Episode 95
Sword and Scale
Incongruity
4 • 61.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Escapism is something most of us are guilty of. We retire to our TV shows, video games, podcasts... One would not assume that even the most esoteric escapes could be dangerous, but for two gay men in the mid 80's living in rural Northern Georgia, that would be a dangerous assumption.
This is the story of a place called Corpsewood. The handbuilt manor castle in the remote woods was meant to be a solitary retreat for Dr. Charles Scudder and Joseph Odem, but instead it would become their final resting place in which a carnival-like media atmosphere of victim-blaming would descend.
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| 0:00.0 | Sort and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences |
| 0:06.1 | Listener discretion is advised |
| 0:12.2 | So soon as I came up here in 86, you know, I started hearing about the devilish first case and you know |
| 0:17.2 | There's this castle and there was the pink room and there were these drugs and you know, so obviously it's probably the most bizarre murder case |
| 0:24.1 | I've ever encountered welcome to sword and scale season four episode 95 a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real |
| 0:54.1 | In this episode we venture back to the 80s and this topic that seems to come back again and again |
| 1:07.1 | The satanic panic era seems to have produced more strange stories than most would like to admit |
| 1:13.2 | But this particular story has overtones that are relevant to this day in the form of bigotry versus religious fundamentalism |
| 1:20.6 | and how the media can sometimes play a dangerous role between the two |
| 1:29.6 | Many of us whether we choose to readily admit it construct our lives around some form of escapism |
| 1:37.2 | Maybe your escape is a TV show waiting for you when you get home from work or a weekend relaxing at a cabin in the woods |
| 1:45.6 | It could be watching a football game on Sunday going to the movies reading a book or listening to your favorite podcast |
| 1:53.6 | We need these little breaks these escapes to keep us from burning out and for most of us that's enough |
| 2:01.6 | But some people take escapism a step further and seek to turn their escape into a permanent reality |
| 2:09.6 | In 1976 Dr. Charles Scutter did exactly that |
| 2:16.6 | On his 50th birthday Dr. Charles Scutter quit his job as an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago |
| 2:42.6 | Sold off most of his possessions and headed out to a rural plot of land he purchased in a remote corner of northern Georgia |
| 2:50.6 | with his partner Joseph Odom |
| 2:53.6 | The two built a house on the land and gave it the pretentious name of Corpsewood Manor |
| 3:12.6 | When you think of the name Corpsewood what images does that name convey? |
| 3:17.6 | Well most people when they think Corpsewood they think it's going to be a creepy old haunted house looking place |
| 3:24.6 | That really is not what it was it was actually a tiny castle or manor house |
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