How Sad, How Lovely

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re discussing the life of singer-songwriter Connie Converse who disappeared in August of 1974 never to be seen or heard from again. When Connie’s music began to resurface in the early 2000’s many began to realize that she was a real pioneer for folk music and perhaps one of the earliest female singer-songwriters, so what would cause her to just up and leave? Join me in donating to EveryTown for gun safety: https://www.everytown.org Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my new show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now! Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/us/gonzalo-lopez-texas-manhunt/index.html https://www.theawl.com/2010/08/the-story-of-connie-converse/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Converse https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/connie-converses-time-has-come https://priceonomics.com/how-a-90-year-old-missing-person-became-a-hit-on/ https://priceonomics.com/how-a-90-year-old-missing-person-became-a-hit-on/

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0:17.1	On Cult Leader I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press media and
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0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
0:55.6	I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry here to put a pause on our televangelist marathon
1:00.8	we've been having lately.
1:02.4	Because this week's story just popped up out of nowhere and I had to get the lowdown.
1:08.0	And oh boy, listen to this.
1:10.1	When I tell you a story finds me, a story really does find me.
1:14.1	I'm organizing my house, right?
1:15.9	I'm in my office putting some things away in the closet when I stumble upon my old Mac book from 2012, maybe 2013,
1:24.1	had an open it up in years, haven't turned it on in years, didn't even know if it would turn on.
1:28.2	Alas, it did.
1:29.6	Of course I wanted to see what was on there.
1:31.5	I'm going through some of the photos that I had saved.
1:34.1	And there was this one screenshot I had in an album full of just like vintage art and vintage photographs.
1:40.7	And there's this picture of a woman named Connie Converse.
1:43.6	And I was like, wait, what is this?
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