{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F726ed026-1297-4215-a756-046ce3a765e0","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"A Travel Guide To Lovecraft Country \u2013 The Podcast \u2013 Episode 04 \u2013 A History of Violence","description":"\nA Travel Guide of Lovecraft Country \u2013 The Podcast \u2013 Season 01, Episode 04\n\n\n\nA weekly discussion of the HBO television series, Lovecraft Country.\n\n\n\nEpisode Plot: \u2013 Spoilers below\n\n\n\nThree weeks after George\u2019s funeral, Leti uses an unexpected inheritance from her deceased mother to buy a dilapidated Victorian mansion in an all-white neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s North Side, filling it with black renters. The white neighbors harass their new neighbors and burn a cross on the lawn. Inside the house, supernatural activity flares up. Leti learns that the previous owner was a white scientist, Hiram Epstein, who kidnapped, experimented on and killed eight black people before burying them under the house. All nine spirits are trapped there. With the help of a medium and the black spirits, Leti banishes Epstein\u2019s malevolent ghost. Later, Atticus finds Christina in Chicago, having survived the fire. Atticus has deduced that she was, secretly, the source of the \u201cinheritance\u201d and steered Leti to the house. Christina explains that the house was built by Horatio Winthrop, a Sons of Adam member banished after stealing pages from The Book of Names in the 1800s, and that Epstein was a follower of Winthrop\u2019s. She asks Atticus to help her find the missing pages, which could help decipher \u201cthe language of Adam\u201d. Atticus attempts to shoot her, but she\u2019s seemingly invulnerable to harm.\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ed7edbcd-e921-4b40-9653-d4585b7cd872/lovecraft-country-episode-04.jpg"}