
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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 16min

Ep 217 - Eerie Whispers: Brian Baker on Canada's Reluctant Ghost Culture
Journalist and researcher Brian Baker, founder of The Superstitious Times, joins Haunted Talks to discuss his new book, Eerie Whispers: Exploring Canada's Reluctant Relationship with Its Ghostly Lore....
12 Des 202542min

Ep 216 - Lizzie Borden: Inside the Murder House 🪓
She was the quiet churchgoer. The dutiful daughter. The last person anyone expected to wield a hatchet. But on an August morning in 1892, the Borden home in Fall River, Massachusetts, became the scene...
28 Nov 202542min

Ep 215 - Why We Love Halloween 🖤🎃
Happy Halloween to all the ghosts and ghoulies! 🖤🎃👻 Jim's love letter to Halloween. Walk with us through fog-lit childhood streets, pause beside ancient fires for the dead, and feel again the quiet...
31 Okt 20258min

Ep 214 - Ghosts on a Plane: The Haunting of Flight 401
December 29, 1972. A routine flight becomes an unspeakable tragedy when Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashes into the Florida Everglades. Ninety-six souls perish in the dark swampland, their final mome...
24 Okt 202539min





















