Stories About A Whole Bunch of Graves

Krysti leads with Campbelltown and Fisher’s ghost. Fredrick Fisher was an Englishman that was sent to Australia due to being passed fake bank notes. Fredrick scored his ticket of leave and started buying up properties. Fred got himself in trouble again and went straight to jail. Cue a shady partner Worral getting the power of attorney over all Fisher’s property. Fisher promptly disappeared and eventually was found dead on Worral’s property. Cue ghost stories and a 10 day festival in Campbelltown. Next up, Tori covers a cemetery of course. Rookwood Cemetery is located right outside of Sydney and is huge. Cue city name changes as well as the cemeteries change. This is still in use today. As a Victorian cemetery, it’s set up different than the cemeteries than the ones in the States. Ghosts and goats are found there too. It’s the largest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere. She touches on some of the famous folks buried there and the spiritualist Davenport Brothers.

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And Now For Some Random Stories

And Now For Some Random Stories

Chase joins us for the episode of several little stories and tells his first cryptid story! Tori leads with Dog Head Bridge and it’s story of a car accident and two decapitations. Moral of that story, if you see a dog headed creature, run for your life. Next up Krys with Diana of the Dunes and her life on the edge of Lake Michigan. Independent and educated, she lived her life the way she wanted. She liked it there so much that she even stuck around after death. Tori comes back with the Angel Mounds and the Anderson Mounds. The indigenous people of Indiana created lasting monuments for their cultures. Archeologists study these mounds to this day. I’m not saying it aliens, but it was the aliens. Krys comes back with Doc Johnson and banshees. A horrible death with pieces of the Dr. and his wife scattered everywhere. Chase ends the episode with the Beast of Busco! Gigantic snapping turtle lurking in an Indiana lake, yes please!

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But Where is His Leg?

Tori leads off with Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. This cave system is the largest in the world sitting at 400 miles of explored caves. New caves are still being found to this day that add to the size of this cave system. From it’s ancient start to this day, this cave has gone through many changes and has had numerous inhabitants. This has been the site of Civil War battles, a TB hospital, many mining operations, and much more. This was a place for new starts for former slaves and their families. Some of these former slaves stuck around and carved out a place for themselves. There have been mummies and ghosts in the cave system for hundreds of years at this point. She covers the story of Floyd Collins and his musical graves. The park is home to 80 cemeteries as well (110 covered now for those keeping track at home.) Krysti dives into the Curse of Kaskaskia and illustrates that Karma really is a bitch. Kaskaskia Illinois was home to French settlers during it’s first years. This curse boils down to bigotry plain and simple. An Algonquin man falls in love with a white settler’s daughter, this is immediately struck down by her father. The daughter and her love elope into the night and are found very shortly after. The daughter is placed into a convent but the man was tied to a log and sent down the river in winter. The legend has the man cursing the town as he’s being sent down the river. Kaskaskia had to be moved due to flooding in 1881. Unfortunately they did not move the cemeteries in time and still get bones and headstones that float up during flooding to this day.

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Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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