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Podcast: Mountain Murders
Episode: Hex Hollow: Pennsylvania Witchcraft Murder
Description: In Central Pennsylvania from the 1800s-mid 1900s, many people practiced a type of "witchcraft" blending Christianity and European folk magic called Powwow. 30 year John Blymire, a practitioner of Powwow, believed he was laboring under a curse. In order to exorcise the alleged hex, Blymire consulted a number of fellow witches in hopes of discovering the origination of said curse. Blymire along with two teenage accomplices raid the home of a local man, Nelson Rehmeyer, believing him to be the witch behind the curse. Mountain Murders explores the sordid tale of murder, revenge, witchcraft and...