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Welcome to Castles & Cryptids, a paranormal podcast hosted by a couple of Canadian chickies! Follow Alanna and Kelsey down the rabbit hole as we explore lore and legends, murder and mysteries, the unsolved and the unexplained.
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220: Astonishing Art Heists and KFC Capers (opens the original)
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So sorry we've been away lovely listeners! back in the saddle again eh?? We love a heist tale over here at C+C Headquarters, and so we plucked a few choice stories to tell that tickled our fancy. What's an art heist without an artist, we may say? Well, Kelsey brings the artistic talent in the case of the Graff Diamonds robbery. the disguises leveled up with the help of a makeup magician, so it doesn't fall off like a bad mustache. After a quick caper into a chicken shack, it's on the Mona Lisa's
219: The Cursed Episode (opens the original)
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Other title option we almost went with-the One With All The Curses! Grab your lucky charms as we chat mysterious manuscripts and ciphers, a cursed play, theatre superstitions and the cursed grave of the Bard himself! It's cursin' time! Kelsey covers a couple of cryptic texts like the one which tends to try and kill you if you try to print it, and the famously unintelligible Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript with an unknown language among other mysteries. Shakespeare's Macbeth is also known as t
218: Unusual Suspects & Unusual Detectives (opens the original)
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Hello cryptic friends! We hope you are enjoying the summer and finding ways to stay cool during these crazy heat waves. This week Kelsey covers an almost unheard of case, the murder of Ricky McCroskey, where evidence collected by honeybees ends up being the break in the case that investigators need. Then find out how bees are being used to help future forensic students at body farms. Alanna shares the story of Abraham Shakespeare, a kind and generous man who spent his last few dollars on a lotte
217: African Folktales: Animals, Food + Stories (opens the original)
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Jambo Cryptic Crew, we missed you! Sorry there was no new show last week, we were dealing with things and thank you for your patience while we took that time. With much love but no further ado, let's talk folklore from Africa! The intro chat has some smattering of summer wedding tea, a peek into the Patreon tech problems like almost losing half of one host's audio, plus the bonus episode's topic of mystical places like lightning-prone lakes and ley lines so check that out now! Stories start arou
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