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Just click the link in the show description to support now. Welcome to Tales to Tales to Terrify, part of, part of. Featuring Starship, Sofer and Far-Fetched

Fables, everyone has a story in the District of Wonders. Come and find yours.

Good evening, Children of the Night, and welcome. This week we're cruising the backwaters of Mississippi.

Dark tales seem to lurk around every corner in this state, a near-endless assortment of hauntings, witches, and foul creatures.

One of my favorite urban legends from Mississippi is the story of blues musician Robert

Johnson, who was said to have made a deal with the devil one night at the crossroads.

For the meager price of his eternal soul, Johnson was granted exceptional musical talents.

Talents that, even though he died at just 27, make him often considered one of the greatest

blues musicians who ever lived.

But in digging around for interesting tidbits to share with you about Mississippi, the one

strange story that really stood out for me is something

known as the Mercredis cover-up.

Other than postings about the urban legend itself, though, there's very little to be found

online about the disease known as Mercretus.

That's either due to the supposed ongoing government conspiracy to cover it up,

or because it's nothing more than an urban legend. But the people that say they experienced it,

or, more likely, know someone who knows someone that did, well, they're pretty adamant.

It started in the late 1950s, with a series of, at first, unexplained riots in Mississippi.

But as the events increased in number, a clear pattern started to emerge.

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