In this new series we look at the history of blood feuds, starting with an obscure and scattered story from the era of Anglo-Saxon England, and a series of killings between two family lines that took place over 60 years of political upheaval, warfare and conquest, with cameo appearances from Macbeth and Lady Godiva.

Our primary source for this episode is "Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England" by Richard Fletcher

For the intro on the Regulator-Moderator War, our primary source was this article from the Texas State Historical Association: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/regulator-moderator-war

Music in this episode is courtesy of musopen.org

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In this episode we conclude our series on shipwrecks by looking at the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, a US Navy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine near the end of World War II. The nearly 900 survivors of the sinking were left adrift for days with no food or water, combating the elements and massing of sharks that picked them off one by one.

Our primary source for this episode is "In Harms Way" by Doug Stanton

Music in this episode is courtesy of musopen.org

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For our annual Christmas Eve ghost story, a reading of Edith Wharton's classic short story, "The Eyes," first published in 1910.