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What’s luckier than finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? When your favorite podcast watches 1993’s “The Leprechaun” so you don’t have to! Come for the L.A. Gear sneakers, stay for Warwick Davis roasting Jennifer Aniston et al. while skateboarding. Plus some actual leprechaun lore – turns out they’re neither particularly attached to green, nor prone to pogo-sticking people in the lungs.
In our February combisode Abby talks about the 19th century murderer and conwoman Kate Webster while Ellie breaks down instances the apocalypse was discussed in history and/or supposed to happen and spoiler alert, didn’t, at least for us.
Ellie goes through the history of Ouija Boards, famous times that they were used and Abby tries her hardest to distract her. Mass-marketed toy or communication tool with the dead? You decide, on this episode of Queers for Fears.
Abby takes a break from true crime and covers the history of a popular soda brand and a whole big trial they went through to get rid of an ingredient, but not the one you’re probably thinking of!
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Abby and Ellie really wanted to talk about “The Devils” (1973) but do not trust themselves to pirate it properly, so instead, we found a possession flick neither of us had seen before: 2012’s “Lovely Molly.” Plus, Abby talks about a “real-life” possession story – and what each of us means by those scare quotes.
Abby and Ellie discuss another famous Chicago crime, the Lipstick Killer, and talk about what we really talk about, when we talk about haunted asylums.
Ellie and Abby continue their deep dive into one of the most famous crimes in Chicago history.
It wasn’t until 1988 that a Northwestern University archivist realized that the law school had, at some point, been given a treasure trove of primary source documents – including the original ransom note – from one of Chicago’s most famous crimes, committed in 1924. Ninety-seven years on, the names Leopold & Loeb (“the original affluenza teens” – Abby) are familiar to anyone with an interest in true crime or Chicago history. In this episode, Ellie begins her deep dive into the murder of Bobby Franks, drawing from author Nina Barrett’s exhaustive 2018 book on the Northwestern archive materials, “The Leopold and Loeb Files.”
Abby and Ellie discuss “Brahms: the Boy II” (how did they get Katie Holmes and Ralph Ineson for this??) and, more importantly, some real-life “haunted” dolls (including one doll who is not haunted in the sense of “ghost-containing” but in the sense of “has seen some shit”).
Queers for Fears