Ep 225 - What's Under the Denver Airport???
Was Denver International Airport built for the end of the world? Since opening in 1995, the airport has become the centre of endless conspiracy theories. Secret tunnels. Apocalyptic artwork. Undergrou...
29 Maj 28min
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 Maj 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mars 36min
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
