Episode 156 - Lori Vallow, Cult Mom - Part 1

It’s dangerous to be in Lori Vallow’s orbit. In Part 1, we tell the story of the murder of Lori’s husbands and her move to Idaho to be part of a Doomsday cult. But then she seems to have lost track of her kids…

Sources:

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/3/6/21166418/lori-vallow-chad-daybell-jj-vallow-tylee-ryan-alex-cox-tammy-daybell-charles-vallow

“Everything We Know About the Deeply Suspicious ‘Doomsday Couple’” by Amanda Arnold, Feb 26, 2020, The Cut

Dr Phil Podcast - A Mother’s Secret: The Lory Vallow Story, Dr. Phil McGraw

 

Episode 155 - The Alien Abduction of Travis Walton - Part 2

Maybe Travis Walton should have stayed with the aliens, because after he got back to earth, things got nasty.

Sources:

https://debunker.com/texts/walton.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident

"Fire in the Sky" -- The Walton Travesty by Anson Kennedy, March/April, 1993 issue of The Georgia Skeptic, the newsletter of the Georgia Skeptics

https://debunker.com/historical/KlassContraWalton.pdf

https://debunker.com/historical/WaltonMisc.pdf

“Ground Saucer Watch" Memo on the Walton Incident, Conclusions (undated: probably December, 1975)

Profitable Nightmare of a Very Unreal Kind"by Jeff Wells, (from The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 6 January 1979)

Skeptical Information on the Travis Walton "UFO Abduction" Story, Revised Aug. 5, 2016, Robert Sheaffer

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/controversial-ufo-movie-turns-25/

https://www.gaia.com/article/travis-walton-ufo-incident

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4094

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/travis-walton-still-haunted-by-ufo_n_7119910

https://www.mufon.com/travis-walton-abduction---1975.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/770774/Travis-Walton-killed-alien-abduction-brought-back-life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident

Episode 153 - The Denver Spiderman, aka The Ghost Slayer, aka There Otto Be a Law Against People Living in Your Attic

He was little, he was quiet, and he lived in an attic. No, he was not Otto. He was worse, because this attic dweller didn’t ask permission. And he also played the mandolin. Oh, and he killed a man.

Sources:

https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/tale-denver-spider-man

http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/msm-theodore-coneys-the-spiderman-of-denver-1941/

https://www.ranker.com/list/theodore-coneys-facts/jacob-shelton

www.darkhistories.com/the-spider-man-of-denver-theodore-edward-coneys/

Episode 152 - Is Dorothy There? - The Disappearance of Dorothy Scott

Dorothy Scott was a good person. So why did her car speed by the friends she was picking up at the hospital? Why did she drive off, never to be seen again? And who was the man making the calls to her parents, telling them he loved Dorothy, he had Dorothy, he had murdered Dorothy?

Sources:

https://the-line-up.com/dorothy-jane-scott

https://wickedwe.com/dorothy-jane-scott/

truecrimesociety.com

crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com

wikipedia

Episode 150 - Typhoid Mary: The First Asymptomatic Carrier

Episdode 148 - 6969 Abort! The Mark and John Would-Be Murder Mystery

When Mark met Rachel in a chat room, he fell instantly in love. She introduced him to her little brother. Those two hit it off and became friends. But then someone kidnapped Rachel and started to ask Mark to do some very dark things…

Sources:

https://listverse.com/2017/05/08/top-10-insane-events-in-historys-strangest-online-catfishing-case/

You Want Me 2 Kill Him? by Judy Bachrach, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502

2005 Channel 4 Documentary Kill Me If You Can

Episode 146 - America's Orphan Trains

New York had tons of street children. Farmers in the midwestern U.S. needed help shucking corn. So putting a bunch of orphans on trains to Kansas to be claimed by farmers was a win-win, right?

Sources:

Prairie Public short videos

https://www.history.com/news/orphan-trains-childrens-aid-society

Orphan Trains Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work on Farms Out West by Erin Blackmore

Riding An Orphan Train West in 1859, A Tough Street Kid Named John Brady Formed a Friendship With Fellow Orphan Andrew Burke.  One Would Grow Up to Govern Alaaska; The Other, North Dakota By Victoria Mechler

https://www.cowboysindians.com/2017/05/orphan-train-friends-and-future-governors/



We're Taking a Break

We are taking a quick break - working on some new episodes and some of us are working at our day jobs. We will be back in about a month, so maybe listen to some oldies that you may have missed. Look for new episodes to resume on February 13. Happy New Year everybody! Looking forward to good changes in 2020 (in the world, Weird World isn’t changing one bit). Thank you for listening!

Episode 143 - Strange Lakes: Skeleton Lake and Lake Peigneur

How did all those bodies get into a tiny lake in an isolated Himalayan valley? And you’ll never guess how old they were. Then find out if it is a good idea to drill for oil in a lake above a mine. Hint: It’s not.

Sources:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india

The Mystery of the Himalayas’ Skeleton Lake Just Got Weirder by Robin George Andrews, Aug 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/science/skeleton-lake-archaeology-roopkund.html