She was a loner with a sharp tongue and a chip on her shoulder, estranged from friends,

family, and eventually her husband. But when her ex mysteriously fell gravely ill several times,

no one could quite prove what happened. What started as a marital strife would soon spiral

into something far darker. She had a grudge, a plan, and the perfect lethal ingredient.

This week's episode is Aaron Patterson, Australia's Mushroom Murderer, Part 1.

A bomb in the night, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder of who wants you dead.

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse, perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.

It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could, you'd rather just listen to who?

Sinisterhood

I'm going to kill you.

Well, I love a mushroom.

I...

Woman.

...love a mushroom, and I don't like when mushrooms are used nefariously because then they get a bad name.

Right. This is definitely a case where people who are like, I don't really like mushrooms in my food.

It makes, you know what? You're not wrong. But having watched fantastic fungi together, I feel like mushrooms are so magical.

And any mycologists would tell you, they are incredible.

Oh, yes.

I feel like entities almost, like, because they are, they're not even alive or dead.

You know what I mean?

They're not conscious, but are they?

Thing.

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