Who were the men behind the hangings of 19 innocent people in Salem, 1692? What was the town like on "Execution Day"? Featuring author and capital punishment expert, Richard Clark.

Episode Seven: Judges, Jurors, & Executions

This episode unpacks what brought the Salem witchcraft hysteria to its end and what Salem looked like when it was all over.  Featuring professor and author Emerson Baker.

Episode Eight: Making It Stop

Interviews with direct descendants of the men and women involved in the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. Featuring the descendants of Margaret Scott, Giles Corey, Rebecca Nurse, and Cotton Mather.

Episode Nine: That's My Eighth Great Grandmother You Hanged

It's not over. They're still hunting down and killing people accused of witchcraft all over the world. Learn how you can help make it stop.

Episode 10: It's Still Happening

Why do we get mad at sick people for getting sick?  This podcast special series explores the history of quarantines.

Episode Music:
Peaceful Piano - Royalty Free Music Club
Melancholy - Lucas King
Sunset Piano - Royalty Free Music Club
Heartfelt Piano - Royalty Free Music Club
The Way the World Ends - Lucas King

Special Episode One - Keep Away

This episode, we tell the story of the original Typhoid Mary.  Featuring author and historian Judith Leavitt.  

Episode music:
Seeker by Kai Engel 
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Run/Kai_Engel_-_The_Run_-_01_Seeker

Levantara`n el vuelo (Piano Solo) by Circus Marcus
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/~/Levantarn_el_vuelo_Piano_Solo

Ice Where Your Parents’ Love Should Be by Kyle Preston
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be

Heartfelt Piano by Royalty Free Music Movies & Videos Backgrounds

Show Notes https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/special-episode-two

Special Episode Two - There Was Something About Mary

Our mini series finale explores the truth behind "Patient Zero" and the AIDS epidemic.  Writer Michele Lent Hirsch shares her story of life under quarantine.

Episode Music:

The Way the World Ends – Lucas King https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638

Ice Where Your Parents’ Love should Be – Kyle Preston http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be

Show Notes
https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/special-episode-three

Special Episode Three - Paper Plates and Sympathy

Premiering September 18, 2016, Witch Hunt explores history's most infamous witch hunts (literal and metaphorical).  Season one examines the Salem Witch Trials.

Witch Hunt Podcast

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