Spookish

Happy Halloween! Here's a spine-tingling treat for your enjoyment today! Thanks to all our listeners who submitted their real life scary stories to entertain us this spooky season!

Spooky season calls for a good old fashioned haunting episode. Bailey shares the story of a little girl, her family, and the ghost that wouldn't leave them alone. Listen to hear the piece of evidence that sways Hunter to believe in ghosts for the first time since the podcast began.

Sources:

The Enfield Poltergeist: Inside the Real Story that Inspired 'The Conjuring 2'.

The True Story Of The Conjuring: The Perron Family & Enfield Haunting 

The Enfield Haunting and The Conjuring 2 True Story

We've done an episode of one of the European witch trials in the past, but today we are sharing the homegrown horrors from right here in America, the Salem witch trials. Today's episode focuses on the victims of the witch trials and their fates. TW: infant death, child loss, pregnancy loss.

Sources:

A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials

Sarah Good - Wikipedia

Sarah Osborne - Wikipedia

Tituba - Wikipedia

Bridget Bishop - Wikipedia

A True Legal Horror Story: The Laws Leading to the Salem Witch Trials

Dorothy Good - Wikipedia

Salem Witch Trials

Rebecca Nurse - Wikipedia

Giles Corey - Wikipedia

John Proctor (Salem witch trials) - Wikipedia

After 329 years, a woman accused of being a witch in Salem has been exonerated

TAMUC History Professor Busts Myths About The Salem Witch Trials

Ann Foster - Wikipedia

The episode that at least one of our listeners has been waiting for: a collection of creepy stories from National Parks, brought to us by Bailey. Close your blinds, lock your doors, and prepare to be spooked by these creepy tales from the woods.

Sources:

Park Rangers

This iconic alien visitation from the 1950s is the root of much of what we know as common alien lore today. Give a listen to hear how today's story gave us Green Little Men, Gremlins, E.T., and a Pokemon.

Send us your spooky stories at [email protected] for a chance to hear them read in a future episode.

Sources:

Kelly Hopkinsville Encounter

70 Years Later

Sketch of Goblins

Little Green Men Origins

Hushed Up History

Steven Spielberg and Green Men

Have you ever heard of an insane asylum where everything was operated peacefully and above board? Me neither, and the Wyoming State Hospital is no exception. In today's episode, Bailey teaches us all about this spooky place in a small town that was so haunted, the police had to intervene.

Send your spooky experiences to us at [email protected]

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Sources:

Bailey's friend, Riley, and her family (Thanks Riley!)

Wyoming State Hospital

Haunted 307

Ever wondered why people believed vampires turned into bats or why garlic repels them? Heather takes us through these questions, other common vampire myths, and the origins of this legendary monster in today episode of Spookish.

Email us at [email protected] to hear your spooky experiences in a Creeps Speak episode!

Sources:

The Vampire Historian podcast

The Vampyre

Revenant

17th Century Graves Poland.

Anti-vampire Graves.

Tales from the Crypt

Polish Vampires

Strange Burials

There Were Four of Us.

Lord Byron

Peter 

Garlic Origins

Today's episode is full of unsolved mysteries and unexplained deaths. Learn how Nahanni Valley National Park earned its nickname as the Valley of the Headless Men. This haunting place has a plethora of theories attached to it including werewolves, river monsters, wild men, and aliens. Listen now and see if you come to your own conclusions!

Sources:

Haunting History of Canadian National Park

Nahanni National Park

Nahanni Valley YouTube

Akin to our Yokai episode, today Bailey takes us to a new culture where we learn all about Korean myths and monsters.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTryFH8MaLk

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

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

https://vocal.media/horror/gwisin-the-haunting-history-and-folklore-of-korea-s-restless-ghosts

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

https://www.wattpad.com/1482973478-urban-legends-the-egg-ghost

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgae

https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-myths/

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

https://vocal.media/fiction/gumiho-and-love

Welcome back to Spookish Season 3! We are kicking off the new season with an episode on the Wendigo! Heather teaches of its origins in folklore, references in pop culture, and modern day sightings. Listen now!

Music via FesliyanStudios

Sources for today’s episode: 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Algonquin

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

http://www.native-languages.org/algonquin-legends.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/windigo.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xCrsKIB24

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/wendigo-folklore#:~:text=Another%20common%20version%20states%20that,warning%20against%20resorting%20to%20cannibalism.

https://www.mpm.edu/educators/wirp/nations/ojibwe/oral-tradition#:~:text=She%20took%20these%20home%20with,Heights%20IL:%20Waveland%20Press.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgK0iZStpNA

https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/more-monsters-deeper-significance-wendigo-stories

https://www.iflscience.com/how-wendigo-psychosis-turns-people-into-cannibals-possessed-by-flesh-eating-monsters-71376

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/wendigo-folklore#:~:text=Another%20common%20version%20states%20that,warning%20against%20resorting%20to%20cannibalism.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685673/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/10597tx/how_my_father_survived_an_encounter_with_a_wendigo/

Wendigo Encounter. : r/ParanormalReddit · r/Paranormal50+ comments · 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/scarystories/comments/bwr7w9/wendigo_story/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/comments/z0sx25/me_my_girlfriend_and_her_mom_just_encountered_a/