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Sep 2020
50m 51s

Episode 171: Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Morbid Network | Wondery
About this episode
This week we are getting spooky with it. You might be an amusement park junkie, but we’re warning you, hold on to your butts if you’re headed to the Lake Shawnee Amusement park. Alaina gives us the intense history surrounding the land before it became a park, the horrible events that happened while it was a functioning park and the aftermath of the defunct park today. We’re serious, you’re going to want to be holding on tight to that butt!
Books used for research: Kentucky Clay by Katherine Bateman
Haunted America by Dave Thompson 
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