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IN THIS EPISODE: Is there really such a thing as coincidence? One girl used to think so \\u2013 but a strange paranormal experience has her now thinking there\\u2019s no such thing as happenstance. (More Than a Coincidence) *** Is it possible that the real reason for the USA-Iraq war had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, and everything to do with the appropriation of other-worldly alien technology? (Saddam Hussein\\u2019s Stargate) *** Weirdo family member Heather Circle brings us a terrifying story that starts, innocently enough, with her child\\u2019s missing plastic drinking cup. (A Little Pink Sippy Cup) *** Rebecca Schaeffer was destined to be a star. But before she had the chance to make it in Hollywood, she was murdered by an obsessed fan. (Hollywood\\u2019s Sweetheart Killed By a Stalker) *** With the internet\\u2019s recent obsession with Black Eyed Kids encounters and \\u201cShadow People\\u201d visitations, you might not notice another phenomena that\\u2019s quickly becoming part of the paranormal pop-culture consciousness: The Hat Man. Reports of the strange \\u201cHat Man\\u201d, a mysterious entity dressed in a long-brimmed hat, continue to pour in from all over the world. Who is the Hat Man? What does he want? Why have so many people around the world been visited by this strange entity? (The Hat Man And Shadow People) *** If you\\u2019ve ever seen the film \\u201cThe Wicker Man\\u201d, you are familiar with the ending of the burning giant made of wood and the human sacrifice therein. But is it possible that this terrifying idea was not an invention of novelists and screenwriters \\u2013 but was a very real practice at one time? Or even today? (The History Behind The Wicker Man) *** The life that serial killer Dennis Rader lived on the outside, hid his dark secret inside, which he was so desperate to reveal that he began dropping breadcrumbs to the media. (The Paper Trail of BTK) *** A graveyard is typically a quiet place, but Graceland Cemetery in Chicago seems to be a bit too quiet \\u2013 which might have something to do with its resident ghosts. (The Deathly Silence of Graceland Cemetery) *** In 1888, London was terror-struck by the grotesque murders of Jack the Ripper, who was shortly about to claim his next-victim: 47-year-old prostitute Annie Chapman. Her dissection at the hands of the madman was nothing short of gruesome. (The Dissection of Annie Chapman) *** Annie Chapman likely got a good look at her killer. At the time, scientists thought they could user her corpse\\u2019s eyeballs to identify the attacker. Is something like that possible? Could the last visual image of someone\\u2019s life remain burned into the eye even after death? (The Last Thing a Corpse Sees)

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\\u2026
\\u201cThe Hat Man And Shadow People\\u201d by Greg Newkirk (http://bit.ly/36DLMwg) and Dana Matthews (http://bit.ly/33oEfiJ) for Week In Weird.
\\u201cMore Than a Coincidence\\u201d is by Cherubim and was posted at YourGhostStories: http://bit.ly/2JXuCQC
\\u201cSaddam Hussein\\u2019s Stargate\\u201d by Michael Moran for The Daily Star: http://bit.ly/2pNfVst
\\u201cA Little Pink Sippy Cup\\u201d by Weirdo family member Heather Circle
\\u201cHollywood\\u2019s Sweetheart Killed By a Stalker\\u201d by Natalie DeGroot from All That\\u2019s Interesting: http://bit.ly/2NoBbh9
\\u201cDark Annie\\u201d from Awesome Stories: http://bit.ly/33H5hlC
\\u201cThe Dissection of Annie Chapman\\u201d by Hannah McKennet for All That\\u2019s Interesting: http://bit.ly/2p98hZb
\\u201cThe Last Thing a Corpse Sees\\u201d by Marissa Fessenden for the Smithsonian: (link no longer available)
\\u201cThe History Behind The Wicker Man\\u201d from Ancient Origins: http://bit.ly/2Kr38TR
\\u201cThe Paper Trail of BTK\\u201d by Rachel Chang for Biography: http://bit.ly/32zqpZL
\\u201cThe Deathly Silence of Graceland Cemetery\\u201d by Ursula Bielski for Chicago Hauntings: http://bit.ly/33G3Cgq
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