Episode 31: Dead Under the Bed / One Park, Three Curses

Patrice and Marleah drink blackberry mojitos and talk mermaid dicks, the dead people in your hotel rooms, and the multi-level curse on a West Virginia amusement park. Alabama Cops Bust 'Crop Circle' Makers

Dead Under the Bed //

Sometimes urban legends come from truth. You know that one where the couple checks into the hotel and complains again and again about the smell that won’t go away, and then they find a corpse under the mattress? Well you’d be surprised how often that actually happens. Always check under the bed.The Body Under the Bed: An Urban LegendThe Body Under the Bed: SnopesReddit: Memphis woman found dead under hotel bed 

One Park, Three Curses //

In the 1960s, three children died at Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in West Virginia. Way before it was a park, that very site was the homestead of the first white settlers in Mercer County, WV, where three settler children were killed. And way before it was a homestead, it was the site of the ancient burial ground of 3,000 Shawnee children, for the trifecta. Oh hell yeah it’s haunted. The History of the ShawneeThe Terrifying Story of Lake Shawnee, the Cursed Amusement ParkClover Bottom Massacre, 1783Abandoned West Virginia Amusement Park Has a Bloody History   

EPISODE DRINK:

Blackberry Mojitos

made Strange by Bartender Courtney

INGREDIENTS

• Ingredients 5 - 6 fresh blackberries
• 4 fresh mint leaves
• 1 1/2 ounces blackberry syrup
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1/4 cup club soda
• 1 1/2 ounces white rum
• 1 cup ice cubes

PREPARATION

1. Muddle mint leaves, lime juice and blackberry syrup
2. Add rum and ice and shake until chilled
3. Strain into ice-filled glass
4. Garnish with blackberries and mint