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Ep 47- Jack O’ Lantern

The practice of carving a Jack-O-Lantern dates back to a centuries-old Irish myth about a man named “Stingy Jack.”

From history.com (because I couldn’t write this any better)

According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years. Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern.”

This ritual was passed on to generation after generation, making it’s way all across Europe and finally landing in America. Today, carving pumpkins is a family-friendly activity, but back in the day, it was to ward off Stingy Jack and other evil beings.

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Ep 46- 13 Best Haunted Houses

The 13 Best Haunted Houses in the US in no particular order

Okay, so it’s October. I know you want to get down and dirty in a haunted house, so these are the 13 best Haunted Houses to get freaky in. By freaky I mean very scared and anxious. 

Netherworld- Stone Mountain, Georgia

70,000 square feet of horror. The 2019 themes are “Night of the Gorgon” and “Cold Blooded”. Netherworld has both indoor and outdoor haunted houses, four escape rooms, and fucking laser tag.

It’s famous for the elaborate set designs and props. The set designs and props are so fucking amazing that Zombieland was filmed inside of it and Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie) rented the props from it.

Cast members bungee jump, slide into you and scare the shit out of you. It’s nuts!

Field Of Screams - Mountville, Pennsylvania

Field of screams has MULTIPLE attractions. From haunted hayrides to terrifying mazes, it’s fucking scary!!

“Journey through the dark cornfields, where terrifying creatures live and horrific acts occur. Witness atrocities found only in your worst nightmares and experience the thrill of the walking dead. Experience terror like no other in a journey through the Frightmare Asylum where demented patients lie in wait for their next victim. Hear clown's giggling snarls echo through the halls as you try to escape the madness. Walk through the Den of Darkness, a haunted house that was abandoned many years ago but was never fully vacated by the twisted souls that inhabited it. They remain to terrorize guests and leave them screaming for the door. Even more fear awaits as you trek through the Nocturnal Wasteland desolate forest where few survivors remain. Nocturnal Wasteland provides the most extreme haunted experience as you come face to face with its disturbing inhabitants deep in the middle of the dark woods.” taken from their website

Asylum 49- Tooele, Utah

We talked about this in a previous episode. You know what’s better than a haunted house? A haunted house inside of a haunted asylum. You get touched, separated, and straight up fucked in this haunted house.

Eastern State Penitentiary: Terror Behind The Walls- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What’s better than a haunted asylum? A mother fucking abandoned haunted prison. 6 (yes SIX) haunted attractions inside the walls of the Eastern State Penitentiary. From Zombies to mad scientists to classic scares, “Terror Behind The Walls” rips you away from your party and fucks the Halloween right out of you

The 13th Gate- Baton Rouge, LA

13 sections. 40,000 square feet. The 13th gate is designed with blockbuster-level tech so it’s CRAZY. The goal of the 13th gate is to blur the lines of reality so you really feel like you are experiencing a real event. Whether it’s walking into a room covered in insects and snakes, or trapped in a cave, they created each scene to capture you. The acting is top notch, so it really does a great job at mind fucking you.  

Dent Schoolhouse- Cincinnati, Ohio

As you walk in, you hear the tale of a murderous janitor named Charlie, who killed students in the 1940s and 1950s and dumped their bodies in the basement of the schoolhouse. As you walk through the haunted house, you walk through the fucked up mind of the killer Charlie. You see crazy teachers, bodies,  gore, and some catacombs. The really cool part about this haunted house is they have “lights off” nights so all you have is a glow stick to guide you through the house

Haunts into christmas (changes everything to spooky Christmas shit)

Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses- Ulster Park, New York

This is a whole fucking Halloween amusement park. There’s restaurants, gift shops, hayrides, corn mazes, 8 haunted houses, and escape rooms. It’s awesome!! This is on 65 acres of haunted land

The haunted houses are famous for their set design, makeup, unique props, and overall spook factor.

Erebus - Pontiac, Michigan

Four story haunt. From their website, “Dr. Colber, a mad scientist obsessed with time travel actually figured out how to make it work! But in doing this, every time he got one of his subjects into another time period, that time period itself looked at them as a virus and wiped them out! Obsessed with trying to make this work, he sent more and more of his employees into the time machine until he ran out of time, money, and subjects… Which brought him to a brilliant idea! Disguise his time machine as a haunted house! Now, he has an endless supply of human guinea pigs to use in his experiment, and better yet… they unknowingly fund the program.”

Erebus has physical obstacles you have to work through (swamps, ball bits, closing walls, etc to escape. It’s not for the faint of heart

Nightmare New England- Litchfield, New Hampshire

80 aces. 6 haunted houses. Rides. Food. Another club. Another club.

Nightmare on 13th- Salt Lake City, Utah

It’s so fucking fun, y’all. 36,000 square feet of pure horror. They change it completely every year, and make it even scarier. Cory and I went through a few times and it’s NUTS. 

The Beast- Kansas City, Missouri

From their website “The Beast Haunted House is one of the greatest haunted attractions in the nation and keeps adding to keep visitors on their toes and scared out of their wits. This immersive nightmare is an open format where visitors lose their way around lurking threats of voodoo, a live alligator, werewolves, phantoms, and monsters. Traverse through a medieval time warp that goes to a time when it was an eye for an eye, the Beast within the man. There are 4 floors where the Beast is clawing to get the next victim before escaping by jumping out a 2-story window or slide 4-stories down. “

Hell’s Gate- Lockport, Illinois

From haunted.com “This dark adventure shuttles you deep into the forest where you must find your way through the torch-lit haunted woods, across the Cemetery of Lost Souls, up the hill and through the gate, to find the front door of the 1920’s Victorian Mansion, Moorstone Manor. Once in the house, you may feel that you have escaped the horde of zombies from the cemetery and forest, but your challenge has just begun. The house itself is alive with darkness and The Twins are searching for new hosts for their demon kind. You will need to find the secret passages in each room to escape the ever-pressing Darkness and make your way to the attic. After reaching the top of the house, you must ride the slide into the basement, find your way through a zombie-infested laboratory and attempt your escape through the Dragon Caves. The Gate itself is hidden in the caves below the house and from it the Darkness enters our world. Guarded by three dragons, the caves are vast and difficult to navigate. However, if you make it through the entire house and you can find the Key to HellsGate... Your ticket is free! This is not just a haunted house, it’s an adventure!”

Mckamey Manor- San Diego, California 

This is the most famous “Survival” Haunted House. You start off by getting abducted and taken to the McKamey Manor in San Diego, Ca. Then you get tortured.  People are covered in spiders, bees, snakes, cockroaches, blood, etc. They are slapped, cut, tied up, gagged, waterboarded, etc. There is no safeword. You have to beg the actor to let you go. They can hold you up to 10 hours and each experience is tailored to the person’s fears. Only a few people are even allowed per day and the waitlist is CRAZY (24,000 people). Want to go? Here are the requirements.

You have to meet multiple requirements before entering

 21 and above, or 18-20 with parents approval.

Completed "Sports Physical" and  Doctor's letter stating you are physically and  mentally cleared.

Pass a background check provided by MM.

Be screened via FB facetime or phone.

Proof of medical insurance.

Sign a detailed 40-page waiver.

Pass a portable drug test on the day of the show.

Have fun!

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Ep 45- Ghost Hunting

It’s pretty much Halloween, so we are going to talk about GHOST HUNTING TOOLS. Get these tools to start your ghost hunting adventure. Ghost hunt responsibly

Digital Voice Recorder

Basic bitch voice recorder to capture spooky voices

Digital Camera w/ night vision

Essential for capturing everything from orbs, shadow people, movement, sounds, etc. Use a digital camera NOT your phone bc phones can disrupt electromagnetic fields (Get night vision because duh)

EMF

EMF stands for electromagnetic field and is used in the real world as a way to find wiring issues and other electrical anomalies.

People believe that ghosts cause unusual, unexplained spikes of EM radiation which can be captured by EMF readers

Infrared Thermometer

Used to find cold spots/ demons

Motion/ Vibration Detectors

You place your basic ass motion or vibration detectors in an unoccupied room and let the ghost fuck with it. If the detector detects something, it will alert you so you can check it out. You can also attach a camera to it, so it takes pictures if it detects something (we saw this in the conjuring movies)

Binary Response Device

Binary response devices are yes/ no boxes. Investigators can ask spirits yes/ no questions and they respond through the machine. The machine could make a sound for yes/ no or maybe flashes a different color. It’s like a simplified electronic ouija board

Ghost Box

A ghost box is a more advanced communication box. It continuously scans radio frequencies. Basically, you ask a question and the spirit/ demon can use the ghost box to answer you. You might hear their actual voice, or they will flip through a variety of radio stations to build their response.

You can buy all of these tools on Amazon. Happy hunting!

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Ep 44- FDA Food Allowances

Insects fragments (legs, arms, wings, etc) and thrips, aphids, mites, maggots, fruit flies, and corn earworms

Chocolate can have an average of 59 or less fragments per 100 grams

Coffee Beans are good to sell if an average of 9% or less by count are insect-infested or insect damaged

Macaroni and Noodle Products can have an average of 224 insect fragments or less per 225 grams

Ground Nutmeg is allowed to have an average of 99 or less insect fragments per 10 grams

Straight up insects like thrips, aphids, mites, maggots, fruit flies, and corn earworms

Frozen Broccoli can have an average of 59 or less aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams

Canned or Dried Mushrooms are allowed to have up to 20 maggots of any size per 100 grams of canned mushrooms, or 15 grams of dried mushrooms

Maraschino Cherries are only considered unsafe if there is an average of 5% or more pieces of maggots

Larvae and insect eggs

In Canned or Frozen Spinach, the FDA draws the line at larvae that is longer than 12 mm per 24 pounds

Canned Sweet Corn  can have no more than 1-2mm or shorter larvae

Canned Tomatoes can have an average of 10 or more fly eggs per 500 grams or 5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 500 grams

Canned or Frozen Asparagus  is considered unsafe only after exceeding 10% spears or pieces infested with 6 or more attached asparagus beetle eggs and/or sacs

Rodent (hair, body parts, and poop)

Cocoa Powder can have 1 rodent hair per sample of 50 grams

Cinnamon can have less than 10 rodent hairs per 50 grams

Fennel Seed is safe as long as 19% or less of the samples contain 2 mg poop per pound

Ginger apparently safe to eat if there is an average of 2 mg or less of feces per pound

Mold/ Rot

Apple Butter can have an average of mold count of 11% or less

Up to 19% of Ground Paprika and Canned Pineapple is allowed to be moldy

According the to FDA, Cranberry Sauce is totally edible if the average mold count is less than 15% or the mold count of any one sub sample is less than 50%

Potato Chips are deemed safe by the FDA as long as an average of 5% or less pieces by weight contain rot

Parasites

Whitefish, Tullibees, Ciscoes, Inconnus, and Chubs are allowed to have 49 parasitic cysts per 100 pounds or less

Blue Fin and Other Fresh Water Herring  are allowed to have 59 parasitic cysts per 100 fish or 100 pounds of fish averaging over 1 pound

Puss

750 million pus cells in every litre of milk

Bone

Unless you are getting organic sugar, your sugar is made with bone char

Bone char gives sugar the pure white appearance

FDA prohibits the use of bones from the United States’ meat industry, so the bones are imported

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Ep 43- Superstitions

Walking under a ladder

There are a few different reasons why walking under a ladder is believed to be bad. Different cultures believe in different reasons

Ancient Egyptians believed that a ladder perched against a wall created a sacred triangle - and to walk beneath it disrupted its spiritual energies. 

Christian believe two things

The ladder represents the holy trinity and walking under it is blasphemous

Ladders are bad because a ladder propped against the Holy Cross

Ancient Asian societies, prisoners were hanged from the top steps of a ladder - and onlookers were forbidden to pass beneath for fear of encountering the victim’s ghost

In France, convicts were forced to walk beneath the ladder leading to the gallows - the doomed man’s final unlucky act. 

Black cats crossing your path

This superstition arises from old beliefs in witches and their animal familiars, which were often said to take the form of domestic animals like cats

Fun fact: the reason why witches were associated with cats is that the cat population grew like crazy between the 10th-14th century and single ladies and elderly women took care of strays. Being a woman usually meant you were a witch, so because mainly women took care of cats, cats equaled witches

Spilled salt

In the ancient world, salt was a preservative, for food and for mummification, giving it a connection to immortality

In the European Middle Ages, village dwellers left a line of salt outside their doors believing that witches would be compelled to count every grain before entering.

In Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting The Last Supper, Judas knocked over a container of salt with his elbow. The scene depicts the moment when Jesus made the announcement that one of the disciples would betray him. Christians made a connection between the spilling of salt and the crucifixion of Jesus

No umbrellas inside

Lots of origin stories

One is about a Roman woman who happened to open her umbrella moments before her house collapsed

Then there’s the British prince who accepted two umbrellas from a visiting king and opened them inside then DIED

Probably how it really started was when rain umbrellas were invented. They were huge and popped open really fast, so when people would open them indoors they would often break lamps, [paintings, etc

Friday the 13th

The fear of Friday the 13th seems fairly new, dating back to the late 1800s. Friday has long been considered an unlucky day (according to Christian tradition, Jesus died on a Friday), and 13 has a long history as an unlucky number.

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in North Carolina, about 17 million people fear Friday the 13th

Fear of Friday The 13th Phobia – Paraskevidekatriaphobia or Friggatriskaidekaphobia

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Ep 42- Candle Colors

White 

White contains all colors.  It symbolizes purity and innocence. Use a white candle for purification, peace, healing, truth and sincerity, cleansing, spirituality, clarity, wholeness, and joy.  It can also protect, repel negative energy, relieve tension and aid in meditation

I used a fuck load of white candles when I did ouija

Yellow

Yellow is the realm of intellect, inspiration and creativity. Use a yellow candle for confidence and charm, persuasion, wisdom, mental strength, concentration, communication, memory, logic and learning

Orange

Orange is energising and promotes stimulation, joy and success.  Use an orange candle for good fortune, prosperity, power, action, energy building, and courage.

Pink 

Pink represents all variations of love – friendly, romantic, spiritual, and universal.  Use a pink candle for love magick, compassion, forgiveness, joy, harmony, sensitivity, emotional and spiritual healing, and self-love.  

Red 

Red is the color of fire and passion. It represents activity and action, blood, love, sex, fertility, potency, power, vitality, and courage.  

Purple 

Purple is a highly spiritual colour and is associated with psychic abilities, spiritual awakening, and ancient wisdom. Use a purple candle for spiritual protection, healing, respect, honour, wisdom, purification, sensitivity, progress, spiritual growth and dissociating from the ego

Magenta 

Magenta is used to facilitate quick changes and fast results in spell work.  Burn with another candle to increase the energy of that candle’s purpose and intent. Think steroid candle. Also used for exorcism and spiritual healing.

Blue

Blue is a soothing colour and is connected to spirituality, inner peace, and harmony.  Encourages loyalty, understanding, and a peaceful home.

Turquoise

Use for stress relief, focus, and intellect

Green 

Green is associated with nature, growth, and fertility, and is a symbol of the Goddess and her green earth.  It is also a colour often linked to money and financial success.  Use a green candle for luck and prosperity

Brown

Brown is the color of earth and holds a grounded, balanced vibration.  Assists in clear thinking and decision-making.

Silver (or grey) 

Silver a neutral colour and can be used to deflect and neutralise negative influences

Black 

Black absorbs all colours and is often used to absorb or banish negativity.  It reverses curses and hexes.  Use a black candle for protection, banishing, repelling black magick, and ridding of bad habits.

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Ep 41- True Crime Update

Serial killer Gary Ray Bowles (the i-95 killer) targeted gay men in 1994. He was responsible for the murders of

John Hardy Roberts

David Jarman

Milton Bradley

Alverson Carter Jr.

Albert Morris

Walter Jay Hinton.

The i-95 killer would pretend to be a prostitute to lure gay men back to his apartment. He would then strangle the victim and steal their credit cards. He ended up being on the FBI’s top ten most wanted and was quickly found/ arrested after that. 

In May 1996, Bowles pleaded guilty to the killing of Walter Jamelle Hinton and received the death penalty. In August 1997, while sitting on death row for the slaying of Hinton, Bowles pleaded guilty to beating and strangling John Hardy Roberts and received the death penalty

On August 22nd, 2019, Gary Ray Bowles ate three cheeseburgers, french fries, and bacon as his last mean and was executed by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison. He is the 99th person to be executed in Florida

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Ep 40- Auras

An aura is an energy that radiates about the body from the various main chakras that line up from the top of your head to the base of your spine. Some people can see people’s auras, while some can sense the aura, while others (like me) wish they could because it’s fun. 

Auras can contract or expand depending on the situation a person is experiencing. Depending on the individual's energy, the aura can be a thin outline or very intense and distinguishable. The aura usually has uneven edges and sometimes rays of color (energy) streak out from the body.

I’m going to go through some of the main colors you might see in your aura and then we are going to take a super fun aura color test I found online. To read the colors more in-depth, go to https://www.auraaura.co/aura-colors

RED / Red is the color of the root chakra, which relates to your connection with nature, the physical body, and the material world. It appears in the auras of fearless individuals who have a natural understanding of physicality and enjoys manifesting desires in the material world. They are passionate and unapologetic about experiencing dynamic and abundant adventures in life as a physical being. It’s this passion and restlessness that keeps them driven in life. They are generally unafraid of death, birth, over-indulgence, sensuality, or adrenaline-inducing activities.

PINK / People who have pink emissions in their aura inspire a feeling of comfort to those around them. Pink vibrations are bubbly and uplifting because they correspond directly to the heart chakra, which is typically associated with feminine energy. Even in the midst of life’s most pressing challenges, a person with a pink aura can help heal others with a glance, a smile, a kind word, or just by being present. They remind us to be gentle with each other and all of earth’s creatures.

MAGENTA / Those with a magenta aura are true originals. The color magenta is a combination of red, blue, and white light frequencies. Those with magenta emissions in their aura combine a masterful understanding of the physical world (Red) with a heightened capacity for creative thinking (Blue). This combination makes people with magenta auras ideally suited for creative work. These high-energy, naturally creative beings thrive on originality and innovation and are not fond of using copycat methods of creativity. Those with magenta in their auras tend to walk to the beat of their own drum and experience the world in their own way. They can sometimes come across as a bit eccentric but generally attract positive attention from their peers.

ORANGE / Orange is the color of the sacral chakra, which relates to creativity, sensuality, and emotions. Orange is the energy center for exchange and relationships, placing high value on friendships and interacting with others. Those with orange emissions in their auras resonate with the vibrations of joyful exchange, whether relating to work, resources, money, time, energy, or love. They possess strength in teamwork due to their ability to be relatable and sociable.

YELLOW  / Yellow is the color of the solar plexus chakra, which rules our intellect, self-esteem and personal power. Those with yellow in their energy field resonate with vibrations of confidence, happiness, a strong sense of self, esteem, and the ability to inspire others to achieve greatness. They are natural-born leaders, who tend to have high levels of energy and the ability to positively motivate others.

TAN / A tan aura can be found in individuals who are very logical and analytical. They choose to methodically process every step, from one through ten. They are also very practical, security-conscious and have a tendency to keep their feelings to themselves. They are not risk-takers, these are the people who want to build a foundation brick by brick before taking a leap.

GREEN / Green frequencies resonate with the vibration of the heart chakra, the center of personal growth and healing. Those with green auras radiate unconditional love and a life force energy that is sensed by all beings that come into their presence. Because of this, individuals with intense green in their auras are typically drawn to nature and animals and are natural-born self healers. Being in the presence of a person with green emissions in their energy field is a very peaceful and restful experience. They are the most balanced people in the entire color spectrum, easily giving equal attention to their own creative goals and to the people they love.

BLUE  / Blue is the color of the throat chakra, ruling communication, and self-expression. A true lighter blue in the aura is indicative of a person with natural intuitive gifts. They are the most caring, nurturing and protective personalities in the color-spectrum. Their life purpose is to serve - to help and love others as they live by their hearts and emotions.

INDIGO / Indigo blue is the color of the third eye chakra, relating to intuition and inspiration. Its frequency is the second-highest vibrational energy of the visible color spectrum and relates to deep inner knowing. People with indigo in their auras are extremely sensitive to others’ energy and are very in tune - they tend to know things before they happen, hear things before they are said, and dream lucidly and literally.

VIOLET ( PURPLE ) / Violet is the color of the crown chakra which relates to connection to our dreams and higher consciousness. Individuals with violet in their auras are dynamic, charismatic, and have powerful personalities. Their task or mission in life is to lead and inspire humankind and to guide us into a new age of prosperity, happiness, and wholeness. They have an inner and driving urge to do something important with their life. They are visionaries and have high ideals and hopes for the future.

Take the aura color quiz! Chana’s aura is green, Cory’s is blue and purple. 

https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Aura_Color_Test