Welcome to episode 70 - Missouri - First up we take a walk down the infamous Zombie Road. In our main story we discuss James Edward Robinson aka the Internets First Serial Killer.

All Music by White Bat Audio

Information

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/mo-urban-legends/

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/missouri/zombie-road-mo/

https://www.roadstotravel.net/usa-zombie-road-missouri/

https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4359-zombie-road.html

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

https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robinson-john-edward.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7wP9bzf3YQ

Welcome to episode 69 - Minnesota First up James tells us about the Lake Pepin Serpent. Then we discuss the creepy and pathetic tale of Paul Michael Stephani aka the Weepy Voiced Killer

Information

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/minnesota/urban-legends-mn/

https://dailyyonder.com/lake-pepin-monster-fires-up-peoples-imaginations-and-local-economy/2021/05/07/

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Pepie_Monster

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta_2PdooqrA

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/04/paul-michael-stephani-weepy-voice-killer/

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stephani-paul.htm

https://www.ranker.com/list/paul-michael-stephani-facts/nathan-gibson

Music by White Bat Audio

Welcome to episode 68 Mississippi - First up is the dark tale of the Mississippi section of the Natchez Trace. Then we get into the weird yet fascinating tale of the Pascagoula alien abductions of 1973.

All audio by White Bat Audio

Research:

https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/pascagoula-river-watershed/

https://osr.org/blog/kids/pascagoula-ufo-encounter/

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/people-places/the-pascagoula-abduction/

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/historical-marker-erected-in-mississippi-to-commemorate-alleged-alien-abduction

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

Welcome to episode 67 - Wyoming First up we discuss the gruesome and grotesque fate of criminal George Parrott also known as Big Nose George, Big Beak Parrott, George Manuse, and George Warden, a cattle rustler and highwayman in the American Wild West in the late 19th century. Then we discuss the Cokeville Hostage Miracle that occurred on May 16, 1986 that ended in a way no one would expect.

Research:

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

https://www.ranker.com/list/wyoming-creepy-stories-legends/isadora-teich

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-bignose/

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14910

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

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/cokeville-elementary-school-bombing

https://www.ldsliving.com/the-astonishing-true-stories-behind-the-cokeville-miracle-movie/s/79933

https://www.reddit.com/r/latterdaysaints/comments/38e9yv/i_was_one_of_154_survivors_in_the_cokeville/

https://www.wyohistory.org/oral-histories/first-grade-teacher-janel-dayton-cokeville

Music by

Jimmy Free and White Bat Audio

https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteBatAudio

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Welcome to episode 66 - Ohio First up we take a trip to Helltown Ohio, filled with mutants, ghosts, giant pythons and Wendigos. We follow that up with a trio of strange ohio monsters that don't get enough coverage: The Charles Mills Lake Monster, Orange Eyes and the Loveland Frogman.

Music by White Bat Audio

Research:

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/urban-legends-oh/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/helltown-ohio

https://www.keatingfirmlaw.com/post/helltown-ohio

https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Mill_Lake_Monster

https://www.richlandsource.com/life_and_culture/what-monster-lurks-at-charles-mill-lake/article_4b08763a-72ac-11e5-891c-2bacb759ce5f.html

https://www.columbusnavigator.com/ohio-cryptozoology-creatures/

Welcome to episode 65 Maryland, first up the Goatman of Fletchertown Road, a cryptid who is very baaa-ad. Then we discuss America's own Spring Heeled Jack, The Phantom of O'Donnell Heights, a figure in black seen during a hot summer in 1951.

Break music - Rinse Repeat - DivKid

All other music by White Bat Audio

Check out our website at https://sofpod.onpodium.com/

Research

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maryland/goatman-md/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_(urban_legend)https://www.beltsvillenewstoday.com/post/the-legend-of-the-goatman-by-natasha-okpala

Schneck, Robert Damon. “Chapter 6: A Horror in the Heights.” The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America, Barnes & Noble, New York, 2007

Welcome to episode 64 - Indiana - Our first story is about the micro sized Puk Wud Jie's and the bad luck they bring when crossed. We then dive into the fascinating tale of James Woods and his mission to build the greatest self decapitation machine ever constructed.

All music by White Bat Audio

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Research

https://www.washtimesherald.com/news/lifestyles/cryptids-of-indiana/article_9f017b3f-4500-58b6-b609-9b48f8ea803f.html

https://hoosierhorrors.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/pukwudjie-the-little-men-of-the-forest/

Schneck, Robert Damon. “The Man in Room 41 and Other Autodecapitants.” Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History, Tarcher, New York, 2015.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2016/11/25/unusual-tragic-death-james-moon/94184470/

http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/karikari-mr-moons-suicide-machine/

https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2019/10/the-strange-death-of-james-moon.html

Welcome to episode 63 - Illinois; our first story is on the devil baby of hull house. It is an urban legend, demon curse or deformed child? Then we hear a tale of one woman's encounter with an invisible/glimmering creature; first during her childhood then again as an adult.

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All music by White Bat Audio

Research

https://ghostwalks.com/articles/hull-house-devil-baby-chicago

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/illinois/urban-legends-il/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1916/10/the-devil-baby-at-hull-house/305428/

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2021/12/illinois-glimmer-man-entity-encounters.html