Episode 21: A Tale of Two Torture Museums

03/14/20 • 21 min

Torture museums: Are they ghastly tourist traps with acute deficiencies of taste or family-friendly opportunities for history lessons? I have no clue! But I've been to two of them, one in Wisconsin and one in Florida, and they couldn't have been more different experiences from each other. Let's visit them together now, and learn the shameful secret of all medieval torture museums. With bonus serial killer severed head and alien implant asides.

Photos from the Museum of Historic Torture Devices in the Wisconsin Dells.
Address for the Museum of Historic Torture Devices: 305 Broadway, Wisconsin Dells, WI
Photos from the Medieval Torture Museum in St. Augustine, Florida
Address for the Medieval Torture Museum: 100 St George St, St. Augustine, FL
My visit to the severed head of the Dusseldorf Vampire.
My Cursed Objects book is up for preorder.
Want to learn about the oddities I visit in real time? Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or Patreon.
I also write other books that you can buy. Spooky books.

Photos from the Museum of Historic Torture Devices in the Wisconsin Dells.
Address for the Museum of Historic Torture Devices: 305 Broadway, Wisconsin Dells, WI
Photos from the Medieval Torture Museum in St. Augustine, Florida
Address for the Medieval Torture Museum: 100 St George St, St. Augustine, FL
My visit to the severed head of the Dusseldorf Vampire.
My Cursed Objects book is up for preorder.
Want to learn about the oddities I visit in real time? Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or Patreon.
I also write other books that you can buy. Spooky books.

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Episode 20: The Two Most Bonkers Museums in the Country

I don't use the term bonkers lightly, but in this episode, I'm going to tell you about two of the most bonkers museums I've ever been to. And that image you have in your head when I say "museum"? Throw it out. Doesn't apply. Oddly enough, both of these museums have very boring names, despite being places of breathless bizarrerie and overwhelming wonderment: The City Museum in Missouri and the House on the Rock in Wisconsin.

Photos from the City Museum.
Address for the City Museum: 750 N 16th St, St. Louis, MO
Photos from the House on the Rock.
Address for the House on the Rock: 5754 WI-23, Spring Green, WI
Want to learn about the oddities I visit in real time? Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or Patreon.
I also write other books that you can buy. Spooky books.

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Episode 22: The New York Town That Talks to Ghosts

Lily Dale is an quaint little town in western New York that you'd probably like a lot...if you can stomach all the ghosts. But the residents like it that way. After all, they’re all mediums. In this episode, I tell you about my visit to this strange place and about my own personal session (my very first!) with a medium.