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Episode 214: Spoiled (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2022-11-07 05:01:03 +0000 UTCOften times the more revered and sacred a space is, the more haunted by a trouble past it’s likely to be. And as we see from this tour of the American landscape, those stories are more than a little disturbing.
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Further Reading
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- Beam, Ali. “El Tovar – A Ghost Story.” Grand Canyon Collective, November 14, 2017. http://grandcanyoncollective.com/2017/11/14/el-tovar-a-ghost-story
- Bilis, Madeline. “Use This Complete List of All the U.S. National Parks to Plan Your Next Adventure.” Travel and Leisure, January 8, 2021. https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/national-parks/how-many-national-parks-are-there
- Cahal, Sherman. “4 Must See New River Ghost Towns.” Abandoned, October 2, 2014. https://abandonedonline.net/4-must-see-new-river-ghost-towns
- Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians (Wiley & Putnam, 1842). https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p249901coll37/id/9601
- Cerretani, Anthony. “America's Scariest Trails: Tragedy in the Grand Canyon.” Backpacker, October 13, 2009. https://www.backpacker.com/stories/america-s-scariest-trails-tragedy-in-the-grand-canyon
- Clark, Galen. Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customs and Traditions (Reflex Publishing, 1904). https://books.google.com/books?id=QspYGYZqve4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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- “Cursed Rocks.” The Blog of Gettysburg National Military Park, July 7, 2016. https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/cursed-rocks
- DeLuca, Leo. “When Tuberculosis Patients Quarantined Inside Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave.” Smithsonian, July 14, 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-tuberculosis-patients-quarantined-inside-kentuckys-mammoth-cave-180978144
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- “Dun Glen Hotel (1901-1930).” Clio. Accessed May 2, 2022. https://theclio.com/entry/18880
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- “Ghost Stories Give Old Faithful Inn a Haunted Reputation.” Deseret News, July 4, 1991.
- https://www.deseret.com/1991/7/4/18929144/ghost-stories-give-old-faithful-inn-a-haunting-reputation
- “Ghosts of the Grand Canyon.” Detours American West. Accessed May 2, 2022. https://detoursamericanwest.com/ghosts-of-the-grand-canyon
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- Grant, Richard. “The Lost History of Yellowstone.” Smithsonian, January 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-history-yellowstone-180976518
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- “Headless Bride Ghost of Old Faithful Inn.” Yellowstone National Park Trips, September 27, 2013. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/park/history/yellowstone-old-faithful-inn-ghost
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- Larimer, Sarah. “Gettysburg warns visitors: Don’t take our rocks — ‘unless, of course, you want to be cursed.’” The Washington Post, July 14, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/14/gettysburg-warns-visitors-not-to-take-rocks-unless-of-course-you-want-to-be-cursed
- Loski, Diana. “Battlefield Wildlife.” The Gettysburg Experience. Accessed May 2, 2022. https://www.thegettysburgexperience.com/battlefield-wildlife
- “Mammoth Cave National Park.” USGS. Accessed May 2, 2022. https://www.usgs.gov/geology-and-ecology-of-national-parks/mammoth-cave-national-park
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- “Most famous national parks set visitation records in 2021.” National Park Service. February 16, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/most-famous-national-parks-set-visitation-records-in-2021.htm
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- Oatman-Stanford, Hunter. “Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest.” Collectors Weekly, July 29, 2019. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/curse-of-the-petrified-forest
- “Old Faithful Inn.” Yellowstone National Park Lodges. Accessed May 2, 2022. https://www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com/lodgings/hotel/old-faithful-inn
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- Runte, Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness (University of Nebraska Press, 1990). https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/runte2/index.htm
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