Welcome back to Something Strange! It’s episode number 30 today, and we’ll be discussing the history of telling ghost stories at Christmas time! Charles Dickens, anyone?

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Brief discussions of ancient rituals/human sacrifice

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References:

- History: How Ghost Stories Became a Christmas Tradition in Victorian England - https://www.history.com/articles/christmas-tradition-ghost-stories

- Nerdist: A Ghost Story for Christmas- Britain’s Scary Tradition - https://nerdist.com/article/ghost-story-for-christmas-m-r-james-mark-gatiss/

- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: 10 Spooky Ghost Stories for Christmas Time - https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/

- Wikipedia: A Christmas Carol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

- Charles Dickens Museum: A Christmas Carol Synopsis - https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/explore/a-christmas-carol-synopsis?srsltid=AfmBOop3tgxi8Ixl7Jbx-yT_FP_TrDn9cgjEmBlveLFTnoX75JC3mz5T

- Smithsonian Magazine: A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plea-resurrect-christmas-tradition-telling-ghoststories-180967553/

- Britannica: Yule - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yule-festival

- Interfaith America: Waiting for the Sun a Pagan Celebration of Yule - https://www.interfaithamerica.org/article/pagan-celebration-of-yule/

Welcome back to Something Strange! We’re starting off December with what we believe could be a true Christmas miracle, the miraculous, unofficial Christmas truce of 1914

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Graphic descriptions of WW1 trench warfare/trench life, description of injuries/illnesses, discussion of the holocaust

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References:

- Imperial War Museums: The Real Story of the ChristmasTruce - https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce

- History: World War I - https://www.history.com/articles/world-war-i-history

- Encyclopedia Britannica: Bosnia and Herzegovina - https://www.britannica.com/place/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina

- Smithsonian Magazine:The Legend of What Actually Lived in the “No Man’s Land” Between World War I’s Trenches - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legends-what-actually-lived-no-mans-land-between-world-war-i-trenches-180952513/

- History: Life in the Trenches of World War I (Both article and video reference) - https://www.history.com/articles/life-in-the-trenches-of-world-war-i

- Imperial War Museums: The Real Story of the Christmas Truce (Both article and video reference) - https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce

- The National WW1 Museum and Memorial: Christmas Truce Incidents and accounts (multiple articles referenced)

- British and Germans, good friends on Christmas Day in the Trenches - https://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/christmas-truce/incidents/1/british-and-germans-good-friends-on-christmas-day-in-the-trenches

- "On Christmas Day no one would have believed we were enemies..." - https://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/christmas-truce/incidents/126/on-christmas-day-no-one-would-have-believed-we-were-enemies

- “Germans who played the Game” - https://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/christmas-truce/incidents/21/germans-who-played-the-game

- German Urges our Men to "Be British" - https://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/christmas-truce/incidents/87/german-urges-our-men-to-be-british

Welcome back to Strange Snapshots, and welcome back to our super special guest, Ali! We’re keeping up with the Cryptids with today’s Snapshot, which will focus on the Wampus Cat. You may remember the Wampus cat from on our main episode about Appalachian folklore.

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Discussions of animal pelts/taxidermy

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References:

- How stuff works: Wampus Cat - https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/wampus-cat.htm

- American Folklore: The Wampus Cat - https://www.americanfolklore.net/the-wampus-cat/

- Appalachian History.net: The Wampus Cat - https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2017/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html

- Texas Coop Power: Catch A Wampus Cat - https://texascooppower.com/catch-a-wampus-cat/

- WFRX: Monsters and Mysteries of Appalachia: Cryptid of the week- exploring the Wampus Cat, a divisive legend - https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/monsters-and-mysteries-of-appalachia/cryptid-of-the-week-exploring-the-mystery-of-the-wampus-cat-a-divisive-legend/