S5 Ep408: How to Tell a Scary Campfire Story & Mysterious Deaths from History

An Acquired Taste Podcast

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It’s the unofficial start of summer, so Kathleen is making sure you have all of the tools necessary to tell a proper spooky story around whatever campfire you come upon this season. (Smores supplies not included). Then, Bethany found another creepy book in her used bookstore travels, so she’s sharing a few suspicious deaths throughout history, including a national hero who may have been…..murdered??

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What We Talked About:

12:59 - How To Tell A Scary Campfire Story

37:13 - Mysterious Deaths from History

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BETHANY’S SOURCES:

BOOK: “Unsolved Deaths: Strange Deaths and Mysterious Disappearances.” Charles Phillips. 2019, Metro Books New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis

KATHLEEN’S SOURCES:

https://www.highwaywestvacations.com/blog/spooky-stories

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tips-for-writing-a-terrifying-horror-novel#7-tips-for-scaring-your-readers

https://www.scaryforkids.com/vanishing-hitchhiker/

https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/write-scary-story/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello? Hello.
0:02.0	I think, Kathleen, I think we should start before you have a chance to settle in, because it's funny.
0:06.1	Okay.
0:06.9	Okay.
0:07.6	Here we go. Here comes the podcast.
0:09.3	Okay. I think it's your turn to start.
0:11.1	Yeah, let's just do it.
0:11.9	Stop laughing. This is erotic.
0:13.9	I'm on a new medication and think it's making me lose to me.
0:18.0	I would have been a Ted Bundy victim.
0:20.2	Yeah. I had no idea that so many people out there felt the same way.
0:24.2	I did.
0:25.0	Now I want a peanut colada.
0:27.5	An acquired taste.
0:30.6	This is an acquired taste podcast.
0:32.3	I'm Bethany Watson.
0:33.8	You're, I feel bad for my podcast co-host because she's close to tears and an hour
0:38.1	late today friend.
0:40.0	And I'm Kathleen Haney, the podcast, the co-oh my god, the co-hoster that's close to tears
0:45.3	because I'm an hour late to podcast today friend.
0:47.8	And every week, Kathleen and I get together to discuss our lives and what's weird in the
0:51.4	world.
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