Show notes
Amanda and Sarah head to historic New England and back to California for two wild cases. Sarah covers Elizabeth Knapp, a 17th-century teen girl believed to be demonically possessed. Amanda reveals part two of the Clara Phillips fiasco. Other subjects covered include fighting in front of the cheese dip, classic Hollywood monologuing, and buying too much unreturnable Target merch.
Recommendations:
Amanda recommends the 1951 sci-fi film 'The Thing from Another World.'
Sources:
- “The Use of Transference in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” by Michael Fass for American Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Fall, 1995)
- “The Terrifying Demonic Possession of 16 Year Old Elizabeth Knapp,” Hit the Lights Podcast, November 2020
- Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Demos
- Wikipedia/Clara Phillips
- LA Magazine (How Murderess Clara Phillips Became “Tiger Girl”)
- New York Times (' Clara Phillips' Tries Honduras Jail Break; 15 Students Whose Aid She Sought Are Seized)
- New York Post (Inside the deranged mind of Clara Phillips, Hollywood’s first female psychopath)
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