Ep 224 - The Magician Whose Body Was Found Twice
Before Houdini became the name history remembered, another illusionist drew enormous crowds and commanded extraordinary fees. He called himself the Great Lafayette, and his performances were part magi...
8 Touko 37min
Ep 223 - What is a Ghost? The Case for a New Paranormal
What if a ghost is not only something we encounter in the dark, but something we may, in some mysterious way, participate in? In this special episode of Haunted Talks, Jim presents a manifesto for rei...
24 Huhti 23min
Ep 222 - Poveglia: Italy's Island of the Dead
Off the coast of Venice sits an island no one will approach. Poveglia carries centuries of dark history, and the scale of what happened there is nearly impossible to comprehend. Today, it sits abandon...
10 Huhti 33min
Ep 221 - The Juniper Tree: The Darkest Fairy Tale You've Never Heard
Most fairy tale monsters keep their distance. They wait in towers. They haunt the edge of the forest. You can, in theory, avoid them. The one in this story sits at the dinner table. The Juniper Tree i...
20 Maalis 36min
Ep 220 – Once Upon a Nightmare: The Horror of Fairy Tales
You know these stories. A lost girl in the woods. A puppet who lies. A chicken convinced the sky is falling. You've known them since childhood. What you don't know is what those stories were before so...
6 Maalis 40min
Ep 219 - Mystery of the Devil's Footprints 👣
On the morning of February 9th, 1855, the residents of Devon woke to a nightmare pressed into the snow. A single-file line of cloven hoof-prints, stretching over miles of frozen English countryside. A...
20 Helmi 27min
Ep 218 - Why Ghost Stories Matter
Jim steps out from behind the microphone to share a talk he gave at the Modern Language Association conference in Toronto, where he was invited to speak on a panel about Gothic scholarship, podcasting...
6 Helmi 16min
