Ep 104 - Vampire Hunters 🧛
Haunted Talks28 Mai 2021

Ep 104 - Vampire Hunters 🧛

Was there a monster hiding in the cemetery? In 1954, the Glasgow Police Department began to receive concerned calls about hundreds of school children descending on a nearby necropolis. These children varied in age from teenagers, all the way down to toddlers who could barely walk. Many carried crucifixes or other protective talismans. More disturbingly, others were armed with knives and makeshift weapons as they patrolled the grounds. There is no doubt the children came looking for a fight with a monster. Did they get one?

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Ep 222 - Poveglia: Italy's Island of the Dead

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...

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Ep 221 - The Juniper Tree: The Darkest Fairy Tale You've Never Heard

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 Mar 36min

Ep 220 – Once Upon a Nightmare: The Horror of Fairy Tales

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 👣

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

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

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 🪓

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 🖤🎃

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

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