Do you like swans? You'll love this episode. But it has less to do with swans than you think. Wow, what a ride.

This is the story of Swannanoa Palace. Come for the ghosts, stay for you don’t sound very jammin’, wine thievery, exorcist rules, the job market in 1860, Dolphin Dean, Irish valor, C or B and O, I think it’s called extortion, and you can buy a lot of orphans with that.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Dooley
• https://colonialghosts.com/swannanoa-palace/
• https://www.newsleader.com/story/life/2014/09/27/swannanoa-mysterious-mountaintop-marble-mansion/16242299/
• https://angelaandrieux.com/swannanoa-palace-decaying-haunted-awesome/

The Coal Miner's Daughter had a few skeletons in her closet. Literally. But unlike most sane people, Loretta Lynn decided living with ghosts was actually kind of fine? Weird life.

This is the story of Loretta Lynn's Haunted House. Come for the ghosts, stay for Coal Miner's Minor, burly men named Norm, take that, Bible!, city of lights and chicken, Latin for bones is grist, how smushy is that smush room, and the plumbing is very restrictive.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn
• https://nashvilleghosts.com/loretta-lynn-ranch/
• https://www.wideopencountry.com/story-behind-loretta-lynns-haunted-hurricane-mills-plantation/

In the first of what is probably destined to be some sort of suite of dam episodes, we're tackling the Hales Bar Dam. Which is a surprisingly unknown name for what is apparently the most haunted dam in the U.S.! Also, it's actually very bad at damming.

This is the story of the Hales Bar Dam. Come for the ghosts, stay for M-16 pocket protectors, MCU Donny, the meany lessons of Poltergeist, land investor Dracula, you can eat a horse, mom got the big suck, Schrödinger’s town, and normal naked dude.

Sources:

• https://samterryskentucky.com/kentucky-history/f/the-treaty-of-sycamore-shoals
• https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/03/13/dragging-canoe-true-american-indian-hero/81501938/
• https://www.visitchattanooga.com/blog/post/whats-hiding-in-the-tennessee-river/
• https://www.nativehistoryassociation.org/dragging_canoe.php
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Treaty-of-Sycamore-Shoals
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_Colony
• https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/primary-source-transylvania
• https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/hales.html
• https://hauntedus.com/tennessee/hales-bar-dam-and-marina/
• https://tataandhoward.com/tag/hales-bar-dam/
• https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/hales.html
• https://youtu.be/IMyiL2yi-ZY

Ah, the gulf coast of Florida, where the fish are boiling and the reefs are painted red, white, and blue. Good luck, Floridians.

This is the story of Fort De Soto Park and the Sunshine Sky Bridge. Come for the ghosts, stay for I'm very swampy, canoe warfare, battle stingrays, beach wool, The Price is Right gun pit, unkillable buses, and the first Florida Man.

Sources:

• https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/2020/12/24/floridas-fort-de-soto-parks-haunted-history/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_De_Soto_Park
• https://paraholics.com/2019/04/04/the-hauntings-of-fort-de-soto-park/
• https://spiritsofstpete.com/2021-investigations/fort-de-soto/#page-content
• https://pinellas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fort_DeSoto_historic_guide.pdf
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/florida/fl-most-haunted-campground/

Move over, Stephen King, it's OUR turn to tell the story of the most haunted hotel in Estes Park! We think you'll really take a shine to this episode.

Also, this was a live show! ITAG fans got to chat together in real-time while they listened to Clayton and Patrick recording the episode. We do this sometimes! Follow us on social @isthisaghost to get access to the next live show!

This is the story of the Stanley Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for up-blood, your name is Locomotive, a couch to 5k but for tuberculosis, the fourth B, fire-proof bones, and a Jim Carrey funny run.

Sources:

• https://www.uncovercolorado.com/stanley-hotel-haunted-history/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelan_Oscar_Stanley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel
• https://nightlyspirits.com/stanley-hotel-ghost-stories/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nugent_(Estes_Park)

Additional audio for this episode:

• Rim shot by jmayoff -- https://freesound.org/s/256959/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Don't get too excited. This Edinburgh is in Iowa, so there's zero chance of broadswords in this episode. Lame. (Heck of a lot of ghosts, though.)

This is the story of the ghosts of Edinburgh Manor. Come for the ghosts, stay for first you beef, then you feast, George Miller presents Iowa: Animosa, water park is the obvious choice, be real nice to your kids, how do curses depreciate over time?, getting choked in Room 240, and I detect notes of rope hemp.

Sources:

• https://hauntedus.com/iowa/edinburgh-manor-haunted-asylum/
• https://edinburghmanor.wixsite.com/edinburgh/evidence
• https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/edinburgh-manor/
• https://www.thegazette.com/curious-iowa/curious-iowa-how-did-edinburgh-manor-become-a-haunted-attraction/

Oh nar! It's another Australian ghost!

This is the story of Fisher's Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for masters + 30 + tattoo, lost a lot of good horses that day, the Australian way to end an argument, a good deal on a horse, how much does it cost in spiders?, ghost butt energy, and the Spider King's curfew.

Sources:

• https://visitcampbelltown.com.au/legend-of-fishers-ghost/
• https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/convict-transportation-peaks
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_ghost
• https://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/About-Campbelltown/History/Prominent-People-From-Our-Past/Have-You-Seen-Fishers-Ghost

Some ghosts will scare you within an inch of your life. Others will unscrew peroxide lids. You really just never know what kind of ghost you're going to get. It's a real roll of the dice. And for the first time, even Clayton wonders, "Hey...is this actually a ghost?"

This is the story of Popper, the Herrmann House Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for the Ozark version of a WASP, classic bone-having, straight into the flammenwerfer, some Bedknobs and Broomsticks sh*t, Detective Daddy, and feral water.

We've done cannibalism, but have we done incest AND cannibalism?! Not that we can recall. But to be honest, we cannot be trusted with things like this. So. What was the question?

This is the story of the ghost of Sawney Bean. Come for the ghost, stay for the summer of love, rated G for grotty, (witch understood), we got to cannibalism fast, one stone three score hands, how did this get worse from the cannibal part?, CHUD lures, all this peat to eat, live by the barbecue, die by the barbecue, and CHUD justice.

Sources:

• https://www.scotclans.com/pages/the-legend-of-sawney-bean
• https://hauntingnights.co.uk/ghost-of-sawney-beans/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean
• https://electricscotland.com/kids/stories/sawney_bean.htm
• https://freakinparanormal.com/2020/08/28/haunted-scotland/

In what is by far the most sex-positive episode of ITAG yet (sorry, Naked Abe), the guys explore the wonders of Butte, Montana's red light district. And eventually they talk about some ghosts.

This is the story of the Dumas Brothel. Come for the ghosts, stay for girding one’s loins, mining for electricity, hard work and hard men, Patrick’s insight into how sex works, brotheling?, we don’t supply the towels, and you’re also a dog.

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Butte,_Montana
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_Brothel
• https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/ghost-stories/dumas-brothel-hotel/
• https://bozemanmagazine.com/articles/2013/09/30/100922-a-montana-ghost-story-from-the-dumas-brothel