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Episode 73: The Curse of Dudleytown May 04, 2018

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Episode 73: The Curse of Dudleytown Noelle walks us through the Curse of Dudleytown, CT. This episode features MEGAN FROM THE SHOW! (Hi, Megan Ensley!) 1. Dudleytown, CT was founded as a small settlement in the mid 1700s and was abandoned in the 1800s. (Sounds nice!) 2. A local rumor alleges that the founders of Dudleytown were descended from Edmund Dudley, an English nobleman who was beheaded for treason. (The Dudley family was placed under a curse! Neat!) 3. Dudleytown was located in a valley, known as the Dark Entry Forest. (What a lovely name. Let’s go!) 4. Reports of hauntings and sightings: Apparitions in the woods, paranormal photographs, feelings of terror, mysterious lights, being touched, pushed and scratched by unseen hands. (Seriously. Let’s go!) 5. Due to rumors of ghost activity beginning in the 1980s, the village site has been subject to frequent vandalism, and the owners have since closed the land to the public. (See you there! Bring snacks and a flashlight!) Sweet Dreams! XOXOZzzzzzz.

Episode 72: The Ghosts of Kansas, featuring Megan Ensley Apr 27, 2018

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Episode 72: The Ghosts of Kansas, featuring Megan Ensley FRIEND OF THE SHOW - Megan Ensley - walks us through some of the ghosts of Kansas! This story contains: 1. The Eaton Hotel (Haunted!) 2. Carrie Nation. (Booze hatin’ freak!) 3. A Ghost Cow. (Mhm. Kansas, y’all.) 4. Haunted Topeka (A places known for its beauty - and for people jumping to their deaths~) 5. Amelia Earhart (She was from Atchison. (ATCHISON! Where the cat killer’s from. It all ties together!) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 71: American Airlines Flight 191 Mar 17, 2018

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Episode 71: American Airlines Flight 191 Jay walks us through the plane crash of American Airlines Flight 191. * Again! ** But, differently. *** With better sound. **** Buckle your seatbelts and put your tray tables to the secure and locked position… This story contains: 1. May 25, 1979 (A perfect day to fly.) 2. Flight 191 crashes moments after take-off from O’Hare (Fatalities: 275.) 3. First responders are traumatized (One says the accident site feels like “walking into a sea of death.”) 4. A Haunted Trailer Park (Ghosts of Flight 191 seek help from near-by residents.) 5. True Crime: The Murder of Diane Chorba (Her boyfriend said she died on Flight 191. She didn’t.) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 70: The Sallie House Mar 10, 2018

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Episode 70: The Sallie House Noelle walks us through the story of The Sallie House! This story contains: 1. Built in 1867, the home is near the Missouri bluffs in Atchison, KS. (Sounds nice!) 2. Michael Finney died in the home in 1872. (Possible ghost!) 3. Charles Finney was Michael’s son and was an expert figure skater who had been ostracized by the figure skating community. (COME THRU, CHARLES!) 4. Joanna Barnes later moved in and had some tough times. (She was in and out of mental institutions – and one of her sons did not survive one of her suicide attempts.) 5. Tony and Debra PIckman moved into the house in 1992 – wherein, Tony was scratched and terrorized by a demon! (Or, maybe he was being haunted by the young ghost of Sallie who died there around 1905. You be the judge!) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 69: Scientists Who Believed in Ghosts Mar 05, 2018

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Episode 69: Scientists Who Believed in Ghosts Jay walks us through Scientific Superstars who believed in ghosts. This story contains: 1. Sir Isaac Newton. (Discovered the laws of motion, laws of gravitation, and invented calculus – all while being profoundly interested in the occult!) 2. Carl Linnaeus. (Father of Modern Taxonomy – who had a bit of a mermaid fetish. HAWT!) 3. Thomas Edison. (Inventor of basically everything – may have been working to invent the “Spirit Phone”!) 4. Jack Parsons. (Founding member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab – who was also an acolyte of Aleister Crowley!) 5. Francis Crick. (Co-discovered the double-helix model of DNA – and was believer in a theory called "panspermia." Which basically means that he believed that life was seeded on Earth by intergalactic "sperm" on the tail of some comet or meteor) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 68: The Ghosts of Sydney, Australia Feb 27, 2018

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Episode 68: The Ghosts of Sydney, Australia Jay walks us through the ghosts of Sydney, Australia This story contains: 1. In January 1788, The British colony of New South Wales was subsequently established. (That’s Australia, guys!) 2. Sydney started off a tough town. (Criminals, skirmishes, disease!) 3. Quarantine Station. (It’s like Ellis Island. But way more haunted!) 4. Picton Railway Tunnel. (Emily Bollard was struck and killed by a train in 1916 – and she walks the tunnel!) 5. Darlinghurst Gaol. (It’s a haunted jail. SPELLED: GAOL. But pronounced: jail. Or, as Oprah would say: Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyle!) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 67: The Philip Experiment Feb 17, 2018

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Episode 67: The Philip Experiment Noelle walks us through the story of The Philip Experiment! Scientists wanted to make a test group believe in ghosts, so they made up a tragic dude from the 1600s who committed suicide after his lover was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. FUN! This story contains: 1. The Philip experiment was a 1972 parapsychology experiment conducted in Toronto, Ontario. (We love Canada!) 2. The experiment was conducted by the mathematician A. R. G. Owen and overseen by psychologist Dr. Joel Whitton. (They were gonna mess with people!) 3. They created a character named "Philip Aylesford.”(They said he was born in 1624 in England, had an early military career and was knighted by the age of sixteen.) 4. They Philip said was unhappily married to a woman named Dorothea and later fell in love with a Gypsy girl. (Y’all. We don’t say gypsy any more. Get it together.) 5. The scientists got people to believe they were communicating with the ghost of Philip! (People are fun. They’ll believe anything if you tell them about it every day for a year. Science?) PS Justin Trudeau! Thanks for listening, you hot and worthy Prime Minister! Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 66: The Ghosts of Edinburgh, Scotland Feb 07, 2018

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Episode 66: The Ghosts of Edinburgh, Scotland Jay walks us through the ghosts of Edinburgh, Scotland. This story contains: 1. it’s the capital city of Scotland. (Founded around 8500 BC!) 2. Mary King’s Close. (The black plague kept hundreds of plague victims sealed inside!) 3. Borthwick Castle. (The ghost of Mary Queen of Scots lives there!) 4. Edinburgh Castle. (The site on which Edinburgh Castle is built pre-dates even the time of Jesus!) 5. Greyfriars Kirkyard. (George McKenzie, the most famous ghost of Greyfriars Kirkyard, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Covenanters.) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 65: The Haunting in Connecticut Jan 30, 2018

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Episode 65: The Haunting in Connecticut Noelle walks us through the story of The Haunting in Connecticut! This story contains: 1. June 30, 1986, the Snedeker family moves into a house sight-unseen. (Cheap rent!) 2. The house had formerly been Hallahan Funeral Home. (There was weird embalming stuff and equipment in the basement! WELCOME HOME!) 3. Poor Phillip, age 14, was going through cancer treatments. (But, maybe he was being possessed by a necrophiliac mortician with a weird mustache?) 4. The Mom and kids of the home went through hell. (Spinning gurneys, assaults, attacks from shower curtains, and bad smells.) 5. But help was on the way! (HELLO, ED AND LORRAINE WARREN, THE MOST FAMOUS DEMONOLOGISTS IN THE WORLD! How ya been?) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

Episode 64: Ingeborg Skeel and Olive Thomas Jan 26, 2018

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Episode 64: Ingeborg Skeel and Olive Thomas Inspired by the Women’s March, Noelle walks us through two strong women of different eras: Ingeborg Skeel of Denmark and the world’s first flapper, Olive Thomas. This story contains: 1. STORY ONE: 1500’s Lady Ingeborg Skeel from Voergaard, Denmark. (Bad ass business woman and philanthropist!) 2. Ingeborg was super successful and had sweet house. (So people thought she was a witch!) 3. A wandering lady in white, Wild Boar Skin, and a patch of blood that can’t be removed. (Ghosts!) 4. STORY TWO: Olive Thomas - the original flapper. (Married to Jack Pickford, brother of the movie star Mary Pickford.) 5. At age 25, Thomas drank down the mercury bichloride that was intended to treat her husband's syphilis topically! (She’s a ghost now. Hi, Olive!) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

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