appy Spooky Wednesday, everyone! This week we've got classic stories in the form of a haunted hotel and a creepy college campus. First up, Kala talks about The Excelsior House Hotel in Jefferson, TX. Jefferson is a haunted little city, and this hotel is one of its hot spots. Allegedly, it's creepy enough to scare away one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Who will you encounter if you visit? The woman in black? The perfumed lady? The headless soldier? All three? If you do visit, do you ...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday folks! We’re hitting two different categories of the paranormal this week with a tale of an alien abduction and an old, haunted inn. First, Kala discusses the Travis Walton Incident. In the 70s, Walton went missing, and when he returned he said he had been taken by beings in a UFO. While he’s been able to make a lifelong career out of his story, we are not so easily convinced, and it sounds like many others aren’t as well. And Brittany tells us all about the Old Faithful I...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, dearests! This week we’ve got two locations that scream “Tale as old as time.” First up, we have Kala discussing the Ashmore Estates in Ashmore, IL. This old building that used to operate as an almshouse is active enough that nearly everyone who visits has an experience. So who will you meet? The man who was hit by a train? The child who just wants attention? Or the unnamed worker who has a problem with women in his boiler room? And Brittany tells us all about The Oxford ...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! Brittany is taking over this week with a story of the North Carolina house known as “Nannie”. Better known as the Poplar Hill Mansion, this historic home surprised one family when they moved in 2014. They definitely got more than they bargained for when they encountered the strange apparitions of women circling the property, unexplained noises, moving objects, and many other paranormal occurrences. When they dug into the history of the building and the land surroun...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming with two haunted locations and a kooky case of psychokinesis. First up Kala talks about the Alliance Theater in Alliance, NE, which is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who died during a performance. Then she talks about the Mill Ruins Park in Minneapolis, MN. This site of the Great Mill Disaster may be a park now, but it seems like the ghosts don’t want us to forget this is the place where they met their e...
Nov 01, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday and HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! It is our last week of Urban Legends October for 2023 and we are excited to bring you some truly classic urban legends this week! First up, Kala talks about the various types of Freaky Food stories we’ve been telling one another for decades. Tales of flesh-eating bananas, mutant chickens, and poisoned candy have been plaguing us for decades. Is there any truth behind these rumors, or have we been swallowing bullsh*t? And Brittany tells us all...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, and welcome back to our 3rd annual Urban Legends October! It's "travel week", where we pick another country and cover some of our favorite urban legends from that area! This year we’re traveling to Australia, where deadly creatures both real and legend exist in abundance. First, Kala talks about Drop Bears. This creature is one of the most well-known cryptids of the country. Even if almost everyone knows they’re a myth, it doesn’t stop the locals from using ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! We are in the second week of Urban Legends October, and you know what that means! CREEPYPASTAS! That's right, this week we're covering those scary stories that have been copied and pasted around the internet so many times that people may not even know their origin and may not know whether or not they are true. First, Kala tells the story of "Abandoned by Disney" and then delves a bit into the history of the abandoned buildings and ghosts of The Mo...
Oct 11, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday and happy Spooky Season, one and all! We’re so excited to be starting out the 3rd annual Urban Legends October with the ever-amazing Adam Herman! We’re starting out the creepy month right with the super creepy game known as Three Kings. Calling it a game may be a stretch, it’s more of a ritual. Have you ever wanted your questions answered? Have you considered you may not like the answers given? If you can make it through the ritual, be prepared for unexpected results. Is t...
Oct 04, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, friends! We hope you’re enjoying your fall as much as we are! We’ve got two haunted locations for you this evening, and both of them are waaaaaay old. Kala talks about The Farm on Round Top Road in Rhode Island, also known as The Conjuring House. This farmhouse inspired the movie The Conjuring, and the paranormal activity in the house is just as scary. It just may be one of the most haunted houses in America, especially if you believe the stories told by the Perron family...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday to all of our favorite spooky friends! This week, Kala continues the Barry Taff discussion with the investigation story of the Doris Bither Case, better known as The Entity haunting. A young woman with four small kids, Doris Bither already had to handle the stress of getting by as a single mom, but that stress was amplified by a near-constant haunting in her Culver City home. Was this a poltergeist or telekinesis brought on by pressures of life as a woman in the 70s? And B...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, dears! We've kept you on your toes long enough! This week, Brittany is bringing you the spine-chilling conclusion to The San Pedro Haunting! It turns out poor Jackie, Jeff, and the Barrys didn't get enough haunting activity and had to up the ante with a terrifying Ouija board experience. And just when they thought (again) that the experience was over, the haunting followed the family some more. But before we dive into that terrifying tale, Kala brings some lighthe...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, everyone! We’ve got one happy haunting for you this week, and one very unhappy haunting. First, Kala talks about The Grand in Oshkosh, WI, and by gosh, it’s just so wholesome. No tragic tales sparked the ghosties here. As far as we can tell, it’s just some theater nerds who stuck around because they loved that business we call show. A lifelong caretaker, enthusiastic audience members, and a mischievous pup are just some of the specters you may encounter at this theater! A...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! This week we've got a petrifying prison and a paralyzing plantation. Kala discusses The Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise, ID. Built before Idaho was even a state, this facility saw executions, riots, and death due to the poor conditions in which the prisoners were kept. As a result, there are a multitude of spirits still stuck in the building where they were held. Tourists, employees, and paranormal investigators have reported many classic haunting occurrences s...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday! This week we've got creepy stories galore! Kala talks about Gore Orphanage Road & Swift's Hallow in Vermillion, OH. Once Kala gets over her urge to sing Hawthorne Heights, she ends up telling us a surprisingly complicated tale where the line between truth and urban legend gets awfully blurry. The ruins of this orphanage that existed, but may not have existed as the stories said, is a popular location for "legend tripping". This leaves us wondering if...
Aug 23, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! First up this week, Kala has an important question: Alien or Cryptid? The Flatwoods Monster scared the butts off some West Virginia residents back in 1952. There are three different documented occurrences of this creature all within the same year, and it didn't make a great impression with its weird shaped head, glowing red eyes, metallic dress, and terrible smell. The whole "crashing down from the sky" thing didn't seem to help much either. While...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday everyone! It’s Brittany’s birthday week! We’re celebrating with a creepy castle and the history of one of the most recognizable paranormal objects in the world. Kala tells us all about the Burg Wolfsegg in Wolfsegg, Germany. Gothic architecture, a mysterious hole, and a lady in white? What could be better than that? And Brittany talks about the history and creation of one of the best divination objects: the Ouija board! If you haven’t picked up on this from previous episod...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday! Kala is back from vacation just in time for a giggly little podcast. We start with Kala talking about the Eloise Psychiatric Hospital, or Eloise Asylum, in Westland, MI. This is one of the most haunted locations in Michigan. Are we surprised? Nope. We know how these old abandoned hospitals go. Multiple paranormal investigators have found EVPs, seen misty figures, and heard strange disembodied voices within its halls. And what a bonus for the public that this haunted forme...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, dear listeners! We hope your summer is going well! We've got a bloodcurdling bed & breakfast and an ill-fated island for you this week. First up, Kala talks about the Periwinkle Place Manor B&B in Chelsea, IA. Don't let this adorable name fool you, this building has some spirits lurking about. It was once a funeral home, and luckily it found an owner who embraces its morbid past. This lady is someone we'd love to have as a friend. We can do some murder mysteries, sing som...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! It's Kala's birthday week! And she is celebrating by covering one of her favorite haunted U.S. locations: The Queen Mary! This ship has gone from a luxury liner to a wartime terrifier to a spooky hotel in less than 100 years! She has seen her fair share of tragedy, from fallen soldiers to crushed crewmembers, and she has the ghosts to prove it. Would you dare spend a vacation knowing you may be sharing your hotel room with a ghost who finds you to be a '...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, our loves! This week we’ve got a classic haunting and a cursed soul for your enjoyment. Kala talks about Casa Loma in Toronto, Ontario. This mansion/castle was built in the early 1900s. The only tragedy that seems to have befallen this place is that it’s original owners couldn’t afford the upkeep, but that hasn’t prevented the place from being haunted. A woman in white, a handsy man in the tunnels, and a tape-stealing lady of the house are just some of the ghosts you may ...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday! We've got a very special guest this week: Left of Skeptic Super Fan Gina! We start the episode with the third annual Kala's seeeester birthday request: haunted campsites. Kala talks about Lake Morena in San Diego, Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, Crystal Lake Campground in Los Angeles County, and Cameron Park in Waco. Each recreation area is haunted in different ways, but they all have tragic occurrences in their history that may be the cause of the hauntings. P...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, one and all! This week we're heading to the east coast to talk about historic locations, famous authors, literary puns, and ghosts galore! Kala is covering the Westminster Hall & Burying Grounds in Baltimore, MD. This cemetery is known for being the final resting place of Edgar Allen Poe, along with many war veterans and politicians throughout history. It could have ended up like every other cemetery, except they decided to build a church right in the middle of it...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, everyone! We’ve got two locations this week to tingle your spines and bump your gooses! Kala starts it off with the Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells, TX! This location is home to 9 different spirits, some that we know the names of, some that we don’t, and all of them vocal. If you choose to stay in this mansion overnight, be prepared to have motion-activated decorations go off out of nowhere, phantom hands touch your hair, and not-so-sweet nothings whispered in your ea...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, one and all! We’re doing a call-back episode this week, calling back to last week and to two years ago. We start out with an explanation of those controversial ghost-hunting apps we discussed last week. Take this information and decide whether or not you trust them. It seems similar to the vinyl vs MP3 debate. Then Kala harkens back to episode 7 of the podcast with a deeper dive into the fearsome critter known as the Hodag. This cryptid is famous, especially in Rhinelande...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, dear listeners! This week we've got two haunted locations known by many different names. We start with Kala discussing "Old Main" Utica State Hospital in Utica, NY. This facility was considered groundbreaking in the mid-1800s as they attempted to move towards more compassionate care of patients (though, as we've learned, what they considered compassionate back then was still pretty barbaric.) It's known as one of the most haunted places in upstate Ne...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, dear listeners! We’ve got a special guest for you this week! Kara Babcock of Prophecy Girls joins us this week as we tackle Canadian extraterrestrials and Russian douchebags disguised as monks. First up, Kala talks about the history of UFO sightings in Canada. With some well-known and still unexplained encounters, Canadians have quite a history with unidentified flying objects, and groups have been working for years to get to the bottom of it. Some people suspect aliens, ...
Jun 01, 2023•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, one and all! It may be summertime out in the real world, but here in Left of Skeptic Land it is spooky season all year long! First up this week, Kala tells us about The Death Ship of Platte River, also known as The Wyoming Death Ship. This omen of doom has been seen multiple times along the Platte River between Torrington and Alcova, and allegedly every one who has spotted it has had a loved one pass away the very same day. Is this really a ghost ship, or a method of clai...
May 24, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday, folks! This week, based on a listener suggestion by Kristy, Kala talks about The Hotel Congress in Tucson, AZ! This hotel has stuck to its historic roots by keeping improvements without losing decor, limiting technology, and embracing its ghosts. Whether it’s the spirits of those who worked there or long-gone guests, this place is hopping with paranormal activity! And though the seances may be staged, the personal stories from employees and tourists certainly are not. And...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Spooky Wednesday to you all! We recorded remotely this week as we are both down with the sickness, but we are not too disturbed to provide you with your weekly ghostly content. First, Kala talks about the infamous Annabelle doll. This cursed object has had enough notoriety to inspire a film series and had its story told all over the United States! Don't let its raggedy Anne looks fool you, there is something in this inanimate object, and it wants out. Luckily, supposedly the late Ed an...
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