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Weird Island — 75 episodes

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73. FOOD: The Newport Man Who Ate… Tomatoes?

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72. DAREDEVILS: Sam Patch

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71. HOUSES: Octagon Houses

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70. IDA LEWIS: The Keeper of Lime Rock

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69. GYMS: The Providence Ladies’ Sanitary Gymnasium

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68. ANIMALS: Oscar, the Cat Who Could Predict Death

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WEIRD ISLAND CHECK IN: Taking a (Little) Pause

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67. MILLS: From Cotton Cloth to Space Age Textiles

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66. MEET ME AT THE BILTMORE: Dutee Wilcox Flint

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65. THANKSGIVING: Revisiting the Origin Story

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64. MURDER: Amasa Sprague and the Trial of John Gordon

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63. HAUNTED: The Conjuring House

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62. MILLS: Ann & Hope

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61. WINDSWEPT: The Pain-Killer Mansion

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60. FIRSTS: First Oyster Bar in Providence

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59. CYCLEDROME: And the First New England NFL Champions

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58. WRITERS: H.P. Lovecraft

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57. GHOST TOWN: Hanton City

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56. PPAC: Providence’s Movie Palaces

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55. MURDER: Carter Jackson Monument

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54. DINERS: Modern Diner

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53. DINERS: Haven Brothers

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52. WEIRD NEWS: When the Wright’s Chicken Farm Kids were Kidnapped

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51. STRANGE STREETS: The Mystery of Ridge St. and Pidge Ave.

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50. SUMMER MEMORIES: RI’s Historic Carousels

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49. WEIRD ANNIVERSARY: Part 2 | Fun Facts

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48. WEIRD ANNIVERSARY: One Year of Weird Island

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47. WEIRD FOOD: Cuffy Cockroach’s Sea Turtle Soup

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46. FIRSTS: First Oval-Track Auto Race

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45. ARCHITECTURE: Turk’s Head Building

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44. BUBBLERS: Cogswell’s Infamous Fountains

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43. WRITERS: Edgar Allan Poe in Providence

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42. ANIMAL ESCAPE: Frosty The Polar Bear

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41. WATERFIRE: In the Renaissance City

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40. HOLIDAY MAGIC: The Polar Express

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39. RHODESIDE ATTRACTIONS: The Big Blue Bug

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38. FIRSTS: The First Presidential Phone Call

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37. ANIMAL ESCAPE: Rhoda the Sea Lion

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36. ABANDONED: The Railroad that Went Down with the Titanic

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35. GIANT PUMPKINS: And the RI Grower Who “Squashed” World Records

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34. HAUNTED: Ramtail Mill

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33. CUMBERLAND LIBRARY: Wednesday, October 20 at 6:30PM

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32. HAUNTED: Newport’s Belcourt Castle

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31. BARNABY CASTLE: Part 2 | A Murder Mystery

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30. BARNABY CASTLE: First Murder by Mail

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29. MINI EPISODE: Pawtucket’s Hollywood Walk of Fame

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28. TAYLOR SWIFT: The Story of Her Rhode Island Home

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27. GETTYSBURG GUN: A Cannonball Trapped in Time

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26. MINI EPISODE: The Madman of Jerimoth Hill

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25. MINI EPISODE: Tombstone Tourism at Precious Blood

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24. SISTINE CHAPEL OF NEW ENGLAND: St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center

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23. MINI EPISODE: Woonsocket’s Hachikō Statue

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22. SLATER THE TRAITOR: Father of the American Industrial Revolution

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21. MINI EPISODE: What the heck is Cumberlandite?

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20. ABANDONED: It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane.. It’s the Superman Building!

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19. DIRTY DRIVE-IN: The Forgotten History of Rhode Island’s Drive-Ins

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18. ABANDONED: The East Side Train Tunnel

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17. FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The First Violence of the American Revolution

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16. MINI EPISODE: Most Donut Shops Per Capita

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15. WEIRD BEARD: The First Set of Sideburns

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14. WEIRD WEATHER: That Time it Rained Fish

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13: INDEPENDENT MAN: Who is that guy on the State House?

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12: ELEPHANT BRIDGE: Wonder, Cruelty, and the First Elephants in America

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11. THE PYRAMID OF PAWTUCKET: Apex Department Store

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10. HAUNTED HOTEL: The Biltmore

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9. BOOKS IN HUMAN SKIN: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy

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8. ONE PROVIDENCE PLACE: The Secret Apartment in the Mall

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7. ROGER WILLIAMS: and the Man-Eating Tree

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6. WEIRD FOOD: Jonnycakes, Quahogs and Pizza Strips

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5. WEIRD FOOD: Hot Wieners, Coffee Milk and Del’s

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4. PIRATES: Buried Treasure on Block Island

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3. ABANDONED: The Ladd School

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INTRODUCING: Weird Island

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2. VAMPIRE PANIC: Mercy Brown

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