Episodes

Send us a Text Message. Wes tackles the interesting history of everyone's beloved (or detested) outdoor ornament: the Garden Gnome. In honor of October, Beth shares two listener's stories about their real-life ghostly encounters. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Middle Music: https://www.purple-planet.com https://www.grunge.com/1009048/the-long-and-storied-history-of-garden-g...

Send us a Text Message. Wes takes us on to the mysterious Dog Suicide Bridge of Overtoun, Scotland where he asks us to decide if the dogs' deaths are caused by something natural or supernatural. Beth explores the secret society of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and how Aleister Crowley may have caused its downfall. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Our Sources: https:/...

Send us a Text Message. Beth stops by the Witches' Tree in Louisville, Kentucky on her journey through the historical connection between trees and witches. Wes tells the harrowing, true (?) tale of Margorie McCall, otherwise known as The Lady of the Ring, who was buried alive in 1695. Or was she? Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Sources: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/w...

Send us a Text Message. Beth tells the tale of Marthe Brossier, a young Frenchwoman possessed by demons, who brought them with her on a travelling roadshow in the 1590s. Wes shares the origin story of the Boogeyman: where the legends come from, how they differ, and how to avoid running into him. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Middle Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Sou...

Send us a Text Message. Please email us your true personal paranormal stories for our upcoming October episodes. We'd love to read them and share them on the show! Send them to: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Support the Show. All our links: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com/ Our Premium Bonus Subscription Episodes: www.buzzsprout.com/1940655/subscribe Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WhereOurMindsWander Support the Show: www.whereourmindswande...

Send us a Text Message. Wes explores two creepy cryptids - the Flatwoods Monster and the Dover Demon- which terrorized two small towns 25 years apart. Beth visits Venice, Italy and the allegedly cursed (but gorgeous!) Palazzo Dario. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Middle Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Sources: https://wbsm.com/dover-demon-massachusetts-45-years-later/...

Send us a Text Message. Beth closely inspects the Demon Wall of Sauherad, Norway and its questionable beginnings. Wes takes a wild ride with Salomon Andree's ill-fated Arctic hot air balloon expedition of 1897. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast Middle Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Sources: https://commonreader.wustl.edu/the-demon-wall/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/artic...

Send us a Text Message. Beth explores the still mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe and the unknown Poe Toaster. Wes shines a light on the history of one of the most famous ghost photographs of all time - the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast https://www.purple-planet.com https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe...

Send us a Text Message. Beth take us inside the infamous Chelsea Hotel where artistic luminaries thrived and their spirits still roam. Wes takes us to the notorious Pickfair Estate where Hollywood royalty Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks cohabitated with ghosts of their own. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourminds.wander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast https://www.purple-planet.com https://chelseacommunitynews.com/20...

Send us a Text Message. Wes peels back the historic layers of two haunted saloons: The Red Onion in Skagway, Alaska and the Red Onion of Aspen, Colorado. Beth offers up the Sin-Eater as a contender for the worst job in history. Show Notes: Our website: www.whereourminds.wander.com Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook @ Where Our Minds Wander Podcast https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/red-onion-saloon https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/red-onion-saloon/ https://th...

Send us a Text Message. Wes visits a San Francisco backyard where the 140-year old child "Miranda Eve" was discovered by unsuspecting homeowners. Beth takes us to Falcon Lake, Manitoba where one man encountered a rather unfriendly UFO in 1967. Show Notes: https://www.ranker.com/list/glass-coffin-san-francisco-discovery-facts/trilby-beresford https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/great-glass-coffin-scam/ https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/booksandarts/unsuccessful-shakesp...

Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. All our links: Our website: www.whereourmindswander.com/ Our Premium Bonus Subscription Episodes: www.buzzsprout.com/1940655/subscribe Our email: whereourmindswander@gmail.com Our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WhereOurMindsWander Support the Show: www.whereourmindswander.com/support/ Our Merch store: www.teepublic.com/stores/where-our-minds-wander?ref_id=27458 Our Books on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CG2R726Y www.amazon.com/dp/B0CG412JMK Our Youtube cha...

Send us a Text Message. Beth explores the enduring tradition of Ghost Marriages in China. Wes dives into two contemporary women's tales of dating ghost lovers and the problems they faced in their spirited relationships. Show Notes: https://www.grunge.com/935530/the-long-history-of-ghost-weddings-in-china-explained/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37103447 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-07/ghost-marriages-in-rural-china-continue-to-thrive/9608624 https://www.thevintagenews.com/202...

Send us a Text Message. Beth sifts through the unsolved Somerton Man case of Australia. Wes pays a visit to the Bell Witch legend of Tennessee. Show Notes: www.purple-planet.com https://www.grunge.com/383562/the-bizarre-true-story-of-the-somerton-man/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57166662 https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/bombshell-claim-on-somerton-man-mystery-i-saw-his-dead-body/news-story/a78b959a0f922adc0d993d351a516c8d https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/...

Send us a Text Message. Wes examines Thomas Edison's grand plans to speak to the dead through his Spirit Phone. Beth hunts the terrifying Beast of Gevaudon, France in 1764. Show notes: https://www.purple-planet.com https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602456/thomas-edison-nikola-tesla-spirit-phone https://www.liveabout.com/edison-and-the-ghost-machine-2594017 https://www.urbo.com/cont...

Send us a Text Message. Beth tunnels headfirst into the unique underground opal mining town of Coober Pedy, Australia. Wes takes us on a tour through some of the weird and wacky US laws still in the books - and which ones you may have unknowingly broken. This episode contains explicit content - listener discretion is advised. Show notes: https://www.purple-planet.com https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-strange-underground-homes-in-the-coober-pedy-desert-australia/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/...

Send us a Text Message. Wes takes us back to 1977 and the bizarre unsolved case of the Yuba County Five. Beth jumps into the abyss of Houska Castle where portals open, ghosts haunt, and Satan has a basement office. Show notes: https://www.purple-planet.com https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/12/7/mathias-group-from-yuba-city https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/532063/bizarre-hell-disappearance-yuba-county-five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five https://www.m...

Send us a Text Message. Beth examines four intriguing childhood reincarnation cases, including Egyptologist Dorothy Eady. Wes takes us to Boston in 1919, during the catastrophic Great Molasses Flood. Show Notes: Check out Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1922971 https://www.purple-planet.com If you want to know more about our topics: https://www.ranker.com/list/pollock-sisters-reincarnation-story/erin-mccann https://www.historicmysteries.com/pollock-twins/ https://www.today...

Send us a Text Message. Wes guides us through the Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana with first hand accounts of an unusual Creature. Beth dives into the cat mythology and persecution that still connects black cats to Halloween today. https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1922971 Show notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfPv8prUQUI https://www.purple-planet.com https://countryroadsmagazine.com/outdoors/knowing-nature/the-honey-island-swamp-monster/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Island_S...

Send us a Text Message. Beth takes us to Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's cursed and haunted home. Wes tells the true tale of the green-skinned children of Woolpit. Show Notes: https://www.purple-planet.com https://nypost.com/2019/10/05/the-tragic-story-of-guggenheim-architect-frank-llyod-wrights-secret-love-nest/ https://oldhousesunder50k.com/the-heinous-crime-haunted-house-story-of-frank-lloyd-wright/ https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesin https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/taliesin-haunte...

Send us a Text Message. Beth shares the heroic story of Tillie Pierce and her and Wes's stay in Tillie's haunted house including creepy EVPs we captured. Wes takes us to the Nagoro Village of Dolls where the life sized dolls far outnumber the humans. Show Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_Pierce https://tilliepierce.com/ At Gettysburg, or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle by Tillie Pierce Alleman (published by Butternut and Blue and Stan Clark Military Books.) https://www.thevi...

Wes talks about one of the worst jobs in history, The Black Plague Doctor, and Beth shares numerous sightings of the Dutchess County Boomerang UFOs, including her own. Show Notes: https://purple-planet.com https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/62/4/304/1469050 https://allthatsinteresting.com/plague-doctors https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death#:~:text=The%20Black%20Death%20was%20a,the%20Sicilian%20port%20of%20Messina. https://www.syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-over-the-hudson-vall...

Beth tells the grisly tale of Bella in the Wych Elm, speculating on how the unidentified woman ended up inside a tree. Wes explores the Gullah legend of the Boo Hag and how to tell if you might be living with one. Show notes: https://purple-planet.com https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/05/boo_hag.html https://charlestonterrors.com/boo-hags-haint-blue-vampires-of-the-lowcountry-the-paint-that-stops-them/ https://scaresandhauntsofcharleston.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/the-boo-hags-of-gullah-...

Beth takes us to the Alnwick Poison Garden and Wes shares the chilling, true story of the Exeter Vampire. Show notes: https://purple-planet.com https://www.dark-tourism.com/index.php/great-britain/15-countries/individual-chapters/325-alnwick-poison-garden https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/27/525143152/welcome-to-the-poison-garden-medicines-medieval-roots https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648214/poison-garden-finds-beauty-worlds-deadliest-plants History.com Smallstatebighistory...