Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain

Episode 62 - Small Town Hauntings: Eureka Springs, Arkansas

If you've listened to this podcast for a while or follow us on social media, you know how much I love Eureka Springs, Arkansas! Not only is it home to one of the most haunted hotels in America, the 1886 Crescent, it's a paranormal hub unlike no other. What does that even mean? For starters, there's another hotel that's haunted by the ghosts of gangsters and barefoot hillbillies, an ill-fated doctor's home and so much more. Listen and learn about all the freaky deaky stuff going on in that town and all you can see and do there that will scar you for life!

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Paranormal, History, Travel, Religion Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel, Religion Tana Chastain

Episode 57 - Three of the Sinningest Saints in History!

We haven't riffed on religion in a hot second, so during the season of supernatural miracles (the birth of little baby Jesus, a big fat man being able to squeeze down 3 billion chimneys in one night, surviving Black Friday, etc), we're gonna talk about 3 nasty people who miraculously became saints and how they got there. A nice reminder that redemption is for everyone!

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Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain

Episode 55 - Small Town Hauntings: Jonesboro, Arkansas!

The title has an exclamation point because it's extra special to me! In this episode we talk about the famously haunted Bono bridge, the even more haunted Keller's Chapel Cemetery, and then a little palate cleanser about a very old ghost who patrols downtown. If you like spooky small towns, this one is for you. Jonesvegas forever!

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Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain

Episode 54 - Rhode Island Weekend: The Breakers and Lizzie Borden

I took off last weekend to check out the foliage in Little Rhody and came back with a couple of neat stories. First, I toured The Breakers, the colossal "summer cottage" of the famous Vanderbilt family in Newport. It's a massive mansion where a lot of sad stuff happened and where the matriarch of the family is said to still live. Then I hit up Lizzie Borden's house in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts. You know, the place where she chopped her parental units to death? Yeahhhhhh. Listen and relive the weekend with me!

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Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain

Episode 53 - The Bennington Triangle

You've all heard of the Bermuda Triangle but did you know that there's a place you can get lost forever that's completely landlocked and accessible on foot? But why would you want that knowledge, you psychos???

Between 1943 and 1950, six people disappeared in the wooded area known as the Bennington Triangle in Bennington, Vermont. Two of those people died mysteriously. Were the Native's stories about the cursed land true or was a serial killer at work? Or both?

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Paranormal, History, Travel, Greece Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel, Greece Tana Chastain

Episode 52 - Ancient Mystery: The Antikythera Mechanism

Guys, this is one that I've been obsessed with for years. In fact, it was the first podcast episode I wrote more than a year ago but since new developments are constantly being found, I kept needing to update it! So, here it is - the mystery of how a 2,200-year-old computer was found in the remains of an ancient Roman shipwreck. Has science solved the mystery or will we never know the truth?

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Episode 51 - America’s Most Haunted: The Stanley Hotel

Here it is, ya'll! The grandaddy of haunted hotels, the one that tops the list of spookiest B&Bs every year, the one that was immortalized in The Shining, the one and only Stanley Hotel! But is it really haunted or is it just Stephen King's messing with our minds? Listen and decide!

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Paranormal, History, Travel, Georgia Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel, Georgia Tana Chastain

Episode 50 - Small Town Hauntings: Dahlonega, Georgia

Just a small town girl, livin' in a ghosty worrrrrrrld! That's probably what every woman in Dahlonega, Georgia is thinking every second of the day. This tiny town, located about 35 miles from the uber haunted Tallulah Falls, has a ghost inhabiting just about every public building, hotel and restaurant. In this episode we cover a handful of them, and the macabre ways these hauntings came to be. From the kidnapping of a Cherokee princess to the unsolved death of the town's Mayor to a tragic train accident, this town's history reads more like a Stephen King novel!

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Paranormal, History, Travel, Museums, New Orleans Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel, Museums, New Orleans Tana Chastain

Episode 49 - Virtual Tour of the Museum of Death in New Orleans!

If you think museums are boring, you haven't visited the Museum of Death in New Orleans! No pics or videos are allowed (and later I found out why), so listen as I detail each exhibit and decide whether to venture inside yourself. I didn't come anywhere near doing it justice, but if you want a primer about the macabre morbidity inside, here it is. Maybe bring some Tums along, its a gut wrencher!

(trigger warning: depictions of murder, suicide, infant death, graphic accidents and cannabalism. Use discretion when listening.)

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Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel Tana Chastain

Episode 48 - America’s Most Haunted: The Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Ya'll know I'm always down for shacking up with ghosts, especially if crawfish and hurricanes are involved. In this episode we discuss the history of the Bourbon Orleans hotel, which was once the most important opera theater in the US, a civil war hospital, a convent and more. Today it's a hotel where you can rest your head next to some ghosties! I even had my own run in with one there. Listen and hear all about it!

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Paranormal, History, Travel, Religion, Bible Tana Chastain Paranormal, History, Travel, Religion, Bible Tana Chastain

Episode 47 - The Codex Gigas, aka The Devil’s Bible

Remember back in the day when you put off writing that book report until 9 pm the night before and had no choice but to snort Pixie Stix and guzzle Mountain Dew all night so you could stay awake to complete it and hand it in to your teacher at 8 am the next morning with your shaky, blistered and bloody hands?

Yeah, me neither. I never did that.

But a guy named Herman the Recluse did. Only, he had a little help from a "friend". A friend who might have unleashed demons upon the world! Sounds like my kind of friend. Listen and learn about the worst book report of all time!

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