Night Classy

Kat kicks off spooky season with a spooky animal that is sometimes a cryptid: OWLS! Next up Hayley covers the cat ladies of history, including the Patron Saint of Cats: Miss Gertrude of Nivelles.

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Cat Ladies Sources:

https://www.catgenie.com/blogs/catgazette/saint-gertrude-of-nivelles-patron-saint-of-cats

https://uscatholic.org/articles/202003/how-st-gertrude-of-nivelles-became-the-cat-lady-of-the-catholic-church/

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13891913/how-the-crazy-cat-lady-became-one-of-pop-cultures-most-enduring-sexist-tropes

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61818/8-historys-greatest-cat-ladies

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It’s time for our annual Oktoberfest episode! (AKA the loosely German-themed episode.) So, lace up those dirndls as Hayley takes us to Bavaria to learn about Adam Weishaupt the founder of a real secret society that some people think is fake. Then buckle up your lederhosen, as Kat covers a creepy little castle with a macabre history.

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Illuminati Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/adam-weishaupt

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

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

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/19/8624675/what-is-illuminati-meaning-conspiracy-beyonce

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/the-history-of-the-illuminati/142001

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171127-the-birthplace-of-the-illuminati

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Kat covers the Acali Expedition (aka sex raft) a 1973 social experiment that aimed to investigate interpersonal relationships in conditions of limited space and social isolation. Hayley covers (A PATREON PICK!) the SCP, the fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative-writing wiki project of the same name.

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SCP Foundation Sources:

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

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4146 

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4146

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Hayley covers the bio of a great Scott (who was also murderous and cannibalistic.) Then, Kat dives into how World War 2 created motorcycle gangs in the USA.

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Kat covers a cave full of millions of skeletons and how they got there. Hayley takes us back to 5th grade when you of course had a “thunderstorm curriculum.”

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Thunderstorms Sources:

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/thunderbird-native-american/

http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.031#:~:text=The%20Gros%20Ventres%20once%20possessed,blessings%20from%20the%20One%20Above.

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208172609/http:/www.albertasource.ca/natureslaws/traditions/ritual_meanings_pipe.html

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

https://www.weather.gov/media/grr/brochures/nwsthunderstorms&lightning.pdf

https://www.rd.com/list/thunderstorm-facts/

https://www.kristajain.com/post/folklore-spotlight-thunderstorms 

https://www.almanac.com/thunderstorm-facts-and-lore

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Hayley covers a deadly conflict between two Appalachian families. Kat follows it up with something cute, fun, and light hearted: the history of hair dye.

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Hatfield-McCoy Feud Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield–McCoy_feud

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/hatfields-mccoys/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Gp872AefQ

https://allthatsinteresting.com/hatfields-and-mccoys-feud

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Kat covers was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell and Hayley covers the outbreak of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy also known as "mad cow disease" and its human equivalent variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

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Mad Cow Disease Sources: 

https://medium.com/p/8d1665af2dc9

http://www.mad-cow.org/99_tracie.html 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGf41TAFvTw

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Hayley covers the bandit who could never be captured alive and Kat presents a treasure hunting mystery from the deserts of New Mexico.

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Elmer McCurdy Sources:

https://the-line-up.com/elmer-mccurdy-mummy-man

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/elmer-mccurdy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/books/where-s-elmer.html

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2018/07/elmer-mccurdy-traveling-corpse/

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Kat covers an animal that was instrumental in two world wars: the carrier pigeon. Hayley follows it up with a lesson on some spooky stains that happened in the spooky little town of Bélmez, Spain.

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Bélmez Faces Sources:

Mayer, Gerhard. (2019). The Bélmez Faces: An Investigation of a Supposedly Strong Case. 

https://medium.com/our-weird-wonderful-world/the-people-in-the-floor-ccc588d24826

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

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Hayley is back in her natural habitat as a list bitch. Delivering a list of syndromes named after cities. And Kat gives a highly topical and highly pink lesson on Barbie and her many controversies.

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City Syndromes Sources:

https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2019/2018

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/jerusalem-syndrome/9349644#:~:text=For%20some%2C%20the%20religious%20significance,spotted%20in%20the%20holy%20city.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-42626255

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

https://www.wired.com/2012/02/ff-jerusalemsyndrome/

https://www.history.com/news/nightmare-on-elm-street-real-inspiration-hmong-death

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Kat covers a creepy letter-writing campaign that rocked small town Ohio. Hayley covers the first documented female gang in London.

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Forty Elephants Sources:

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/remembering-forty-elephants-gang-cunning-brutality

https://stmuscholars.org/who-says-a-woman-cant-be-gangsta-alice-diamond-and-the-forty-elephants/

https://thecrimewire.com/institutional/The-Most-Notorious-All-Women-Criminal-Gang-in-History

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

https://www.avclub.com/meet-the-female-shoplifting-gang-who-ruled-london-s-wes-1842528335

https://www.dannydutch.com/post/meet-the-forty-elephants-the-all-girl-gang-from-london

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/27/girl-gang-london-underworld

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/the-forty-elephants/

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Would a teletubby lie? Obviously not. So, neither would the astronauts of Apollo 11. Hayley outlines the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory and exactly why anyone who believes it is stupid. Then, Kat tells the life story of iconic Irish witch, Biddy Early.

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Biddy Early sources:

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

https://www.irishamerica.com/2016/08/wild-irish-women-biddy-early-1798-1872-2/

https://www.spookyisles.com/biddy-early-ireland/

https://www.womensmuseumofireland.ie/exhibits/biddy-early

Debunking Moon Landing Conspiracies Sources:

https://theconversation.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-began-and-why-they-persist-today-118643

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

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked

https://www.spacecentre.nz/resources/faq/spaceflight/moon-hoax/shadows-parallel.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/10/one-giant-lie-why-so-many-people-still-think-the-moon-landings-were-faked

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Summer break is here so we are releasing a double feature from Patreon! This episode features a Show & Tell and a Smart Alec. Enjoy stories of penis cannibalism, bad-at-job beheadings, and jaws meets the Loch Ness Monster.

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Gaétan Dugas Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/538428a

https://macleans.ca/culture/movies/how-a-typo-created-a-scapegoat-for-the-aids-epidemic/

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

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb4mz9/how-one-young-gay-man-was-wrongfully-blamed-for-bringing-aids-to-the-us

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20877

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

Would you pay $10 for a skull reading? Hayley introduces us to the Buzzfeed personality test of the Victorian Era: phrenology! Hopefully your organ of murder isn’t too bulgy. Then, Kat tells the incredible life story of Karl M. Baer. An intersex man who underwent the world’s first gender affirming surgery, all while being a feminist icon and Jewish activist king. 

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Phrenology Sources:

https://www.simplypsychology.org/phrenology.html

https://www.yorku.ca/rsheese2/1010/gall.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/feb/05/django-unchained-racist-science-phrenology

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/facing-a-bumpy-history-144497373/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR9x3KVmE48

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/

https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/clara-barton.html#:~:text=life%20and%20legacy-,Clarissa%20Harlowe%20Barton%2C%20known%20as%20Clara%2C%20is%20one%20of%20the,for%20the%20next%2023%20years.

Karl M. Baer Sources: 

https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2022/12/11/karl-m-baer

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2015-12-05/ty-article/.premium/the-first-sex-change-surgery-in-history/0000017f-f3fd-d5bd-a17f-f7ffa4970000?v=1687269610864

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_M._Baer

https://isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex/

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Plastic Surgery Sources:

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/birth-plastic-surgery

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/reconstructing-face-america-liberating-face-and-soul-soldiers-through-innovations#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%2C%20surgeons,sense%20of%20pride%20and%20confidence.

https://www.livescience.com/4555-world-prosthetic-egyptian-mummy-fake-toe.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572582/

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/plastic-cosmetic-surgery-history-scn/index.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1174731/

https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/News/Statistics/2020/plastic-surgery-statistics-full-report-2020.pdf

https://www.duchyhospital.co.uk/news/the-history-of-plastic-surgery?_its=JTdCJTIydmlkJTIyJTNBJTIyYWM5YThhZDEtNjYzYy00ZjU2LWEzNGEtOGI4ZDIwZTY2OTk1JTIyJTJDJTIyc3RhdGUlMjIlM0ElMjJybHR%2BMTY4NjY3Mjg1M35sYW5kfjJfNDE2M19zZW9fOWZkM2EyOWIxMjMwZDJlZDdkZDQxYTRkZmU2NTQ1NmUlMjIlMkMlMjJzaXRlSWQlMjIlM0EyNzglN0Q%3D

https://theconversation.com/world-war-i-the-birth-of-plastic-surgery-and-modern-anaesthesia-106191#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20main%20techniques,at%20the%20site%20of%20implantation.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-surprising-history-and-future-of-boob-job-fever_b_5832524?ir=Australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17511491

https://www.freewomenwriters.org/2018/03/06/nose-mutilation-despicable-act-violence-women-south-asia/#:~:text=One%20such%20form%20of%20violence,rhinotomy%20or%20severe%20nose%20mutilation.&text=In%20South%20Asia%2C%20women%20are,of%20men%20in%20the%20family.

https://magazine.med.miami.edu/a-zoom-boom-for-cosmetic-surgery/

Hayley covers the queen of abstract art, and communicating with the spirit realm, Hilma af Klint. Hilma kept her art secret for decades believing the world wasn’t ready. We are glad she is finally getting the credit she deserves! Then, if you don’t already have taphophobia, you definitely will after Kat’s lesson. She recounts three terrifying stories of people being buried alive, and the lengths inventors went to prevent future mishaps.

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Hilma af Klint Sources: 

https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/hilma-af-klint-paintings-for-the-future/spiritual-beliefs#:~:text=Af%20Klint%20was%20also%20influenced,could%20communicate%20with%20the%20living.

https://www.thecollector.com/how-occultism-spiritualism-inspired-hilma-af-klint-paintings/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ab_QfeL4u4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTiKeG6JUE

https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/hilma-af-klint-paintings-for-the-future/spiritual-beliefs#:~:text=Af%20Klint%20was%20also%20influenced,could%20communicate%20with%20the%20living.

https://www.guggenheim.org/teaching-materials/hilma-af-klint-paintings-for-the-future/paintings-for-the-temple

https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-2013/symbols/#:~:text=Here%20are%20a%20few%20general,while%20U%20stands%20for%20spirit.

Safety Coffin sources: 

https://www.worstcasescenario.com/blog/how-to-survive-being-buried-alive

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/31/9075011/buried-alive-safety-coffins

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

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0305/193.html?sh=7e6b09882f39

https://allthatsinteresting.com/essie-dunbar

https://www.ranker.com/list/octavia-hatcher/ada-hart

Kat takes us into the dazzling world of vaudeville as we uncover the story of the Cherry Sisters. Their eccentric performances exist at the intersection of people who throw things at performers and those who punch walls. Next, Hayley tells the story of the Oversteegn sisters, fearless resistance fighters during World War II. You must always remember to stay human!

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Oversteegen Sisters Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-dies-at-92.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/freddie-oversteegen-who-assassinated-nazis-teenage-resistance-fighter-has-died-92-180970319/

https://time.com/5661142/dutch-resistance-friendship/

https://crimereads.com/truus-and-freddie-oversteegen-sisters-resistance-fighters/

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Tale-of-Freddie-Oversteegen-Teenage-Nazi-Killer

Hayley recaps a trial that attempted to convict a science teacher for teaching science- no, really. John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted by the state of Tennessee for teaching that humans evolved from “monkeys,” and not even American monkeys! Then, Kat explains how scientist John Calhoun attempted to answer the unknowns of human overpopulation using mice. Spoiler alert: societal structures crumble and the mice succumb to degeneracy. Maybe humans would do things differently?

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Scopes Monkey Trial Sources:

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/scopes-trial

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/monkey-trial-begins

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

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-scopes-monkey-trial

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/leopold-and-loeb-gain-national-attention

Universe 25 sources: 

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell#:~:text=Calhoun's%20most%20famous%20utopia%2C%20number,doubled%20every%2055%20days%20afterward.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/

https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941

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Kat covers the eerie legend of Corpsewood Manor, a secluded residence in the woods of Georgia, built by hand by a Satanist and his Catholic boyfriend. Dr. Charles Shudder and Joseph Odom were truly living their best lives. Maybe they didn’t have electricity, but they were never short on LSD, skulls, or pentagrams. Much like a horror movie, this true crime story takes a dark turn. Next, Hayley steps into the shadowy world of the Witness Protection Program. You have to give up your name and identity as a witness, but you will be protected by the government, and if you’re lucky you might just get them to pay for your BBL!

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Witness Protection Program Sources:

https://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/history-with-phil-the-witness-protection-program/article_32d2a543-d9e4-5cd7-88b2-a4272985651d.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649685/witness-protection-program-facts

https://books.google.com/books?id=98UWxdVcbqgC&q=LaFolla#v=snippet&q=penile&f=false

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/77695/12-secrets-witness-protection-program

https://people.howstuffworks.com/witness-protection.htm#:~:text=Victims%20of%20crimes%20committed%20by,funeral%20costs%20and%20lost%20wages.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a26016360/witness-protection-program/

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-104-witness-12-7-2018

Corpsewood Manor Sources:

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/the-corpsewood-murders-40-years-later/

https://www.churchofsatan.com/tragic-case-dr-charles-lee-scudder/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/corpsewood-manor-murders

https://the-line-up.com/corpsewood-manor

https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.com%2Fs%2Fm31qs99380qa5v0hg0sgnb8g3f23zn9w

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger