In 1969, the Zodiac Killer sent the San Francisco Bay Area into terror. In this second part of my 2-part series, I tell you what happened next. I also tell you who I think is the most likely suspect.

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https://www.amazon.com/Zodiac-Shocking-Nations-Elusive-Serial/dp/0425212181/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WR17ZHLP4RFY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Bjt1G-62yKKAxCwM7Xsvj1mQNBbgmewNLx0BkWYkLZvrGEzXDudkqJlKYrSlOjTeVOlWqR9tC7uvDGPvDJfXiFSdzhB5WURLqH1DqoDyRETIzx38IV0GMYkNiTHMpGgwKscEanu3-1kLIrTrJx5V-LI28pv-Xst2fr-5sCS8yV5TWex2_BF6cdtdQvumYXY6MKT_kKFSJUuk3M59O6Y-5uKq3MJhYOJQFNemmAycwww.0ZqzkApmr8zIwFDu_FJucTnyOtm221rHJwcTr5PdZl0&dib_tag=se&keywords=zodiac+graysmith&qid=1732365813&sprefix=zodiac+graysmith%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1

https://vault.fbi.gov/The%20Zodiac%20Killer

https://zodiackiller.com/

https://www.zodiacciphers.com/cheri-jo-bates.html

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The Zodiac Killer is one of the most legendary and mysterious serial killers in history. In part 1 of this 2 part series, I break down the details of the five murders believed to have been committed by the Zodiac Killer, and I tell you the story of the maniac who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s.

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https://www.amazon.com/Zodiac-Shocking-Nations-Elusive-Serial/dp/0425212181/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WR17ZHLP4RFY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Bjt1G-62yKKAxCwM7Xsvj1mQNBbgmewNLx0BkWYkLZvrGEzXDudkqJlKYrSlOjTeVOlWqR9tC7uvDGPvDJfXiFSdzhB5WURLqH1DqoDyRETIzx38IV0GMYkNiTHMpGgwKscEanu3-1kLIrTrJx5V-LI28pv-Xst2fr-5sCS8yV5TWex2_BF6cdtdQvumYXY6MKT_kKFSJUuk3M59O6Y-5uKq3MJhYOJQFNemmAycwww.0ZqzkApmr8zIwFDu_FJucTnyOtm221rHJwcTr5PdZl0&dib_tag=se&keywords=zodiac+graysmith&qid=1732365813&sprefix=zodiac+graysmith%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1

https://vault.fbi.gov/The%20Zodiac%20Killer

https://zodiackiller.com/

https://www.zodiacciphers.com/cheri-jo-bates.html

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In 1941, a member of British High Society, Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll, was murdered in Kenya. His still unsolved murder would reveal a seedy underbelly of sex and drugs among the wealthy elite.

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https://www.amazon.com/White-Mischief-Murder-Lord-Erroll/dp/0394756878

https://www.amazon.com/Temptress-Scandalous-Alice-Mysterious-Erroll/dp/0312584180

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/white-mischief-murder-finally-solved-after-66-years-6581781.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-20-mn-8918-story.html

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Hi everyone! I couldn't let my favorite day of the year go by without giving everyone a Halloween treat. So here's an extra bonus mini episode. It's both a dark true crime story out of Japan, as well as a story that might make you a believer in ghosts.

Notes:

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2058684/how-gruesome-photos-memory-stick-revealed-identity-killer-who

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-path-she-took-miyakos-last-walk-d213bf941f91

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In this episode I tell you several stories about haunted cars. Hear the story of the Surrey Ghost Car, the deadly Golden Eagle and the most infamous cursed vehicle of them all, James Dean's Little Bastard.

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https://yourirish.com/folklore/coiste-bodhar

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/looking-back-infamous-a3-ghost-25385369

https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/a3-burpham-ghost-crash-2002/

https://dragonquillca.medium.com/the-murderous-motorized-golden-eagle-8c14a678f1f9

https://jalopnik.com/meet-the-golden-eagle-the-car-claimed-to-have-killed-a-1830037928

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/us-scene/what-really-happened-to-james-deans-cursed-porsche/

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/james-deans-car-cursed.htm

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In 1994, something strange translucent drops of a jelly-like substance rained over the tiny Pacific Northwest town of Oakville, Washington. Immediately after, the townspeople began falling ill, then the animals started dying.

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https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-were-the-oakville-blobs-and-what-caused-them/

https://www.iflscience.com/oakville-blobs-in-1994-mysterious-gelatinous-goo-rained-down-on-washington-73717

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bVpc4mWWuM

https://www.netflix.com/title/81593881

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/oakville-blobs-mystery

https://web.archive.org/web/20240719053950/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/04/22/army-report-details-germ-war-exercise-in-ny-subway-in-66/70772a8b-8223-47de-99b4-876d5e57dd9c/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-bioweapon-san-francisco-180955819/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_jelly

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In this episode I'm going to tell you three stories about some of the most horrific diving accidents in history.

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https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/pipeline-diver-tragedy-corporate-manslaughter

https://medium.com/@mrodriguez0/the-terrifying-paria-diving-disaster-trapped-in-an-underwater-oilpipe-7001ce9a5179

https://newsday.co.tt/2024/07/11/3-face-court-over-paria-diving-tragedy/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-pipeline-deaths-blamed-on-oil-companys-gross-negligence/

https://www.coursehero.com/file/85910708/Assessment-about-Star-Canopus-diving-accidentdocx/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Canopus_diving_accident#CITEREFPrangley/Ward_FAI1979

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/byford-dolphin-accident.htm

https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf

https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/norway/540650/byford-dolphin-diving-incident-casts-long-shadow-40-years-on/

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During the late 1980s and 1990s, a series of reported sightings throughout Elkhorn, Wisconsin and northern Michigan began appearing about large, hairy, half man, half dog hybrid creatures that can only be described, as a real life werewolf. In this episode I'm going to tell you the history of the Beast of Bray Road and the Michigan Dogman.

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https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Bray-Road-Wisconsins-Werewolf/dp/0996263055

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Wolfmen-Encounters-Modern-America/dp/1585429082/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_2/140-5513919-1736818?pd_rd_w=jrhKC&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=FE9JQNTS4SBJWVW088VH&pd_rd_wg=dreQR&pd_rd_r=88733dcd-fb14-482b-a396-4db68a64714c&pd_rd_i=1585429082&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/I-Know-What-I-Saw-Linda-S-Godfrey-audiobook/dp/B07T3HTQ1W/encoding=UTF8&pdrd_w=SFIUg&content-id=amzn1.sym.f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_p=f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_r=140-5513919-1736818&pd_rd_wg=Mr8Ra&pd_rd_r=592795e2-a266-40f2-b5b8-6495b8d3276c&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

https://allthatsinteresting.com/beast-of-bray-road

https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Legend-or-lore-Michigan-s-Dogman-still-haunts-17292455.php

https://mysteriousmichigan.com/the-michigan-dogman

https://radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2023-10-31/dog-man-story-starts-as-song-continues-as-legend

https://kryptos.fandom.com/wiki/Gable_film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2n2vVyT8cw

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Lake Lanier is a man-made reservoir in the northern part of Georgia. It's one of the state's biggest tourist attractions, drawing in millions of visitors each year. But Lake Lanier also has a sinister reputation for being or cursed. Since the lake was formed in the 1950s, more than 700 people have either drowned or vanished entirely in the lake. In this episode I dive into the lake's dark and tragic history.

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https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier

https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Recreation/Lake-Sidney-Lanier/

https://time.com/6984594/georgia-death-lake-lanier-haunted/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/2024/05/10/lake-lanier-oscarville-local-hidden-gem/73455267007/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/community/voices-for-equality/oscarville-lanier-lake-black-town-riot-mae-crow-chattahoochee-beulah-rucker/85-8647e2be-a07b-4e80-91cc-61613d0ff472

https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/learning-research/projects-initiatives/originals/forsyth-1912/

https://www.amazon.com/Underwater-Ghost-Towns-North-Georgia/dp/1540235602?keywords=underwater+ghost+towns+of+north+georgia&qid=1649991264&sprefix=underwater+ghost+t%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1&linkCode=li2&tag=sogomedia-20&linkId=b92257593dc8ae4dcc519005e3b75573&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il

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In October 1978, an Australian private pilot named Frederick Valentich took off on what should have been a one hour flight to nearby King Island. But 40 minutes into his flight, Valentich radioed into ground control telling them he was being pursued by a UFO. Minutes later, Frederick Valentich vanished without a trace.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-were-mysterious-foo-fighters-sighted-ww2-night-flyers-180959847/

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/11/the-valentich-disappearance-another-ufo-cold-case-solved/

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/australia/B1497_V116-783-1047_10491375.pdf

https://unsolved.com/gallery/ufo-disappearance/

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/farmer-may-hold-ufo-clue-to-36year-valentich-plane-mystery/news-story/5d495b78d705f6d2efdcd8d8a4a7797e

https://allthatsinteresting.com/frederick-valentich

https://www.ranker.com/list/frederick-valentich-ufo-disappearance-facts/linda-meyers

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/truth-was-out-there-after-all/news-story/2973bd131c27da0a31f4a7b8eba643fe

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/ufo-suspicions-still-cloud-disappearance-of-frederick-valentich/news-story/238397f0c2734c8b91cf4b96ae497bc5

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Between 1962 to 1964, 13 women in the Boston area were strangled to death by a serial killer. A 33 year old handyman named Albert DeSalvo would go on to confess to the murders. But did he really do it?

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https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Stranglers-Susan-Kelly/dp/0786032510

https://time.com/6263843/boston-strangler-hulu-true-story/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-tenacious-women-reporters-who-helped-expose-the-boston-strangler-180981786/

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/serial-killer/how-the-boston-stranglers-identity-was-finally-confirmed-50-years-after-his-reign-of-terror-ended

https://www.boston.com/culture/movies/2023/03/17/boston-strangler-movie-whats-real-not/

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