Welcome back Strangers! Today’s episode will focus on the Snallygaster, based on your response to our March Instagram poll!

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Racism, death/murder, child/animal death, gore

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References:

Wikipedia: Snallygaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snallygaster

Atlas Obscura: The Unsettling History of Maryland’s Native Cryptid, The Snallygaster - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-snallygaster

Legends of America: The Snallygaster - https://www.legendsofamerica.com/snallygaster/

Appalachian History.net-: It’s the Snallygaster! - https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/11/its-snallygaster.html

Preservation Maryland: Haunted Maryland: The Monsters Lurking in Frederick County - https://preservationmaryland.org/haunted-maryland-the-monsters-lurking-in-frederick-county/

The American Snallygaster Museum - https://www.snallygastermuseum.com/

WFXR: Cryptid of the Week:Beware the Snallygaster - https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/monsters-and-mysteries-of-appalachia/cryptid-of-the-week-beware-the-elusive-snallygaster/

Welcome back to Something Strange! It’s episode number 37, and today we’ll be discussing the 90’s sensation that swept the nation: Furbies!

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References:

Wikipedia: Furby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby#:~:text=This%20belief%20most%20likely%20stemmed,banned%20them%20from%20their%20offices.

FAA, NSA, v Furby - https://www.faa.gov/media/19696

Fur-bidden Tech: The conspiracy behind the furby ban - https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2024/05/fur-bidden-tech-the-conspiracy-behind-the-furby-ban/

Mental FLoss: 6 Wild Furby Myths that People actually Believed in the 90’s - https://www.mentalfloss.com/fun/toys/furby-myths-people-believed

CBS Evening News: Talking Toy of Spy? (from 1999) - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/talking-toy-or-spy/

Ripley’s Believe it or Not: was your Furby Spying on you - https://www.ripleys.com/stories/was-your-furby-spying-on-you

Welcome back to Something Strange! It’s episode number 35, and we’ll be hopping in the time machine back to the American West, where we’ll be discussing a brutal string of murders committed by the notorious Bender family.

Stay tuned at the end of this episode to check out the trailer for Moon Brews podcast!

**TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE**

Murder, descriptions of bodies/injuries, descriptions of gore, discussions of the harshness of the American West.

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References:

Wikipedia: Bloody Benders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders

National Archives: The Homestead Act - https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/homestead-act

Smithsonian Magazine: The Kansas Homestead Where America’s First Serial Killer Family Committed Its Crimes Is Up for Sale - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sale-kansas-land-where-bloody-benders-committed-their-crimes-180974121/

Crime Reads: The Bloody Benders: America's First Family Of Serial Killers - https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/

Mental Floss: The Bloody Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family - https://www.mentalfloss.com/crime/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers

Library of Congress: Image 2 of The Weekly Kansas chief (Troy, Kan.), May 22, 1873 - https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015484/1873-05-22/ed-1/?sp=2

Kansas Historical Society: Bender Knife - https://www.kansashistory.gov/kansapedia/bender-knife/10106

CPI Inflation Calculator - https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1873?amount=2000

Kansas Alumni: What lies beneath: KU students, faculty search ‘Bloody Benders’ property - https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/