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A comment on one of my posts from author Priscilla Bettis got me thinking. She had wondered if any of the stories counselors told around summer camp campfires had any basis in fact.\xa0
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\nWell, that sparked my curiosity and just begged me to research it.\xa0 That's how I learned about the Camp Scott Murders.
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\n\n\nOnce I did, I instantly wondered if it had inspired the Friday the 13th movies. Of that, I\u2019m not sure. (It's doubtful. The writers have never admitted to it.)
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\nHowever, I do know it inspired this, our first serialized season of the Haunt Jaunts podcast: Haunting American True Crimes. And since it was the inspiration for the series, our first case examines the Camp Scott Murders.
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\nThe late 1970s case still technically remains unsolved today. In 1978, Gene Leroy Hart was charged with the 1977 murders of Girl Scouts Lori Lee Farmer, Doris Denise Milner, and Michele Heather Guse at Camp Scott in Oklahoma. But a jury acquitted him in 1979.
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\nWhat happened to him after that? And to the families of those little girls? We answer both of those questions while inevitably raising others, such as "Could DNA evidence one day once and for all identify the killer and solve the case?"
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\nWe also look into another case the Sun once said could have also inspired Friday the 13th: the Lake Bodom massacre in Finland.
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\nThen we circle back around to Camp Scott. Because of its dark history, it never reopened after June 13, 1977. It\u2019s been abandoned ever since.\n
\n\nI\u2019m sure paranormal investigators and the para-curious can\u2019t help but wonder, \u201cIs it haunted?\u201d\xa0\n
\n\nIt\u2019s a valid question given the camp\u2019s tragic history, even one that crossed my mind when I first learned of this story, but it\u2019s also one of those cases that begs more respect than usual.
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\nWe explore why ghost hunting just feels unacceptable in some cases, and why Camp Scott and the events that transpired there is one of them.
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\nPOSTS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
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\nhttp://www.girlscoutmurders.com/\n\n
\n\nhttps://abandonedok.com/camp-scott/\n
\n\nhttps://tulsaworld.com/news/local/finding-good-in-the-aftermath-of-the-girl-scout-murders-complicated/article_bb96e32c-e691-5af6-8fae-39d619a25d08.html\n
\n\nhttps://kympasqualini.medium.com/1977-girl-scouts-murders-police-hope-dna-will-identify-killer-ddd5d90bea99\n\n
\nhttps://www.hauntjaunts.net/did-the-unsolved-camp-scott-girl-scout-murders-inspire-friday-the-13th/
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\nHOST & GUIDE
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\nCourtney Mroch\n
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\nClassic Horror 1 by Kevin MacLeod\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/3511-classic-horror-1\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\xa0\n\n
\n\nSCP-x7x (6th Floor) by Kevin MacLeod\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6737-scp-x7x-6th-floor-\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n\n\n
\nBeeAndButterfly by Lilo Sound\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/8098-beeandbutterfly\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n\n
\n\nBig Eyes\xa0 by Rafael Krux\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5306-big-eyes-\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n\n
\n\nMarimba Thriller by Rafael Krux\nLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5335-marimba-thriller-\n\nLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\n\n\n
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