CURSE LAND: Recent Episodes
CURSE LAND
An anthology show about strange happenings, curious folk, and small towns. Usually with a bent toward the American South. New episodes release every Friday.
Mythological Creatures Are Among Us: Guardians of the Sacred White Bison | Ancient Origins
The Mountain Where Space Junk Litters | Amusing Planet
How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them
My town survives by making human sacrifices. But someone had to go and ruin everything : nosleep
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The Battle Over Captain America, the Chopper from "Easy Rider" - Maxim
Mythological Creatures Are Among Us: Tatanka Ska - The Sacred White Bison | Ancient Origins
Formless
The Canary in a Coal Mines | Appalachian Magazine
Music: Drifter / 十 by Bōkōyume | Bandcamp
Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be. - The Washington Post
Rebecca's podcast, This Land
Music: KILOTONS by MASKSMASKSMASKS | Bandcamp
I let a woman eat for free at my restaurant last night. It was the best decision I ever made. : nosleep
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- Abiotic Oil Theory Explained - HRF
- Hobo Nickels and "Big Nose" George Parrot - Past & Present
Music: The Bird and the Rainbow
- In 1945, a Japanese Balloon Bomb Killed Six Americans, Five of Them Children, in Oregon | History | Smithsonian
Music: ISOTOPE ENTANGLEMENT
- 99 years ago, World War I arrived on the shores of Cape Cod | Boston.com
- America's 1st Attack From the Sky: The Bombing of Naco, Arizona - World History
Music: Gringo Groove
- The Black Cloud : nosleep - See more from Nick Moore
Music: Drifter 二
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The 'Clotilda,' the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
Mount Shasta: Spirits and Danger on a Sacred California Mountain | Ancient Origins
I’m a janitor, and I accidentally participated in the Harvard wormhole experiment : nosleep
The Screaming of the Cows - Short Story - Horror & Suspense by Edwin Crowe
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In Defense of the Water Witches @ The Nightshirt
High Strangeness in the Kettle Moraine — The Singular Fortean Society
I've Worked at a Wastewater Treatment Facility for 14 years. These are the things I've found in the Sewage. : nosleep
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- The first ever edition of CURSE LAND t-shirts are for here! Order yours.
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Specter Moose of Maine – Legends of America
The Nashville Network at Grandma’s House: The Story of “TNN” | Appalachian Magazine
Government Manipulation and the Virgin Mary | Mysterious Universe
Followers of occultist Aleister Crowley to be welcomed back to his former Highland home
Some Strange and Mysterious Unbreakable Ciphers | Mysterious Universe
A Grave Matter - True West Magazine
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Forever, A Drug : nosleep - THANK YOU to Nick Moore for this story. For more of Nick's writing, click here
Patent Medicine & the Popular Medicine Show – Legends of America
A Giant Sloth Mystery Brought Me Home to Georgia | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
Reverend G's Paranormal Universe : The Curious Case of Elisa Lam
Heart - Clovetown
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A Farm of the Cursed Kind? | Mysterious Universe
The Tree Guardians of Kyoto - Environment - Utne Reader
When Snails Attack: The Epic Discovery Of An Ecological Phenomenon - Science Sushi
The Mystery of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel - Montana Pioneer
Biplanes Over Blair: Calling in the Air Force for the Mine Wars – expatalachians
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The Brown Mountain Lights | North Carolina Ghosts
Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America | Psychiatric Times
Russia's Most Powerful Nuclear Missile Is in Final Testing Stage and These Other Weapons Are Also On Their Way
How Civil War Plant Remedies Could Improve Modern Medicine - Atlas Obscura
Everyday i'm visited by two birds. One brings good news. The other brings bad. : nosleep
The Bizarre Disappearance of Keith Reinhard in Silver Plume, Colorado
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African samurai: The legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan - CNN
Red, White and Blue Crabs: These Tree-Climbing, Bird-Killing Crabs Come in Multiple Colors and No One Knows Why - Science Sushi
"Uncanny Occurences" x Labyrinth13
Amish population grows by 1,000 a year, despite Lancaster County's urban sprawl, development | Local News | lancasteronline.com
The Living History Project - Creepypasta
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The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time
Buy the Book: Elephants on Acid
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The Decades-Long Effort to Protect the World's Largest Sheep | Science | Smithsonian
What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' | Books | The Guardian
The mental health crisis among America's youth is real – and staggering
Letter from Africa: The country where everyone is expected to be late - BBC News
Mass amphibian extinctions globally caused by fungal disease
Crash Hand - Creepypasta
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Massey Energy - Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion
Doin’ the Mashed Potato! Mississippi community baffled by bowls of mashed potatoes on people’s doorsteps - New York Daily News
Homo luzonensis: New human species found in Philippines - BBC News
Why Many of Our Appalachian Ancestors Believed in Fairies | Appalachian Magazine
Sailing Beyond : nosleep
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132 Million-Year-Old "Loch Ness Monster" Skeleton Found
She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it - CNN
Altamaha-ha – Serpent of the Altamaha River in Georgia – Legends of America
How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national sensation
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy - The New York Times
Reptilian humanoid startles bikers in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
Southern Life: Eating Breakfast at Night | Appalachian Magazine
Smokey Face - Your Ghost Stories
The Hole In The Wall - Your Ghost Stories
HAARP: Weather Control
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"Wolf in the Basement" | Literary Hub * Buy the book: Once into the Night - University of Alabama Press * Author's website: Aurelie Sheehan -
Ghost Camels in the American Southwest – Legends of America
The Hitchhiker who Asked me to take her to Hell : nosleep
An American visit to Saudi Arabia, ca. 1985 – Popula
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The Real Johnny Appleseed Brought Apples—and Booze—to the American Frontier
Creepy audio found on daughter's iPod video. : Paranormal
Cold Case Project: slayings of West Chester man and his dogs...
TVA closing Paradise plant in Kentucky, Bull Run in Tennessee
NotInvisible: Why are Native American women vanishing?
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Stories in this episode:
She Needed Help - Your Ghost Stories
Mysterious Ghost Plane Parked for Years at Spanish Airport | Mysterious Universe
Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print : NPR
Dozens of birds fall from sky along Route 22, witnesses and police say - The Morning Call
Ghost-hunting past haunts Alaska board nominee | Lexington Herald Leader
Inside the World’s Largest Outhouse Race
Premium Harmony | The New Yorker
Other important links:
Thanks to Sam Haysom. Buy his book, The Moor
Music by Kabbalistic Village
More music fom Sounds Like an Earful
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Sorry for the late release! The every-Friday release schedule will resume immediately.
The Stories:
A Lost Monument to Industry—and Traditional Urbanism | The American Conservative
No Escape In Sight - 1990 Tennessee I-75 Pile-Up
Dazzle Speaks with the Dead | The Baffler
Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal
My girlfriend started finding little white hairs in her mouth. : nosleep
Other links:
- Thanks to Sam Haysom for the nosleep story. Buy his book, The Moor
- "Ossuary 7 - Resolve" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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The Stories:
On a Remote Volcanic Island, American Soldiers are Worshipped like Gods
The SS Ourang Medan: Death Ship (Updated) | MB Forde
The Moon-Eyed People | North Carolina Ghosts
Candles : nosleep
"Staircase Man" x 41 Strange
Other Important Links for this episode:
- Vlad Cuiujuclu - Spotify: Yeni Nostalji - Home page: Yeni Nostalji
- /r/Clovetown
- The Dragons Horde Podcast
- "Ossuary 7 - Resolve" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Southern Fish Camps, Where Tradition is Fried
John B Hood: The Confederacy's Gallant Failure
The Muhammad Ali Underwater Training Hoax
The Hormel Girls
Different Angels - Nightmare Magazine
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Our People | The Peregrine Fund
Foreigners in Japan and Frightening Supernatural Encounters | Mysterious Universe
Cleansing thermonuclear fire | Restricted Data
The Dark Side of Soy
Truck : nosleep
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Part Two, The Mamie Story Continues - The Trial
Sabbatical in the Ohio Methlands - Nightmare Magazine
Werewolves of London and a Texas Chupacabra | Mysterious Universe
Where 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Past : NPR
Roosters Have Special Ears So They Don't Crow Themselves To Deaf - Science Sushi
Grandma Says We Can't Look Out the Windows : nosleep
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Why are so many people still dying from snake bites? - BBC News
Man turns himself in to the FBI for killing Abraham Lincoln in 1865
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down x KY Book of the Dead
Centralia Mine Fire: Devastation from Underground
Perma | Does Mamie Thurman Still Walk Those Hills?
Navajo Skinwalkers – Witches of the Southwest – Legends of America
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The Kentucky Bookstore Keeping Regional Literature Alive – expatalachians
Black Shuck: The Legendary Devil Dog Of The English Countryside
The Great Texas Train Crash at Crush | Amusing Planet
The Ammons family demonic possession and exorcism - home described as "portal to hell" - Altered Dimensions Paranormal
Learning the Ancient Art of Horseback Falconry - Atlas Obscura
The Republic of Franklin: Appalachia’s Lost Country | Appalachian Magazine
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Howard Unruh And The Walk Of Death: America's First Mass Shooting
"Embalming in the Old Days" x KY Book of the Dead
Demon Core: How The Third Nuclear Bomb Destined For Japan Killed a Bunch of American Scientists | Amusing Planet
The Double-Barreled Cannon of Athens | Amusing Planet
Flight 401 - The Ghost Crew of Eastern Air Lines | Historic Mysteries
The Cooper Family Photo | Historic Mysteries
The Mysterious Case Of the Utsuro-Bune – Ghost Theory
"Peculiar Solutions Co" x 41Strange
Music credits: Vlad Cuiujuclu - Spotify: Yeni Nostalji - Home page: Yeni Nostalji
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God and guns: Jemison church provides unique ministry - The Clanton Advertiser | The Clanton Advertiser
Silva’s White Caps – A Vicious Outlaw Gang of New Mexico – Legends of America
Abigail Folger: The Lesser-Known Victim Of The Tate Murders
How Eclipse Chasers Are Putting a Small Kentucky Town on the Map | Mental Floss
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The great Texas emu bubble - It will never take off
The Alaska Triangle – Disappearing Into Thin Air – Legends of America
Giants in West Virginia – Legends of America
The Difficult Decisions of Robert E. Lee
The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones
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Why Do Racehorses Have Such Weird Names?
The Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went to War | Mental Floss
The Search for Lost Confederate Gold
Haunted Bee Gum x KY Book of the Dead
Charles Hatfield: The "Rainmaker" That Brought On A Devastating Flood
Jack Parsons: Occultism, Magic and the Birth of NASA JPL
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Strange, fanged deer persists in Afghanistan | EurekAlert! Science News
41Strange - The Face
The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman - Scientific American Blog Network
The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone - WSJ
How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs
The Vallecas Case - Altered Dimensions Paranormal
The pioneer of ruin (The pioneer of ruin) — High Country News
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Murder by Gaslight: The Bessie Little Mystery.
Strange States: The Greenbrier Bunker of West Virginia | Mental Floss
"They Predicted Their Own Deaths" x KY Book of the Dead
Pearl Harbor Veteran Recalls Coming Eye-to-Eye With a Japanese Bomber - HISTORY
Edgar Allan Poe’s Apocryphal April Fool Hoax
Russian Man Shares One-Room Apartment with Full-Grown Pet Wolf
What Ever Happened to Confederate President Jefferson Davis?
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Thanksgiving Biscuits: The Secret to the South's Recipe - The Atlantic
The mad king of Clipperton Island – Ghost Theory
4 Guitarists Who Changed Southern Music (Part 1): Chet Atkins
Is This the Most Mysterious Grave in Virginia? | Mental Floss
I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy. - Houston Chronicle
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Why the U.S. Government Treats Catfish Unlike Any Other Fish - Atlas Obscura
Kentucky Book of the Dead by Keven McQueen, Illustrations by Kyle McQueen | The History Press Books
When a Not-So-Nuclear Bomb was Lost in a 1958 Training Disaster
17th Century “Ghost Mines” of the Appalachians | Appalachian Magazine
Letter Number Six: The Old Schoolhouse by John Bach - Lowestoft Chronicle - ISSN 2160-4274
The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey
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Getting the Steamboat Willies: The Phantom of Raccourci Cutoff – EsoterX
Newly Unearthed Civil War Bones Speak Silently to the Grim Aftermath of Battle | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
The Real Bell Witch of Tennessee – Strange Unexplained Mysteries
Untold story of the Stockyards: Judas goats | Local Lifestyles | siouxcityjournal.com
6 Everyday Phrases with Sinister Beginnings
Voting Booths Were a Radical 19th-Century Reform to Stop Election Fraud - Atlas Obscura
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The Flying Machine has landed: 1859-2018 | Area History | richlandsource.com
Maplehurst murder, Part II: The unraveling | Area History | richlandsource.com
"HOLY GHOST" by RYAN NAPIER | fluland
The Hillbilly Beast
Strange States: Mississippi’s Phantom Barber of Pascagoula | Mental Floss
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The Maplehurst murder, Part I: An open-and-shut case? | Area History | richlandsource.com
The hound that made the Plott name a legend - Appalachian History
Bigfoot hunters say claw marks likely evidence of 'Alabama Booger Monster' | AL.com
The Ariel: A Literary Gazette - Google Books
Inside Andersonville Prison, The American Civil War's Most Brutal POW Camp
Mysterious, Unexplained Booms Heard Near Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mysterious Universe Mystery of Unexplained Booms in Tennessee Deepens | Mysterious Universe
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A Glimpse Into the Snake Handling Churches of Appalachia | Appalachian Magazine
Revellers spot white stag during hike in Scottish Highlands - The Scotsman
Bears Discover Fire - Lightspeed Magazine
The Bleeding House on Fountain Drive – Ghost Theory
Craigmiles Mausoleum
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Stories from this episode:
Publication - The Unz Review
Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hands - News - Athens Banner-Herald - Athens, GA
Strange and Haunted Woods | What Lies Beyond
The Cody Road Bridge | Creepy Cincinnati
Murder by Gaslight: The Legend of Lavinia Fisher
The Hammond Train Wreck of 1918 Killed Scores of Circus Performers | History | Smithsonian
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