Thinking Sideways: Arthur's Seat Dolls

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In Edinburgh in 1836, a group of boys who were hunting rabbits came across a small alcove and found something very peculiar- 17 small caskets containing 17 small dolls. Immediately thought to be connected to witchcraft, these dolls have been a mystery for the ages- with new theories cropping up as recently as the 1990's and suggestions of a possible connection to some very notorious serial killers.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, exciting news. I'm really really stoked about this. On March 7th at noon Pacific
0:06.1	Standard Time, Team sideways is going to host an AMA on the Unresolved Mysteries subreddit
0:12.5	on Reddit. Pretty exciting. Hell yeah. Yeah. So the mods will post an announcement a week prior,
0:18.8	so if you can't join us at that time at that date, you can post your questions there.
0:24.8	Please don't email us questions. We'll lose them and forget them. Let's try and contain this just to read it,
0:32.3	but we're super excited and yeah, so if you can join us. March 7th, 2015. March 7th, 2015. Sorry. Just
0:39.9	in case somebody, you know, five years from now, is listening to this episode. Not 2017. This is not true yourself,
0:45.6	2017. Sorry.
0:46.8	Thinking sideways. I don't understand.
0:54.8	Don't not compute. You never know.
0:57.9	Pacific and Pacific and Pacific and Pacific and Pacific and Pacific and Pacific. What?
1:01.7	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
1:05.3	Hey guys, what's up? Thinking sideways podcast. I'm Devon hosting super well.
1:15.8	Join by my co-hosts.
1:19.8	Joe and Steve. Yeah. Here's one for you. What?
1:24.5	In 1836, five boys were hunting rabbits in the northeast area of Arthur C. Edinburgh.
1:32.1	Pro tip. If you are boys hunting and you find something even remotely weird, just just walk away.
1:38.4	Just walk away. The number of cases that we cover that start out in this way is mind boggling to me.
1:43.8	He's find something. It's boys specifically young boys groups of young boys find something and then
1:50.8	think, oh, I know. Let's go investigate that. Why? Why? Because they're boys.
1:57.1	The 10 year old boy and me completely identifies with the boys in the store. Yeah, absolutely.
2:03.3	You know, if you have the potential to kick off a really cool, unsolved mystery, then you should
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