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Lore 307: Revisiting "Mary, Mary"

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Aaron Mahnke

History, True Crime

4.6 • 46.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, as summer weaves its way into our lives, the Lore team is taking a well-deserved break. To make that possible, we're reissuing a fan favorite from nearly a decade ago: Episode 50: Mary, Mary.

Researched, written, and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with music by Chad Lawson.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Aaron here. We're quickly slipping into the summer months here in New England.

0:06.1

Honestly, it feels like the autumn colors were just yesterday, and spring came and went in a flash.

0:11.6

Basically, life has been busy, and I'm sure that you can relate. With that in mind, I'm giving the

0:17.0

team a well-deserved break this week. So rather than the typical new episode of

0:21.3

lore, I want to offer you a classic from deep in the past. No, reruns have not been a normal

0:27.4

thing around lore HQ, but making 52 episodes each year can be exhausting. And I think we can

0:33.9

sacrifice one every six months to give the team some rest.

0:41.2

And thankfully, there are a ton of fantastic oldies in our back catalog,

0:44.5

and the one that I've picked out for you today is one of my absolute favorites.

0:47.7

Maybe you're new to lore and are working your way backwards,

0:51.8

or it's been many, many years since you've heard some of the earlier episodes.

0:55.3

Either way, you are going to love this trip into the past.

0:59.1

Today, we'll be listening to one of my all-time favorite stories on lore.

1:01.3

Episode 50, Merry, Mary,

1:06.4

this classic has a powerful mixture of community life, unusual beliefs,

1:09.0

and some very unexplainable circumstances.

1:12.1

And almost a decade after first recording it,

1:15.4

I can still remember the chill I got in the recording booth from narrating that very last line of the main story.

1:18.8

I think you are going to love it.

1:20.8

And with that, collide with each other.

1:36.3

Just taking statistics into account, you're a lot more likely to hear about automobile collisions than airplanes,

1:41.3

because of the simple fact that there are a lot more cars on the road

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