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Announcement: Listener Trick-or-Treat

By boneandsickle | September 12, 2023

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A special short announcement regarding Trick-or-treat by mail option for listeners joining Patreon. Find out how you can receive a hand-packed candy bag from the home of Bone and Sickle Podcast. Each goody bag is guaranteed to include sinister extra as described in Halloween urban legends.

Visit: https://www.patreon.com/boneandsickle

Only while supplies last!

“Always Halloween” Remix

By boneandsickle | September 9, 2023

Here is an audio-video remix of the “Halloween Girl” video that’s gone viral over the last weeks and was mentioned in our last episode featuring listeners’ thoughts on when the Halloween season begins (mentioned by someone from the “it’s always Halloween” contingent.) From the Bone and Sickle YouTube channel.

P.T. Barnum’s Magnificent Museum Fire

By boneandsickle | January 10, 2023

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The fire that destroyed P.T. Barnum’s American Museum on July 13, 1865 was a luxuriantly surreal and tragic event, one described beautifully in a contemporary New York Times piece, which we share in this episode verbatim. Doomed whales in enormous tanks, fleeing snakes, sideshow celebrities, and melting wax mannequins are all part of this fantastic tale.

The episode also includes details on Bone and Sickle’s new format for 2023 (more and shorter shows) a morbid bit of poetry from Mrs. Karswell as well as a snippet of a 1920s recording of German soprano Frieda Hempel recreating a performance by Jenny Lind, “The Swedish Nightingale,” promoted by Barnum on immensely successful international tours.