Chick’s Pick!!! (3)
Episode 39
Another Chicks Picks in the works, this one with a twist. We are celebrating Summerween with some out of control stories! Yes we will find any excuse to throw in some Halloween vibes.
New Guinea in the 1960s was unchartered territory. While on an expedition, making a documentary for Harvard, Michael Rockefeller ended up capsized off the coast in hostile waters. After making it to land he disappeared - search parties were relentless but Michael was never found. Although presumed drowned a new narrative has begun to unfold… you arne’t ready for this.
One of the most infamous asylums in the United States, known for it’s horrendous care of it’s inmates, at one point the state Zoo paid more for its charges than this hospital for its patients. When you think of nightmare asylums - torture, neglect, cruelty - this is it… Welcome friends, Pennhurst awaits!
Sources
Sam’s Case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rockefeller
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/
https://www.ashlandsource.com/2023/05/28/a-rockefeller-headhunters-cannibals-makes-for-one-of-the-most-bizarre-cold-cases-ever/
https://peabody.harvard.edu/OE-michael-rockefeller-photographs
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-27053172
Jenn’s Case
wiki- Pennhurst Asylum
-billypenn.com "The Real Life Horror Story of Pennhurst, An Asylum so Terrible it Forced Changes in Disability Law"
-perservepennhurst.org "What Really Happened to the People who left Pennhurst" "About Pennhurst State School and Hospital"
-thevintagenews.com "Tragic Photos Inside America's Most Horrific Abandoned Asylum:
-Youtube0 Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural "The Horrors of Pennhurst Asylum"
-Youtube ThatChapter "The Disturbing Story of Pennhurst Asylum"
