baby Land General Hospital” to cover the strange lore behind the popular toy of the 1980s: Cabbage Patch dolls. Then Hayley follows it up with part one of a lesson on THE sex-cult rocket man… and no, it isn’t Elton John.

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Jack Parsons Sources: 

https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/jack-parsons/

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

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Hayley covers the World War II story of a Iva Toguri and how she was wrongfully convicted of treason. Then, Kat follows it up with a lesson on a mysterious creature in the Congo that caused a bit of a feud between two scientists.

Kat’s Etsy Shop for Friendship Bracelets: https://severaslays.etsy.com

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Tokyo Rose Sources: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9MT7OcWiQ

https://www.history.com/news/how-tokyo-rose-became-wwiis-most-notorious-propagandist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/iva-toguri-daquino-and-tokyo-rose

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Kat missed a flight recently and decided to ask the question: TSA… are they necessary? Then Hayley follows it up with a lesson that birthed a rabbit hole into c-section history. (TW for birth stuff.)

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C-Sections / Dr. James Barry Sources: 

https://www.history.com/news/the-extraordinary-secret-life-of-dr-james-barry

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17893840/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20historians%20are%20certain,through%20her%20son%27s%20adult%20life.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/african-healers-midwives-performed-cesarean-c-section-birth-in-uganda-robert-felkin/536-7f7e5d0d-4dd2-4d24-821f-935858174e15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

https://hekint.org/2020/04/03/a-surgeon-and-a-gentleman-the-life-of-james-barry/

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Hayley teaches us about something that West Point's command historian Sherman Fleek said "Hardly anyone knows about it. If pooled among 4,400 cadets, 3,000 federal employees, 1,500 military staff and faculty, I doubt 30 people will know a thing about it.” Kat follows it up by teaching about how suffragettes were conned by the cigarette industry.

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Egg Nog Riot Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_riot#:~:text=The%20eggnog%20riot%2C%20sometimes%20known,north%20barracks%20of%20the%20academy.

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/the-eggnog-riot-of-1826/

https://www.history.com/news/when-eggnog-sparked-a-riot-at-west-point#

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