Ep. 248 - The Old Ozarks - Booger Season (S2:E8)
Welcome to the Old Ozarks with Dr. Brooks Blevins...
This week, in honor of the day before Halloween, we’re heading into the holler after dark to talk haints, boogers, and the wonderfully weird menagerie of monsters that used to spook the old Ozarks.
We’ll start by digging into the Germanic roots of “spook” and “haint,” and trace “booger” all the way back to 16th-century England’s “boggard,” through cousins like “boggle” and “bogeyman,” landing on the real-life, long-gone roadside attraction Booger Holla on Arkansas’s Highway 7.
Then it’s on to the long sweetenin’: the strange and sometimes…
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