We love witches here at Castles & Cryptids, so we're excited to bring you a Darkcast Cauldron of delights and Witch lore! There may even be a vamp in the mix, so grab your garlic for a very supernatural Sunday!

Featuring stories from Beyond the Rainbow, Autumn's Oddities, Sinister Story Hour, Scottish Murders, Rogue Darkness, and Paranormal Peeps.

Stay Tuned- tomorrow is Monster Mash Monday!

Saturday's special theme is true crime, so get ready for some horror stories to send shivers down your spine. Kelsey's featuring, or should we say, frightening us with the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, inspiration for some scary movies of its own. We also have stories from our fiends, I mean friends, at Darkcast like: Beyond The Rainbow, And Then They Were Gone, ODFM, Hands Off My Pod, Mythical True Crime, and Crime Over Cocktails!

Hope you are enjoying our Halloween episodes so far! Keep it crimey!

Happy Haunted Friday!

Today's ghost stories and horrible hauntings are brought to you by Book of the Dead Pod, Horrifying History, Autumn's Oddities, Burnt Marshmallows, Hands Off My Pod, and Paranormal Peeps!

Buckle up, grab your Ouija board or maybe some protective crystals?? and let's take a trip where we will go as far as Edinburgh's haunted castle, but also visit Haunted Donkey Lady Bridge...it's bound to be a good ghosty time!

Thanks for listening to #Darkcast Network!! Keep it Haunted AF!

Hi everyone, we wanted to highlight two crazy cases of stalking, these types of crimes can be very triggering so keep that in mind as you listen. Kelsey covers the harassment of Cindy James, a nurse who faced 7 long years and dozens of escalating attacks, ranging from threatening notes and phone calls, to being attacked and drugged multiple times. Alanna tells the senseless murder of Laurie Show, who got caught up in the revenge plot of 3 teenagers, who became obsessed with making Laurie pay for her alleged crimes. We have a lighter ep on the way next week, until then keep it cryptic!

Tags: Stalking, Stalkers, Cindy James, Laurie Show

Peek-a-boo, we're right behind you! Wouldn't that just be the WORST if we really were? Well, wait till you hear Kelsey's recounting of the Scariest Story on Reddit of 2022! It's an account of a wife making her husband's life into an eerie game that he never signed on to play.....was she possessed or just really pranky? We don't know but we feel like we're being watched....

To cap off the trifecta of terror, Alanna covers two tales to scare the pants off ya! The first, titled: I was almost the victim of a killer, will satisfy your true crime craving. The final story is a brush with a demonic and dark presence, sometimes simply called, Mama.

Curl up, turn the lights off and get creepy with us!

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Hey Hey, it's high time for another Haunted AF episode, cryptic cuties! A very low haunted episode, actually, as we bring you the haunted underground!

Paris catacombs, move over you have had your time to shine, now it's time for the new haunts on the block! Have you heard of the Indiana catacombs? A labyrinthic network lying silently below the streets of Indianapolis? Well, if you haven't, Kelsey takes us on a tour of the dark passageways without ever leaving our comfy homes. Next stop, Ghost Station, NYC! the last stop on the left, don't get off, whatever you do....

Heading across the Atlantic we shall next visit historic Edinburgh, the city that's haunted AF. But not just the castles, the Edinburgh vaults are also a dank, dreary and creepy place to stoop into. Listen to see why they are still such a hotspot for paranormal activity, and maybe even cursed. Can't forget our final stop at the Capuchin Crypts, a Roman ossuary and macabre mosaic of skeletons and mummies.

Throw in a few side-stories and senior moments as we struggle to remember that bird's name that stole the crime scene knife that one time? (It's not Stabby the Crow, he's Canuck the Crow, I looked it up later, all good :) And that's our first episode of October! Happy Haunting!!

Don't forget to drop a rating wherever you listen! Come on, you're already in the show notes!! :)

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Tags: Indianapolis Catacombs, New York City Ghost Train Station, City Hall Station, Capuchin Crypts, Capuchin Friars, Edinburgh Vaults, Haunted Underground, Haunted Edinburgh, Haunted NYC, South Bridge

In honor of Truth & Reconciliation Day 2023, we decided to shine a light on some cases of missing and murdered indigenous females and 2-spirit identifying people. We have a horrible history in Canada of crushing down the native cultures of our land, and it's only in recent years that Canada has begun trying to right those wrongs. One of the biggest dangers facing indigenous and First Nations females today is violence and death, especially in vulnerable communities and areas.

Kelsey takes us a few provinces over to Winnipeg, Manitoba where many women have gone missing and have later been found in local landfills. This makes it extra hard for investigators to recover the remains and bring closure to the families. But the biggest question remains, are they, and we, doing enough?

Alanna brings us back west to British Columbia and it's infamous Highway of Tears. This stretch of road runs red with the blood of the women abducted while travelling to neighboring communities. Just trying to visit family turns into a deadly game when walking this highway, and it's difficult to pin down the exact number of victims, as well as find the perpetrators.

Hopefully the more we speak out about the atrocities committed in our own proverbial backyards, the less they will get away with this shit.

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Tags: Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Buffalo Woman, Winnipeg murders, Prairie Green Landfill, Highway of Tears, Bobby Jack Fowler, Colleen MacMillan, Gloria Moody

Hi cryptic cuties, we have a cool episode all about Indigenous and First Nations folklore for you this week. Kelsey takes a deep dive into the Inuit way of life, from clothing and transportation, to housing and diets, there are many things we have to thank the Inuit for today. Alanna shares a collection of creepy creatures that appear often in First Nations stories around North America. We hope you enjoy this ep, we loved learning more about a few of the different groups. Stay tuned for next week because we have some true crime cases focused on missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada for you.

Tags: Inuit Culture, Indigenous Folklore, First Nations Folklore, Pukjinskwes, Raven Mocker, The Flying Head, Qalupalik, Ghost Witch, Jug Woman

Near death experiences. Are they as life-changing as TV would have us believe? Does everyone that comes close to their demise see a bright light or do they simply survive and live to fight another day?

We explore some famous and lesser known brushes with death, as well as some stories of survival to surpass all odds. Meet the man who spent the longest at sea on a tiny boat (over a year!) and find out which of the Man in Black, Johnny Cash's animals that almost gutted him out of pure heartbreak. Then hear how far back near death experiences have been recorded, and how close one can come to being taken too soon, by complete accident. Hope you have a unique name!! :)

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Tags: Violet Jessup, Ernest Shackleton, Jose Salvador Alvarenga, Johnny Cash, Thomas Edison, Adam Devine, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, Graham Norton, Hunter S. Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, Martin Lawrence, Er, Cleodemus, Prince Gad, Timarchus, Socrates , Plutarch, Valerian, Roman Shepard, Curma, Thespesius, Nichizio, Saint Christina the Astonishing, Pierre Jean du Monchaux