Episode 4
Just when you thought it was safe to take down the 12ft Skeleton, it’s time for Halloween Part 2 here at the Nightmare Cottage!
After a lighthearted follow-up lecture on the holiday’s history, the ladies lean back into the lurid for a look at some loathsome Halloween happenings. Tikes tricked into tasting treacherous treats, sex workers savaged for sampling sweets… Sheesh. It’s enough to make even a ghost writer buried beneath the floorboards of some f&@%ed up cottage weep. But hey – you seem like you’re into that kinda stuff, so you’ll probably love it.
Happy Halloween one and all!
The Origins & Urban Legends Surrounding Halloween By Nym
Ghouls of Halloween past
Guy Fawks Night Celebrations
Past
Present
The Murder of Maria Adams By Nylene
Ledell Peoples mugshot showing the only injury he sustained from his claim that he killed Maria Adams in self defense.
Nightmare Fuel
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L.I Children get poison “Treat”; accused housewife committed. (n.d.). New York Times.
Martin, E. (2022, October 24). The history of trick-or-treating, and how it became a Halloween tradition. Culture.
The People of the State of Illinois v. Ledell Peoples. (2020). In APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS [Legal case].