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Ep. 3 | The Curse of Moll Dyer | Sasquatch & Sourdough Podcast · Sasquatch & Sourdough

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Sasquatch and Sourdough, the podcast where we embark on a journey into the depths of the unknown, weaving together threads of ancient scripture, tales of high strangeness and the joys of nature.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're a seeker of truth, a lover of the great outdoors or simply hungry for a good story, sasquatch and Sourdough invites you to join us on a journey of discovery, wonder and deliciousness.
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  Speaker 1: So grab your backpack, sharpen your senses and prepare to explore the sacred mysteries of our highly strange world like never before.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey guys, welcome back to Sasquatch and Sourdough.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, christina, and today I want to tell you a campfire story.
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  Speaker 2: So today's story comes from Southern Maryland, in St Mary's County, in a town called Leonardtown, and I'm sure if you've ever seen the Blair Witch Project remember that phenomenon, oh, that movie.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, if you remember that, then I'm sure you remember the story of the curse of Moldyre.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to jump into that, but before we do I just want to do a little bit of housekeeping.
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  Speaker 2: I'm flying solo today.
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  Speaker 2: Crystal is on vacation, so I'm going to give her a big shout out I know she's going to be listening from wherever she is in the wide world to give a shout out to our friend Kim Tina.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, kim Tina, I'm glad that you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a couple things.
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  Speaker 2: We've like.
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  Speaker 2: The channel has grown.
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  Speaker 2: We have almost, like I think, 90 subscribers, which is completely surprising to me.
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  Speaker 2: I did not know when God put this project kind of on my heart, I had no idea, like, where he was going to take it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really all glory to God, I'm excited, and I'm excited that you're here.
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  Speaker 2: So let's jump in For this story.
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  Speaker 2: I really feel like it's just kind of a cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 2: So what you kind of have is, you know, going back it's February in the 1690s, during there's a lot, there's going to be a lot of, you know, obviously, superstition.
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  Speaker 2: And then surrounding you know, the Maryland Witch Trials, you know anything like that is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to kind of already have like a stressed community and you know, kind of like you know, people are on edge to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: On top of it, it was a really really bad winter.
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  Speaker 2: It was a really cold winter, kind of brutal, and people's crops weren't growing, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things that are kind of making people already on edge.
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  Speaker 2: And then you add this layer of like mob mentality, superstition.
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  Speaker 2: The records of Leonardstown in that colonial period they're really kind of incomplete.
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  Speaker 2: There was a fire that destroyed the courthouse in 1831.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of the older records were destroyed in that fire.
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  Speaker 2: So there's kind of like holes in the story.
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  Speaker 2: There's really no record that can tie a certain person.
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  Speaker 2: You can go through immigration records, things like that, but nothing really ties a certain person to the legend.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's kind of a little bit of a cool mystery.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if this person existed or not, but yet the story kind of continues on.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of neat.
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  Speaker 2: In 1892, there's an article in the St Mary's Beacon and it's kind of cute, like they do like a legends of St Mary's and they feature, like, the legend of Moldyre, and I wanted to read a little bit of that because I think it's kind of just interesting to go through and just hear the way that you know it was kind of talked about even back then and that would have been, you know, a hundred and some years later.
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  Speaker 2: So they still, like this community is still kind of like keeping this legend going.
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  Speaker 2: What this calamity was, the story does not relate Maybe some terrible epidemic of disease or some great loss of lives or property by storm and flood.
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  Speaker 2: Anyhow, it was enough to arouse the whole community and the people determined to rid themselves of Muldire and her blithing witchcraft.
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  Speaker 2: But how could this be done without failure and without bringing down upon them greater evil?
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  Speaker 2: After a long consultation, it was agreed to destroy Moldyre's hut by fire and force her to seek shelter in another place.
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  Speaker 2: So she was actually she was living like in a small hut in the woods, which is, I mean, actually, um, she was living like in a small hut in the woods, um, which is, I mean how?
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  Speaker 2: That's just basically that whole you know imagery of you know, I mean I I just kind of like go right to like snow white and like the evil queens, like her, like that sort of witch you know in the woods, um, but just that legendary you know witch figure of, like the little cricket old lady, um, and this article is funny because like I'm not going to read the whole thing, I'm going to link it but like you can go back and then you know it tells basically describes her as an old hag, that.
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  Speaker 2: But but somewhere there's like a semblance of you know long lost beauty and it's just like very romanticized and it's like, okay, we get it.
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  Speaker 2: She's an old lady in the woods which I mean I don't know kind of goals, right, like I don't mind that idea, just want to.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's getting weird out there.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind just living in a little hut in the woods, so I kind of get it.
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  Speaker 2: But so it goes on to say it was midwinter and such a winter as the old times knew.
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  Speaker 2: It is related that on a dark, stormy and freezing night, her hut was surrounded and fired by the avenging people.
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  Speaker 2: With barely time to save herself, she escaped from the flames and fled to the woods.
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  Speaker 2: She was not pursued and the people returned to their homes, hoping that they would be plagued no longer by the dark arts of the witch.
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  Speaker 2: So they basically set her house on fire and then just let her go out in the cold and went home, and they were like, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 2: It goes on to say nothing was heard of for several days until a boy hunting for his cattle in the woods espied her kneeling on a stone with one hand resting there on and the other raised, as if in prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Her life had gone out in the dark, cold night and she still rested in her supplement position, frozen, stiff with the winter's cold.
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  Speaker 2: The story runs that she offered a prayer to be avenged on her persecutors and that a curse be put upon them and their lands.
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  Speaker 2: Years have passed since the march of civilization has gone on.
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  Speaker 2: The light of religion and science have swept away many of the superstitions of our forefathers.
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  Speaker 2: The occult arts have lived its life and rest in the shadow of the past.
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  Speaker 2: But there are those who firmly believe in the old tradition herein related, and such belief has come down to us in everlasting records as the stream nearby the hut is known to this day as Muldire's Run, and the stone, but a short distance away, upon which she knelt is now pointed out to the curious, bearing upon its face the clear impressions of her knees and hand.
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  Speaker 2: Many times have belated travelers on this road seen the ghost of Moldyre making her midnight visitations to her accustomed haunts.
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  Speaker 2: It is told by those who have the courage and endurance to watch that once in each year, on the coldest night of winter, she may be seen wending her ghostly way from points South of the run where she remained, where the remains of the hut can yet still be faintly seen, to where the stone is, and kneeling in the same attitude as on the fateful night, as if praying that her curse may be continued for this right here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just for one, we don't even know if she really existed.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so it could just be like you know, one of those like folklore legends.
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  Speaker 2: But also I mean how terrible, like, how dare you Like this woman is.
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  Speaker 2: Just, you know, some accounts say like maybe she, you know she was just a healer and people were superstitious and you know they went after for that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of where she got the witchcraft thing.
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  Speaker 2: Um, uh, some accounts say that she's, you know, just kind of like an old widow, you know whatever, but somehow she just got blamed for all of this bad, this bad stuff going on in the in the community.
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  Speaker 2: So, either way, um, I just like, you know, kind of sharing my story a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I actually got a chance to do an interview on the bump podcast, uh, not too long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Interview on the bump podcast, uh, not too long ago, and, um, I was able to share my story of, like you know, I I was really once in the occult and, you know, witchcraft and and all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That was like a really big part of my life for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I was radically saved in 2019.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God, and I'm out of that sort of stuff now, but I can still kind of like look back on it and kind of give like a different perspective and and this is just, you know, it's just so sad.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever, even if she was like a healer, hi, we don't just like that's not how we deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: Like we don't, you know, burn down somebody's house because you know whatever, like there's.
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  Speaker 2: There's totally different ways to you know, reach out and help that woman.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I just want to like I don't know, it just makes me really sad.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like this old lady in the in the woods somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: So this is kind of where, like my fishing I guess expedition comes in.
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  Speaker 2: I really want to hear, um, you know, if you guys have any stories, if you're from there, if you're seeing kind of this like weird stuff too, because that you know, getting back to like Blair Witch, like that's kind of what we did.
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  Speaker 2: You know it was like, oh, nobody told me that that was probably not the best idea to like just go poking around and you know trying to play ghost hunter or whatever, just like going into these areas looking for weird stuff, because like it's one thing to look for it and it's one for one thing for it to like kind of look for you.
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  Speaker 2: Um, like you know I could I have friends that kind of.
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  Speaker 2: We all did the same thing, like you know everyone's, you know doing tarot cards and like ouija boards and all that sort of stuff, but like it affected me in a different way.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that when we're kind of telling these stories and like looking back in history, like I want to do that with honor and I want to do that with respect because we are dealing with the supernatural and that means that we're in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're spirit beings, we're spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.
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  Speaker 2: We're spirit beings, we're spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so I think it's just really important to um, I don't know, kind of like you know, qualify that.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, my goal is to obviously bring these stories to you.
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  Speaker 2: But I also like number one, just to bring glory to god, like, even if she did exist and she was just like the, you know, the terrible old lady in the woods that you know some people would go to for healing.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many things like in in nature that you know god gives us that that will heal you, like here's here.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, this is good for the summer because, um, you know, everybody can.
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  Speaker 2: There's bees.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get stung by a bee If you get holy basil and put it in a jar, put some green alcohol in there and let it just like, like, put it in the cabinet and like forget about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great cure for a bee sting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy, it sounds, you know, you can even like take leaves of it and chew it up if you're like that granola and, like you know, put it right on the bee sting and it takes it away instantly.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, if I have no framework for that and I'm back in the 1600s and somebody just kind of would be like what sorcery is this?
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  Speaker 2: We have to burn down her hut, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's where superstition kind of comes in, when you don't have like a layer of understanding.
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  Speaker 2: So, um, yeah, I don't know, it's a, it's just a crazy story.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to like bring it up.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you know, I like these little kind of the idea of like this campfire story thing where it's just like me telling you guys a story and kind of like as if we were actually at the campfire.
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  Speaker 2: I would totally, you know, sit here and tell you and warn you like don't go playing around with all the crazy supernatural stuff, because something might really get you Like that's the scary thing, it's real.
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  Speaker 2: All that being said, if you, you know, I don't know if you're kind of in the area and you've experienced something, please let us know.
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  Speaker 2: Email the show sasquatchandsourdough at gmailcom or you can leave us a comment.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you guys have been awesome about just kind of connecting with us, so, yeah, we want to hear from you, and that is the campfire story for today.
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  Speaker 2: So stay out of the woods and away from old hags, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Or not Just be nice to them All right?
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  Speaker 2: And away from old hags, I guess, or not Just be nice to them All right.
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  Speaker 1: Together, we'll continue to seek the truth, to unravel the mysteries that lie just beyond our grasp.
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  Speaker 1: So, as you bid farewell to this episode, remember you are not alone.
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  Speaker 1: The wilderness is alive with secrets waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to venture forth.
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  Speaker 1: We want to hear your stories.
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  Speaker 1: Email us at sasquatchandsourdough at gmailcom.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, the truth is out there, god is with you, and everyone always ends up in the kitchen.