The Conspirators Podcast

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The Conspirators is a bi-weekly show dedicated to the dark and disturbing stories from history your teacher never told you about. On the show I discuss unsolved mysteries, serial killers, survival stories, strange disappearances and other bizarre true events from the past.
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Ep. 275 - The Witch of New York
Sunday, 21 December, 2025

On Christmas 1843, a horrific discovery was made on New York's Staten Island. Inside a cottage, the bodies of a young mother and her infant daughter were discovered. Whoever killed them had tried setting the house on fire to cover up the crime. Soon a woman named Polly Bodine would be arrested for the crime. It was none other than P.T. Barnum who gave her the nickname she would forever be known by, The Witch of Staten Island. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Witch-New-York-Tabloid-Justice/dp/1639363912 https://boroughsofthedead.com/edgar-allan-poe-witch-staten-island/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices