This week I’m doing an episode inspired by my friends Andrew and Chris at Cronk Art and Curiosities. They were recently traveling in Europe, Italy in particular, and ended up at Christmas Market. As their story goes, they were wandering the stalls and they came across this table of nutcrackers and santas and at the end of the table were a bunch of witches and they had to buy me one. I lost my mind and got really excited for my little La Befana so I thought a fun holiday episode about Christmas witches was called for. I'm going to tell you about Gryla, Frau Perchta, Holda, Grye-Carling, and La Befana.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
Warning some graphic disembowelment will be discussed!
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This week, finally, I am bringing back our girl Resurrection Mary! There’s just so much with her and I just kept finding more and more. There has been decades of sightings and her story has morphed over time. Her story comes out of a little bit of a seedy area where there were a lot of crime and death so there is definitely some strong energies in the area. The thing is to is no one can fully pinpoint who Mary was either. So she has become a lot of things, different with each telling. A lost youth, some innocent energy trapped among all of the dark, to wonder the roadway of Archer Avenue.
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This week I’m doing a case that scared the out of me as a child and stayed with me throughout my life, the Sallie House. I remember watching all about it on Sightings at the time and following the case. Sallie is said to be a little girl spirit that haunts a house in Atchison, Kansas at 508 N. 2nd street. Sallie isn’t a nice spirit. In fact, she would move toys, start fires and physically attack the residents of the house. These attacks, in the form of bloody scratches would form in front of eyewitnesses, and were even caught live several times.
So let's get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
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This week I’m continuing the stories that scared the out of me so I’m telling you about the legend of La Llorona, the weeping woman. She is a famous spirit known in latin american cultures but has been gaining popularity in the past few years since she has started showing up in more populated areas usually caught on security cameras drifting through the streets.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
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On this week's episode I continue the spooky Halloween episodes with another one that gives me the heebie jeebies, the Wendigo. A wendigo is an indigenous American evil spirit of the forests of Canada but can sometimes be found in the northern states of Minnesota and Wisconsin and according to a story I found online right here on Pikes Peak, so that doesn’t make me very happy. It was said that there was once a hunter that got lost in the woods and resorted to cannibalism to survive. He was cursed for this and started having an insatiable taste for human flesh that corrupted his body and mind. The Wendigo has become pretty popular in pop culture today but according to native americans it is something that shouldn’t be taken lightly because it is pure evil. In fact one of the translations I found for Wendigo is “the evil spirit that devours mankind.”
https://historyboots.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/additional-information-ate-his-family-wendigos-and-murder-trials-in-19th-century-western-canada/amp/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo
http://www.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/runner-swift.htm
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-wendigo/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
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This week I’m telling you the tale of the one and only, Resurrection Mary from Chicago. Her story is the classic hitchhiking ghost tale and the lady in white story haunting the roadway where she was killed. But Mary is a little different from most. She is a huge cultural icon. Her story has captured the imagination of thousands of people. She’s the lost soul looking for a night of happiness but the weird thing with Mary, unlike a lot of phantom ladies out there people believe they know who she was. There is so much research into her origin story, of course there’s differing opinions but we will go into that later. There’s some people that genuine believe that they knew her in life. It’s all just so fascinating. So for today, I’m focusing on how people usually encounter her in a story that is told over and over again.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
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For those that have been listening to the show for a little while you might have realized that we hit an anniversary! The podcast is officially 1 year old as of July 30th! We made it a year! To celebrate I’m doing a throwback episode, all the way back to I believe episode 2 with my very dear friend Rachel Powell of the Pickety Witch. I’m so excited about today’s story brought to you by the Pickety Witch. It has a little bit of everything. Ghosts with knives, a cleaning spirit, a phantom baby crying, and we even talk a little bit about the fae. This episode also includes our first EVP!
Rachel is also the featured artist in my autumn equinox subscription box! I have a ton of her Mabon pins, as well as spells about apples, some shadow work, there’s a lot of fun stuff in this box. I technically have two featured artists for this one because it has been so crazy I’m getting candles made by Brittany over at Faery Grove Candles for the Autumn Equinox Box and the Samhain Box! I’m so very excited for these. You can get your box at www.foggcouture.com
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This week I am going across the pond, all the way to Scotland, to the shores of Loch Ness, known best for the cryptid that lives in it’s depth. The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie to her friends, has actually been spotted twice this last week. Seems appropriate to talk about the most notorious home in the Highlands, Boleskine House. Boleskine House is probably most infamous because Aleister Crowley once owned the home where he practiced one of his most famous rituals where he attempted to summon the 12 Kings of . The House was later owned by Led Zepplin’s guitarist Jimmy Page. But the house has always had a dark history.
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