But Where is His Leg?
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English - August 04, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSociety & Culture History stories legends urban legends history hauntings spooky Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tori leads off with Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. This cave system is the largest in the world sitting at 400 miles of explored caves. New caves are still being found to this day that add to the size of this cave system. From it’s ancient start to this day, this cave has gone through many changes and has had numerous inhabitants. This has been the site of Civil War battles, a TB hospital, many mining operations, and much more. This was a place for new starts for former slaves and their families. Some of these former slaves stuck around and carved out a place for themselves. There have been mummies and ghosts in the cave system for hundreds of years at this point. She covers the story of Floyd Collins and his musical graves. The park is home to 80 cemeteries as well (110 covered now for those keeping track at home.) Krysti dives into the Curse of Kaskaskia and illustrates that Karma really is a bitch. Kaskaskia Illinois was home to French settlers during it’s first years. This curse boils down to bigotry plain and simple. An Algonquin man falls in love with a white settler’s daughter, this is immediately struck down by her father. The daughter and her love elope into the night and are found very shortly after. The daughter is placed into a convent but the man was tied to a log and sent down the river in winter. The legend has the man cursing the town as he’s being sent down the river. Kaskaskia had to be moved due to flooding in 1881. Unfortunately they did not move the cemeteries in time and still get bones and headstones that float up during flooding to this day.
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