Lost Brothers of the Alleghenies

Strange Familiars

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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We present the story of the Cox children - two brothers who went missing in the mountains of Pennsylvania in 1856. Thousands of people searched for the young boys for weeks until a man named Jacob Dibert dreamed of their location. Decades later, Jacob’s son dreamed of the location of another missing woman - and, shockingly, his grandson dreamed of the location of yet another missing person. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars episode 300, The Witch Cloud, is available now: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/the-witch-cloud Our Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/strange-familiars?ref_id=14000 Episode 289 notes and links: Timothy’s artwork for this episode - “Jacob Dibert is Dreaming” You can purchase the original art in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1163517865/jacob-dibert-is-dreaming-original Jacob Dibert The book that started our research Timothy’s variant cover for Department of Truth 15 comic is available from our etsy shop or Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com/products/dot15 Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Riverbend Comics Instagram: @riverbendcomics 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Karmic Garden: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KarmicGarden Strange Familiars Curiosity of the Week #26: “Murder Bottle” twins You can purchase this photograph in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1149553250/murder-bottle-antique-photograph-strange Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Chad’s etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoors To help with the Capuchin Day Center’s work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ie and here: https://www.cskdetroit.org Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is The Missing by Stone Breath - from the album, Cryptids: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/cryptids Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They came to our eyes because they'll see clear the sky, but they all are we, talk to you, she lives there.
0:29.0	Welcome to Strange Familiars. How are you doing tonight, Alison? I'm okay. I got a really interesting show tonight.
0:58.0	A historical episode kind of has a bit of a missing 411 vibe and it's based on a piece of ephemera that we came across by accident, I don't know if by accident.
1:11.0	Serendipity. Yes, it all started with a piece of ephemera we found in one of our digs through the local ephemera minds. We were deep in the ephemera minds.
1:21.0	I think someone had approached me to do this story in the past. They sent some information and I looked at it. I was like, yeah, that would be cool.
1:29.0	And I just followed it away as one of the stories like, yeah, someday. But then we found this book and it kind of brought it right back up to the front.
1:37.0	Before we get to that, I want to mention our Patreon, which is the best way to support the show if you want to help us out.
1:46.0	If you like Strange Familiars, if you like the content we make and you want to get more, the best way to help us is to become a patron at Patreon.com slash Strange Familiars.
1:57.0	We do not one, but two full extra episodes of Strange Familiars every month for our patrons. On occasion, we do more.
2:06.0	There are multiple tiers of support at Patreon, but whatever tier you go in at, you get that extra content, those extra shows, and you help us continue to make Strange Familiars.
2:18.0	Again, it's patreon.com slash Strange Familiars.
2:23.0	The Lost Brothers of the Alleghenies. So this book was published. When was this book published?
2:37.0	Into our nine or teens or something around the turn of the century.
2:42.0	Early 1900s. Very early 1900s. We picked it up because it had an interesting story and we brought it home and you started digging into the story even more.
2:52.0	It did not go the way I thought it was going to go. It didn't at all. Well, most of the story takes place in the mid 1800s. It really kind of starts back in the 1700s, the early 1700s, with a man named John DeBert.
3:09.0	Well, he was a French immigrant to the United States. They think French. I've also heard say Holland, but I'm thinking probably not Holland. It's probably some sort of bastardization of what it means to be Dutch around here.
3:22.0	He's either probably French or French German. He's one of the really early immigrants to Pennsylvania. In fact, he's so early that he actually is the one who founds a fort, a trading post.
3:35.0	Yeah, the junior at a river. Yeah, that's kind of middle of the state. At that time, that's way on the frontier.
3:43.0	Yes, in fact, they were the first white settlers west of the Susquehanna River. Okay. So this is 1730s. Yeah, there was not a lot out there.
3:54.0	The story, whether it's in the 1700s version or the mid 1850s version, all takes place in Bedford County, kind of close to where Lake Raystown Resort is.
4:04.0	Okay. That's probably the closest thing that someone might have heard about if they're from this area of Pennsylvania. Otherwise, for everyone else, it's kind of in the middle of nowhere.
4:12.0	Yeah. It's west of here and west again of Michelle. So for people who kind of have a vague map of Pennsylvania and where we are. So what was his deal?
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