The Believer and the Cynic: Recent Episodes
Ella Hardy
A paranormal podcast brought to you by one True Believer and one Cynic in a relationship, what could go wrong!? Every week we argue about hauntings, ghosts, all things supernatural, and hoaxes, and even posit a few theories about what could have caused some of the phenomena that is terrifying us and our listeners.
This week we take you on a trip that spans from Arkansas to Naples as we investigate a haunted hotel with a sordid history, and the case of a falsified miracle in Italy.
TW: Mention of Suicide. If you will find this upsetting please proceed with caution.
Twitter: @BandCPod
Email: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Sources:
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-most-haunted-places-in-america
The Crescent Hotel
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ar-crescenthotel/
https://crescent-hotel.com/history.shtml
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-haunting-history-of-a-hucksters-cancer-cure
https://www.historichotels.org/us/hotels-resorts/1886-crescent-hotel-and-spa/ghost-stories.php
https://crescent-hotel.com/blog/ghostly-happenings-at-the-crescent-hotel/
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/sleeping-in-the-morgue-at-the-crescent-hotel/
Music:
Halloween music : Halloween Spooky Monsters: StudioKolomna
Wolf howl : 109252026-animals-wolves-wolf-howl-singl: (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
Fox howl: Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
This week Ella takes you to the Czech Republic to investigate Castle Houska, the castle on top of the gateway to hell. Come with us on an adventure through the grim and bloody history of this strange castle to investigate the demons that sprung from the chasm, the headless horseman and the St. Ludmila.
Twitter: @BandCPod
Email: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Sources
https://www.tresbohemes.com/2017/04/houska-castle/
https://praguemonitor.com/life/16/03/2021/the-dark-legends-of-the-houska-castle/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/houska-castle
https://darktourists.com/inside-houska-castle/
https://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/9/16/ep-83-castle-houska-part-1?rq=houska
https://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/9/22/ep-84-castle-houska-part-2?rq=houska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houska_Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavibor
http://weekinweird.com/2016/10/29/houska-castle-gateway-to-hell/
Music and Sound:
Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
https://www.pond5.com/
https://p5prod.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/109252026.wav?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D109252026-animals-wolves-wolf-howl-singl.wav&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJT4MAJ3GJAN6YDGQ&Expires=1652905864&Signature=p%2BpqkvqcjUNPtf7oblhiHfvICGk%3D
78 Halloween Spook Monsters . MP3
Join us for a special episode as Serah takes us on an adventure through the Petite Trianon, home of Marie Antoinette in this special end of #PrideMonth episode. Lesbian love, possible psychosis and the ghost of Marie Antoinette fill us with awe during this wild ride and possible hoax.
Twitter: @BandCPod
Gmail: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Trianon - the grounds and house
https://archive.org/details/adventurewithapp00mobe/mode/2up - the version of the book published in 1913, first edition published in 1911
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/versailles-%E2%80%98time-slip%E2%80%99
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/84232/3/WRAP-enchanted-modernity-occult-adventure-Schwartz-2017.pdf
http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/ghost-stories/342-the-ghosts-of-the-trianon-paris-france
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876800/
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Louise_of_Savoy,_Princesse_de_Lamballe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_de_Polastron
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395553
Music and Sound:
Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
https://www.pond5.com/
https://p5prod.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/109252026.wav?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D109252026-animals-wolves-wolf-howl-singl.wav&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJT4MAJ3GJAN6YDGQ&Expires=1652905864&Signature=p%2BpqkvqcjUNPtf7oblhiHfvICGk%3D
78 Halloween Spook Monsters . MP3
This week the girls take you to the far-flung reaches of 1830s New Orleans and the LaLaurie Mansion, and to the impossible collections of P.T Barnum's American Museum. Tune in to find out about murder most foul and the ghosts that now echo throughout one of the most notorious houses in Louisiana, and the hoax that garnered Barnum his fame.
Content Warning: This weeks episode includes details of slavery and torture that some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised.
Twitter: @BandCPod
Email: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Sources:
https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1492
https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lalaurie-mansion/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/lalaurie-mansion
https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber/
http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_feejee_mermaid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry#Perry_Expedition:_opening_of_Japan,_1852%E2%80%931854
https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/manmade-mermaids/
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html/ - NOAA quote
Music and Sound:
Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
https://www.pond5.com/
https://p5prod.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/109252026.wav?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D109252026-animals-wolves-wolf-howl-singl.wav&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJT4MAJ3GJAN6YDGQ&Expires=1652905864&Signature=p%2BpqkvqcjUNPtf7oblhiHfvICGk%3D
78 Halloween Spook Monsters . MP3
Follow us on a journey to London town, and then New York State this week as Ella takes you to the haunted grounds of the Tower of London to discuss the antics of a ghostly polar bear, Anne Boleyn, and a haunted host of ghosts whilst Serah reveals the giant hoax that was the Amityville Horror Haunting.
Content Warning: This episode includes description of executions, and murder that some listeners may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised for those under thirteen.
Email: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Twitter: @BandCPod
https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-tower-of-london-menagerie/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tower-of-London
https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/anne-boleyn/#gs.2c6el0
https://www.authenticvacations.com/13-ghosts-of-the-tower-of-london/
walks.com/blog/tower-of-london-ghosts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_Countess_of_Salisbury
Join us as we investigate the haunted island of Poveglia in all it's gruesomeness, and the Cottingly Fairies.
This episode contains some graphic content surrounding the discussion of plague, illness and asylums that may not be suitable for children under the age of 13. Listener Discretion is advised.
Social Media:
Twitter: @BandCPod
Email: believerandcynic@gmail.com
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poveglia
Terrible secrets are buried on Ghost Island ( Poveglia Italy )
https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-facts-about-poveglia-the-italian-black-plague-island/cheryl-adams-richkoff
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-evil-island-of-italy/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poveglia-island-like-hell_b_4188986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/1000/library/132/fooled-by-fairies
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kodk/hd_kodk.htm#:~:text=By%20far%20the%20most%20significant,100%2Dexposure%20roll%20of%20film.
The Evidence for Fairies - Arthur Conan Doyle, 1921
Body snatchers, violent ghosts, a loyal dog, and Harry Potter characters may seem like strange bedfellows, but in Scotland’s gorgeous, gothic capital city of Edinburgh, the four merge to make up the ghostly lore surrounding one of the world’s most haunted graveyards.
Twitter: @BandCPod
Ella : @SnapsOfAFool
Sources:
Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
Wolf Howl:
https://greyfriarskirk.com/visit/kirkyard/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Kirkyard
http://www.eatdrinktravel.com/most-haunted-graveyard-in-the-world-greyfriars-kirkyard/
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/famous-haunted-tomb-inside-historic-25689461
https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/the-mackenzie-poltergeist.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanters