This week on Extra Credit, we’re bouncing between updates, history, and stories that sound too strange to be real.

We start with an update from a previous Extra Credit episode. A Michigan woman who pretended to be a registered nurse has now been sentenced to prison time. We break down the sentence and want to hear from you. Was the punishment fair, too harsh, or not nearly enough?

Dina then brings a developing and particularly gruesome case out of Derby in the UK. A woman has been accused of killing her girlfriend using a horse figurine. As shocking as that sounds, it is somehow not the most unbelievable part of the story.

Charlotte lightens the mood with a look at a winter tradition from Switzerland involving skiing witches. We dig into the folklore behind the celebration and the original witch whose legend inspired the traditi ...