Episode One for Spooktober 2022! 🎙 In this episode of the Badass & Bookish podcast we learn about Madame KoiKoi, the Bell Witch Hauntings that led to the murder of John Bell and scare ourselves out of talking about another vengeance ghost, Kuchisake-onna, aka "Slit Mouth Woman". 

00:00 Intro 

03:45 Scary Encounters 

11:02 Book Reviews 

17:07 Madame KoiKoi 

33:00 Trigger Warning Starts 

34:15 Trigger warning Ends 

41:44 The Bell Witch

Badass and Bookish is a podcast about women in history, women who kill and women we read. Hosted by sisters and the co-founders of Paige Turner Pty Ltd, a romance ghostwriting agency, Bren Bradley shares true crime stories while Lana Wessels is the resident feminist historian.

📚 Link to the books mentioned:

• Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jt1MsuCr5CQ