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Episode 164: Lake Bodom murders

The early summer dawn at Lake Bodom was deceptively tranquil: mist curled above the dark water, frogs croaked in the reeds, and pale birch trunks gleamed silver in the pre-sunshine haze. Yet in the small clearing near Espoo’s Oittaa Manor, the placid surface concealed a horror that would haunt Finland for decades. On the night of 4 June 1960, Maila Irmeli Björklund, fifteen, and her friend Anja Tuulikki Mäki, also fifteen, pitched a small canvas tent beside the lake’ s pebbled shore. Joining them were their boyfriends, eighteen-year-olds  Seppo Boisman and Nils Gustafsson, laughing and passing around cigarettes as they settled down to sleep under a vault of sparkling stars.

Episode 163: Ellen Greenberg

Hello       Welcome back  This is survived with Sophie and Lexi We started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys more Through many different topics  Ellen Rae Greenberg (June 23, 1983 – January 26, 2011) was a gentle-voiced first-grade teacher whose life ended in a haunting blur of blood, bruises, and unanswered questions. On that frigid January evening, her body was discovered bearing twenty jagged stab wounds—ten driven deep into her back and neck—and eleven dark bruises across her arm, abdomen, and leg. Despite the brutality of her injuries and the whisper of foul play that trailed through Philadelphia’ s corridors, her death was officially declared a suicide, igniting a firestorm of debate, legal battles, and worldwide media scrutiny.

Episode 162: Survived a Ghost- Hogmanay

Hello       Welcome back  This is survived with Sophie and Lexi We started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys more Through many different topics  Hogmanay (Scots pronunciation HOG-mə-nay or HOG-mə-NAY) is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and the celebration of the New Year in Scotland. Officially observed from 31 December through 2 January (with 1 and 2 January designated bank holidays), Hogmanay often spills over into  January’s first morning or even 2 January. In some contexts, “ Hogmanay” denotes the entire festive stretch from the final days of December into the opening days of January, as seen in Edinburgh’ s multi-day celebrations.

Episode 161 - The Legend of the Yule Cat

Hello       Welcome back  This is survived with Sophie and Lexi We started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys more Through many different topics  This week we will be pivoting from our case coverage since this episode is coming out on a holiday week. We will be talking about the legend of the Yule Cat.   The Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn) is a terrifying, giant feline from Icelandic folklore that prowls the countryside at Christmas, eating people who haven't received new clothes before Christmas Eve, serving as a spooky incentive for hard work and finishing knitting. Linked to the mischievous Yule Lads and their ogress mother, Grýla, the Cat ensures diligence in wool production and charity, with wealthier families giving extra socks to protect the poor from its hungry claws. `

Episode 160: The Villisca axe Murders

Hello       Welcome back  This is survived with Sophie and Lexi We started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys more Through many different topics  The night of June 9 into the early hours of June 10, 1912, placed  in Villisca, Iowa, by an unspeakable brutality. In the modest Moore house,  six members of the well-liked  Moore family—Josiah B. (43), his wife Sarah (39),  and their children Herman (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur (7), and Paul (5)—along with their two young guests, Ina Mae Stillinger (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (11), lay dead, each skull shattered by the same heavy  axe. By dawn, investigators would stand in stunned silence before the scene: eight bodies arranged  in their beds,  the killer’s weapon still smeared with blood,  and every mirror in the home draped in cloth as though to ward off prying eyes or restless spirits.