Is This a Ghost?

In the picturesque woods of Vermont, there is a very tall tower with a very low wall, and the only potential problem with it is that it lives on the grounds of a 200-year-old mental institution, which, we have to say, was an extremely bold choice.

This is the story of The Brattleboro Retreat. Come for the ghosts, stay for the body paint apologies, genteel terms of art for electroshock therapy, many, many fires, WOMAN SEES DEER TWICE!, and Patrick's callous opinions on life and death.

Most super-old buildings are still standing because they're made of strong stuff, like stone and the spit of a scorned witch. But the Ancient Ram Inn is an absolute wonder, because it's still standing after almost 900 years, and it's basically made of stucco and ghosts. Oh also, it's English, so it has horrible teeth.

This is the story of The Ancient Ram Inn. Come for the ghosts, stay for Double Wet January, automatic homemade wood cutting ghost-makers, the algebraic formula for ghosts, the dumb etymology of ley lines, haunted house cheat codes, and choose-your-own flag dragons.

Sources:

https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/ghost-hunts/the-ancient-ram-inn-gloucestershire

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/ancient-ram-inns-haunted-history

https://www.exutopia.com/the-ancient-ram-inn-a-visit-to-englands-most-haunted-house/

https://www.geographyrealm.com/ley-lines/

https://www.thetravel.com/ancient-ram-inn-is-it-haunted/

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

Not all ghosts were just regular yo-yo's in their former lives. Some ghosts used to be honest-to-goodness witches. You can tell by whether or not they owned a pot. If there's one thing witches do, it's have pots. Especially in Iceland.

This is the story of Gunna the Icelandic Witch-Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for an absolute butchering of Icelandic pronunciation, the famous Pinckney bend, burying Icelandic Yoda, Paul Hollywood's eyes, which are a glamour, for he is a witch, how to fight a ghost, the best murder weapon (Icicle v. Sharp Stick), and a brand new game called, "Person or House Cat?" Plus, stay after the show for a particularly stupid outtake.

One if by land, two if by sea, three if by haunted ocean. DING, DING, DING! Three bells, friends, because today we're heading out onto the open sea for a wonderful tale of a destination honeymoon for old-timey sailors gone wrong.

This is the story of the Lady Lovibond. Come for the ghosts, stay for stripper poles but made of wood, the complicated Uber drivers of the internet, the multiple masts in hipster cocktails, Kirk Hinrich's last game, nautical source material for Camp Crystal Lake, and how to get rich on vomit.

Sources:

https://www.nightwatchparanormal.com/lady-lovibond.html

https://www.tumblr.com/theladyinthegraveyard/178729677384/the-ghost-ship-lady-lovibond

https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2021/1/18/the-ghost-ship-lady-lovibond

https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2011/05/ghost-ship-lady-lovibond.html

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

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/19/the-story-of-the-lady-lovibond-the-ghost-ship-that-reappears-every-50-years/?chrome=1

Welcome to Florida, where men swallow grenades, babies fight gators, and a mouse makes more money than anyone. And every Florida Man must eventually becomes a Florida Ghost, and a whole heck of a lot of them live at this one bar in Key West.

This is the story of Captain Tony's Saloon. Come for the ghosts, stay for the evil child geniuses, all-clown brothels, holy water Quikrete, dead-box box covers, a lil bit o' Clooney, and an unfortunate tale of drugs gone wrong.

This episode is about a ghost, we promise. You're going to have to wade through a surprising amount of conversation about Thomas Kinkade and fish screws, but it's all worth it in the end. If you're into vengeful witch-ghosts.

This is the story of Molly Crenshaw, the Missouri Witch. Come for the ghost, stay for more lies than usual, an undead guy, but not in the way that you think, gorgeous Beast pecs and the pastoral X-Men, the storied Missouri liberalism of the 1800s, and an exhaustive look at crop rotation, for some reason?

Sources:

https://mdcp.nwaonline.com/news/2020/oct/22/opinion-the-two-faces-of-molly-crenshaw/

https://101theeagle.com/twisted-tale-of-the-many-graves-of-missouri-witch-molly-crenshaw/

https://theconversation.com/what-is-haitian-voodoo-119621

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/haiti-ancient-traditions-voodoo

There's no sugar-coating this one. It's a haunted doll. This is a haunted doll episode. It's about a super-scary doll that's super-super haunted. We don't know how else to say it. We're in haunted doll territory. You've been warned.

This is the story of Robert the Doll. Come for the ghost, stay for the rebrand of bears, killing the head doll, the tricks grandpas play, bad parents making bad ghosts, scrolling until you throw up in your mouth, and the absolute bummer of having a four-year-old ventriloquism savant.

Look, I'll just say it: We're not experts in history, but we are experts in ghostology, and the hard truth is, Honest Abe is honestly a ghost. That may be hard for you to hear, because all the ghosts and all the seances and all the spirit photography somehow got scrubbed from the Daniel Day-Lewis flick, because Hollywood is run by lizard people, but listen. There is a ghost in the White House, and his name is A-boo-ham Lincoln.

This is the story of Abraham Lincoln, the White House ghost. Come for the haunting, stay for the extraordinary practice of river law, Patrick's insistence that Abe Lincoln is a buck-naked ghost, "deer" being a confusing reason for death, milk sickness being a product of witch, and the raw, sexual musk of President Abraham Lincoln.

Sources:

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/haunted-white-house

https://www.history.com/news/legend-of-abraham-lincolns-ghost-white-house

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-mr-mumler-man-who-captured-lincolns-ghost-camera-180965090/

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/spiritualism-in-the-white-house/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/books/review/michael-burlingame-an-american-marriage-abraham-lincoln-mary-todd.html

Deep in the forests of Bavaria lurks an evil presence that feeds on innocent children by luring them in with the promise of gingerbread and candy. This is not that story. It is really something quite different.

This is the story of Wolfsegg Castle. Come for the ghosts, stay for the sexual potency of the Hammermuehle in Heitzenhofen, Patrick's secret for pronouncing German names, people in the 16th century hanging on by a thread, a Google maps exploration of the German hellmouth, and the good, sexy ghosts of PornHub-dot-com.

There are lots of laides who wear lots of colors, and Melanie Lanier was one of them. Known now as The Lady in Black, Melanie is part newlywed, part pirate, and all ghost; She also would have been a super-inspirational folkhero that we'd celebrate the heck out of if she hadn't been so squarely on the side of the Confederacy. Ah, well.

This is the story of The Lady in Black of Georges Island. Come for the ghost, stay for the endless power of furious Georges, being quiet quitted by our sponsor, some islands being in the water, Australia, but for people named George, cannons: the surface-to-air missiles of the 19th century, and why Patrick's family won't pee in the yard.

Sources:

https://nightlyspirits.com/the-haunted-history-of-fort-warren/

https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-stories

https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/most-infamous-ghosts

https://historicaldigression.com/2012/10/17/fort-warrens-lady-in-black-debunked/

https://bostonghosts.com/bostons-lady-in-black/