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Family Plot

Family Plot Podcast

An odd dad and his 11 year old daughter exploring the strange and unusual in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese and Krysta Williams.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

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Episode 209 Strange Days in France - The Beast of...

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2024/08/08

So there is so, so much good in this episode. First, we discuss the Beast of Gevaudan, a crazy cryptid/ wolf that terrorized the countryside in Gevaudan, an area where the French believed the dark enchantments of the forest still held sway. The beast seemed to terrorize the French countryside in the area known as Gevaudan, striking from out of nowhere and disappearing just as quickly. Many tried to catch the beast, and many claimed they had but the attacks only stopped after a local man shot a

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Episode 208 The Poet and the Musician - The Story of...

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2024/08/01

This episode is full of goodness, badness and old timey sirens! Arthur discusses Therianthropes in the modern world and her relationship to them while Dean creates the pun-ishing term 'Therial Killer'. We are joined by Debbie Baker from ShopJobie and a long time member of our extended family to discuss the story of Bonnie and Clyde. Their births, their meeting, their relationship and their long fight with the law. We also discuss their family, and so much more. We discuss how they had the

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Episode 207 The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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2024/07/25

In this episode, we make our first foray into outer space as we cover the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, what led to it, and how there are now people who doubt that we ever made the trip. We discuss the astronauts on the flight, their histories and how they combined to make the Moon Landing the success that it was. In his corner, Arthur discusses Aardwolves and a whole host of colorful fancy people get discussed on this week's episode of the Family Plot Podcast! You should listen, it's outta this

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Episode 206 Anne Bonny and Mary Read - Piracy and...

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2024/07/18

In this episode we sail round the Horn and back again as we look into the lives, trial and mysteries of the Naussau Pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Part of Calico Jack Rackham's crew, these two dressed as men, cursed, drank, fought and killed with their pirate brethren and for two months lived completely free, a rare thing for women in the Early 1700's. We dig into what little is known about their early lives, what led them to become pirates and how their two months as lawless pirates made them

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Episode 205 Doctor Sam Sheppard - Wrestling with Loss...

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2024/07/11

So much good stuff in this episode! First, we are joined by Chris Page, the man who produces Travis Orndorff's podcast and has multiple wrestling podcasts and twitch streams. Chris and Dean discuss their history and their friendship and Arthur has a new sting to introduce her corner. (Courtesy of our new sound engineer, Blue Boese) We also focus this week on Doctor Sam Sheppard, a doctor from Ohio who was accused of murdering his pregnant wife. However, the carnival-like atmosphere of his trial

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48:45

Episode 204 Stand for Something - The Life of Rosa Parks

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2024/07/04

This powerful episode of the Family Plot Podcast is so full of stuff, we should wrap it in a bow! Krys announces this week that she prefers to go by Arthur with male pronouns. She also talks about dingoes, which Dean claims are his baby, or maybe just Merryl Streep's. Then we focus on the life of Rosa Parks. Her childhood, her first experiences with racism, her education and how she became a lifelong activist. And while she was not the first to get arrested for refusing to give up her seat for

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59:36

Episode 203 The Saga of One-Eyed Charley - A PRIDE...

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2024/06/27

There is so much goodness in this episode you can eat it and it will be sweet, filling, healthy and sugar-free! We are joined this week by Krysta's non-binary sibling, Blue Boese! Krys goes to her corner to finish telling us about the cartoons that influenced her most as a child. We also focus on telling the tale of One-Eyed Charley Parkhurst. Charley was one of the roughest, toughest, hardest-drinking, most coarse and foul-mouthed fellow to ever drive a six horse coach. Charley was famed on

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61:29

Episode 202 Aliens at the Ariel School

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2024/06/20

This episode is crammed so full of wonderment, your mind will expand! Or maybe not! In Krysta's Corner, we discuss some of her favorite shows growing up (including Sofia the First and Daniel Tiger amongst others) we comment briefly on Dan Schneider and other not good people in Children's Programming before getting into the meat of this week's topic, The UAP's seen above and on the ground by the Ariel School in 1994. We discuss the event, the reactions of adults to the children's claims as well as

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50:33

Episode 201 The Curious Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost

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2024/06/13

Man do we have a wonderful 201st episode for you! Ever heard of the Hammersmith Ghost Murder? Neither had we but oh, do we get into it!! And in her corner Krysta introduces us to poodle moths! Beautiful, well, unless you look at them up close. We also discuss Hawk Moths, Death's Head Moths and of course, Lunar Moths before diving back into this case where a ghost was troubling the Hammersmith area of London in 1804! During this harrowing time, Francis Smith shoots and kills bricklayer Thomas

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44:04

Episode 200 Searching For the Amber Room

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2024/06/06

In this episode, we fully execute our 200th episode and with well wishes from friends, family and others, as well as Krysta's Corner plus an entire episode about the creation, acquisition, loss and recreation of the Amber Room. Dean becomes obsessed with how many flies trapped in the Amber Room had dinosaur DNA? We also discuss Sharon Kinne, Josh Gates and an idealized show-raiding Ernest Hemingway in this celebratory and educational episode of the Family Plot Podcast.Become a supporter of this

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Episode 199 Ambrose Bierce Iconic American Author and...

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2024/05/30

This week, we go back to the 1850's to meet a writer named Ambrose Bierce. A man who could trace his family back to the Puritans and didn't care one whit. A man who fought in the Civil War so he could help see slavery abolished. A man who wrote against what he saw as the evils of his day even standing between a railroad magnate and his company trying to arrange to have a loan given them by the government forgiven. His stories told tales of war and horror and he inspired writers like Stephen

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Episode 198 Ching Shih, China's Pirate Queen

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2024/05/23

So this episode is so chock full of goodness, you might need a cookie and a glass of milk to wash it down. In her corner, Krys reads us some very short horror stories. Then we go all in on Zheng Yi Sao aka Shang Yi aka Ching Shih. We talk about her early life, of which we know very little, her meeting and marrying one of the greatest pirates of her time, how she came to control the ragtag fleet she did and just what a smart combatant she was. We discuss the death of her first husband, her

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Episode 197 Fairy Tale Origins 2 or Make Sure the...

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2024/05/16

In this episode we once again go deep into the history of Fairy Tales. Laura opens with Snow White and we hear the familiar tale in all it's glory. Then, in Krysta's Corner, she shares a book that touched her while reading it at school as well as shares her own found fairy tale, the Six Swans! Then we look into the origins of Snow White and how it might actually be based on a true story, including little men...kinda. Then Krysta reads us Pinocchio (did you know there's a cricket in the actual

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Episode 196 The Tale of the Black Dahlia

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2024/05/09

In this episode there is so much going on. Krysta is having issues as many young teens do, we discuss the life and death of Elizabeth Short, her crazy life and her rough death at the hands of person or persons unknown. After the episode stick around for a happy birthday for Lexi our daughter turning 7 on the day this episode drops. It is a full episode all about life, death but most importantly the Fam! Join us as we learn about the Black Dahlia and so much more in this intense episode of the

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Episode 195 The Kidnapping and Murder of Bobby...

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2024/05/02

In this episode, Krysta talks My Hero Academia in her corner before we dig into the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease Junior. We talk about Bobby's father and their family, how they came to be so well off and how Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady came to know of and attempt to kidnap Robert Greenlease Senior's youngest child. We get into the kidnapping, the murder,l the ransom and the missing money in this local true crime sometimes it's gonna be weird episode of the Family Plot Podcast!!Become a

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Episode 194 A Headless Drummer, A Missing Piper and...

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2024/04/25

This episode is PACKED with goodness. Krysta talks Black Velvet Petunias in her corner a wondrous and beautiful flower. Then she, Laura and Dean discuss the Maiden's Castle at Edinburgh. They discuss Castle Rock, how there has been a fortified structure on it since at least the Iron Age and it's status as the most besieged castle in all of Britain. We talk about Kings and Queens who have called it home as well as those who have made changes to it. We also discuss the guns that defended it and

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40:18

Episode 193: Xunantunich Mayan City and Maiden of the...

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2024/04/18

On this episode we discuss the nation of Belize and the Mayan city of Xunantunich, what we know about it and it's former residents. Krysta talks balloon debates and civets, Dean talks ferrets and Laura keeps us all together in this fascinating archaeological, Mayan Culture, slightly paranormal episode fo the Family Plot Podcast!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

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Edpisode 192 Catching the Yorkshire Ripper

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2024/04/11

This week, we go full British True Crime as we head back to the seventies and eighties and investigate the life and crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper. We discuss his life, what led him to become a killer, his family life, the hoax that led the police astray in this fascinating case. Meanwhile Krysta talks more dogs and balloon debates in her Corner and Laura brings us all together in this distressingly bloody-detail free episode of the Family Plot Podcast!Become a

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Episode 191 The Antikythera Device hits Differentially

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2024/04/04

On this episode, we discuss the Antikythera Mechanism, a device found in a Roman shipwreck off the Greek Island of Antijythera. Retrieved with several other treasures, due to it's advanced state of petrification and other issues, it wasn't even looked at much after it was initially brought up. But over time, people have discovered this uncanny device that simulates the movement of the heavens created in the time of Before Common Era using a differential gear which otherwise doesn't show up for

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Episode 190 Meeting the Honey Island Swamp Monster

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2024/03/28

Welcome to another episode of the Family Plot Podcast! In this episode Krysta debates as Pinkie Pie, and performs a poem about sunflowers. Then we sit back and talk the Honey Island Swamp, it's history and the creatures that call it home, including the Honey Island Swamp Monster. We talk about sightings of the creature, what it possibly looks like, a potential origin story and so much more in this we're talking about cryptids, how come it feels like we're still learning episode of the Family Plot

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