Spoop Hour

Hola from a new episode dedicated to the spoop of Spain featuring special ghost Courtney from the Cult of Domesticity podcast! Learn why you should exercise paranormal caution when using Spain's metro, meet some ghosts of some of the most beautiful and historic buildings in Barcelona, and hear Washington Irving's self-insert fanfic, AKA a love story with a maiden in a tower.

Double dip your holiday spoop with an episode on Mardi Gras and St. Patrick's Day-adjacent spookiness! Test your trivia knowledge of Mardi Gras versus jazz funerals and meet a few friendly New Orleans ghosts. Then hop the Atlantic to get to know banshees, leprechauns, and several ghosts and poltergeists, including the woman with no face, a lady in white, the Derry vampire, and more.

Hold on to your snacks: we're talking twisty turn-y tales of black widows this week! Learn about the actual spiders, pop culture representations of women who murder, and widow ghosts before hearing the bananas stories surrounding the murders perpetrated by Audrey Hilley and Kelly Cochran. Also discussed: THE SNACKET, the best (and worst) March Madness bracket that deals exclusively with snacks. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/2TwOD6C

We're celebrating our 69th official episode by getting to know some NICE ghosts! Learn how the Nutt family found their pot o' silver, meet Olive Thomas, the flirtiest chorus ghost, heed the warnings of South Carolina's Gray [weather]Man, and always trust the advice of ghostly butlers in old English manors. Also a ghost solves her own murder, which is pretty NICE!

Scary for kids, scary for Sashas, it's the right time for a new episode! What time is it? The witching hour! We're talking spooky times like midnight and 3AM. Learn some explanations for the witching hour (from the religious to the scientific), meet La Mala Hora, find out the connection between the witching hour and the Amityville horror, and more.

Happy almost Valentine's Day! We're celebrating this sweet holiday with the sour side of love: the ghosts and haunting tales of jilted lovers. Learn why we don't deserve Anne Boleyn, the similarities between roosters and women scorned, the upsetting circumstances around Evelyn Nesbit's love triangle, the legend of La Llorona, and more.

Courtney is back from Japan! She recaps her adventures, both spooky and otherwise, to Sasha. Learn about probable haunted spots like Nijo Castle and Kinkakuji, secretly haunted places like Fushimi Inari and Gridley Tunnel, and the spoopiest restaurant in the world, Yurei Izakaya. Also find out why Sasha has to dethrone Courtney as the queen of Kingdom Hearts.

Wash your brain, we're talking about cults this week! We give the skinny on MK Ultra, the Family, and more. Join us for a discussion of why Courtney gets mad about cults and what happens when we forget the word hypnotist.

 

(CW/TW: Child abuse discussion from 35:07 to 44:16)

Better late than never! It's the recap you've been waiting for: Courtney details her trip to California, including her time with the ghosts of the Queen Mary, like Jackie the pool ghost, Henry the scratcher in the boiler room, and Linzi of 33% Pulp. Then get the details on the ongoing feud between Sasha and psychics, why Courtney needs new friends, and why you might need a candle for an unexpected reason.

While Sasha recovers from a nasty sinus infection, enjoy this sneak preview of Courtney's California adventures! Here, listen to Linzi (of 33% Pulp) and Courtney attempt to contact the spirits on the notoriously haunted Queen Mary, discuss the appliance most likely to be haunted, and more. (We're hoping to release a proper episode later this week!)

 

[please note: towards the end of the episode there is minor discussion of body horror in terms of childhood accidents]