5: Episode 5: The Bloody Benders

05/21/23 • 32 min

This week we head onto the Osage Mission Trail of Kansas, traveling through open prairie with few rest stops between Cherryvale and Independence. The road can be a dangerous place, with even places of apparent safety harboring dangerous secrets.
Sources: Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas; Lady Killer by Tori Tefler

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4: Episode 4: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

This week we head into Russia and the Ural Mountains as we follow a group of young, but experienced adventurers as they hike and ski into the wilderness.
Sources: Don't Go There: True mystery of the Dyatlov Pass by Svetlana Oss

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6: Episode 6: Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm

In spring of 1943 rations were tight as World War II raged across Europe. In the UK, four boys resorted to poaching from the Hagley estate to find eggs. In the tangled branches of a wych elm in Hagley Wood, the boys found far more than they bargained for.
Sources:
https://www.hagleyhall.com/
https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2019/04/04/who-put-bella-down-the-wych-elm/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchJnrZgz-4