44 | Aimee Semple McPherson, America's First Televangelist

The Wine Times Mysteries

It's MM's turn at the wheel and she brings us the tale of the first televangelist in the U.S., Aimee Semple McPherson - her rise to prominence in the 1920s, and her strange disappearance and the circumstances around it. What do you think happened?

We recorded this on Labor Day weekend where Katy resembled a burrito-eating gremlin and MM was eaten alive by bugs, so the energy is HIGH. We are not sponsored by the Bug Sucker(tm), but WE COULD BE. If we go missing in the ocean, please only mistake sexy mermaids for us. Not two dead seals. The pact is struck.

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• Bug Sucker: https://www.bugbitething.com/

SOURCES:

• Smithsonian Magazine, "The Incredible Disappearing Evangelist": https://bit.ly/3yQnZ9i
• BBC, "The mysterious disappearance of a celebrity preacher": https://bbc.in/3lafBws
• Oxygen, "This Depression-Era Televangelist Was The Inspiration For Characters In 'Perry Mason' And 'Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels": https://oxygen.tv/3BUjMU1
• LA Times, "Home of the Week: Aimee Semple McPherson's castle in Lake Elsinore": https://lat.ms/3zZRLJZ
• Aimee Semple McPherson on Find a Grave: https://bit.ly/3E2oy3t

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