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- Episode 66: Divination ClassWelcome class! Time to broaden our minds, use our inner eye to see the future!- Hermione Granger, mocking Professor Trelawney. Time for Divination lessons! Have you ever had your tarot cards or tea leaves read? gone to see a psychic or consulted a magic 8 ball? then you're probably as fascinated by fortune-telling as we are!We dived into the origins (older than you think!) of tarot cards and the more modern Oracle decks. From the classic to the rare, there are so many cool decks you can buy! Tell us your favorites! Alanna also covered the history of runestones, and rune casting. That crazy Odin was quite a God, we tell ya! Of course he was involved.Kelsey's teaches us all about tea leaf reading, and for one of the most world-wide divination practices, it's surprisingly not that well known. Did you know you can read other dregs from drinks other than tea? No? better give it a listen and learn a little bit about tea-leaf reading and all it's rites and rituals. Fancy a cuppa with Castles & Cryptids? 😋2 hr 17 min
- Ep. 65 Funny AF CriminalsTime to laugh at some more inept thieves, petty criminals and other stupid people! This is one of those episodes that have fewer than 5 murders. But less than zero, so there's that....Kelsey covers some contraband cheese, some stolen road structures, fruity disguises and more on her segment of stupid crimes.And when Alanna kicks her turn off, Kelsey has the inside scoop AGAIN as it happened in her old neighbourhood! this couple takes the cake for dumb getaway attempts, all because they tried to buy a can of pop. Plus a list of some of the dumbest crooks the internet can find. Truly the Micheal Scotts of the criminal world.Podcast Promo of the week! F**k My Work Life Podcast @fmwlpod (IG)Tags: Spruce Grove woman falls through ceiling, cheese crime rings, watermelon masks2 hr 20 min
- EP 64: Ukrainian FolkloreWelcome to a very special episode, this week we wanted to honour Ukraine by learning more about it and sharing it with our listeners. Kelsey kicks us off by reading three very popular stories from Cossack Fairy Tales, which was originally published in 1894. Then, Alanna covers some traditional clothing and Pysanky, all before finishing off the episode with a deep dive into Baba Yaga and the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful. We hope you enjoy this weeks episode, happy listening!Tags: Ukrainian Folklore, Cossack Fairy Tales, Ukrainian Fairy Tales, Ukrainian clothing, Pysanky, Baba Yaga, Vasilisa the Beautiful linktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com2 hr 5 min
- EP 63: Australian Crime Strikes BackWe are super excited to bring you a wild, hand-picked, fan-picked episode this week! An esteemed member of our Illuminaughty Patreon group chose Australian Crimes and we got to go hog wild picking whatever case we wanted!So they are very different cases; first up Kelsey brought the stealth and wealth by covering the Bank of Australia robbery. The names read like a cast of characters, (seriously, Valentine? Dingle??) and it would probably make a great George Clooney film. It happened at the first bank of Australia, and this story has a lot of firsts, including the first time a bank robbery led to a bank taking back all its ....money? It gets real, y'all, real weird.Alanna comes in clutch with a double feature- a true crime and one that borders more on weird mini-mystery. The Toxic Tea Lady is what Caroline Grylls became known as, after a series of deaths surrounded her and her family. Never trust a Grammy who doesn't eat her own cookies....Then we take a look at the Tromp family's abrupt fleeing of their home and where they ended up. Don't worry, they all survive in this one! but we don't get all the answers, either....Enjoy!!Tags:linktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com2 hr 2 min
- EP 62: Stranger Places
This week we decided to travel all around the world to explore some of the craziest and most interesting places we could find. Kelsey starts us off with a collection of almost all naturally occurring wonders. From some of the saltiest places of earth, to a few places with enough acid to melt your face off and everything in between. Alanna covers a number of stone circles and stone megaliths that have puzzled visitors and researchers alike for centuries. We wish we could travel to all of these places, if only we had unlimited time and money......sigh. You definitely want to check out the website for pictures this week. Happy listening!
Tags: Strange Places, Eternal Flame Falls, Crooked Forest, Danakil Depression, Rakotzbrücke, Lake Natron, Caño Cristales, Nazca Lines, Stone Circles, Megaliths, Stonehenge, Carnac stones, The stone spheres of Costa Rica, The Deer Stones, Avebury, The Gochang Dolmen Site, Pumapunku, Callanish
linktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com
2 hr 9 min - EP 61: Cruel CultsWhat constitutes a cult? Charismatic leader that plays or knows God, demands of undying devotion and very disgusting acts of violence? and well, we have all those in spades in this episode of cruel cults and scary loosely religious based followings.Kelsey covers the High Priestess of Blood and her unusual rise to goddess status in the small town of Yerba Buena, Mexico. The whole town ended up under her spell and was controlled also by the Hernandez brothers. Things grew very dark, very quickly, and everything from human sacrifice to pedophilia was condoned.Then, in a nod to Canada Day, Alanna teaches us all about a Canadian cult called the Ant Hill Kids. Yes, they worked hard, but has anyone heard of the death spiral? It's when ants lose the pheromonal trail and form a never ending spiral that they will walk to their death....So it's not a surprise they don't question their "fearless leader" when he mutilates and tortures his followers and family. This is the story of a fanatic gone wrong.Tags: Cults, Santos Hernández, Cayetano Hernández, Magdalena Solís, The Ant Hill Kids, Roch Theriaultlinktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com2 hr 16 min
- EP 60: Asylums that are Haunted AFWelcome to the Sanitarium, where it's easy to check in and impossible to check out.....alive. This week we cover two of the creepiest "Hospitals" in history. Kelsey takes a deep dive into the horrible past of one of the most infamous Asylums in the world, The Bethlem Hospital. Since it first opened nearly 800 years ago a lot of bad things happened to thousands of people; including something called rotational therapy.... Alanna brings the eerie with a truly haunted Sanitarium, The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Find out what happens when you pack 10 times the expected amount of patients in a building together. All that and more in this Haunted AF ep.Happy Listening!Tags: Asylums, Sanitariums, Haunted Hospitals, Mental Illness Treatments, Horrible Hospitals, The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylumlinktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com2 hr 3 min
- EP 59: Poison Crimes
What happens when you microdose arsenic and belladonna cocktails as part of your healthy routine? Nothing good, you guessed it! Oh sorry, they were digestive tonics, you say? old-timey medicine was straight-up bonkers y'all! As we see in Alanna's case, not all poison crimes are crystal clear; Florence Maybrick was accused of killing her husband James, but it's complicated by toxic family and secrets and lies. Perhaps James held the secret to a very famous mystery as well... Kelsey balances cat-wrangling and spinning a wild tale for us all, a story of a family annihilated. The members of the Staudte family start dropping off one by one, but who is to blame? The answer is nightmare no one wants to consider could be true. Watch out for those pillars of the community! and learn when to shut the hell up!
Tags: Poison Crimes, Poisoning, Florence Maybrick, James Maybrick, The Staudte Family Murders, The Anti-freeze Murders
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2 hr 5 min - Canadian Legends Part Deux- The Curse of Oak Island
Part 2 has arrived. This week Alanna continues her deep dive into the Curse of Oak Island and shares with us many of the discoveries made over its long history. To finish the ep off we explore many of the theories about what purpose Oak Island was built for, as well as things people believe may be waiting inside the money pit. Is it filled with gold and treasure unlike anything the world has seen? Will it contain priceless treasures and religious artifacts?Only time will tell, or until the curse has finally been broken..... Happy listening!
Tags: Canadian Legends, Curse of Oak Island
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1 hr 54 min - EP 58: Canadian Urban Legends P1Hoodoo you think you are anyway? Hopefully a fan of the pod! This week Kelsey takes us to Southern Alberta and a few other places, that all have hoodoos. What the heck are hoodoos you ask? She'll tell you! and gives us the legends that surround these funky rock formations. Are they really spirits that look after that land? you might be surprised! hooda hell are we to say.....Then we make our way to the Maritimes, checking out the most famous Curse in Canada...the Curse of Oak Island. This 200+ year old mystery has all we could ask for- cryptic codes, treasure maps, outlandish theories, even a TV show! Let's dig deep into this strange story that could be very well be close to being solved. Here's hoping!!Tags: Hoodoos, Drumheller, Curse of Oak Islandlinktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com1 hr 43 min
About Castles & Cryptids
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Welcome to Castles & Cryptids, a paranormal podcast hosted by a couple of Canadian chickies! Follow Alanna and Kelsey down the rabbit hole as we explore lore and legends, murder and…
mysteries, the unsolved and the unexplained. Where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic AF!
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