We hope you are all having a good Halloween season!

For today's episode, Genevieve teaches us about "zemblanity" and Portland's very own Hell House, and Haley reads some Paranormal Portland stories from Reddit.

Trigger warnings: Murder, violence, suicide

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Edited by Jordan Henline of 88.8 


Intro & Outro music by Joe Huss

SOURCES (Zemblanity)

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/09/07/Murder-suicide-mom-related-to-mass-killer/1757621144000/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1092898917/?match=6&terms=vickie%20lynn%20cutsforth&search-id=9872f5f3-2f2a-42c4-904c-9c34208181c5&search-rank=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1092899317/?match=3&terms=vickie%20lynn%20cutsforth&search-id=9872f5f3-2f2a-42c4-904c-9c34208181c5&search-rank=3

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1091226230/?match=2&terms=vickie%20lynn%20cutsforth&search-id=9872f5f3-2f2a-42c4-904c-9c34208181c5&search-rank=2

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1091344202/?match=1&terms=vickie%20lynn%20cutsforth&search-id=9872f5f3-2f2a-42c4-904c-9c34208181c5&search-rank=5

https://kval.com/news/local/32-years-later-oregon-bar-shooting-victim-dies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Museum_Tavern_shooting

https://www.newspapers.com/image/387082371/?match=1&terms=Vickie%20Lynn%20Cutsforth%20&search-id=d2ef7561-f0e4-4d75-b1f2-0e93828a0a11&search-rank=9

https://nesslabs.com/zemblanity

Portland Reddit stories

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1bsvrr8/very_haunted_portland_motel_and_hotel/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/1bf79k9/visions_of_murder_at_a_strip_club_in_portland/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/lgxgz/warning_to_people_in_the_portland_oregon_metro/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/lrzeh/portland_ghost_stories/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/k47n5b/strange_shared_timewarpflashback_in_portland/

Welcome to Myth & Mist- your one stop podcast for killers, thrillers, and chillers of the Pacific Northwest!

WE ARE BACK! Today we are talking about the crimes of Michele Gates & the tragic life of Hallie Illingworth (aka The Lady of the Lake)

Trigger warnings: Murder, domestic violence

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Send us your stories: mythandmistpodcast@gmail.com

Edited by Jordan Henline of 88.8 


Intro & Outro music by Joe Huss

SOURCES

(Michele Gates)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1087624233/?match=1&terms=Michele%20Gates%20Ruth%20&search-id=e6420cad-e32f-4cec-aea2-da5f5c8e3d62&search-rank=2

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1090437572/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jan/09/father-of-portland-child-killer-accused-of-shootin/

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/g66l-2019/01/2b570a52594854/the-strange-case-of-killer-mic.html

https://jlc.org/issues/youth-tried-adults

https://www.jbhwlaw.com/measure-11

https://familysolutionsoregon.org/pages/proctor-care

https://www.newspapers.com/image/770622424/?match=2&terms=michelle%20shorthouse&search-id=29ca63b7-1c97-405f-abf7-e43326bdb5e3&search-rank=2

https://www.newspapers.com/image/817962453/?match=1&terms=michelle%20shorthouse%20guilty&search-id=183e8cbf-5555-45d7-928b-9ff157952138&search-rank=1

(The Lady of the Lake)

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2025/10/spooky-soap-lake-washington

https://www.historylink.org/File/8599

https://www.king5.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/evening/lake-crescents-dark-secret-lady-of-the-lake-documentary-true-crime/281-bc64f7b1-cd85-4597-b8cc-3aa85216e88b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Crescent

https://www.reddit.com/r/Washington/comments/mbsx10/lake_crescent_wa/

https://www.myolympicpark.com/park/history/the-lady-of-crescent-lake/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thetruthishere/comments/dnobhh/a_summer_of_strangeness_in_rural_washington_state

https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/1eek84w/lake_crescent_wa_a_623_foot_deep_lake_with_60/

The Lady of The Lake. Directed by Ryan Grulich. Investigated by Amanda D. Paulson. Available on Amazon Prime

Welcome to Myth & Mist- your one stop podcast for killers, thrillers, and chillers of the Midwest!

Today we are Breaking Away from our usual content, and covering a case we both are deeply familiar with- The Disappearance of Lauren Spierer.

Lauren Spierer went missing in Bloomington, IN on June 3, 2011. We were both living in Bloomington at the time and for the 15 year anniversary of her disappearance, we want to talk about it.

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Edited by Jordan Henline of 88.8 Intro & Outro music by Joe Huss

All content in this episode is purely speculative and is not stated as fact. The theories discussed in this episode are just that, theories. None of the people discussed in this case have been arrested or charged with any crime in relation to Lauren’s disappearance.

SOURCES

Cohen, Shawn. College Girl, Missing. Sourcebooks, Inc., 28 May 2024.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4ar12w/lauren_spierers_heart_condition/

https://specials.idsnews.com/indiana-university-color-run-jill-behrman-legacy/index.html

https://www.ipm.org/2023-10-19/man-convicted-of-killing-jill-behrman-denied-new-trial

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/11/22/the-stalking-of-kristin/a569041c-6f52-4d44-b9b3-82b7f8cdda6d/

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2013/08/31/hamersley-sentenced-to-28-years-in-naked-gunman-case/47287493/

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/new-information-released-in-serial-killer-case

http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documentswls_081313_Israel%20Keyes_timeline.pdf