About this episode
Host Alex is taking a small break, so please enjoy this episode from fellow a Cultiv8 Network show, Ye Olde Crime!In this episode, Ye Olde Crime hosts Lindsay and Madison discuss the New England Vampire Panic, as well as why you shouldn’t bury baby shoes, that organs are pretty flammable, and that you should never drink or breathe in ashes of your dead loved ones, like, ever.Information pulled from the following sources:
2022 New England Today article by Joe Bills
2022 Heritage Daily blog post
2021 Newspapers.com blog post by Jenny Ashcraft
2019 History article by Crystal Ponti
2012 Smithsonian Magazine article by Abigail Tucker
1896 American Anthropological Association article by George. R. Stetson
The Avocado
New England Historical Society
Wikipedia
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