Spoop Hour

It's time for a spoopy sleepover! Dr. Alysa Lucas of Best Forevers and Fataliteas joins us for a discussion of spooky sleepover staples. Hear the most upsetting story you'll ever know about bears with recorded voices, get to know Bloody Mary, and learn the ways we would have died in historical times. Sleep with the lights on!

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

Celebrate one full year of spoopin' it up with our anniversary episode! We test how well we know each other after one year of podcasting/14 years of friendship and recount our anniversary ghost tour of Old Town Alexandria (including the Female Stranger, the tale of Short Jack, and a possibly murdered dentist). We are also joined by Maxwell of Relic: The Lost Treasure Podcast and Everything is Crystals for his firsthand account of ghostly encounters on his recent trip to the UK. Thanks for hanging out on our podcasting couch with us for a whole year!

We're unwrapping tales of horrible dolls this week Find out why you should keep the gift receipt on dolls Robert, Charley, and Mandy, the pros and cons of wara ningyo, and more.