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This is the fourth episode of our 2021 Halloween Season series 👻🧛‍♀️ In this episode, Lauren McDonough, cohost of Operation History, tells us about the nineteenth-century vampire scare of Rhode Island. Yep, you heard me right, vampire scare!
Lauren describes herself as a 20-something corn miller with a master's in colonial American history. She is one of four cohosts of the podcast Operation History, a podcast where four history majors come together to discuss, debate, and educate all matters of history. Topics range from the dawn of time to the end of the 20th century (and everywhere in between).
Resources
Operation History
Twitter: @OperationHist
Website: https://operationhistorypodcast.wordpress.com
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, by Michael E. Bell
Episodes mentioned:
Spooky New England Folklore and History: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aPtErUDKXJLAKePcyagsR

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to DC By Foot tour guide Melissa Gilbert. Melissa specializes in the Ghosts of Georgetown and shares some of the DC neighborhood's scary tales with us today.
Originally from Bullhead City, Arizona, the unceded lands of the Pipa Aha Macav, Melissa Leigh Gilbert has spent her career working in Theater Arts and Education but a lifetime of pursuing the arts as they relate to the human experience. Her work as designer, artisan, and educator has spanned numerous genres, disciplines, and locations.

With Theatre as her primary medium, Costume Design had been the dominant focus of her career. The arc of her work and her design philosophies reflect her Liberal Arts education at Randolph-Macon Woman's College where she received her BFA. While completing her MFA at the University of Iowa she was able to expand her repertoire to include Scenic Art and Design. Both institutions allowed her the opportunity to work abroad in England. In undergrad Melissa studied at the University of Reading as part of the 'World in Britain' program. While in graduate school she returned for a research project which included a tailoring course at the Arts University Bournemouth and worked with Mahogany on costumes for Notting Hill Carnival.
With a personal and pedagogical emphasis on process and analysis Melissa casts a wide net in regards to her research and influences but relishes the opportunity to edit with collaborators. Melissa maintains a firm belief that one's first idea is never one's best and can always be improved through collaboration, critique, and experimentation. As an educator she encourages experiential learning and is an avid proponent of the Liz Lerman Critical Response Technique, not only in her curriculum but throughout her own creative process.

Melissa is currently the Wardrobe Supervisor and Costume Associate at the Olney Theatre Center, on the unceded lands of the Piscataway Conoy. She is the Co-Chair of the Social Committee.
She enjoys baking bread, making pickles, hiking, water aerobics, and spending time with her Cat, Blake The Shake-Gilbert. Melissa also moonlights as a DC Tour Guide. She specializes in Ghosts, Murder, and the historically underrepresented.
Resources
Tour Guide Website: freetoursbyfoot.com/washington-dc-ghost-tours/
Instagram: @melissa.on.foot
Website: https://melissaleighgilbert.com
Cat: @blaketheshake
E.D.E.N. Southworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._E._N._Southworth
River Front Times article, by Chad Garrison, The True Story of the Exorcist H

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This episode has it all! Several weeks back we put out a call for spooky stories on Twitter. The response was incredible!! This is one of the Halloween season episodes that resulted. Brenda Ganske has crafted a truly horrifying history that has everything, horse hauntings, successful squatters, angry town's people, murders, and much more. Sit back fellow Armchair Historians and buckle up while the host of the Horrifying History podcast enchants you with the true story of the Black Donnellys.
Brenda Ganske is the creator and host of the podcast Horrifying History which she released in October of 2019, and History Coles Notes which was released exclusively on the Horrifying History YouTube Channel in July of 2021. Brenda is a spookstorian who loves everything to do with history and the supernatural. She was born and raised in Alberta, Canada with the dream of becoming a detective, but ultimately decided to work in healthcare. She has worked in frontline healthcare and later moved into healthcare analysis, which is why today she is able to tell stories that you likely never heard before.
In her free time, Brenda loves spending time with her partner and her beloved dog Gizmo who acts as her very lazy co-host. She loves being outdoors and researching the spooky stories that she brings to her audience each week. You can find Horrifying History at either www.horrifyinghistory.podbean.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. You can also find it along with History Coles Notes on the Horrifying History channel on YouTube.
Resources
Horrifying History website: https://horrifyinghistory.podbean.com
Twitter: @HorrifyingHist1

Instagram: @horrifying_history
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory
HH episodes mentioned: From Russia with LoveThe Power of Voodoo
Who Do Some Voodoo
Horrifying History Coles Notes, Who Really Discovered America?
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It's literally sickening. In this episode Lindsay Valenty talks to Anne Marie about how deadly it was to live during the Victorian era. From toxic Scheele's Green to ballerinas on fire...literally, find out some of the many ways the Victorians were hell bent on destroying themselves on this
Lindsay Valenty is the host of "Ye Olde Crime" podcast, where she and her sister Madison discuss the funny, strange, and obscure crimes that took place before the 1900's. She's also one of the co-hosts of "Pineapple Pizza Podcast," which shares the myths, cryptids, and urban legends of different countries around the world.
Resources
Website: Ye Olde Crime Podcast: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com
Twitter: @yeoldecrimepod
Instagram: @yeoldecrimepodcast
Scheele's Green: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green
Episodes Mentioned in the Show
Ye Olde Crime Podcast
Wig Snatching Episode:
Ching Shih Episode: Terror of South China: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ye-olde-crime/id1514461061?i=1000486533552
Elizabeth Báthory Episode: Forever Young Episode: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/episodes/36-elisabeth-bathory

Armchair Historians:
Loving Episode: Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, Loving...: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/armchair-historians/id1510128761?i=1000501937814
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In this episode we talk to YouTube celebrity Julian McDonnell, host of Joolz Guides, about his favorite bit of London history. I'll give you a hint: it has to do with one of the funnest royals. For our Kid Wisdom segment we talk to 9-year-old Liam from Denver, Colorado who tells us about his favorite history which has to do with the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Resources
Joolz Guides website
Joolz Guides YouTube
Tom Carradine Vintage Pianist and Musical Director, often performs old time music for Joolz Guides videos.
Lil' Lost Lou Musician and Julian's sister, Lou is currently working on putting an EP together of music she's written for Joolz Guides. Some of the tunes are already available as downloads on all the usual iTunes / spotify etc, but do check out her website, her music is amazing.
Liam's Drawings As promised! Here are some of Liam's amazing artwork.
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