The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Welcome to Day 2 of 31 Days of Halloween.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/zykew1/dont_let_the_moon_grant_your_wishes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/u5qbq7/my_daughter_texted_from_the_hospital_something

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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Welcome to Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween.

In today's episode we share 3 spooky stories to get you in the mood for Spooky Season.

Special thanks to  https://www.reddit.com/r/dominiceagle/  of https://www.youtube.com/@BlackVolumes for allowing us to share your story.

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Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/104kn5h/something_evil_is_living_on_nosleep_and_it

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/vzt14w/creepy_experience_while_playing_hide_and_seek_in

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/s/p9huwfM0D4

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In January 1962, uncontrollable laughter seized a girls’ boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, then leapt from classroom to village to village. Over 18 months, waves of giggling fits, tears, fainting, and fatigue shut down 14 schools and afflicted about 1,000 people across a 100-mile region.

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Research:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires

https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/

https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and

https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

A rumour of “anamapopa” (blood-suckers) swept southern Malawi in 2017, spiralling into night patrols, roadblocks, and lethal mob justice. We trace how fear, witchcraft beliefs, poverty, and politics fed the hysteria, why aid workers fled, how authorities responded, and why the panic keeps returning.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires

https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/

https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and

https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

On the brooding slopes of Pendle Hill, the 1612 witch trials cast a shadow that hasn’t lifted: matriarchs Old Demdike and Chattox, ten hangings at Lancaster, and a land still whispered to be guarded by familiars and phantoms. From a bricked-in “witches’ cat” cottage to spectral hounds, disembodied voices, and dancing orbs, modern vigil nights keep colliding with the hill’s grim past—some say the witches still answer when called.

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Research:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/some-of-the-most-haunted-places-in-england/141752

https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/pendle-hill-witches

https://www.spiritshack.co.uk/blog/haunted-places/pendle-hill/

https://deadlive.co.uk/pendle-hill-lancashire-ghost-stories/

https://lellalee.com/the-ghosts-of-pendle-hill-a-paranormal-investigation/

http://marysharratt.blogspot.com/2009/10/most-haunteds-pendle-witch-hunt.html

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In 1647, Alse (Alice) Young of Windsor, Connecticut was hanged on Hartford’s Meeting House Square—the first recorded witchcraft execution in colonial America. Sparse records and a deadly local epidemic frame her case, which foreshadowed Connecticut’s quieter, decades-long witch persecutions long before Salem. Centuries later, Windsor (2017) and the State of Connecticut (2023) formally exonerated those condemned—finally restoring Alse Young’s name.

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Research:

https://jud.ct.gov/lawlib/Notebooks/Witchcraft/witches.htm

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

https://connecticuthistory.org/alse-young-executed-for-witchcraft-today-in-history/

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/cover-connecticut-witch-hysteria-1647-63/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/alse-young/

https://www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org/exoneration-of-two-of-windsors-accused-witches/

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

This September, we step into that threshold where folklore meets fear. From ancient curses to infamous trials, from haunted ground to witches said still to walk among us… welcome to the Season of the Witch.

In this episode, we share four creepy Reddit stories.

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Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/kqbvjYfUo8

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/6suFbPRaDW

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwalkers/s/yBnKLpqDS

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwalkers/s/DIdyN8zv9r

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

This September, we step into that threshold where folklore meets fear. From ancient curses to infamous trials, from haunted ground to witches said still to walk among us… welcome to the Season of the Witch.

Stockholm’s 1676 panic put 21-year-old maid “Dufvans Margareta” at the center of the Katarina witch trials—coerced into a lurid confession about Blåkulla, then recanting, and finally spared when child witnesses broke down and admitted they’d lied. Her case helped snap Sweden out of Det Stora Oväsendet (“the Great Noise”), ending the country’s last great witch-hunt.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_stora_ov%C3%A4sendet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A5kulla

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

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

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

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

This September, we step into that threshold where folklore meets fear. From ancient curses to infamous trials, from haunted ground to witches said still to walk among us… welcome to the Season of the Witch.

In northern Ghana, the Gambaga Witch Camp has stood for over a century as both sanctuary and prison. Here, women accused of witchcraft are exiled from their villages, blamed for deaths, illness, and misfortune. Protected by local chiefs but condemned by society, they live out their lives in isolation, bound by ritual and fear. 

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Research:

http://pulitzercenter.org/stories/banished-and-forgotten-story-women-exiled-over-witchcraft

https://www.newsweek.com/aftricas-modern-day-witch-hunt-67309

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2010/nov/25/witches-gambaga-ghana

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19437130

https://modernghana.com/news/1222813/were-safe-and-very-comfortable-at-gambaga-camp.html

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

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

This September, we step into that threshold where folklore meets fear. From ancient curses to infamous trials, from haunted ground to witches said still to walk among us… welcome to the Season of the Witch.

Trasmoz, a tiny village in Aragón, is the only town in Spain ever excommunicated and cursed by the Catholic Church. From counterfeiters who spread tales of witches to a Papal curse in 1511 and the murder of Tía Casca, its eerie legacy still lingers today.

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Research:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/excommunicated-spanish-witch-village-turns-curse-into-tourist-cash

https://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/21637/20161116/trasmoz-a-cursed-village-of-witches-in-spain.htm

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/trasmoz-spain-cursed-village-of-aragon.html

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/01/23/the-tiny-witches-village-in-spain-cursed-by-the-catholic-church-since-1511

https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/11/10/a-small-cursed-town-in-zaragoza-excommunicated-by-the-catholic-church

https://wolfenhaas.com/trasmoz-witch-festival

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Sarah and Tobie xx

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