Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories

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Putting the Fun in Fungi and Funerals Sep 28, 2022

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Are you curious about carbon-neutral or carbon-negative burials, green burials, or other ways to go bath to the earth after death? Did you know you can get a coffin made out of mushrooms? We give you the whole scoop on green funerals and some options to consider.
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Mr. Darcy the Incubus and a Minivan Full of Dead Witches: A True Ghost Story Interview Sep 25, 2022

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As teenagers, two women each found themselves with a malicious, paranormal attachment. Stories include encounters with an incubus, a witch seeking vengeance, and teenagers doing dumb teenager stuff.
Check out our guests' podcast Witches Talking Tarot at https://open.spotify.com/show/1H8s022dG7XqvBH2irT1Je (podcast) and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz3eBeBSGd3A0Y0dWWdb5A (videos)
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Have you had a paranormal experience you want to tell a story about? Apply to be featured on our next episode: https://homespunhaints.com/submit-real-ghost-stories
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Diana's notes, details, musings, and links for this particular episode: https://homespunhaints.com/incubus-attachment

What would Becky and Diana be like if we were brothers? Perhaps we'd be a bit like skeptical Kamen and believer Phreak, hosts of Two Brothers Two Agendas, a paranormal podcast exploring everything from cryptids to conspiracy theories. Go check out their show whenever you need a break from the estrogen, and let us know, mmkay? https://theeverydayheroes.com/two-brothers-two-agendas/

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A Short History of A Very Long Dog: The Spooky Ghost Radio Hour Sep 21, 2022

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Have you heard the story of Long Dog? This legend permeates an old stage coach road in northeast Tennessee, and is as Appalachian as moonshine and fiddle music. We retell it here, along with some interesting sound effects.
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Into The Time Slip: A true ghost story interview Sep 19, 2022

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We put on our ghost glasses and step into the time slip with spooky storyteller Shelby Scott of Scare You To Sleep in these stories of a Civil War Battlefield time slop and a very haunted apartment in Los Angeles.
Check out Shelby's podcast, Scare You To Sleep, at https://www.scareyoutosleep.com/
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Have you had a paranormal experience you want to tell a story about? Apply to be featured on our next episode: https://homespunhaints.com/submit-real-ghost-stories
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Diana's notes, details, musings, and links for this particular episode: https://homespunhaints.com/time-slip

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The Eerie Tale of the Corn Maiden Sep 15, 2022

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Corn is more than just the omnipresent product in everything you buy. Corn is the source of mystical, magical, and mysterious folklore, and a great thing to make maize mazes out of.

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What Bit Me? A true ghost story interview Sep 11, 2022

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Iowa is home to a lot of strange, supernatural phenomena. Haunted basements, monsters under the bed, and the Hat Man abound throughout the life of a young man who keeps running into the strange and unusual.
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Have you had a paranormal experience you want to tell a story about? Apply to be featured on our next episode: https://homespunhaints.com/submit-real-ghost-stories
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Diana's notes, details, musings, and links for this particular episode: https://homespunhaints.com/paranormal-iowa

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An Evil Ghost Named John: A true ghost story interview Sep 07, 2022

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Ghosts torment a teenage girl every night in her Iowa home. However, one ghost in particular deliberately tormented her and would never leave. Part two of our interview with Lindsay Valenty, podcast co-host of Ye Olde Crime Podcast and teller of true personal ghost stories.

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Buckwheat Man's Gonna Getcha! A true ghost story interview Sep 04, 2022

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Haunted cornfields, creaky farmhouses, and Victorian prairie ghosts make these ghost stories from Iowa sound like something right out of a horror movie. But they're all real and experienced by true crime podcaster Lindsay Valenty of Ye Olde Crime Podcast. Settle in for some of the scariest true ghost stories you've ever heard, from the heart of America.
Check out Lindsay's podcast at https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/
Have you had a paranormal experience you want to tell a story about? Apply to be featured on our next episode: https://homespunhaints.com/submit-real-ghost-stories
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Diana's notes, details, musings, and links for this particular episode: https://homespunhaints.com/personal-ghost-stories

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Speculating on Specula: Using mirrors to talk to ghosts Aug 31, 2022

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Specula, scrying, witch balls, Biddy Early, and bottle trees. We dig deep into the lore and history behind using mirrors for divination, and why the same word for these witchy tools also describes a very terrifying medical device.
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Something's Lurking in Vermont: Urban Legends surrounding the Bennington Triangle Aug 28, 2022

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Bill Presley shares his research into the strange disappearances around Bennington Triangle and Glastenbury Mountain in Bennington County, Vermont. He's used this research to inform his most recent novella Death Reflects.
Check out Bill's novella ANIELA at https://www.amazon.com/ANIELA-Apprentices-Notebook-William-Presley/dp/B09919RZSN/r
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Have you had a paranormal experience you want to tell a story about? Apply to be featured on our next episode: https://homespunhaints.com/submit-real-ghost-stories
Help support what we're doing and get all content ad-free plus bonus content: www.patreon.com/homespunhaints
Diana's notes, details, musings, and links for this particular episode: https://homespunhaints.com/bennington-triangle

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