Episode 372 - Halloween Special Part 1: Pennhurst Asylum & The Mummy Next Door
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The winter solstice is almost here – the time when the threshold between the living and the dead is at its weakest. And here at RedHanded towers, that only means one thing: spooky story swap time!
Hannah and Suru have once again searched high and low for the spookiest, most bone-chilling cases they can find, to tell each other for the first time. For the first of our two story-swaps this year, Hannah takes us through the gates of the monstrous (and monstrously haunted) Pennhurst Asylum, and Suru tells the tale of a mummified savant, lying in a house on the North Yorkshire moors – and her two siblings, who reeked of death…
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Sources:
Pennhurst:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/05/11/issue.html
http://www.preservepennhurst.org/default.aspx?pg=1649
https://the-line-up.com/pennhurst-asylum
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital/
https://www.inquirer.com/history/pennhurst-asylum-history-haunted-house-20221025.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202623/
https://www.inquirer.com/search/?query=pennhurst
http://www.preservepennhurst.org/default.aspx?pg=36
https://www.inquirer.com/history/pennhurst-asylum-history-haunted-house-20221025.html
https://thecreativespotlight.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/pennhurst-school-and-state-hospital/
https://www.pottsmerc.com/2004/12/03/wife-killer-greist-weds-for-3rd-time/
The Mummy Next Door:
Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years - BBC News
Mystery over death of Rina Yasutake, town recluse with a brilliant mind
'Unique' end to case of Yasutake family members accused of keeping corpse | York Press
Family of partially mummified woman thought she was alive for weeks, UK inquest hears
Family kept daughter's mummified remains after being ‘convinced she was still alive' | UK | News
Family kept the mummified remains of their daughter because they were convinced she was still alive
Tributes to amazing artist Rina Yasutake found dead in Helmsley - York Press
Craig Hassall K.C. represents family at inquest with Open Conclusion. – Park Square Barristers
Inquest hears isolated Japanese family kept sister’s body at Yorkshire home