Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.

This is silenced, the radio murders.

You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.

The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.

And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.

I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHart radio app, Apple podcasts,

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Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in.

This is part two of our not entirely safe for the kids. Exploration of the theories behind

witches and broomsticks. Get ye to a nunnery for you have been corrupted by the filth

put forth in these episodes. No, it's not filth, but it gets a little blue.

But it's a lot of fun and it's really pretty educational and super Halloweeny. Let's hop right in.

Let's go. Despite the great work that researchers have done in investigating this theory,

we have to be completely honest. Not everyone agrees with it. There's still a lot of debate.

No, it's true, Ben. There's some holes in this story and we've talked about it too.

Like the timing is a little off in order for it to really work quite right.

Basically, let's just boil it down to this. There are a lot of social psychologists that think that

much more to blame than some kind of trip or some kind of psychedelic experience

was the kind of stuff that you see play out in the movie The Witch, which is again phenomenal.

The idea of this isolation, this social and political unrest, and this sense of

these young women felt powerless and that needed to exercise some power of their own

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