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Episode 95: The Man Who Never Dies & Knows Everything: Count St. Germain

Episode 95: The Man Who Never Dies & Knows Everything: Count St. Germain

The secret to eternal life has long eluded all of us mortals. The secret to perpetual youth? Also a tricky thing to pin down. That has not stopped wild speculation about what these secrets might be, and who might know them. No, the gossip about immortals is as old as the fear of not being one of them. Lace up your best pair of wandering shoes, and join us as we try to locate the fountain of…

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Episode 127: Ceci N'est Pas De L'art

Episode 127: Ceci N’est Pas De L’art

Tom Green Show – Tiger Zebra (1999)

Banksy at the Met

  The Theft That Made The ‘Mona Lisa’ A Masterpiece – NPR

Getting your art into a museum – Snopes

‘LA GIOCONDA’ IS STOLEN IN PARIS – NYTs Aug 23, 1911

Prankster infiltrates NY museums – BBC

Mona Lisa: The theft…

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Sometimes the character of a place is so apparent that one can help but feel the stories that formed it. Natchez, Mississippi is one of those places. History has always brought conflicted, complicated characters to this city on the bluffs, and it seems that those characters and the spaces that he inhabited are still around. Natchez held on tight to its history, and today, legends abound. Join us this week as we discuss the southern character itself, focusing on stories from this sleepy Mississippi town: from the haunting of King’s Tavern, to the town’s ties to the infamous Harpe Brothers; from the trial of Aaron Burr, to murder at Goat Castle.

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SOURCES:

King’s Tavern In Mississippi Has A Haunting Past

GHOSTS OF NATCHEZ – Ghosts on the Prairie

Mississippi Society of Paranormal Investigators

The King’s Tavern: A Haunted History of Cruelty, Anguish and Sorrow

Natchez Area Paranormal Society

Haunted Mississippi: Looking for Spirits at King’s Tavern in Natchez

The Haunted Natchez Trace By Bud Steed

King’s Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi; National Trust for Historic Preservation

Mississippi Current Cookbook: A Culinary Journey down America’s Greatest River By Regina Charboneau, Harriet Bell

The Natchez District and the American Revolution By Robert V. Haynes

The outlaws of Cave-in-Rock : historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the old Natchez trace by Rothert, Otto Arthur

Aaron Burr in Mississippi Thomas Perkins Abernethy The Journal of Southern History Vol. 15, No. 1 (Feb., 1949)

Natchez- Mississippi’s Most Haunted Town

THE OUTLAW YEARS by ROBERT M.COATES – The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace

Lost Mansions of Mississippi By Mary Carol Miller

The Natchez Trace Indian Trail to Parkway Dawson A. Phelps Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER, 1962)

Trace of Spirits – Deep South Magazine

Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears – Smithsonian

End of the Road – Smithsonian

Legends of the war of independence : and of the earlier settlements in the West by Thomas Marshall)

Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South by Karen L Cox

Longwood Plantation – Civil War Buff

Longwood Mansion in Natchez, Mississippi: A story of a broken dream – Abandoned Spaces

Old Images of Natchez

“Fata Morgana”: A Vision of Empire–the Burr Conspiracy in Mississippi Territory and the Great Southwest–Natchez Love Story of Ex-Vice President Aaron Burr : a Historical Novel – Elizabeth Brandon Stanton

Finding Emily A Story of Historical Recovery

“The Goat Castle Murder” – The Writers Porch

  Episode 126: Southern Gothic AF: Ghosts of Natchez Sometimes the character of a place is so apparent that one can help but feel the stories that formed it.

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Episode 125: Deal with the Consequences Later: Vigilantes

Episode 125: Deal with the Consequences Later: Vigilantes

There is a time honored tradition in America of elevating the heroes amongst us, who are willing to take matters into their own hands. They quickly become legends. We seem to love an antihero, and at no time was this more apparent than in the 1970s. The heyday of the vigilante film, saw such classics as Shaft, Taxi Driver, Foxy Brown, and Dirty Harry hit screens for the first time. So, what does…

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Episode 124: Will Music Save Your Mortal Soul?

Episode 124: Will Music Save Your Mortal Soul?

  Rock and roll is here to stay, and that’s why some truly enduring urban legends have sprung up around the landmark hits and the bands that performed them.  Before there was Instagram, or even MySpace; before AOL instant messenger, before MTV, or John Hughes; before arcades and shopping malls; before all that: there was rock and roll. For teenagers, by teenagers, about teenagers; rock was…

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Episode 123: Who Watches the Watchers: Shadow People

Episode 123: Who Watches the Watchers: Shadow People

Shadow People are an international phenomenon. As far as paranormal experiences go, seeing a fleeting dark figure in you peripheral vision, or waking up to a sensation of being unable to move as a dark figure stares at you, or seeing a dark silhouette in a spooky building; are very common happenings. However there is definitely more to these mysterious entities than meets the eye. Join us this…

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Ep 122: Gorilla Nazi Uber Assassin Super Soldiers Are Coming for Us All

Ep 122: Gorilla Nazi Uber Assassin Super Soldiers Are Coming for Us All

So often when we picture an enemy, a true threat; they become bigger, stronger, faster, or smarter in our mind’s eye. So it’s only natural that for thousands of years, the terrifying ‘other’ has been painted as more than a man, and the warrior on the opposing side has been given super powers, if only in the imagination of those opposing him. Super soldiers are as natural a feature in stories as…

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Episode 121: Death and Loving It: Necrophilia

Episode 121: Death and Loving It: Necrophilia

First of all, spoiler alert… content warning … ick alert, we are actually going to be discussing necrophilia and its many forms on this charming episode of Just A Story. So, yeah. Join us as we discuss the historical accounts, legal statutes, and cultural interpretations of necrophilia. From Carl Tanzler to Karen Greenlee and beyond, we’ll mention all the unmentionables.

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Episode 120: The Ballad of Nessie: The Loch Ness Monster

Episode 120: The Ballad of Nessie: The Loch Ness Monster

Okay. We’ve finally done it. It’s Nessie’s turn for the Just A Story treatment. The Loch Ness Monster is said to occupy the vast expanse of water in Scotland, but alas, our dear lake monster remains in the realm of myth to this day. Of course there are numerous sightings each year, but there are not so much in the way of proof. This raises obvious questions, like: when and how did these sightings…

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EPISODE 119: HELLTOWN

SOURCES:

The Truth About Hell TOWN – GHOSTS OF THE PRAIRIE

16 Frightening Photos of Helltown, Ohio, in Summit County

An Ohio Town Was Shut Down by the Government and Now It’s Called Helltown – Destination America

Helltown, Ohio – Atlas Obscura

Destination America Ignores, Rewrites History with Helltown – James Willis

Boston Mills Historic District – NPS

HellTown – Dead Ohio

The Bizarre…

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Episode 118: Beyond Belief: Tulpas

Episode 118: Beyond Belief: Tulpas

What happened to Olivia Mabel? The internet wants to know. Could grief and longing have created an entity that took on thoughts all its own; after the death of her son? Why would anyone believe that could happen? Well, as you might have expected, it’s kind of a long story. Join us this week as we explore the roots of Theosophy and its founder Madame Blavatsky. We will discuss where the belief…

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Episode 117: What Dreams May Come: This Man

Episode 117: What Dreams May Come: This Man

When we close our eyes at night, we all become mysteries. Dreaming is one of the most miraculous and least understood things humans can do. It seems that many miraculous, misunderstood dreams have been spent on this man. Who is this man? Join us this week as we do our best to answer that question.

SOURCES:

This Man

Top 10 Theories Of Why We Dream – Listverse

Baku: The Legend of the Dream Eater

T…

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Episode 116: I Want To Believe: Alien Abductions

Episode 116: I Want To Believe: Alien Abductions

So, how do we go from seeing disc in the sky (I hear it was all the rage in 1947); to spending time with aliens on their crafts and being probed? Seems quite a leap, no? Well brothers, sisters and gentle people of earth, it was a long strange trip. Join us this week as we talk about some truly historic abduction stories, like the one that started it all: the Betty & Barney Hill case. We’ll also …

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Episode 115: Cosmic Watergate: The Roswell Incident

Episode 115: Cosmic Watergate: The Roswell Incident

When looking back to the Roswell Incident, it isn’t hard to imagine a cowboy with a thousand yard stare sitting next to his old friend with wraparound eyes surveying a southwestern scene, and saying, ‘So, this is where it all started.’. You see, once upon a time, in the lonely New Mexico desert all those years ago back in 1947, a flying saucer crash landed on a ranch. At least that is what the…

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Episode 114: Working Class Heroes: Paul Bunyan & Co

Episode 114: Working Class Heroes: Paul Bunyan & Co

American tall tales are an odd branch of the folkloric family tree. Younger than fairy tales, but older than urban legends; they seem to have descended into a kind of awkward adolescence around the end of WWII. Yes, they’re stuck at the kids’ table within the collective unconscious, and they totally don’t get their younger cousins’ pop culture references. How did this happen? Who decided we…

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Episode 113: I'm The Prettiest! Mardi Gras Indians

Episode 113: I’m The Prettiest! Mardi Gras Indians

Everything you’ve ever heard about New Orleans Mardi Gras is true. The floats, the beads, the craven apocalypse party – that is all there. What’s more surprising, is that there are parts of Mardi Gras that you haven’t heard of. Join us this week as we explore the secretive culture of the Mardi Gras Indians, and their role in creating the unique character of the city.    …

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Episode 112: Edgar Allan Poe, Evermore

Most of the authors we meet in school don’t stick with us as personalities. We remember the stories they create more than we remember them. That’s not true for dear Edgar. In fact the lines between fact and fiction become so blurry when he’s nearby that it’s no small task to keep the man and his work separate. And that’s just the way he wanted it. Join us this week as we discuss a plethora of Poe…