Where The Living Meet The Dead : Ghost stories for Halloween artwork

Where The Living Meet The Dead : Ghost stories for Halloween

11 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings

Raconteur Robert Edgerly tells ghost stories and hosts extraordinary tours in one of our favorite ghoulish cities, Savannah, GA. Robert has curated tales that are a mixture of myths, murders and suspense that takes your imagination winding down the cobblestoned streets of one of the oldest and most curious of cities.

https://www.savannahghostlytours.com

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Episodes

Introducing: Ghost

October 21, 2023 14:59 - 31 seconds - 475 KB

An introduction to the podcast Ghost, brining you scary stories daily through Halloween.

Pirates House

November 25, 2021 08:05 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Robert Luis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island begins with Billy Bones knocking on the front door of the inn looking for Captain Flint. Legend holds that Flint died in the upper room yelling “Bring Arf the rum, Darby.” They say he died of rum poisoning but I say he died because Darby didn’t bring him another rum!

Pink House

November 18, 2021 08:05 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MB

Intense shades of pink are thought to promote sensuality, and passion, as well as creativity, energy, and, as studies have suggested, the color is thought to raise pulse rate and blood pressure.

Hamilton - Turner

November 11, 2021 08:05 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

In 1861 a local Irishman who perished in the Battle ofManassas was buried on land adjacent to the Catholic Cathedral and when the home was built no one bothered to move the burial. The grave was disturbed when the basement was dug and the remains unceremoniously moved to Laurel Grove Cemetery.

1790 Inn

November 04, 2021 07:05 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB

It was the lady in room 204. She was very upset and seemed quite shaken, she said, “My husband is on the floor. He won’t get up. Please help me!,” and she hung up.

Kehoe House

October 31, 2021 07:10 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

A kiss on the cheek, a little girl vanishes at the foot of the bed, chills that have nothing to do with the cold, an embalming room in the basement, blood curdling screams in the night, there are a lot of ghosts in this inn.

OT House

October 31, 2021 07:05 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB

The British didn’t say ghost. They said haunt or spectre. If you read Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Sir Thomas More, they mention haunt. “Haint” is the Gullah dialect for "haunt”. Haint blue keeps the haints out.

Birthplace

October 27, 2021 07:10 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB

It’s a classic ghost story. Three members of the household saw him that day and two lived to talk about it. Three people witnessed the same thing and no way to collaborate it. It’s a love story: Willie came back to get her.

Hampton-Lilibridge

October 27, 2021 07:05 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

A sailor swinging from a noose on the post of a bed in the third floor bedroom. The dying gasps of a young woman sickened by pneumonia. An ancient crypt below the foundation, accidently unearthed and then hastily sealed by terrified workmen. Visitors still feel a bone chilling cold when they cross the threshold.

Alice

October 22, 2021 21:36 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MB

Alice was the first woman to be hung in the state of Georgia and she was hung here in 1735. A nineteen year old, blue eyed, red-haired Irish girl hung in the middle of the square for three days as a murderer. Her common-law husband was hung eight months earlier.

Renee

October 22, 2021 21:34 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Born large and grew to be much larger. Renee was 7 ft tall and weighed more than 350 lbs. He was 14 years old when they lynched him.