It's once again time to learn about cemetery symbolism! This time Sara is taking us through the magical world of secret societies and what they've decided to adorn their headstones with,
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We've all heard the story of Gentleman Jack, prowling the streets of Whitechapel in 1888 and preying on it's most vulnerable inhabitants. Like seriously... how could you NOT know about this?
What's often overlooked is the life and circumstances of the women Jack preyed upon. They were women with families and lives before some jerk in a top hat cut their lives short..so we're going to talk about them.
They deserve it.
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This week we're taking a look at what we can only describe as a Urban Victorian Cryptid. In the late 19th Century London and the surrounding area were terrorized by Springheeled Jack, a fire spitting man/demon/bear, and that's not even the weirdest thing about him.
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We know what you're thinking "Multiple clown panics??" and yeah, we were surprised too. This week we're diving into the 2016 clown sightings and then hopping into our time machine to explore the OTHER clown sightings of yore.
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This week we're keeping it light and focusing on what you might call... F-List Cryptids. Sara has scoured the depths of Cryptid Wiki to bring you silly little guys from the swamps of Florida to the beautiful hair care aisles of Quebec.
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This week we learn about one of history's most charming and yet tragic birds. Dodos shouldn't be relegated to being the butt of jokes about obsolecense when it was humans who put them there and Afternoonified will nOT STAND BY AND LET THAT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.
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Thor and Loki are at it again! This time they need to figure out how to get Thor's hammer back from the giants... and the solution slays more than you'd think it would.
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This week is a descent back into the world of medical quackery with John R Brinkley. A man who, and we're not messing with you, managed to convince way too many people that goats were the answer to uh... manly vigor.
Look, it's awful, it's disgusting and don't worry, we get to watch him fail by the end of it all.
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Ever been in Europe and thought "Man, I could really go for looking at a lot of human bones right now." Great news! You can! This week we have some excellent Ossuaries where you can peep all the human remains your little heart desires.
Note: I did want to title this mini The Church of 11,000 Sluts but tanking our algorithm seemed unwise.
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We're going to explore some of the more... colorful members of historical European royalty for this week of camp. Colorful in the sense that they had terrible families, deep seated mental illness or even all of the above. It's sad, it's silly, it's pretty par for the course with us!
Special thanks to Middle Ages for our Camp theme song!
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