Where Our Minds Wander

Beth tells the perfectly creepy tale "The Voice in the  Night" by William Hope Hodgson. Wes shares S.E. Schlosser's ghostly tale of "A Dead Woman's Picture." 


https://absolutehorror.fandom.com/wiki/The_Voice_in_the_Night_by_William_Hope_Hodgson

www.seschlosser.com/a-dead-womans-picture/

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Beth and Wes each tell a spooky gothic ghost story: "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell and "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells.

Our Sources:
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605581h.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23218/23218-h/23218-h.htm

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Beth shares the intriguing UFO sighting from 1957 when 10,000 spectators saw some sort of UFO over Florence, Italy. Wes explains exactly why the San Antonio inn is considered one of Texas's "most haunted" locations. 


Sources Used:
www.sportshistoryweekly.com/stories/italy-soccer-world-euro-cup-fiorentina,1220

https://unbelievable-facts.com/2014/12/a-football-match-came-to-a-halt-60-years-ago-when-spectators-spotted-unidentified-objects-flying-over-a-florence-stadium.html#google_vignette

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29342407

www.victoriasblackswaninn.com/

www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/paranormal-victorias-black-swan-san-antonio-ghosts-16536388.php

www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/salado-creek-battle-of

https://ghostcitytours.com/san-antonio/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/victorias-black-swan-inn/

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hotels-and-inns/haunts-of-victorias-black-swan-inn/

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Beth shares the various folklore and legends surrounding real-life witchcraft cases in New York state. Wes shares the intriguing history of Big Nose Kate and her haunted saloon. 



Our Sources:
https://sleepyhollowcountry.com/witch-of-west-nyack/

www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/culture/article/witchcraft-trials-new-york-state-17546934.php

www.clarkstown.gov/history/

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

https://thechoatenews.choate.edu/2018/10/26/witchcraft-buried-wallingfords-history/

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

https://bignosekatestombstone.com/history/doc-holliday/

https://hauntedhouses.com/arizona/big-nose-kates-saloon/

https://bignosekatestombstone.com/bnk-ghost-hunting/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/big-nose-kate

https://bignosekatestombstone.com/history/the-legend-of-the-swamper/

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Beth recounts the mysterious death of TV's original Superman, George Reeves. Wes shares tales of the dark entities said to roam the Santa Lucia mountains of CA. 

Sources Used:
www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-mysterious-death-of-george-reeves-the-original-superman
https://unsolved.com/gallery/george-reeves/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeveswww.theguardian.com/film/2006/nov/18/features.weekend1
https://allthatsinteresting.com/george-reeves-death
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-et-reeves15-story.html
www.sfgate.com/local/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-mountains-california
https://dailyyonder.com/local-lore-dark-watchers-from-santa-lucia-mountains-of-california-onto-the-pages-of-classic-american-writers/2022/01/21/
https://random-times.com/2021/04/10/californias-dark-watchers-that-have-been-spooking-hikers-for-centuries/
https://vcorner.medium.com/chilling-encounters-terrifying-tales-of-the-dark-watchers-real-or-myth-3f3798c6271c

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Beth tackles the mystery of who Kaspar Houser could have been. Wes adds to the mystery by discussing the lore and legends of the supernatural along NJ's Shades of Death Road.

*Episode Correction: We realized (post-production) that Beth mistakenly stated Kaspar Houser's year of death as 1882. It was actually 1833. 


Sources Used: 

www.thegypsythread.org/shades-of-death-road/

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

https://medium.com/@wagjihash/the-mysteries-and-legends-of-shades-of-death-road-new-jersey-ec43403efef7

www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4361-shades-of-death-road.html

https://www.newjerseyhauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/shades-death-road.html

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

www.livescience.com/44375-the-mystery-of-kaspar-hauser.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/kaspar-hauser

www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/kaspar-hauser-005146

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Beth tells the tale of two spirits said to haunt the historic Meridian, Mississippi mansion. Wes shares the lore and recent sightings of the terrifying Louisiana cryptid. 


Sources Used: 

https://visitmeridian.com/historic-trail-markers/civil-war/civil-war-trail-marker-5/

https://visitmeridian.com/things_to_do/merrehope/

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

https://merrehope.com/

www.meridianstar.com/news/local_news/merrehope-meridian-s-haunted-mansion/article_d394cea2-7e24-516f-8ccf-677b111f9e5b.html

www.wtok.com/content/news/Merrehope-Haunted-397614361.html

https://meridianms.org/residents/history/

www.southernspiritguide.org/mad-rivers-mills-and-merrehope-meridian-mississippi/

https://merrehope.com/history/

www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/comments/plnt4y/my_encounter_with_a_rougarou_aka_louisiana/

www.terraexplora.com/the-rougarou-louisianas-swamp-werewolf/

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Wes and Beth explore the mythology and recent sightings of the legendary Thunderbird.

Sources Used: 

www.pnsn.org/outreach/native-american-stories/thunderbird-and-whale/thunderbird-and-whale-stories/the-thunder-bird-a-tillamook-legend

https://pawilds.com/legend-of-the-thunderbird/

www.legendsofamerica.com/thunderbird-native-american/

www.devilslakewisconsin.com/learning-center/devils-lake-ghosts-monsters/protected-by-thunderbirds/

www.liveabout.com/the-giant-thunderbird-returns-3862215

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-mythic-child-stealing-thunderbirds-of-illinois

https://texashillcountry.com/a-living-texas-thunderbird-or-giant-myth/

www.sacurrent.com/news/the-texas-sized-monster-bird-that-created-a-huge-flap-back-in-1975-2251208

www.juneauempire.com/life/impossibly-large-bird-spotted-in-mendenhall-valley/

https://thebullamarillo.com/texas-big-bird-sightings/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

https://mysteriesofcanada.com/newfoundland/thunderbird-a-canadian-legend/

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Beth tells the story of Henry and Clara Rathbone, the other couple in the Presidential Theater Box at Ford's Theater in 1865. Wes tells the tale of Carl Tanzler, the man who took his unrequited love to the extreme.

Sources Used: 

www.thegettysburgexperience.com/a-christmas-murder

www.nyhistory.org/blogs/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone

https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-rathbone

https://emergingcivilwar.com/2014/07/31/a-life-turned-tragic-major-henry-rathbone-and-the-lincoln-assassination/

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-macabre-romance-of-a-man-and-a-mummy

https://ghostcitytours.com/key-west/ghost-stories/count-von-cosel/

https://mbird.com/everyday/digging-up-death-the-macabre-story-of-count-carl-von-cosel-and-us/

https://southernmostghosts.com/carl-tanzler-the-corpse-bride/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/carl-tanzler

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Beth tells the mysterious tales of Boldt and Singer castles. Wes shares about the time both Chebacco Parish and Abraham Lincoln's tomb were raided by body snatchers. 

www.boldtcastle.com/visitorinfo/about

www.usboattours.com/a-short-history-of-boldt-castle-in-the-thousand-islands/

https://19thcenturyghosts.com/2016/09/07/boldt-castle-of-the-thousand-islands/

https://boldtcastle.wordpress.com/stories/ghosts/

www.singercastle.com/brief-history/

www.historicmysteries.com/history/singer-castle-dark-island/26168/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/singer-castle

 https://historicipswich.net/2023/11/09/the-body-snatcher-of-chebacco-parish/

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-body-snatcher-of-chebacco-parish/

www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/dr-thomas-sewall-temperance/

www.nps.gov/articles/000/a-plot-to-steal-the-remains-of-president-lincoln.htm

www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/plot-kidnap-dead-president-abraham-lincoln/

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