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The name Montague Summers has come up in several of our October episodes.

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Okay, I don't know why humans are wired this way, but the idea of serial killers is almost always gruesomely intriguing.

So what better topic to trot out for Halloween? This particular case is one that's often talked about when poisoners come up.

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This week was our latest installment of Unearthed.

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This is part two of our latest installment of Unearthed.

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It is time for our latest installment of Unearthed.

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Over the last couple of years that Holly and I have been on this show, we have gotten literally hundreds and hundreds of requests from listeners, and maybe 5% of them are requests that we get over and over and over and over again.

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We talked about the Red Barn murder this week.

Yep.

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Uh, it's Halloween time.

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So today's subject was a mathematician, a philosopher, an astronomer, an occultist, and according to the Catholic Church of 16th century Italy, a heretic.

Uh, he was also really comfortable writing pretty scathing critiques of people he disagreed with.

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It's Halloween time, so we're continuing some of our Halloweeny topics.

And this one, this one I suppose could be considered, uh, a sequel to the Ghosts of the British Isles episode we did last year, uh, because we're gonna talk about screaming skulls, and screaming skull lore is something that is unique to Britain, although specific skull lore varies.