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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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Kat covers the time congress dumped a bunch of money into reindeer and why they carry santa's sleigh. Then Hayley follows it up with a shitty situation that smelled so bad it got it's own name.

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The Great Stink Sources:

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

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-great-stink-londons-unbearable-summer-of-1858

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_Ut95-MIo

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-great-stink-londons-unbearable-summer-of-1858

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Hayley covers the "fluid silver" poison and Kat follows it up with her most graphic lesson yet.

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Mercury Poisoning Sources:

https://youtu.be/SeYxT7SxZBg?feature=shared

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Chemistry_of_the_Main_Group_Elements_(Barron)/05%3A_Group_12/5.05%3A_The_Myth_Reality_and_History_of_Mercury_Toxicity

https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp46-c5.pdf

https://mercurypolicy.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=367

https://www.verywellhealth.com/minamata-disease-2860856

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1103842

https://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2/wisc/hg.html#:~:text=In%20many%20civilizations%20mercury%20was,used%20it%20as%20a%20medicine.

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/mercury/mercury-element-of-the-ancients/

https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2022/09/23/frontiers-environmental-science-maya-cities-polluted-with-ancient-mercury/

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

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Kat covers a collection of well preserved corpses of people that died from cholera in 1833. Then Hayley follows it up with a true crime prodcuer-pick: the story of Betty Broderick and her victims.

Link to “masturbating mummies” pic: https://images.app.goo.gl/p9ZJG8o6y7ojh3Hp9

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Betty Broderick Sources: 

https://youtu.be/ieR0CZpzNyQ

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a32479974/betty-broderick-divorce-dirty-john-true-story/

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

https://thetab.com/uk/2020/08/18/netflix-dirty-john-real-life-171496

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a32654700/betty-broderick-children-today/

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a32660065/dirty-john-season-2-true-story-timeline/

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Hey Night Classmates! We have the week off for Thanksgiving so we thought this would be a great time for you to hear the first three episodes of Alec’s new podcast Matchbook Flashback.

In these episodes you’ll hear firsthand stores of unusual phenomena like UFOs, Near Death Experiences, and yes, Dogman!

If you like it, give Matchbook Flashback a follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to pods.

By the time you’re hearing this, there will be a Thanksgiving Sasquatch encounter on the Matchbook Flashback feed. So if you’re hungry for more, you know where to go!

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Episode 1: A financial broker encounters a UFO on his way to choir practice in the early 80s.

Episode 2:  A group of 14-year-olds encounter a cryptid while digging an underground clubhouse in 1983.

Episode 3: Two Near Death Experiences. The first one is Kat's Aunt, the second is Alec's Aunt. It's an Aunt epiosde!

If you have an unusual story you'd like to share on the show, please email alec@parasaur.co

Created by Alec Ogg

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Hayley covers the evolution of an internationally loved, yet DEADLY, source of entertainment and thrill. Kat follows it up with a true story that seems fake of a human crpytid.

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Rollercoasters Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/coney-century-screams/#:~:text=The%20roller%20coaster%20has%20its,with%20wheels%20for%20summer%20use.

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

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/626458/coney-island-deadly-rough-rider-roller-coaster

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/14-crazy-amusement-park-accidents-that-resulted-in-death.htm

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Kat covers one lady that really got the ball rollin' for psychadelic tours in Mexico, the high preistess of mushrooms María Sabina. Hayley follows it up with an ancient sibling rivialry between Arsinoe IV and Cleopatra.

Add your songs to the Night Classy "Cry Songs" playlist: https://spotify.link/7RptYUn3xEb

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Arsinoe Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ab4rYDR0yY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ZPL6IDiok

https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/women-in-history-arsinoe-cleopatras-treacherous-sister/

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Hayley covers a most fascinating medical procedure and Kat covers the moral panic of TIDE PODS!

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Organ Transplants Sources:

https://youtu.be/rkfRU4MDsX8?si=7ykMEdBM5K_sZjPj

https://www.life-source.org/latest/how-are-organs-transported-for-transplant/#:~:text=Each%20organ%20is%20 carefully%20 preserved,each%20organ%20is%20labeled%20appropriately.

https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/what-can-be-donated

https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/history#7

https://unos.org/transplant/how-we-match-organs/

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2022/september/an-unexpected-tale-of-friendship-amid-paired-organ-donation

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000815.htm#:~:text=General%20discomfort%2C%20uneasiness%2C%20or%20ill,cough%2C%20and%20shortness%20of%20breath

https://health.ucsd.edu/care/transplant-programs/quality/

https://www.dmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Shelley-History-of-Organ-Transplantation.pdf

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Happy Halloween! This week we have a creepy true crime double feature. Hayley covers the case of “Who put Bella down the Wych Elm?” and Kat covers the Kuykendall Family Phone-Stalker also known as “Restricted.”

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Wych Elm Bella Sources:

Who Put Bella In the Witch Elm? By Meg Van Huygen

Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? On Wikipedia 

Revealed after 75 years: The face of Bella in the Wych Elm

Who put Bella in the wych elm? On The History Press

Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?: Espionage, Witchcraft, and other Theories On Carious Archive

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Kat covers a haunted doll in Key West and Hayley covers a doctor who collected one of Hayley's favorite things.

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Fukushi Masaichi Sources:

https://youtu.be/SuoYcGGnfm4?si=ETgqlRrOQAbxxu0_

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mvxgpx/the-art-of-preserving-tattooed-skin-after-death-629

https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2023/08/10/how-one-ohio-company-is-preserving-human-tattoos-#:~:text=“These%20tattoos%20are%20from%20loved,the%20world%20to%20do%20this.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/fukushi-masaichi-macabre-tattoo-collection-destroyed-in-world-war-ii/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9F1BmiTS1I

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Hayley covers a scary story about a scary house and Kat follows it up with a scary story that inspired the 2005 movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

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Whisper Estate Sources:

https://www.southernindiana.org/2020/11/02/haunted-history-in-southern-indiana/

https://www.bumpinthenight.net/night-at-whispers-estate

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8Q8T1SH/ref=atv_dl_rdr?deepLinkingRedirect=1&autoplay=1

https://whispersestate.godaddysites.com/house-history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V89BEHbFJhQ

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