SkeleTales

In this week’s episode the Britt and Alissa sit down for a SkeleTalk with Kathy Benjamin, an Austin author who really puts the 'fun' in funeral. Her book It’s Your Funeral! How to plan the Celebration of a Lifetime (available here ) uses fascinating facts, amusing anecdotes and witty worksheets to make planning your finale a genuinely enjoyable experience.

If you want to tell Kathy your funeral plans you can send them to her Twitter account!
Kathy Benjamin has worked as a writer and editor since 2009 for major sites including MentalFloss.com and ‪Cracked.com. She is currently a writer and editor for ‪Grunge.com. Offline, she’s contributed articles to mental_floss magazine and Reader’s Digest. Her specialties are history, royalty, Christianity, and death, but always with a dash of funny.

In 2013, Kathy wrote Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever (Adams Media). She also contributed to Cracked.com’s publication The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Plume, 2013).

Kathy has turned her hand to fiction with the recently completed Area 54, a humorous science fiction novel about disco, drugs, and aliens. She has also written four children's books, which are about absolutely none of those things.

She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Simon, and her dog, Briscoe.
As always, thanks for listening and Haunt Ya Later!
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Skeleton boners, mystifying birthday paradoxes, vengeful stardust, reincarnation and more!

This week Britt and Alissa cover all sorts of tales of the strange and mystifying.
Alissa informs us of a thing called the birthday paradox but doesn't go into too much detail because...numbers.
The strangeness is how many family members she has who are born on or near the same day.
Britt regails a story told by Margaret that takes place in an old abbey outside of London. Her and her roommate encounter a strange stardust like shimmering spirit who may or maynot be Lord North. We learn a little bit more about Wroxton Abbey and why it is most likely very very haunted.
Alissa reads a story written by Steve, the paranormal poet of SkeleTales. He tells of the strange coincidence that has led him to believe that he very well may be the reincarnation of his great grandfather.
Britt then transports you to a true teen horror movie with her story from Uncle. He tells of his journey to an abandoned cemetery with a suburban full of rowdy friends. Blue floating orbs and one terrifying red orb haunt them as they try to leave as quickly as possible.
The episode is wrapped up by learning of Montana's biggest mysteries. The Vortex House of Mysteries is bound to leave one perplexed and most likely underwhelmed. But the real mystery lies in the hotel bathroom in the Belton Chalet where a little girl is known to join you while you shower.
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In this week's episode of SkeleTales the ladies once again go on a chaotic bender of stories untethered to a central theme. Yet, as Jeff Goldblum once taught us, even in chaos, patterns begin to emerge and tonight’s tales are no exception.
Britt once again harvests her stories from the ghoulish garden that is Nextdoor. She tells the story of Sally, whose holiday weekend was cut short by a child’s laugh and a locked door. Perhaps emboldened by her previous encounter, Sally goes on to attend a ghost tour in Spring, Texas where her senses are assaulted by an inescapable and inexplicable odor that seemingly trancends time and space, a remnant of gore and brutality from bygone years.
While still envious of others paranormal encounters, Alissa is suddenly grateful that she is not haunted by stank spirits or other unwanted entities such as those who torment her friend’s child, Mikayla. Seemingly held at bay by tri-annual clearings, the spirits have taken a shine to poor little Mikayla. Though the visitors are sometimes family members who entrust her with knowledge she couldn’t know, too often they are the ghostly manifestations of stranger danger.
Mikayla, however, is not the only haunted tot in today’s tales. Britt brings a story of some children who are too petrified to sleep, or even enter, their Austin townhome for fear of being beamed by a rogue marble or spotting something so terrifying that they can only describe it by saying “Halloween Is Here.” This is a truly horrifying tales with a murdery backstory.
Tune in for these spooky tales and a laugh and more in this week’s episode of SkeleTales, brought to you by Katie’s drinks. As always, thank you for listening and Haunt Y’all Later.

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Dear listeners, this is the infamous Drunkisode, resurrected from Britt’s champagne soaked laptop and lightly edited for your listening pleasure. Though the ladies' recollection of this recording summons imagery of firey trainwrecks, upon sober review of the footage, this episode is surprisingly coherent.
Britt kicks off the episode with a gallon of champagne and a haunting tale of why you should never ask a ouija board when you will die. Alissa then gives a peek inside the brain of little Allie Wilson with a charming elementary school murder mystery which, amazingly, did not win her a trip to the school therapist.
The ladies then try to decide if being haunted by Mississippi University For Women’s Melancholy Mary really counts as being haunted at all and them Alissa tells a tale about a skinwalker that somehow leads to a conversation about deer crashes and deer speed records.
Britt changes the mood with a spooky-ass stalking story that you really must hear to believe. Some may even say that her tale also features a skinwalker... of sorts.
Doppelgangers finally get the attention they deserve and for seem reason they are all children wearing victorian clothing. Britt wraps up this messisode with a spooky story of a haunting encounter with a nursing home patient who may or may not have made a deal with the devil.
Thank you to all of you who tuned into the Live despite the significant techinical difficulties. Y’all are the best! We will be posting the video soon!
Haunt ya later!

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We take you now to the most horrifying, terrifying, bone chilling place... hospitals.
Alissa and Britt share a variety and wealth of stories that will have you gasping in fright and laughing with delight.
There is a story of a patient who asks a doctor for directions and the doctor discovers moments later that that very patient lay dead in their room.
There is a hospital ghost that likes to take out the trash in patient's rooms and is caught on video coming into the corridor.
A doctor making his rounds on the children's unit is then discovered not to exist at all and is apparently a doctor who passed years before.
A dad makes a poor decision to let his 5yr old into the morgue to see cadavers. Instead she sees a ghost that only she can see, scaring the heck out of her dad.
That story transitions to a tale of terrifying knocks that come out of the fridge in the morgue and the wise advice to never open the fridge while it's knocking.
Room #1 is the most haunted place in this one hotel. A nurse thinks someone is pranking them as they see someone behind the privacy curtain. As they soon discover, it is only the resident ghost scaring the living daylights out of everyone.
This ICU has seen some crazy things but the craziest has been a ghostly cat that visits the rooms of those about to die. He's not a friendly cat though and will hiss as a final farewell.
This medical student sees a person vanish in midair in front of a white door only to discover they're not the only ones to have witness this same thing in front of the same door... the morgue door.
This patient coded and the only way to be brought back was to have his wife yell at him. This happens 3 times before they finally keep the wife near him as he's transported for his organ transplant. Spoiler, he lives!
A nurse who dies suddenly remains at the hospital where she died. She's seen sitting by the window of every patient who stays in that room.
Lastly, we hear of a patient who is moments away from death who rallies, gets up, gets dressed, asks for dinner, then promptly dies. She just wanted that last meal!
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