Is This a Ghost?

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

Not all ghosts are ghosts. Some ghosts are curses that make new ghosts. But you already knew that. You've seen the movie Poltergeist.

This is the story of the T.B. Scott Mansion. Come for the ghost, stay for the Tom Sawyer-level white washing, no more hospitals, God’s latrine, Flintheart Glomgold, and holy water power washers.

Sources:

https://merrillfotonews.com/2021/02/18/t-b-scott-mansion-a-long-and-haunted-history/

https://www.ci.merrill.wi.us/about

https://historicmerrill.com/thomasscott.html

https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2018/07/17/t-b-scott-mansion-merrill-ascension-leaders-grapple-its-future/751386002/

https://www.wearegreenbay.com/from-the-local-5-digital-desk/from-lake-michigan-to-chicken-alley-the-bizarre-history-of-wisconsin/

https://www.wpr.org/despite-outcry-historic-tb-scott-mansion-merrill-faces-demolition

https://www.wsaw.com/2021/07/06/tb-scott-mansion-tower-sits-its-new-location/

Ireland isn't all just shamrocks and marshmallows. It's also about sheep wool and ghosts! And one of those ghosts lives in Loftus Hall, an old mansiony castle thing with a long history and a heck of a lot of holes.

This is the story of Loftus Hall. Come for the ghost, stay for our best James Spader impressions, little toy cannons, the devil Mr. Tumnus, confusing Patrick for a peanut, mud hut work, the tappin' it room, and some of our finest accent work yet.

Sources:

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/loftus-hall/

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

https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/loftus-hall-haunted-ireland/

https://metro.co.uk/2014/08/27/ghost-of-little-girl-photographed-in-notorious-haunted-mansion-loftus-hall-4848380/

Caves are horrifying. Have you been inside a cave? They're horrifying. So yeah, they make great hospitals. Thanks, Kentucky.

This is the story of Dr. John Croghan's "consumptive cabins" inside of Mammoth Cave. Come for the ghosts, stay for the Pre-Americans, low C.H.U.D. awareness, anti-gypsy drywall, and the pro-consumption nanny state, and absolutely horrifying "remedies" for tuberculosis.

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-tuberculosis-patients-quarantined-inside-kentuckys-mammoth-cave-180978144/

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2009/10/mammoth-cave-national-park-harbors-more-few-ghost-stories4820

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/exploring-the-worlds-longest-known-cave.htm#:~:text=Early%20Explorers&text=Prehistoric%20American%20Indians%20were%20the,now%20Mammoth%20Cave%20National%20Park.

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/mammoth-cave-national-park-ga2.htm

https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/the-mysteries-of-mammoth-cave/article_40c80ddb-01fc-5185-af81-95cd9154266d.html

I know what you're thinking. "I really like this podcast, but where are all the stories about treating bodies like soups?" Don't worry. We got you.

This is the story of Revolutionary War hero Mad Anthony Wayne. Come for the ghost, stay for the Playskool-brand guard towers, Joe Rogan sewage, 18th century internships, a savory Dad reduction, the cost of AirTagging bones, and tree...tree...BEAR!

Sources:

https://unchartedlancaster.com/2021/10/10/haunted-lancaster-mad-anthonys-missing-ghostly-bones/

https://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/wayne.html

G'DAY, MATES! This week, we're pandering to our Aussie friends, but we're doing a very bad job of it, because everything we know about Australia comes from Bluey. And Bluey has not, to our knowledge, "gone ghost," as they say.

This is the story of The Monte Cristo Homestead. Come for the ghosts, stay for the bike ride to the gyro place, criminal gentrification, white cholera, an alarming number of stains, Aussie bucks, and horse law, revisited.

Sources:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crawley-331

https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/monte-cristo-homestead/

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

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7956151/ive-had-a-hand-on-my-shoulder-inside-australias-most-haunted-house/

https://www.escape.com.au/destinations/australia/nsw/195anight-hotel-that-smells-like-death/news-story/904f35ab18c9c4eb65e7e3aea8f37ff8

You've heard of France, right? Well get over yourself, we've all heard of France, and today's story takes place in NEW France. You might know it as Quebec, but in the time of La Corriveau, it was a half-British Frankophilic no man's land, and you can tell people we said that.

This is the story of Marie Corriveau. Come for the ghost, stay for horse law, ghost drippings, father-in-law stuff, spewing in caps, and the exorcism of Captain Planet,

Sources:

Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953, by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/la-corriveaus-cage-quebec-canada

https://nuvomagazine.com/culture/la-corriveau-of-quebec-city

https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/10/la_corriveau.html

We're back in Florida, against our better judgment, and this time, we brought urns in jars. So yeah, we fit right in.

This is the story of The Riddle House. Come for the ghosts, stay for the Murder Engine, no summer breaks, the perks of grave robbing, ghost law, gator vengeance, and Patrick's extraordinary powers of ESP.