911, what's your emergency?

It's a nightmare we could never have imagined.

In a killer, we were still on the loose.

In the 1980s, we were in high school

losing friends, teachers, and community members.

We weren't safe anywhere.

Would we be next?

It was getting harder and harder to live in Mount Pine.

Listen to the Murder Years on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts

or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm comedian Gabby Watts, and I'm hosting a new history podcast

called American Filth, where we're diving into the filthy underbelly

of the good old U.S.A.

I'll be talking about a founding father who died from a DIY catheter.

The woman who wrote the dirtyest blue song ever recorded.

How the pilgrims smelled durable.

And of course, a 17th-century beast-geality panic.

Listen to American Filth on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts

or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes

that other people's errors can be instructive too,

from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry

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