Headless Animal Ghosts - with Cole Herrold

Cole and I lose our heads sharing creepy stories of ghost animals missing their heads! (or even other body parts)

TRIGGER WARNING: Ghost animals are most often dead animals. If they're missing their heads, they obviously died a gruesome death! Though no animals were harmed during the making of this episode, we will be dancing around suggestions of animal cruelty or mutilation.

Discussed are spooky tales of a ghost cow with a detached floating head, a frozen ghost chicken in London, haunted slaughterhouses, headless phantom dogs, a man who turned into a flaming turkey, mountain lion taxidermies coming to life, and even a cursed skeleton of a freakin' donkey!

As this episode was already dead on arrival, we also consistently deviate into movie tangents, random biology lectures, and cringy jokes which will make the listener's head fall off!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Cole Herrold for doing amazing research and digging up so many obscure stories about such a specific weird-ass topic!

Check out his work for New World Explorers Society at newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com

Follow him on Instagram @coleherroldresearcher or Twitter @Coleherroldres1

For more interaction join his Facebook Group

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Intro sampled from "Something strange lurks in the shadows" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez)

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

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SOURCES:

The Cambria County Ghost Cow - Paranormal World Wiki

The Ghost Dog of Tingewick - Burials & Beyond

The Frozen Ghost Chicken of Highgate | Cole's article

Headless Mule - Wikipedia

Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia

Elliott O'Donnell (2006): Animal Ghosts Or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter. IndyPublish

Darren Zenko (2004): Ghost Stories of Pets and Animals. Ghost House Books

Andrew Gable (2012): The Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania. cfz

Mary Beth Crain (2011): Haunted Pet Stories: Tales Of Ghostly Cats, Spooky Dogs, And Demonic Bunnies. Globe Pequot

Conrad & Burgess (2017): The Headless Dog: and Other Extraordinary Far-Fetched True Tales of Central Pennsylvania. Salem Swamp Press

Tom Ogden (2014): Haunted Colleges and Universities: Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms. Globe Pequot