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174: Haunted AF: Haunted Places
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Hey cryptic crew, happy Friday and Happy New Episode!! to bookend our haunted spaces episode, let's head to some far-off spots with spooks and stuff!
Alanna has a short list of haunted suspects, so let's explore some creepy places together!
From so-called Ghost Churches, to sunken burial lagoons, it's a whole new world for us in this episode! Just not a happy one....
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Introduction to Darkcast Network
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Darkcast Network, Indie Pods with the Dark Side.
Meet the Hosts: Alanna and Kelsey
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You are listening to Castles and Cryptids, where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic as fuck. and I am your host, Alanna. And I'm Kelsey. I'm a beautiful co-host.
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Snort. Sorry.
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uh sorry if we sound maybe somewhat under the weather several colds have invaded our homes i think yeah but within since we recorded last night like developed cold symptoms i know my daughter sounded worse too like rain was um that's supposed to go to school two days this week and one of those days was today and I was like if you're sick like just stay home you're just gonna get other people sick and that's what gets you sick every time yeah so she did there you go nice you sound awful yeah yeah nothing worse than like being sick and like I'm dreading going to work tomorrow and over the weekend having to talk all the time
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yeah subjecting other people to your sickness is the worst yeah i'll see how my throat feels in the morning yeah i have very few sick days left i'm gonna have to buck it up for most of the rest of the year well our our because our year resets and the middle of the year with my company. Yeah. So stupid. Anyway.
Understanding Calendars: Solar vs. Lunar
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um I think ours is like the calendar year. it Yeah. Hey, even calendars are crazy. I heard a podcast ah came up around New Year's and it was like talking about it
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crappy new year special with JB Kennedy. This was on The Constant, which is my favorite. foibles of history podcast. And then he's like talking about how like the calendars got made and how we had to frickin adopt this calendar. Cause you know, all of the counters would just be like out a little bit, right? We could never quite figure it out. And then you'd have like two weeks left over at the end of the year. And it was just never made any sense.
Fascination with Inventions
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And oh weird it's so complicated. It's actually so like fascinating, but also
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really bizarre how we figured out the solar year versus the lunar year and and then kind of like, well, if we give it a ah leap day once every four years, then it kind of balances it all out to like where we're within a second of the actual time around the sun or whatever. Is that what he is?
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Yes. I loop around the sun. I know. It's so crazy. I think people figured it out when we i have barely have a grasp of it. I know. like I don't understand it. They're like, we figured this out. ah Even certain things like like CDs and final records and cassette tapes. like I do not understand. and I saw a thing that was like a book of like the mechanics of how basic or like really cool things, inventions to like work over time. And I was like, is that what you want to have in your bomb shelter so that when you need to like recreate the spinning wheel and everything, you know what to do.
The Importance of Remembering History
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Oh my God. Yeah, I was like, I will never understand how
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how it works. It's magic. It's sorcery. And I don't care that like how vinyl records have been around for 100 plus years. like I will never understand it. And I'm watching stuff about how it works and I don't get it.
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Oh, right. So stuff that's just like, yeah, the concept is just always gonna remain elusive somehow. Yeah, it's fun trying to learn about these things. right I'm trying to make that into a segue. Wow, that's not gonna happen. I like learning about haunted places because they help me invent stuff.
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perfect But ah there's something to be said about, you know, not forgetting history because those who, you know, forget history or doomed to repeat it or whatever that saying is. Absolutely. Oh my gosh, you got to learn the lessons. Otherwise we'll keep learning it the same lesson over and over again. Oh my gosh.
Baba Vanga's Predictions: Fact or Fiction?
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Yeah. Well, someone else covered the Baba Vanga predictions today. I'm just
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also remembering that I still need to send you those sources, but it was creeps and crimes. She did a an excellent take on it with some details that I was like, oh, I hadn't heard of that or whatever. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's always interesting to hear someone else do one of your cases. But I was like, Oh, yeah, she does have some wild ass predictions about what was going to be happening this year.
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yeah didn't she say like people were gonna become half robot or something a lot of innovations yeah but there was ones that had already not happened by now too like nuclear year war like the last 10 years and stuff so i don't we don't know but she said we would have like encountered aliens even by like maybe last year which like you know they keep coming out with more and more information about the UAPs we see and how the government are like, yep, those aren't us. ah Right? Yeah. I mean, like at least acknowledge it's not you. Yeah.
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Yeah, there's definitely been some chatter
UFOs and Government Secrets
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that way. We need to do another UFO episode that makes me realize because we haven't talked about some recent sightings and stuff. Since it wasn't at Trump, he was the one that originally was like, yes, the aliens exist or something. Didn't he? Oh, I don't know. Maybe when he gets back in office. Oh, Bill Clinton wanted to know when he got in office. I remember he asked.
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But yeah, I'm like, maybe, maybe we'll cause I mean, you never know what the fuck Trump is going to say. Maybe we'll get more details on stuff because he's such an idiot. He doesn't know what confidentiality means. There is literally no way to know what's going to happen there. Yeah. um
Exploring MJ Rose's Historical Books
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Yeah. So maybe we'll find out Atlantis is real and. Ooh.
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That's a fun one. Yeah, um I've been reading a really good author I just found to MJ Rose who has like their history books but then she'll throw in some like folklore and mythology and stuff and this last one had a ah perfume theme like I don't remember exactly I know we read that book club one that was called what the perfume collector or something. Yeah. So it did have like a lot of you know how to how long we've been making perfume and stuff like that. But then it was like, Oh, and then since it goes back to like the Egyptian days, like they're in the book, there was this fragrance that was supposed to like invoke your ability to remember your past lives. And like, Oh, you were when you were in reincarnated. Yeah. And so they were all hypnosis perfume.
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Yeah, they were trying to like, oh, we what if we could recreate this scent then, you know, and then they were like, that would really help um Tibet in their fight to claim back their like, their own like spirituality and the way they like name, they'd be like, oh, here we found the next Dalai Lama. Here's the one that he's reincarnation number 44 or whatever.
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um and Anyway, it actually had some cool themes, but MJ Rose, cool author. Anyway, Tangent aside, what are we talking about today if we ever get to it?
Haunted Places: Hotel Kurajong
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We have the... The epic conclusion? Yeah, but I was like, it starts with a C. What am I trying to say? A conclusion. I read your mind. Yeah, conclusions, haunted places, abandoned creepy places.
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I do yes, I like I like doing haunted places and spaces and I definitely think we can do a lot more in this area because I have so many more ones that are like, you know, haunted planes, trains and automobiles or cemeteries on the ground like um yeah even this one it was like oh i'm gonna do a listicle because there's a bunch of ones that are cool but i don't think that it would be enough to do a whole segment on also yeah that can happen a lot definitely um so we can start out with a burp
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ah First we'll go to Australia, start at the top of the alphabet, um to the Hotel Kurajong in Canberra. um It is a haunted hotel originally used as housing for politicians and ah those sort of people. ah Then during the Great Depression it was open to the public as a hotel and over time it came to house people that were part of the Labour Party. Nope. Lots of people stayed there.
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um many notable guests, including several that went on to become prime minister in Australia, like John Curtin and Ben Chifley, I think is how you say it, but I have made no effort to find out. I will be perfectly honest with you. Chifley, after several more periods of change and a bit of abandonment, it was acquired by the Australian, Australia Capital Territory government.
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is a mouthful yeah what does that even mean capital territory government a i know they are divided up into territories much like our provinces so i think maybe just like news it's the government in new south wales area i don't know okay i was gonna like say like a capital city like the capital of a province? yeah they have a provincial government they definitely do have yet yeah yeah yeah um not not states but yeah more like provinces or territories uh anyway it's been a while i'm rusty on my australian uh geography i actually think canbara might be the capital question mark i have no idea
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That would make sense. And I think it's in the province or territory of newe New South Wales.
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Also as a side note on the latest season of the UK traders, this girl from London is totally putting on a fake Welsh accent as if she is from Wales because she said, quote, she read that people find those accents more trustworthy.
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Oh my God. The most bizarre um like lie we've ever seen going into the traitors show. So fun. Like normally people just lie about their job because they're like, oh, I don't want to be seen as an ex-soldier. They'll know I'm smart and capable.
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I work at McDonald's. I am an idiot. Yeah, this girl straight up said she worked as a nail technician, but she's an ex-soldier. Oh my God. She's like, uh, assassin Barbie over here. Oh, such a good show. Uh, okay.
Egypt's Valley of the Kings Hauntings
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When Chifley became the Prime Minister, this is a quote, sorry, quote, in 1945, he decided not to move into the lodge, the official residence of the Australian Prime Minister, but instead moved permanently into Hotel Kurajong. He continued living there even after the Labour Party's defeat in 1949.
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so In 1951, Chifley attended an event to celebrate 50 years of Australian autonomy, but later suffered a heart attack in his room at Hotel Kurajong and passed away. Damn. The ghost of Ben Chifley is said to still haunt the hotel with reports of sightings of a man in a gray suit walking around the property, often seen on balconies or near windows and pointing towards the Parliament House.
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Look at it! Look at it! Which is a government building for those of you not in a commonwealth country. they cut Yeah, they don't have parliament in the states, I don't think. No. They would have like senate house of common type things, right? Yeah. Which according to a recent TikTok I listened to, I think we also have a senate and I was like, okay.
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but I don't understand our government either. Yeah.
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um Okay, so yeah, that was a one with a sort of famous ghost. Cool. Yeah, I tried it was like, Oh, can I pick other ones that have like, are famous for the ghost you always see there or they have a famous ghost of someone like famous?
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celebrity ah the next one is the valley of the king's ghost so we're going to egypt um so this should not probably surprise us this area is haunted as it was used as a burial ground for pharaohs and the lake for almost 500 years okay yeah yeah yeah i guess this is probably where all the pyramids are there yeah located just across from the Nile It actually consists of two valleys, an east and a west. Many of the tombs have been explored or even robbed, as we probably all well know. Probably all heard that. Gotta have that mummy powder or whatever. Oh, yeah, they use it in weird medicines and stuff. That was so weird. Oh, thanks.
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um Probably all know, like, the curses, the very, like the curse of King Tut's tomb. But Tutankhamun wasn't the only one who took offense to their graves being disturbed. There's also the curse of the pharaohs, just in general, I guess. yeah okay And some of them have actual warnings like one tomb that of Ankh Tifif contains more of a warning than a curse. All that to say there is a ghost that does show up that is on a little ghost chariot. It's not that weird.
Napoleon's Egypt and Misconceptions
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The ghost chariot is known to appear at midnight speeding past with a quote, short Egyptian king holding the reins that control black horses.
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I like that he's short. Short King. Short King. Doesn't that look a term now? Oh no. Yeah. a Also like Napoleon was interested in Egypt and helped to like uncover a lot of the pyramids and old shit there, which is kind of cool. And he wasn't that short guys. He was probably like measured in French inches or something. So he was probably like,
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my height or five six or like not they drew the cartoons like he was fucking three and a half feet tall but yeah that was that was propaganda oh yeah everybody does that we can't have uh yeah i'm thinking the bad people are tall they can be tall no they have to have some weird disfigurement or something. Yes, because he wasn't eventually the victor. They overthrew him that but second time. yeah to escape that can't just be Can't just be a person. Oh, no. Especially if you're a woman in history. Oh, you wait. we We're going to paint you with some bad brush. no if If you even get remembered at all. Oh, no.
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God, I'm such a history nerd. I do, do joy reading all these books. And then I'm like, we have to do a book about this Paris lady that I heard about twice in one week that like made death masks for, um, no wait, not death masks. Like, um,
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Like ah before ah ah but up but but plastic surgery was a thing, like ah if say someone lost half their like face, I keep grabbing my cheek. Like they would make like a metal implant, almost like a facial, it was like early facial reconstruction surgery. For like people that had syphilis and stuff, they used to do that.
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Or during the first World War, like a lot of soldiers, I want to say. I wrote it down because I was like, I know I've been reading a lot of the same author, but it came up like, I don't know, twice in one week. And I was like, I guess I have to like, maybe talk about this lady on the pod or do a deep dive or a fun fact. Yeah. So I will, I will, I have her name written down. I will talk about it properly. Yeah. Um, yeah. Kind of cool.
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Okay, yeah, short Egyptian king. Right. Another spirit here is Akhenaten, a pharaoh who abolished all the older religions and gods when he ruled. He was different. like He just got different.
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um Maybe he was... the Trudeau or Trump of his time. He wasn't very popular um for doing that. ah He's seen hanging around haunting because after his death, they then restored all the old religions and cursed him to wander the desert for all eternity for his deeds or misdeeds, if you will, anchoring the god yeah and They're like, fuck you.
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so sometimes ghostly horse noises are heard at nighttime carriages and chariots like jangling and uh footsteps and also wails and cries of spirits can be heard so very noisy yeah still close to the mic i feel like i could almost hear him purring no he's sleeping with his head again head against the wall oh
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comfy just facing the wall and his head is leaning against like over it yeah that's funny shit yeah pardon me the next one is uh chunk lagoon chunk or a sometimes called truck lagoon uh we'll get to it a little bit this is haunted sunken ships and military
Haunted Waters: Truk Lagoon
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machines and soldier remains that make up uh what they call the ghost fleet of truck lagoon yeah it's underwater that's creepy it is
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The history is that for two full days in 1944, during the Second World War, of course, Allied bombers rained fire on the Caroline Islands, which are in the South Pacific. My history is making Kelsey fall asleep.
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yeah During World War II, the lagoon was hosted Japan's Imperial Fleet, which was left destroyed in the wake of Operation Hailstone, often referred to as Japan's Pearl Harbor. they don't have a Michael Bay movie about that. Did you know that was Michael Bay? I kind of forgot that.
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um Pearl Harbor. Not the attack. I mean, Yeah, Pearl Harbor direction. Yeah,
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ah yeah I feel like I probably knew um because I feel like some of his newer things, I have not been interested in movies, but some of his older ones are very and like more classic kind of. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, some of them have been featured on the How Did This Get Made podcast, so they're yeah you' smart making fun of them. Yeah, more respected.
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Sorry, you Michael Bay. Yeah, they were talking about one of the like, transformer ones or whatever. Yeah. I mean, the first one was really good.
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like yeah i but I remember liking Bumblebee when they talked to her. I'd say at least the first couple were really good. like gi
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but yeah There was just too many of them. There's been a hundred of them, now there's a cartoon about it. oh But there was a cartoon that came first, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, it's like based on, yeah, some like animated thing before I realized, but now there's a new cartoon. Oh, of course. Milkit, milkit. Yeah.
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So it's said today hundreds of Japanese aircrafts and other military machines remain at the bottom of the lagoon making it one of the world's best WW2 wreck dive sites. I can't talk. Also my notes said woods, not worlds. I knew that was a typo. There's no woods in the water. Ain't no forest down here.
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We're tired. I'm sorry, you guys.
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So these low coral islands were once part of the Spanish West Indies. And yeah, just a little bit more details on like the attack was on February 17, 1944, five fleet carriers, four light carriers, along with support ships and some 500 aircraft to send it on the islands in a surprise attack. There was a lot. Yeah.
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um 250 Japanese aircraft were gone. 50 ships sank. Sunk. Sink sank sunk. I'm the Grinch now. 400 Japanese soldiers killed in just one ship trapped in the cargo hold. Yeah, yeah that's rough.
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There was a 1969 film called Lagoon of the Lost Ships by Jacques Cousteau that showed sunken ships still full of bodies. I feel like a tongue twister. um Yeah. Which is pretty grim, sorry. Trigger warning. No. Too late! Too late!
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But this did lead to the recovery efforts to return the remains of as many of the fallen soldiers as they could back to their homeland. So most of the barrier the bodies have now been returned to Japan for burial. Oh, that's nice. yeah Yeah. And like so many years after too, I think they really made an effort.
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Um, but yeah, it's just like really shallow, clear waters that lends itself to great diving. And that's why it's such a hotspot. And until the nineties, it went by truck. Now it's called Chuck or chunk. I don't even know which spelling is real now. Oh, and many, many maps still feature both names. So you'll see it by, by both anyway. Oh, yeah. It does sound quite spooky though.
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Then the we go to Europe really hitting all the hotspots to St.
Ghost Sculptures of St. George's Church
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George's Church, ah which tell me if this sounds familiar because I have definitely heard about it and I was like, have we maybe mentioned it or have I just seen pictures? It's the ghost church as its other name. Yeah, I've definitely seen pictures of this one.
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okay okay i was like i don't even know did i like i talk about it or kelsey maybe it is in a place called lukova i guess in the czech republic uh at least over 300 years old in 1968 the roof caved in during a funeral uh so that's how it met its ending sort of the oh there's there's the real name for it in some not English, Castel Spavogeri, St. George's Church in Lukova, Czechia, was neglected for more than 40 years, according to Atlas Obscura. It was first consecrated in 1352 and suffered from various fires and rebuilds over the years until the roof built fell in on that tragic day in 1968.
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um Having had their superstitions about the place already, the congregation refused to re-enter the building and for many years held mass outside under the stars.
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I mean, yeah, I wouldn't want to go into a building where the roof collapsed. No, and I don't know if it actually, like if it hurt or killed anyone, I couldn't find it. But yeah, still, not no no good.
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Um, then during the communist era in the country, the little church fell into disrepair and everything that wasn't nailed down was stolen up to, and including the bell and the clock in the tower. Rude. Stealing the church. They're going to hell. Um, not too long ago, some people decided that the church, a cultural monument of Czech, Czechia.
00:28:57
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It's a quote, so I'm probably saying that wrong. It was worth saving. This was 2012. Unfortunately, nobody could come up with the money to restore it. Then Jacob Hadrava, or Jacob, no way to know, a sculpture student at the University of West Bohemia, had an idea. He sculpted ghosts to inhabit the abandoned church. He used fellow students as models, wrapping them in plastic and raincoats.
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That must have been fun.
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Slowly but surely, 30 ghosts came to live in the ah ghost church, creating quite a spooky ambiance in the dilapidated place. And that's basically how it became a tourist attraction that was able to like earn enough money for the repairs to keep it open.
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okay i definitely thought it was like supposed to represent them people that had died but it sounds like nobody nobody really died so i think it's less creepy yeah it seems like they thought it was haunted even before that but i'm not even sure why yeah so but i definitely didn't do like the roof collapsed and they're like we' we're cursed god hates us
00:30:15
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Yeah, weirder things have happened at funerals, guys. You just need better buildings.
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um Okay, a couple more.
The Tragic Tale of the Green Lady
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The Chateau de Brissac is in a France, and this French castle features a green lady ghost.
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an 11th century castle located in the commune of Prisac-Quince, France. It holds the impressive title of tallest castle in France built by the counts of Anjou. Yeah, I want to go through there.
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During the 15th century, it was rebuilt as a sort of fort by one of Charles VII's ministers. During the French wars of religion in the 16th century, it was given to Henry of Navarre, later Henry V of France. Probably Henri.
00:31:19
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but I mean, if I had, if I won like an insane amount of money in the lottery, I would build a house maybe not this size, but I would build a house that looks like a castle like this. Like that's the dream. Oh, Chateau style. Oh, yeah. Oh, love it. It's like my favorite thing in the world.
00:31:42
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Right. I mean, we totally have some in Canada, like not to keep- Even, yeah, ah even like the, I don't know, it's probably quite a few streets in New York, but the houses that they have like, almost like the the one kind of like front tower type.
00:32:03
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Oh. Yeah, like there's some. Okay. Yeah, there's some houses in New York, like the older ones and everything that are even kind of like that style, but it's more a house. Oh, okay. I was going to say, ah yeah, Montreal was coming to mind or like the, that's because the traders Canada one is filmed in a chateau in Quebec somewhere. And it looks kind of like a mini castle. Yeah. Not all castles are big y'all.
00:32:34
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size. Yeah, but if I won the lottery and had so much money, that's exactly the type of house I would build. With a freaking library with rolly ladders? With a rolly ladder. They also have a secret room in the trader's castle. I'm just saying.
00:32:57
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All right, I'm done. and Okay, no, but not with this. ah that the bell When Henry became the King of France, the chateau was given to Charles II. They'd just be given this thing away. So welcome i was like here you go.
00:33:11
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Give one to us. If any of our listeners own a chateau, please give it to us. I'm sure we did shit for you, France. um Yes, given to Charles II of Kos was a reward for his support. And so was the title Duke of Bresach. It was damaged during the wars. Also, I just love that they call them the French Wars of Religion. like Call them what they are. like That's basically what they think were in England, too.
00:33:42
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Yeah. Um, later renovations brought it back to life. Uh, sadly, not so for the green lady or the proper term on français la dame vert. Most people agree it was a woman named Charlotte de Bresse, breezy, breezy. Keep it breezy. Yeah. It kind of looks like breezy.
00:34:06
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It was probably more like Bresse, who was an illegitimate daughter of King Charles VII and his mistress, Agnes Sorrel. A half-sister of Louis XIII, she did not have great prospects for marriage as a bastard, so she married Jacques de Brise, a nobleman, but it was not a happy match. On May 31st of 1477, here comes Archer Crime, her husband came home to find her a bed with another gentleman,
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canton
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Or like something like he came home and had supper and then the servant woke him up to come find them. I don't know. It was unclear. Although surprising the amount of details for an old story like this. um Either way, he killed her and her lover instantly in a fit of rage. Nice.
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ah Oh yeah, here's one. That's more of a quote. One night one of the servants awoke jock and told him what was going on. He caught the couple red-handed in a rage of anger. He killed both his wife and her lover in the tower room above the chapel. Some sources claim he took his sword and slashed them to pieces. Others say he stabbed them and some claim he stabbed the man, Pierre de Laverne, and strangled her. Either way he killed them.
00:35:30
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He is said to have fled the castle. Yeah, they're dead. We know that. They dead. Yeah. It's like the line from one of the um rush hours. Wipe yourself off, man. You did it.
00:35:49
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So. I can't. Catuation over here. I just had to catch him. He just like fell into me.
00:36:00
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Buddy. Buddy, I love you too. You're trying to fall off the desk. He's like, hi. Hi. Hi. He's really trying to distract you. So Buddy fled the castle after. Go down. OK, I'm going to move the mic over here. It's OK.
00:36:30
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This is Corinne, my co-host. It's much less intrusive than ah my dog barking. um Yes, he fled. But your back half is falling off the desk. You have no spatial awareness sometimes, I'm telling you.
00:36:58
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okay so buddy buddy left he took off and oh yes he wait sorry sorry he fled the castle not long after the crime because the two ghosts would not leave him alone they kept on moaning all night and it terrified him end quote well good for them i know they're having some ghost sex just to piss him off yeah uh and he's they're like what are you gonna do kill us we have unfinished business often seen near the tower room in the chapel in her green dress but more gruesomely she is most often seen missing her eyes and nose possibly from mutilation during her murder yeah gross like that
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Oh, this is my last one. Okay. Couple more.
Stone Lady of Xunantunich
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And I don't know how to say this one. It is in Belize and it starts with an X. So wish me luck ah pronouncing this place. Xylophone.
00:38:18
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Zwanna. Zwannin. Tunich. Belize. Where resides the stone lady ghost? Nailed it. It looks cool. Yeah, like real Mayan ruins situation. yeah It was one of many, ah like you an old Mayan civilization, one of many Mesoamerican cultures, ah where book writers, chocolate lovers, and builders of temples all resided.
00:38:56
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So they seem like cool cats. Chocolate lovers. Yeah. We write books. We love chocolate.
00:39:05
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But damn, though, people did love chocolate even before it was very like. Like before they put sugar with it and you're like, damn, that shit was bitter. I don't like dark chocolate very much. I used to hate it, but I've gotten warranty. You can eat so much dark chocolate.
00:39:26
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it's like doesn't melt in your hand like that milk shit yeah um yeah this shit is all dates back to a pre-classical period possibly the pre-classical period i don't know i don't know what there is
00:39:48
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around the year 400 oh damn and then it expanded in the late classical period around the year 800 to 900 so okay so like my my ah haunted place so it's like 461 or whatever and i was like that's the earliest year i've ever had to say Yes! I think it was 421 because I thought I should have said 420. I was just like, damn, the fifth century. Right? And then I'm like, I don't know. Do we call it CE now? Whatever it was. And this, at this time when it was on, ah the expansion was when many other Mayan cities were on the decline due to war and that old chestnut climate change, apparently.
00:40:38
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but But then it was partially abandoned in the year 830, possibly something to do with an earthquake or some conflict to blame. um Now the legend of the stone woman.
00:40:56
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Zwan, oh, there's that place name again. Zwan and Tunich means stone woman. It's a Yucatec Maya word. And she dates back to the 19th century local folklore.
00:41:09
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So she's quite modern, 19th century. Yeah, I thought we were talking about the 8th century. We've just fast-forwarded like a thousand years.
00:41:21
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um But one day a man, like the legend says, that one day a man so saw a beautiful Maya woman standing on top of a mound of earth. She'd just be standing out there on her mound. Yeah, just standing there like, oh shit, it's a woman.
00:41:39
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Yeah, because literally he got scared and ran away to the village to return with others.
00:41:51
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But she was gone. Where she had been standing was right next to the mouth of a cave system that extended and reached under the complex of, say it with me now, Zwanan and Tunich. I don't know. I think I added a few more A.N.s.
00:42:09
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oh my god ever since she appears at random to bless people with her bountiful spirit or something like that i don't know sounds cool and they run away screaming going ah it's a woman okay this was the last one and it It was when I ended up writing down a few things for, and then I was like, probably this one will just get a bit
White Lady of Buenos Aires
00:42:40
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of a mention. And then if we go back to any more cemeteries, then I can do some of the other, like talk about some of the other people that are buried there. I don't know. They called them ghost stories, but they weren't all ghost stories. It's La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. So I think I did most of the continents.
00:43:03
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except for Asia.
00:43:08
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There's so many on the listicles. I swear we can just yeah, there's so many I couldn't get to. Pardon me. um Famous residents of this ah cemetery include Eva Peron, um whose corpse apparently went on a decades-long journey before it was finally laid to rest in her family's tomb in the La Recolova Cemetery. Oh, yeah, that's weird. They did that with other people, didn't they? Yeah, it was a whole like political bullshit, and then she was taken out of country and finally given back to her husband.
00:43:44
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Anyway, I was like, wow, I could do a whole segment on this. It's crazy. Yeah, corpse tours. Oh my God. Totally though, corpse tours or corpses kept on display like lemon. I don't know. Okay. Topic idea. He's still throwing directly into the mic. I know he's closer to the mic than I am.
00:44:12
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But that's how good Kelsey's mic is, you guys. yeah
00:44:19
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um The legend of La Dama de Blanco originated from a haunting encounter experienced by an unsuspecting young man near the Recoleta Cemetery. So this is the white lady of the cemetery, if you will. Yeah. It's kind of a classic.
00:44:39
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It's one chilly night. He offered his jacket as a chivalric gesture ah to a lady who seemed visibly cold. Unbeknownst to him, he was trying to assist a spectre doomed to haunt the streets of Buenos Aires. Dun, dun, dun. You look cold. He tries to put the jacket on her shoulders. It just falls to the ground. And she disappears, and it's like, oh no. Yeah. It's kind of, yeah.
00:45:05
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All right, I'll finish this quote that described it.
00:45:11
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After their chance meeting and the exchange of pleasantries, the young man returned the following day to retrieve his borrowed jacket from the lady's residence. So I guess he dropped her off. um Instead of a warm welcome, he was met by an unexpected revelation. The lady he had innocently interacted with was not of the living but a tragic soul caught in perpetual haunting.
00:45:32
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seeing his jacket precisely placed over her tombstone in Recoleta Cemetery, the reality of his eerie interaction dawned upon him. So I was going to say, it makes me think of, I think it's Joey does it on friends or it was like the whole, and she's been dead for five years. Like you go to the the door or like sometimes it's a taxi picks her up or whatever. It's a lady walking on the road. Yeah, totally that.
00:46:00
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Um, and then it also, just the last fun little fact about this creepy cemetery, uh, that I wanted to share with you. Also a caretaker of the grounds had a statue commissioned to look over his grave before he then, uh, trigger warning tragically took his own life.
Cemetery Caretaker's Ghost
00:46:20
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So he commissioned a statue and then, yeah.
00:46:24
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And he'd worked there for decades, and they say some days you can still hear the faint tinkling of his keys as he makes his ghostly rounds. That's creepy. Yeah, I'm kind of sad. So I hate to end it on that, but that's where I'm going to end it. Damn. Evil. Gordo's just staring at me. Hi, buddy. Oh, well, you know me, I could have gone on. Like I said, I think I had a...
Parks and Recreation Outtakes
00:46:52
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A listicle made from that listicle. Yeah, this one says 43 of the most haunted places. And I was like, we're probably like, holy shit. And then I started scrolling and I was like, Oh, a lot of these we've already talked about. Yes, exactly. um But yeah, there's some in there. Like there was one from Canada that I thought, Oh, yeah, we haven't talked about that place. But you know, maybe I'll save it for another. Whatever haunted places, spaces,
00:47:21
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haunted AF series venture. People, places, and things. Yeah. Parks and Rec. I like people, places, and things. Nice. I saw a funny outtake from Parks and Rec the other day. You've probably seen it. It's like they're talking I don't know, in Town Hall or something, Leslie and April are up at the front and everybody else is sitting down there and they're talking about comeback stories. Robert Downey Jr. This person, that person. ah Yeah. And then he goes, Kim Kardashian, like Andy Dwyer. She has a problem on her back. Yeah. but He's so like, he does the most innocent like delivery where he's like, she got a cum on her back, didn't she? Or something like that. And everyone just like lost it. I was like, God damn, he's funny.
00:48:10
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um I always think of the the network connectivity. I typed in your symptoms into Google. It says you have network connectivity.
00:48:22
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you There's another epic outtake where he has to throw a briefcase across the room and it hits the light switch at the other side of the room and turns the light off and like breaks. I think I have seen that one. Yeah. Yeah, even Robin was like, wow, you destroyed that. And that is how he became the guardian of the galaxy. Star Lord. Yeah. Suitcase. Oh, no, I can't mention Star Lord. I just finally got that stupid Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas song out of my head from the Kevin Bacon special.
Next Episode Tease: Survival Stories
00:49:05
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a Damn them, they're a real band and they're really good. Anyway, I got nothing else. well Hopefully by next week, we'll have a new, wonderful topic for you that I don't think we've picked yet, but. Didn't we? Survival stories. Oh shit, I remember that, but I haven't had it written down. Okay, yes.
00:49:35
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survival stories people fighting back yeah true crime um um theme yeah too that should be interesting there's definitely some amazing ones out there true yeah there's a lot of different like types of survival stories i know because you went sneaky and went rogue and did some of those on our near death experience episode Oh, yeah. Didn't you kind of do a survival stories? Brushes with death. Yeah, I had.
00:50:13
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um
00:50:16
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Hey, Gordo. I can't remember now. I know I mean, he's too cute. They're doing things. yeah We're going to look at the laptop. See, hi. Oh, that would have been. Yes, he was looking right into the lens. Oh,
00:50:36
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Well, stay tuned for that next week and maybe by then we'll let you know what we're putting up on pop up a Patreon for this month. Oh yeah, that. That I don't remember if we have picked so we will keep you posted. No. oh Thank you for all the patrons who've listened and liked some post on Patreon recently that warms my heart to be like the people who listened.
00:51:05
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um Yeah. So just keep doing the thing. Keep listening. Keep sharing. Tell the people about us. They need to know if you like us at all. Spread the word. It really helps get us out there. And yeah, I don't know. You got anything else? Uh, no, I did a ah Patreon plug in the last episode and my little outro.
00:51:33
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Yes. I know shows where they go. All right, anything anybody would like to plug? Sometimes people are like, nope. So yeah, keep on keeping it cryptic and I guess we'll catch you next week. Gordo says thanks for listening. I know I just stopped petting him and then he was like, I'm still here. Don't forget about me. I mean, I will take a screenshot because it's like, yeah, it's all up in your biz.
00:52:17
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that yeah one of but my last page i printed out ended up just being like one source today i was like oh damn why did i print yeah i hate that i can't even have my notes on my computer if it's just like just the sources on the last page and like can i can i figure out the spacing so this doesn't happen i just can't have it i can't It's so stupid. It's like it's literally meaningless. Hey buddy, are you gonna lay down? Yeah. Aww, I know you're so cute. Gordo snores. He snores? Well he was like, aww.
00:53:08
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I'm gonna open up our, yeah, I'm gonna have Patreon open so I can
00:53:20
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I booped the snoot. Yeah. You're upside down. Yeah, I put that. I added that little Cheeto cat. Pat Chiu gave me to the wall I have in front of me so I can look at it when we record. I'm like, oh, yeah.
00:53:43
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Yeah, it's perfect. It fits right in on the podcast collage. I got one side that's like weird, spooky, cryptid stuff, and they got other stuff that's kind of ah from like, excuse you.
00:53:59
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<unk>ze Sneeze. Yeah, but that's more like traveling little other trinkets. oh Oh, cute. I'm trying to develop the space in here too. It's a work in progress.
00:54:13
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Yeah, of course. We captured that cat sneeze perfectly. and of yeah Let's go on the outtakes.
00:54:26
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El Gordo. I don't know, maybe he's ah he likes the, he approves of the cat patch. Sorry, it's an old black cat Gordo, but that's what they had. Yeah.
00:54:41
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The attention to detail is pretty good. Yeah, they had another. What it's like is it? Is that Tony the Tiger? Is that the Cheeto guy or is that the cereal? He's the Frosted Flix guy. Okay. Then who's the... What's the Cheeto? What's the Cheeto? Does he have an A? name Oh. I don't know. Cheetos guy.
00:55:11
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Cheetos. Toes full of cheese. Should I ask rain? She'd probably, if I could cut her, she'd probably bleed Cheetos.
00:55:23
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you
00:55:29
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When I was young, when I was young, I probably like bled Doritos. I loved Doritos. Doritos. That's the other patch. His name is Chester Cheetos.
00:55:41
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um Oh, yes. I think there was another patch and it was like another cat or something and its head was in a Doritaz box or bag or something. Because it's like, you know, just off enough to be the off brand one. Cute. Yeah. Oh my god. Love it. All right. Let's start. It's bugging me.
00:56:08
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I gotta take the the lid off my drink. It's like way too hot still. It was hot. Yeah, I made some tea. Yeah, I made it at like, I don't know, how half an hour ago? It's running at Kula. It's so hot. Jesus. It's an intense thermos or whatever. Yeah.
00:56:38
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All right.
00:56:56
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