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Intro: The Stuff You Should Know Curse (and Why We're Doing a Curses Episode)
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Josh, Chuck, and producer Jerry kick things off with some self-deprecating lore of their own: a pattern of TV cancellations that followed Stuff You Should Know appearances, including shows hosted by Soledad O'Brien and Jeff Probst. Chuck draws a crucial distinction between 'canceled' and 'not renewed' — a nod to their own TV show's fate. Josh frames the episode as an anthropological look at curses, not a supernatural endorsement, and sets listener expectations: a lot of this is legend, fact-checking is tricky, and the point is the folklore itself.
The Abenaki tribe considered Brunswick Springs sacred for 12,000 years. Every entrepreneur who tried to commercialize the site met the same fate: their resort burned to the ground. Three separate fires between 1894 and 1931 ended development forever — until the tribe bought the land back and put it in a trust.
