The Macabre Memoranda

Many believe that Lilly Gray, who's headstone reads "Victim of the Beast 666" was, in fact, possessed and killed by a demon. Thanks to the work of some dedicated historians (and decent record keeping) we now have a better picture at the meaning behind this eerie, beastly epitaph...
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This podcast is produced, researched, hosted, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras and UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay.
Sources used for this episode:

https://tinany.medium.com/lilly-gray-victim-of-the-beast-58eff9613b60
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10550322/lilly-edith-gray
https://www.fox13now.com/2016/10/31/the-mystery-of-lilly-gray-victim-of-the-beast-unearthed
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/55606
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_(number)

When ships full of pale women and their caskets arrived in New Orleans, vampiric suspicions began to arise... but what was the real story behind these "Casket Girls"?
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This podcast is produced, researched, hosted, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras from Pixabay.
Sources used for this episode:
https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/casket-girls/
https://www.nola.com/300/300-unique-new-orleans-moments-casket-girls-shipped-to-new-orleans-for-molding-into-refined/article_2038e39e-0290-535f-875b-a0de5f93aee8.html
https://locationsoflore.com/2022/08/06/casket-girls-new-orleans-vampire-tale/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/casket-girls
https://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/sihistory/settlement/french/frwomen#:~:text=Many%20French%20explorers%2C%20traders%2C%20and,were%20relatively%20independent%20and%20influential
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5597&context=etd

When Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated a haunting the Perron family home, they claimed that the evil spirit responsible was that of Bathsheba Sherman - a witch who committed herself to Satan, and killed her own child before killing herself. Her grave faced near-constant vandalism because of these claims, but how true are they?
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This podcast is produced, researched, hosted, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras from Pixabay.
Sources used for this episode:
https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/historians-wanting-to-honor-bathsheba-sherman-raise-funds-to-repair-headstone/article_60381b78-a657-11ed-9282-ab63cb3d5841.html
https://medium.com/phenomenon-the-paranormal-publication/will-the-real-bathsheba-please-stand-up-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the-paranormal-51c39b61bacb
https://medium.com/the-shortform/the-true-story-behind-the-conjuring-movie-e19f7818be9a
https://allthatsinteresting.com/true-story-of-the-conjuring-perron-family-enfield-haunting
https://globalnews.ca/news/8247260/bathsheba-search-for-evil-andrea-perron-interview-the-conjuring/
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2017/02/dispelling-demons-detective-work-at-the-conjuring-house/

Content warning for human and animal death!
Celebrate this Friday the 13th with the history of the bubonic plague, and theories behind how it reached such deadly tolls in medieval Europe...
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This podcast is produced and edited by Ivy Boyd. Hosted and researched by Ally, Ivy, and Laurel Boyd. Music is by Geoff Harvey and UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay.
Sources used for this episode:
https://historycollection.com/thou-shalt-not-suffer-a-cat-to-live-why-pope-gregory-ixs-vox-in-rama-implicated-cats-in-devil-worship/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/06/in-the-middle-ages-devil-fearing-christians-killed-cats-which-carried-the-unintended-consequence-of-increasing-the-rat-population-and-the-spread-of-the-black-death/?chrome=1
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever
https://www.epidemic-histories.com/plaguedoctor#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20earliest%20prints,not%20represent%20a%20specific%20doctor.

It is said that premature burial was so prolific in the medieval and early modern period that bells (attached to the body buried below via a string) were used to alert someone that the recently buried were still alive. Some claim that this is where the terms "saved by the bell" and "dead ringer" came from...but is this true? What other means did we come up with to prevent something as scary as being accidentally buried alive?
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This podcast is produced, researched, hosted, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras from Pixabay.
Sources used for this episode:
https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/apparent-death-and-coma-in-the-18th-century/
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xp7pmd7s/items?canvas=7
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/people-feared-being-buried-alive-so-much-they-invented-these-special-safety-coffins-180970627/
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-phrase-dead-ringer/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/charles-f-mills-grave-bell
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/users-guide-to-definitive-death