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Thomas Edison's Spirit Telegraph
Buried Secrets Podcast - August 07, 2020 11:02 - 30 minutesA look at an apparatus to contact the spirit world that Thomas Edison claimed to be working on, but which never surfaced. In 1920, famed inventor Thomas Edison gave a series of interviews bragging about a device he was testing, a spirit telegraph, which spiritualists could use to give their se...
The Secrets of Quinta da Regaleira
Buried Secrets Podcast - July 31, 2020 11:16 - 45 minutesA deep dive into the mysteries and history of a strange palace and garden built by an eccentric millionaire in Sintra, Portugal. Sometimes described as a playground for adults, Quinta da Regaleira is a mysterious estate built by a millionaire entomologist in the early 20th century, full of occ...
Kill Daddy: The Turley Ouija Board Murder (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - July 24, 2020 10:09 - 47 minutesIn 1933, a teenage girl shot her father on the orders of a Ouija board. Or was it her former-beauty-queen mother who encouraged the violence? When playing with a Ouija board with her mother, 14-year-old Mattie Turley receives the message that she must kill her father so her mother can be free ...
More 1920s Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - July 17, 2020 11:16 - 37 minutesWe're back talking Ouijamania in 1920! We take a look at more Ouija board stories, including communication with the ghost of Marie Antoinette and the tale of a doomed treasure hunter. Highlights include: • A supposedly Ouija-crazed cop who hijacked a car at gunpoint and proceeded to disrobe ...
1920s Ouijamania (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - July 10, 2020 12:43 - 50 minutes"Ouijamania" is the phenomenon where people, usually women, supposedly went crazy because of their Ouija board use, usually resulting in their institutionalization. We take a look at Ouijamania in 1920 and see how the panic over Ouija boards was influenced by big movements at the time, includi...
Ouija after World War I (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - July 03, 2020 13:36 - 46 minutesWe take a look at the sudden popularity of Ouija after World War I. We tried talking about 1920s Ouijamania and just barely make it outta the 19teens. Highlights include: • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini playing with a Ouija board in an Atlantic City hotel room • The pope hiring a ...
Victorian Egyptomania (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - June 26, 2020 11:00 - 58 minutesWe take a detour in our look at the Ouija board and dive into Victorian Egyptomania. In the Victorian Era, people were really into death and the supernatural. Americans and Europeans also started traveling to Egypt and bringing back mummies and other pieces of Egyptian culture. We talk about s...
19th Century Ouija Board Stories (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - June 19, 2020 12:11 - 41 minutesChris digs up some early stories of people getting waaay too obsessed with their Ouija boards. Highlights include: • a rare story of a 19th century black woman's experience with Ouija • a couple destroying their home to (supposedly) convert the world to Masonic principles • Presidential tal...
William Fuld (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - June 12, 2020 11:08 - 59 minutesIn 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 abo...
The Invention of Ouija Boards (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - June 05, 2020 12:55 - 43 minutesWe 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 b...
Planchette (Ouija Board Series)
Buried Secrets Podcast - May 29, 2020 11:16 - 1 hourWe 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...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 3
Buried Secrets Podcast - May 22, 2020 11:35 - 1 hourContinuing 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 ...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 2
Buried Secrets Podcast - May 15, 2020 22:09 - 51 minutesWe 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 ...
Investigating Salem's Hawthorne Hotel, Part 1
Buried Secrets Podcast - May 08, 2020 12:37 - 1 hourWe 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 beli...
Playing the Ghost in 19th Century Australia
Buried Secrets Podcast - April 30, 2020 12:38 - 53 minutesDid 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 i...
Victorian Ghost Hoaxes in Australia
Buried Secrets Podcast - April 30, 2020 12:38 - 53 minutesDid 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 i...
Renwick Smallpox Hospital - Part 2
Buried Secrets Podcast - April 24, 2020 22:31 - 42 minutesWe 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 Roosev...
Renwick Smallpox Hospital - Part 1
Buried Secrets Podcast - April 17, 2020 12:21 - 52 minutesWe 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 i...
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