73 - Ladies Who Roar

73 - Ladies Who Roar

In this week’s episode, Jessie leads the ladies through the jungle to discover a living dinosaur: the Mokele-Mbembe. As the Gruber Roschitz is sipped, the ladies make weather predictions, swoon over romantic cryptozoology and gamble on the Bone Wars. So grab your favorite veltliner and watch your canoe, Ladies Who Roar will have you itching to watch Jurassic Park for the 100th time. Do you have a ghost story, local lore, or urban legend you would like to share with the ladies? Email us at LadiesWhoLorePod@gmail.com. If you love our show, please consider supporting us by joining our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/LadiesWhoLore] and following us on our socials: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ladieswholore?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==], Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@ladieswholorepodcast], and Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesWhoLorePodcast]. And help others discover our show by rating, reviewing and subscribing on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5BsBguMh4W2NmNWR6tTcBB?si=e84d72eccb434c7e], Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-who-lore/id1771573870], or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. Sources: “Mokele-mbeme” on Cryptid Archives Fandom “Mokele-Mbembe: The Truth Behind Africa's Mythical River Monster” by Desiree Bowie on How Stuff Works “In Search of the Congo Dinosaur: by William J. Gibbons on Institute of Creation Research “Mokele-Mbembe (cryptozoology)” by Daniel Horowitz on EBSCO “The Congo’s Dinosaur of Discord” by Ryan Biller on New Lines Magazine ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

72 - Ladies Who Love Fresno

In this week’s episode, Sammy tells the tale of Fresno’s quirkiest cryptid: The Fresno Nightcrawlers. As the Witching Hour is sipped, the ladies theorize about the moon landing, choose their chaotic parentage, and add another unsolved mystery to their to-do lists. So grab your favorite Cabernet Sauvignon and playback your security camera feed, Ladies Who Love Fresno will have you giggling through the mayhem. Do you have a ghost story, local lore, or urban legend you would like to share with the ladies? Email us at LadiesWhoLorePod@gmail.com. If you love our show, please consider supporting us by joining our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/LadiesWhoLore] and following us on our socials: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ladieswholore?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==], Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@ladieswholorepodcast], and Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesWhoLorePodcast]. And help others discover our show by rating, reviewing and subscribing on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5BsBguMh4W2NmNWR6tTcBB?si=e84d72eccb434c7e], Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-who-lore/id1771573870], or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. Sources: “Fresno” by Staff at Visit California “Fresno Nightcrawler” by Anonymous at Cryptidwiki “More than Fresno famous: How the Nightcrawler captured the world’s imagination” by Anon at The Business Journal “Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and … Fresno Nightcrawler? Walking pants bring Fresno freaky fame” by Carmen George on Fresno Bee “Strange creature reported in Carmel area” by Anonymous on HighlandCountryPress.com “Cryptid fans are in love with this ‘funky little dude.’ What is the Fresno Nightcrawler?” by Fernanda Galan on Fresno Bee “Origins of the Fresno Nightcrawler, a Pants-shaped Cryptid” by Desiree Bowie on Science.HowStuffWorks.com [http://science.howstuffworks.com] “‘This weird little story.’ Why Fresno’s goofy Nightcrawler legend might just live forever” by Gisselle Medina on fresnoland.org [http://fresnoland.org] “‘This weird little story.’ Why Fresno’s goofy Nightcrawler legend might just live forever” by Brian Dunning, episode 826 on skeptoid.com [http://skeptoid.com]  “Fresno Nightcrawler: Hoax or real? Mystery remains years later” by Kellie Helton on YourCentralValley.com [http://yourcentralvalley.com] “Fresno Nightcrawlers: Legends with Long Legs” by David Albaugh on BasementOfTheBizarre.com [http://basementofthebizarre.com] “Unveiling the Mystery of the Fresno Nightcrawler” by Staff on DiscoveryUK.com [http://discoveryuk.com] “The Fresno Nightcrawler | Meet the Mysterious Local Cryptid” by Anonymous at VisitFresnoCounty.org [http://visitfresnocounty.org] “The Curious Story of The Fresno Nightcrawler, The California Cryptid That’s Charmed The Internet” by Kaleena Fraga on Allthatsinteresting.com “The Fresno Night Crawlers” by Emily Zarka on Rocky Mountain PBS ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

71 - Ladies Who Live in Flowers

In this week’s episode, Lindsay walks the ladies through the garden to spin tales of small but mighty magical creatures: Flower Fairies. As the Cote de Rose is sipped, the ladies discover their tarot card personalities, congratulate Sammy on being awesome and have their own Poltergeist moment. So grab your favorite chilled rose and hold tight to your cactus, Ladies Who Live in Flowers will have you clapping for fairies again. Do you have a ghost story, local lore, or urban legend you would like to share with the ladies? Email us at LadiesWhoLorePod@gmail.com. If you love our show, please consider supporting us by joining our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/LadiesWhoLore] and following us on our socials: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ladieswholore?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==], Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@ladieswholorepodcast], and Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesWhoLorePodcast]. And help others discover our show by rating, reviewing and subscribing on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5BsBguMh4W2NmNWR6tTcBB?si=e84d72eccb434c7e], Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-who-lore/id1771573870], or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. Sources: Crutchely, Megan. "A Need for Belief: The Victorians and Fairies." Retrospect Journal. 2021. Strand, Sophie. "The Fairies Are Back & They're Even Smaller: The Meeting of Magic & the Microscopic World of 'Smalls'." Braided Way Magazine. 2021. Williams, Holly. "When Britain Was Gripped by Fairy Mania." BBC Culture. 2023. "Cottingley Fairies: How Sherlock Holmes's Creator Was Fooled by a Hoax." BBC News. 2020. "The Victorian Fairy Craze." History Skills. Young, Simon (ed.). The Fairy Census. fairycensus.com. Ongoing. Conan Doyle Estate. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Beliefs and Experiences." arthurconandoyle.co.uk. Dumont, Henrietta. "The Language of Flowers." Project Gutenberg. Originally published 1851. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

70 - Ladies Who Vanish

In this week’s episode, Jessie tells the ladies about America’s oldest unsolved mystery: The Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony. As the Sohu is poured, the ladies fawn over pretty ladies in capes, acknowledge the intelligence of squirrels, and become terrified of real estate. So grab your favorite Croatian white and carve into the nearest tree, Ladies Who Vanish will have you baffled in no time.  Do you have a ghost story, local lore, or urban legend you would like to share with the ladies? Email us at LadiesWhoLorePod@gmail.com. If you love our show, please consider supporting us by joining our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/LadiesWhoLore] and following us on our socials: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ladieswholore?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==], Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@ladieswholorepodcast], and Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesWhoLorePodcast]. And help others discover our show by rating, reviewing and subscribing on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5BsBguMh4W2NmNWR6tTcBB?si=e84d72eccb434c7e], Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-who-lore/id1771573870], or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. TW: Murder, death, drowning Sources: “The Lost Colony of Roanoke” by Jonathan Hogeback on Britannica “The Lost Colony” on National Park Service Fort Raleigh “Evidence Grows, the Lost Colony Split Up” by Frank Graff on PBS (2020) “What Happened to the Lost Colony at Roanoke?” By Josh Clark and Nathan Chandler on How Stuff Works “Legend of White Doe” by Daniel W Barefoot on NCpedia “Ghost stories and unsolved mysteries: The haunted history of Roanoke Island” by Maureen Wurtz and Jenna Kurtz on Queen City News “Haunted Roanoke” on Colonial Ghosts ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

69 - Ladies Who Are Spider Monkeys

In this week’s episode, Sammy unearths the history behind lore’s most notorious creatures: Vampires. As the Vampire is sipped, the ladies read listener comments, confuse Hank Green for gangrene, and have controversial takes on Sweeney Todd. So grab your favorite merlot and burn your welcome mat, Ladies Who Are Spider Monkeys will have you screaming all day long. Do you have a ghost story, local lore, or urban legend you would like to share with the ladies? Email us at LadiesWhoLorePod@gmail.com. If you love our show, please consider supporting us by joining our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/LadiesWhoLore] and following us on our socials: Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ladieswholore?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==], Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@ladieswholorepodcast], and Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@LadiesWhoLorePodcast]. And help others discover our show by rating, reviewing and subscribing on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5BsBguMh4W2NmNWR6tTcBB?si=e84d72eccb434c7e], Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-who-lore/id1771573870], or wherever you like to listen to your podcasts. TW: Gore, murder, death, sexual abuse Sources: “Long before Dracula, an ancient Mesopotamian civilisation raised the world's oldest vampires” by James Osborne on historyextra.com “Vampires and rabies: What's the link?” by Tim Newman on Medical News Today ”The real-life diseases that spread the vampire myth” by Stephen Dowling on BBc “How vampire lore emerged from shadowy medical mysteries” by Bella Isaacs-Thomas on PBS “Vampires in Greece: From Ancient Greek Creatures to the Vrykolakas” by Annna Wichmann on Greek Reporter “Vampiric Creatures of Ancient Myth and Legend” by Anonymous at Classicallyeducated.wordpress.com [http://classicallyeducated.wordpress.com] “When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis Deaths” by Crystal Ponti on History.com [http://history.com] “The New England Vampire Panic Was Very Real and Very Deadly” by Nathan Chandler on History.Howstuffworks.com “Decomposing Bodies in the 1720s Gave Birth to the First Vampire Panic” by Karina Wilson on SmithsonianMagazine.com [http://smithsonianmagazine.com] “Vampire” by Staff on Britannica.com [http://britannica.com] “Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here's What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel” by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker on Time.com [http://time.com] “Vampire History” by Editors on History.com [http://history.com] “How ‘Nosferatu’ Reinvented the Vampire” by Becky Little on History.com [http://history.com] “Jure Grando: The world’s first recorded vampire” by Will Howard on Dangerousminds.net [http://dangerousminds.net] “The Top 10 Real-Life “Vampires” from History” by staff at US Ghost Adventures “Vampires & Arithmomania” by Anonymous on oddathenaeum.com “Vampires are real: David Ono journeys to Serbia to find real story” by David Ono on abc7.com [http://abc7.com] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.