Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Poster

(Bill Waterson / Alamy)

Train wreck in Hammond, Indiana, June 22, 1918

Karen:

The 1918 Hammond circus train wreck

Episode sources:

1. “The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918” (Richard Lytle) 

2. “The Hammond Train Wreck of 1918 Killed Scores of Circus Performers” by Lorraine Boissoneault (Smithsonian Magazine) 2018

3. “A resting place for victims of 1918's circus train wreck” by Ron Grossman (Chicago Tribune)

4. “The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster of 1918 in photos” (IndyStar) 2018

5. “Documentary tells tale of 1918 circus train tragedy on Indiana lakeshore” (Chicago Tribune) 2020

6. “For Some 60 Years, Peru, Indiana, Was America’s ‘Circus City’” by Robert Cline (Rails to Trails Conservancy) 2023

7. “Carl Hagenbeck” (Britannica)

8. “Opens with a Pageant” (Muncie Evening Press) 1918

9. “46 Dead in Train Crash” (Freeport Journal-Standard) 1918 

10. “The truths of the circus train crash of 1918 are more horrifying than myths” by Will Higgins (IndyStar) 2018 

11. “Now Introducing ‘The Great LaPearls,’ Clowns Extraordinary and Citizens of Marion County” by Horace M. Coats (Indianapolis Star) 1931 

12. “Toll From Circus Train Collision Reaches Sixty; Engine Crash into Cars, Passing Four Signals” (The Cincinnati Enquirer) 1918 

13. “The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade” by Les Standiford (Time Magazine) 2021

14. “Just a Joker at Heart for 43 Years Span” by Genevieve Flavin (Chicago Tribune) 1944

15. “Showmen’s Rest” (Showmen’s League)

16. “Bloomington’s Famous Acrobatic Troupe is Invaded by Death” (The Pantagraph) 1918

17. “The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Wreck of 1918” by CAS (Indiana Disasters)

18. “The Great Circus Wreck of 1918” (Yesterday’s America)

19. “Hagenbeck Wallace Circus” (Circuses and Sideshows)

20. “The Haunting Legacy of Showmen’s Rest in Forest Park, IL” (Visit Oak Park)

Georgia:

The mystery of “The Watcher”

Episode sources:

1. “The Watcher” by Reeves Wiedeman (New York Magazine, November, 2018)

2. “What We Know About the Watcher Case Four Years Later” by Reeves Wiedeman (New York Magazine, October 11, 2022)

3. “Cops visited ‘Watcher House’ 58 times since current owners moved in” by Mary K. Jacob (The New York Post, November 1, 2022)

4. “The Horrifying True Story Behind Netflix’s The Watcher” by Shannon Carlin (Time Magazine, October 13, 2022)

5. “What the Creepy Real Letters from 'The Watcher' Said — 'Let The Party Begin'” by Molli Mitchell (Newsweek, October 13, 2022) 

6. “New Jersey Family Who Bought Dream Home Terrorized By Stalker Known As ‘The Watcher’”  by Aaron Rasmussen (ID Crimefeed) 

7. 657 Boulevard (Zillow)

Home where Broaddus family lived

(Associated Press)

Letter sent to Broaddus family