A Little Wicked

Lexi goes through the history of some of the world's most dangerous beauty practices. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19egypt.htmlhttps://recipes.hypotheses.org/15457https://www.healthline.com/health/mad-hatter-disease#symptomshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-people-prevent-aginghttps://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/effects-of-the-corset/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3410553https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/opium-soaked-tampons-were-the-midol-of-ancient-romehttps://www.bustle.com/p/the-deadliest-products-marketed-to-women-from-history-56901

Two brothers and a girlfriend come up with money making schemes in order to take over the Mormon church of Latter Day Saints and come up with the cult known as the Children of Thunder. https://people.com/crime/children-of-thunder-cult-5-murders-people-magazine-investigates/ https://www.cracked.com/article_35628_how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-glenn-helzer-and-the-children-of-thunder.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yBnYj8CZU

Lexi dives into the conspiracy about whether the Twilight series purposefully has Mormon undertones to try and convert the fans. https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/twilight-saga-racist-exploring-race-mormonism-serieshttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/mormon-influence-imagery_n_623487https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/at-its-core-the-twilight-saga-is-a-story-about/265328/https://hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/religion-experts-find-mormonism-references-in-twilight/article_14a3bac6-a73e-11df-9ccd-001cc4c002e0.html

Kayla goes into the strange death of Annie and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Lexi goes into the conspiracy theory of the Dead Internet Theory and why the internet is being taken over by bots. https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/how-bad-are-bots-on-twitter.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/https://www.reuters.com/technology/do-spam-bots-really-comprise-under-5-twitter-users-elon-musk-wants-know-2022-05-13/

Kendrick Johnson was only a sophomore in high school when his body was found rolled up inside a wrestling mat. What could have happened to him? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/us/kendrick-johnson-death-second-investigation-no-charges/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/us/kendrick-johnson-georgia-investigation.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXf-U2PiLo

This episode covers the medical maalpracatice journey of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, the neurosurgeon who was less than caring and practical when it came to his own patients. https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/who-were-the-victims-of-dr-christopher-duntschhttps://klakstrom.medium.com/the-real-dr-death-c31248a39f64https://www.propublica.org/article/dr-death-christopher-duntsch-a-surgeon-so-bad-it-was-criminalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch

This episode has two stories, each containing animal and human sacrifice, so be warned before pressing play! The Godfather of Matamoros was a man who was deep into dark magic and the occult while running both a cult and a drug trafficking ring. Magdalena Solis was a woman who took her fake role of being a goddess too far, resulting in the death of innocent villagers. https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Adolfo_de_Jes%C3%BAs_Constanzo https://www.serialkillercalendar.com/Adolfo%20de%20Jesus%20CONSTANZO.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD-FLV0U5w https://www.ranker.com/list/magdalena-solis-facts/jessika-gilbert https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/magdalena-sol%C3%ADs-the-high-priestess-of-blood-1278a81dea48

In this episode, Lexi talks about found footage styled movies and how they were believed to be real by the audiences who watched them and some even having some legal issues with how believable they are. https://gossipchimp.com/the-poughkeepsie-tapes-true-story-how-much-of-the-movie-is-actually-real/https://gizmodo.com/the-fourth-kind-is-a-hoax-5397359https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/joshbillinson/blair-witch-project-halloween-horror-moviehttps://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/see-original-the-blair-witch-project-websitehttps://www.site-seeker.com/blair-witch-project-still-greatest-marketing-campaign-15-years/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocausthttps://screenrant.com/poughkeepsie-tapes-movie-release-delay-10-years-explained/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/30/ufos-exist-might-come-beyond-earth-us-said-will-that-encourage-conspiracy-theorists/https://www.adn.com/features/article/fourth-kind-pays-telling-big-fib/2009/11/12/

Lori calls 911 after her husband goes overboard during a boat ride one chilly February day, but is this the full story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV8qV7Fmkq8https://www.distractify.com/p/lori-isenberg-now