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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...