Under the Pendulum Podcast

Ep. 35: Radium Girls Part 3 - Don‘t Worry, I‘m a Doctor

We are continuing our story of the Radium Girls in this week's episode. The radium companies are as conniving as ever, and the girls finally have their first big court case against USRC. Shocking revelations and harrowing stories are presented, and the stage is set for a new cast of characters and villains for part 4. Order! Order in the podcast! 
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Sources:
Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. , 2017.

Ep. 34: Radium Girls Part 2 - Yikes!

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on the Radium Girls. In this episode, we meet more of the girls, the doctors who desperately tried to help them, and the United States Radium Corporation shows us just how horrible they can be. It's an episode that will make your shout YIKES-A-ROO!! Thank you for listening to Under the Pendulum Podcast.
 
Sources:
Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. , 2017.

Ep. 33: The Radium Girls Part 1 - Pie-arrhea

We hope everyone is having a wonderful week...now let's ruin it!! On this week's episode we are covering the Radium Girls, a deadly phenomenon of the early to mid-20th century. In this first part of a two part series, we will talk about the effects of radium on the body, the companies who tried to suppress the dangers, and a taste of what horrors awaited the young women employed by these radium dial companies. Get ready to throw things on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 

Ep. 32: Bizarre News Stories - Old Man Kangaroo

Extra! Extra! Today we will be reading and discussing strange and bizarre news stories from the 19th and 20th centuries. We have mysterious blobs and cryptids, murderous families and ghosts, and so much more! This just in, you're listening to Under the Pendulum Podcast. 
 
 

Ep. 31: Tipsy Table Read - Murder Castle

We have a very special episode for you all! This week we will be doing an impromptu performance of "Murder Castle" from the horror radio show Lights Out, 1938. the story is a reimaging of the crimes of H.H. Holmes and his murder castle. Stay tuned after the show for an actual commercial from the Lights Out show. Put the lights out, relax, and enjoy this tale of the macabre from Under the Pendulum Podcast.
Source:
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/lights-out/murder-castle-1943-08-03
 
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Ep. 30: Alabama Legends and Ghost Stories - Spite Hole

Well, we're just pleased as punch that ya'll could join us!! On this episode, we go down south to Alabama to tell some ghostly tales from the place of our birth. We have four stories of haunted steamboats, a hole that never stays filled, the gruesome history of Sloss Furnaces, and a lynching that refuses to be ignored. Ya'll just take a seat and enjoy this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 
 
Footnotes:
Windham, K. T., & Figh, M. G. (1969). In 13 Alabama ghosts and Jeffrey, Strode Publishers
https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/william-bill-sketoe-and-the-hole-that-wont-stay-filled/
https://www.executedtoday.com/2013/12/03/1864-bill-sketoe-hole-haunt/
https://www.ghostlyworld.org/places/sketoe-hanging-hole/
https://historysoutheast.com/history/early-account-of-the-ghost-of-sketoe-s-hole
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/alabama/birmingham/haunted-places/sloss-furnaces
https://frightfurnace.com/hauntings/haunted-history-of-sloss-furnace/
https://www.slossfurnaces.com/history/
https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/sloss-furnaces-haunted-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_County_Courthouse_%28Alabama%29
https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/faceinthewindow.html
https://www.al.com/living/2015/10/were_there_once_2_spooky_faces.html

Ep. 29: Baseball Disasters - That's a lot of Puke

We have two tales of baseball mayhem in today's episode. Cale Thomas joins us as we put baseball disasters under the pendulum. We have two tales to tell, "Black Saturday" in Philadelphia, and "10-cent Beer Night." This episode has it all; death, injury, fights, and what we can only imagine was a lot of vomit. All this and more on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 
 
Sources:
Baseball’s Deadliest Disaster: “Black Saturday” in Philadelphia, By: Robert D Warrington
https://sabr.org/journal/article/baseballs-deadliest-disaster-black-saturday-in-philadelphia/
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/06/04/today-in-baseball-history-indians-hold-infamous-ten-cent-beer-night/
https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2020/06/fans-riot-on-10-cent-beer-night-on-this-day-in-cleveland-indians-history.html
Weird History: Ten Cent Beer Night Was A Total Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTtzLUteDA

Ep. 28: Creature Feature II - Black Dogs

There are belly rubs a plenty in today's episode as we return to our Creature Feature series. We are putting the legends and stories of Black Dogs under the pendulum. We look at the similarities and difference between Black Dogs in the British Isles, and Latin and North America. From hellish hounds that haunt a prison, to dogs that smoke cigarettes, these good boys can be a terror. All this and more on this episode of Under the Pendulum Pawcast. 
 
Sources:
Phantom Black Dogs in Latin America, By: Simon Burchell
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a03924.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
https://londonparticulars.wordpress.com/tag/black-dog-of-newgate/
https://www.davidcastleton.net/black-dog-legends-england-britain-ghosts-hellhounds/
https://archive.org/details/cu31924006726552/page/n399/mode/2up?q=black+dog
https://hauntedspotslibrary.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/weekly-haunted-spot-2-the-barghest-whitby-england/
https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/cryptids/2018/8/18/cryptid-profile-the-black-dog-of-the-hanging-hills
https://www.berfrois.com/2013/04/the-black-dog-w-h-c-pynchon/
https://www.thesprucepets.com/black-dog-syndrome-4796374

Ep. 27: Wisconsin Death Trip - Wisconsin Massage

On this episode, we take a trip back to Wisconsin for a hellish good time. The years between 1890 and 1910 were marred by suicide, murder, arson, and insanity around the Black River Falls region of Wisconsin. We read excerpts from Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, which catalogues all these horrific and sometimes comical incidents. Join us on this trip to hell on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast. 
 
Sources:
Lesy, Michael, Schaick C. Van, and Warren Susman. Wisconsin Death Trip. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. 

Ep. 26: The Many Uses of Mummies - The King's Drops

In today's episode we travel back to the simpler times of the Victorian Era. A time when you could buy a mummy and do horrific things to it! We talk about mummy paint, paper, medicine, and unrolling parties. Oh and what a great party it is on this episode of Under the Pendulum. 
 
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