A SkeleTalk With Author Kathy Benjamin
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06/15/22 • 64 min
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!
If you want you have a true tale of the strange, unusual or paranormal you’d like us to read on the podcast you can send it to the SkeleTales Hotbox at [email protected]
Remember to share the podcast with friends and we want to hear your stories!
Please e-mail them to us at [email protected] or leave a message at 302-689-DEAD (3323).
Subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@skeletalespod
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As always thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!
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!
If you want you have a true tale of the strange, unusual or paranormal you’d like us to read on the podcast you can send it to the SkeleTales Hotbox at [email protected]
Remember to share the podcast with friends and we want to hear your stories!
Please e-mail them to us at [email protected] or leave a message at 302-689-DEAD (3323).
Subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@skeletalespod
Join our SkeleTeam over at Patreon here: www.patreon.com/Skeletalespodcast
Buy some haunted shit over at www.skeletalespodcast.etsy.com
As always thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!
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The Curious Case Of The Texas Shadowpeople
Britt is saying Adios to Austin and Alissa’s hands are bleeding from making Covid Oden avocado toast, so its a bit of breezy episode ths week. Breezy like your grandma’s yoga farts.
Britt tells the tale of a boy who tries to attend a party only to find that he showed up to the wrong dimension. She also tells the tale of a horror house involving an old lady, a knife and an evil entity that will make you never want to shower again.
Alissa reads a story from the SkeleTales hotbox sent in by our friend of the podcast Steve from Buda, Texas. He once again delights with a spooky recollection of a series of mysterious calls he responded to while working the beat as a Central Texas police officer.
If you want to be like Steve and hear your story read on the podcast you can send it to us at: [email protected]
As always, thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!
Remember to share the podcast with friends and we want to hear your stories!
Please e-mail them to us at [email protected] or leave a message at 302-689-DEAD (3323).
Subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@skeletalespod
Join our SkeleTeam over at Patreon here: www.patreon.com/Skeletalespodcast
Buy some haunted shit over at www.skeletalespodcast.etsy.com
As always thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!
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In this episode of SkeleTales Alissa finally disrobes the mystery of the elusive enigmas that are naked ghosts, giving Britt hope that her death goal of haunting the world in nothing but her skin suit is within reach. She relays the tales of the Naked Ghost of Craven Street Bridge and the Freezing Ghost of the Royal Street Rooftop.
Fresh off her move to Oregon Britt goes full PNW with tales of Portland’s Hautned Shanghai Tunnels sordid history and the little known and poorly named Colossal Claude of the Columbia River.
As always, thanks for listening and Haunt Ya Later!
If you want to hear YOUR story read on the podcast please send it to: [email protected]
Remember to share the podcast with friends and we want to hear your stories!
Please e-mail them to us at [email protected] or leave a message at 302-689-DEAD (3323).
Subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@skeletalespod
Join our SkeleTeam over at Patreon here: www.patreon.com/Skeletalespodcast
Buy some haunted shit over at www.skeletalespodcast.etsy.com
As always thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!
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