Buried Secrets Podcast
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -Talkin' about the paranormal, the occult, and weird and forgotten history. Deep dive into stories about ghosts, ouija boards, cemeteries, obscure and bizarre stories from New York City, urban legends, paranormal investigations, and more!
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William Fuld (Ouija Board Series)
June 12, 2020 11:08 - 59 minutes - 49.9 MBIn the 20th century, William Fuld's name became synonymous with Ouija boards. We look at how he got into the Ouija game, the feud with his brother that split the family for nearly a century, his mysterious death that resulted from some advice that the board gave him, and more. We also talk about how the official Ouija board evolved throughout the 20th century, look at some of his competitors, and talk about what he did to shut them down and make his Ouija board the Ouija board. We also ...
The Invention of Ouija Boards (Ouija Board Series)
June 05, 2020 12:55 - 43 minutes - 38.5 MBWe take a look at the board's invention, in particular two women behind it, Helen Peters and Ouida: a highly-educated, unconventional medium who later ended up denouncing Ouija, and the eccentric, dog-obsessed English writer whose name may have inspired the board's. In 1886, homemade talking boards became a new "Ohio craze" that newspapers reported widely around the country. Five years later, a man named Charles Kennard started a company to create his own talking board, which he claims he ...
Planchette (Ouija Board Series)
May 29, 2020 11:16 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBWe begin a series about Ouija boards, digging into the strange history of the much admired and maligned method of communicating with spirits and/or having fun at parties. Before Ouija, there was planchette. Invented in Paris in the 1850s, planchette was a method of automatic writing. Much like the planchette we recognize from today's Ouija boards, it was a heart-shaped plank of wood. But it was much larger than today's planchettes, rested on wheels or casters, and had a slot to put a penci...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 3
May 22, 2020 11:35 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBContinuing our look at Salem's most haunted hotel, we unearth a strange synchronicity in the history of the land that the Hawthorne Hotel stands on and take a look at the mysterious Salem Marine Society. Following up on a lead that Chris found last time, we dive into what happened at the site of Salem's famously haunted Hawthorne Hotel. We find a really strange set of circumstances that we can't believe aren't spelled out more in many of the sources we found online. We also correct a big i...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 2
May 15, 2020 22:09 - 51 minutes - 45.6 MBWe deep dive into the stories of other guests in the hotel, as well as the hotel's history. After sifting through all of the haunting-related reviews of the Hawthorne Hotel on Trip Advisor, we talk about the most interesting ones (including reviews from some guests who don't believe the hotel is haunted.) Highlights include: ghostly cats, Ouija boards, the ghost of a sailor, glitchy phone calls, disembodied voices, cold spots You can listen to the full, unedited Estes session audio...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 1
May 08, 2020 12:37 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWe share our strange encounters at Salem's famously haunted Hawthorne Hotel, including audio from an Estes session where we spoke to some of the hotel's spirits. In part 1 of our look at the Hawthorne Hotel, we look at some of our experiences at the Hawthorne, and share audio from our (we believe successful) attempt to speak to some of the hotel's entities. Highlights include: a possible sleep paralysis episode, a (briefly) missing wedding ring, a conversation with a squid fisherman,...
Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia
April 30, 2020 12:38 - 53 minutes - 47.3 MBDid you know that in late 19th century Australia, ordinary people would dip sheets in toxic glowing paint and run around at night pretending to be ghosts? Neither did we, but Chris dug up this oddball story from Jen's home state of Victoria and was excited to tell Jen all about it! The story involves a angry mob chasing a preacher; a protective mom siccing her dog on a creepy dude; calls for vigilante justice; hallucinogenic moonshine and a "very fine" draper's dummy; a lady dressed up in ...
Victorian Ghost Hoaxes in Australia
April 30, 2020 12:38 - 53 minutes - 47.3 MBDid you know that in late 19th century Australia, ordinary people would dip sheets in toxic glowing paint and run around at night pretending to be ghosts? Neither did we, but Chris dug up this oddball story from Jen's home state of Victoria and was excited to tell Jen all about it! The story involves a angry mob chasing a preacher; a protective mom siccing her dog on a creepy dude; calls for vigilante justice; hallucinogenic moonshine and a "very fine" draper's dummy; a lady dressed up in ...
Renwick Smallpox Hospital - Part 2
April 24, 2020 22:31 - 42 minutes - 38 MBWe return to Blackwell's Island to look at the now-destroyed Charity Hospital as well as the Renwick Ruin as it stands on today's Roosevelt Island. In part 2 of our 2-part look at the Smallpox Hospital / Renwick Ruin, we talk about the Gothic ruin of the Smallpox Hospital that remains on Roosevelt Island, as well as the much larger ruin of the 19th century Charity Hospital (also FKA Penitentiary Hospital, City Hospital, and Island Hospital) that's since been torn down. We also discuss the...
Renwick Smallpox Hospital - Part 1
April 17, 2020 12:21 - 52 minutes - 57 MBWe take a look at the ruins of a forgotten Gothic hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York City A crumbling ruin is all that's left of the old Smallpox Hospital that used to operate on Roosevelt Island, an island that lies between Manhattan and Queens in New York City. Nowadays, the ruin lies in a park and is lit up by floodlights at night. It's a picturesque shell of the old Gothic building, and is popular with urban explorers, but the story behind it is a fascinating one. Originally buil...