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Episode 539: Mothman : Redux Part I - Bighoot

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Lord Dunmore's War With the Shawnee

In 1777 after the American Revolution began, a Shawnee chief named Cornstock favored neutrality between the Americans and the British. Another party within the Shawnees, however, favored citing with the Brits hoping that the Brits would live up to promises of no more settlements on Shawnee territory. As cornstalk lay dying, he placed a curse on point pleasant and possibly all of West Virginia. This curse seems to be like it weighs heavily on the people of point pleasant and West Virginia in general. And if you lose a soccer game there, they'll kill you. They've been covering their way through this trauma now for years. It's kind of like losing a soccer player and Saudi

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