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Left of Skeptic

Kala Moria & Brittany Lind
A paranormal podcast released every #SpookyWednesday where Kala and Brittany discuss haunted locations, paranormal encounters, and creepy objects! And then rate them on their Skeptic Scale of "Para" to "Normal"! Check out our website at https://www.leftofskeptic.com to submit your listener story, check out our episode map, or read our sources! For information on our social media, sponsors, and all others visit https://linktr.ee/leftofskeptic

Episodes

Episode 94: “Death Drawers”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week Kala talks about Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder, Kentucky. This country music club sits on the land that once held a slaughterhouse, possible cult activity, a dumping ground after a murder, illegal drinking and gambling, mob activity, and just general shady behavior. All of that changed when it was purchased by Bobby Mackey in the 70s, but the years of darkness may have left it’s mark in the building. It’s so haunted that it’s had books and television show...

Nov 16, 20221 hr 11 min

Episode 93: “Karma or ghosts? I’ll take it either way.”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week's episode feels very classic left of skeptic. Just some good ol' haunted buildings, but with a surprising amount of similarities. First up, Kala discusses The Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida. This historic building has a fancy mezzanine, tons of seating, great acoustics, and ghosts.  A captain, a little girl, and a former manager have taken up residence here in the afterlife, and with the exception of a few temper tantrums a...

Nov 09, 202248 min

Episode 92: “Scream because I can no longer scream.”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week we have a creepy New Jersey week, but not creepy for the reasons you might associate either the state. Nothing to do with Pauly D or Snooki. First Kala talks about haunted NJ roads: Annie’s Road, Clinton Road, and Shade of Death Road. Each stretch of pavement has their own back stories that result in haunted tales including a woman in white, a coin-retrieving ghost boy, and figure shaped mists. And Brittany talks about the Hotel Macomber in Cape May, which has n...

Nov 02, 20221 hr

Episode 91: “Paranormability”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! Happy Halloween! This week we recorded our episode live on Facebook and ended our October with a bang! First Kala started out with tales of babysitting gone wrong, sharing stories of ‘the call is coming from inside the house’ and ‘the clown statue in the corner.’ These tales have been told for years, but did you know there is a real-life unsolved murder as their source material? And Brittany tells us two urban legends! First is the tale of the Halloween Massacre. This uns...

Oct 26, 202257 min

Episode 90: "The smell of men keeps away the devil."

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We’ve got some overseas urban legends for you this week. We’re focusing our episode on tales from Germany! Kala starts out with the legends of The Morbach Monster and The Alp. The Morbach Monster is considered one of the last “real” werewolf stories, with documented sightings as late as the 1980s. And The Alp is a creepy vampiric, demonic, hat-wearing incubus type creature that shows up in peoples’ houses at bed time. Beware of its attack, because it might just sit on you...

Oct 19, 202258 min

Episode 89: "Yummm... drawer blood."

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We’re serving up some more of that hot Ringu Pasta Sauce with an episode made of Creepypasta for Urban Legends October. Brittany starts us off with stories of The Backrooms. This creepy dimension describes an endless maze of randomly generated office rooms characterized by the smell of moist carpet, walls with monochromatic tones of yellow, and buzzing fluorescent lights. As you ascend the floors, get ready for big bad spiders, endless caves, and worse smells… like a Dung...

Oct 12, 20221 hr 15 min

Episode 88: “Ringu Pasta Sauce”

Happy Spooky Wednesday and Happy Spooky Season! We’re back with the beginning of our second annual Urban Legends October. We’re excited to welcome back our special guest, Adam Herman of The Podcostner, The Oddville Revue, and The Slamming Doors. We’re discussing the urban legend of The Elevator Game. This game is meant to lead its players into another dimension! You can find yourself in another world through a sequence of floor visits. But it becomes more complicated when the players encounter c...

Oct 05, 20221 hr 15 min

Episode 87: “That was the most delightful dead… child?… story I’ve ever heard.”

 Happy Spooky Wednesday, dear listeners! We’re going hard this week with a haunted cemetery, a Canadian poltergeist, and creepy-looking headlights. We start out with Kala talking about Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, AL, and its weird little offshoot, Dead Children’s Playground. DCP features orbs, mists, creepy looming shadows, and swings that move on their own. Is it the spirits of children from the Spanish Flu that ravaged the Huntsville area? Or are these just exaggerated local legend...

Sep 28, 20221 hr 8 min

Episode 86: “Interactive haunting: the guests are in on it too.”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! Kala is back with another creepy transportation-related story this week, though this time it’s more mysterious than spectral. In the early 20th century, the Charfield Railway Disaster resulted in many deaths and injuries, but the “Two Unknowns” are two victims still discussed to this day. Who were they? Members of the royal family? Homeless children in the wrong place at the wrong time? Ventriloquist dummies? And who is the woman who visited their graves for decades? And ...

Sep 21, 20221 hr 4 min

Episode 85: "You've got a rocking chair? Automatically haunted."

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We're embracing the beginning of this gorgeous fall spooky season with a classic subject matter: haunted houses. This week Kala talks about The 1889 McInteer Villa in Atchison, Kansas. This home has 10 confirmed deaths in its history, and has the hauntings to prove it! From strange voices, slamming doors, and weird rocking chairs with Raggedy Ann dolls that move on their own, you're sure to get creeped out if you hang out in this house too long. And you can, too! Because ...

Sep 14, 202257 min

Episode 84: "Bones, blood, and bodily fluids."

Happy Spooky Wednesday, everyone! This week brings a whole host of ghosts, monsters, witches, and laxative water. First up, Kala gets to talk about two of her favorite topics: a location with a funny name and the weird obsession with mineral springs from the early 1900’s. The French Lick Springs Hotel is considered one of the most haunted places in Indiana. Built to be a place of relaxation and healing, it now features golf courses, fine dining, a casino… and the restless horse riding ghost of t...

Sep 07, 20221 hr 5 min

Episode 82: "Let's talk 'Squatch!"

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week we have a special guest, Corey Gice from The PodCostner podcast, and he's talkin' #Bigfoot! He started out a skeptic, but after some research and some VERY compelling Youtube videos, he's now a believer. Can he sway you? And Brittany brings us a haunted house from New Orleans with a tragic past... mostly tragic because of how many buildings didn't last very long on this plot of land. Welcome to the story of Lafitte’s Guest House. There are storms, there are vene...

Aug 24, 20221 hr 29 min

Left of Skeptic REMIX

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week Kala and Brittany are revisiting some of their favorite stories. First, we take a trip down memory lane to hear Kala tell us about Whispers Estate. Then Brittany revisits the story of a most unusual creature... The Gjenganger. A strange ghost/zombie/vampire hybrid that has a knack for pinchin'.

Aug 17, 202259 min

Episode 81: “Spiders. Monsters. Demons. Mall Goths.”

ITS BRITTANY’S BIRTHDAY WEEK! Happy Spooky Wednesday and Happy Birthday to the beautiful and smart Brittany Lind! She starts us out this week with the creepy tale of The Hat Man. You may have thought this tale was just an urban legend, sleep paralysis, or a fedora-wearing Hot Topic reject, but you were wrong. As hundreds have tales have proven… this entity is very real. And it might just be hanging out in your bedroom or basement.   Then, finally fulfilling Brittany’s request, Kala tal...

Aug 10, 20221 hr 15 min

Episode 80: “They were all about them flat bottoms.”

Fool me once, shame on you… kill 3 of my relatives, I’m pretty sure this vase is cursed.   Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week Kala heads overseas to India for a listener request story! Bhangarh Fort is a 16th-century village of ruins that has been overtaken by wildlife, tourists, and ghosts. These strange noises and paranormal occurrences have led the area to be declared “legally haunted”, so no one is allowed in at night. But that doesn’t mean people won’t try it… and they have some stories...

Aug 03, 202254 min

Episode 79: "Ancient map makers would have put mermaids there."

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We’ve got some salty stories for you this week! Get it? Salty? Ocean? The sea? … ** crickets**   Anyway, Kala is talking about mermaids! These cryptids have been discussed for thousands of years all across the world. While the legends vary from culture to culture, one question remains unanswered… are they real? Your instinct might be to say no, but wait until you hear the evidence. Brittany takes us out to the #WestCoast to tell us about the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse...

Jul 27, 20221 hr 13 min

Episode 78: “You’re pushing your faerie narrative onto my UFO experiences.”

Happy spooky Wednesday, everyone! It’s a Kala Birthday Takeover this week! She’s telling you all about Skinwalker Ranch in Utah! There is so much information there is no way to do it without using up a whole episode! This 512-acre property has been experiencing UFO visits, strange noises, crop circles, and dead cows since the early 1900s. And they still continue to this day!

Jul 20, 20221 hr 12 min

Episode 77: "Like growl, without the G” **Literally growls** "No."

Happy Spooky Wednesday, y’all! This week Kala tells you about the Littlefield House on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin. This building is over a century old, and is haunted by the ghost of the former lady of the house… and possibly some music majors. And Brittany takes us over to Italy to talk about the Palazzo Dario. It’s a winding tale with a lot of death and a lot of difficult-to-pronounce names. You’re in for a treat with this one! And if you know Italian… send us a message an...

Jul 13, 202255 min

Episode 76: The Return of the Black Eyed Kids

Happy Spooky Wednesday, y’all! And this Wednesday is extra spooky for a listener request. Listener Sara (Kala’s seeeeester) makes a special birthday request for more Black-Eyed Children stories, and Kala does not disappoint with three creepy stories that will leave you reluctant to answer the door. Especially for kids. And Brittany, in protest of some of our country's bulls**t, heads over to the UK to talk about The Black Swan Inn located in York, England. This building with centuries of history...

Jul 06, 202256 min

Episode 75: “That’s my broken bone!”

Happy Spooky Wednesday y'all! We've got three locations from two states we have not yet visited on the podcast! First up Kala takes us to Delaware to discuss two haunted inns. The Addy Sea Inn's beachfront property may be kid-free, but that doesn't mean you'll be undisturbed, especially if you stay in rooms 1, 6, or 11. And if you head further inland to Georgetown to visit The Brick Hotel on the Circle, you'll find a 185-year-old building where restoration activities in 2008 kicked up a lot of g...

Jun 29, 202251 min

Episode 74: “I said it was my dying hill, not that I wanted to die on it"

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We’ll be the first to admit that unless we. tell you what this description is about, you’re going to have no idea. We’ve got a weird one today where we’re bringing you stairs and butts!   Just kidding. First Kala talks about the mysterious stairs in the woods. Apparently, these stairways have no purpose but to creep you out. Are they portals to hell? A place where time stops? A hot spot for demons? No one knows… and we may never know. And continuing with her sto...

Jun 22, 202259 min

Episode 73: "Wow. Keening... I have drastically misread that situation."

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week Kala is taking it back to the Midwest with the story of Hotel Hell. No, not the Gordon Ramsey show… the Maribel Caves Hotel in Maribel, WI. Once upon a time, this hotel was a gorgeous building built on a flowing mineral spring, occasionally frequented by gangsters. Hits all the best points. But after a fire and a tornado, it’s now in ruins reminiscent of a creepy, haunted castle. The question is: Is it creepy and haunted? Or just creepy?  And Brittany regal...

Jun 15, 20221 hr 6 min

Episode 72: "Who the f**k is Ed?"

Happy Spooky Wednesday everyone and welcome to episode 72! This episode gets a little goofy... sleep depravation and recording multiple episodes a week will do that to ya. It's all sorts of cursed objects this week!  Kala starts it off with a discussion of The Screaming Skulls. This is not a punk band. It is a legend restricted to England where the skulls of the dead are kept in certain homes and halls, and they have the tendency to protest when being moved from their rightful location. The...

Jun 08, 202256 min

Episode 71: “How dare you use your inheritance powder!”

Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! This week, in preparation for her trip to New York City, Kala talks about the NYC restaurant One if by Land, Two if by Sea. This romantic little restaurant was once owned by the notorious historical figure, Aaron Burr, sir. And it is haunted by him, his daughter, and many others. And the podcast is haunted by the many Hamilton references this causes Kala to make. Next, Brittany tells us of La Voisin and The Affair of the Poisons. Catherine Montvoisin was just your ...

Jun 01, 20221 hr 5 min

Episode 70: "I want to walk into a room and be haunted by happiness.”

Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week we've got a birthday request, a listener story, and a haunting that leaves you feeling happy and calm. Does it get any better than this?! First, Kala covers a listener request for locations out of Annapolis, Maryland. In her search she found two locations that are battling it out for title of most haunted in the city: The James Brice House and The Maryland Inn. The James Brice House is one of the oldest buildings in the city and possibly the country, and it has ...

May 25, 202259 min

Episode 69: “Once you go ghost, it’s what you want the most.”

Fair warning… this episode is NSFW. It is the Spooky Wednesday that Kala had been waiting for… Episode 69! Kala starts the episode with the concept of spectrophelia, where people just love to bang it out with ghosts. This may sound weird, but it’s much more common than you might think. And if it’s not believable, then the multiple sex puns Kala makes may be enough to convince you. If her story still leaves you questioning, you may want to find a ghost lover for yourself. And Brittany tells every...

May 18, 20221 hr 10 min

Episode 68: "Did you just 'yadda yadda yadda' cannibalism?"

Happy Spooky Wednesday! We’re comin’ at ya with two very different tales. Brittany tells us about the life and death of Edgar Allen Poe. This man’s strange, sad story has been told many times, but this takes on a slightly new twist. What if he was… a time traveler? Brittany’s got some examples to back that claim up. And Kala discusses the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Also known as The Black Angel, this statue with a beautiful backstory is said to come alive at night and curs...

May 11, 202256 min

Episode 67: "It's not episode 69, but it is close."

It's not episode 69... but almost.  This Spooky Wednesday, Brittany starts us off by finishing her two part story about Kilkenny, Ireland. Not only does she complete the tale of Dame Alice Kyteler, but she also talks about multiple other locations in Kilkenny that show it is an extremely haunted town. And with all these spooky haunted tales, Kala still seems to be the most bothered by the idea of the punishment via Catholic mass 3 times a day. And Kala takes us back home to Minnesota where ...

May 04, 202258 min

Episode 66: "Call me maybe"

This week Kala continues on her theme of paranormal modes of transportation by telling us all the story of The Bus to Nowhere. This mysterious SEPTA bus, mostly found in Philadelphia, PA, comes to people at the lowest point in their lives and offers them a chance to figure out what they need to do. No one knows where it comes from or where it goes, and it seems like time stands still or even reverses when you’re on it! And Brittany gives us the first half of her story on Kilkenny, Ireland to tal...

Apr 27, 202254 min