Ep 3 - Margo MacDonald, Reburial of King Richard III
Haunted Talks2 Jul 2015

Ep 3 - Margo MacDonald, Reburial of King Richard III

Margo MacDonald won the history lovers lottery when she was one of the 200 people selected from over 10,000 entries to attend the re-interment of King Richard III. She talks with us about the historical figure of Richard III, the service itself, connections to ghost stories and how it felt to sit 10 feet away from the remains of one of the world's most infamous kings.

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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....

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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

Ep 214 - Ghosts on a Plane: The Haunting of Flight 401

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

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