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THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts.

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Interview: Jeff Belanger | Breathing Life Into New England Legends

Jeff Belanger is an author, podcaster, storyteller, adventurer, and explorer of the unexplained. He’s written more than a dozen books that have been published in six languages, he’s the Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime, he provides programs and lectures to audiences all over the world, and he’s been the writer and researcher for…

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THE HAUNTED STATES of New England - Jeff Belanger

New England conjures up thoughts of vibrant Fall foliage, lobster fishing and an abundance of blueberries and cranberries, but it is also a State that has a past that's steeped in superstition, witchcraft, and persecution. In this Episode of Shifting the Paradigm, Cristina Gomez interview Paranormal Researcher, Jeff Belanger. Jeff is one of the most visible and prolific researchers of folklore and legends today. A natural storyteller, he’s the award-winning, Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime, and is the author of over a dozen books (published in six languages). He also hosts the award-winning New England Legends weekly podcast, which has garnered over 4 million downloads since its launch, and ranks in the top 1/2 percent of all podcasts as far as popularity according to Listen Notes.

WATCH INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/nRzV-rkGUR4

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British Ghosts, South African Cryptids & Aleister Crowley - FSS Inductee, MJ Dickson

Max & Scott dive into working on ghost hunting TV shows with producer and investigator MJ Dickson, who has looked into paranormal stories & haunted locations across the globe. Her fantastic story alone is worth tuning in for!

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Preview: Savage Sword of Conan #4 (of 6)

Savage Sword of Conan #4 preview. Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword collide with an epic, oversized crossover issue! #comics #comicbooks

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I think in a lot of cases, ghosts are history demanding to be remembered.

Jeff Belanger

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Current Interests Tag Meme

Tagged by @heroofshield (thaaaanks!!) and i'm gonna no-pressure tag @pigsinablanketfort @lumiereandcogsworth @zebsfloppyears and anybody else who wants to do it!!!

Last song I listened to:

"The Last of the Real Ones" by Fall Out Boy

Currently reading:

"The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters" by Jeff Belanger. I'm not very far in, but this is my holiday season read :D

Currently watching:

One Piece. Just started the Dressrosa arc, which i'm already enjoying! I'm so behind on so many shows, but at some point i'm going to work in Loki season 2 between OP episodes lol

Currently obsessed with:

Always kenzarelli and Mickey Miranda, but also my brain is just... SO MUCH One Piece. Caesar Clown should not be affecting me like this and yet here we are 😔

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Source : Jeff Belanger Facebook

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Our casting of practitioners of the Blue Heron from Wildbow’s Pale.

This is more about personality, demeanor, and speaking style than looks, but we did adjust for looks when we registered their descriptions.

These are the actors our brain sort of automatically put in these roles as we’ve read their scenes and chapters. Under the cut for people who don’t want their vision polluted by ours:

Alexander Belanger - Charles Dance

Lawrence Bristow - Oliver Platt (was Stephen Fry until hist very last scene and physical description, then all previous scenes were replaced with Platt, with just a mustache)

Raymond Sunshine - Alfred Molina (obviously skinnier and with longer hair)

Abraham Musser - Jeff Bridges (or, possibly, Dan Akroyd with long bleached hair)

Ms Dorucher - Helen Mirren (but with dark hair for some reason)

Bonus: We hear Toadswallow as voiced by Michael Cain

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Nine People Tag

Thanks for the tag @starsuncounted!

Last Song: the lighting of the beacons by howard shore

Last Movie: The Two Towers Extended Edition

Currently Watching: About to start Return of the King (Extended Edition)

Currently Reading: Communicating with the Dead: Reach Beyond the Grave by Jeff Belanger. Going to start Harry Potter Series since it's september now.

Currently Craving: panera bread's mediterranean bowl

Last thing you researched: manderville dance ffxiv

No pressure tagging @frodo-baggins , @lotrlorien , @southfarthing , @et-earello , @bae-owyn , @frodo-sam , @elizabeth--march , @frodothefair , @goodwitchs , @peregrintook , @eowyyyn , @mirkwood

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In April of 1977, about 15 miles south of Boston, a very strange thing appeared at night that put the town of Dover on the map in the world of cryptozoology, the study and search for legendary creatures. Multiple teen drivers reported seeing an unidentifiable, alien-like creature with glowing eyes over the course of two days.

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Book Review of Shadows: The Fright Before Christmas by Jeff Belanger

Step into the dark roots of Christmas past where the Krampus punishes the bad boys and girls.Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday greetings. There…

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The Sprague Mansion

by Jeff Belanger

“Tell my story . . .” 

Ghostly legends surrounded the Sprague Mansion long before a homemade Ouija Board spelled out those eleven letters inside the home back in 1968; but since that fateful spirit-communication session, talk of ghosts in Cranston, Rhode Island, has been omnipresent. 

The Sprague family came to Cranston around 1712. They built a financial empire and rose to social and political prominence. By the Civil War, the Spragues wealthiest family in America, but within two decades, their fortune would be lost. Today, all that remains of their kingdom is their stately mansion, their story, and-if we’re believe the many eyewitnesses, paranormal investigators, and passersby-their ghosts are still around, too. 

The Sprague Mansion was built around 1790, and it was the heart of the Sprague’s growing textile empire. Brothers Amasa and William III took over the family business from their father, William II, died a peculiar death that involved choking on a bone while eating his breakfast in 1836. 

Both Sprague brothers were elected to the state legislature, but Amasa focused most on his attention on running the family business while William went on to become a United States congressman, then the governor of Rhode Island, then a U.S. Senator. His blossoming political career would be cut short when Amasa was murdered back home. 

It was December 31, 1843, and Amasa was about a mile away from the mansion, checking on his cattle near the Pocasset River. He had started to cross a footbridge when one or more men jumped him. His mangled body was found on the banks of the river and carried back to the mansion, where it was most likely laid out in the front parlor of the mansion for his wake and viewing. 

Accusing fingers pointed at an Irish immigrant named Nicholas Gordon and his brothers. Nicholas’s store, near the Sprague mill, had a liquor license that mill workers took advantage of, and Amasa used his influence to ensure that the license would not be renewed. A few days before the murder, several witnesses observed an argument over the license between Nicholas Gordon’s brother John and Amasa. This circumstantial evidence, plus a confused witness and anti-Irish sentiment of the time, was enough to convict John Gordon of Amasa’s murder. He was hanged in 1845, the last victim of capital punishment in the state of Rhode Island. The public was outraged, and those close to the Gordons knew that John didn’t murder Amasa Sprague. 

So who did?

Some think it was William himself. The brothers had differed on how the business should be run; and with Amasa gone, William expanded the Sprague Print Works company to become the largest calico-dyeing plant in the nation. Profits soared. Did William have his own  brother murdered to make an already wealthy family even richer? 

The Sprague fortune continued to grow until the Panic of 1873, when banks called their loans, people everywhere sold off their stocks, and the economy collapsed almost overnight. The Spragues were impacted, and by 1888 they had sold their mansion and holdings and faded off into the yellowing pages of history. Their legacy is not forgotten when one walks inside the Sprague Mansion today. 

Andrew Laird is founder and director of The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group (TRIPRG). The group has conducted more than a half dozen investigations at the mansion, including a preliminary walkthrough in 2004. “We were in the front parlor where Amasa had been laid out, though we didn’t know this at the time, and all of our meters and everything else were going off,” Laird said. “We experienced all kinds of stuff that night. We heard things downstairs near the wine cellar. I felt a tap on my shoulder, and when I turned around no one was there.”

The Cranston Historical Society is headquartered in the mansion. Lydia Rapoza, curator since 1996, and Dr. Michael Bell, a member of the Cranston Historical Society’s board of directors and a folklorist and author, explained how in the 1960s the mansion was in bad shape and was going to be torn down. Local resident Viola Lynch helped raise the $100,000 necessary to buy the property and preserve the Spragues’ legacy (and possibly their ghosts). Mrs. Lynch and her family have also become part of the ghostly legends here. 

In 1968, Viola’s son Robert was working as a caretaker for the mansion. He and some of his friends constructed a Ouija board and sat down to reach out to the ghosts of the house. Robert explained to a Providence Journal reporter that the pointer on the Ouija board spelled out MY LAND. MY LAND. When they asked the spirit, "What would you want done to have your spirit at peace?” the board answered, TELL MY STORY. The spirit identified itself as Charles. 

So who was Charles . . . or Charlie, as he’s become affectionately known?

“We don’t know,” Rapoza said. “The Ouija board said he was a butler here.”

According to one of the legends, Charlie’s daughter was supposed to marry one of the sons of the mansion owner. It is unclear if it was a Sprague or one of the families who lived there after them. Local lore says things didn’t work out with the engagement, and Charlie has been upset ever since that his family didn’t marry into wealth and power. Since 1968, people inside the mansion have joked about Charlie, though no one has ever seen him . . . well, not conclusively. 

Rapoza mentioned one worker who had a strange run-in with something unexplained near the main staircase. “This guy was fixing up the doll room and he sees this white filmy thing up there,” she said. “He didn’t want to work here alone after that.”

The doll room is easily the creepiest room in the house. The size of a walk-in closet, it’s located off a small landing halfway between floors. The room full of old dolls from the 1700s and 1800s. One doll has no eyes, while others stare off in a lifeless and eerie fashion. 

Andrew Laird mentioned the experience of a guest during one of the Halloween parties held at the mansion. “This lady showed us a video of one of the guides giving the mansion tour,” Laird said. “They were in front of the doll room. The guide was talking about the dolls, and just as the guide is turning around to point out to one of them, you can hear this EVP [electronic voice phenomenon] of a little girl’s voice saying, ‘Leave my doll alone.’ It’s clear as a bell.”

Other unexplained events have happened during Halloween parties. “It was the night of the first Halloween party,” Lydia Rapoza said. “There were twenty-eight people here.” 

Dr. Bell added, “Some of the ladies who came decided they wanted to try out the Ouija board. So they got the board and they were in the front parlor and it spelled out . . .” 

“‘. . . Tell Bob I need him,” Rapoza finished. “And it was signed V.L. and they had no idea who Viola (Lynch) was, or who Bob was. Bob was her husband and he was still alive at the time.”

“This was October,” Dr. Bell said. “She’d died about a year before that and he was painting  her over and over.” One of these paintings now hangs in the front parlor. 

“This poor guy was heartbroken and doing these paintings kept him alive,” Rapoza said. “So this was October, and then in February they find him dead in this house.”

At the 2004 Halloween party, photographer Cyril Place and about five others were among the last to leave. “We had come downstairs and we were standing right in the foyer by the front door at the foot of the stairs,” Place said. “All of a sudden we heard the music box-which was up on the third floor. This was very strange because Lydia had already locked it up-she meticulously with that. It played for about a minute. 

“Lydia was with us in the foyer. She said, ‘Nobody’s up there. Nobody’s been up there, and everything is locked up.’ And then the music ended at that point.”

The main staircase has also been the site of a ghostly female figure who has been reported floating down the stairs. Many paranormal investigations focus on the foyer and staircase because the area is the central part of the house-it ties the building together-and whether a long-ago butler is still performing his duties or whether some belle is trying to make her grand entrance, the staircase seems to be a hotspot. 

Another supernaturally active location within the house is the wine cellar-which is a dark storage room in the basement. Strange noises have been heard inside, and the room contains one artifact that sends chills up the spines of those who read, dusty wine bottle label. The vineyard name is Gordon, a not-so-subtle reminder of the man who was hanged for Amasa Sprague’s murder. 

Ms. Rapoza claims she’s never seen any ghosts here, but she did capture a strange blur in one of her photos that she took in the ballroom back in 2001. 

Though she hasn’t seen a ghost, she certainly feels that the spirit of Amasa Sprague is always nearby. “I talked to Amasa on the Ouija board,” Rapoza said about one night in April 1999. “We had a board meeting . . . I was fooling around with a Ouija board, and I said, ‘Who are you?’ And it spelled out ‘Amasa Sprague.’”

The Sprague Mansion is now on the National Register of Historic Places. It represents the results of Yankee ingenuity and entrepreneurship that helped form an industrially prosperous state. Against the odds, the mansion survives, and the Sprague story is told again and again with the ghosts and spirits watching from inside. 

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Ghosts and Hauntings with Jeff Belanger - My Haunted Life Too

https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2022/11/16/ghosts-and-hauntings-with-jeff-belanger/

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Thursday, December 01, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: BOSÉ (Paramount +) A WOUNDED FAWN (Shudder) AGATHA CHRISTIE'S HJERSON (Topic) DOLLY PARTON'S MOUNTAIN MAGIC CHRISTMAS (City TV) 8:00pm FLIP OR FLOP: THE FINAL FLIP (HGTV Canada) 9:00pm GOSSIP GIRL (Crave) 10:00pm/11:00pm BRANSON (HBO Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS (ABC Feed) A HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS (Premiering on December 4 on Crave at 5:00pm) SESAME STREET'S THE NUTCRACKER (Premiering on December 12 on Teletoon at 6:00pm) LUXE FOR LESS (TBD - HGTV Canada) SERVING UP THE HOLIDAYS (TBD - Lifetime Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CBC GEM AUGMENTED DOUBLE TAP TV (Season 3) ELLIE SIMMONS: A WORLD WITHOUT DWARFISM FOUR SENSES (Season 4) HAWKING: CAN YOU HEAR ME? NADIYA’S EVERYDAY BAKING RALPH & KATIE

CRAVE TV BRANSON GOSSIP GIRL (Season 2, Episodes 1-2) A HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS

DISNEY + STAR DARBY AND THE DEAD

NETFLIX CANADA 12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI ARCHER (Season 13) BABY SHARK'S BIG SHOW! (Season 1) BILLY MADISON BLUE'S CLUES & YOU! (Season 1 & 2) DEAD END HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS IT TAKES TWO IT'S COMPLICATED JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: STONE OCEAN (Season 1, Episodes 25-38 - final episodes) LEGO NINJAGO: SEASON 4 CRYSTALIZED - PART 1 LEGO FRIENDS: HOLIDAY SPECIAL THE MASKED SCAMMER MEEKAH (Season 1) NEIGHBORS THE NIGHT BEFORE QALA STEP BROTHERS TROLL TYLER PERRY'S A MADEA CHRISTMAS THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY

FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 9:45am: Canada vs. Morocco (TSN2) 9:45am: Croatia vs. Belgium (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 1:45pm: Costa Rica vs. Germany (TSN2) 1:45pm: Japan vs. Spain (TSN3) 8:30pm: Match of the Day

NHL HOCKEY (SNEast/SNPacific) 7:00pm: Avalanche vs. Sabres (SN1/SNOntario) 8:00pm: Oilers vs. Wild (SNWest/TSN2) 9:00pm: Habs vs. Flames (SNPacific) 10:00pm: Panthers vs. Canucks

NBA BASKETBALL (SN360) 7:00pm: Mavericks vs. Pistons

DESIGNING CHRISTMAS (CTV Life) 7:00pm:  Complicated and unexplored emotions may jeopardize everything between Stella and Pablo, co-hosts of a home renovation show, as they work together during the holidays.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL (CBC) 8:00pm:  Following "Coronation Street" legend William Roache in the build up to his 90th birthday; with appearances from past and present cast members.

DIO: DREAMERS NEVER DIE (Crave 2) 8:00pm:  The extraordinary life and career of Ronnie James Dio, the iconic heavy metal singer of such bands as Black Sabbath, Dio and Rainbow.

NFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 8:15pm: Bills vs. Patriots

THE FIFTH ESTATE (CBC) 9:00pm: To the families of two women slain in Toronto in 1983, the killer seemed like a ghost who vanished without a trace; the remarkable search for a suspect; Mark Kelley hosts.

NATIONS AT WAR (APTN) 9:00pm:  In the mid-1600s, the Dakota found themselves surrounded by rivals and under threat from waves of Indigenous and European migrants. Desperately outmatched by the industrial eastern civilizations, they spent decades courageously defending their territory.

THE LAZARUS PROJECT (Showcase) 9:00pm: George learns that having the power to turn back time doesn't mean getting everything he wants.

SHOCK DOCS: THE VISITORS (DTour) 9:00pm:   For the first time in nearly 40 years, Whitley Strieber agrees to return to the stone circle that marks the spot of his first abduction, while investigative journalist Melissa Tittl and UFO researcher Jeff Belanger conduct a paranormal investigation.

GOING NATIVE (APTN) 9:30pm: Hit the highway with a motorcycle club from Six Nations! Later, Drew heads to the race track to meet with Billy Cook. Lastly, Drew waxes up his surfboard with a group of Indigenous youth from Nova Scotia.

PAMELA'S GARDEN OF EDEN (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm: Pamela's dream of turning the Boathouse into a masterpiece are in jeopardy when she gets news from the government about the building.

THE GREAT BIG TINY DESIGN CHALLENGE WITH SANDI TOKSVIG (Makeful) 10:00pm:  Their individual challenge against the clock is to create tiny toys that would have been found in a Victorian nursery; the two winners of the individual challenge go on to lead a team to tackle the whole nursery.

CANADIAN REFLECTIONS (CBC) 11:30pm:  Marco & Polo Go Round; Such a Small Thing