Ep 86: Don't be a Suspicious Aloysius

01/13/23 • 117 min

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Welcome back all our loyal listeners, and happy Friday the 13th! We are kicking this year off with a fun ep filled with numbers and different superstitions surrounding them. Kelsey takes a deep dive into the history behind friggatriskaidekaphobia, or the fear of Friday the 13th. Then, Alanna shares the good numbers and bad numbers from cultures all around the world. Which ones are good luck and which ones are a bad omen, listen to find out. Happy new year, and keep it cryptic!

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Tags: Superstitions, Triskaidekaphobia, Friday the 13th, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, friggatriskaidekaphobia, Number Superstitions, Smoking Superstitions

Tags: Superstitions, Triskaidekaphobia, Friday the 13th, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, friggatriskaidekaphobia, Number Superstitions, Smoking Superstitions

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EP 85: Christmas Traditions

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Happy Holidays cryptic cuties! Our very special gift to you is an ep all about Christmas Traditions from around the world. We hope you have been good this year, or else the subject of Kelsey's segment might pay you a visit. If you live in Europe you may know all about this frightening figure, he brings beatings to misbehaving children, or may even take them back to his lair to eat later.

Alanna closes out the last ep of 2022 with two interesting Yule Witches, Frau Perchta and Befana, neither one you would want to meet if you have been naughty instead of nice this year. Gruß vom Krampus, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Alanna & Kelsey, we appreciate each and every one of you! We will catch up with you all in 2023.

Tags: Christmas Traditions, St. Nicholas, Krampuslauf, Krampusnacht, Perchtenlauf, Krampuskarten, Frau Perchta, Befana

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Episode 87: A Killer Vintage

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This week we time travel back to the 1800's to bring you some vintage crimes, all in honor of Kelsey's birthday! This one goes out to all the Capricorns out there! For Kelsey's birthday wish she covered H.H. Holmes, a murderer wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a lot of misleading media coverage. But of course, when you use names like the Murder Hotel or Holmes Horror Castle, things are bound to get blown out of proportion.. so how well do you really know Herman Webster Mudgett? We step forward in time a bit to the 1920's to talk about the Hex Hollow murder in Pennsylvania. This harkens back to our previous episode because the practitioners of an old sort of folk magic in this region believed strongly in curses. And would do almost anything to get rid of one... Alanna tells us the dark tale of how one man's life ended because of a curse, poor Nelson Rehmeyer. And he had no way to ever see it coming.....