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Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters

Hector Navarro/ E.L Soto

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The world is full of myths, stories passed down from generation to generation. Mysteries haunt us. Monsters hunt us. We'll take a look at the creepy myths, the unsolved mysteries, and the monsters of true crime to find the truth of each story.

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06/05/21 • 6 min

Off Trout Run Road in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, there is a place secluded and surrounded by forest said to be a gateway into Hell. Legend tells of seven gates needed to be crossed before a portal will take you directly there. The history of the location, filled with anger and violence is said to be what caused the portal to open but is there any truth in the history that is told?
Find out if there really is a gateway to Hell on today's short episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters.
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com

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https://www.hellamtownship.com/

https://puzzleboxhorror.com/seven-gates-of-hell-urban-legend/

http://www.weirdus.com/states/pennsylvania/local_legends/seven_gates_of_hell/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hellam-township

https://yorkblog.com/yorktownsquare/seven-gates-of-hell-a-history-mystery-of-mythical-proportions/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellam_Township,_York_County,_Pennsylvania

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Do Shadow People Follow You Home?

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05/29/21 • 36 min

On this month's bonus episode, I interview my brother, Steven, who six years ago experienced a haunting that started with an encounter with a shadow person. Is it possible the hauntings Steven experienced all have scientific explanations?
In the end you decide.
Listen to his story on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com

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https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/why-brain-programmed-see-faces-everyday-objects#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow%E2%80%93Turner_Carriage_House

https://www.liveabout.com/shadow-people-2596772

https://qz.com/quartzy/1444843/what-is-sleep-paralysis/

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11/08/21 • 16 min

Today a ghost haunts the Old City Jail in Charleston, South Carolina, one said to be in a white wedding dress looking for more victims to add to her list. Her name is Lavinia Fisher and she's often called America's first female serial killer.
The legends say in 1819 the authorities of Charleston, South Carolina raided the Six Mile Wayfarer Hotel just outside of the city looking for a group of thieves. Instead they found more than they bargained for and discovered a hotel of horrors.
The owners, John and Lavinia Fisher, were arrested and charged with over 100 counts of murder and Lavinia Fisher went down in history as America's first female serial killer. But if we look at the events surrounding the case was she really the evil entity the legends say she is?
Find out the true story of Lavinia Fisher on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781609491178/Six-Miles-to-Charleston-The-True-Story-of-John-and-Lavinia-Fisher

https://ghostcitytours.com/charleston/lavinia-fisher/

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/charleston.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/lavinia-fisher-of-charleston-nations-first-female-serial-killer-or-wrongly-accused/article_8cd5c8da-e60f-11e9-abd7-0712bc94dd35.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119735321/lavinia-fisher

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

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Did Lizzie Borden Kill Her Parents?

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10/25/21 • 17 min

On August 4th, 1892 the bodies of prominent businessman Andrew and his wife, Abby Borden were found in their homes hacked to death leaving them unrecognizable. Andrew received 11 bloody blows while Abby received 19 to the face. Within days Andrew's 32 year old daughter Lizzie Borden was arrested for the crimes.
With public interest at all time high, the trial became known as the Trial of the Century. But did Lizzie Borden truly hack her father and step-mother? If not who did? And did the brutal killings leave behind spirits that still haunt the Borden house today?
Find out on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://law.jrank.org/pages/2708/Lizzie-Borden-Trial-1893.html#ixzz5MHM1WOkF

https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1444-inquest

https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1460-sullivantestimony

https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1436-biographies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/morphine-treatment/mental-and-physical-effects

http://www.thelawmuseum.org/work/lizzie-borden-case-1893

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

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10/17/21 • 15 min

In the early 1870's travelers making their way westward started disappearing along the Osage Trail. Tracking the last known whereabouts of those missing led investigators to the home of The Bender Family and soon the area they owned became known as "Hell's Half-Acre".
Find out why the Benders today are known as the Bloody Benders on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015484/1873-05-15/ed-1/seq-2/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/199684101/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/383009929/

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=31

https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Bloody-Benders-The-Family-That-Wasnt

https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/

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09/30/21 • 11 min

In 1982 Santa Fe, New Mexico a local respected reverend, Reynaldo Rivera, answered a call to deliver last rites to a dying man. That was the last time Father Rivera was seen alive. The case went cold until two years later in Montana another priest went missing under similar circumstances.
Are both cases connected or are the links between the cases simply coincidental? Listen to both cases and find out the dark secrets one reverend kept hidden until 2015, on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters .
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=37002282&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU4MzUxNzIzNSwiaWF0IjoxNjMyOTM2NTUzLCJleHAiOjE2MzMwMjI5NTN9.CbIHlLmE5WiGSqgzZB2hQ5zDnAvBJnGzJEq71mKXZqY

https://web.archive.org/web/20151107004246/http://missoulian.com/news/local/list-of-priests-accused-of-sex-abuse-includes-believed-to/article_260a2a21-8c7f-5b29-ad6a-2cbc8583426d.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130211204804/http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/larry_barker/mystery-call-a-ruse-for-priests-murder

http://www.podles.org/case-studies/Reynaldo-Rivera-Murder-Case-Study.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_Franciscan_priest_murders

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09/17/21 • 15 min

On December 2nd, 1978, alarms went off at the Athens Mental Health and Development Center, a patient, Margaret Shilling had mysteriously vanished. Six weeks later she was found naked and frozen in one of the attics of the Development center. But after moving her body, a clear outline of it remained in the concrete. Soon stories spread of a curse caused by the grief she experienced in her final moments and it wasn't long before the curse and the lost lady took a life in return.
On today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters, we find out the history and truth of the Lost Lady of the Athens Asylum and try to separate fact from fiction on the curse her body created.
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to
mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com

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https://www.historicmysteries.com/margaret-schilling/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/oh-athensasylum/

https://woub.org/2019/10/29/the-legends-behind-the-ghosts-of-athens/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00862.x

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Lunatic_Asylum#cite_note-5

https://www.ohio.edu/library/collections/archives-special-collections/manuscripts/athens-mental-health-center-collections

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1485-1660/mental-illness-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mental-illness-during-middle-ages

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What Haunts Riverdale Road in Colorado?

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09/24/21 • 14 min

Often called the most haunted road in the United States, an 11-mile stretch of Riverdale Road sitting between the cities of Thornton and Brighton is home to a phantom Camaro, a vengeful spirit, ghosts of witches, and even the gates of Hell. But which of these stories actually have a basis in truth?
Find out on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/riverdale-road

https://www.9news.com/article/life/style/colorado-guide/riverdale-road-thornton-haunted-ghosts/73-b5ead212-a2ff-44b1-8e5a-cfed45a7c828

https://mix1043fm.com/the-most-haunted-road-in-colorado/

https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/riverdale-road/

http://www.strangeandcreepy.com/riverdale-road/

http://www.coloradourbanlegends.com/the-gates-of-hell/

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The Real Candyman Killer of Houston, Texas

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09/09/21 • 23 min

On August 8th, 1973, 17 year-old Elmer Wayne Henley called the police to report the murder of 33 year-old Dean Corll. The killer was Elmer himself but what at first seemed to be an open and shut case of self-defense, quickly became an investigation into one of the worst group of serial killers in U.S history.
The leader of the group soon became known as the Candyman Killer and by the time the investigation was done, not everyone was as innocent as they appeared to be.
Listen to the true story of The Real Candyman Killer of Houston, Texas on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com

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https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XQgiAAAAIBAJ&pg=863,2367168&hl=en

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/14/archives/texas-toll-of-boys-rises-to-27-in-nations-biggest-slaying-case.html

https://abc13.com/texas-equusearch-elmer-wayne-henley-dean-corll-serial-killer/10938878/

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/corll-dean.htm

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

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

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11/01/21 • 10 min

There is a bridge a few short miles away from Weatherford, Oklahoma where many have reported seeing the spirit of a woman looking for her baby before disappearing. Others have reported seeing a blue light hovering around the bridge before hearing the pained screams of a woman.
Though the accounts of ghostly figures are up for debate, the origin for the spirit and the area known as Dead Woman's Crossing stems from a true unsolved murder from over a hundred years ago that still haunts the area today.
Find out on the mystery on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!
If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you’d like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180859/http://files.usgwarchives.org/ok/oklahoma/vitals/deaths/death1905b.txt

https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/remember-the-ladies-dead-womans-crossing-oklahoma/article_b04596ee-e839-5b8a-899c-a738abea58d5.html

http://mystorical.blogspot.com/2010/02/search-for-truth-katie-dewitt-james.html

https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2332&context=westview PDF

http://southwesternghostsandhauntings.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-womans-crossing-weatherford.html

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oklahoma/dead-womans-crossing-haunted-bridge-ok/

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How many episodes does Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters have?

Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters currently has 52 episodes available.

What topics does Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters cover?

The podcast is about Legends, Supernatural, Society & Culture, True Crime, History, Podcasts, Ghosts, Monsters and Horror.

What is the most popular episode on Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters?

The episode title 'The Seven Gates of Hell in Hellam, Pennsylvania' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters?

The average episode length on Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters is 12 minutes.

How often are episodes of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters released?

Episodes of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters are typically released every 4 days, 21 hours.

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The first episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters was released on Jul 3, 2020.

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