On today's episode, Tamara dives into the origin of the Alford plea-where you basically say “I’m totally innocent, but I’ll plead guilty anyway, because life is a never-ending legal nightmare and I just want to go home.” But it’s hard to focus when she’s clutching her Raggedy Ann doll just a little too tightly for comfort..

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On todays episode, Tamara and Rell dive into the mysterious 1900 disappearance of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers. And don't worry friends, I looked up what the Hebrides are! It's just a fun word for a buncha islands in Scotland! Cheers!

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse

https://www.nlb.org.uk/lighthouses/flannan-isles/

https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2021/12/15/the-flannan-isles-lighthouse-keepers-the-disappearance/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-caused-mysterious-disappearance-flannan-isle-lighthouse-keepers

https://allthatsinteresting.com/flannan-isle

What do you get when you mix a quiet African lake, a ridiculous amount of carbon dioxide, and absolutely zero warning? This week, we dive deep (not literally) into the bizarre and terrifying Lake Nyos disaster of 1986, when Mother Nature let out a massive, silent-but-deadly gas cloud that wiped out an entire village.

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/defusing-africas-killer-lakes-88765263/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Lake-Nyos-disaster

https://web.archive.org/web/20090227160526/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962228-1%2C00.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/lake-nyos.htm