On this #SpookySaturday, we're taking a look at the Voynich Manuscript: a seemingly normal book from the early 1400s, except that no one knows who wrote it or what it says.

See some of the illustrations we're looking at here. Additional sources used in this episode include:

• Yale
• Wikipedia
• History

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Welcome back to The Weekly Spill, aka our weekly roundup of pop culture news and gossip. On the agenda this week are love lives in the limelight: Alix Earle and Tom Brady, Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes, and of course, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

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In honor of the "Stranger Things" series finale, in this episode we're discussing the real-life inspiration behind the series: The Montauk Project. In World War II, the United States government built a military defense base known as "Camp Hero" in New York disguised as a fishing village. In the years following WWII, Camp Hero was largely abandoned until it was converted to a state park. Or, according to some folks, it was repurposed to conduct mind control and time travel experiments on kidnapped runaway children in a secret underground lab. These experiments are known as The Montauk Project.

Sources used in this episode include:

• US Army Corps of Engineers
• Medium
• Business Insider
• Wikipedia
• NY Post
• Roadtrippers
• On Montauk

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Happy New Year! In our first episode of 2026, we're talking New Year's resolutions and calling out a Maura Murray-adjacent mystery that's been plaguing this podcast's statistics. Alma, Georgia, please explain yourselves immediately.

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In this episode, we're discussing one of Chicago's most infamous cold cases: the February 2, 2008 shooting of six women, both employees and customers, in the dressing rooms of a Tinley Park, Illinois Lane Bryant store. Five of those women were killed-- Jennifer Bishop (age 34), Carrie Chiuso (age 33), store manager Rhonda McFarland (age 42), Sarah Szafranski (age 22), and Connie Woolfolk (age 37).

Sources used in this episode include:

• Wikipedia

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Merry Christmas from Salt Shakers! In case you're becoming one with your couch for the rest of the year, this week's chit chat includes a guide to some of our favorite underrated Christmas movies. Top recs: Surviving Christmas (2004), A Castle For Christmas (2021), The Holiday (2006), and Four Christmases (2008).

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In this episode, we're discussing the December 1900 mysterious unsolved disappearance of three lighthouse keepers (James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur) from their post in Scotland's remote Flannan Isles.

Sources used in this episode include:

• Northern Lighthouse Board
• Wikipedia
• All That's Interesting
• Royal Museums Greenwich
• National Records of Scotland

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In this episode, we're talking the brand new documentary "Murder in Monaco" and the story of the December 3, 1999 deaths of billionaire banker Edmond Safra and one of his nurses, Vivian Torrente, in Safra's ultra-secure penthouse.

Sources used in this episode include:

• Netflix
• People
• Wikipedia
• Page Six

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