It’s been a while since we checked out a genuine, good ol’ fashioned haunted house. What better time than Spooky Season to correct that oversight! In this episode, we’ll brave the shadows to hunt down the things that go bump in the night. First, we visit the Baleroy Mansion in the affluent Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia where sits a chair with a fatal reputation. Then, we travel by broomstick to the Avenues section of Salt Lake City, Utah where a couple moves into a late 1800s Victorian dream home where the ghosts are mostly tame until one night when the couple use sage to clear the house, but the only thing they get rid of is the one thing keeping an angry spirit at bay.

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The nation’s most haunted house is hidden in Chestnut Hill | The Chestnut Hill Local

My neighbor's Chestnut Hill mansion is (probably) haunted
 
Parallel Worlds (deadblack.net)

Harvesting Shadows by Douglas Burchill

YouTube: A Haunting: The Forgotten

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Welcome to our first ever Paranormal Rewatch! In this episode, we’ll examine the always professional and thorough Ghost Hunters as they answer the call from a family being haunted in their 1800s Tennessee farmhouse. They are joined by special guest investigator and musician Meatloaf. Not only is Meatloaf a friend of the T.A.P. S. gang, he’s no stranger to the paranormal having joined the Ghost Hunters team one other time before. We hope you enjoy our maiden expedition as we rewatch and discuss some of our favorite paranormal television episodes.

You can find this episode of Ghost Hunters on Discovery+

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The Haunting of Meat Loaf

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Welcome to Spooky Season, Ghosties! We’ll have plenty of surprises this Spooky Season including weekly episodes through Halloween. In this episode, listener Cady joins us to discuss her experiences growing up in the haunted wild west. Cady grew up in the shadow of Tombstone, Arizona in what was once a sleepy little town between the tracks called Vail. Wrap yourself in the covers while Cady recalls a frightening experience with a Ouija board. And freshen up that pumpkin spice because Cady’s middle school had a cemetery on the school grounds! Oh, did we mention the shadow man? Set out the pumpkins, hang the bats, and light a candle or two and get ready for the spookiest time of the year.

Vail Cemetery Located at Old Vail... - Vail Preservation Society | Facebook

The Spooky Caverns of Colossal Cave - Phoenix Ghosts

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Hello there! It’s been a while since our last Book Club Minisode. We missed you! Today we read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. Jackson’s 1959 novel has twice been made into a movie, once in 1963 and once in 1999. The ’63 version is relatively faithful to the original novel: the ’99 version, not so much. The book was also parodied in part of Scary Movie 2. There’s even a BBC radio adaptation and a play. Most recently, a version of the same title can be found on Netflix, though it strays far from the occurrences of the book. If you haven’t been able to tell, this one is a classic and for good reason.

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House on Amazon (this is a link to the special hardcover edition with black sprayed edges, there are other copies available)

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The Ope, A Ghost van is hitting the road for another Haunted Road Trip. This time we’re stopping in historic Selma, Alabama. First, we’ll visit Sturdivant Hall where some claim that the ghost of a former owner is buried in the back yard. Next, we’ll stop at the George O. Baker House where a Civil War soldier lingers near a blood stain on the floor. Our next stops include the Trotter Home, the Brownstone Manor, and the Weaver Castle House where a man died of a broken heart. It’s gonna be a long drive so bring a pillow and plenty of snacks. If you behave, maybe we’ll stop at Lannie’s BBQ and get a pulled pork sandwich, some fried okra, and a glass of tea so sweet it’ll make your aunt Marge holler “Roll Tide”—and she’s from Iowa. That’s how sweet it is.

Wikipedia “Studivant Hall”
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by Katheryn Tucker Windham and John Figh
The Ghosts of Selma from the YouTube channel Max Shores
Sturdivant Hall: 13 Days of Horror from The Rick and Bubba Show Archives
Occult World Article

Selma, Alabama - Wikipedia
City of Selma Gov - Selma History
Selma TImes Journal - Trotter Home Article
RuralSWAlabama - George O. Baker House
Alabama Travel
RuralSWAlabama - Weaver Hooper Hosuse
RuralSWAlabama - Brownstone Manor

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In this episode, we compare the real story of one of the most famous haunted dolls with the second film in the Conjuring universe: Annabelle. In 1970, a young nurse received a second-hand Raggedy Ann doll as a birthday gift from her mother. The woman would use the popular doll as a decorative piece in the apartment she shared with another nurse. It wasn't long before the doll, who the woman named Annabelle, went from cute to all-out terrifying when it began to move on its own around the apartment. By 1971, Ed and Lorraine Warren were called in. The film version of the Annabelle story opens with the Warrens talking to the nurses, but what else did the movie get right, and what did it get wrong?  Is the truth stranger than fiction?

You can stream the Annabelle movie on Netflix

Red Web podcast on YouTube The True Story of Annabelle the Doll from Sept. 2022

The Demonologist by Gerald Brittle, an Ed and Lorraine Warren Book

Ed Warren Tells the Real Story of Annebelle from Official Ed and Lorraine Warren Channel

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Nothing excites the imagination like a good ol’ fashioned curse. Our logical sense tells us they’re nonsense, but even in the face of reason, how many of us still exercise caution? As it turns out, discretion may indeed be the better part of valor, especially when dealing with the cursed objects in this episode. First we’ll visit the Dybbuk box, an antique, portable wine cabinet that brings misfortune to whoever owns it. Second, we’ll look at the curse surrounding the wrecked 1955 Porsche Spyder once owned by Hollywood Golden Age legend James Dean. Do curses really exist? Come along and decide for yourself.

Cursed Objects Book by : J. W. Ocker
Jason Hawes Youtube - cursed objects
Ghost Adventures episodes on Discovery+

The Unexplained with William Shatner S.4 Ep.8 “Uncanny Curses: - Available on Discover+
Strange World: Was the Porsche That Killed James Dean Cursed?
Death of James Dean – Wikipedia
Porche 550 Spider – Exclusive Car Registry

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On today’s Book Club Minisode, we read Tobias Wayland’s The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest. Wayland spent several years as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Since then, he's been a guest on podcasts and radio shows and appeared on the series premiere of Expedition X and in the Small Town Monsters documentaries Terror in the Skies and On the Trail of the Lake Michigan Mothman. If you love Mothman as much as Heaven, you need this book. Its chock full of first-hand accounts of sightings and encounters: some of them are utterly terrifying. We love this one, and we’re sure you will too! Buy your copy at the link below.

Find more about Tobias Wayland and buy his books at The Singular Fortean Society

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In this first edition of Local Haunts, we visit two places in our area that you may not have heard about. The first is the (Old) Lake Club in Springfield, IL. In its day, the club was the most popular nightclub outside of Chicago. Mixed in with the usual spirits you'd find behind the bar was the ghost of Rudy, a much loved bartender from the club's hayday.  Next, we’ll hop over to Jacksonville and explore the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane. According to several sources, the abandoned hospital is the most haunted location in Jacksonville. The hospital plays a major role in the history of several Illinois women including Lurancy Vennum the Watseka Wonder.

Paranormal News: Coast to Coast AM Article

Haunted Springfield, Illinois by Garret Moffit
The Ghost Files YouTube - This Nightclub is EVIL - Full Paranormal Documentary - The Lake Club (TRUE GHOST STORIES)
American Hauntings The Lake Club Ghost: The Haunting of Albert “Rudy” Cranor
Newspaper Article Priest’s Rid Club of Bartender’s Ghost

Haunted Jacksonville by: Troy Taylor and Lisa Taylor Horton

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