Do you love graveyards? Well then you’re going to love this episode! Who ‘lives’ in Highgate Cemetery? Is there really a vampire there? What happens when magicians have serious beef with each other? Why does Fatty Arbuckle make Dee so angry? How was he linked to the death of actress Virginia Rappe? Why is Bambina an absolute legend? Why is Stull Cemetery so creepy? What do you do when your inner city graveyards are overcrowded? That’s right, set up a cemetery railway! Learn all about the London Necropolis Company and its funeral rail service to Woking of all places!

Plus we make a HUGE announcement!

SHOUT OUTS

Highgate ‘vampire hunter’ dies half a century after supernatural panic gripped community

London’s 6 Strangest Haunted Cemeteries 

This Beautiful Graveyard Is A Stunning Spot For A Wander • Highgate Cemetery

Wine & Crime Podcast, Ep 280 Hollywood Crimes 

The London Necropolis 

True Crime & Cocktails - George Reeve Episode

The Skinny on the Fatty Arbuckle Trial 

My Favorite Murder - Ep 236 Like a Quilt

We Knew The Moon New Orleans Episode

Stull Cemetary

We Knew The Moon Creepy Hotels Episode

Like with every great best man’s speech, Randa kicks us off with a Merriam-Webster definition of urban legends. We then go on to answer all your burning questions, whether relevant or not.

Do you remember Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? What phases did you go through in your teenage years? What is a Berlusconi Bob?

We round up with being judgey against people who don’t lock their car doors while driving and wondering why so many messages were scribbled on walls in the 90s.

Randa Safieh-Angeles is a copy, content & podcast editor.

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Which Witch Episode

Can psychics help solve cases? What do we think about the US justice system and the death penalty (clue: we are so left-wing we are about to fall off the end)? Why were Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher never suspected of murder, even though they were always just there when they happened? Can little old ladies be serial killers? And how was a psychic involved in Ian Huntley’s murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells?

Join us as we take a look at some cases where psychics have known things about investigations that they can’t possibly have known. Did it help catch the criminals?

Randa Safieh-Angeles is a copy, content & podcast editor.

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Psychics Episode

Spiritual Charlatans Episode

Paranormal Exposed Podcast Episode on Andre Daigle

Being the Soham Psychic Book

Sareta and Dee tackle all the difficult questions regarding vampires and misremember the 90s so completely. Is it possible to be a vegan vampire? If you were a vampire, who would you pick as your eternal vampire bestie? Who would be the Louis to your Lestat? Twilight, yay or nay? What would your vampire money management and investment strategy be? And what are the three shells for? With guest host Siri as Google takes some much-deserved annual leave.

Sareta Fontaine is a writer, podcaster and content creator. Her website is gorgeous and her Instagram is fabulous. Her podcast is pretty special too.

SHOUTOUTS

Vampire History on History.com

Padlocked, restrained female ‘vampire’ discovered in 17th-century graveyard - New York Post

Superstitions Episode 

Let’s welcome Sareta back for this episode covering New Orleans and three of its notorious residents. Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie and the Axman. Also, have we been sucked into a timeshare? Will we get ax murdered in New Orleans? How does one become the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? Where can I hand in my CV? What trouble did The Misfits get up to in New Orleans? Will they ever be allowed back? Is Madame LaLaurie as awful as she was portrayed in American Horror Story: Coven? How bad did you have to treat your slaves to be known to treat slaves badly?! How does Nicholas Cage fit into all this? Is he having money problems? And does anyone actually really like jazz?

Sareta Fontaine is a writer, podcaster and content creator. Her website is gorgeous and her Instagram is fabulous. Her podcast is pretty special too.

SHOUT OUTS

Voodoo Episode

My Favorite Murder Podcast Episode on the Axman

Emeril’s Restaurant in New Orleans 

History of American Women - Scandalous Women - Marie Laveau

Marie Laveau - Britannica Online 

Dee’s amazing map of the sights of New Orleans 

So, Ouija boards: evil or bullcrap? Will you be surprised by who actually produces ouija boards? What did people do before ouija boards? Is it ok to get rich off spiritual products? How did the film The Exorcism affect ouija sales? What is the ideomotor effect? And can you sue your ouija board for slander? All these questions, and more, are answered in this episode!

Welcoming back Michelle Alderson from Heartfelt Illustrations and Agnes Audette pagan and witchy designs!

SHOUT OUTS

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board

Episode on Exorcisms

The Chicago Ouija Trial - Providentia

The Ouija Defense - Providentia

10 Chilling Crimes Involving Ouija Boards - Reader’s Digest

Retrial Order in 'Ouija Case' - The Independent

Welcoming back Michelle Alderson from Heartfelt Illustrations and Agnes Audette pagan and witchy designs!

Michelle tells us where the fear of this day comes from and gives us some freaky Friday facts (freaky facts about Friday, not facts about the film Freaky Friday). Surprise, surprise! Much of the fear of Friday 13th has its origins in Christianity.

So let’s flip the script and look at what is special about this day and how to celebrate it!

SHOUT OUTS

Museum of the Order of St John

Vavengers

If, like Randa and I, you were a goth in the 90s, then Anton Lavey played a role in your life. Love him or hate him, you knew about him. Was he evil? Was he a compulsive liar? Was he a trendsetter? Did he make it acceptable to be weird? What would his Instagram look like if he was alive today? Is the Church of Satan really that bad? And who are its celebrity members?

This episode goes out to Mrs Maguire, the Queen of Goth Culture and one of those teachers who made us who we are today!

Randa Safieh-Angeles is a copy, content and social media editor. She is also the best sister in the world.

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Randa Safieh-Angeles - Editor and Social Media Manager

Randa’s shop

Church of Satan

Satanic Rules