Unpleasant Dreams

Cassandra narrates the Edgar Allan Poe classic, The Fall of the House of Usher.

This episode is part one. Tune in next week for part two!

Cassandra Harold is your narrator.

You can find The Fall of the House of Usher at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/932

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published 1839 and is in the Public Domain.

Follow Cassandra’s new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

And…may all your dreams be pleasant!

--

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man experiences the “strangest day of his life” and we are witnesses to this tale worthy of The Twilight Zone. The heat can do strange things…

August Heat was written by W. F. Harvey in 1910. You can find the text at Project Gutenberg Australia here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605761.txt

"August Heat" by W.F. Harvey, originally published 1910 and is in the Public Domain.

Cassandra Harold is your narrator.

Follow Cassandra’s new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

And…may all your dreams be pleasant!

--

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An American couple comes to England hoping to find a haunted manor. Did they find it? Listen to the conclusion of this spine tingling tale to find out!

Written by Edith Wharton in 1910. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/306/306-h/306-h.htm

"Afterward" by Edith Wharton, originally published 1910 and is in the Public Domain.

Cassandra Harold is your narrator.

Follow Cassandra's new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

And, may all your dreams be pleasant!

--

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An American couple comes to England hoping to find a haunted manor. Did they find it? Listen to this episode of Unpleasant Dreams to find out! Part One.

"Afterward" by Edith Wharton, originally published 1910 and is in the Public Domain.

Cassandra Harold is your narrator.

Follow Cassandra’s new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

And...may all your dreams be pleasant!

--

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A terrifying tale of the sea is the subject of one of HPL's early tales, Dagon. Cassandra Harold narrates.

You can find the text here: https://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-dagon.html

"Dagon" by H.P. Lovecraft, originally published 1919 and is in the Public Domain.

Follow Cassandra's new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

 --

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Season 3, Unpleasant Dreams is back with a new format! Cassandra is now turning her attention to classic spooky stories!

This week she shares the cautionary and terrifying tale of The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. Be careful what you wish for!

You can find The Monkey's Paw at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12122

"The Monkey’s Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, originally published 1902 and is in the Public Domain.

Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!

 --

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A real-life series of deaths of young Hmong men inspired Wes Craven to create Nightmare On Elm Street. We tell this tragic story on this week's Unpleasant Dreams.

EM Hilker is our writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. Jim Harold is our Executive Producer.

Find the original article by EM Hilker HERE.

SOURCES

“Brugada Syndrome.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 5 May 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

“Hmong.” International Institute of Minnesota, 17 January 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2022. 

Kruse, Colton. “Dying in Your Dreams: Freddy Krueger Syndrome Is Real.” Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, 21 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

Madrigal, Alexis C. “The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 14 September 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2022. 

McCann, Erin. “Freddy Krueger Is Loosely Based on the Disturbing True Tale of 18 People Inexplicably Dying in Their Sleep.” Ranker, 14 June, 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2022.

Morgan, Thaddeus. “How a Terrifying Wave of Unexplained Deaths Led to ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 30 October 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2022. 

Stromberg, Joseph. “What Is the Nocebo Effect?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 23 July 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2022.

Sugg, Richard. The Real Vampires: Death, Terror, and the Supernatural. Amberley Publishing, 2019. 

Tofield, Andros. “Pedro Brugada MD: The Spanish Cardiologist Who Together with His Brother Josep Brugada, First Described the Brugada Syndrome.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 7 March 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

Vatta, Matteo, et al. “Genetic and Biophysical Basis of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS), a Disease Allelic to Brugada Syndrome.” OUP Academic, Oxford Academic, 1 February 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2022. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe as read by your host, Cassandra Harold.

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published 1845 and is in the Public Domain.

Our little Halloween gift to you from Unpleasant Dreams.

Boo!

--

Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mysterious disappearance of a group of nine Soviet hikers in 1959 has puzzled the world for decades. What happened? Was it simply horrible weather? A secret weapons test? Or, something otherworldly? That is the subject of this very Unpleasant Dream.

EM Hilker is our writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. Jim Harold is our Executive Producer.

CLICK HERE for EM Hilker’s original article.

SOURCES

Borzenkov, Vladimir. “Trek Categories and Sports Ranks.” Dyatlov Pass. Retrieved 17 August 2022. 

Eichar, Donnie. Dead Mountain: the Untold Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Chronicle Books, 2013.

Hadjiyska, Teodora, and Igor Pavlov. “Dyatlov Group.” Dyatlov Pass. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

Gaume, Johan, and Alexander M. Puzrin. “Mechanisms of Slab Avalanche Release and Impact in the Dyatlov Pass Incident in 1959.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 28 January 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

“Nikita Khrushchev.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 November 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2022.

Niziol, Tom. “Whirls, Curls, and Little Swirls: The Science Behind Von Karman Vortices.” Weather Underground. Retrieved 18 August 2022. 

Osadchuk, Svetlana. “Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved.” The St. Petersburg Times, 19 February 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

Solly, Meilan. “Have Scientists Finally Unraveled the 60-Year Mystery Surrounding Nine Russian Hikers’ Deaths?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 29 January 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2022. 

Speltz, Lorin. “Salo.” Russiapedia. Retrieved 17 August 2022. 

Wedin, B, et al. “‘Paradoxical Undressing’ in Fatal Hypothermia.” Journal of Forensic Sciences, U.S. National Library of Medicine, July 1979. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A seemingly idyllic Ohio town becomes the setting for one of the most mysterious cases of the 20th Century. Sinister letters are sent for years, a life is lost, while others are ruined and the whole matter remains a puzzle to this very day.

EM Hilker is our writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. Jim Harold is our Executive Producer.

CLICK HERE for EM Hilker’s original article.

TRANSCRIPT

CLICK HERE for a full transcript and sources

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices