Episodes
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In this first episode of Reading Your Tea Leaves, we discuss a the home of a family member, is it haunted, or is it something more sinister? The ghost that supposedly haunts Caillen's family home, as well as reading a few stories taken from Reddit. If you'd like to hear your story in future episodes of RYTL, please email us at [email protected]
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In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue died mysteriously in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. What would follow would be the only known case in which testimony from a ghost would help convict a murderer.
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Around noon on September 25, 2011 a young child was found wandering down the road near a cemetery on Stipps Road in Laurel, Indiana. When police arrived, the 4 year old girl told police that her family was dead saying “Mommy is shot and grandpa and grandma”. Later that day police arrived at the home of Roy Napier, a trailer located on Stipps Road to find a very shocking murder scene. As police wait for a detective to arrive, they search the area to see if anyone else is on the property.
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To quote Graham Seal, “Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia. … [T]he figure of Ned Kelly has led to the creation of a national image that bears some relation to the man himself—perhaps about the same resemblance as Ned Kelly's armour had to the plough mouldboards from which it was beaten....He is different things to different people—a murderer, an Australian Robin Hood, a social bandit, a revolutionary leader, even a commercial commodity. But to most of us he is somehow essentially Australian.”
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Whether its sitting in an idle car with your friends telling ghost stories on the road, witnessing demonic cults performing their ceremonies, or just a plain old whiskey business. Staley road has been popular around Bethel Township, Ohio, for a long time. Join us as Kayla takes us through the history of the Staley family and how they came to America, before she and our guest Emily tell their spooky experiences with the road.
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We discuss three lesser known Appalachian myths and legends.
Flatwoods Monster
On September 12th, 1952, at around 7:15 pm, two brothers, Edward, 13, and Fred, 12, May, and their friend Tommy Hyer (10), saw a pulsing red light cross the sky and land on the property of G. Bailey Fisher, a local Farmer. The events that followed would go down in West Virginian folklore.
The Moon-Eyed People
The Moon-eyed people are a group of people who are said to have lived in Appalachia until the Cherokee people chased them away - though I will say that I’ve also seen that it was the Muscogee (Muh-skoh-gee) people who fought the Moon-Eyed People and chased them out. It’s said that they were short, bearded white-skinned people with blue eyes. Benjamin Smith Barton said in a 1797 book, that they’re known as “moon-eyed” because they couldn’t see very well during the day. Stories about this mysterious race of people are said to have originated in parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, however the true origins of the Moon-Eyed people are debated to this day.
Squonk
The Squonk (scientific name Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a folk loric creature reputed to live in the Hemlock forest of northern Pennsylvania.
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Wilder, Kentucky is a small town located just south of Cincinnati, Ohio. Once a quiet town with not much to its’ name, the town has become a hot spot for tourists, paranormal investigators and lovers of the macabre. They come in droves in search of a place by the name of Bobby Mackey’s Music World, a night club and tavern that may just be one of the most haunted, and most sinister locations in America. But where did these rumors begin? Who haunts Bobby Mackey’s, and why?
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Chillingham is a 13th century castle located in northumberland famous for its battles and beautiful scenery. Come with us as kayla takes us through the bloody history and mystery of englands most haunted castle.
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On December 9th, 1965, the sleepy town of Kecksburg, PA was the host of a strange (possibly extraterrestrial) visitation. What happened on that day? What was so out there that it needed to be hidden away?
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On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unidentified man was found on the beach at Somerton Park, South Australia. Who was the Somerton Man and why was he killed?
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Kayla catches up with her sister Megan, and the two discuss stories mentioned in the podcast as well as a couple extra stories that were left out of the podcast.
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Built in the early 1850s, history still echoes around the family farm. Join us for our first Halloween Special as we talk the history and the spooky stories our family have collected over the last forty plus years.
Sound credit for poem:
Poem: The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
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Darkest Thursday by Kjartan Abel. Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to download royalty-free music for your next project. CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
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Long Rain with Thunder by dustinsteichmann
https://freesound.org/people/dustinsteichmann/sounds/650373/
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Door Open Close by amholma
https://freesound.org/people/amholma/sounds/344360/
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Loud Knocking - Banging Interior Room Door by yitibit
https://freesound.org/people/yitibit/sounds/402441/
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Door, Wooden, Close, A (H6 MS).wav" by InspectorJ (http://www.jshaw.co.uk/)
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/411789/
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Cloth Flapping on a Clothesline Gently by leonelmail
https://freesound.org/people/leonelmail/sounds/330639/#
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Shutters Opening by SumuelGremaud
https://freesound.org/people/SamuelGremaud/sounds/524799/
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Raven by Bidone
https://freesound.org/people/Bidone/sounds/66763/
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Knock 3x Faster Loud by lth_stp
https://freesound.org/people/lth_stp/sounds/120485/
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Operating for 128 years, Beechworth, Victoria’s Asylum has seen many patients enter through its doors. However, it is estimated that over a third of its population never left. Caillen shares her ghostly “origin” story.
Due to the nature of this podcast, listener discretion is advised.
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In 1896, the body of Bessie Little was found in the Miami River just outside of Dayton, Ohio. Why did Bessie die? Who killed her? Does Bessie haunt Kayla’s apartment?
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This Podcast discusses topics that may cause distress to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
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Mother’s Day, 1999, a car makes it’s way north from Adelaide, a city in southern Australia. 24 year old David Johnson accompanies his step brother, 19 year old Jamie Vlassakis on a drive to Clare, a town about 136 km north of Adelaide. David believes that Jamie is taking him to pick up a cheap computer, but Jamie has something far more evil in mind. It’s night as they reach Snowtown, a quiet town with a population of a couple hundred. They pull up outside an old brick building, once used as a bank.
David Johnson will be the final victim in one of the most shocking and gruesome series of murders in the history of Australian crime. It will be two weeks before police are alerted to anything suspicious and search the former bank. What they find is horrific and will give the isolated rural community of Snowtown an international reputation for all the wrong reasons.
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Kayla and Caillen, two cousins (in-law) discuss true crime, the paranormal and weird, along family ghost stories.
Episode One introduces the podcast and it’s hosts, Caillen and Kayla.
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Two cousins (in-law) discuss true crime, the paranormal and weird.
