You're Creeping Me Out

This week opens with the results of our many Bigfeet poll. Then we go onto our creepy things: failed executions and the blood of San Gennaro.Cherokee is bringing our main topic this week and if you thought you were going to get a break from the gross, you thought wrong. You know our Halloween episode has to be extra creepy. We talk about skull moss, powdered mummy's ,blood jam, cannibals and vampires. We hit all of the bases on this one!We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeoutThank you to Tiffany @teawitchie for our cover art!SOURCES: https://collegeofphysicians.org/programs/education-blog/corpse-medicine/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)60907-1/fulltexthttps://britishonlinearchives.com/posts/category/articles/760/vaccines-as-corpse-medicinehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/corpse-medicine/ 

This week opens with our creepy things: Los Angeles drivers and the return of the butt sniffer!Carly is bringing our main topic this week, which is all about the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine young grad students, dead and frozen, a camera full of images, missing eyeballs and a lot of theories. Somehow it always comes back to the Meg. We SWEAR Jason Statham was actually at this one.We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeout

update: we have commissioned an artist to replace our cover photo, so new original art will be coming with our next episode!This week opens with our creepy things AND some listener stories! Keep them coming, friends. Carly has a D4vd update and Cherokee is talking about how creepy a summertime cold is.For our main topic this week, Cherokee is talking about the dark history and mistreatment of people with dwarfism through Roman times into the present. She talks about little people as pets, how The Ugly Laws hoarded little people into freak shows, and how Hollywood has continued to get it wrong.We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeoutSOURCES: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/the-civil-war-soldier-with-dwarfism-who-was-gifted-to-the-queen/news-story/5a693fe307edae32214f515e8237c9e7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_dwarf https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-ugly-laws-america-disabilityhttps://daily.jstor.org/the-ugly-history-of-chicagos-ugly-law/https://editions.covecollective.org/content/taking-little-time-consider-how-dwarves-were-exploited-freak-showshttps://radaronline.com/p/wizard-of-oz-abuse-secrets-exposed-cast-member-death/

This week opens with our creepy things: spiders and hero worship.For our main topic this week, Carly is doing a deep dive on the Jersey Devil. She goes over the history of the lore that started in the 1700s, the mass hysteria that came hundreds of years later, and the likely truth behind all of it. Oh, and be sure to vote in our Bigfoot poll!We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeout

This week starts with our creepy things: Cherokee's haunted house and the great rotting meat fire in Los Angeles. for our main topic this week, Cherokee is talking all about royal testers. We start with food testers, water testers, seat and utensil kissers in medieval England. Then we jump over to 18th century Vienna where a bunch of orphans got to be the lucky unknown testers of the first smallpox inoculations. And we round the episode out in Victorian England with a chloroform guinea pig. We are always open to new topic suggestions... Follow us on instagram:http://www.instagram.com/yourecreepingmeoutSOURCES:https://www.thehistoryreader.com/cultural-history/killing-the-king-with-cuisine-henry-viii/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-history/anesthesia-la-reinehttps://epi-snow.ph.ucla.edu/Stream4_Snowlife_d.htmlhttps://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/battle-against-smallpoxhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200928-how-the-first-vaccine-was-bornhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa