Episode 15

Recent News

1. “Archaeologists Discover Sunken Temples of Amun and Aphrodite off the Coast of Egypt,” greekcitytimes.com, September 21, 2023, https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/09/21/archaeologists-discover-sunken-temples-of-amun-and-aphrodite-off-the-coast-of-egypt/?fbclid=IwAR0NvIYC_4_DYu0Nz8dIzPFaak83mkU-_lF3EwRdxkCgQV1Fx6sEPqimIpo_aem_AQ6p1dMnRp2MZjleLYevVg49qbPZtSRgM7WvNqMpIWPWwx9z15SHnICep3tr2fCuK30&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

2. “Stoneman Willie died in a Pa. jail in 1895, and has been on display in a funeral home ever since. That’s changing,” inquirer.com, September 11, 2023, https://web.archive.org/web/20230917212314/https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/mummy-reading-pennsylvania-stoneman-willie-funeral-home-20230917.html

3. “The world’s oldest shoes? Sandals found in a bat cave are thousands of years old, study finds,” nbcnews.com, September 29, 2023, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/worlds-oldest-shoes-sandals-found-bat-cave-spain-granada-rcna118012

4. “Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample,” cnn.com, September 25, 2023, https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/25/world/brian-may-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-bennu-scn-intl-scli/index.html?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16956852967293&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Fworld%2Fbrian-may-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-bennu-scn-intl-scli%2Findex.html

Old News

1. “Clergyman says church has vanished,” reuters.com, November 11, 2008, https://www.reuters.com/article/oukoe-uk-russia-church-odd/clergyman-says-church-has-vanished-idUKTRE4AA3O920081111

2. “Thieves steal two-century old church,” digitalspy.com, November 12, 2008, https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a135391/thieves-steal-two-century-old-church/

3. “Villagers steal church — brick by brick,” Quad-City Times, November 14, 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/image/308800435/?terms=Komarovo&match=1

4. “Russian church stolen brick by brick,” Daily Press, November 15, 2008, https://www.newspapers.com/image/748077790/?terms=Komarovo&match=1

5. “Poe Biography,” poemuseum.org, Date Unknown, https://poemuseum.org/poe-biography/

6. “How Did Edgar Allan Poe Die? Inside the Mysterious Demise of the Famed Gothic Writer,” allthatsinteresting.com, February 17, 2022, updated September 16, 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-die

7. “The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe,” smithsonianmag.com, October 7, 2014, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/

8. “Germantown,” battlefields.org, Date Unknown, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/germantown

9. “A Portrait in Blood,” pennsylvaniaparanormal.tumblr.com, June 27, 2018, https://pennsylvaniaparanormal.tumblr.com/post/175320515058/a-portrait-in-blood-portraits-of-chew-family

10. “Historic Estate Cliveden Turned Canvas Covered in Blood,” ripleys.com, November 10, 2017, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/cliveden-blood-portrait/

11. “‘The Twilight Zone’ Premiered 60 Years Ago Today in 1959,” wvxu.org, October 2, 2019, https://www.wvxu.org/media/2019-10-02/the-twilight-zone-premiered-60-years-ago-today-in-1959

12. “About Red Serling,” pbs.org, December 29, 2003, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/rod-serling-about-rod-serling/702/

13. “An Early Run-In With Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone,’” smithsonianmag.com, April 1, 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/early-run-censors-led-rod-serling-twilight-zone-180971837/

Our Big Story

1. “A Fossil Giant — Singular Discovery Near Syracuse.” New York Tribune, October 19, 1869. Page 1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/85356484/?terms=%22newell%22&match=1

2. “A Petrified Giant.” New York Herald, October 20, 1869. Page 4. https://www.newspapers.com/image/21218235/?terms=%22giant%22&match=1

3. Andrews, Evan. “The Cardiff Giant Fools The Nation, 145 Years Ago.” History. October 16, 2014. Updated May 17, 2023. https://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-fools-the-nation-145-years-ago

4. Feder, Ken. “The Monster That Stoked Americans’ Devotion to Faith Over Science.” Zocalo Public Square. October 27, 2016. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/10/27/monster-stoked-americans-devotion-faith-science/chronicles/who-we-were/

5. Franco, Barbara. “The Cardiff Giant: A One Hundred Year Old Hoax.” New York History 50, no. 4 (October 1969), pp. 420-440.

6. Pettit, Michael. “The Joy in Believing.” Isis 97, no. 4 (December 2006), pp. 659-677.

7. Szalay, Jessie. “Cardiff Giant: ‘America’s Biggest Hoax.’” Live Science. August 16, 2016. https://www.livescience.com/55787-cardiff-giant.html