A paranormal podcast for people in love with UFOs, Cryptids, True Crime & Strange History, but struggling to find something new. Join hosts Joey and Gil on a well-researched, foul-mouthed quest for the odd, bizarre, and blurry every Sunday as we try to fill that weird little hole in your heart that's seeking something new in the world of the strange. https://bcr.bio/links Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-cat-report/support
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episode 89: 89 | Pt 2 | The Black Hand Society: Aka The Society of the Banana
In part 2, Joey takes us deeper into the underbelly of what will become the origins of the early American Mafia. Spoiler.... It's worth the listen. :)
Sources: Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice Hardcover by William Oldfield & Victoria Bruce - https://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Oldfield-Black-Hand-Society/dp/1501171208
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kingdom_of_Italy_(1861%E2%80%931946)
https://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wn_noflash_5.html#:~:text=Between%20around%201880%20and%201924,in%20Southern%20Italy%20and%20Sicily.
https://mafiagenealogy.com/2023/07/15/second-life-of-sam-lima/
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lima-274
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra