We're diving back into Summerwind, because if there's one thing you should know about us, it's that we can't stop, won't stop. And boy, this place is wild, so just be grateful we didn't stretch it to three episodes, because we could have.

This is the story of Summerwind mansion, continued. Come for the ghosts, stay for tattoos for four year olds, casual hypnosis lessons, the siren’s call of land surveying, pull vs. tug, getting horny for a house, horny Irish idiots, and ten swings for a buck.

Much like the classic and much-beloved Fear Street Saga from R.L. Stine, Summerwind is about to take you on a real multi-generational journey of "OH NO, WHAT WAS THAT?!" This story has everything; a haunted house, organ music, trapdoor skeletons, and an honest-to-goodness ghoul.

This is the first part of the story of the Summerwind Mansion. Come for the ghosts, stay for questionable child labor decisions, Clayton’s childhood trauma, the tremendous value of a good B&B, Wisconsin from space, milking barrels, and the Phantom of the Opera is coming from inside the house.

Sources:

• Bell, Devon (2016). Haunted Summerwind: A Ghostly History of a Wisconsin Mansion. Arcadia Publishing.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerwind

• https://www.wxpr.org/arts-life/2018-10-31/vilas-co-s-haunted-summerwind-mansion

• https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Burke%27s_Rangers

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Lamont

• https://www.hauntedrooms.com/wisconsin/haunted-places

Bloody hell, guvnor! We're back to merry ol' England, ain't we? In the halls of Raynham Hall is a ghost that raises a lot of questions about embroidery, and about the best alternative to You Pork City.

This is the story of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. Come for the ghosts, stay for The Blair Witch Project of soccer, Darkwing Duck. Launchpad McQuack, a podcast with two Daubers, going to Poundtown, 101 uses for peanuts, and yet another Disney connection.

Sources:

• https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-day-a-country-life-photographer-captured-an-image-of-a-ghost-234642

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynham_Hall

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Townshend

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall

• https://hauntedmansion.fandom.com/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall

• https://the-line-up.com/raynham-hall-brown-lady

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton,_1st_Marquess_of_Wharton

Who wants to join us at an island resort? It's abandoned and overgrown, and there are some Bubonic plague ghosts are the bar. Come on, let's go and feel the sand under our toes! Oops, wait, that's not sand, it's the ashes of the dead.

This is the story of Poveglia Island. Come for the ghosts, stay for a deconstructed hot toddy, the teats of our voices, plagues jokes, tennis court forts, and therapy sheep.

Sources:

• https://luxeadventuretraveler.com/poveglia-italy/

• https://www.findhouseitaly.com/immobile/isola-di-poveglio-e-ottagono-laguna-sud-venezia-veneto

• https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/poveglia-islands-haunted-history

• https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague#:~:text=Plague%20can%20be%20a%20very,pneumonic%20kind%20when%20left%20untreated

• https://www.visitvenezia.eu/en/venetianity/discover-venice/the-defensive-system-of-the-venice-lagoon-the-octagons#:~:text=Poveglia%20Octagon&text=With%20a%20naturally%20octagonal%20plan,hands%20of%20the%20state%20property

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poveglia

• https://italicsmag.com/2020/03/28/italian-ghost-stories-poveglia-island/

Sure, you've seen the movie. Or maybe you're Patrick, and you haven't. Which, if we're behind honest, really dampened the big reveal. Oh well. Anyway. What were we talking about?

This is the true story of the Amityville Horror house. Come for the ghosts, stay for The legend of Cornelius David Pinckney, the Mickey Rourke of cats, the worst name for a child, free slime, and Amityvilleanonymity.Photo referenced in the episode: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/amityvillehorror2005/bghst.jpg

Sources:

• https://www.wdam.com/story/27373608/on-this-day-in-history-december-13th-1974/#:~:text=HATTIESBURG%2C%20MS%20(WDAM)%20%2D,were%20asleep%20in%20their%20beds

• https://ghosts.fandom.com/wiki/Amityville_Horror_House

• https://www.historyandheadlines.com/history-november-13-1974-the-real-amityville-horror/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeFeo_Jr.#:~:text=Ronald%20Joseph%20DeFeo%20Jr.&text=Condemned%20to%20six%20sentences%20of,versions%20of%20The%20Amityville%20Horror

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/amityville-horror-house

• https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/amityville-case-that-rattled-a-seasoned-paranormal-investigator

• https://collider.com/the-amityville-horror-true-story/

• https://nypost.com/article/amityville-horror-house-real-story/

In our very first live show, we do all the things we set out to do, which was mainly to get one good, audible groan out of the audience. Mission accomplished! This is a story about a passenger boat disaster that was worse than the Titanic (no kidding), and it happened in 20 feet of water, with the boat still tied to the dock. Don't ever change, Chicago.We also opened up the floor to hear ghost stories from the audience, and we've included those for your listening pleasure, too!

This is the story of the USS Eastland. Come for the ghosts, stay for the Book It jokes, day drinking is fine, the Titanic Whoopsie, turning turtle, afterlife jackets, and Oprah gets it.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_Works

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastland-disaster-killed-more-passengers-titanic-and-lusitania-why-has-it-been-forgotten-180953146/

• https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-ghosts-eastland-disaster/

• https://eastlanddisaster.org/

• https://www.americanghostwalks.com/tour/chicago-river-north

• http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2900.html

Boy. Dirigibles. Was there every so much promise that was met with such constant disaster? Those beautiful, transportational gasbags really led troubled lives, didn't they? And because they couldn't just keep it together for a few more decades, we now have Spirit Airlines. Thanks a lot, tragedy.

This is the story of the USS Akron airship ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for the Roarin' Depression, the Joad family jokes, the Hindenburg Hiccup, trapeze eroticism, delicious humanity, and the most effective 75-person drowning machine.

Sources:

• https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/its-a-bird-no-its-a-plane-no-its-a

• https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-cursed-uss-akron-class.html

• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-jersey/cursed-nj-airship/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbeater%27s_skin

Welcome to Nawlins, cher! Grab yourself some gumbo and chicory, 'cause I GA-RON-TEE this episode's fixin' to send you to the bayou, etc.

This is the story of the New Orleans ghost of Jean Lafitte. Come for the ghost, stay for glasses that see, sweet baby gators, Steve Jobs' time has come (and is over), showing that smile, and the medical dangers of being barefoot on Bourbon.

Sources:

• https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/jean-lafitte

• https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/andrew-jackson/united-states-v-andrew-jackson-1815

• https://nolaghosts.com/the-pirate-ghost-of-jean-lafitte/

• https://hauntedmansion.fandom.com/wiki/Jean_Laffite

• https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Jean_Lafittehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte

Up in the high desert town of Prescott--which is not pronounced how it looks, and God help you if you get it wrong--there is a ghost. Well, actually, there are two ghosts. One of them is a biter.

This is the story of Hotel Vendome. Come for the ghost, stay for the ice cream fort, Woodville and Egbert, where is Tombstone?, T.B. or not T.B., and living a life with no vowels.

Sources:https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/road-trips/2019/10/24/arizona-most-famous-ghosts-haunted-hotels-prescott-jerome-bisbee/3777174002/ http://www.hauntedhoneymoon.com/hauntedplaces/hotelvendome.html https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arizona/hotel-vendome-haunted-az/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott,_Arizonahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)#:~:text=There%20is%20the%20tale%20that,to%20stay%20on%20as%20guests https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-ghostsightings/

Yazoo City is more Yazoo than city, but that's what you get for not heeding witches. Also, this is the second episode where we reference death by quicksand, so Clayton's childhood fear wasn't so unfounded after all, WAS IT?

This is the story of the witch of Yazoo City. Come for the ghost, stay for some Denny’s energy, cockle clams, two or three dozen gyrating cats, and S.M.A.R.T. goals for witches.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazoo_City,_Mississippi

https://www.poison.org/articles/are-cocklebur-seeds-safe-to-eat-203

https://libguides.hindscc.edu/paranormalms/witch_of_yazoo