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Were the Poltergeist and Exorcist sets actually cursed? In our Season 6 finale, Liv and Amy dig into the real hauntings behind horror's most infamous movies: the 1958 Seaford Poltergeist case that helped inspire Poltergeist, the real human skeletons used on set, the fire that spared only Regan's room on The Exorcist, the haunted hotel that became The Innkeepers, the ghostly faces caught on film in Return to Babylon, and the disturbing Doris Bither case behind The Entity.

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Content note: this episode includes discussion of domestic violence, death, and sexual violence (The Entity chapter).

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold Open: The Return to Babylon Photo

00:44 Welcome Back to Girls Gone Spooky

01:00 Someone Stole Our Podcast

01:55 Season 6 Finale & Season 7 News

03:09 Tonight's Topic: Horror Movie Hauntings

03:40 The Seaford Poltergeist (1958): The Real Case Behind Poltergeist

11:23 The Police Investigate

19:22 The Press Arrives: "Popper the Poltergeist"

22:10 Duke Parapsychologists & the RSPK Theory

30:49 Heather O'Rourke & the Haunted Ghost Set

32:00 The Poltergeist Curse: Real Skeletons on Set

36:43 The Clown Doll That Nearly Choked an Actor

38:14 Ti West & the Haunted Yankee Pedlar Inn (The Innkeepers)

44:40 The Exorcist Curse: The Fire, the Deaths & the Injuries

52:16 Return to Babylon: Faces That Morphed on Film

54:00 The Entity: The Doris Bither Haunting

1:05:15 Happy Halloween & Season 6 Wrap-Up

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Two of the most haunted houses in America, one episode. Liv takes on the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, the 1892 axe murders, the trial, and the ghosts still reported there today. Amy covers the Sally House in Atchison, Kansas, where a family’s haunting went from moving teddy bears to scratches, voices, and something far darker than a little girl ghost.

In this episode: the toxic Borden household, the poisoning scare, the burned blue dress, Lizzie’s acquittal, the three main theories about who really killed Andrew and Abby Borden, and the hauntings at 230 Second Street. Then the full Sally House story: Dr. Finney’s home medical office, the Pickman family, psychic Barbara, the Sightings TV investigation, and why investigators believe a demon may be trapping other spirits in the house.

⚠️ Content warnings: graphic violence, death of children, animal harm (Sally House segment, approx. 1:05:40–1:06:30)

Chapters

0:00 Cold open: the Lizzie Borden rhyme

0:38 Welcome to Girls Gone Spooky

1:18 Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

3:04 This week’s theme: haunted houses

4:13 The Borden family & their claustrophobic house

6:40 Andrew Borden: rich, cheap, and resented

8:16 Lizzie, Emma & their stepmother Abby

10:26 The mystery sickness & the prussic acid purchase1

2:59 August 4, 1892: the murder timeline

14:55 The murder of Abby Borden

18:27 The murder of Andrew Borden

21:19 The investigation & the burned blue dress

23:25 The trial & verdict

25:48 Aftermath: Maplecroft & Lizzie’s life after

27:05 Hauntings at the Lizzie Borden House

32:32 The ghost children & Eliza Borden

34:05 Who really did it? 3 theories

38:39 The Sally House, Atchison, Kansas

41:47 The story of Sally

43:07 The Pickman family moves in

44:26 The moving teddy bears

47:48 The psychic & the first physical attack

54:46 Deborah gets attached to Sally

59:21 The woman in black

1:02:05 The Sightings TV investigation

1:04:56 The failed cleansing & Tony’s breakdown

1:08:28 The Sally House today (yes, you can stay overnight)

1:09:20 Recommended: Astonishing Legends & Sightings

1:11:11 Bonus: the haunted McInteer Villa

1:13:50 Halloween costumes

1:16:30 What we’re watching

1:17:49 Stay spooky!

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Not every witch in history was an innocent victim. In this episode of Girls Gone Spooky, Amy digs into the Scottish Witch Trials and the strange, vivid confession of Isobel Gowdie, while Liv covers two real "witches" who were ruthless, powerful, and very much guilty of something: La Voisin, the Shadow Queen of Paris who ran a poison-and-black-mass empire under Louis XIV, and Dame Alice Kyteler, the wealthy Irish moneylender who outran the Church and vanished with her fortune.

⚠️ Content note: this episode includes discussion of torture, execution, poisoning, and the ritual harm of infants (Black Mass segment, roughly 44:00–45:15). Listener discretion advised.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: The Black Mass

0:28 Welcome + Practical Magic, ACOTAR & Book Chat

4:14 Scottish Witch Trials: How Many Were Accused & Executed

5:46 The Witchcraft Act of 1563 & Kirk Sessions

6:50 King James VI, the North Berwick Trials & Geillis Duncan

8:41 Daemonologie: The Royal Witch-Hunting Handbook

10:14 Pricking, Forced Confessions & Professional Witch-Prickers

13:13 Isobel Gowdie: The Witch Who Confessed Freely

15:04 Her Pact with the Devil & the Coven of Auldearn

19:21 Fairy Mounds, Flying Straws & Shapeshifting Spells

25:30 Elf Arrows & Fairy Belief in Scotland

27:50 The Hare Spell & Theories Behind Her Confession

31:31 What Happened to Isobel? Scotland's 2022 Apology

34:29 Liv's Segment: La Voisin, the Shadow Queen of Paris

36:03 From Fortune Teller to Blackmailer

39:52 Succession Powders & Love Potions (Poison Ingredients)

42:00 The Black Mass & Abbé Guibourg

46:02 Madame de Montespan & the Plot Against Louis XIV

48:15 The Downfall: Marie Bosse, La Reynie & the Chambre Ardente

52:24 La Voisin's Execution

53:26 The Cover-Up: Lettres de Cachet & the King's Secret

56:38 Dame Alice Kyteler: Ireland's Wealthy Witch of Kilkenny

58:16 Four Dead Husbands & the Bishop of Ossory

1:00:00 The Seven Charges & Robin Artisan, the Demonic Familiar

1:03:17 The Bishop Arrested, Alice's Escape & Petronilla de Meath

1:06:12 Kyteler's Inn Still Stands in Kilkenny

1:07:44 Wrap-Up & Next Week

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Zozo, Pazuzu, Asmodeus and the terrifying true stories behind the Ouija board, plus three real possession and exorcism cases. Girls Gone Spooky Ep. 174.

This week Liv and Amy take on demons in two very different ways. Liv digs into Ouija board demons: the ideomotor effect vs. the paranormal, Zozo's infamous "figure eight" pattern and where the legend really began, listener stories that will make you say goodbye every single time, and what Christianity, Judaism, and Islam each say about talking boards. Then Amy covers three possession and exorcism cases: George Lukins, the "Yatton Demoniac," Arne Cheyenne Johnson and the Glatzel case that inspired The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and Sister Maria Crocifissa's mysterious "Devil's Letter." Plus Practical Magic 2 and ACOTAR rereads (spoilers!).

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open: a Zozo Ouija story that will haunt you

0:36 Welcome to Girls Gone Spooky

0:52 Practical Magic 2 & ACOTAR rereads (spoilers!)

6:16 Binx the cat cameo

6:44 This week's topic: Demons

7:52 Is the Ouija board just the ideomotor effect?

11:27 Why the Ouija board is a "toy" and a cosmic threat

12:24 Zozo: the Ouija board's most notorious demon

13:00 Zozo's playbook: Mama, Zaza & the figure eights

15:14 Listener stories: Ty609 & Tainted Pika

18:22 Where Zozo came from: Dictionnaire Infernal to Darren Evans (2009)

21:04 April's sleepover Ouija story ("I want her")

24:25 Ars Goetia demons on the board: Asmodeus & Pazuzu

27:09 School play Ouija board & the chilling "David" answer

29:02 "Never born": how occultists tell demons from ghosts

30:04 What Christianity, Judaism & Islam say about Ouija boards

34:05 Haunted basement Ouija story: "Attack, attack, attack"

37:55 Zozo's "Hi Bobo" baby story

38:47 Would we ever play Ouija?

40:02 Possession & exorcism: George Lukins, the "Yatton Demoniac"

48:16 The Devil Made Me Do It: Arne Cheyenne Johnson & the Glatzel case

55:53 Sister Maria Crocifissa & the Devil's Letter

1:02:31 Wrap-up & sign-off

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This week it's conspiracy theories, unsolved mysteries, and one big question: hoax or real?

Amy kicks us off in 1855 with the Devil's Footprints — a single-file line of hoof-shaped tracks that traveled 60-100 miles through the snow across Devon, England (and somehow reappeared in 2009, Belgium, and a remote island in the Indian Ocean). Liv follows with the full, deeply upsetting history of Project MK Ultra, the CIA's real Cold War mind-control program. Then Amy makes the case that the Zodiac Killer and the Black Dahlia murderer were the same man, and Liv closes the episode with Skinwalker Ranch — the military-funded property where "high strangeness," UFOs, and the terrifying "hitchhiker effect" collide.

🔮 TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS

0:00 – Intro & Cold Open

0:26 – Hellos + This Week's Topic

2:01 – The Devil's Footprints (Devon, England, 1855)

15:18 – Project MK Ultra: The CIA's Mind Control Program

38:00 – Bonus Tangent: The Disappearing Scientists

40:43 – The Black Dahlia & Zodiac Killer Connection

53:37 – Skinwalker Ranch & the Hitchhiker Effect

1:07:10 – Outro & Sign-off

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Grab your garlic and your good luck charms — this week we're diving into HAUNTED OBJECTS. 👻

Liv kicks things off with the legendary haunted mirror of The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana (and the tragic true history hiding behind the Chloe legend), then heads to Washington D.C. for the deadly curse of the Hope Diamond. Amy brings the British chaos with the Carlisle Cursing Stone — a 500-year-old curse carved into a public art piece — and closes it out with the bizarre true story of the Hexham Heads, two carved stone heads linked to werewolf sightings in 1970s England.Real history, real curses (allegedly), and a whole lot of "why would you do that."

🔮 TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS

0:00 – Intro & a TV Show Recommendation

1:22 – Setting the Scene: America's "Most Haunted House"

2:26 – The Myrtles Plantation's True History

3:58 – The Legend of Chloe & the Poisoned Cake

7:14 – Debunking Chloe: What Really Happened

10:20 – The Real Ghosts of the Myrtles Plantation

19:24 – The Carlisle Cursing Stone

28:31 – The Hope Diamond's Trail of Death

42:35 – The Hexham Heads, the Dunbar Curse & the Hexham Werewolf

54:00 – Outro, Reviews & Goodbye

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Girls Gone Spooky is BACK for Season 6! 🎃 In this premiere episode, Liv and Amy dive into terrifying true camping and wilderness stories just in time for spooky season — a cursed Romanian forest, four decades of decapitations in the Canadian wilderness, and two separate real-life alien abduction cases.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 – Cold Open

00:42 – Welcome to Season 6!

02:46 – Tonight's Topic: Creepy Camping & Wilderness Stories

03:41 – Höia-Baciu Forest: Romania's "Bermuda Triangle"

12:21 – Headless Valley: Canada's Nahanni National Park

18:24 – The Pascagoula Alien Abduction (1973)

27:58 – Incident at Devil's Den (Arkansas, 1977)4

5:44 – Disclosure Day Movie Talk & Dark Forest Theory

49:43 – Alien Contact Theories: Zoo Hypothesis & Cosmic Club

52:04 – The AI Boyfriend Conversation

54:36 – OutroNew episodes drop every Friday through October 30th!

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Girls Gone Spooky is BACK for Season 6! 🎃 Liv and Amy are back with a whole new lineup of terrifying true stories — cursed forests, wilderness disappearances, alien encounters, haunted places, and more. New episodes drop every Friday from now through October 30th. Subscribe so you don't miss a single one.

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It’s the last episode of season five, spooky babies! We’re wrapping up our end-of-season series with a compilation of stories the take us on a bridge to the other side. From fairy rings to quantum immortality, all interpretations are welcome. Until next time… stay spooky!

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It’s a hodge podge of hauntings, babies! We’ve got poltergeists, ouija boards, and so much more this week. Join us 👯‍♀️👻

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