Night Classy

Kat takes us into the dazzling world of vaudeville as we uncover the story of the Cherry Sisters. Their eccentric performances exist at the intersection of people who throw things at performers and those who punch walls. Next, Hayley tells the story of the Oversteegn sisters, fearless resistance fighters during World War II. You must always remember to stay human! https://linktr.ee/nightclassy Oversteegen Sisters Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-dies-at-92.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/freddie-oversteegen-who-assassinated-nazis-teenage-resistance-fighter-has-died-92-180970319/ https://time.com/5661142/dutch-resistance-friendship/ https://crimereads.com/truus-and-freddie-oversteegen-sisters-resistance-fighters/ https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Tale-of-Freddie-Oversteegen-Teenage-Nazi-Killer  

Hayley recaps a trial that attempted to convict a science teacher for teaching science- no, really. John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted by the state of Tennessee for teaching that humans evolved from “monkeys,” and not even American monkeys! Then, Kat explains how scientist John Calhoun attempted to answer the unknowns of human overpopulation using mice. Spoiler alert: societal structures crumble and the mice succumb to degeneracy. Maybe humans would do things differently? https://linktr.ee/nightclassy Scopes Monkey Trial Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/scopes-trial https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/monkey-trial-begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-scopes-monkey-trial https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/leopold-and-loeb-gain-national-attention Universe 25 sources:  https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell#:~:text=Calhoun's%20most%20famous%20utopia%2C%20number,doubled%20every%2055%20days%20afterward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/ https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941 Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Kat covers the eerie legend of Corpsewood Manor, a secluded residence in the woods of Georgia, built by hand by a Satanist and his Catholic boyfriend. Dr. Charles Shudder and Joseph Odom were truly living their best lives. Maybe they didn’t have electricity, but they were never short on LSD, skulls, or pentagrams. Much like a horror movie, this true crime story takes a dark turn. Next, Hayley steps into the shadowy world of the Witness Protection Program. You have to give up your name and identity as a witness, but you will be protected by the government, and if you’re lucky you might just get them to pay for your BBL! https://linktr.ee/NightClassy Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023   Witness Protection Program Sources: https://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/history-with-phil-the-witness-protection-program/article_32d2a543-d9e4-5cd7-88b2-a4272985651d.html https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649685/witness-protection-program-facts https://books.google.com/books?id=98UWxdVcbqgC&q=LaFolla#v=snippet&q=penile&f=false https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/77695/12-secrets-witness-protection-program https://people.howstuffworks.com/witness-protection.htm#:~:text=Victims%20of%20crimes%20committed%20by,funeral%20costs%20and%20lost%20wages. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a26016360/witness-protection-program/ https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-104-witness-12-7-2018 Corpsewood Manor Sources: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/the-corpsewood-murders-40-years-later/ https://www.churchofsatan.com/tragic-case-dr-charles-lee-scudder/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/corpsewood-manor-murders https://the-line-up.com/corpsewood-manor https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fapp.box.com%2Fs%2Fm31qs99380qa5v0hg0sgnb8g3f23zn9w https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

Hayley teaches the history of a system near and dear to her heart: the lottery. You may only have a one in 14 million chance of picking the winning numbers, but you have a one in one chance of enjoying this episode- bu-dum-tss! Then, Kat and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle prove to everyone that fairies are real and men are stupid. Two country girls got more than they bargained for when they presented their parents with photographs of fairies.  Lottery Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhC5NmFouHU https://linktr.ee/NightClassy Lottery Sources Statistics at UC Berkeley | Department of Statistics Statistics at UC Berkeley | Department of Statistics https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf Lottery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery It turns out money can kind of buy happiness after all Piper https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/2 Lottery fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_fraud Winning the Mega Millions jackpot sounds great, but this story is tragic Riley https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/23/kentucky-lottery-winner-died-penniless/594716001/ Everything You Know About the Fate of Lottery Winners Is Probably Wrong Martinez https://time.com/5427275/lottery-winning-happiness-debunked/ Why You Can't Buy Lottery Tickets With a Credit Card Lee https://moneyinc.com/cant-buy-lottery-tickets-credit-card/ A look back at the PA Lottery scandal https://youtu.be/OhC5NmFouHU 9 Smart Moves for Lottery Winners Hanscom Federal Credit Union https://go.hfcu.org/blog/lottery   Cottingley Fairies Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/31/cottingley-fairies-fake-photos-go-under-the-hammer https://blog.newspapers.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-cottingley-fairies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-55187973 http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/the_cottingley_fairies/ Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Kat covers the second half of the Donner party. It’s mostly eating rugs and taking weeks-long depression naps. Before long, rescuers reach the stranded parties but we’re still not sure if they came from California or heaven. Next, Hayley resurrects the story of the Cadaver Synod. Pope Formosus was put on trial… 7 months after he died. It was not a normal trial.   Cadaver Synod Sources: THE TRIAL OF THE CORPSE POPE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfpwo5B0Iq4 The Cadaver Synod: When a Dead Pope Was Put on Trial Carrie Whitney https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/dead-pope-put-on-trial.htm The Cadaver Synod: Putting a Dead Pope on Trial - JSTOR Daily The Cadaver Synod: Putting a Dead Pope on Trial Why did Pope Stephen VI go to such great lengths to destroy an enemy who was already dead? Pope Formosus and Stephen VI - The Cadaver Synod of 897 by Jean Paul Laurens, 1870 via Wikimedia Commons By: Amelia Soth February 7, 2019 4 minutes https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope's Corpse Was Put on Trial Harper https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod The Cadaver Synod: When the Corpse of a Dead Pope Was Put on Trial and "Executed" Fraser https://medium.com/@mwfraser/the-cadaver-synod-when-the-corpse-of-a-dead-pope-was-put-on-trial-and-executed-1c9f3b82b11f https://linktr.ee/NightClassy Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Hayley introduces us to a man who created a reality show for his own ghost. Charles Vance Millar’s will left a wake of chaos, paramount of which was prize money for a baby-making competition. If you’re confused, don't worry, we are too. Then, Kat begins the harrowing story of survival, perseverance, and ultimate taboo-breaking, that is the Donner Party. https://linktr.ee/NightClassy Donner Party Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party# https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-donnerparty/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/donner-party-cannibalism-nation-west?loggedin=true&rnd=1682339172873 https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-donner-party https://www.wired.com/story/case-for-cannibalism-how-survive-donner-party/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donner_route_map.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party_timeline Great Stork Derby Sources Historicist: The Great Stork Derby Torontoist https://torontoist.com/2016/10/historicist-the-stork-derby/ RadGreat Stork Derby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby How A Dead Millionaire Drove Canada To A Baby-Making Race For His Fortune Asselin https://allthatsinteresting.com/great-stork-derby Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Kat covers the world’s most famous shark and inspiration for Jaws, or as we like to call it “Shark.” The Jersey Man Eater took more than a nibble from more than four people… Or was it the sea turtles? Next, Hayley recounts the time Norway and Great Britain got in a pissing contest to see who could arrive first in the “awful place” known as the South Pole. The human will to live leaves the chat about the same time the temperature plummeted to -68 degrees.  Link to Good Ohio Dogman Encounter: https://spotify.link/vnUw83sC8yb Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023 Race to the South Pole Sources: The Treacherous Race to the South Pole https://www.history.com/news/the-treacherous-race-to-the-south-pole The Race to the PoleRoald Amundsen and Robert Scott - 1911-1912 https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/race-to-the-pole-amundsen-scott.php The Race Begins: Land!: AMNH https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/earth/race-to-the-south-pole/the-race-begins-land  

Hayley tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made billionaire and inventor of 3 Edison machines in a trenchcoat. Elizabeth’s blood analyzing technology was supposed to make the impossible possible. Only it really was impossible- if only someone had told her that. Then, Kat explains how tulip bulbs were the 17th century’s version of turnips in animal crossing. Only, this was real life, and people spent their life savings on flowers. Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023 https://linktr.ee/NightClassy Elizabeth Holmes Sources: In His Own Words: The Theranos Whistleblower https://youtu.be/9wf_2KYRPWQ The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy who will head to prison this month after losing her bid to remain free during appeal Avery Hartmans https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-life-story-bio-2018-4 The rise and fall of Theranos, the blood-testing startup that went from Silicon Valley darling to facing fraud charges Pflanzer https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-silicon-valley-unicorn-theranos-and-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-2018-5#but-holmes-was-not-deterred-holmes-went-on-to-drop-out-of-stanford-university-in-2003-at-the-age-of-19-to-start-theranos-which-was-then-called-real-time-cures-she-was-inspired-both-by-her-grandfathers-medical-career-and-her-summer-2003-internship-at-the-genome-institute-of-singapore-2 Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison Liedtke https://apnews.com/article/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-prison-sentence-754b44bc47eb200f032b75f45969cb07 Elizabeth Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes   Tulip Mania Sources:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/ https://www.history.com/news/tulip-mania-financial-crash-holland https://interestingengineering.com/culture/history-of-the-tulip-from-turkish-love-affair-to-dutch-tulipmania-obsession  

Kat dives into the controversial history of double Ds, Dungeons and Dragons that is. The Christian anti-D&D organization “Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons” formed in response to a mother’s concerns about satanic worship. Just remember to keep game pieces out of bodily orifices, and you should be safe! Next, Hayley covers the Freetown Project in Grafton, New Hampshire (the hamster state). Libertarians took over the area to practice their right to traffic organs, practice consensual cannibalism, and much more… It went worse than you think! https://linktr.ee/NightClassy   Freetown Project Sources: How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears Illing https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling The Town That Went Feral Blanchfield https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project The Disastrous Free Town Project Explained Elwell https://www.grunge.com/1016685/the-disastrous-free-town-project-explained/ BADD https://www.ranker.com/list/controversial-80s-dnd-moments/jonathan-kantor?ref=hp_list_large&l=1 https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/09/disappearances-dragons-the-james-dallas-egbert-iii-story/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Pulling https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/14-fun-facts-about-dungeons-dragons-180981905/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/devils-web-who-stalking-your-children-satan https://www.grunge.com/179063/the-controversial-history-of-dungeons-dragons/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/claryestes/2020/03/14/how-dungeons-and-dragons-is-helping-kids-open-up/?sh=5ebc32096f5e Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023

Kat teaches a lesson on a dietician who dipped her toe into evangelical cult-leading. Gwen Shamblin’s diet program of praying the fat away somehow appealed to enough people that she could afford a private plane- unfortunately for her.. Then, Hayley introduces us to a pair of feral children who showed up in Woolpit, England a very long time ago. We don’t know where they came from, only that their skin was green and they LOVED raw beans.  https://linktr.ee/NightClassy ED Resource:  https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline Gwen Shamblin sources:  https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/nashville-tennessee-plane-crash-ntsb-report/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Shamblin_Lara https://www.ranker.com/list/gwen-shamblin-lara-weigh-down-workshop-church-cult/aspen-stevens https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/do-the-weigh-down-workshops-still-exist-active https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/29/gwen-shamblin-docuseries-the-way-down-remnant-fellowship Green Children of Woolpit Sources: GREEN CHILDREN of Woolpit | The story of the green boy and girl found in England | History Calling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpLUJasKrQA 6 Nightmare Historical Diseases Humanity Forgot Are Possible Wears https://www.cracked.com/article_24245_exploding-teeth-6-scary-diseases-that-were-lost-to-history.html The Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit Schneider https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62878/mystery-green-children-woolpit Green children of Woolpit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit   Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023