The Believer and the Cynic

Not a Doctor and Not Real Not Blood

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 [https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-most-haunted-places-in-america] The Crescent Hotel [https://open.spotify.com/episode/23Rwn39Jtmc2dvI5C79tii?si=4b8fe881ed324619] https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ar-crescenthotel/ [https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ar-crescenthotel/] https://crescent-hotel.com/history.shtml [https://crescent-hotel.com/history.shtml] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/ [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.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://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://crescent-hotel.com/blog/ghostly-happenings-at-the-crescent-hotel/] https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/sleeping-in-the-morgue-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 [http://www.jshaw.co.uk/]) of Freesound.org [http://freesound.org/] Fox howl: Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ  (www.jshaw.co.uk [http://www.jshaw.co.uk/]) of Freesound.org [http://freesound.org/]

This Way to the Castle Over Hell

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://www.tresbohemes.com/2017/04/houska-castle/] https://praguemonitor.com/life/16/03/2021/the-dark-legends-of-the-houska-castle/ [https://praguemonitor.com/life/16/03/2021/the-dark-legends-of-the-houska-castle/] https://allthatsinteresting.com/houska-castle [https://allthatsinteresting.com/houska-castle] https://darktourists.com/inside-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/2017/9/16/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://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/Houska_Castle] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavibor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavibor] http://weekinweird.com/2016/10/29/houska-castle-gateway-to-hell/ [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 [http://www.jshaw.co.uk/]) of Freesound.org [http://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

Marie Antoinette and the Lesbian Time Warp

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Trianon] - the grounds and house https://archive.org/details/adventurewithapp00mobe/mode/2up [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 [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://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 [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.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876800/] https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48446 [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/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Louise_of_Savoy,_Princesse_de_Lamballe] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_de_Polastron [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_de_Polastron] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395553 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395553] Music and Sound: Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ  (www.jshaw.co.uk [http://www.jshaw.co.uk/]) of Freesound.org [http://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

Never Trust a Redhead or a Showman

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://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1492] https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion/ [https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion/] https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lalaurie-mansion/ [https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lalaurie-mansion/] https://allthatsinteresting.com/lalaurie-mansion [https://allthatsinteresting.com/lalaurie-mansion] https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber/ [https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber/] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_feejee_mermaid [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://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://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/manmade-mermaids/]  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html/ [https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html/] - NOAA quote Music and Sound:  Fox, Vocal Cry, Distant, 01.wav" by InspectorJ  (www.jshaw.co.uk [http://www.jshaw.co.uk/]) of Freesound.org [http://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

The Milquetoast Ghost and the Demon With Performance Anxiety

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.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-tower-of-london-menagerie/] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tower-of-London [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.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/anne-boleyn/#gs.2c6el0] https://www.authenticvacations.com/13-ghosts-of-the-tower-of-london/ [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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_Countess_of_Salisbury]