History for Halloween XIII

(Hosts: Christine, Ted, Lucy, and Kristin)

Thirteen years of haunting, horrors, and hysteria! We are back again with the annual favorite: our episode packed with Halloween-related stories from the past.

 

Ghost stories from a 1920s edition of The Jackson City Patriot (Michigan); Connecticut Witch Trials, Halloween traditions from the newspaper archives of Jonesboro, Arkansas; and the alleged time travel adventures at Versailles of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain in 1901.

 

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