The Queen Mary has actually been voted one of the top 10 most haunted places in America. So basically trade increased dramatically after World War 1 between the European nations, and companies wanted replacements for old ships since Germany and France had new fast ships. And the company Cunard was right on the frontlines. So this is a British Cruise Line based in England and operated by Carnival UK, and John Brown & Company Shipbuilders were commissioned to build these new ships. They started building on December 1st, 1930. So in the Book Ghosts of the Queen Mary, which is in the Haunted America series, one of the authors, Christopher Fleming talks about meeting with a man called Peter James. According to James, there are over 600 spirits on the Queen Mary. Join us on this episode of grim where we talk about the history of the ship and some of these ghosts that haunt it!

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.queenmary.com/tours/tours-exhibits/haunted-encounters/

https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/queen-mary-historical-landmark-haunted-or-it-hoax

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22542080-ghosts-of-the-queen-mary?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=IDMWpqQXjh&rank=1

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/How-Disney-tried-to-turn-the-Queen-Mary-into-a-15689671.php

https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-history/is-the-queen-mary-ship-really-haunted/

https://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/most-haunted-hotel-america-queen-mary

Book: Ghosts of the Queen Mary (Haunted America) by Brian Clune, Bob Davis, and Christopher Fleming - the paperback was around $6 last time I checked

Robert Hansen was born in 1939 to a Danish immigrant who came to Iowa as a baker. When he was younger he was described as a skinny, painfully shy boy, who had a stutter and severe acne that actually ended up permanently scarring his face. And he also had a really difficult relationship with his father, who was described as domineering. Because of this he didn’t get a ton of attention from the girls at school or anything, And he began to resent them, even having fantasies of getting revenge on them. This all manifested in the 1970s after he moved to Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen was seriously messed up - like I feel like when you talk about serial killers for long enough you kind of distance yourself from the stories in a way but this was a lot for me I had to take breaks when researching, so definitely take care of your own mental health when listening to this case and take breaks or stop when necessary.

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hansen-robert.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-hansen

Apparently this is a paranormal phenomenon - various liquids such as blood or water or oil just start appearing on the walls of houses. So join us today as we take a look at a couple of different bleeding houses. The most famous of them, I think, is the bleeding house in a small city in the Aisne region of France called Saint Quentin. And on top of that there is the story of a bleeding house in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of these stories have conclusions... others don't... but regardless, these houses definitely seem haunted, so we hope you enjoy this weeks episode!

Stay safe out there.

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://steemit.com/story/@extreemer162/la-maison-sanglante-the-bleeding-house

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/4y01un/home_bleeding/

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-bleeding-walls-in-atlanta-c92a0bc53833

http://labyrinth13.com/eBook-Labyrinth13.pdf

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bleeding-walls-led-discovery-dead-5821868

Thomas Warren Whisenhant was a 63 year old man from Alabama when he was executed via lethal injection for the 1976 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Cheryl Lynn Payton. He died on Tuesday, May 27th, 2010, and before he was executed, he was in jail for 32 years, 8 months, and 20 days before his execution (longer than any other prisoner had spent on Death Row in the state of Alabama). He really wasn't a good person, so join us as we talk about this crime, his life, and all the evidence against him...

Stay safe out there

With love,

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-criminal/1979/370-so-2d-1080-0.html

https://www.al.com/live/2010/05/thomas_whisenhant_alabamas_lon.html

https://www.al.com/topic/Cheryl%20Payton/index.html

https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2010/05/alabama-executes-thomas-warren.html

The Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris. Founded in 1802, it is the most visited necropolis in the world (literally over 3.5 million people visit annually). There are over 300,000 people buried here, and amongst them, there are many prominent historical figures such as Edith Pilaf, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Pissaro and Chopin. Due to health concerns regarding corpses contaminating the central water supply, many bodies were relocated to the cemetery from where they were already buried, which is probably the cause of many spooky happenings at the Père Lachaise... 

We hope you join us this week for a spooky cemetery story 👻

Stay safe out there 

With love, 

Saaniya and Maddie x 

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

https://amyscrypt.com/haunted-cemetery-paris-pere-lachaise/

https://www.aesu.com/blog/halloween-haunts-pere-lachaise-cemetery-paris/

https://myprivateparis.com/the-mysterious-women-of-pere-lachaise-cemetery/

https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/30/a-haunting-compendium-of-paris-ghost-stories/

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/pere-lachaise-cemetery/

https://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=8537

This week, we're talking about the story of a man who was apparently, according to the New York Times, a "dashing British aristocrat and army officer, known for his prowess at backgammon and bridge and his fondness for vodka martinis, powerboats, and Aston Martin cars." Richard John Bingham was born on December 18th 1934 in London, and has earned an episode on this podcast because he just disappeared after a really weird set of circumstances that ended in the murder of Sandra Rivett and the hospitalization of Veronica Lucan. This was definitely a chaotic story to end a chaotic year, and we hope you enjoy listening!

We're so thankful you joined us this year, be it one episode or fifty two episodes, and we hope to see you all next year! 

Stay safe out there.

With love, 

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-lucan-bingham-murder-mystery-sightings-sandra-rivett#three-days-later-on-november-10-the-car-he-borrowed-was-found-in-newhaven-east-sussex-on-the-southern-english-coast-inside-the-car-there-were-bloodstains-and-a-piece-of-lead-pipe-in-the-trunk-15

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a30699584/lord-lucan-found-australia/

https://www.lordlucan.com/lucan_story.htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lord-lucan-latest-lady-lucan-will-death-estate-lady-homeless-charity-shelter-sandra-rivett-murder-belgravia-a8158476.html

https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/lord-lucan-mystery-is-the-alleged-nanny-killer-hiding-out-in-australia-c-674211

Hi friends, we're back again with a Christmas edition of a Creepypasta! This one is really good... like the writing? Impeccable. The story line? Amazing. The plot twist? Iconic. It really made us both think about the story when it was done. Like it was a lot... but in a good way. So join us for this very very chaotic Christmas Creepypasta!

A big thank you to Michael Whitehouse for letting us use his story! Here are some links to check his work out:

Website: http://www.michael-whitehouse.com/

Creepypasta: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-advent-calendar/

Check out his Podcast, Talking Till Dawn: http://talkingtilldawn.com/

Stay safe out there.

With love, 

Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://www.creepypasta.com/the-advent-calendar/ 

*TW RAPE* Hi friends and welcome to another Creepypasta episode of grim., but this time: Christmas edition. In this episode we explore a story about the more sinister side of Santa's village. There's definitely a lot to unpack here, and we hope you join us for this story! 

This is a pretty dark story, and does insinuate trauma and rape as well as murder.

Stay safe out there.

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

Story: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-was-a-christmas-elf/

Website: https://meltingalphabet.com/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeltingAlphabet

Lake Lanier is the largest lake in Georgia with over 600 miles of shore that borders 5 counties. It was  built in 1957 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, and since the lake’s opening, an estimated 675 people have died in the lake and not all of the bodies have been found. It took around 5 years to fill the lake, and during that time the U.S. government bought more than 50,000 acres of farmland, displacing more than 250 families, 15 businesses, and relocated 20 cemeteries along with their corpses in the process. The lake is literally full of dead bodies. So to the 7 million people who visit it every year... why? Join us for a little look into the Lake Lanier ghosts, as well as a couple of other ghost stories from Georgia in this episode of grim.!

Stay safe out there.

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://travelnoire.com/black-owned-bbq-restaurants-south

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-lake-lanier-100-percent-184014326.html

https://www.newsweek.com/lake-lanier-really-haunted-missing-boaters-spark-conversation-lakes-eerie-1422352

https://www.cbs46.com/news/is-lake-lanier-haunted-cbs46-takes-a-look/article_a02240a0-4360-5115-9e8f-be833f7f3867.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/3wejvj/mysteries_and_death_at_georgias_cursed_lake_lanier/

http://horsingaroundathome.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-lady-of-lake.html

https://window.brenau.edu/articles/the-ghostess-with-the-mostest/

Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan was born on October 31st, 1873 (spooky Halloween birthday vibes), and she ran a nursing home in Connecticut... before she was arrested for murder. The thing was that her residents kept on mysteriously dying after they had paid her for their stay. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home. And here's the thing: she may have murdered up to 60 people. She was an Angel of Death-type killer, who didn't have a preference for victims of a specific gender or with certain physical characteristics. I think she was just in it for the money. She's a local legend in Connecticut to this day, so stick around to find out just how crazy her story is. 

Stay safe out there.

With love, Saaniya and Maddie x

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Archer-Gilligan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease

https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/archer-gilligan.htm

https://www.thoughtco.com/amy-archer-gilligan-her-murder-factory-972714

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Amy_Archer-Gilligan

https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/amy-archer-gilligan-entrepreneurism-gone-wrong-in-windsor/

https://connecticuthistory.org/windsors-murder-factory/