Comedy
Amanda and Sarah can't drive 55 for this episode about cases connected to highways and bi-ways. Amanda indulges her twin fearsination with the story of Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, identical Swedish sisters who pulled a shocking folis a deux on the M6 motorway in England. Sarah pulls to the side of the road for a look at phantom hitchhikers. Other topics include bad improv, pre-teen coffee, and clear plastic kink. Recommendations: Amanda recommends the Netflix true-crime series Sophie: A Murder In West Cork and the movie Dead Ringers. Sources: The Vanishing Hitchhiker at Fifty-Five by Gillian Bennett Source: Western Folklore, Winter, 1998, Vol. 57 The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Richard K. Beardsley and Rosalie Hankey Source: California Folklore Quarterly , Oct., 1942, Vol. 1 Wikipedia/The Suffolk Miracle The Skeptic (Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?) Mary Hallberg (The vanishing hitchhiker legend) North Carolina Ghosts (Lydia, The Phantom Hitchhiker) West Hawaii Today (Madame Pele’s story: Island’s most revered goddess, passed through generations, runs as deep as her lava) Vice (The Twins Who Ran into Traffic Before Stabbing a Man to Death) Wikipedia/Ursula and Sabina Eriksson BBC News (M6 dash woman jailed over killing) Daily Mail (Woman locked up for making mad dash across M6 stabbed stranger to death the day after she was released from jail) Madness in the Fast Lane (BBC, 2010) For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or check out our Patreon.