Ghoul On Ghoul

Sarah and Amanda go on location at Maude's Paperwing Gallery for their first post-vaccination guest episode. Hear about the weird history behind this little Pittsburgh witch store, as well as the ghosts, goblins (?), and other things haunting it. Other subjects covered include baby psychics, whiny dogs, and drunk seances.  For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or check out our Patreon. 

Amanda and Sarah pull a freaky Friday by taking on subjects the other would most likely do. Sarah taps into Amanda's secretive, shit-talking Scorpio nature with an amusing look at poison pen letters. Amanda makes a go at being Sarah with the very historical, very French case of Madame de Montespan, La Voisin, and the Affair of the Poisons. Other subjects covered include touching circus animals, being Bonnie Raitt, and impersonating Julia Child.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends the book The Pisces and the FreeFrom TV show Cruel Summer. Sarah recommends the true crime-based horror film Lizzie, now playing on Shudder.  Sources:  Project Gutenberg (MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE MONTESPAN, By Madame de Montespan) Headstuff (Catherine Monvoisin And The Affair Of The Poisons) Grunge (The Most Extreme Poisoning Cases in History) Château de Versailles (Madame de Montespan) Wikipedia/Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan Wikipedia/La Voisin Wikipedia/Affair of the Poisons Forgotten Lives (The Dark L

Amanda and Sarah indulge in paranormal pastries and stories from the sea for this episode. Sarah explains the origins of witch cakes, baked goods used to cleanse or prevent supernatural attacks. Amanda submerges for some true (perhaps) tales of ghostly divers and other creepy underwater encounters. Other subjects covered include being horrified by acne, being overwhelmed by cuteness, and being sedated.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the Shudder film The Untamed. Amanda recommends another Shudder film Don't Panic, the book Alice Isn't Dead, and the YouTube channel Curious World.  For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or check out our Patreon. 

Amanda and Sarah forego pranks for some harmless April Fools fun with non-spooky, non-scary content and listener stories. Amanda explains her new fascination with theme park disasters and duds, including a look at Freedomland U.S.A. and more. Sarah offers bits of strange trivia with a fishy French spring ritual and the Turnspit dog. Other subjects covered include community theater bloopers, cross-stitching competitions, and disturbing teeth.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends the YouTube channels Fascinating Horror and Defunctland, and the documentary Class Action Park. Sarah recommends the film My Neighbor Totoro. Sources:  French Together (Poisson d’avril ! Why the French say “April Fish” instead of “April Fool’s”) History Daily (Vernepator Cur: A Tale Of Turnspit Dogs) For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or check out our Patreon. 

Amanda and Sarah talk wild people and wild theories for this episode. Amanda pulls an M. Night Shyamalan by starting with a story about alleged murderer Florence Maybrick, only to take a sharp left turn into Ripper territory. Sarah heads into the woods for a look at the European Woodwose, a folkloric creature that comes in many interesting, sometimes sexy forms. Other subjects covered include the definition of meat juice and Amanda's wariness of twins.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the horror film The Empty Man.  Sources: Wikipedia/Wild man Wikipedia/Basajuan Wikipedia/Buschgroßmutter East Anglican Daily Times (Weird Suffolk: Meet the wild men of the woods that ate children) Cornwall Live (The day Bigfoot stalked workers in a Cornwall forest) Astonishing Legends (The Woodwose) Wikipedia/Florence Maybrick The Guardian (Did She Kill Him? review – a Victorian scandal of sex and poisoning) Medium (Florence Maybrick: An American Murder in Victorian England?) Wikipedia/Michael Maybrick The Guardian (They All

Amanda and Sarah cover sick teens and evil kids for this episode. Sarah goes into mass psychogenic illnesses (MPIs) - aka mass hysteria - and gives a rundown of various outbreaks, including a mysterious 2011 case at a high school in Le Roy, New York.  Amanda opens her door to the Black-Eyed Children, a heavy-hitter urban legend where witnesses claim to have encounters with terrifying youths. Other subjects covered include hating ponies, being a perfect evil kid parent, and casting grandma as the villain.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the 2018 found footage horror movie The Devil's Doorway. Amanda recommends the indie survival game Overland and the podcast Hollywood Crime Scene.  Sources: New York Times Magazine (What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy) Today Show (School baffled by 12 girls’ mystery symptoms) The Fever by Megan Abbott Chicago Tribune (Examining 1962's 'laughter epidemic') Wikipedia/List of mass hysteria cases NCBI (Mass psychogenic illness and the social network: is it changing the pattern

Amanda and Sarah go local and then go medieval with stories about Pittsburgh and Germany. Amanda heads to Clairton, Pa. to cover the ghost town of Lincoln Way, a neighborhood that many see as being mysteriously abandoned. Sarah talks about The Dancing Plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, during which hundreds of people danced for days, sometimes to their deaths. Other subjects covered include censoring dumb celebs and a slippy weather forecast.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends The Sinner.  Sources:  “Divine Punishment or Disease? Medieval and Early Modern Approaches to the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague” by Lynneth J. Miller for Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research Public Domain Review (The Dancing Plague of 1518) The Guardian (Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518) PubMed.gov (Sydenham's chorea: physical and psychological symptoms of St Vitus dance Wikipedia/Vitus Wikipedia/Dancing mania Architectural Afterlife (The Eerie Abandoned Neighborhood of Lincoln Way) Pi

Amanda and Sarah stave off the winter blues with famous First Nations folklore and horse crimes. Sarah explains the disturbing, complex, and strikingly metaphorical legend of the Wendigo through the lens of the Ojibwe. Amanda returns to true crime with the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach and the seedy equine reason she may have been targeted. Other subjects covered include generic TV show music, gangster babies, and reptile sizing.  Big news, we have a Patreon!  Note: Sarah would like to point out that the name of one subject is Swift Runner, not Swift River. She apologizes for the error.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the British TV series Midsomer Murders. Amanda recommends the sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves! and the Netflix anime series Demon Slayer.  Sources:  ‘The Cannibal Talking Head: The Portrayal of the Windigo “Monster” in Popular Culture and Ojibwe Traditions’ by Brady DeSanti, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 27 , Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 186-201 The Self in Northern

Sarah and Amanda do an episode ripped from the headlines with celebrity ghost stories and the secret life of sex toys. Sarah takes a cue from Variety and a few other publications obsessed with the supernatural encounters of the rich and famous, including Cher, Keanu Reeves, and Cate Blanchett. Amanda tells the shocking truth about chastity belts and the problems with their high-tech, modern-day versions. Other subjects covered include one-use white domestic terrorist tools, a period fetish community, and the extra-ness of Joan Collins.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends the animated series Gravity Falls. Sarah recommends The Alienist and Search Party.  Sources:  Smithsonian Magazine (Medieval Chastity Belts Are a Myth) Atlas Obscura (Everything You’ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie)  The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process,  Albrecht Classen Vice (‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom) The Verge (Internet-enabled male chastity cage can be r

Amanda and Sarah cover scatological spirits and singing for apples. Amanda offers a sampling of toilet demons, ghosts, and urban legends from around the world. Sarah looks at the origins of the festive practice of wassailing and the Apple Tree Man. Other subjects covered include roasting James Corden, celebrating Jurassic Park, and being horny for Matt Berry.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the HBO true-crime drama series Murders at White House Farm. Amanda recommends watching the Alien franchise.  Sources:  Wikipedia/Apple Tree Man Wikipedia/Apple Wassail Atlas Obscura (The Holiday That Celebrates Apples With Rifles and Cider) BBC (Wassailing the old Engish apple tree) Wikipedia/Toilet god Ancient Origins (Beware the Supernatural Bathroom Spirits, Toilet Deities, and Dung Demons) Listverse (10 Toilet Demons And Deities From Around The World) The Guardian (Thousands protest in South Africa over rising violence against women) For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, 

Amanda and Sarah cover sex workers' rights, cannibalistic scarecrows, and messy murders. First, the ghouls welcome commentary by Shawna Scott of Sex Siopa and former guest Jessie Sage of Peepshow Media as they cover issues with Pornhub, Instagram's new restrictive Terms of Service, and a new bill and regulations that could do serious harm to sex workers and performers. For resources, follower recommendations, and more, click here. Sarah then has a very un-merry Christmas with Hans Trapp, a Franco-German holiday legend who eats children. Amanda goes on the run with Sharon Kinne, a wife and mother turned multinational murderer dubbed La Pistolera. Other subjects covered included porridge porn, hot tub flashbacks, and personalized ghost fanfic. Recommendations: Amanda recommends the HBO show The Flight Attendant. Sarah recommends (kinda) The Queen's Gambit.  Sources:  Wikipedia/Sharon Kinne The Lineup (Sharon Kinne: The Housewife Turned Killer Who Vanished Without a Trace) Reading Eagle, Feb. 27, 1966 St. Jo

Amanda and Sarah talk Hindu and holiday spirits for this episode. Amanda takes a look at the vetala, a vampire-like paranormal entity from India thought to have influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula. Sarah decks the halls with a series of trivia and in-depth history about why people are absolutely horny for Christmas. Other subjects covered include falling down the stairs, buying too many Triscuits, and mispronouncing yogurt names.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends the true-crime works Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson, Crazy, Not Insane, and Murder on Middle Beach, and the new horror-comedy Freaky. Sarah recommends Collected Ghost Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Sources: Amuse (Sex in Our Strange World | Why Christmas has Always Been About Sex) Bustle (9 Christmas Foods That Are Also Aphrodisiacs) History Today (Medieval Christmas) Wikipedia/Mistletoe iNews (When Santa was sexy: the sordid history of Father Christmas) Wikipedia/Vetala Mental Floss (8 of the Undead

Hey, ghouls, listen to this announcement about Ghoul on Ghoul going on a temporary bi-weekly schedule. Full episodes will now release every other Thursday. Also, do you have an unbelievable ghost encounter? Did you meet Bigfoot? Were they nice? We want your stories and cool person book reports to read on air! Send them to ghoulonghoulpodcast@gmail.com or over DM at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Amanda and Sarah cover an unsolved case and another little f*cker. Amanda heads to Brazil for the Lead Masks Case, a 1966 incident where two men were found dead on a hill wearing lead masks, and very few clues as to why they were there or what killed them. Sarah heads to Russia to talk about the domovoi and the kikimora, a pair of house spirits familiar to Slavic folkloric beliefs. Other subjects covered include scat BINGO, Thanksgiving fatigue, and fetishizing fruitcake.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends two books, The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater and The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Amanda recommends two films, Prospect and Underwater. Sources: Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits Wikipedia/Kikimora New York Public Library (Kikimora, Domovoi, Baccoo, and Other Strange and Spooky Creatures) Russia Beyond (5 Slavic horror fairytales that shouldn’t be told at night) Ancient pages (Kikimora – Nightly Evil Female Spirit And Goddess Of Chickens In Slavic Beliefs) Ancient Origins (She

Amanda and Sarah explore the wild blue yonder and haunted French history in this episode. Sarah covers a species of what she calls "little f*ckers" with a look at the origins and evolution of gremlins as they relate to military pilots. Amanda discusses Jean l’Ecorcheu aka Jack the Skinner, a spirit thought to have cursed the French royal dynasty and haunted the Louvre. Other subjects covered include yeast infection treatment design flaws and fun with Roman numerals.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the Netflix horror movie His House and The Hidden Djinn podcast. Amanda recommends the book Mexcian Gothic and the Scared To Death podcast.  Sources: ArtNet News (7 Terrifying Tales From the World’s Most Haunted Museums) Gulf News (12 things you should know about Louvre: A haunting history) Geri Walton (Red Man: The Tuileries Palace Ghost) Assassin's Creed Wiki (Johannes Metzger) Another Chicago Magazine (“The Gremlin Myth” by Elizabeth Horneber) WIkipedia/Fremlin's Brewery Wikipedia/Gremlin History Net (Greml

Amanda and Sarah go virtual for a special family edition of Ghoul on Ghoul. Sarah invites her mom and dad to talk about their paranormal encounters, UFO sightings, and more. Other subjects covered include post-election Pennsylvania and caves vs. planes. Recommendations: Amanda recommends the Netflix film His House and the book A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill. Sarah recommends the 2006 film The Woods.  For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Amanda and Sarah provide a pre-Halloween boost with a freaky finale and a story straight out of Pittsburgh. Amanda covers Martha Grinder, a murderer in 19th-century Pittsburgh who poisoned her unsuspecting neighbors. Sarah wraps up her two-parter on the Black Monk of Pontefract. Other subjects covered include dangerous luxury lube, leaf-eating dogs eating, and trick or treating teens.  Recommendations: Sarah recommends the horror films Session 9 and Lake Mungo. Amanda recommends the show Evil and the Indonesian horror films Satan's Slaves and Impetigore.  Sources: State Killings in the Steel City: The History of the Death Penalty in Pittsburgh- Martha Grinder Find a Grave - Martha Grinder Murderpedia - Martha Grinder “Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Evil”  by Colin Wilson “The Black Monk of Pontefract” by Richard Estep and Bill Bungay Rue Morgue (PARANORMAL PONTEFRACT: EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF THE MOST VIOLENT HAUNTING IN BRITAIN) 30 East Drive For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us

Amanda and Sarah head back to the big leagues with more heavy hitters. Sarah begins a two-part dive into the Black Monk of Pontefract with a detailed account of the poltergeist activity that plagued a family in England. Amanda heads to Washington for the Ape Canyon attack of 1924, when a group of gold prospectors claimed to have battled with several Bigfoot-like beings. Other subjects covered include innovative jack-o'-lantern design, Gen X neediness, and bean and hotcake breakfasts. Recommendations: Sarah recommends The Haunting of Bly Manor series on Netflix. Amanda recommends the haunted house slasher flick Haunt on Shudder.  Sources: “Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Evil”  by Colin Wilson “The Black Monk of Pontefract” by Richard Estep and Bill Bungay Rue Morgue (PARANORMAL PONTEFRACT: EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF THE MOST VIOLENT HAUNTING IN BRITAIN) 30 East Drive The Bigfoot Classics (I Fought the Bigfoot of Mount St. Helens, Washington) Slate (The Ape Canyon Sasquatch Attack) Oregon Live (How a 1924 Big

Amanda and Sarah get ready for the spookiest of seasons with a rundown of their top five favorite movies to watch around Halloween. Other subjects covered include building your perfect sex club buffet and babysitting creeped-out kids. For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Amanda and Sarah dive into Halloween season with a look at a seasonal fav and one bizarre mass murder. Sarah goes into the origins and cultural overlaps that led to the creation of the jack-o'-lantern. Amanda heads to Detroit for the unsolved murder case of cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet Benny Evangelist and his family. Other subjects covered include avenging Rick Moranis, sighting sexy sharks, and deconstructing the McDuck family tree.  Recommendations: Amanda recommends the 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine. Sarah recommends listening to GxG at half speed.  Sources:  St. Aubin's Street Masscre Divine Profetil, Author and Private History Writer: The Life, Work and Murder of Benny Evangelist and His Family The unsolved killing of God’s self-proclaimed prophet Benny Will O' the Wisp video How Jack O’Lanterns Originated in Irish Myth What’s the Origin of Jack-O’-Lanterns? “Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon” by Cindy Ott For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us