The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

France, 1634. In the walled town of Loudun, a group of nuns began to scream, convulse, and claim they were tormented by unseen forces. They said demons spoke through them, twisted their bodies, and named the man responsible.

What followed was not just an exorcism, but a public spectacle of fear, obsession, and vengeance that would end in fire.

Because in Loudun, the question was never simply whether the devil had arrived. It was who stood to gain from everyone believing he had.

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Research:

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

https://demonology.en-academic.com/357/Loudun_Possessions

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Sorry, there's no YouTube episode today. They will be back in a couple of months!

In today's episode we share 3 spooky Reddit stories.

Special thanks to Forward_Pudding4453, TRUE HORROR BLOG dontlookbehind.com, and Risky7Rice for allowing us to share your stories!

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrawlerSightings/comments/1sfivx3/wtf_did_i_see/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1s33h2l/every_night_at_217_am_something_uses_my_bathroom/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1s18sta/me_and_my_mother_both_experienced_something/

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There are stories that belong to old forests, stories tied to ruined churches, and stories whispered beside fires long after midnight. They feel ancient, as though they have always existed, passed from one voice to another until nobody remembers where they truly began. But every so often, a legend is born somewhere much newer.

This one came from the early internet, back when websites were crude, pages loaded slowly, and strangers wrote things online with no easy way to know if any of it was true. In 2001, a man calling himself Ted began posting updates to a simple website about a narrow cave passage he and a friend were trying to force open. At first it read like an ordinary climbing journal. Then it became something else.

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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ted-the-caver

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3488602/slender-man-creepypastas-ted-caver/

https://lostepisodecreepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_the_Caver

https://caver.neocities.org/page10

https://caver.neocities.org/page8

https://grahamjw.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/ted-the-caver-mystery/

https://web.archive.org/web/20050513231554/http://www.holyshiite.com/caver/index.html

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Listener Warning: Tonight’s episode covers the Soka Forest case near Ibadan and includes discussion of violent crime, kidnapping, human remains, torture, ritual killings, and disturbing scenes involving victims held captive. Some descriptions may be distressing, so please take care while listening and skip this episode if those subjects are not right for you today.

There are certain places that gain a reputation so dark that even years later people still speak of them carefully. Not because they are ancient castles or abandoned asylums, but because something real happened there. Something so disturbing that fact and legend began to merge.

Outside the city of Ibadan, beside the busy Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, there was once a stretch of woodland many travellers barely noticed. Cars passed it every day. Buses rolled by in clouds of dust and heat. Motorcycles wove between traffic while roadside life carried on as normal.

To most people, it was just another patch of trees.

To others, it was somewhere to avoid after dark.

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qehAbFbd46qMgC6xl0rKG

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In the middle of a crowded airport, a man became convinced he was about to die. Minutes later, he was gone. No one has seen him since.

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35001777

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lars-mittank-missing-bulgaria-germany-varna-airport-video-a7348211.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/lars-mittank-mystery-missing-man-16957937

https://allthatsinteresting.com/lars-mittank

https://www.grunge.com/308926/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-lars-mittank/

https://the-line-up.com/lars-mittank

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A little seasonal extra for Beltane!

As Beltane arrives beneath the Flower Moon, we step into one of the oldest and strangest nights of the year, when fires were lit on the hills, doors were guarded, and the boundary between worlds was said to grow thin. From ancient May Day customs to warnings of fairies, wandering spirits, and voices in the dark, this is the folklore of a night once treated with both joy and caution.

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

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

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/May-Day/

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/history/customs-traditions/may-day-traditions

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/full-moon-calendar

https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-may

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/beltane-fire-festival-history-scotlands-ancient-celebration-of-summer-3699690

https://www.visitscotland.com/info/events/beltane-fire-festival-p246341

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/beltane-irish-festival

https://www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/III-XVIII-1.php

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Sorry, there's no YouTube episode today. They will be back in a couple of months!

TikTok  https://www.tiktok.com/@shirleyking631?_r=1&_t=ZP-95eJv9diRGY 

In today's episode we share 4 spooky Reddit stories.

Special thanks to ru-yafu0820 and Some-Application880 for allowing us to share your stories!

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1dn26ny/weird_boom_and_rip_of_wind_phenomena/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1sdruau/something_keeps_riding_a_bike_past_my_house_at/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1s5hrhz/saw_someone_hovering_in_public/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1lueii6/her_name_is_death_and_she_calls_herself_summer/

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On a summer morning in 1980, hundreds of children gathered on a Nottinghamshire hillside for what should have been an ordinary day of marching bands and sunshine.

Then, without warning, children began collapsing.

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61551003

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For decades, shoppers passed through Chicago’s Marshall Field’s as if it were just another department store. But inside the building, one elevator was linked to fatal accidents, strange experiences, and stories that continued long after the lift itself was taken out of service.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field%27s

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

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Whatever was moving through the countryside it wasn’t behaving like any animal they knew. It ignored the livestock. It appeared in daylight. And it went after people… again and again.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Beast-of-Gevaudan

https://www.history.com/news/beast-gevaudan-france-wolf

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beast-of-gevaudan-france-wolves-mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-legend-of-the-beast-of-gevaudan-74922113/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beast-of-gevaudan

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